Yun Hua had to sort out the progress of Class 15's revision.

For English, they had memorized the phrases and sentences found in the first half of the secondary one textbook. The syllabus for secondary one students would not touch too much on grammar yet.

Even though learning grammar looks like a lot of work but these were actually the basics of any sentence. Understanding the usage would be much easier than individually memorizing cases.

It was a simple matter of diligence. These things would be picked up very quickly if one was focused and diligent enough.

With the opinions of the English class representative, and from the level of completion of the tasks, Yun Hua thoughts that the students of Class 15 had a good grasp of the language.

After all, they were learning English from scratch, so there wasn't much foundation needed. It was still 2006, so English was only taught starting in secondary school unlike in the future where lessons started in primary school.

The knowledge available in the secondary one curriculum would definitely not be enough for the secondary two exam so there was no point in rushing.

For math, they had already learned linear equations. The secondary two curriculum focused on geometry so they would get started with any prior knowledge. In any case, they had Pei Zi Xuan around, it would be a waste not to use him!

Physics was a new subject added in secondary two so it wasn't a big deal to learn everything from scratch. It was mostly a matter of concept and memory work.

Linguistics would come with experience. Wanting to learn it well in a short time would be difficult. However, memory work was still very effective against these exams. Even though a high score does not necessarily mean prowess at linguistics, their current goal was to score for the exams!

As for topics like biology and politics, memorizing was the only way. If they can't memorize it, then run a few laps and try again!

Yun Hua gathered the testable content and searched for their corresponding questions. Unlike the future, everything was still in hard copy now so Yun Hua could only get people to gather the past year papers in person at the various schools.

The monthly test was next week but Yun Hua decided to conduct a mock test right now.

The paper was split into two. One testing their knowledge of secondary one content and the second was on testable content in the upcoming test.

Finish the mock test and swap papers to discuss and mark...

"Damn, I clearly know how to do this question. Look, I used the correct formulas so how did I get it wrong!" Zhu Yi Qun covered his head.

Zhan Shi Bang chuckled and marked a red cross on the paper, "Careless mistake, that's one lap."

Zhu Yi Qun gritted his teeth in anger.

"Eh, you missed out the minus sign when you copied the equation over. Hehehe, another lap!"

"Aiyaya, another mistake, another lap!" Zhan Shi Bang lamented while marking another cross.

Zhu Yi Qun was about to break down, "Please, stop drawing, I already owe her 10 laps..."

"Time to slim down!" Zhan Shi Bang said righteously, "Look at yourself, you lost at least 6kgs this month. This is all for your good, getting smarter and slimmer at the same time!"

Zhan Shi Bang was refreshed after bullying Zhu Yi Qun

But when it came to English, it was Zhan Shi Bang's turn to fall.

"What's with the [these] and [those], this... this was just a careless mistake!" Zhan Shi Bang was feeling a little guilty.

Zhu Yi Qun hmphed, "Sucks to be you. Got to give it to you for writing A as B in an MCQ."

"Oh no, I got the [in, on, at] question wrong again. Do you think Sister Hua will get pissed off..." Zhan Shi Bang asked Zhu Yi Qun quietly.

Zhu Yi Qun hmphed, "Such a simple question, you could get past it with just memorization."

"It's my wrong... Brother Pig, oh no, Brother Zhu please help me, explain it to me again, I promise to write it down and memorize it every day, I guarantee I won't be wrong again!" Zhan Shi Bang clung onto Zhu Yi Qun with a face full of snot and tear.

Zhu Yi Qun was feeling great. Brothers were meant to be bullied!

Monthly exams skipped biology and politics so Yun Hua's mock test did not include those subjects.

Within two days, the mock tests were completed and marked.

The results were better than Yun Hua expected!

Especially for math, revising secondary one content and learning secondary two content did not cause any clashing so their performance was good!

The real tests would be next week. Yun Hua did not have much to say, just the normal stuff about working on what they were weak at.

...

After dismissal on Friday, Yun Hua packed her things up quickly and left. They were going to make their way to the provincial capital then to the military hospital by themselves but there was already a jeep parked outside the school when they got there.

