The emergency hall of the University Affiliated Hospital was bustling like a marketplace at this moment.

Here, nine medical rescue teams were simultaneously working to save patients.

The wails of the injured, the urgent alarms of various machines, and the shouts of doctors and nurses were continuous.

From time to time, a nurse would rush in with several bags of plasma or pushing a cart with hemostatic gauze, IV bags, and other supplies.

In this situation, everyone involuntarily raised their voices, even shouting.

Outside the emergency hall, an ambulance roared in, dropped off a wounded person, and quickly roared away.

The director of the emergency department, Hou Jianxiu, strode to the side of this injured person, quickly checking from head to toe, and instructed: "Multiple fractures of the chest ribs, abdominal congestion and swelling, suspected multiple internal organ bleeding, quickly send him to Expert Lin."

The nurse, about to push the emergency stretcher, paused and reminded, "Director Hou, just over ten minutes ago, we already sent a critically injured patient to Expert Lin."

"I know, no need to remind me!"

Hou Jianxiu said sternly, "Sending such criticial patients to Expert Lin gives them the best chance of survival."

"I am well aware of his efficiency in saving people..."

Saying this, he glared and shouted at the nurse pushing the cart, "What are you dawdling for? Hurry up and push him over..."

At this moment, another ambulance drove into the hospital...

At the northeast corner of the emergency hall, there was a large door connected to a small annex.

This area temporarily became the gathering place for mildly injured individuals and family members of the wounded who came for treatment by themselves.

Three resident doctors were leading a few nurses to perform debridement, suturing, and medication treatments on the minor injuries.

A young man in a red jacket marked by numerous dirt footprints, with some dust on his face, was holding a photo, asking one by one: "Excuse me, have you seen the person in the photo?"

"No, haven't seen them!"

With each such reply, the anxiety and worry on the face of the young man in the red jacket intensified.

In the annex, there were many others looking for people like him.

The sudden stampede incident and the ensuing panic led many to lose contact with those beside them.

After inquiring among over a hundred people in the annex, the young man in the red jacket still didn't get the answer he wanted and prepared to cross the barrier line to rush into the emergency hall.

"Hey, you, stop right there!"

A nurse in her thirties, quick-eyed and deft, grabbed his jacket and stopped him, saying, "You can't go in. Inside is the rescue area for critical patients; only medical staff are allowed to enter."

"Sister, sister, I can't find her, I can't find her."

The young man in the red jacket, with a sobbing voice, said, "In the pushing and shoving crowd, I couldn't hold onto her, my hand slipped, it was my hand that slipped."

"I promised her, I wouldn't let go, I wouldn't let go."

"But I let go, sister, I let go."

The nurse felt sympathetic and comforted him, saying, "With thousands of people jostling around, the force was so great, how could you possibly hold on? It's not your fault, young man, don't blame yourself."

The young man in the red jacket wiped his eyes with his sleeve and pleaded, "Sister, I have to find her."

"My phone got lost in the crowd, and when I used someone else's phone to call her, it's always temporarily unreachable."

"I'm scared, I'm really scared. Sister, please, help me."

The nurse, seeing it wasn't too busy in the annex, softened and said, "Alright, I'll help you this time."

"Thank you, thank you! Sister, her name is Shuya, Shuya!"

The nurse took the photo from the young man in the red jacket, focused and looked at it, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly, such a beauty.

Long flowing hair over her shoulders, a delicate face, big, expressive eyes, comparable to those of a movie star.

She waved over a young nurse and handed her the photo, instructing: "Ding Qi, go inside and see if the person in the photo is there."

"Her name is Shuya! Hurry and come back!"

The nurse called Ding Qi nodded vigorously and said, "Got it, head nurse!"

Ding Qi jogged into the emergency hall, pausing at each wounded person being rescued to check the patient on the bed and compare them to the photo in her hand.

Male patients were easier to dismiss, but with female patients, Ding Qi needed to take extra looks.

Many wounded had blood on their faces, bruises, and wounds. To ensure she didn't miss anyone, she had to carefully examine female patients whose ages matched.

A muffled sound echoed in her ears.

Ding Qi hadn't understood what happened when a warm sensation hit her face.

She realized immediately that fresh blood had splattered onto her face.

Ding Qi wiped her face several times and looked in the direction the blood had come from, seeing a doctor in a blood-drenched surgical gown, blood constantly flowing down, with both hands exploring the chest and abdomen of a wounded person.

Soon after, she saw the doctor reach out and take a hemostatic clamp from an assistant, immediately inserting it into the patient's abdomen.

Then he once again reached for another hemostatic clamp...

After using seven hemostatic clamps in a row, the doctor finally completed this dizzying series of operations.

The movements of using the hemostatic clamps were so impressive!

Ding Qi was momentarily entranced.

Though the doctor wore a surgical cap and mask, those eyes...

Those deep, bright eyes, after just one glance, she recognized him. It was Lin Jie, the renowned Expert Lin.

No young nurse in the entire hospital didn't recognize Lin Jie.

He was acknowledged as the hospital's heartthrob, and Ding Qi knew that every girl she knew had quite a few photos of Lin Jie on their phones.

Ding Qi was even more fortunate; she had a photo taken with Lin Jie.

That was a photo she had worked up the courage to request after hesitating for several mornings, pretending to coincidentally meet Lin Jie in the elevator.

The only downside was that in the photo, her makeup was a bit too light, not pretty enough.

"Hey, hey... you there, don't block the passage!"

