*Bael's POV*
"Mr. Wuchen, are you there?"
"Wh—what did you say?" The words come out wrong. They sound scratched and raw. It does not sound like his own voice at all.
"Your wife, Mr. Li Runze, has been brought to City General Hospital following a serious traffic accident."
The name does something to him that nothing in his entire life has ever managed to do. The phone is already lowering from his ear before the woman finishes speaking. Bael does not remember deciding to move, he is just suddenly moving. He pulls his car door open with a violent yank, and throws himself into the seat.
"Sir, if you could just—"
"Which hospital!" Bael screams into the phone. His voice is completely unrecognizable.
"The North City General Hospital, sir, but—"
He slams the phone down on the passenger seat, he does not hear the rest. The woman's voice is still talking softly from the screen, but his brain cannot process the words anymore.