Yun Hua looked at Chu Yu but he shook his head, "I didn't arrange for this, it should be..."

"Big brother Bao?"

"Probably." Chu Yu pursed his lips and looked at Yun Hua speechlessly. Was she not being a little too overfamiliar?

Yun Hua did not think too much about it. Bao Si Qing's big brother, big brother Bao it was then.

Seeing the two walk over, the second lieutenant in charge of driving came over and saluted, "The chief had me come over to pick you guys up!"

"..."

Taking the highway directly to the military hospital was much faster than their original route.

It was only 10pm by the time they arrived.

It had been 7 days already but Bao Si Qing was still in the sterile care room.

However, his condition did become much better.

"His condition for the week has been great, he can shift to a normal ward tomorrow." The doctor said, "He's young and healthy so his recovery rate is high after he got past the most crucial moment.

Standing outside the care room, Yun Hua looked at Bao Si Qing who was lying down on the bed. She felt very at ease.

He had survived, her rebirth seemed to not have caused him any real disaster.

"Miss Yun Hua, the second master has instructed us to let you see him after you come." The doctor said quietly.

Yun Hua blinked in surprise but still nodded, changed into sterile clothes and went in.

Bao Si Qing laid on the bed with his eyes open. He suffered from fractures all over his body as well as injuries to his chest and head. Normally, he could only lie there, not even able to shift around.

Seeing Yun Hua enter the room, Bao Si Qing's bloodshot eyes lit up as he spoke hoarsely, "You finally came! I've been waiting for so long!"

He had become skinny, his originally handsome face had shrunk. Due to weight loss, his bloodshot eyes seemed much big.

"How many days have you not slept for?" Yun Hua couldn't help but ask.

Before she could finish speaking, Bao Si Qing yawned, "Man I'm beat, sit here for a while, I'll take a quick nap, wake me up half an hour later..."

Yun Hua was dumbfounded.

Bao Si Qing had grabbed her hand, uttered that one sentence, yawned and then... went to sleep!

He actually went to sleep!

He held onto Yun Hua's hand, separated by the anti-bacterial glove.

She wanted to remove her hand but Bao Si Qing's grip was very strong.

"Hey, you can go ahead and sleep but at least let me go." Yun Hua said while continuing her attempt to remove her hand. However, she did not dare to use too much strength for she was afraid of injuring him during the struggle.

"Pipe down, I'm trying to sleep..." Bao Si Qing muttered, closing his eyes drousily.

Yun Hua was speechless.

She watched as Bao Si Qing fell asleep... Falling asleep... Within a minute of meeting her.

Yun Hua was dumbfounded.

However, Yun Hua did not move, instead, she waited for him to enter deep sleep.

In this position, she remained standing for an hour.

After he had fallen into deep sleep, his grip weakened naturally and Yun Hua was able to carefully retrieve her hand and quietly leave the room.

"Is the Second Master asleep?" A doctor asked quietly.

Yun Hua nodded and sized up the doctor with a strange expression. He was wearing an army green shirt with a white coat draped over the shirt. It was the typical dress code of doctors at the military hospital but this was not the same doctor who had brought her in previously.

"Hi, I'm Jing Xiu."

"Hi, I'm Yun Hua."

Jing Xiu smiled and blinked knowingly at Yun Hua. He led Yun Hua to a resting area next door, "Take a seat, you must be tired after standing for so long. You're too honest, why let him hold onto you, let alone stand there and wait for him? You're not his girlfriend, he doesn't have the right to act like this, don't you think?"

The corner of Yun Hua's mouth rose.

Jing Xiu offered up a box of chocolate and a can of pistachios after Yun Hua took her seat. "Go ahead and have some. Would you like anything to drink? I have coffee, milk tea, lemon water..."

"I'll have mineral water." Yun Hua said.

Jing Xiu blinked, "Sure."

He quickly produced a bottle of mineral water, twisted the cap open and passed it to Yun Hua. He then swiftly pulled a chair opposite Yun Hua, slumping into the seat like he was missing bones. He asked Yun Hua curiously, "Hua Hua, so... How did you come to know the Second Master?"

Jing Xiu's actions had stunned Yun Hua.

