No. 36 Before Dawn
3:00 AM, T University Hospital.
Xiaomi sat stupidly outside the operating room. Her mother held her hand and hugged her in her arms. Her father stood quietly at the door of the operating room with his arms around his chest.
The operation has been going on for more than two hours. The nurses who came in and out seemed to only say one sentence: "The doctor is doing his best."
Everything that happened at night was too unreal. She remembered him muttering that he liked her, she remembered the warmth of his hug, but those charming shadows in the dark seemed to be someone else's memory.
Mom's hand is so warm. But his hand, sleeping in a pool of blood, was so cold.
The operating room door creaked open again, and this time a middle-aged female doctor came out.
"Old Li, how are things?" asked Xiao Mi's dad anxiously. Mom walked over with Xiao Mi in tow.
"There's a lot of bleeding. The spleen is ruptured and may need to be removed. There's intracranial hemorrhage, occipital scalp laceration, two rib fractures, right scapular fracture, and left forearm fracture." The doctor sighed, thinking that such a young life had been dealt such a heavy blow.
"Is the situation under control?" Little Mi's dad looked somewhat solemn.
"I'm stopping the bleeding, I'll try my best. Is there no way to contact your family? The spleen surgery requires a signature." The female doctor spoke quickly, with little emotion.
"My child's mobile phone is lost. I have called the principal and hope he can contact us as soon as possible."
"Alright. I'll go ahead with the surgery then. If anything goes wrong, I'll come find you, Director Tong." The doctor said, and turned back to head into the operating room.
The principal sighed, this child, suffered such a serious injury, but his parents are not around...
"Dad......" was almost a whisper, after a long and intense shouting, Xiaomi's throat was completely hoarse, "Will Hanqi die?", the word "die" had barely escaped her lips when tears burst out again.
She is very afraid.
When she was very young, she played with a kitten on the lawn outside her house. She accidentally fell and pressed the kitten to death. The next day, the kitten died. Looking at the kitten that would never wake up again, she couldn't believe for a long time that the kitten would no longer rush to call her, no longer be coquettish with her... The kitten taught her with its life that life is so fragile...
Han Qi... will wake up again, right?
She never had extravagant hopes for a long-lasting relationship, but she didn't want to say goodbye just like that...
"It's okay." Dad patted her shoulder. "You have to believe in Auntie Li and also believe in Han Qi, be strong, Xiao Mi."
Xiaomi nodded slightly and sat quietly on one side again.
All we can do now is wait, isn't it?
It's always been him waiting for me, this time I'll wait patiently for him to come out, no tears, no fuss, just quietly waiting.
Xiaomi took her mother's hand and gave a faint smile to the mother who accompanied her.
"Mom, you should go back first, you still have a flight in the morning." Xiao Mi whispered, barely making any sound as she opened and closed her mouth.
Mom looked at Xiaomi's dry and cracked lips, looking at her pale little face covered with tears. Eyes filled with bloodshot, no longer only childlike innocence, still honest and clear gaze, had become calm and determined. This kid, slowly grew up.
"Don't worry, Mom will handle her own affairs." She no longer hugged her daughter into her arms, but just held the hand she was holding tightly.
Tonight is really long.
Another city under the night sky.
A silver Toyota Alphard sped along the elevated highway at midnight, a woman wearing sunglasses in the back seat made a phone call:
"Han Cheng, something's happened to my son, he's being rescued. Can you make it back tomorrow? ... What ads? Can't they be postponed? ... I have a final scene to wrap up tomorrow. Alright, you hurry back as soon as possible, I'll discuss with the director and try to get back by morning. Hmm, that's settled."
After she hung up the phone, a young girl sitting in the passenger seat started speaking without looking back: "Meiqi, tomorrow afternoon's exclusive interview at BX station has been rescheduled. I'll negotiate with XXX company about tomorrow night's advertisement. This way you have an entire afternoon and evening free, but the company still hopes you can resume work early the day after tomorrow, otherwise your subsequent schedule won't be arranged."
"Hmm." The woman chuckled softly, lit a cigarette with a flirtatious gesture and said faintly, "That depends on whether my son is dead or not."
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