Chapter 455: Chapter 465: Face Swap? Amnesia?
As her body plunged into the cold seawater, Lin Yixun’s consciousness fell into darkness. Amid the chaos, she seemed to hear two unfamiliar voices—one male, one female—appearing to argue about something, but she found it hard to comprehend.
"I asked you to save someone, but instead, you treated them like a guinea pig!" The woman spoke indignantly.
"You asked me to save her, didn’t I bring her back to life?" The man said, feeling innocent.
"Yes, you did bring her back to life, but are you really so idle? Why did you go beyond and operate on her face as well?"
"I saw a nasty scar on her right cheek, and since I was saving her already, I thought I might as well go all the way and remove the scar from her face."
"Is that really what you thought? Even if you had good intentions, there’s no way you should’ve swapped her entire face, right?"
"Well..." The man was at a loss for words, hesitating, "Well, Yanyan, you know me, I have this hobby. When I see someone’s face, my hands get itchy; I can’t control myself or my scalpel. Besides, look at the face I gave her—it’s meticulously selected. See if it doesn’t make people envious?"
"Ugh! Don’t say that!" The woman called Yanyan sneered, "You changed her face for no reason, and now you’re saying such irresponsible things. When she wakes up and sees that her face has changed, she might want to kill you. What will you do then?"
"Uh... this... Yanyan, you have to help me!"
"Help you? How can I help you? You created this mess yourself; I can’t help you out of it."
"You are her savior after all. If you speak well of me at that time, it should make a difference."
"Savior?" Yanyan glared at the man, "I may have saved her, but I’ll lose face if I plead for you."
"Then I might as well pray she doesn’t wake up."
"Do you have any conscience?"
"She’s been in a coma for half a year. Isn’t it normal not to wake up?"
"Didn’t you say she’s showing signs of waking up recently, and will wake up soon?"
"Did I... say that?"
"Hmph... were you planning to kill her while I’m away?"
"No, no, no, where did you get that idea? Am I that kind of person?"
"You say you aren’t, but you’re stuttering! When you lie, you get flustered! Alright, Song Yi, I see right through you! I thought you saved people out of compassion, though with some bad habits. But I didn’t expect you to be so heartless and cruel! I... I’m never talking to you again!"
"Yanyan, it’s not like that, it’s not what you think. Listen to me... I just..."
...
The man and woman kept arguing, chirping away, without noticing that Lin Yixun had woken up on the bed.
Lin Yixun stared blankly around, not knowing where she was, and the quarreling man and woman standing beside the bed—who were they?
She sat up slowly from the bed, confused, and weakly murmured, "Who... who are you?"
Lin Yixun’s sudden voice made the pair in the room freeze, as if they were struck by an immobilization spell, standing motionless.
Their eyes widened in shock, staring at each other, before turning mechanically towards Lin Yixun, speaking in unison, "You... you’re awake?"
Lin Yixun’s sudden awakening left the two flustered. If this were before, they might have celebrated, as saving a person in a vegetative state is no small feat.
But now, they were not happy at all. They couldn’t imagine if Lin Yixun found out her face was changed, she might go mad and chop them to pieces on the spot!
"Who are you?"
Upon hearing this, their faces stiffened, glancing at each other, but neither dared to speak.
Yanyan, fed up, gave the man a rough push, "You tell her!"
"Um... I’m Song Yi, the family doctor here." Song Yi turned to look at the girl next to him and introduced briefly, "She’s Chu Yan, the housekeeper here." Song Yi had barely finished before Chu Yan stomped on him.
"I’m not a housekeeper; I’m a household assistant."
"Isn’t a household assistant just..." Song Yi hadn’t finished before Chu Yan glared at him fiercely, her gaze as terrifying as that of a female bandit. Song Yi immediately shut up, not daring to say more.
Lin Yixun didn’t care about the semantics. She instinctively looked around, noticing that except for a door on the opposite side, the room was surrounded by walls without windows.
"Where am I?"
"Here? This is my boss’s basement. You’ve been here throughout your coma."
"I was in a coma? How did I end up in a coma?"
"You fell into the sea and got waterlogged in your brain, naturally you fell into a coma." Song Yi smirked, "But you were lucky. You fell into the sea, were in a coma for half a year, and didn’t die. In the end, my medical skills were top-notch."
"Stop bragging!" Chu Yan interrupted.
"I’m not bragging. If not for my exceptional skills, she would’ve been dead long ago." Song Yi retorted, but suddenly remembered something important he hadn’t done.
Now that she’s awake, he needed to quickly find out her identity and send her off. As for the face change... he could just make up a lie to cover it up.
"Right, I almost forgot to ask, what’s your name?"
Hearing this, Lin Yixun squinted at the man, but her mind was foggy.
Seeing Lin Yixun’s perplexed face, Chu Yan exclaimed, "Don’t tell me you don’t even remember your name?"
Lin Yixun paused, then shook her head.
"Do you remember where you live? Do you have family? Any friends?" Chu Yan asked urgently.
Lin Yixun shook her head again, unable to recall anything—who she was, where she came from, nothing from her past.
Chu Yan looked at Song Yi beside her, only to see him shaking his head; this was an unexpected outcome.
She pulled Song Yi out of the basement, lowering her voice, "What’s going on? How did she forget herself?"
"Well... I’m not too sure." Song Yi frowned, thinking hard, then slowly said, "I remember when you first rescued her, there seemed to be a wound on her forehead. Perhaps she hit her head on a reef while drifting in the sea, causing her amnesia."