The Flaming Heart Episode 7 Recap
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Huo Yan visited his Granny, who was looking at old photos. She shared a personal story from her youth during a time of war. She told him about a man she loved who went to war, for whom she walked over thirty miles to a photo studio to take a picture to send him.
She waited for him after he went to the Korean War, crossing the Yalu River, and even registered to become a medic when she heard he was injured, hoping to find and bring him back. However, she then received the devastating news that he had died in the war and a serious illness prevented her from going to the battlefield. It was much later that she met Huo Yan's grandfather.
Reflecting on her experience, Granny advised Huo Yan that if he finds a good girl he truly loves, he should cherish her and not let her go, because finding someone who loves you is not easy. She expressed her hope for him to fall in love. Luo Jie accompanied Yan Lan to a scenic spot.
Seeing her still downcast, he offered to tell her a joke, which turned out to be a love letter he read from his phone, titled "The Cat's Love Letter to the Mole." The story described a cat's deep, self-sacrificing love for a mole, giving up everything and enduring rejection. After finishing the story, Yan Lan thanked Luo Jie. He tried to find another joke, but Yan Lan gently stopped him, stating that he would always be her best friend.
Luo Jie acknowledged her words but affirmed that no matter what, he would always be there to protect her. Meanwhile, Pei's condition worsened, and she tragically passed away. Later, Yan Lan handed Wang Dayin a video Pei had recorded before her surgery. In the video, Pei, full of affection, called him "Brother Da Yin" and expressed how much she missed him, praising him as a firefighter even more powerful than Sun Wu Kong.
She left him with cheerful memories and a plea not to cry if she didn't return, so monsters wouldn't laugh at him. Watching the video, Wang Dayin was overcome with grief, crying uncontrollably. Back at the fire station, Wang Dayin bottled up his sorrow, refusing to speak. Jiang Tong approached him, encouraging him to release his emotions, telling him it was okay to cry or talk to her.
She reminded him that "life is so small," but that both the living and the deceased can be great, and his choices are his own. She then urged him to eat and return to duty. Huo Yan was in a discussion with Minister Jiang regarding his performance, which, while generally good, still had room for improvement, particularly in subway rescues. During their conversation, a distress call came into 119.
An elderly man, disoriented and injured, reported bleeding and a headache but couldn't provide his address, even mentioning "napalm bomb." Huo Yan took over the call, calmly assuring the man. He asked the elder to describe what he could see outside his window: "trees, lights, a road," a "rectangular window" with an "anti-theft net" on a "low floor" facing the street, and importantly, his interior "light is on." Huo Yan, keeping the man on the line, formulated a plan.
He dispatched multiple fire trucks, instructing them to drive slowly along different streets in the area and sound their sirens. By listening carefully over the phone, Huo Yan pinpointed the exact moment the man heard a siren, thereby identifying the correct street and narrowing down the search. Upon arrival at the residential complex, Huo Yan realized many lights were on, making it impossible to locate the man solely based on his description.
He took a megaphone and addressed the residents, explaining they were searching for a dying elderly man in a lit room in their community and requested everyone to turn off their lights to help them find him quickly. The residents responded immediately, plunging the complex into darkness, except for one solitary light. Huo Yan and his team quickly moved to that window, breached the apartment, and found the old man. Although he had sustained head trauma, he was conscious.
The team carefully rescued him and transported him to the nearest Southeast Hospital. Shortly after, news broke that Pingxi County in Southwest China had been hit by a powerful 6. 4-magnitude earthquake, causing unknown casualties. Both Huo Yan's fire rescue unit and Yan Lan's medical unit were urgently dispatched to the disaster zone for relief efforts. The night before his departure, Huo Yan's mother, Sister Xian, spoke with him.
She gently pressed him about his distant behavior towards Yan Lan, revealing that she knew it was related to his father. Huo Yan confessed that he viewed his father as a good father but not a good husband, and that he didn't want to become like him. He expressed his belief that if his father hadn't sacrificed his life, his mother wouldn't have endured so many hardships and grievances over the years, raising him and his grandmother.
He felt that while his father achieved his ideal, it came at a great cost to his mother's happiness. Sister Xian calmly countered that she had been mentally prepared since the day she married his father. It was a mutual decision for his father to continue as a firefighter, and they supported each other as partners. She emphasized that they were comrades-in-arms facing the uncertainties of life and death, and she never regretted being a firefighter's wife.
She advised Huo Yan to trust Yan Lan and not make decisions for her unilaterally, especially regarding their relationship. She acknowledged his fear for his loved ones but reminded him that in love, just like in the fire service, one chooses a comrade-in-arms. She asserted that firefighters, being flesh and blood, also need love and affection, and that it is this very love that gives them the courage to risk their lives for others.
If he abandons Yan Lan, his profession loses its inherent loveliness. She concluded by urging him to protect Yan Lan during the upcoming rescue mission as fiercely as he would protect himself. In Pingxi, Yan Lan's medical team was overwhelmed by the growing number of severely injured casualties. To complicate matters, a landslide blocked the main transport route, meaning no patients could be moved for at least six hours.
Facing critically injured patients who needed immediate surgical intervention, Professor Ye made the unprecedented decision to perform open-chest surgery directly in the makeshift medical tent within the disaster area, accepting full responsibility for the unconventional approach. To streamline treatment, Yan Lan introduced a system where patients received colored wristbands indicating their condition; a black wristband meant the patient could not be saved. Yan Lan's junior, Ji Yuan, was tasked with distributing these bands.
While triaging, he encountered a young woman with severe injuries who was beyond help. After placing a black wristband on her, he witnessed her husband's agonizing cries, which deeply affected him emotionally. Distraught, Ji Yuan questioned his ability to continue.
Yan Lan, observing his state, took the remaining wristbands from him and ordered him to clean himself up, change his clothes, and rest for thirty minutes alone, insisting on the full break, knowing he was struggling to cope with the harsh reality of the situation. Yan Lan also took over some of the heavier duties, stating that at such a critical moment, firefighters were needed.