The previously inspiring and sharp military doctor had completely changed just from entering the rest room... The gap was seriously too big...

"Why did he fall asleep all of a sudden?" Yun Hua ignored Jing Xiu's question and returned one of her own.

Jing Xiu blinked, his long eyelashes would probably be the envy of countless of women, "Oh, you meant the Second Master. If he was going to continue staying awake, I would have to put him into medically induced sleep. However, that would be too much work! He has been trained to resist a lot of drugs, the average stimulant or anesthesia found on the market would not work on him... So, naturally falling asleep is still the best for him."

Yun Hua did not know what to say.

Jing Xiu quickly continued, "That's too far from our topic. The reason for him falling asleep so quickly is because he hasn't been asleep ever since he woke up. It has been about 7 days!"

Yun Hua was stunned.

What does this mean?

"As I mentioned just now, he has been through a lot of training to build up his resistance to drugs. In other words, it would be pretty impressive if drugs even had 10% effectiveness on him..."

See how Yun Hua was still stunned.

Jing Xiu continued, "In simpler words, due to the ineffectiveness of the anesthesia, he can't sleep due to the pain..."

Too painful to sleep?

These few words were enough for Yun Hua's heart to tense up.

How much pain does one have to be in for them to not be able to sleep? Much less for 7 days straight!

"Actually, he's been through training to build up his resistance to pain. During those training, they would use stimulants to raise their sensitivity to pain. To put it more professionally, it would be to lower their pain tolerance. If the pain from an injection was normally withstandable, after reducing one's pain tolerance, the pain felt would be over 10 times as strong, it would be unbearable... To help them resist torture and interrogation, they all have to go through such training.

Jing Xiu shrugged, "Hence, he already had a high pain tolerance to start with. However, no matter how strong he is, he is still human. He still has his limits... To be honest, the fractures aren't that big of a deal, the most painful one would be the injury in his lungs. His lungs have been corroded by digestive fluids and then infected... That kind of pain would be like dumping sulfuric acid into one's stomach..."

Yun Hua's face turned pale.

She knew how painful that was, she completely could imagine how that feels.

"It's as simple as that, he simply can't sleep due to how much pain he is in. I wanted to give him some other medicine but he would not accept it for he was afraid that his body would become dependant on medicine... If that's the case, then he can only bite the bullet!"

Jing Xiu sighed, "Honestly, that's not the worst. He just had to get an infection that caused pus to form. Due to that, we have to open up his chest for cleansing. Before this, he was unconscious and couldn't feel the pain, but now that he's awake... When we perform the surgery, a safe dosage of anesthesia would not have any use and an overdose would affect his condition, hence... The surgery can only be done without anesthesia.

"Without anesthesia!" Yun Hua clenched her fist tightly.

"That's right. Using anesthesia wouldn't change anything anyway." Jing Xiu said bluntly, "While we can't use anesthesia, we could use muscle relaxants. In short, he is completely conscious during the surgery and can feel every bit of pain, the feeling of the knife cutting open his skin and the feeling of our hands entering his chest... However, due to the muscle relaxant, he can't move at all, even making noise would be difficult..."

Yun Hua's face turned pale as a ghost.

In that instant, she felt as if she couldn't breathe!

Yet, she bit down on her lips and remained silent, not interrupting Jing Xiu.

"So, how did you come to know the Second Master? I thought that the Second Master had finally gotten his mind straight, but looking at you... A clearly underdeveloped brat... Why is the Second Master worrying about you? Is something wrong with his brain?" Jing Xiu's curiosity had reached a peak, his eyes were shining with excitement.

Yun Hua glanced at Jing Xiu, "Did he forbid you from telling me these? Tell me, would he beat you to death if he was to find out that you told me all these things?"

"..." The corner of Jing Xiu's mouth twitched. He shamelessly grasped onto Yun Hua's hand, his handsome face scrunching up, "Oh beautiful maiden... Please don't tell him, I beg you! You wouldn't know but I've lived these years under the Second Master's bullying. In my heart, a huge shadow has formed, and that shadow's name is Bao Si Qing!"

"Heh." Yun Hua glared at him and finally spoke after a long pause, "Whether I speak depends on your performance."

