Yan Feifan and Yu Suye scrambled out of the car. A man who looked to be in his thirties or forties, sporting a bowl cut, was hunched over the hood, vomiting violently.
What he was spewing was bright red, foamy blood!
A quick visual estimate suggested he had thrown up at least two or three hundred milliliters.
"Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding!"
Yan Feifan and Yu Suye made the diagnosis in an instant.
With no medicine or tools on hand, there was little the two of them could do in terms of first aid.
Noticing the man's consciousness was fading and he was vomiting purely on instinct, Yan Feifan and Yu Suye worked together to help him into the back seat of the car.
Yan Feifan took charge of the man, making sure he didn't aspirate on his own vomit and suffocate.
Yu Suye got behind the wheel and, using the GPS, sped toward the nearest hospital.
Unfortunately, they hit a traffic jam as soon as they drove out of the courtyard complex. The flow of cars was crawling.
In her desperation, Yu Suye switched to a dangerous driving mode, weaving through any gap she could find, even driving on the sidewalk at times.
It didn't take long for their car to attract the attention of a traffic cop.
The traffic cop pulled up on his motorcycle, saw the hood covered in blood and filth, and then saw the two blood-soaked figures in the back seat.
Without a second thought, the officer flipped on his siren and started clearing a path for them...
Fifteen or sixteen minutes later, Yu Suye finally pulled the BMW into a hospital's entrance.
The man who had been vomiting blood was taken away by the hospital's emergency personnel.
Yu Suye explained the situation to the traffic cop.
Thankfully, the BMW was equipped with a dashcam; otherwise, it would have been difficult to explain everything so quickly.
The traffic cop took down Yu Suye's contact information, snapped a few photos of the car, downloaded the footage from the dashcam, and told her she was free to go.
But now, the car was covered inside and out with bloodstains and vomit, and both Yan Feifan and Yu Suye had gotten a fair amount on themselves.
On top of that, everything reeked of a sour stench...
In the rush to save the man's life, they hadn't paid any mind to it.
Now, they looked at each other, caught a whiff of that pungent odor, and found it utterly unbearable.
Spotting a rather upscale hotel—the Jingcheng Guomao Grand Hotel—not far across the street from the hospital, they made an instant decision.
Yu Suye parked the car in the hospital's lot, abandoned it, and hurried across the street with Yan Feifan into the Guomao Grand Hotel.
Under the wary and scrutinizing gazes of the front desk staff, Yu Suye casually booked a standard room and completed the check-in process...
When Yan Feifan emerged from the bathroom, freshly showered and wearing a bathrobe, he saw that Yu Suye had also changed into one of the hotel's robes.
"Feifan, I had the hotel staff take our clothes to be laundered. They'll be delivered back tomorrow morning."
Before Yan Feifan could even ask why it would take until tomorrow morning, Yu Suye eagerly dashed into the bathroom...
Yu Suye's shower lasted nearly an hour.
Her face flushed from the hot water, Yu Suye emerged from the bathroom smelling of fragrant soap and drying her hair with a towel. She saw Yan Feifan lying primly on one of the beds, seemingly resting with his eyes closed.
Yu Suye sniffed the air gently.
Following the smell of food, she spotted a takeout container on the round table in the room's seating area.
Another one was already in the trash can.
Seeing this, Yu Suye felt a pang of disappointment, yet also felt it was completely expected.
'If I had walked out to see romantic red wine, candles, and a Western-style dinner, then he wouldn't be the same dense, clueless Yan Feifan I fell for.'
'But still, couldn't he at least have waited to have dinner with me?'
Feeling a little dejected, Yu Suye realized she was indeed hungry.
She went to the round table, sat down, and opened the still-warm takeout container to find two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes.
Braised beef brisket, a fish fillet, stir-fried water bamboo, and stir-fried loofah.
A warmth spread through Yu Suye's heart.
These were all dishes she particularly enjoyed.
They hadn't eaten together that many times at the Affiliated Hospital, so it seemed he had been secretly paying attention and remembered her favorites.
'Hmph. On the surface, you ignore me and treat me like a stranger, but these little details expose what you really feel inside.'
'You're so insincere, just like all the other men. Hmph...'
Her mood suddenly lifting, Yu Suye picked up a piece of loofah and took a bite. It wasn't half bad.
"Feifan, are you asleep?"
"No!"
"What are you doing? Feeling homesick?"
"I'm organizing my thoughts for the paper on intrathecal tumor puncture and injection surgery. I should be ready to finalize it when I get back to Binhai."