"Xu Pei!"
Having approached nearby, Tong Ya heard her voice, her expression changing instantly as she cried out in shock and hurried over with the fruit in hand.
Seeing Xu Pei standing in front of the hospital bed, having already removed her head covering, she suddenly realized what had happened and quickly placed the fruit on the table, "Xu Pei, you..."
"You lied to , all of you lied to ..." Xu Pei threw her phone into her chest and turned to rush toward the door.
"Xu Pei!" Tong Ya hurried forward, grabbing her, "Xu Pei, calm down, listen to explain. Dr. Lin has her own treatnt plan; she will help you. You can recover..."
"Let go of !" Xu Pei wasn’t willing to listen, struggling to shake her off and running out the door.
"Xu Pei!" Tong Ya shouted her na as she gave chase.
In a state of panic, Xu Pei dashed down the corridor, where a woman with a child happened to be walking out of a ward.
"Ah, Mommy, a monster!"
Startled by her disfigured face, the child scread and buried himself in the woman’s arms.
Xu Pei’s heart felt as if it were being cut by knives.
Seeing the crowd ahead, she frantically pushed open the door to the ergency stairs and burst into the stairwell.
"Xu Pei!"
Tong Ya also ran in, climbing the stairs in pursuit.
Like a madwoman, Xu Pei burst through the stairwell door, ignoring the screams of the several patients she startled, and continued straight for the hospital’s main entrance.
In fact, she had no idea where she was going or what she was going to do. The only thought in her head was to leave this place, leave all of this behind...
"Xu Pei!" Tong Ya, gasping for breath, eventually caught up, "Stop, listen to ...
Not far from the hospital gates, a taxi slowly pulled over. Hearing soone shouting Xu Pei’s na, the man in the back seat turned his head in confusion, glimpsing Tong Ya running past nearby. He imdiately pushed open the door and got out.
"Sir, your change!"
The taxi driver, having found the correct change, looked back to find no one in the back seat.
Xu Pei continued her frenzied charge out of the hospital gates, blindly crossing the street to the blasting of car horns and the screeching of brakes, as drivers cursed loudly.
"Damn, you looking to get yourself killed..."
"Lunatic!"
...
But she paid no attention, just kept running, the wind lashing her face, her unhealed skin tearing with the trails of her tears.
She ran straight down the road, and upon seeing a deserted side street, she dashed into it without hesitation.
Tong Ya arrived to find her nowhere in sight, called out several tis loudly, and then took out her phone from her pocket.
"Yizhou, it’s , hurry, Xu Pei ran away... right near the bridge not far from the hospital. There are three intersections here—I’ll follow the bridge. On the other ends, you guys look for the other two..."
Her heart was pounding fiercely.
The air slicing through her throat was like knives, causing pain...
Filled with emptiness, fear, and all sorts of negative emotions, Xu Pei aimlessly moved forward. Her body, which had lain in the hospital bed for days, was unable to sustain the exertion. Her feet slipped, and she fell heavily to the ground.
Her hospital gown torn, her knees stinging, the palm of her already injured hand scraped against the road, imdiately tearing off the scab and oozing blood.
At that mont, Xu Pei failed to realize just how similar she was to Luo Xiaoqian, who had fled on that rainy night.
Everything seed like a cycle repeating itself.
At that mont, Xu Pei’s heart was filled with nothing but despair.
Struggling to her feet and seeing the traffic under the viaduct ahead, Xu Pei suddenly cald down.
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