Yiren 's call

Yue Ling had nothing to do the whole day and was in her lab room testing out formulas for new perfumes.

Recently "Purity" had been doing very well even better than before so Kai Fengjun informed her to prepare something even better.

Her phone rang and as it was next to her,she saw the caller was Yiren.

"Good afternoon, brother,"she greeted first.

"Good afternoon, Ling,"Yiren replied. His voice was hoarse and a bit unclear. It also wasn't as happy he usually sounded when talking to her.

Yue Ling's eyebrows scrunched up in curiosity. Yiren 's voice sounded different maybe he caught a cold or something else like straining, as though he had spoken for too long. He also sounded tired and frustrated. The question was why.

"Can you come over to my place,I will send you my address?"he asked.

"I will come over, is something up?" Yue Ling asked.

"Yes, but come over first." He then hung up.

"I will,"she responded.

Yue Ling went upstairs and got dressed. She put on a white blouse and a peach coloured high waist long skirt with a pair of high heels and a bit of pink lipgloss. Her brown hair was combed and tied then let loose at the ends.

She received Yiren 's message with the address and drove there. Throughout the drive her mind constantly thought of what today's events were in her previous life.

When she reached, the gates automatically opened because Yiren might have informed the security personnel that he was expecting her.

Bingbing was at the entrance but her expression wasn't cheerful or happy but rather grieved. She welcomed Yue Ling with a simple "hello" and a tiny smile that was barely recognizable. As they shared a hug, she felt Bingbing's pulse and it was stable but she was just fatigued.

Bingbing led Yue Ling to Yiren who was seated in the living room answering a call. He mouthed a "hello" briefly before going back to his call. Yue Ling noticed that they both looked stressed and unhappy.

Yiren mostly because he had faint black circles.

Yue Ling tried to think again about what might have happened at this point in her previous life but it wasn't clear. In her previous life she was more on her paternal side than her maternal side so she didn't know much about them.

When Yiren was done,he welcomed her warmly and even a smile could be seen on his sad face.

This made Yue Ling more guilty, if she cared before she would have foretold whatever would happen and have a solution.

"So, what is going on?"She asked.

"Have a look at this?"Yiren said as he handed her a file.

Yue Ling opened it and read the contents but her face became more and more pale as she read.

It simply stated that there was a disease outbreak in the Flower District.

The disease caused different symptoms to different people but there were a few similar ones.

The victim will experience intense headaches in the beginning followed by body aches and muscle pain mostly difficulty standing for too long or walking because of bone pain. Probably arthritis.

In the end the person would die because of high blood pressure.

The main issue here was that the area affected was where the current military base Yiren and Bingbing's father was situated. It also affected only the 45 to 50 age gap and no solution had been successful yet.

The government was secretly curbing the situation without letting the citizens know and the area had been restricted.

Flower District just as the name goes was a cash crop growing area where different flowers were grown for export.

It had a few visitors who were tourists both domestic and international but other than that not much was reported about the area.

Luckily it was the season for land preparation in the district and not many people visited so it was easier to avoid suspicion.

Also,not many knew about the situation because it was Classified information. Yiren got a wind of this because of his uncle who worked in the government. This was now a family secret which most of them knew now except the two women of the family.

Yi Shuyan and Li Ximei were the only ones who weren't told about this.

Yiren didn't plan to let the old man know but he had contacted him in the morning.

The elder knew and it wasn't a surprise that he had known before Yiren or anybody else in the family did because of his connections in both the military and the medical field.

He wasn't even sounding stressed and even told Yiren, "That lad is as strong as a horse, nothing should worry you."

"Your sister is a doctor now,I have become too old for this."

These words were a little encouraging to both grandchildren.

The saying that goes "the older you grow some things will cease to surprise you worked here."

Yiren and Bingbing had been watching Yue Ling read everything. They didn't lack the best doctors but they needed to have a way forward.

Yue Ling certainly knew about this disease and even the treatment method but she needed to buy time so that nobody suspects anything.

Yue Ling was also torn between saving lives and buying time.

She still didn't know what will be the effects of changing things that are meant to happen.

Usually when a new disease broke out,it took at least minimum 6 months to find a cure. This disease started approximately 2 weeks ago, at least that's when the deaths started being recorded.

The only advantage was that it wasn't infectious.

She also remembers something very important, her uncle died around this time of the previous year.

Yiren and Bingbing were anxiously waiting for Yue Ling's reply. They didn't lack the best doctors but something was in preparation for now.

Since through the previous weeks the disease was proven non infectious, different medical research institutes were called forward to go there and find solutions.

Lin Rong (Yue Ling's Grandfather) had chosen Yue Ling as the head of their research institute going to Flower District.

However, she was still young and her cousins feared for what was next as much as they trusted her.

Adding to all their worries Lin Zhoujan was unreachable.

"This can be solved,"Yue Ling said.