Courtyard House: My Long and Hard Body Makes Me Play with All the Women in the Courtyard

Vague childhood memories flooded back—a white hospital room, dim lighting, a man with bloodshot eyes, clutching a bag of orange candies, repeatedly saying, "Niannian, Daddy's here, everything's sweet, everything's sweet..."

She suddenly covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face.

The footprints slowly knelt down, looking at her at eye level.

In the wind, that voice rang out again, so gentle it was almost shattering:

"Niannian, Daddy can't hold you, can't let you see me... My body isn't fully awake yet, my consciousness can only be projected briefly. But I have to see you. Even for just a second, I want to see what you look like now that you've grown up."

Su Nian sobbed, reaching out her hand, but couldn't grasp anything.

"Then...when will you wake up? Where are you? I'm coming to find you! I'm not afraid of hospitals, I'm not afraid of the police, I'm not afraid of anyone saying you're already dead! I just...I just want to..."

“I’m on the second basement level of the Third Hospital in the North of the City, in the B7 cold storage area.” Su Ting’s voice grew weaker and weaker. “Number 114, registered name… ‘Unidentified male corpse’.”

"What?!" Xiaoyin roared, "They kept you as a corpse for eight years?!"

“Shh…” Su Ting sighed softly, “Don’t disturb the Night Watch. Once I’m fully awake and my heartbeat returns to normal… I can come out. But right now… as soon as the system detects vital signs, it will send me directly for autopsy and research. I can’t let them know I’m still alive… unless…”

"Unless what?" Lin Wan asked urgently.

“Unless someone is waiting for me outside,” he said in a low voice, “the freezer will automatically unlock for ten minutes when my heart beats more than thirty times in three consecutive minutes. That’s the only time I can escape.”

Su Nian suddenly looked up, wiping away her tears: "I'll go! I'll come pick you up! I'll go right now!"

"No!" Xiaoyin grabbed her arm. "That place is a restricted area! The alarm will go off immediately if anyone enters without authorization! Besides, how can you, a girl, carry a man who has been in a coma for eight years?"

"Then what do you suggest we do?!" Su Nian roared back, her eyes red. "You said he's alive, you said he waited for me for eight years, and now you want me to wait? Another eight years?!"

Lin Wan suddenly sneered and pulled a yellowed card from the inside pocket of her coat.

Chapter 1324 Dismissed and Banned

It says:

Name: Lin Wan

Position: Night patrol officer of the underground cold storage area at the Third Hospital of Chengbei (account cancelled)

Access Level: Top-Tier B (Corpse Disposal, Temporary Unsealing)

“Three years ago, I was dismissed and banned for secretly looking at your father’s file.” She narrowed her eyes. “But… the system can be faked, and the access card… I never handed it in.”

Xiao Yin was shocked: "You...you still have the card?"

“I’ve been waiting for this day.” Lin Wan looked at Su Nian with sharp eyes. “Your father needs someone to help him. And I need a reason to go back and fight back with dignity.”

Su Nian stared intently at her: "Why...why are you helping us?"

Lin Wan was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed, a desolate laugh:

“Because when my mother died, I put a piece of candy in front of her grave and said, ‘You love sweets.’ But no one told me whether she heard me in her last moments. I don’t want you to… not even get to hear ‘I heard you.’”

The snow has started falling again.

Su Ting's voice was almost inaudible:

“Niannian…if I get out, would you…take me to eat a bowl of hot noodle soup? The one on the corner, do you remember it? When we were little, you always said that the scallions there smelled so good.”

Su Nian choked up and nodded vigorously: "I remember... I remember. You said that noodle shop was cheap and filling. Dad would eat a bowl, I would eat half a bowl, and we could use the remaining money to buy candy."

“I want to eat the half you ate,” he said softly. “I want to taste… how you’ve lived these past eight years.”

Lin Wan put away the card, turned around and stepped into the snowstorm: "Let's go, time is running out. The night watchmen change shifts after 5:54. We only have one hour."

Xiao Yin took Su Nian's hand: "Let's go, your father is waiting for you—not an echo after his death, but a living man who wants to eat half a bowl of your noodles."

Su Nian glanced one last time at the footprints in the snow and whispered:

"Dad... wait for me."

In the wind and snow, the footprints slowly disappeared.

But under the streetlights, it seemed as if two people were still standing there.

One is crying, the other is laughing.

One is waiting, the other is coming.

In the distance, the outline of the Third Hospital in the North of the City was faintly visible in the snowy night.

Above the iron gate, an electronic screen flashed cold red text:

[Underground Cold Storage Area - Unauthorized Entry Prohibited]

Lin Wan looked up, her fingertips tracing the yellowed card, and said softly:

"Old buddy, tonight... let's go home."

Snowflakes hit the iron gate, making a soft, crackling sound.

Lin Wan placed the yellowed access card against the sensor area, her fingertips trembling slightly. The red light flashed three times, then suddenly turned green—with a soft "beep," the lock popped open.

