The doctor is standing there in their usual white coat with reports in his hands, and I immediately stand up and walk towards the doctor and ask, "What happened, doctor? What happened to him? Why is he so pale and lying like this on the bed? Why doesn't he wake up?"
I am asking all these questions to the doctor continuously without waiting for his reply. Then the doctor takes a long deep sigh and says, "Who are you to him?"
That question struck inside my heart. I ask myself again this question—who am I to him? Just no one. I don't have any relation with him. Tears start falling from my eyes. I couldn't answer him. I start crying.
Then Wang Lulu comes and rubs her hand on my back and says to the doctor, "Sorry, Doctor Qi, she is not in a position to answer anything. She is not stable. Please, you can tell me what you want to say."
The doctor's eyes shift from me to Yang Lulu now, and he says, "Outside only his team and guards are standing, so I thought I must inform them about Mr. Xu Yuan's condition. But when I heard someone was inside the room, I came here and saw this girl sitting on the floor and talking to him. Even after knowing he is fainted and unconscious, she is still talking to him, so I thought this girl must have some kind of relation with him or maybe she is his family member."
Wang Lulu looks at me when the doctor says this, then she looks at the doctor and says, "Doctor Qi, she is Mr. Xu Yuan's co-actress. You can consider her as his friend. Now can you please tell what happened to Mr. Xu Yuan and what's his condition now?" she asks.
Doctor Qi looks into the report in his hand, the one he was holding when he entered the room, and after a pause of five seconds he says, "See, Mr. Xu Yuan has met with an accident. Yes, the accident is mild, it didn't cause much loss. But he got an internal injury on his shoulder. We'll check it later once he comes to his senses—"
I cut Doctor Qi in the middle of the conversation and ask panicly, "So why is Xu Yuan still unconscious? Why is he not waking up? Is there something more that you are hiding, Doctor Qi? Please tell—please, please—"
I fall on the floor while asking Doctor Qi. Wang Lulu immediately holds me from behind.
Doctor Qi continues whatever he is explaining. "See, miss, I know you are worried for him, but if you react like this for a few more minutes, then definitely we will need another bed here beside him."
Doctor Qi is quite considerate about my health—that's why he said that—he didn't want me to get admitted in the hospital too.
"Look, Mr. Xu Yuan's internal injury can only be known once he wakes up. Till now he is not bleeding at all, no injury, nothing." Doctor Qi looks at me and says, "And miss, he is fainted and unconscious because we have given him medicines. That's why he is sleeping. He will wake up after 24 hours. Nothing major happened to him, so be relaxed."
After saying this, Doctor Qi leaves the room.
Wang Lulu is still holding me so that I can stand properly because my legs are numb, and I am losing my balance. I go out of that room too and sit on the couch outside. Tears start coming out of my eyes uncontrollably. The whole corridor is filled with his guards, team, and security people around this VIP area. There is everywhere the faint smell of medicines.
Then I hear a voice—a strange voice—someone arguing with someone. I immediately stand up and follow that voice. When I reach the mid-end of the corridor, I see a man, a man of mid-age, arguing with someone on his phone call and saying, "Look, I know I have hit that actor with my car, but listen, it's his fault, he was driving harshly—"
The moment I hear this word, I run towards him and reach him within three seconds and grab his collar and push him towards the wall. I am still grabbing his collar in rage, a high rage, and I ask him in my high-pitched voice, "Who the hell are you? And how dare you—how dare you hit him and now blame him only? Saying he was driving harshly and you have nothing to do with this and acting all innocent here—tell me! Tell me how dare you!"
He gets panicked by my behaviour and starts screaming, "Help! Please help someone—stop this mad girl—who is she?"
I reply, "I am your bad luck that is here today and will not leave you until I hand you over to the police!"
Then suddenly the police officer comes and starts pulling me away from him and says, "Stop, miss. If you won't stop, then we need to take strict action against you."
But nothing is working on me. Despite them trying so much to make me leave him, I am still holding his collar with huge anger and burning rage in my eyes.
Wang Lulu suddenly comes and pulls me behind by holding my hands and says, "Sorry, officer, she is in trauma. Please cooperate."
The man is panting there. "Please someone let her see a psychiatrist. She is mad—a mad girl. Please take an appointment for her, she is mentally unstable!"
I scream and say, "I won't leave you! You have to pay for what you have done to Xu Yuan!"
The officer comes and says, "Miss, we have talked to him and know the whole case. There is fault of neither of them. Neither Mr. Xu Yuan nor this man is at fault. The road was quite blurry due to the fog. Because of the winter, Shanghai midnight weather is quite dark today. Neither of them saw each other's car on the road, and the lights of that road were also not working. So it's just an accident. No one is at fault."
Then I ask the officer in my screaming voice, "Then why is this man saying that Xu Yuan was driving harshly? Who the hell is he to say such words about him?"
The officer doesn't answer me. He just looks at Yang Lulu and she understands what they want to say. She immediately takes me away from there by holding my hand and takes me outside Xu Yuan's room. We both sit on the couch.
Yang Lulu, in her mind, is thinking that she hasn't seen this side of Zhao Shiza ever. She didn't even know that this side exists in me—the rage, the fire in my eyes is something different. I am not the same soft, gentle, matured Zhao Shiza. I am someone else now, a new person she hasn't known till yet.
She is thinking this while looking at my face, and I ask her, "Yang Lulu, what are you looking at?" She just shakes her head and says, "Nothing."
I am wiping my tears with both my hands. My phone is ringing. It's Wang Ruoxi calling me.
I pick up the phone and she says, "Where are you Shiza? It's too late."
I reply in my tiny low voice, "I am at the hospital where Xu Yuan got admitted. I won't come tonight to the dorm. Don't wait for me."
Wang Ruoxi asks, "Which hospital is Xu Yuan admitted in?"
I reply, "It's Huashan Hospital."
Then the call cuts—maybe due to network issues. I don't know whether Wang Ruoxi heard my reply or not.
I put down my phone on the couch and when I look at the side couch where Yang Lulu was sitting with me just a few minutes ago, she is not here now. Maybe she went to attend some important calls.
Time is passing like this. The VIP zone area is quiet now. After half an hour, Yang Lulu comes with a few things in her hands and is walking towards me…