Switch Destiny

Chapter 24

"Dad," Called Yu Tong cautiously,

"This has to stop. Please, let's calm down and take her away from this place." Lady Mo defeatedly turned around to glare at him.

"It's your fault!" She screamed at him with eyes reduced to tears.

"I did all that for you, for your sake and now you call me the bad one!?" Yu Tong looked at her desperately before taking a shuddering breath. His mother looked back at him, terrified.

"Dad, this woman I never want to see her again" He drew a smile that gave her a hint of disgust. She took few steps back after she calmed down. Her hand went into her pocket as she seemed about to leave. Her eyes reached at Zhan Yao and she apologized sincerely. Grabbing the gun inside her pocket, she needed to rescue what has remained from her wicked plan.

"Please forgive me, I am so sorry for what I did" She continued talking to them, keeping their attention away from her coming movement while she slowly and quietly pulled the gun out and directed it to Zhan Yao and shot him without hesitation next to his heart. Luckily Yu Tong was close to him and unconsciously threw his body to block the bullet.

"Yu Tong!?" Both Zhan Yao and his dad shouted, they nearly lost their minds seeing him block the bullet for his boyfriend. Yu Tong winded and fell to the ground unconscious after the bullet penetrated his upper back. It seemed like he had succeeded in protecting Zhan Yao welcoming death instead. He gladly closed his eyes not focusing on the cries and screams of the people around.

"Yu Tong why?" Lady Mo, fell to the ground hysterically crying while regretting her act, but it was way too late to save her from God's chastise that came too robust. She came closer to see if he was still breathing when Zhan Yao yelled out loud.

"Don't you touch him!" He shouted frantically, getting to his feet. He stumble forward and knocked her onto the ground. He took the gun out in front of her, hands shaking, but he knew he didn't have it in him to shoot, even if it would be for self defense.

"Please save my son, please I am so sorry please" Before she could finish talking Mr. Bai held him in his arms and ordered Zhan Yao to follow him quickly to his car. They wouldn't wait for an ambulance but swiftly drove to a nearby hospital. Lady Mo remained there alone crying while holding Yu Tong's clothes in her embrace.

They were running after the doctors and nurses who were taking him to the operating room. Zhan Yao was way too weak to believe such a thing happened, his pale face and feeble body was barely keeping him standing. As he gasp for air, the pain in his chest making it hard for him to breath as if he took that bullet instead. He couldn't stand for long before he fell to the ground in the hospital anteroom.

His eyesight blurred, but not because tears were welling up. Everything became fuzzy, then he saw nothing at all. His consciousness was floating through an empty space filled with a thick static. Throughout the inky space his heartbeats pounded loudly, echoing in his ears, alongside fading pleas for help.

"Da......d!" Feeling hid body drained away until finally all was black.

"Yao!?" His father ran to grab him and pulled him for a tight hug. He didn't want to see his two sons suffering, he didn't want to see them go through all of these unpleasant painful incidents. He called quickly for a nurse then moved him to one of the rooms and asked for his guards to follow him  and sharpened the security measures around the entire hospital.

"Sir!?" Called his assistant while Mr. Bai was holding Zhan Yao’s hand waiting for the doctors to come and find him after they finishes with Yu Tong's surgery. He was in the middle of great dilemma of emotions yet still holding his strong composure and remained calm.