Beep, beep, beep…
“Doctor, the patient is showing signs of waking up!” The on-duty nurse’s voice rang out.
Cai Jinru slowly opened her eyes. The stark white ceiling and the distinctive smell of disinfectant told her she was in a hospital.
I’m not dead? I jumped from such a high floor and I’m still not dead? She asked herself.
She looked around, searching for someone’s figure, but saw no one.
The doctor came over and examined her thoroughly. A moment later, the doctor asked,
“Miss Cai Jinru, can you hear me clearly?”
She nodded.
Wait a minute.
Cai Jinru?
“Can you see me clearly?” the doctor asked.
She blinked, a stream of tears welling up in her eyes, and nodded.
After a series of procedures, the doctor determined that Cai Jinru’s physical condition was stable, but her mental state was not. The doctor diagnosed it as a sequela of the accident.
Cai Jinru woke up a little after 4 AM. The nurse beside her recounted everything to her.
By the time she had stabilized, it was past 8 AM.
She was propped up in bed.
They told her that the rented room she was in that night had unexpectedly collapsed, causing serious damage. She had been buried under the rubble and had been in a coma for nearly a year.
She guessed that night was when she transmigrated into that book.
Jinru lay silently in the hospital bed. The nurse said that when she was brought to the hospital, she was in critical condition but had no relatives.
The landlord had to take responsibility because the infrastructure was substandard, so he had paid all her hospital bills until now.
The nurse saw her in a coma at the hospital, alone with no one to care for her, and out of pity, worried about her immensely.
Jinru just lay still, not moving or speaking.
Tears silently fell. She was alone again.
She knew it would be like this, but why did she feel so uncomfortable?
She was starting to miss Chen Jiancheng!
If she were with Chen Jiancheng in that place, if she were injured like this, he would anxiously comfort her, and would never leave her alone in a hospital like this.
If Chen Jiancheng were here, he would cry with joy when she woke up.
If Chen Jiancheng were here, he would surely be holding her in his arms right now.
Li Wanru missed Chen Jiancheng!
She bit her lip, trying not to make a sound as she cried, but she still sobbed like a child who had just lost something very important to them.
The elderly people in nearby beds talked among themselves.
“What’s wrong with that child, why is she crying again?”
“The little girl doesn’t speak. For three days, she’s just been lying there, quietly crying!”
“How pitiful!”
After Jinru was discharged from the hospital, she went to say goodbye to the nurse.
Using the compensation money for the lost property from the landlord, her remaining salary from that time, and her social insurance money, she first found a temporary place to live.
In the small, cramped room, she held the newly bought novel, “Deep Affection,” in her hand.
She reread it word by word, and when she read the name “Chen Jiancheng,” her heart fluttered.
For as many days as she had been back, for that many days she had cried missing him.
Jinru lay on the small bed, resting her head on her arm.
Her fingers traced the book’s surface, just stroking back and forth over the name “Chen Jiancheng.”
She comforted herself.
“Consider this me hugging you, okay?”
A month quickly passed. Jinru’s life continued to be dull. In the morning, she took a part-time job, and in the evening, she sat lost in thought, missing someone.
She returned to a life without relatives, without friends, and now, without joy.
When she had free time, she would walk to the places where she and Chen Jiancheng had gone together.
Fortunately, the setting in real life and in the book weren't too different, so for her, these places were all memories.
Currently, the meaning of her life was to gather a few memories, a few glimpses of him.
If all of this was a dream, then this was the most beautiful dream.
It was a dream she never wanted to wake up from.
That October, Cai Jinru went alone to Quy Nhon Beach.
She went to the exact spot where the sunset had witnessed their love story that day.
She sat alone on the beach, her lonely silhouette seeming to gather all the solitude in this world onto her shoulders.
She remembered that kiss, she remembered Chen Jiantao standing in the sunset confessing his love to her. Jinru burst into happy laughter.
She also remembered Mei Jin and Ming Qian happily celebrating her birthday beside them.
She wondered if Mei Jin and Ming Qian had become a couple in that world? She wondered if Chen Jiantao remembered her in that world?
She used a dry stick to write on the sand: "Ru misses Tao very much."
She was silent for a moment, then couldn't help but burst into tears...
May you be safe your entire life!
May you be happy your entire life!
May all the best things in this world come to you!
Even though I know we can never meet again, I still hope we will reunite.
If not in this life, then in another.
The sun disappeared, the sky was silent, the sound of the waves lapped gently, a tranquil scene as if bidding farewell to an ordinary love.
The vast ocean embraced the heart of a lonely person.
——– THE END ——–....