Cunning General Si Ning
Chapter 291: Awakening

Chapter 291: Awakening

"... Oh... Oh oh Si Ning? Si Ning..Ning? Ning.."

What Si Ning first heard was some annoying slowly beeping sound that was ringing in his head continuously while someone kept calling him, he opened his eyes slowly as tears slide down at the corner of his eyes, and all he could see was some hazy figure above him but his tears didn’t stop, it seemed the dried up tears were not dry at all as he started to cry silently once again because he felt like an empty shell.

"Oh my God, Si Ning..." The owner of the voice seemed to start wiping the falling tears away with some clothing material, perhaps a handkerchief but it was much softer. "Si Ning... You have to stop crying, I have to check your eyes."

The voice talking to Si Ning was quite off, Si Ning wondered if he was now in the palace perhaps he collapsed due to crying too much but there was still much to do, he as the Empress had to be strong and oversee the palace matters, he still had to lay Xiu Zhicheng to rest so he blinked and his vision finally became clear and he saw the person who was hovering above him wiping away his tears wearing a worried expression.

Shang Jin?

What was Shang Jin doing at the palace when he was supposed to be helping the Yang tribe to rebuild but wait, his appearance was all wrong, Shang Jin didn’t have the rough edge and the woollen clothing but he had a soft look with extremely short hair which sides seemed to be full of hair and the weirdest part was that he was putting on a white lab coat that was buttoned down and he looked so neat and kept.

"I am glad, I have gotten your vitals stable, all the top doctors are in for many difficult surgeries because of a road accident so I had to attend to you even though I am not qualified enough." Shang Jin explained as he flashed a small touch to check Si Ning’s eyes then he tilted his head as his eyes widened like he remembered something so he grabbed a chart and removed the pen in his breast pocket. "Can you see me? Do you remember who you are? How many fingers do you see?" He extended three fingers.

Si Ning wanted to nod but his neck felt stiff so stiff that it was weird yet he still nodded and watched Shang Jin start to write something in the chart. Si Ning’s eyes moved around and he saw a drip on the stand with a tub connected to his hand, right beside the drip was a monitor that was making the beeping sound, green lines going up and down showing on the dark screen with numbers counting at the top corner, he was laying on a bed with a duvet covering him, it was warm and the room was extremely large with a large television on the wall. "Where?" He managed to ask, his mouth and throat dry, it was a room he didn’t recognise.

Shang Jin took his seat next to Si Ning when he was done filling the file. "It is me Shang Jin your best friend in high school, you remember right? Right?" He raised a hopeful expression.

"Yes." Si Ning managed to reply.

Shang Jin sighed in relief. "You are at The Elite Group of Hospital, you fell from a bridge and had been in a coma and you just opened your eyes consciously for the first time even though from your chat I saw that you had been on the verge of waking a multiple time." He explained.

What?

How could he be so dull? After seeing the plasma television and the modern room yet he was so dumb not to see that he had woken up in the modern day world but seeing Shang Jin in a lab coat was confusing so he managed to raise a finger pointing at the lab coat.

"When I heard about your accident I had to transfer here, I got approved and started working here last week, I am a resident here, a medical doctor in training, aunty just went home, I mean your mother just went home and will soon be back, your sister always come on weekends to stay with you, I have to stay with you until aunty is back, you were shaking Si Ning that you scared me for a little but I am glad to see that you are okay." Shang Jin wiped the corners of his eyes to prevent his tears from falling as he smiled brightly. "I can’t believe you became an Actor, you know I saw you on t.v...."

Si Ning didn’t know Shang Jin was a talkative because from what he remembered Shang Jin doesn’t talk so much but it seemed it was due to him waking up that made him excited and started talking nonstop that Si Ning had to tune him out after hearing something confusing that was bugging him. "My mother?" He asked.

Shang Jin paused. "Yes I don’t want to call aunty because she hasn’t gotten a good rest in the past months so if she hears the good news on the phone, she might collapse so she should get here and see you, she will be very happy, she should be on her way, she never spends so much time away from you."

Yes in the modern day world his mother was alive, Si Ning started to cry as he felt relieved that his mother was alive and well, he wanted to apologise to Shang Jin for leaving without a word when they graduated from high school and apologise for not reaching out to him but no word came out as Shang Jin got closer and raised the bed to make Si Ning be in a semi-sitting position while he pulled him into a brief hug.

"I will call the assigned head doctor to check up on you my celebrity best friend." Shang Jin said.

Si Ning nodded and turned to the table next to his bed, he laid his eyes on a pot of jasmine flowers. "The flowers..." He never really like flowers but learned to appreciate them when he was in the jasmine palace and jasmine was an odd flower to bring to someone in the hospital.

The palace? Was it all a dream? But it all felt real that his broken heart was still there, all his experiences were still vivid in his mind, his mother that died and from what he saw it doesn’t seem like some shady experiment was conducted on him so all the experience was real almost like a lucid dream but when woken up from a lucid dream all the experience disappear but that wasn’t happening to Si Ning, it was just like being awake after collapsing from crying too much while holding Xiu Zhicheng’s hand.

"Oh the flower, it is an odd one right." It wasn’t a question as Shang jin straightened up. "Your boss brought it, he use to come occasionally and ask for your progress, he is the one that moved you to the Vip room away from the media eyes and hmm what’s today." He frowned as he raised the medical chart to see the date. "I heard he is getting married today."

Si Ning’s eyes widened. "Who?" He asked quickly as his heartbeat goes ’thump!’

"Your boss the president of the Elite group, the owner of the entertainment industry you work for." Shang Jin replied nonchalantly as he shrugged.

"Xiu Zhicheng." Si Ning couldn’t believe it, his life in the modern day world still existed and it was like giving him a second chance yet he had to wake up and find out the love of his life was getting married to someone else that wasn’t him after selfishly requesting that he should never marry nor love another person when he dies.

"No the surname is Liu." Shang Jin corrected.

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