Wang Ruoxi, is Zhao Shiza alright? Yang Lulu asked in a little worrying tone that made it suspicious to Wang Ruoxi.
Wait a second, how do you have an idea that she might not be okay? Wang Ruoxi asked.
Yang Lulu got hesitant before speaking, but she managed to say it confidently. I was trying to call her, but her phone is unreachable, so I got stressed and worried about her, as she never does this.
Oh yes, right. Because of stress, I am also judging everyone and questioning. Sorry, Yang Lulu, for that. Actually, I was just a little stressed, Wang Ruoxi said while rubbing her head with her hand.
Why are you stressed? Yang Lulu asked.
Actually, your intuition is right. Her phone is unreachable because she is admitted to the hospital, Wang Ruoxi said.
Hospital? What hospital? Is everything alright? Is she fine? What happened to her? Yang Lulu asked all at once, a little panicked.
Nothing to worry about now. Before that, it was, but now the only thing that matters is that she is absolutely fine, and there is nothing to worry about her health. She just met with an accident at the roadside, but now the situation is under control, and she is doing well.
Yang Lulu took a sigh of relief and said, Wang Ruoxi, when she becomes completely fine, please let me talk to her.
Okay, Yang Lulu. I am hanging up now, said Wang Ruoxi.
Okay, bye-bye, Yang Lulu said.
Meanwhile, Yuan was standing still there at that place, thinking about the accident, thinking so deeply. How is it possible that her accident was pre-planned? Is someone doing it intentionally? If so, then who? I need to find that person as soon as possible, before that person takes any other step to hurt her. But she didn't have any conflict with anyone. How can someone try to hurt her intentionally? He asked himself these questions.
Meanwhile, on the side, my hands moved a little. A nurse inside my room was just adjusting and settling the machines around me. Then a voice she heard, barely audible, reached her ears. The voice of me calling a name continuously with my closed eyes, like a prayer.
Yuan… Yuan… Yuan… Yuan…
That hit the nurse's ears. She immediately went outside the room and saw Yuan standing there at the glass. She went to him and said, Are you with that girl?
Yuan nodded his head.
Then who is Yuan? Are you Yuan or someone else? Because she is continuously calling that name even in her unconscious state.
The moment he listened to it, he headed inside the room without thinking anything else in his mind, even for a second. The nurse got a little shocked seeing him like this, as before she even completed her sentence, he was already inside the room. She went away from there.
But I must say, the nurse really had a very low IQ level. She didn't even know Xu Yuan, who rules the C-drama industry. Then she must not have watched dramas, that's why maybe she didn't recognize him. But it's so shocking, isn't it, that someone today didn't know Xu Yuan? Quite shocking and strange, as in today's time, not knowing him might be the loss of your own brain.
Meanwhile, Yuan was already inside my room. He covered the distance between us within his two long steps—long legs' advantage, of course. Within a second, he was near the bed, standing there, and held my hand in his like holding something sacred.
Then his voice came out, which was quite broken. Silly girl, he said, as he was checking that I was here or not.
I knit my eyebrows while my eyes were still closed. Then slowly, slowly, I opened my eyes. The first thing I saw the moment I opened my eyes was him—his face, which was in a damn worrying state.
I forced a smile on my face for him, just for him, and put my hand on his, and said while gathering some strength to speak, Yuan, are you— but he didn't let me complete my sentence and cut me midway.
No, don't say anything. You are too weak, he said.
I laughed a little and said, Yuan, Yuan, Yuan, my over-possessive boyfriend, why are you sounding like that? Am I made up of some glass and might get broken?
Because you are, he said it right away in front of my face.
You are underestimating your girlfriend, Yuan. I am your girlfriend. I can handle such fights and accidents. Don't worry, I said it while smiling.
But Yuan's face was something else—something that even I hadn't seen before, not even in his dramas. His expression was dead dangerous, giving me a look like I had stolen something from him, giving me a drop-dead dangerous look. I moved my eyes away from him and started looking here and there in the room.
You really have guts to smile, he asked in an angry tone.
I forced a smile again on my face and said, Why is that? Is smiling a crime?
Do you really want to go that far? Are you really joking now? Do you know what might have happened to you? Do you even have any idea about it? He said it in his most terrifying tone.
Yuan, relax. It was just a mild accident. Don't bother this much about it. It passed, I said while trying to console him and make him normal, but I think he was not ready for it now.
