"Zhenyi!" Long Jie shook her as he slipped his arm under her waist and pulled her close to his chest. He was rocking her like a baby.
She was attached to many machines. Needles poking her soft skin. How painful was it for her?
They hooked her up to monitors once inside and…nothing. Nothing but a flat line, and the sound of a machine alarm.
He didn't know what changed all of a sudden but he indeed heard the most beautiful noise in the world. The beeping of the ECG machine.
"Keep talking to her!" Someone shouted at him, though the voice was familiar but it didn't register in his brain before someone else begin barking orders.
The doctors didn't argue because they had already pronounced dead in their heads. But she was not dead. There was a heartbeat even if it was very faint and fading. But it was there...
