A little after 12:30 PM, Yan Ziruo, carrying two takeout containers, gently pushed open the door to Qin Ying’s medical research office.

She saw Yu Suye still fast asleep on one sofa, while her own brother sat on the sofa kitty-corner to her, resting with his eyes closed.

Yan Ziruo closed the door behind her and gently placed the lunch on the coffee table. As she did, she noticed her brother’s eyes open.

"Feifan, should we wake Su Ye up for lunch?"

Yan Feifan said in a low voice, "She was busy with surgery until three or four in the morning, and then she had that emotional shock first thing. Let her sleep a little longer."

Yan Ziruo sat down next to her brother on the sofa, sighed softly, and took one of the lunches out of the bag to set it up.

"Feifan, you should eat first."

Seeing her brother pick up his chopsticks and begin to eat slowly, Yan Ziruo’s gaze shifted back to Yu Suye’s face.

Whether from the heat or her emotional state, her cheeks were flushed a rosy red, as if she were wearing blush.

Her brow was slightly furrowed and her small mouth was partly open. Stray strands of hair stuck to her face, and her long, ink-black hair fanned out across the pillow behind her.

She had hugged more than half of the blanket covering her, and one of her feet was sticking out, dangling over the edge of the sofa.

In her deep sleep, she looked no different from any other girl.

But her features, completely unadorned yet as exquisite as a sculpture, elevated this seemingly ordinary scene into a delightful portrait of a sleeping beauty.

’Now *this* is what you call a natural beauty!’

Yan Ziruo muttered with a hint of envy. She got up, tucked Yu Suye’s foot back under the blanket, adjusted her sleeping position, and brushed the hair stuck to her face back behind her ear.

Yan Ziruo sat down again, leaning closer to her brother. "Feifan, a couple of colleagues from the finance department want you to do their noses and eyes, and maybe adjust their facial contours a bit."

Yan Feifan let out a soft "Oh." After a sip of soup, he said, "If they’ve really made up their minds, they can come see me."

"Sis, don’t forget to tell them that all plastic surgery has risks. Also, the results were so dramatic for you because you’re my sister."

Yan Ziruo touched her own face and giggled. "The closer you are to someone, the more you fear disputes. Of course I went all out exaggerating the risks."

"But they said they’d be perfectly happy even if their results were only half as good as mine. Or even a third, or a quarter."

"Everyone at the office says the more they look at my face, the prettier and more captivating it gets, heh heh..."

Seeing his sister pull a compact mirror from her purse to admire herself again, Yan Feifan rolled his eyes in disgust.

He lowered his head and focused on his food.

But it wasn’t long before his sister’s questioning voice sounded in his ear again.

"Hey, Feifan, Mr. Wang is screening new students tonight. As the current top disciple of the Wang Clan, you’ll be there, right?"

Yan Feifan said softly, "The director hasn’t asked me to be involved, so maybe I don’t need to be there."

He turned to look at the sleeping Yu Suye and added, "With what’s happened, I should stay with her as much as possible."

Yan Ziruo sighed. "You and Su Ye... it’s just one thing after another, isn’t it..."

Just then, Yan Ziruo heard the door being gently pushed open. She looked up and saw Yu Chuanbai walk in.

She quickly tugged her brother, who was beside her, and stood up to greet him.

Yu Chuanbai paid the siblings no mind. He walked over to the long sofa in a few strides and carefully studied his sleeping sister for a moment.

Yu Chuanbai pulled the thin blanket up a little higher on his sister, then sat down on the shorter sofa on the other side.

"I got off the plane and heard on the way here that, in accordance with my cousin’s last wishes, his organs have already been harvested."

Yu Chuanbai sighed softly. "This time, there were twenty suitable matches in total. It seems there are three or four matches here in Binhai, too."

"Perhaps your Affiliated Hospital will be performing transplant surgeries with my cousin’s organs this afternoon."

After a pause, Yu Chuanbai continued, "The official information released by Baining Hospital and the family is that my cousin took his own life because of depression."