The sudden shout startled Ding Qi, causing her to quickly step aside, allowing a rumbling emergency bed to pass by.

She remembered her task, moved slightly closer to the patient Lin Jie was resuscitating, and saw a pale round-faced young woman with an oxygen tube in her mouth.

It wasn't the person in the photo.

Nurse Ding, who made the judgment, glanced at Lin Jie a few more times and quickly walked to the next injured person in need of rescue…

A few minutes later, Ding Qi returned to the secondary hall.

The young man in the red jacket impatiently asked, "Did you find her? Did you find her?"

Ding Qi shook her head, handed the photo back to the young man in the red jacket, and said, "I didn't find the person in the photo."

Seeing the disappointment on his face, she comforted, "Not finding her in there is a good thing. The injured people in there are all in critical condition..."

"Perhaps your girlfriend has already returned home or to the hotel, or maybe she is somewhere waiting for you, anxiously searching for you just like you are for her."

The young man in the red jacket said anxiously, "I just contacted the hotel. She's not there, nor did anyone leave me a message. I've already tried other methods as well, but I haven't found any news about her."

He suddenly reached out, grabbing both of Ding Qi's arms, and pleaded, "Please, help me, I need to find her."

He then said regretfully, "I shouldn't have let go; it was my fault."

"When I find her again, I won't let go, definitely not."

Ding Qi thought for a moment and said, "Some of the injured have been sent to the wards after initial treatment, maybe your girlfriend is there. There's one more possibility…"

"One more possibility? What is it?" the young man in the red jacket urged.

Ding Qi hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard that someone died in this stampede accident. Another possibility is the morgue."

The young man in the red jacket swayed, his face turning pale as he repeated, "The morgue?"

Moments later, regaining some control, he asked, "Can you take me to the morgue to have a look? I want to eliminate this worst possibility first."

Feeling sympathetic, Ding Qi, after consulting the head nurse, took the young man to the morgue…

Entering the cold morgue, Ding Qi herself felt a bit timid.

However, in order to help the young man beside her, she had to pretend to be unafraid.

She said to a forty-something male doctor on duty, who looked expressionless and lifeless, "Doctor, this family member wants to inquire if there's any deceased brought in tonight due to the stampede accident?"

Ding Qi quickly added, "A twenty-something female, with long, shoulder-length hair!"

The male doctor said in a flat tone, "No."

"Really no?" the young man in the red jacket confirmed!

The male doctor glanced at him coldly and asked, "What, do you wish there was?"

The young man in the red jacket quickly shook his head and said, "It's best if there isn't, it's best if there isn't!"

"Now, at least I'm relieved, at least she's still alive, still alive..."

He turned to Ding Qi and said, "Nurse Ding, let's go to the wards to look for her again!"

Ding Qi took him to the wards, and also to the ICU.

She also kindly helped him inquire several paramedics from the ambulances and contacted small nearby medical institutions and clinics.

However, after spending over an hour, there was still no news or clues about Shuya.

"You must really love her, right?"

On the way back to the emergency hall, Ding Qi tried to distract the young man in the red jacket.

"Yes, from the first meeting, I knew she was the right one, my love."

"We talked online for three months, and this was our first meeting. I didn't expect this..."

Hearing this, Ding Qi felt somewhat incredulous,

This guy is so tense and affectionate, and it turns out it's an online romance, and their first meeting?

Is there really such predestined love at first sight in this world?

Ding Qi couldn't help but feel envious, and even thought, if Expert Lin's first impression of me was as deep as my first impression of him, how wonderful that would be!

Just then, two nurses pushed an emergency gurney out of the emergency hall.

They were taking a patient who was rescued to the ward.

Ding Qi glanced over and saw it was that pancake-faced patient.

Indeed, with Expert Lin taking action, there was absolutely no failure. She felt another surge of pride in her heart.

Ding Qi and the young man in the red jacket stepped aside to let the patient pass.

After walking a few steps past, the young man in the red jacket suddenly stopped, turned around, and ran towards the gurney.

"Wait a minute!"

Ding Qi, a bit confused, also turned around and chased after him.

She saw the young man in the red jacket stare at the unconscious pancake-faced girl for a moment, then slowly extended his hand.

In Ding Qi's puzzled gaze, she saw him use his slightly trembling hands to grab the hair on either side of the girl's head, covering her ears, then continued to cover most of her cheeks…

Ding Qi was stunned, her eyes widened, and she couldn't help but exclaim, "Shuya!"

She was finally found!

While she felt happy inside, she also blamed herself for her oversight.

How did she not recognize that the pancake face was the star-like beauty in the photo?

This was practically a magical transformation; just by covering the hair, it was akin to a face-changing surgery.

Seeing the young man in the red jacket's darkened expression, Ding Qi softly comforted him, "Don't worry, let me tell you, it was Expert Lin who performed the surgery."

"Your girlfriend will definitely be alright..."

Before she finished speaking, she saw the young man in the red jacket unexpectedly leave.

He left the patient and walked outside.

"Hey, you…"

Feeling a surge of anger, Ding Qi loudly questioned the back of the young man in the red jacket, "Is this what you meant by never letting go again?"

The young man in the red jacket walked faster and eventually started running.

Just as Ding Qi was about to lash out, she suddenly saw the young man in the red jacket stagger, support himself against a wall, then turn around, slide down it with his back, and slump to the ground.

Ding Qi also noticed blood flowing from his mouth.

"Someone come quickly! Help!!"

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