Bottomless Void Inside Her
Bottomless Void Inside Her
Weeks later, In the hospital's VIP room on the top floor.
Li Na has been unconscious for a few weeks. Under the supervision of the highly proficient neurosurgeons' team, there was no major improvement in her condition. She lay on a hospital bed like lifeless limbs with a beating heart. Meanwhile, inside the guest room of the top floor, the ambiance was extremely tense.
The Hospitals' Director, Head Doctor, and his whole team contemplating the progress reports of Li Na's condition with no progress. With each word, the atmosphere growing stiffer because the Lu Empire's Ruler, Lu Jianjun's expression were exceptionally freezing.
Sitting on the sofa, Lu Jianjun looked notably furious hearing the reports with the null progress which was expected to be improved. Under tremendous pressure, the head doctor sought to ease the situation. Suddenly, Lu Jianjun stood up giving goosebumps to everyone as they watched him walk out of the door without a word.
Besides Lu Jun-hui sighed to see his brother leaving. "He doesn't appreciate listening to the words pronounced differently but meaning the same which are utilized to waste time." an awkward silence spread among all. Lu Jun-hui turned to chat with the doctor, flashing a smile. The team of men slackened relaxingly.
Seeing them dejected, Lu Jun-hui felt bad as he asked considerately. "You said Li Na will be awake by now. Then why there is no progress and she is still sleeping like a log?"
"Second Master Lu, we are doing our best. Li Na's brief loss of consciousness is because of oxygen deprivation to the brain, possibly caused due to her overreaction to a certain trigger or shock, besides that her traumatic brain injury is making it worse. She was addicted to drugs thus her body is hardly reciprocating to conventional treatment." The Doctor then added.
"But we suspect soon she'll regain her consciousness, it's just a matter of time that her brain took for recovering from the traumatic shock." Lu Junhui nodded his head and said as he stood up to take his leave, " Okay! But please make sure, she must be fine." he shook his hand with the Doctor and left.
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A couple of days later, in the middle of the night.
Li Na's closed eyes fluttered her whole body trembled as if she became mindful of the darkness surrounding her along with it rushed the experience a nerve wrenching pain from the very core of her insides as if the peels after peels of her skins were scalded and left open to burn even with the slightest touch of breath.
Undergoing the torturing pain and suffocation, Li Na gasped heavily to breathe but her mouth and nose were capped with an oxygen mask.
Her limbs trembled, as she felt all the pain began to centered in-between the brows she needs to hold her splitting headache but something was attached to her wrist restraining any of her instinctive action, and as such she has no energy for so effortless willingly movements to contain it.
Struggling, under the faint radiation, she tried hard to open her sealed eyes and after a lot of struggling, her eyes slightly opened before shutting down heavily as she breathed more grasping the limited oxygen provided, suddenly the machines began to beep loudly.
Fast, a nurse rushed in towards the bed. She looked at the fluctuating sound of the monitoring system and the struggling girl on the bed. Seeing Li Na grasping for more oxygen, the nurse increased the oxygen level before calling the Doctor. Within minutes later, the Doctor came.
Noises of humans around Li Na were oblivious to her as her brain was on the verge of exploding cause she didn't even sense the pain of needles piercing her skin.
After a while, Li Na's breathing calmed down. Breathing slowly her senses began to disappear. The awareness of pain and headache subsides compared to the previous but her mind was also losing alertness of her surroundings or condition as she numbly perceived it slipping away.
The throbbing pain receded and slowly reformed with mild aching. Drained out of energy, gradually, Li Na went to sleep like retiring to normal sleep with a thought lingering before her that she won't be able to wake up ever again.
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Early morning, The whole team of specialist doctors was examing Li Na's latest medial reports. After observing her normal breathing rate, the oxygen mask and non-required life-supporting machines were detached.
"Good, No severe complications!" said the Doctor, and everyone present in the room sighed in relief except for the old lady seated beside Li Na's bed.
Despite her weak health, that old lady, who rushed from overseas and landed early in the morning just to see her dearest granddaughter looked deeply worried and troubled.
As Doctors took their leave Grandma Li sat near Li Na while caringly moving her hand over Li Na's ash brown hairs. She thanked the divinity like the millionth times for saving this child with no parents though worries for Li Na's future seized her heart.
At the early age of growing, Li Na's mother died while fighting against cancer over a lengthy period. Her father was deeply affected by her mother's demise as he loved her mother intensely. And after knowing that he won't be able to survive longer Li Na's father re-married, just to provide his daughter a helping hand to live and grow into an elite lady.
Li Na's stepmother was a polite lady and caring towards her. Thus Li Na fully became dependent on her stepmother. The little girl missed her birth mother but felt fortunate as the new mother loved her the same way.
But Li Na's happiness lasted only until her father lived.
Later on, after her father's decease, her stepmother became distant. Her step-mother was not cruel or rough towards her but separated and aloof, detached. Which was more saddening and depressing for that little girl. And on a certain day, her step-mother left Li Na alone without telling.
An eleven-year-old Li Na outlasted alone inside the huge Villa. Li Na was loved yet the period was very short. It struck her psychologically.
Due to Li Na's grandfathers deteriorating health, her grandparents couldn't stay with her all the time neither she asked them to.
Living with caretakers, Li Na tried to be strong and refused to resettle with them abroad nor the old couple could look after her. Elder Li felt despair and pain thinking she couldn't do anything for her only grandchild.
With each passing year, gradually, their occasional presence didn't matter to Li Na, it couldn't fill the bottomless void inside her, nothing could. She lived with the fact, there will be people who'll love her but surely they won't stay with her forever.
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At present. Someone lightly knocked on the door.
"Madam, Master Lu is waiting for you in the guest room. He's speaking with Doctor and asks if you want to talk with them." The old lady looked over the assistant and then back to Li Na.
Elder Li gave a slight nod and a guarded glance towards her granddaughter before motioning the woman behind her to leave the room. The nurse followed behind the old lady pushing the wheelchair with an IV stand out of the room.