Guide to dealing with a tsundere villain

Chapter4

Su Ranran explained, "To perform a heart transplant, one must find a suitable match, not just anyone can be exchanged. The prince's heart is the same, it must be carefully matched, otherwise forcibly replacing it will result in immediate death. I can only remove their own hearts and reattach them, so that the body will not reject it, ensuring their safety, and proving my medical skills."

Su Ranran's proposal is actually very risky. In such a rudimentary environment, the resources available to her are too limited. She doesn't have much confidence in performing such a major surgery, but she must give it a try.

Killing someone and removing their heart is easy, but being able to put it back in is truly unheard of. Chu Yuan began to wonder how this woman came up with such a crazy method, and was so confident about it.

So he agreed.

Anyway, they are all a group of dying people. He enjoys watching them struggle for survival.

Su Ranran successfully secured this opportunity, breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and began to make arrangements.

She walked up to the two little maids in front of her, following the memories of her original self, she knew that the one with the slightly chubby round face on the left was Xiaozhu, and the one with the slender and petite figure on the right was Xiaomei.

Both of them stared at her blankly, tears filling their eyes. They were both orphaned girls bought into the Su family, at the age of sixteen or seventeen, with no one to rely on but also nothing to worry about. Since childhood, the young lady was their heaven and earth. Even if they were told to die, they would not blink an eye.

And now, it's time for them to die.

Su Ranran smiled faintly and picked out the sturdiest small bamboo among them, saying, "There will be some danger, but I will try my best and do everything I can. If we succeed, we can gain a little chance of survival."

Later, Su Ranran pretended to go fetch the dowry knives, but actually quietly took out the wooden box filled with surgical instruments from the space, and requested to perform the surgery in the mansion's medical room, needing several mansion doctors to assist and prepare.

The court physician prepared a clean room according to her instructions. Inside, there was a strong herbal scent in the air, with two white cotton-covered beds in the middle, and a few wooden shelves against the wall holding medicine bottles, tools, and bandages.

Su Ranran was quite satisfied, after all, in this backward ancient times, it was not easy to find such a relatively suitable operating room.

She only stayed at the door and did not enter. They set up a stove outside, placed a large pot on it, and asked a few people who were going to enter with her to change their clothes and steam them all. They also set up a small stove nearby, poured all the knives and utensils from the wooden box into it, put in the cotton cloth to be used, and boiled them all to sterilize. Then they had someone bring strong alcohol and pour it into a large basin, instructing everyone to wash their hands with the alcohol before entering the house.

The court physician watched her do all this, especially the strange knives and tools in that pot that he had never seen before, and he was very curious about how she would do it.

Su Ranran, on the other hand, was highly nervous, trying to simulate a modern operating room as much as possible with the current rudimentary conditions.

Heart surgery is not considered too difficult in modern times, especially with the assistance of a team of doctors and nurses, the success rate is very high. However, it is quite difficult here, primarily because anesthesia is a problem. She knew that there must be anesthetics in that space, but the task was not completed as required, and she couldn't even see it.

So we could only rely on the legendary Ma Fei San, which only the imperial physician could prepare.

After being busy for a while, I finally managed to get things done in a somewhat haphazard manner, and it's almost dawn.

Su Ranran looked at the faint morning light, praying for everything to go smoothly.

At this moment, the sky is already bright, and the entire royal palace is bathed in the morning light. Next to the clinic is a small herbal garden, where many precious herbs are planted. The surrounding trees are lush, and birds are flying and chirping among them.

Before long, Chu Yuan also arrived as scheduled, wearing a blue and white robe with a white jade hairpin, which made him look even more gentle and refined. However, in Su Ranran's eyes, he appeared more like a demon with a jade face. At this moment, the only thing she could rely on was her medical skills, as she sought her fate in the hands of this demon with a jade face.

Since everything is ready, let's get started.

Xiao Zhu had also finished drinking the strong liquor mixed with ma fei san, and because of the large dosage, he quickly became drunk and passed out.

Su Ranran covered her mouth and nose with a cotton cloth, equivalent to a modern face mask, and asked everyone to disinfect their hands by putting them into the strong alcohol together.

The female doctor next to him unbuttoned Xiaozhu's clothes, revealing only a small piece of fair skin on his chest.

The people around held their breath and watched as Su Ranran picked up a small knife and decisively cut open her chest. Some blood seeped out, but it did not gush out as imagined.

Su Ranran could be seen carefully slicing open the thin layer of skin that wrapped around the heart, one knife after another. Her delicate fingers were exceptionally agile and quick, while the palace physician beside her promptly used cotton cloth to absorb the oozing blood stains.

Soon, a complete heart appeared before everyone's eyes. Chuyuan looked at the heart still beating exposed in the air, his deep phoenix eyes slightly narrowed.

In the past, he had seen people's hearts. He had dug them out himself, and had also made his guards dig them out, those people he despised so much. But once the heart was dug out, it was nothing but a lifeless mass of flesh and blood.

This was the first time he had seen a fresh, beating human heart, thumping away, fragile yet full of vitality. It filled him with a strange excitement, and he even vaguely felt that his own heart, riddled with wounds, was beating in rhythm with it.

