*Flashback Still Continues*
"We have shifted the patient to the room, you can see her now." Getting the doctor’s approval, both of them made their way inside the private room.
Xiao Zhi Ren was the one who walked inside first but as soon as his eyes fell on her cleaned up face, he was stunned. He ran to her side and rubbed his eyes trying to make sure he wasn’t hallucinating. But even after that, he could see her.
Her eyes had a thick gauze around them while there were other small scratches on her face that were disinfected.
"Bro, let’s go to the hotel after this." Ji Syaoran stopped talking when he saw the tears in his brother’s eyes. "Bro, what’s wrong?" He was alard imdiately.
Xiao Zhi Ren lifted his finger to point at Ru’s face but Ji Syaoran couldn’t understand what he was trying to show him. "She... It’s her. The one in the bar." Xiao Zhi Ren managed to stamr out his words.
Ji Syaoran finally looked carefully at Ru’s face. He didn’t know what to say at all.
"She’s the girl you have been looking for a year?" Xiao Zhi Ren nodded his head. "She’s the reason you ca to Thailand?" Xiao Zhi Ren nodded again.
"A colleague of mine ca to Thailand for vacation. In his vacation pictures, she was captured unintentionally but it was the only lead that I got. So, I ca." Xiao Zhi Ren explained in a solemn manner.
"I’m still surprised that you fell for soone at first sight." Ji Syaoran mumbled unbelievingly.
"Don’t you think you’re too young to teach about love? You’re only 15. Act like you are fifteen and not twenty-five." Xiao Zhi Ren glared at him while Ji Syaoran quietened up. He was a teenager, not a kid!
"Bro, you’re also only 20. And she..." He looked at Ru as he stated, "She looks like a teenager as well."
"She’s 19."
"And how do you know that?" Ji Syaoran retorted.
"When we t she was 18. She told herself." Xiao Zhi Ren hurridly got up and turned back to him saying, "Let’s take her out of here."
"Where?"
"China would be better. You and I both have a lot of connections there. This is still a foreign land for both of us." Ji Syaoran agreed and went out to arrange for everything.
Behind him, Xiao Zhi Ren held her gauzed wrapped hand in his own and whispered, "You told that fate likes to play jokes with us. But I sure as hell am not laughing right now."
*End of Flashback*
Even though that incident happened when he was only fifteen, Ji Syaoran could recall it vividly even at the age of twenty-three. He had seen the way his brother stayed by her side for eight months only to be left behind.
As they say, people can leave but they always leave sothing behind. She also left her silhouette behind for Xiao Zhi Ren.
"Bro, can she recognize you?" Ji Syaoran asked after spending a long ti reminiscing about the past.
"No."
"What? Why?" As if it suddenly hit him, he himself answered, "Right, she couldn’t see back then. But can she see now?"
"She can see very clearly."
"Huh? How?"
"I was curious about that too and I asked around. Professor Robert from Chicago told that Optical nerve damage doesn’t necessarily lead to blindness. Most of the ti, because of tily treatnt one can save the light of the eyes. So, it’s possible that she got the surgery to fix her visual impairnt." Xiao Zhi Ren told him what he found out.
"She sure is stubborn like you said. Going through repeated surgeries is a pain in itself." Ji Syaoran cringed at the thought of suffering that kind of pain.
"Stubborn... But also lost."
"What do you an?"
"I can’t find the girl I fell for. She seems to be lost sowhere in her." Ji Syaoran didn’t understand but he didn’t question either.
As for Xiao Zhi Ren’s aning... For him, the girl he t all those years ago had a bright aura and fiery look. She was like a fla that could burn you with a single touch.
But today’s Ru was nothing like that. Pure darkness was enshrouding her soul and she seed lost in that darkness. Her fiery fla was nowhere in sight. Instead, there was a cold chill that could devour you whole.
The gird in his mory was like Dahlias- open to life’s possibilities with her innocent and happy self. While the girl he found is more like orchids- pure, honest but running after perfection. The innocence was lost sowhere in the trail of ti that crumbled her.
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