Dr. Song's Secret New Wife

A huge bang.

The dome overhead suddenly broke off with a bang. The boy in Gu Baisheng's arm burst out tears in fear.

Gu Baisheng's body sunk for dozens of centimeters. The paramedics above her shouted in panic.

"Dr. Gu?"

"How are you holding up, Dr. Gu?"

The aftershock only lasted for a short time.

But the rubble of buildings couldn't take it. Under the wave of the aftershock, there was a secondary collapse.

Luckily, after such a heart-stopping collapse, there was still one small opening in the ruins.

Only a child below five years old could climb through that tiny crack.

She held the boy in one arm and lulled him as gentle as a mother would be, "I'll hold you up in a while, and you need to reach your arms up as high as possible."

The boy was sobbing. His face was dirty because of the dust, which made him resemble the child in her memory.

She smiled and tried her best to bear the pain coming from her buried lower body. She pulled the kid by her side, reaching out her hands and grabbing his waist. She held him up with all the strength.

The kid did what she asked. He reached out his tiny hands while crying.

He reached out his arms in his best effort, like a tiny tree extending its branch towards the sky. At that moment, countless arms reached in from that small crack.

"Grab me..."

"Good boy. I'll pull you up now."

"Dr. Gu, hang in there. We'll get you out as soon as the boy is out."

The paramedics and the rescue team grabbed the hands of the boy with their best effort. They pulled the kid out from the tiny crack.

Gu Baisheng didn't dare to let her guard down or let go.

She was afraid that this kid would be like her kid, who turned into a cold and tiny corpse.

"Dr. Gu, the kid is out. Please hang in there."

The small kid was carried away from the crack which had lights that shone through.

Gu Baisheng was relieved inside. She curled up her lips and looked down at her lower body which was buried in the ruins.

She then reached to the pockets of her doctor's robe and struggled to take out an old and shabby phone.

People above here were still organizing the rescue intensely.

They were comforting her and telling her to rest assured. The voices over her head kept telling her that they would get her out.

She responded all with, "I'm hanging in. Rest assured."

Yet she started typing on her phone.

That was a message from her mother that she received every day since she came to Hanchuan disaster area.

"Shengsheng, did you eat well today?"

She replied as usual, "I did. Don't worry, mom."

After she replied that, she continued to the next one. A message came from Song Shuang, which was only four words long, "I'll be there tomorrow."

Thinking about it for a while, Gu Baisheng didn't reply.

Below that message was one that was from seven years ago.

She kept that message for seven years, and she had been waiting for its reply, yet she never received another message from this number.

She asked him every day, "Cheng Bi, when will you be back? I want to tell you good news."

Day after day and year after year, that person never responded in the past seven years.

She didn't send the same message. She smiled and typed something different quickly.

"Cheng Bi, I'm trapped by the earthquake. If I make it out this time, can you hurry up and come to marry me?"

She just finished typing the last word.

Before she could hit send, the earth shook.

The ruins of the buildings above her fell in a bang.

Gu Baisheng heard the sound of a heavy rock landing near her. Then she fell into darkness.

...

When she woke up again, she heard cries outside the window.

There was a familiar voice calling her name while crying, "Bai! You heartless girl! I raised you up. Why are you leaving me?"

That was her mother's voice.

She immediately stood up from the hospital bed and looked outside the window.

There were people downstairs carrying a coffin and heading towards the funeral home. Her mother was among the group.

Other people in the same inpatient ward also looked down from the window and sighed, "What a pity! Gu Baisheng was a really good surgeon."

"I know. She performed the surgery on my son last year. She died in the earthquake rescue! So young!"

Gu Baisheng opened her mouth and stared at her hands unbelievably.

But she was alive!

"That's so sad. I heard when her husband went over, he saw her body being dug out."

"That must really have killed him, right?"

A nosy person couldn't help but asked that person in the know.

That person shook his head with a smile, "He didn't. Gu Baisheng and her husband Song Shuang were strange bedfellows. Everyone in the field knows that."

"In the field?" That nosy person was surprised, "You are a doctor?"

"Nope, my daughter is."

After saying that, he turned back and pointed at Gu Baisheng. He said with a smile, "This is my daughter. It's a coincidence that her name is just the same as Gu Baisheng's. But her last name is Bai, and her first name is Shengsheng."

"Bai Shengsheng?"

Gu Baisheng looked at Bai Shengsheng's gossiping father. He looked like a fat cat, pointing at her with his fat fingers. Gu Baisheng touched her face with her hands unbelievably.

Looking at her daughter touching her face, Bai Dahai immediately passed her a cellphone, "Stop touching your face. Look at it yourself. Your look is intact."

Gu Baisheng didn't care about other things. Seeing Bai Dahai passing her the phone, she quickly reached out and grabbed it. She then opened the front-facing camera to see her face.

She was dazed with just one look.

She couldn't believe it.

She had had a face of a thirty-year-old, yet now it turned into a girl's face who was in her twenties.

Besides, it was a coquettish face.

It was a completely different kind of beauty compared to her original face.

She was startled and stepped back abruptly. The phone in her hand landed on the ground and the screen was cracked.

When Bai Dahai saw that, his expression changed. He kneeled on the ground and started picking it up in a panic.

Seeing the cracked screen, he shouted heartbrokenly, "My dear daughter. This is a new iPhone 8 I just bought. Why did you just throw it on the ground? How much would it cost to repair this screen?"