Su Ranran glanced at Chu Yuan and signaled with her eyes that she was about to start. Immediately, she switched to a thinner knife, ready to remove the heart.

She systematically severed the aorta around the heart, and then had the court physician and apprentices use hemostatic forceps to stop the bleeding, before proceeding to remove the heart with her bare hands.

She held the heart in her hands, watching as it beat slower and slower, until it finally stopped altogether.

The people around were all quietly watching the heart, waiting to see how she would manage to put it back in. The court physician and his apprentices were holding the hemostatic forceps so tightly that their hands were trembling with nervousness. As medical professionals, this was probably the craziest scene they had ever witnessed in their careers.

Chu Yuan also stared unwaveringly at the blood-red heart, his expression unreadable. Only he knew that the detached heart still beating had a strange beauty to it, even stirring the broken heart in his chest, causing its rhythm to slow down... Suddenly, his heart began to ache.

Su Ranran looked at him and said, "Her heart has stopped beating, so we can say she is already dead. I will now reconnect it."

Chuyuan furrowed his brows slightly and remained silent with pursed lips.

Sun Ranran also paid little attention, and quickly put her heart back in place after speaking.

Her heart was pounding, but she had to calm herself down because the next step was the most crucial.

This is a race against time. It only took a few minutes to take it out, but it felt like a century had passed with anxiety in her heart.

Every second counts as danger. After all, this is not a modern operating room where there are alternative pulmonary artery machines available for use, which can maintain blood circulation even in the absence of a heartbeat.

She picked up the prepared needle and thread and skillfully sewed up the arteries one by one. Her movements were exceptionally quick, her slender hands constantly moving, and she kept instructing the assistants to release the arteries in order according to the progress.

"Wipe sweat."

"Let go of the one on the right."

"Hemostatic forceps."

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As she gave instructions, her hands never stopped moving. In less than half an hour, she finally managed to securely put all the hearts back in place. As the hemostatic forceps holding the coronary artery and coronary vein were opened by the palace physician, warm blood flowed into the once silent heart.

Soon, the heart started beating vigorously again, beating faster and faster, pumping fresh blood throughout the body. Xiao Zhu's complexion also gradually changed from pale to rosy.

Su Ranran took a deep breath, while the court physician and apprentice still had shocked expressions on their faces, as if they couldn't believe their eyes.

"Is this... is this enough?" A young disciple couldn't help but ask softly. In his opinion, it was just a matter of reattaching a few blood vessels, nothing mystical. How could one's heart be repaired so simply? If that was the case, wouldn't he be able to perform surgeries on people in the future?

The experienced imperial physician understood the mysteries within. Not only did he never think it could be done, he was also unsure of how many blood vessels were connected to the heart. He couldn't even know that using this small forceps to clamp that blood vessel could stop the bleeding, and in the end, those very fine blood vessels could only be sutured stitch by stitch by hand... All of these were miracles he had never seen in his lifetime, and skills he could never achieve in his lifetime.

With this in mind, the fifty-year-old imperial physician could only look at Su Hanhan with reverence.

Su Ranran did not pay attention to the shock she had caused to these doctors, but looked towards Chu Yuan. She saw that he had completely lost his previous smile, his eyes were staring intensely at the beating heart, his eyes were already bloodshot, his body was trembling slightly, and he was raising his hand to cover his chest, his knuckles turning white.

Su Ranran noticed something was wrong and asked repeatedly, "Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"

The guard beside him only just snapped out of his shock from observing the surgery, and immediately supported Chu Yuan upon seeing the situation. He then ordered another person, "Quick! Administer the life-saving pill to the prince!"

The guard who was called over quickly took out a small medicine bottle from his pocket, poured out a brown pill from inside, and fed it to Chu Yuan.

Chu Yuan's forehead was already slightly sweaty, his brows furrowed tightly. He opened his mouth and swallowed the brown pill. After a while, his brows relaxed slightly, but his face remained pale.

Su Ranran looked at everything in shock, amazed that this medicine could rival modern fast-acting heart-saving pills.

But in this era, how could such a thing exist? Where did it come from?

Before long, Chu Yuan slowly opened his phoenix eyes, still tightly holding the medicine bottle in his palm, gently rubbing his fingertips as if it were a precious treasure.

Su Ranran only said at this moment, "Have you believed in my ability, Your Highness?"

"If I find a matching heart source, I can replace the prince's heart with a healthy one. This is the only way to treat him, and I am the only one who can cure you." Although she is not sure which category of disease he belongs to or if he really needs a heart transplant, these are not the most important things at the moment. As long as there is enough space opened up, sufficient equipment and medication available, she is confident that she can cure him. And this, will allow her to save her own life."

Chuyuan saw her determination and composure in his eyes, his eyes slightly curved at the corners, and a faint smile reappeared.

He is good-looking, and when he smiles, it's like basking in the spring breeze, especially for those who don't know him.

However, Su Hanhan knew that this smile was far from kind.

Chu Yuan took two steps forward, looking at the throbbing heart as if he could hear his own heartbeat.

Su Ranran furrowed her brows slightly and said, "Your Highness, let me stitch it up first. Please step back."

Chu Yuan, however, remained unmoved, suddenly drew out the dagger from his waist and ruthlessly plunged the sharp blade into the beating heart!