It was autumn, and the trees outside the window had turned yellow with the leaves falling, just like they’d lost hope, as if souls without purpose, drifting wherever the wind blew without their own will…
Upon receiving the news, Yan Shaoxuan rushed to the hospital. He pushed open the door and saw Xia Weiwei in her thin hospital gown, sitting motionlessly in a wheelchair and staring out of the window like a lifeless old man.
She was shockingly thin. Her hospital gown was slightly ruffled up by the autumn wind, showing her withered body in the shadow of oppressive death, as if she had been abandoned by the world.
It was so heartbreakingly distressful…
Yan Shaoxuan quietly let go the door knob, and walked over with light steps. He put his coat on Xia Weiwei’s shoulder and, half squatting down, said softly: “it’s cold, and your body can’t stand the wind. Please don’t worry me, Weiwei.”
He had come with a lot to say, but at the sight of Xia Weiwei now, he was suddenly rendered speechless. He felt like holding her tightly into his arms and bearing everything for her.
Yan Shaoxuan was afraid. This version of Xia Weiwei scared him. Even when she lost her mother, her beloved aunt Lan, and her baby, she had been resilient in the face of everything. But now she was like a puppet without feelings.
Xia Weiwei did not move, she just slowly turned to look at Yan Shaoxuan, and her voice was dry and dull: “Shao…Xuan?”
Yan Shaoxuan held her hand tightly and put it on his chest, as if he could somehow convey hope and strength of life to her in this way: “yes, here I am, Weiwei. Sorry for being late and everything you’ve gone through! It’s alright now. I got you. Don’t be afraid. ”
Don’t lose hope! Don’t… die!
Feeling the warmth of his chest, Xia Weiwei’s fingertips quivered slightly as she murmured: “I can hear your heart beating…”
Shaoxuan’s heart was beating, but what about hers? Why was it that she was alive but couldn’t feel it?
She had lost the most important thing inside her.
She looked down and saw her own legs.
“I can’t move my legs, and the doctor said I’ve lost the ability to walk.”
She made such an understatement, as if she was merely an on-looker.
Several successive operations, with the addition of large doses of drugs, and the excessive blood transfusion this time had almost taken her life according to the doctor. And it was a pity that she could no longer walk on her own, but it’d been a miracle for her to have survived!
But what’s the difference between her and a corpse if she couldn’t walk again. If she’d died, at least all would have been finished, but being alive, she had to face everything. She couldn’t do anything now, and how could a useless person like her ever seek revenge? She didn’t even have the most basic dignity at the moment.
Did God think that she’d not been miserable enough? What on earth had she done wrong to deserve such pain! All she had ever done was loving a man with her whole heart. Was it her fault?
Yan Shaoxuan felt a twinge in his heart. Despite Xia Weiwei’s composure, he knew how much pain she actually felt!
The girl he had cherished since childhood had been pushed from heaven down to hell by the man she had cared about the most!
“Weiwei, it doesn’t matter. I will do whatever I can to find the best doctor and cure your legs! Even if you couldn’t walk any more, I will be your pillar and take you wherever you want to go. I swear! ”
Yan Shaoxuan kneeled on one knee and kissed the back of her hands piously.
Xia Weiwei’s eyelashes trembled slightly, and warmth rushed to her chest at that moment.
“Shaoxuan, take me away.” If she didn’t want to face it all, she could at least leave.
Yan Shaoxuan nodded, “OK.”
Xiaweiwei didn’t know how much power of the Yan family Yan Shaoxuan had employed this time to dismiss the people of Luo Chejue. He had decided to take Xia Weiwei away, even if he would have to stand up against the Luo family! He would not let anyone who had hurt her get away with it!
He would not give in any more, for he was determined to protect Weiwei from now on!