Chapter 269: Even Dreams Are Restless ⑧
Ye Haifei stood outside the door, watching the two people who were crying uncontrollably while holding Nie Qiu’s lifeless hand, and felt a chill run through his entire body.
At two in the morning, Huang Yan received a message from Zhang Haiyang and got out of bed. She stumbled and pulled her father out of bed. Taxis were a bit hard to come by, and there were no tricycles because it was too late. She ran with her father, hailing a taxi on the road.
By the time they arrived at the hospital, it was already past three in the morning. She rushed to the hospital room and didn’t see Ye Haifei standing outside. She just looked at Nie Qiu, lying pale on the hospital bed, with a lost expression, and her heart involuntarily ached. She slowly raised her hand to cover her mouth, tears falling down, and she rushed forward, crying out, but… she couldn’t hear her own voice and felt an unbearable discomfort.
Nie Qiu, please don’t let your body be so cold… okay? It hurts me.
Nie Qiu, wake up. I want to tell you about my new idol, and I want to tell you that our class has a new couple.
I beg you, Nie Qiu, please wake up, okay?
Every time I ask you a question, don’t you always call me a silly girl? I won’t object anymore. As long as you wake up and call me that, no… as long as you wake up, you can call me whatever you want, whatever you want.
Huang Yan felt her heart ache. Her grandparents were still alive, and her maternal grandparents were also alive. Having grown up to sixteen years old, she had never experienced separation by death. She had never imagined that separation by death would be so painful, so painful that… she just wanted to die immediately.
Nie Qiu listened to the crying, listened to their almost desperate calls, and her heart ached terribly, but… she couldn’t get up to comfort these people, these… her family, her lover, her friends. This feeling of helplessness made her sad, and under the urge of her tear ducts, tears began to flow.
“Ding!” The medical electrocardiograph monitor let out a crisp sound. The straight line on the monitor slowly began to undulate, little by little, almost imperceptibly.
Li Kai’s eyes suddenly widened. The hand he was holding moved. He noticed Nie Qiu’s movement before the instruments that had not yet been removed. Tears streamed down his face, and he turned to shout outside, “Doctor! Doctor!” Come quickly and save her, she hasn’t left yet.
Li Kai’s expression was flustered, like a young man in a Hong Kong or Taiwanese idol drama, completely lacking any composure. At this moment, Li Kai held Nie Qiu’s hand, sobbing uncontrollably.
The sound of the electrocardiograph monitor startled everyone immersed in sadness. Nie Aifang heard Li Kai’s shout and paused. A doctor standing outside the door immediately rushed in, pushed aside the people in the hospital room, and hurried to the hospital bed.
Two nurses began to check the instruments. One doctor opened Nie Qiu’s eyelids and shone a flashlight to examine her pupils. Another doctor reopened the oxygen mask and placed it on Nie Qiu’s nose.
Then, more nurses pushed a mobile hospital bed in. “Make way, make way! All non-essential personnel, get out! We need to move the patient to the operating room for surgery. Everyone, make way!”
Everyone in the hospital room snapped back to reality. Although they were very worried about Nie Qiu’s condition, they also knew that they could not hinder the doctors and nurses’ resuscitation efforts at this time. Everyone orderly exited the hospital room.
Nie Aiwen stood in the hospital room with Nie Aifang, not moving. Li Kai, Huang Yan, and Peng Yu Yang also did not leave the room but helped the doctors and nurses move all the instruments and Nie Qiu onto the mobile hospital bed.
