A few days later, Gao Zhongwei, whose injuries were gradually stabilizing, was transferred to a regular ward. Ji Mengtang finally waited for an opportunity when Gao’s parents were not around and sneaked into the ward to see him.
“Zhongwei…” Seeing her boyfriend lying on the hospital bed, wearing a respirator and filled with tubes, her heartbroken tears immediately fell. “Zhongwei, are you okay?”
Due to a cervical spine injury causing diaphragm dysfunction, he currently still needed a respirator to help him breathe.
Gao Zhongwei was conscious, and upon seeing Ji Mengtang, he was not pleased but angry. He barely moved his lips, spitting out a resentful rebuke from the respirator: “Why did you come… Haven’t I been ruined enough by you?”
When he regained consciousness, he discovered he was almost completely paralyzed, essentially a real invalid. Shocked and angry, he could not accept this reality. He wanted to smash everything around him, but ironically, he did not even have that ability. Now he could only throw a tantrum and vent his dissatisfaction to those around him.
“Zhongwei… I…” Ji Mengtang was so sad. She did not expect that not only Gao’s parents would blame her, but Zhongwei would think the same? “That day, I kept advising you not to drink and to ride slower…”
“So you’re saying I brought this upon myself? Fine, Ji Mengtang, you’re ruthless! Now that I’m paralyzed… you’re putting all the blame on me!”
“No, it’s not like that! Zhongwei, I—”
“Get out… I don’t want to see you. Since you think this is all my fault, then let me bear the consequences alone! Get out—” Gao Zhongwei roared, both weak and angry.
“Zhongwei, don’t get agitated—”
“Oh! How did you get in here?”
At this moment, Gao’s temporarily absent parents returned and saw Ji Mengtang sneaking in. They immediately became furious. “We just went out to buy something, and you sneak in? Are you trying to kill our Zhongwei?”
“Get out of here!” Gao’s mother shrieked in a sharp voice, driving her out. Even though the police said her son was drunk driving, she still insisted that this accident was caused by Ji Mengtang, this harbinger of misfortune.
