Lu Xun's Injury and Hospitalization While Rescuing Song Yuner is a turning point in the Yan City conflict: after Song Yuner is seized by Chu Fei's men, Lu Xun goes after her and is injured badly enough to require hospitalization. The rescue confirms the force of his loyalty and sense of responsibility, but it also creates a new emotional wound in his marriage, because Su Xiangwan is left waiting while he risks himself for Song Yuner. The hospital therefore becomes more than a place of treatment: it is where competing obligations, jealousy, anger, and attachment are brought into the same confined space.

Causes and Stakes

The immediate cause is Song Yuner's abduction. She is taken by Chu Fei's men as soon as she gets off the plane, and no one hears from her afterward. Lu Xun reacts with unusual urgency because he believes that, if he does not act, nobody else will protect her. He tells Su Xiangwan to wait in the hotel while he goes to find Song Yuner, presenting the decision not as proof of special affection but as a refusal to stand by while someone is in danger.

The situation is already politically and personally charged. Chu Fei has entered direct opposition to Lu Xun, and his treatment of Song Yuner becomes a deliberate provocation. Lu Xun responds by threatening to destroy Chu Fei's base if Chu Fei harms either Song Yuner or Lin Yanche. His anger is not merely private: he sees the attack on people around him as a challenge to his authority and as evidence that his opponents are testing the limits of his restraint.

The Rescue and Hospitalization

Lu Xun succeeds in saving Song Yuner, but the rescue leaves him injured and hospitalized. Lin Yanche later tells Su Xiangwan plainly that her husband saved Song Yuner and is now in the Hospital. The blunt report transforms the earlier dispute. What had seemed to Su Xiangwan like a question of preference becomes a physical consequence: Lu Xun's intervention has cost him his health, while she has been left without a clear explanation of what happened.

The injury is severe enough that Lu Xun remains in a hospital bed and receives an intravenous infusion. Even so, he does not behave like a passive patient. When he hears Su Xiangwan's voice outside, he immediately runs out despite Song Yuner's attempt to stop him. He chases Su Xiangwan barefoot, pulls her toward him, and presses her against the wall, his injured body collapsing weakly onto hers. The scene makes his devotion physically legible: he is in pain, but the possibility of letting her leave matters more to him in that instant than remaining safely in bed.

Conflict Between Protection and Marriage

The hospitalization exposes the unequal emotional meanings attached to the rescue. Lu Xun is anxious because Song Yuner has been taken and because he feels responsible for finding her. Su Xiangwan, however, experiences his decision through abandonment and comparison. Chu Fei aggravates the tension by contrasting Lu Xun's rapid response to Song Yuner with his slower contact when Su Xiangwan stays at Chu Fei's residence. Lu Xun is too injured to answer this provocation effectively; confined to the sickbed, he can only snarl in frustration before hanging up.

Lin Yanche identifies the mistake behind the crisis: Lu Xun left Su Xiangwan alone in the hotel while going after Song Yuner. His rescue may have been successful, but the choice created a second emergency inside the marriage. Lu Xun's insistence that Song Yuner is not important does not erase the visible fact that he acted decisively for her. The event thus shifts the value at stake from simple rescue to trust. Life is preserved for Song Yuner, but Lu Xun's marital security becomes more fragile.

Hospital Confrontation and Aftermath

When Su Xiangwan reaches the Hospital, she encounters Lin Yanche leaving and then hears Song Yuner near Lu Xun's room. Lu Xun's response is immediate and reckless. Still connected to the infusion and suffering from his injuries, he runs after Su Xiangwan rather than allowing her to disappear. His physical vulnerability reverses the usual image of him as an untouchable, commanding figure: the man who threatened to destroy Chu Fei's base now has to endure pain simply to catch up with his wife.

The aftermath also brings the couple's relationship into sharper focus. Su Xiangwan initially wants to push Lu Xun away, but the thick bandage beneath her hand makes her lose the courage to do so. His injury becomes both a barrier and a plea. It prevents easy retaliation while making his dependence unmistakable. The event does not resolve the jealousy surrounding Song Yuner; instead, it forces the characters to confront how protection can appear as betrayal when it is not explained, and how self-sacrifice can become another form of emotional pressure within a possessive marriage.

Narrative Significance

The episode is important because it converts Lu Xun's protective impulse into visible bodily cost. Earlier wounds already shape his responses: he recalls being kidnapped at twelve and becoming resistant to drugs, while Su Xiangwan carries the trauma of discovering that her mother died after walking onto a balcony. Against that background, the rescue is not an isolated act of heroism but part of a recurring pattern in which danger returns through the body, and care is expressed through control, pursuit, and emergency intervention.

The hospital scenes also establish a contrast between different kinds of vulnerability. Song Yuner is vulnerable because she has been abducted; Lu Xun because he is injured while recovering her; Su Xiangwan because she is left waiting, then confronted by the emotional consequences of his decision. Their vulnerabilities do not cancel one another. They compete, overlap, and become difficult to rank. That is why the event remains consequential after the rescue itself: Lu Xun saves Song Yuner, but he must then pursue Su Xiangwan and attempt to restore the intimacy endangered by the way he saved her.