He exhaled sharply and said, You are calling it a mild accident? A mild accident? Do you really have the guts to say that? Do you even know what that mild accident cost you? Do you even realize how much you worried me throughout your treatment? It was freaking, freaking scaring. But you really have the guts to laugh and smile after making me this much worried.
You know what the problem is? You always think about the way you see things, not the way they seem to the people around you.
I looked down at myself and said in a low, tiny voice, Yuan, my birthday is almost going to end in an hour. Can you please scold me after that? I don't want to remember my first birthday with you by being scolded by you. I know there is love and lots of care behind your scolding, but still, it really feels a little heavy here now.
His anger on his face just vanished within a blink of a second. His expression changed from rage to softness.
Listen, silly girl, I know I might have scared you right now, but you have done it before to me. You scared my soul, hell out of me. Next time onwards, don't scare me like this. Promise me.
He put his hand in front of me, offering my hand to put it on.
I promise I won't, I said while putting my hand on his.
He smiled faintly and said, That's like my silly girl.
But you know what, Yuan? I am really happy, I said.
Why? He asked astonishingly.
Because for many years, I have seen you in those dramas worrying about your female lead, and trust me, that made me hell jealous. But now— I smiled a mischievous smile— now finally, I am really able to experience it for my own self. I never imagined that I would ever be able to experience it in this life. So no regrets for that accident today. Even if it comes as a blessing for me on my birthday, as I am able to experience something that I only imagined in my dreams. So thank you, Mr. Accident Person, whoever you are, as today you came as an angel for me and fulfilled my wish.
I said it while joining my hands and closing my eyes. Then I dared to open one eye, and he was already controlling himself not to scold me again.
Yuan, have some mercy on me. I am sick. You can't scold me anymore, I said dramatically.
He finally let out a small laugh and said while shaking his head, You have really gotten some guts, teasing me here also.
Of course, I have learned this from Volunteer Li Qingyan, the role you played in your drama—that was so determined in his work and never got off from it, I said.
So you really learned something from that character? He asked.
I nodded my head and said, Of course. Everything you do or say gets printed in my heart with a permanent marker, which can't be erased or rewritten.
He smiled and tapped the back of my head and said, So mine.
I smiled back and said, Always so yours—just Xu Yuan's Zhao Shiza.
No, he said. Just Zhao Shiza's Xu Yuan.
Both are fine. They are just vice versa of each other, I said.
Like us, he replied.
Hmm, like us, I replied.
Then he hugged me too tightly, like he was holding it back for so long, closed his eyes, and said while hugging me, You don't know how heavy today was for me. Just don't make me face days like this ever in the future.
Okay, I won't. Just relax, Yuan. I am fine. See, I am right in front of you, sitting and joking like every day, I said to console him.
But I could feel his heartbeat, which was so fast, his breathing uneven. He was holding me like someone was going to snatch me away from his hands if he loosened his grip even a little.
Holding me too tight, but my body didn't feel any pain, because being held by you is the best thing I have ever experienced till now.
I didn't say anything, just hugged him back and tried to calm him and reassure him that I was here—here with him—not going anywhere. But I think, I think it will really take time for him.
Then a strange voice entered the room, saying, Crushing my patient right after the treatment is not good, Mr. Xu Yuan.
Doctor Feng entered the room and said it.
Just let me remind myself that she is here, here with me, he said while closing his eyes and hugging me.
Mr. Xu Yuan, she is a little weak. She is already so fragile, and you are crushing her with your hug. It makes her tired. Leave my patient, Doctor Feng said dramatically and with concern.
He immediately broke the hug and said, Sorry, I didn't realize it. My fear took me so far that I didn't even think you might get hurt.
Whatever my Yuan does, anything from him is not needed to be sorry, I said while smiling.
Then suddenly his phone rang. He took it out of his pocket and picked it up.
Hello.
Hmm, say, what happened? He said to the person.
Sir, we have gotten the footage from the surveillance. We are sending it to your WeChat.
Hmm.
He didn't say much and walked out of the room while talking on the phone.
There must be some work-related call for him, I said to myself.
When he left the room, Doctor Feng said while smiling, This young man really did his heart out to save you. Thank God, in this lifetime, I am able to witness this kind of love. Otherwise, I would never have known that love could be this beautiful.
He said it while looking at the door from where Yuan had just left.
To save me? I asked myself.
Then my inner curiosity couldn't wait anymore, and I finally asked Doctor Feng, Dr. Feng, what you just said—what does it mean? I mean, I want to ask what he did that made you say he did his heart out to save me.
Doctor Feng smiled and said…