Madam Bao said, "Mingyuan, shall we invite a master to chant for us?"
Bao Mingyuan couldn’t help but smile wryly: "All that is feudal superstition."
Madam Bao fell silent.
Madam Bao didn’t sleep all night and looked haggard.
She sat beside her son’s sickbed, wiping his sweat with a handkerchief.
Xia Minglan was helplessly wiping away her tears on the side.
At that moment, Bao Ziqi’s lips moved slightly, uttering a few faint words.
Madam Bao beamed with joy: "Ziqi is awake."
Bao Ziqi just kept repeating those few words.
As if it was an obsession in his heart.
Madam Bao leaned in to listen but couldn’t make out what he said.
Bao Jingyuan didn’t believe it; she leaned in close to her brother’s lips.
Suddenly, she yelled out: "Brother is calling Ruanruan."
She was straightforward and bold: "Brother can’t forget Ruanruan; he’s even calling her name in his dreams."
Everyone’s face turned sour.
Bao Jingyan was the first to slap her head.
"Nonsense! He is clearly calling Miss Xia’s name."
Bao Jingyuan argued: "It’s clearly Ruanruan’s name! You all don’t know that brother still keeps a photo of Su Ruanruan in his wallet."
She rummaged around and pulled out a photo from the inner layer of Bao Ziqi’s wallet.
It was indeed Su Ruanruan!
Bao Jingyuan triumphantly said: "I wasn’t wrong, was I?"
Bao Mingyuan pointed at Madam Bao: "Send her away! Her education has gone to waste."
How could he, Bao Mingyuan, who was always so astute, have a daughter this foolish?
Madam Bao felt both hurt and ashamed.
She said to her daughter: "Jingyuan, you go back with the old lady first!"
But Bao Jingyuan had her own ideas: "Mom, if brother doesn’t wake up, let Su Ruanruan wake him up. He’s so attached to her, surely he will wake up quickly."
Bao Mingyuan: Shut up!
Su Ruanruan came to the hospital.
The atmosphere was strange.
Especially Xia Minglan’s resentful gaze upon her.
Su Ruanruan was utterly confused.
Just then, Zhou Zizhuo came to make his rounds.
Madam Bao tearfully asked: "Doctor Zhou, when can Ziqi wake up?"
"It’s hard to say!" Zhou Zizhuo didn’t hide the truth from her: "Because it’s the second time his brain has suffered an injury!"
He said to Bao Mingyuan: "If he doesn’t wake up for a long time, it is very unfriendly to his other bodily functions."
Bao Mingyuan was also quite worried.
He looked up at his eldest son.
"Jingyan, go out for a smoke."
Bao Jingyan knew what he wanted to say and followed him out.
Indeed, Bao Mingyuan proposed Bao Jingyuan’s idea.
"Ruanruan is going to marry me! What does it mean for her to be unclearly involved with Ziqi now?"
He added, "Besides, it’s only been half a day."
"What if he doesn’t wake up for days?" Bao Mingyuan’s gaze was piercing.
Bao Jingyan was at a loss for words.
Over the next two days, Xia Minglan called to Bao Ziqi affectionately every day.
But Bao Ziqi did not respond to her calls.
Xia Minglan was disheartened.
Madam Bao spent days in tears.
She knew clearly who occupied Ziqi’s heart.
He hadn’t woken up, but he often muttered in his sleep.
He was calling out Su Ruanruan’s name.
After two days, Madam Bao couldn’t cope anymore.
Crying, she begged her husband: "Speak to Ruanruan, have her talk to Ziqi... as long as she can wake Ziqi up, I’m willing to agree to any condition she has."
Bao Mingyuan stood in the corridor smoking, feeling at a loss.
He said to his wife: "What if he wakes up? Ziqi will be even more stuck in the past."
Yet Madam Bao already had a plan.
Su Ruanruan now had status.
With a good family background, popular in Jiang City, and valued by Mingyuan.
She was also very beautiful, a perfect match for Ziqi!