Jing Xiu's expression remained fearful but he finally came to a reluctant acceptance, "How... How did you know that he forbid me from telling you?"

"How about you tell me why you're telling me these?"

Jing Xiu could not answer Yun Hua's question.

Yun Hua had no intention of waiting for an answer. No matter what his intention was, all that mattered was that Yun Hua knew about the truth.

She ignored Jing Xiu and walked out of the resting area, once again standing in front of the care ward's glass window.

Chu Yu had been standing here since the start. Seeing Yun Hua, she quietly said, "The boss had woken up."

Yun Hua went over to take a look.

From her angle, she could not see Bao Si Qing's face. She could only see those hands that were firmly gripping the bed sheet, trembling ever so slightly.

Yun Hua could imagine how much pain he was feeling, so much that it would cause him to grip the bedsheet so tightly.

There was no trace of hesitation as she turns around and quickly ran off to find a nurse to help her find and change into a new set of sterile clothes.

Once again, she went into the room.

Bao Si Qing's expression was ghastly and beads of sweat glistened on his forehead.

However, his expression changed instantly upon noticing her entrance, morphing into a carefree and relaxed smile.

If it was not for his obviously pale face and those beads of sweat, no one would possibly guess that behind that expression hid pain that not normal human could withstand!

"Awake again?" Yun Hua played along, acting like she knew nothing.

Bao Si Qing yawned, "I've been sleeping the whole day, from morning till night, of course I wouldn't be able to sleep for long."

Yun Hua looked at him.

This person sure is stubborn!

He had clearly been awake for days due to the pain yet his mouth insists that he has been sleeping all day...

Yun Hua grabbed a chair and sat down, automatically holding onto his hand.

In that instant, her heart rate shot up. She had no idea why she did it.

Even though she grabbed his hand, she did not look at him. Just like this, she sat on the chair and quietly said, "After you helped me punish He Yu Xiang, I heard his family sent him overseas. As for my dad's mistress and their illegitimate child, they're like those unkillable cockroaches, being hated where ever they go. My mother and Chen Shi Ying's mother opened a restaurant together, business is pretty good. I've also gone and met Coach Fan Meng Ying. Coach Fan is cold and blunt but she's very attentive, she even helped me plan out..."

Her voice was neither fast nor slow, there was not much variation in pitch and her tone was peaceful, her voice was soothing...

As she spoke quietly, Bao Si Qing listened soundlessly.

After some time, Yun Hua turned to look at Bao Si Qing. By then, he had once again fallen asleep.

This time, Yun Hua did not let go of his hand.

If this could let him sleep a little longer then she's would remain like this.

Yun Hua leaned back on the chair and awkwardly rested her head on the chair.

At that moment, she was feeling very at ease and peaceful.

If her rebirth would not affect history, then there was still four years before he sacrifices himself.

Just like the cops, soldiers and pilots that appeared on the news and the internet after making a heroic sacrifice, the majority of people would only feel respect but they would not feel too deeply about their sacrifices. After all, these people are too distant from their own lives.

It was like this when she first met Bao Si Qing.

To her, he was a person deserving of her respect. Regarding his sacrifices, most people would only feel sympathy and pity but it would stop at that.

But now, this person had entered her life.

It was more than brushing past each other, it was more than mere recognition, it was more than just being acquaintances...

Yun Hua knew that it was no longer possible for her to look on and let him die 4 years later.

In her heart, he, was no longer someone to be worshiped nor was he the martyr respected by hundreds of millions of people.

He, was just Bao Si Qing.

Someone with blood, flesh and a soul. Someone who was now part of her life...

Yun Hua woke up around 6 in the morning to a stiff and numb body.

She took a look at the time and carefully retrieved her hand. However, she could not stand up at all!

Her hand and legs were numb and her neck hurt like a bitch.

She tiptoed quietly out of the room. When she removed the sterile clothing, she realized that she was soaked in sweat.

Jing Xiu had long recovered his strict and stern military soldier air. When he saw her, she tutted at her.

"I want to use the shower, Chu Yu, could you help me bring my bag over? I got a set of clothes in there." Yun Hua said.