April 26, 2024, 6:11 PM.
An equipped negative pressure ambulance, escorted by two police cars, left Donghai University Affiliated Hospital.
All three vehicles had their emergency lights flashing in unison, proceeding in a line at a measured pace toward the entrance of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway.
In the rear of the ambulance, Zheng Xiangyue sat propped against a large Rhine Cat Doll, her body festooned with electrode monitoring patches and wires.
On her lap rested an urn with black-and-white photographs, on top of which lay a fan's notebook containing a folded Moon voyage ticket.
This was all of Zheng Xiangyue's luggage.
It was also everything in her life of a little more than a decade.
There was so much beauty in the vast world, but what truly belonged to her amounted to just these four items.
After the long yet brief dozen or so hours were up, she would reach the farthest place she had ever been in her life—
the Imperial Capital.