Yan Feifan nodded in understanding.

’After all, that guy was Yu Suye’s first cousin. That’s a very close blood relation, so this could be considered a family scandal.’

’It’s best to cover it up if they can.’

Yan Feifan then asked, "The funeral... should Su Ye go back for it?"

Yu Chuanbai shook his head. "Although the kid didn’t mention it in his official will, he did bring it up in the emails he sent to a few of the elders."

"Right now, his parents, his grandfather, and the others are extremely emotional. They’re even blaming me."

"It’s better if Su Ye doesn’t go back."

Yan Ziruo couldn’t help but say indignantly, "What kind of people are they? Isn’t the main cause his depression?"

"Besides, Su Ye is a victim in this too!"

Yu Chuanbai sighed softly. "It’s always easier to push the blame onto an outsider than to admit your own mistakes, isn’t it?"

"Besides..."

Yu Chuanbai added, a resentful tone in his voice, "Our branch of the family is relatively weak. We’re used to being marginalized and suppressed by them."

After a pause, he pointed to the other lunch on the coffee table and asked, "Is that Su Ye’s?"

Upon receiving confirmation, Yu Chuanbai grabbed it without any ceremony and started wolfing it down.

"I haven’t eaten a thing since this morning. I’m starving."

"Not on the plane?" Yan Feifan was a little confused.

Yu Chuanbai shot him a look. "I was so worried about Su Ye the entire way here. How could I have any appetite?"

He glanced at Yan Ziruo a few times and couldn’t help but ask, "Yan Ziruo, is it just my imagination?"

"Why do I feel like you’re a completely different person? You look so much prettier than before, at least four or five times prettier!"

"Really? Is that true?"

Yan Ziruo touched her face, a bit shy. "Feifan did a small adjustment procedure for me," she said, slightly embarrassed.

"Oh," Yu Chuanbai said, then chuckled. "Yan Feifan’s skills are good, but more importantly, Yan Ziruo, you had a good foundation to begin with."

"No matter how much plastic surgery Dongshi gets, she can never become Xishi."

At that, Yan Feifan immediately contradicted him. "She could."

"If you disregard the consequences and the cost, modern plastic surgery can completely transform a person, turning a Dongshi into a Xishi."

"To put it dramatically, even a pig..."

Before he could finish, his sister pinched a chunk of skin on his arm.

"Feifan, tell me. Was it my good foundation, or your good skills?"

Yan Feifan knew when to pick his battles and quickly said, "Good foundation! Sis, you absolutely have a good foundation..."

As he said this, he caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye. Yu Suye was awake, watching them with her big eyes wide open.

"Su Ye, you’re awake..."

Under the gazes of the Yan siblings and Yu Chuanbai, Yu Suye sat up and then stood.

She stretched her body, twitched her little nose, and her eyes fell upon the somewhat messy remains of the food on the coffee table.

"I’m hungry too..."

To the surprise of the other three, Yu Suye polished off what was nearly two people’s worth of food.

She let out a small burp and said, "I’ve come to terms with it."

"Nine times out of ten, life doesn’t go your way. The dead are gone, and the living must go on."

Yu Suye met the gazes of Yan Feifan, Yan Ziruo, and Yu Chuanbai, and continued, "I have the love and care of Feifan, his sister, and my brother. All the more reason I should cherish the present and live my life to the fullest."

Just then, Yan Feifan’s phone rang again.

It was another call from Dr. Chen Yu.

"Kid, are you sober yet?"

"HAHA... I gotta say, you’re in luck. We got another one."

"This time, the unlucky bastard..."

"HAHA..."

Chen Yu’s irrepressible laughter came through the phone. "His was bitten off."

"HAHA, this guy was driving..."

"And then his car got rear-ended! HAHA..."

"I can’t believe it. Something you only see in jokes actually happened in real life."

"HAHA..."

"Kid, get your ass over here in ten minutes..."