Peninsula: I can steal the luck of disgraced celebrities

Chapter 124 Yang Hyun-seok

Hospital intensive care unit.

Lin Zhixun arrived by taxi.

When he rushed into the elevator and pressed the floor button, he realized that he hadn't even changed his coat and was still wearing the wrinkled hoodie he had worn in the coffee shop.

The moment he pushed open the ward door, he saw two people.

IU sat on a folding chair by the bed, her knees together, clutching a crumpled tissue in her hand.

The other one is Dean Cui.

Lin Zhixun was stunned.

Choi Eun-hee, the new director of Sunflower House, was once identified by Lim Ji-hoon using the system as a good person.

She was sitting in a chair against the wall, her eyes red-rimmed. When she saw Lin Zhixun come in, she stood up and bowed respectfully.

"Dean Cui, are you and Yisheng related?" Lin Zhixun asked.

Choi Eun-hee raised her head, her lips moved, as if she had rehearsed her words several times in her mind.

Finally, she chose a very restrained statement: "No, I am her—an incompetent friend."

Lin Zhixun didn't ask what "incompetent" meant; his gaze had already fallen on the hospital bed.

Yisheng lay there.

The hospital gown hung loosely on his body, his left thigh was fixed in a cast, and his head was wrapped in several layers of gauze, with a little pale yellow medicine seeping from the edge of the white cloth.

The electrocardiogram monitor was ticking numbers at a steady pace beside me.

still alive.

These three words were the first thing Lin Zhixun confirmed after entering the room.

IU stood up from her chair.

Her eyes were swollen beyond recognition, her makeup was ruined, and her mascara was smeared on both sides of her cheeks along with the tear stains.

"Oppa, it's my fault."

Lin Chih-hsun did not respond to that.

"This isn't the time to argue about right or wrong." His attention was still on the instruments. "What exactly is Yisheng's situation right now?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than there was two more knocks on the ward door.

The attending physician pushed open the door and came in. He was in his forties, wore glasses, and had a medical record book in his hand.

He scanned the room as he entered, his gaze lingering on Lin Zhixun and IU's faces for a moment longer.

They must have recognized the two people.

He didn't show any particular reaction, simply asking in a businesslike manner, "What's your relationship with the patient?"

"We are all Ye-seung's friends," Choi Eun-hee replied.

The attending physician turned a page of the medical record and frowned.

"Where are the family members?"

"Her only relative is in Gwangju, and she hasn't been in contact with them for many years."

"---If surgery is needed later, the signing process will be quite troublesome, so please try to get in touch with us."

"Doctor," U took half a step forward, "how is she now?"

The attending physician glanced at the medical record for two seconds and said in a calm tone typical of a clinician, "The patient fell from a height and was found unconscious with multiple injuries all over his body."

"The ambulance called by a passerby took about an hour from the time of the fall to when the person arrived at the emergency room."

"An hour?" Lin Zhixun repeated.

"Yes. The crash site was behind the building, not on the main road, so it was discovered late."

The attending physician turned another page.

"His vital signs are currently stable, but he has a clear head injury and remains in a coma."

"In short, he's out of danger now, but we can't say when he'll wake up or what his condition will be like after he wakes up."

"Prepare for the worst," he added.

After saying that, he closed the medical record book, nodded, and left.

The ward was quiet for a few seconds.

The silence wasn't because there was nothing to say; it was because no one knew what to say.

Lim Ji-hoon turned to Choi Eun-hee.

"Who exactly are your relatives in Gwangju? Can you contact them?"

Before Choi Eun-hee could speak, U spoke first.

"It's no use getting in touch." Her voice was terribly hoarse. "They're probably the ones who most want Yi-seung dead."

Lin Zhixun looked at her.

"What do you mean?"

Choi Eun-hee sighed, sat back down in her chair, and began to tell the story from the beginning.

After Yisheng's grandmother passed away, her uncle, as her only legal relative, automatically became her guardian.

He was supposed to help Yisheng complete his studies and temporarily manage the inheritance left by his grandmother.

But this uncle had other plans.

He bribed a doctor to forge a diagnosis that Yi-sheng had an intellectual disability, and then sent her to Sunflower House.

A person diagnosed with intellectual disability may be unable to assert property rights after reaching adulthood.

The inheritance can remain in the uncle's hands forever.

That's when I met her.

Choi Eun-hee said, "I worked as a caregiver at Sunflower House, and I could tell at a glance that she didn't have any intellectual disabilities at all."

"But I'm just a caregiver, I don't have the final say. I complained to the hospital director at the time, but nothing came of it."

Later, Choi Eun-hee was transferred to Seoul for work.

Her replacement, transferred from Seoul, was Jung Tae-sung and his sister.

Lin Zhixun's hand tightened.

"Three years later, the doctor who had been bribed was investigated, the falsified diagnostic records were invalidated, and Yisheng was able to escape from the welfare home."

"After she was released, she anonymously reported the Sunflower Welfare Home to the Incheon Police Department multiple times."

"But because Zheng Taicheng has a relationship with the bureau chief, his attempts always fall on deaf ears."

Choi Eun-hee paused here.

"And then, it's your story."

Then, Lin Zhixun and IU helped the two siblings "reincarnate into another world".

Choi Eun-hee tells Lim Ji-hoon that after Ye-seung learned the truth through her, he regarded Lim Ji-hoon and IU as his idols.

So when she heard that the crew of "Dream High" was filming at Hongdae Plaza, she made a special trip there.

This is the origin of all the stories.

Lin Zhixun lowered his head and stared at his fingers.

What flashed through my mind was the image of that girl with a ponytail approaching me carefully and handing me the notebook in the square that day.

"I'm a fan of Sister I, and also—your fan."

"Could you sign this for me? Just write 'Yisheng, fighting! You're the best!'"

"I believe you will become famous all over the country in the future."

He thought the kid was incredibly naive, as if he'd never been truly toughened up by society.

Later, the more I learned about her situation, the more I realized how much courage was behind that optimism.

The air in the ward was heavy.

IU kept wiping away tears, using up wads of tissues.

Choi Eun-hee sat silently, her hands crossed on her knees.

Lin Chih-hsun did not comfort anyone.

He himself needs to be comforted, but that's not the time to do that.

He looked up and asked IU directly, "Why did Yeseung jump off the building?"

"have no idea."

"Where did you jump?"

"YG's Hosung Building".

Lim Ji-hoon was taken aback. "Why is Ye-seung in the YG building?"

Upon hearing this, IU replied in a hoarse voice, "It was me, I recommended her to become a trainee—"

"It's my fault—it's all my fault—"

Lin Zhixun then realized that what IU meant when she said it was her fault was this.

He pressed further, "Did you ask them why?"

"I asked a friend I know at YG, but they couldn't explain the specifics."

"They only said that their boss, out of humanitarian considerations, could cover all of Yisheng's medical expenses and follow-up arrangements."

What does this mean?

If someone jumps off your company building, your first reaction is not to explain the reason or cooperate with the investigation, but to take on all the expenses.

This is called hush money!

"What about the surveillance footage?"

"Say no."

Lin Chih-hsun remained silent for three seconds.

He plans to investigate this matter through other channels.

"What's the name of the YG boss?"

Yang Hyun-seok.

>