In the midsummer night, the rain was pouring heavily. The voice of the weather forecast announcer came from the car radio, sounded soft and graceful, “There will be rainstorms from tonight until tomorrow morning in Jincheng. Please be prepared in advance and reconsider the night trip.”
There was only Victoria, who was driving on the mountain winding road.
The car headlight lighted up the zigzag and bending road but the lights couldn’t penetrate through the raindrops. The large raindrops fell on the car window. The rain washed down the car windshield. Her vision became blurred, drenched, and flustered, as if there’s no end.
Victoria took one of her hands away from the steering wheel and stroked her throat. It was slightly hard to breathe. After being on the road for several days, her energy was completely drenched. The female announcer on the radio continued to soothe people with her warm voice, “ In a few days, it will be Chinese Valentine’s Day, Qixi Festival. I believe that many couples will hold their weddings on this day. The wedding of the remarkable fashion designer, Ashley Tan, and her fiancé, Frank Lu, will also be held on the day of the Qixi Festival.”
Ashley and Frank.
Listening to both the names that were stuck together, Victoria’s eyes were sore and her heart was pounding. She almost couldn’t hold the steering wheel. Just when she blinked her tears away from the corner of her eyes and the car made a right-angle turn, a tall dark figure suddenly appeared in the woods ahead.
Victoria stepped on the brake hastily and could only hear the squeaking sound. Then, followed by the shock from the car frame that hit a hard object, the car stopped abruptly. Before she could recover from her shock, the black shadow collapsed to the ground.
The accident happened too fast but after a few seconds, it was silent again. The rainstorm continued to pour. The wiper on the windshield regularly swept away the raindrops, and the radio continued to play a relaxing love song. If it wasn’t because her car stopped on the edge of the winding road and almost hit the guardrail, Victoria would think that the shadow just now was just an illusion.
She hit someone.
With her blank mind, Victoria changed her car transmission to the neutral gear, unlocked her seatbelt, and got off the car, while ignoring her umbrella. She walked around in front of her car and saw someone was lying on the ground. He was about half a meter away from her car.
Victoria exhaled and blinked a few raindrops on her eyelashes away. Luckily, she didn’t hit him.
lying on the ground.
even with the headlight. Victoria immediately became alert. She went into her car and took a wrench and a flashlight, then she returned beside
his lips. He wore an ordinary gray T-shirt. His eyes were shut
Out of her instinct as a medical student, Victoria squatted down. She lifted
still alive, just
to go along, even after calling an ambulance, she didn’t know when it would arrive,
she’s met with a terrible situation. No, she had met with much worse situation in
The water kept seeping down her short hair then into her T-shirt neckline. But she still helplessly lifted him from the water puddle and used a lot of effort to drag him into the car
finding a small clinic, Victoria
in her early forties. She wore a colorful pajamas, followed upstairs as she’s worried. She leaned on the door as she cracked on the melon seeds and frowned while looking at her and the unconscious man, “He won’t die, right? Since you said that it’ll be fine so I let you brought him in. Or else, I’ll call 110 to get the police for you.”
“Weak body, malnutrition, dehydration, skin trauma.
to take it off. He’s so dirty.” The landlady was disgusted as
man’s wet and dirty clothes. The landlady looked at the man’s face and looked at Victoria’s behavior that didn’t avoid any suspicion, then asked clearly, “Young lady, do people still elope nowadays?
don’t know him. I found
They just randomly lying on the ground and will get more than hundreds of thousands. You can’t
the landlady’s words, she didn’t stop her movements, “If I don’t save him, there’ll be a notice for claiming the corpse by tomorrow. Landlady, please prepare some
landlady saw that she wouldn’t take her advice, so she didn’t care much anymore. She only stood up and said in a business-like-manner, “Okay, fine then. The bedsheet and bed cover that he used, I can’t use anymore. The muddy stain can’t be cleaned anymore. Since it’s rainy and stormy tonight, please pay
“Okay, tomorrow I’ll settle it together,” Victoria didn’t object and simply
landlady delivered things quickly.
set of fresh clothes, and came out. The landlady was standing in the room. When she came out, the landlady clicked her
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