Chapter 7: Duty

Li Xiu Ying went out of the emergency room to wait for the patient that Dr. Jing mentioned. After a few minutes, an ambulance arrived and the rescue team hurried to open the door.

"Male, 40 years old, stabbed wound on his chest due to altercation with someone. He has lost a lot of blood as help was not called immediately " the rescuer relayed to Li Xiu Ying while transferring the patient to the gurney.

This is bad, Li Xiu Ying thought while looking at the chest wound of the patient with blood still gushing. She had no other choice and decided to hop on the gurney and put both her hands on the wound to stop the bleeding.

"Let's head to critical room 1, Dr. Jing is waiting for him" she shouted as they were being pushed inside the ER "Make way! Make way! " she shouted.

Zhang Wei just come out of the cashier area when they passed by. He was shocked to see his girl straddling a patient while they were being wheeled. This girl, she thought needs to be taught a lesson, how can she just straddle anyone he said in disbelief.

Unbeknownst to Li Xiu Ying, someone is very jealous of how she's performing her duty.

When they arrived in critical room 1; the patient was hooked into a different apparatus which will monitor his status. Li Xiu Ying can't get out of bed as she's still holding the bleeding wound.

"What information were you able to gather?" Dr. Jing asked while assessing the injury of the patient.

"He has a stabbed wound on his chest Doctor and he lost a lot of blood according to the rescue team; Help was not called immediately" Li Xiu Ying panted as she answered Dr. Jing. She's exhausted from putting pressure on the man's chest to stop the bleeding.

Seeing how serious the wound was, Dr. Jing decided that surgery was needed immediately "Reserve an Operating Room for me, this needs to be operated on now" he said " Li Xiu Ying, don't move until we arrive at the OR. Let's go now"

They were about to move now when suddenly the patient's body jerked and the blood gushed once again.

"Code Blue" shouts Dr. Jing he shouted as he presses the button above the bed" Li Xiu Ying get off"

In a few minutes, four more Doctors entered the room to try to save the guy's life. While Nurses' are on their toes and alert as to whatever the next instructions the Doctors will give. Until they heard a flat line sound in the machine. They tried to revive the patient again but they are continuously receiving a flat line.

"Time of Death: 10:36 PM," said Dr. Jing as he removed his surgical hair cap "Please clean this up and I'll meet the patient's family

Li Xiu Ying felt sad when Dr. Jing called the time of death. This is not the first time that a patient died; however, she has not gotten used to the feeling of sadness after every death. She was just holding him earlier and she can still feel his heart beating. But now...

"I need to have a break" Li Xiu Ying whispered to Ching one of the nurses with her.

"Sure...Go" Ching said she knows this usually happens to Li Xiu Ying whenever someone dies.

Li Xiu Ying went to the back of the hospital and went to her "little corner", this is where she usually sat and cried whenever a patient died. No one can hear her from here and she can bawl to her heart's content. As she was crying, she didn't notice that someone was watching her from the back.

He's been following her since she left the critical room and he wanted to confront her about her straddling someone. However, she did not raise her head even once and just pass by him, walking hurriedly.

When he heard her crying very softly it tugged his heart and made him sad. He thought, what is wrong with her? Why is she crying? He wanted to go to her and hug her tightly.