Xiao Yin gasped: "You really got in? Didn't the system alert you?"

“It’s been three years.” Lin Wan sneered, pushing open the door a crack. “They changed the system ten times, but forgot the most critical loophole—if the old card wasn’t canceled, the permissions would remain forever.”

Su Nian bit her lip, her voice trembling: "Then... my dad... he really can come out alive?"

Lin Wan turned around, her eyes sharp as knives: "His heart stopped beating for forty-seven minutes, but he's not completely dead. The corridor pulled him back, and his obsession kept him awake. But the freezer is a low-temperature suppression chamber; if we delay for another half month, the nerves will suffer irreversible damage. Tonight is the last chance."

The three of them crept along the wall, with icy drainage ditches beneath their feet and suspended ventilation pipes overhead, the cold air hissing.

Xiao Yin suddenly grabbed Su Nian's arm: "Wait! Infrared alarm! Three o'clock!"

A red laser beam stretched across the passage, flickering intermittently.

Chapter 1325 Night Patrol Upgraded

“The night patrol has been upgraded.” Lin Wan squinted. “It used to be a mechanical inspection, but now a dynamic perception system has been added…someone has to trigger the decoy.”

“I’ll do it,” Su Nian said softly. “You said… my dad likes sweets. I still have some candy on me.”

She took out the last orange candy, unwrapped it, and gently tossed it towards the end of the corridor.

The sugar hit the ground, rolled twice, and then "clanged" as it hit the metal bucket.

The alarm suddenly flashed red!

"Go!" Lin Wan shouted, and the three of them dashed through the laser net.

The moment I landed, the ventilation duct above my head jolted violently!

With a crash, the iron grid shattered, and a dark figure leaped down from above, landing silently.

The man, dressed in a night patrol uniform, wearing a mask, and holding a stun baton, coldly blocked the way.

"Lin Wan," he said in a hoarse voice, "it's been three years, and you actually dare to come back."

Lin Wan's pupils contracted: "Old Zhang? You weren't transferred?"

“I’m the night watchman.” He raised his stun gun. “Not a security guard. You’ve trespassed into B7, violating Regulation Seven—live resuscitation experiments, no intervention allowed. Get out of my way, or I won’t show you any mercy.”

Xiao Yin roared, "He's not a test subject! He's a human being! He's Su Nian's father! He's alive! Open your eyes and look at the surveillance footage! Look at that heartbeat record!"

Old Zhang sneered and pulled a printed sheet of paper from his pocket: "B7-114, flat brain waves, zero heart rate. This is the report that just came out this morning. Medical assessment: vegetative state, no possibility of resuscitation. Did you bring this girl here so she could watch the 'corpse' being pushed into the incinerator?"

"That's fake!" Su Nian rushed forward, her voice trembling. "He can talk! He remembers me! He remembers the night I had a fever, and he promised to give me orange candy! You tampered with the data! You locked him up like a corpse for eight years!"

Old Zhang's eyes flickered slightly, but he remained unmoved: "Rules are rules. No one can open B7-114 without the dean's order."

Lin Wan suddenly laughed, a contemptuous laugh: "Old Zhang, do you still remember your daughter? Last year, she was in a car accident and rushed to the emergency room. Her heart stopped beating for six minutes. You were the one kneeling outside the emergency room, begging the doctor to try again, saying, 'She hasn't called me Dad yet, she can't die.'"

Old Zhang was startled.

“She survived.” Lin Wan took a step closer. “But do you know why she survived? Because her heart beat for seven minutes after she was pronounced dead. Medicine said it was ‘impossible,’ but it did. Just like Su Ting—his heart stopped for forty-seven minutes, but he moved his fingers in the morgue. You kill people with rules, but you forget—people are not data!”

The air was dead.

Old Zhang's hands trembled slightly.

“If you don’t move aside,” Lin Wan slowly removed her gloves, revealing a hideous burn scar on her wrist, “I’ll use the old method—blast the main refrigeration control unit. All thirty cabinets in B7 will defrost, and the entire hospital will lose power. You can arrest me if you want. But you have to explain why you watched a father wake up in the freezer, only to freeze to death again.”

Su Nian stared at Old Zhang, tears streaming down her face: "Please... just once... let me see him. Even if he can't move or speak, I want... him to know that I've never forgotten."

After a long silence, Old Zhang finally slowly raised his hand and took off his mask.

Tears welled in his eyes: "B7 only has a ten-minute unsealing period. Once the cabinet door is opened, the contents must be moved out of the freezer within three minutes, otherwise it will automatically restart and lock. I... I'll give you five minutes."

"Thanks." Lin Wan nodded and swiped her card to enter the elevator.

Chapter 1326 Covered Tags

The elevator descends, the number jumps to "-2", and the door opens.

A blast of cold air hit my face, and white mist filled the air.

Rows of metal cabinets are embedded in the wall, numbered like tombstones, gleaming coldly.

Lin Wan strode towards B7-114, her fingers tracing the frost-covered label.

"Su Ting."