The moonlight cast upon the desert. The wavy patterns formed by the wind on the desert sands resembled a cold, white ocean under the moonlight.
Ding Ruola turned around. She noticed several beams of light shining towards her from behind.
There was also a man's figure in the light. The man was running urgently, but Ding Ruola couldn't make out his face clearly.
All she could hear was the man's voice mingled with the whistling sand.
"Ruoruo!"
Ding Ruola patted the sand off her buttocks and tentatively started walking down from the top of the sand dune.
As soon as she took a step, she instantly slipped on the dune and fell to the ground.
It was like sliding down a slide when she was a child.
When Ding Ruola was sliding down, out of fear, she lowered her head and closed her eyes. When she opened them again, what came into view was Fang Siyan's face.
There was sand on top of Fang Siyan's head, and there were also dirt stains on his face that didn't belong there.
The girl reached out and touched the man's face. His nose tip and cheeks were cold, but there was a faint warmth around his eye sockets.
"Why did you run around?"
Shao Jin, standing behind Fang Siyan, let out a long sigh of relief. Finally, the girl was found.
If Ding Ruola had gotten lost today, she would have been in big trouble.
All the people who had come out to look for Ding Ruola now felt a sense of relief.
Shao Jin took out a thermos cup from her bag and handed it to Ding Ruola.
The girl had been in the cold environment for too long. After taking a few sips of hot water, she felt much more relaxed.
"How do you feel?"
Shao Jin wrapped her windbreaker around Ding Ruola and urged Fang Siyan to take Ding Ruola away.
She would handle all the subsequent matters.
"Baby, can you not just leave without saying a word in the future?"
Fang Siyan couldn't bear such a shock. The moment he heard that Ding Ruola was lost, everything in front of his eyes seemed to have a liquefied special effect.
He knew that at that moment, he couldn't collapse. He must hold on until Ding Ruola appeared.
Now that Ding Ruola was found and was safely in Fang Siyan's arms, the last bit of the man's belief collapsed.
As soon as the two got in the car and Ding Ruola fastened her seat - belt, when she turned to look at Fang Siyan, she found that the man had closed his eyes and was leaning on the seat.
The car door wasn't even closed. It didn't seem like he was just asleep.
Ding Ruola immediately got out of the car and called Shao Jin over.
While calling for help, she pinched Fang Siyan's philtrum with her thumb.
There was no decent hospital within ten miles. Shao Jin drove Ding Ruola and Fang Siyan to the small town they had passed by in the morning.
There was a hospital with relatively complete medical equipment in the small town.
One by one, the examination results basically came out.
All of Fang Siyan's physical parameters were normal.
"If there's nothing wrong, why isn't he waking up?"
Ding Ruola was too emotional. She threw the physical examination documents in her hand directly on the ground and stepped forward to grab the doctor's hand.
"I'm not sure about this either. We can only do further observation."
Not all illnesses are physical problems.
Shao Jin noticed that Ding Ruola wasn't in a good condition either. The girl's face was pale and she seemed weak. It even seemed that she didn't have the strength to open her eyelids.
"Do you want to get checked too?"
Ding Ruola shook her head and forced a smile to reassure Shao Jin.
But this smile of hers made people feel creepy. Her mouth was half - opened and her eyes were half - squinted, showing no sign of real happiness.
"The ward has a bed for the caregiver. You can rest well in there."
Shao Jin knew that Ding Ruola was holding on, and she didn't expose her. She told Ding Ruola that she could rest on the bed next to Fang Siyan.
Only after seeing that both of them were settled did Shao Jin leave.
Before she left, she specifically told the doctor to pay attention to the girl on the caregiver's bed.
The doctor said he understood the situation. Only after Shao Jin had explained everything did she leave with confidence.
Ding Ruola couldn't sleep at night. She stared at Fang Siyan lying motionless on the hospital bed.
She wanted to stay awake so that Fang Siyan could see her face the moment he woke up.
Wishes are always beautiful, but reality is always unexpected.
Ding Ruola's plan failed. She fell asleep within half an hour of looking at Fang Siyan's sleeping face last night.
Moreover, it was already morning and Fang Siyan still hadn't woken up.
When the doctor came for his rounds, he was also shocked by Fang Siyan's condition.
According to experience, Fang Siyan should have woken up by now, but he was still in a coma, lying in bed.
The vital signs monitor showed no problems.
"Maybe we should send him to a hospital in the city."
The doctor was a bit scared. In his many years of practicing medicine, he had never encountered a situation like Fang Siyan's.
Ding Ruola naturally agreed to the doctor's suggestion.
They should try to find a hospital with better medical conditions as much as possible.
"How are we going to get there?"
Ding Ruola's driving skills weren't suitable for a long - distance drive. She wanted the hospital staff to send them there. The hospital said that they would charge a fee if they sent Fang Siyan to the city hospital.
Money?
"Just name the price. As long as you send him to the city hospital."
The hospital charged Ding Ruola according to the industry - standard price. After arriving at the city hospital, Fang Siyan went through another round of machine examinations.
The man was lying comfortably on the hospital bed in the ward, while Ding Ruola shuttled back and forth between the examination rooms.
She took Fang Siyan's examination reports to the doctor. The doctor took a brief look at the reports and then returned them to Ding Ruola.
"It's nothing serious. Everything is basically normal."
"Look at it carefully!"
Ding Ruola thought the doctor in front of her had just taken a cursory look and hadn't examined the reports carefully.
"I've already looked at it on the computer."
The doctor knew Fang Siyan's situation and was also very worried. So as soon as the physical examination reports came out, he had asked each department to send over the data.
"Then why is he still asleep?"
"Coma is not necessarily caused by physical problems. It could also be a psychological issue."
There was no psychologist in the city hospital, so Fang Siyan could only lie in the hospital bed for now.
Ding Ruola carried the physical examination reports back to Fang Siyan's ward. She wiped Fang Siyan's hands and face with a wet wipe.
She threw the peeled but already yellowed apple on the bedside table into the trash can. The girl sat beside the bed and started peeling a new apple.
A brand - new apple was placed in the fruit plate on the cabinet. Within half an hour, the apple turned yellow.
Ding Ruola stared at the clean white plate and then at the yellowed apple.
"Lao Fang! Wake up quickly. I want to talk to you."
The girl threw the apple in the fruit plate into the trash can. Holding an apple in her left hand and a fruit knife in her right, she was ready to peel an apple for Fang Siyan.
She didn't know when Fang Siyan would wake up, but she hoped that he could see the peeled apple as soon as he woke up.
"Ruola!"
After Shao Jin learned that Ding Ruola had transferred Fang Siyan to another hospital, she quickly rushed over after finishing her work.
"I've made you come all the way here again."
Ding Ruola lowered her head and poured a glass of water for Shao Jin.
"It's okay!"