The person on the adjacent hospital bed gloated, "It won't cost much. Don't be sad, bro."

Bai Dahai held his phone, feeling his heart ached.

Gu Baisheng didn't recover from the shock that she just revived in a new guise.

Gu Baisheng was dead...

But her soul came into Bai Shengsheng?

She knew Bai Shengsheng, who was an intern in the Second Hospital and also a surgeon. She had contact with Bai Shengsheng before. But Bai Shengsheng went through a bad breakup recently. She slit her wrist and overdosed on sleeping pills, getting herself hospitalized in a coma. She really made a scene. She even went on a hunger strike, which made her half-dead.

Now looking at it, Bai Shengsheng really died.

But she left this body for her?

Gu Baisheng stared at her hands. She turned her palms up and down.

She bit herself on the tip of her tongue hard. Until there was the taste of blood spreading in her mouth, she confirmed that she wasn't dreaming.

...

Gu Baisheng stayed in the hospital for half a month and went home.

She was resting at home in the meantime. The hospital was not very lenient. They learned that she was quite unstable because of the breakup, so they fired her.

Her supervisor just ignored her.

In her classmates' group chat, a bunch of them were just gloating.

She skimmed over the messages. Bai Shengsheng was quite a high-profile person in her previous life. She liked to show off and she was a person with low EQ, who spoke her mind. Thus, she offended a lot of people.

She was close to her girlfriend and was loyal. She was willing to do anything for her girlfriend.

Yet her girlfriend stabbed her in the back and hooked up with her boyfriend.

She then started trying to suicide.

Her family set her up with a lot of different men to prevent her from being devastated by the double blow of losing her love and losing her job after she was discharged from the hospital.

Like the grandson of the neighbor's grandma's third brother's wife or the second son of the property manager's second aunt.

And the oldest nephew of the barber's uncle's second aunt.

They tried everyone and everything.

But she was not in the mood.

Without an alternative, Bai Dahai and his wife Xia Juan gave her a picture of a handsome man.

They carefully observed the look on her face and said tentatively, "Honey, we asked auntie Wang to set you up with this man. Even though his wife died recently, he's a professor at Beicheng Medical University. He's also Gu Baisheng's husband..."

"I'll go meet him."

She grabbed the picture and stood up to get her jacket.

Bai Dahai and Xia Juan looked at each other in speechless despair.

They didn't recover from the shock even after their daughter left.

"Our daughter is so young. Is it good for her to marry a guy who will be in his second marriage? I heard that this guy was older than Shengsheng."

"That's nothing. Shengsheng is young and beautiful. Song Shuang is prestigious and handsome, and he is an elite in the medical field."

"But..." Xia Juan wanted to say more.

Bai Dahai glared at his wife, "You know nothing, unlike Shengsheng. Our daughter really understands the code of survival in the current society. You need someone to fall back on. If she gets together with Song Shuang, then she'll get both a good relationship and a good career."

Xia Juan nodded, "That's true. Song Shuang is the dean of Second Hospital. If she wants to go back as an intern, it would be easier."

"Of course."

Bai Dahai and his wife were both very proud of having a daughter that was clever and resilient.

But Gu Baisheng wasn't thinking about that. She revived in another's body.

She thought she needed to tell Song Shuang this.

This was just absurd.

She put in Song Shuang's number on her phone while walking and tried to dial him.

But it seemed that her number was blocked by him. No matter how many times she called, no one answered.

Helplessly, she could only call her best girlfriend Qu Xiaobo.

When Qu Xiaobo picked up the phone, she could hear Qu Xiaobo crying out of breath, "Who is this?"

She cried while talking. Gu Baisheng could imagine how Qu Xiaobo would be holding a tissue box with tears and snot all over her face.

"I am..."

"Shengsheng, why did you leave me?"

She didn't even finish the sentence, and Qu Xiaobo was already crying and howling.

Gu Baisheng took a deep breath and calmed her, "Bobo, calm down. Listen to me. I'm..."

"I don't give a f**k who you are... F**k off. I don't want to listen to you. My Shengsheng is gone..."

Gu Baisheng felt exhausted. She was afraid that Qu Xiaobo would hang up the next second. She immediately said, "I'm Gu Baisheng!"

"Who?"

Qu Xiaobo was shocked and stopped crying.

"I'm Gu Baisheng!"

"Ah!"

After a strange sound, all Gu Baisheng could hear was the shout of Qu Xiaobo's boyfriend, Zhang Kai.

"Bobo, wake up! Bobo, wake up! Don't faint. Don't faint. I'll press your philtrum. Wake up!"

Gu Baisheng's mouth twitched.

She faintly heard over the phone that Qu Xiaobo said weakly, "Shengsheng... misses me... She called me from hell... Does she want to take me with her?"

"Bobo, wake up!"

Hearing Zhang Kai's shout, Gu Baisheng hang up the phone. She sighed towards the sky helplessly.

Who would believe that she revived in a new guise?

If she continued to claim that she did so, she would either be locked up as a psychopath or locked up at research institutions and sliced up to study.

She didn't want to see either of that.

Gu Baisheng looked down.

She raised her hands and started rubbing her temples.

She couldn't just live like this. She still had a lot to do in Second Hospital.

Her mother Hu Hui probably was devastated because of her death.

She had a tough life. Her husband died early, and she raised Gu Baisheng alone.

Now she watched her child die.

If Gu Baisheng didn't go to comfort her, she may do something stupid.

She thought about it for a while and decided to go back home and check on Hu Hui.