"Miss Xiahu, how are you feeling today?" Dr. Qiang Yue asked her like he had asked her for the past few weeks. It had become a daily habit for the man to come and check her vitals taken by Ling Qiu.
"I'm better." Xiao Yunhua answered with a small smile. Qiang Yue frowned at how frail she seemed as she smiled. She had lost too much weight despite trying to recover from the coma. It's been a few weeks, but her fragility was still present. Her face was hollowed due to the weight loss and her body was like a twig, ready to snap at any time. Qiang Yue felt deep sympathy for the woman. To suffer like so at her age, which was quite young, was too pitiful.
"Well, luckily that your muscles are used to movement and you can be released at any time. Unfortunately, due to the abnormal weight loss and the sudden wave of depression that we see, you'll have to be monitored here for a bit longer."
Xiao Yunhua opened her mouth to retort in disagreement, but Qiang Yue quickly added, "Mr. Wang and Ms. Ni have arranged it already. They wish for you to be completely healthy before leaving the hospital."
Xiao Yunhua sighed, her honey colored eyes looking dull. Qiang Yue saw the aura around her become thicker with woe and he quickly reassured, "Ling Qiu will still take you out to exercise your leg muscles during this time."
"But it's so boring." Xiao Yunhua childishly huffed, she tried to get up from the patient bed, but ended up slipping. Expecting for the floor to meet her face, she was surprised to find herself in a warm embrace. A whiff of cologne filled her nostrils and she blushed, like a rose blooming on her flawlessly pale face.
"Miss Xiahu, are you alright?" Qiang Yue murmured, making Xiao Yunhua blush even deeper. Being so close to Qiang Yue, she could see the outline of his washboard abdominal muscles behind his maroon dress shirt and tie. Paired with his white lab coat and gentle eyes, he looked very handsome.
"Y-Yes," she stuttered shyly as she tried to get up, "thank you for catching me."
"No problem." Qiang Yue didn't feel flustered in the least bit. He helped his patient get up and lie back on her bed.
"Doctor, can't I walk around for some fresh air?" Xiao Yunhua asked quietly before he left.
Qiang Yue was going to nod but then remembered that Ling Qiu was already gone for the day. As Xiahu Yunhua was a special patient and her guardians requested for the utmost privacy, he couldn't get another nurse to help her.
In this end, after much contemplation, he agreed. "I'll walk with you." After all, he didn't have anything else planned except for reading over some reports in his office. A little walk wouldn't hurt, and he didn't mind the break either.
He couldn't let Xiahu Yunhua walk alone as she was still a patient that was comatose for so long. This solution was satisfactory.
"Alright." Xiao Yunhua didn't mind the opportunity of spending some time with her second target. In fact, this would help her get closer to her goal.
She saw Qiang Yue extend his hand in her direction, to help her get up. With slight hesitance, Xiao Yunhua gripped his hand and stood up. Awkwardly shaking his hand off, she wobbled beside him as they walked around in the floor of private rooms.
Qiang Yue's long legs were walking very slow to allow the much-shorter woman to keep up with his pace. He wanted to chuckle aloud at how cute she was behaving. Like a duck that was beginning to swim for the first time.
Even though she was already walking, it would still take a full month or so for her to return to walking normal.
She had been completely inactive for three months, so it wasn't completely unreasonable.
As Qiang Yue slowed down his pace, they walked side by side around. Xiao Yunhua didn't like the awkward silence so she tried to start a conversation. "So how long have you been a doctor?"
Qiang Yue glanced at the small trying to start a conversation and he gently smiled. "A decade or so. Although I don't have as much experience as some seniors here in SX Hospital since I recently transferred over here."
A decade or so? But he looked so young! "How old are you?" Xiao Yunhua blurted out loud and then immediately muttered an apology afterwards. To ask someone their age, especially since they were technically strangers, how improper was she acting!?
Qiang Yue noticed the remorse in her shy eyes and his gentle smile didn't cease. "I'm thirty-two." He wasn't that old... was the first thought that popped inside of Xiao Yunhua's head. He was still in his prime time and Xiao Yunhua was surprised that he didn't have a girlfriend.
How did she make that assumption? Well for one, Xiao Taotao had told her. And two, she hadn't seen him get close to any girls thanks to her enhanced senses, including her observation skills. He was always politely reserved, keeping a fair distance between anyone of the opposite gender that he spoke with. This not only kept proper distances, but it also didn't allow for any rumors to float around.
According to the occasional times that she gossiped with Ling Qiu, Qiang Yue was immensely popular at the hospital and the dream lover of many of the single, and a few married, nurses. Many female patients would even purposely come here, just to be diagnosed by him. Thanks to this, the hospital had profited numerously.
But it was just his handsome looks. He was talented in his line of work and deeply was concerned for every patient of his, making him the ideal son-in-law for many of his elderly patients.
Xiao Yunhua was confused on how she was going to make such an outstanding man fall for someone like her. Despite being beautiful, her confidence was still low. This low confidence of hers was what kept her from boldly speaking to him like she would with Zhou Feng. As Zhou Feng had hurt her, she didn't mind speaking brazenly to him. But Qiang Yue was the honest man that had admitted to her Han Mi's condition despite going against his father's wishes.
"You're very young..." she mumbled extremely quietly, but somehow his sharp ears picked her words up.
"Miss Xiahu is young as well. Twenty-two, was it?"
Twenty-two? She was twenty-one... Xiao Yunhua's thoughts faltered. She had already had her birthday in these past three months and was already twenty-two. Wow... Time did fly, at least in her case.
"I guess. I think I missed my birthday while being in the sleeping beauty trance for the past few months." Even though she was disappointed that she couldn't celebrate her birthday with her benefactors and Mrs. Bao like always, she still joked around in front of the doctor to seem strong.
But despite her joking attitude, Qiang Yue still sensed her disappointment. As he didn't like for his patients to be sad, especially one that was suffering through depression and this instance didn't help her case, he decided to do something.
"Follow me," he suddenly said and began to stride forward. He saw that she was still rooted in the same spot, so Qiang Yue decided to be impulsive for once in his life and grabbed her hand, pulling her along...
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