Starlight Has No Past - Chapter 40 Part 1

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.



Starlight Has No Past
Chapter 40 Part 1

The sirens of ambulances filled the filming site. The entire crew worked together with the paramedics to carry all four actors onto the ambulances. Every major media outlet had received the news about the explosion and photographers swarmed to reach the City Hospital at Qingjiang Road. The internet was covered with headlines about the accident that had occurred on <The Watcher> set, the three lead actors were unconscious, their condition unknown. The news became the hottest topic online.

Among the four actors, only Jiang Yu, who had been protected under Ye Qiao’s body, was conscious sitting inside the ambulance.
The air-cushion which Ye Qiao had thrown both of them onto was farthest away from the point of the explosion. With Ye Qiao’s body as a barrier, Jiang Yu came out only with some scrapes on her forehead and limbs. This was the first time this eight year old girl had experienced such terrifying scene, she held her assistant tight, wailing all the while. After a while, she lowered her voice to sob, realizing it wasn’t the time to think only about herself.
The person who has saved her was still lying on the stretcher in front of her.

Jiang Yu asked Shen Ting in a small voice between sobs and sniffles: “Is Qiao Jiejie hurt badly? Why isn’t she waking up?”
Shen Ting comforted her in a low voice: “You and Qiao Jiejie were the furthest away and the firestorm only brushed you two by. It won’t cause any large burns. The nurse said that most of the wounds are caused by debris blown up by the force of the explosion……”

She couldn’t continue anymore, her heart was beating so fast that it was about to jump right out of her throat. Zhou Tingsheng sat in front of her with a gloomy expression. His eyes were like a deep sea where a storm was brewing, making air in the ambulance dead still. Shen Ting took a glance at Zhou Tingsheng, both of them know the history of Ye Qiao’s heart condition. Any strenuous exercise could induce heart problems, not to mention the effects of a large sound wave from a nearby explosion.

The five minutes drive to the hospital seemed to last a century.

Zhou Tingsheng jumped off the ambulance when they reached the hospital and helped the medical personnel with the stretcher. Ye Qiao was sent to the emergency room. The nurses rapidly exchanged vital information as they passed the patient: “Burn” “Patient has heart disease” “In shock”......All the medical terms were mixed with the noise from the onlookers and reporters. The flashing lights became blinding whenever an ambulance pulled up to the curb. Everything seemed unreal, only the patient on the emergency room bed was real.

Ye Qiao was pale, limbs cold, with weak but fast pulse and shallow breaths. Zhou Tingsheng held her hand till the end of the hallway when he was blocked by a heavy thud of the closing emergency room door.

He could still feel the chill left on his fingertips, her body temperature. The chill reached to the depths of his heart.

That night, the Ye family left Yang City to fly to G City. Ye Zhiliang took his mother and wife with him.

The hospital Ye Qiao had been sent to happened to be the one Qianxi was working at. She was having a rare day off that day, but rushed back to the hospital once she received the news. Since she knew the people in the hospital, she had the most up to date information first hand. Lu Qing and Cheng Jiang were both in surgery, both with second degree burns. Cheng Jiang insisted on not having an analgesic injection out of concern for the baby she was carrying. Jiang Yu only needed some bandaging and had already left the hospital with her parents.

As for Ye Qiao, except for small area first degree burns, her wounds weren’t very serious, but she was still unconscious. The doctor said that there wasn’t any sign of rejection for her heart. Her unconscious state was probably due to severe pain and great fear. As long as she woke up, then there wasn’t any life threatening danger.

Qianxi was running around to get the latest update and took a break to fetch some food for her parents and grandmother: “There’s only food from the hospital cafeteria. Not sure whether grandma can take it or not.”
Grandma took the box and explaining that nobody could be picky about food at a time like this. Qianxi lowered her head and said again: “I heard that uncle is coming too and Aunt Cheng as well.”

Ye Zhiliang was about to give a warning look to Qianxi, but before he could do it, the elderly lady had already put down the box and angrily said: “What is he coming here for? Isn’t it enough that he caused Zhishuang’s death. Now he’s here to bother our Qiaoqiao?”
Zhishuang was Ye Qiao’s mother. Ye Zhiliang sighed when his mother mention his sister’s name and tried to calm her mother down: “Xu Zang is Qiaoqiao’s father in any case. It’s only natural for him to come see her after such an accident.”
“What’s so natural about it?” The elderly lady was so irritated that even her glasses were shaking: “After what happened to Qiaoqiao before, where was he to take care of her? Instead, he took no time to remarry and is going to have another child, what does he care……”
Qianxi’s mother interrupted her mother-in-law: “Mom-- --” Then she together with Qianxi persuaded the matriarch to go back to the hotel first. Qianxi’s mother would stay and keep her company while Ye Zhiliang and Qianxi would stay put at the hospital.

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.