Chapter 154: Time To Stop Smoking

At three o’clock in the morning, Ling Ran cranked the engine of his second-hand Volkswagen Jetta—still relatively new— and drove from Lower Groove Clinic to Yun Hua Hospital. Ling Ran drove with the focus of a race car driver. On the road with a speed limit of fifteen miles per hour, Ling Ran made sure his speedometer was constantly, infinitesimally close to fifteen miles per hour. He drove to the hospital at a moderate speed. By then, it was a quarter after three. Ling Ran finally breathed...