[Emotional Story] The Angel's Smile (Forwarded)

Haven't shared beautiful prose for a long time, nothing to do, so here's one (tragic) (on the sandy ground)\Monologue: Wei Ran: That short five-meter warning line distance places people in the corners of the world, hearts already isolated, yet it cannot cut off the threads of emotion…\ Xia Qing: The fence blocks you, separates me, lovers are caught in between, and both sides (pause) are cages of pain…\ Music…\ Wei Ran (smiling, speaking softly): “Qing, take off your mask, let me see your smile?”\ Xia Qing (tears at the corner of her eyes, whispering): “Ran, how can I smile?”\ Wei Ran (smiling, speaking softly): “School will be closed for a few days! Once SARS passes, everything will be as it was before.”\ Xia Qing (tears streaming down, trembling): “Wei Ran, without you, I feel so sad.”\ Wei Ran (reaching out, voice sad): “Qing, don't cry, it makes me feel worse.”\ Xia Qing (holding back tears, forcing a smile): “Ran, this is the cross-stitch I made for you, the Totem of Hidden Arts, to keep you safe.”\ Guard (stern, scolding): “Do not hand anything over, pull your hand back.”\ Music\ Guard (stern, scolding): “Alright, your time is up, next in line, step forward.”\ Wei Ran: “Xia Qing”\ Xia Qing: “Wei Ran”\ Music\ Xia Qing (filled with joy): “Wei Ran, our hospital is setting up a fever isolation ward, I signed up first.”\ Wei Ran (shouting angrily): “How could you do this, how could you not ask me, you, you…”\ Xia Qing (pleading, tearful): “Ran, don't be like this, listen to me.”\ Wei Ran (angry): “I won't listen, you never considered my feelings, you don't care about me at all, Xia…”\ Little girl student: “Auntie, don't cry, Auntie, when you smile you look like an angel, my mom told me, don't be afraid, Auntie will surely heal me, and mom also said (pause, giving a moment to reflect), those in white are angels among humans…”\ Xia Qing (crying): “Ran… (sobbing) Ran, I really can't leave them… did you hear that? I am their angel…”\ Background music gradually rises.\ Sound of phone dialing, then: “Sorry, the user you have dialed is turned off.”"Repeatedly hearing 'Sorry, the user you are calling has turned off their phone.'\ Music\ The sound of the phone connecting, beep beep... beep beep... beep beep...\ Wei Ran (anxious, angry): 'Xia Qing, why haven't you turned on your phone these days? I'm worried sick.'\ Xia Qing (confused, helpless): 'Ran, I (cough cough)... I...'\ Wei Ran (tone changing): 'Qing, what's wrong? What's happened to you? Tell me quickly, what's wrong?'\ Nurse's voice (calm, definitely must sound like an angel in white): 'Why did you take off your breathing mask? Put it back on, you need to rest...'\ Wei Ran (urgent): 'Xia Qing, what's wrong with you...'\ The sound of the call suddenly disconnecting, beep beep... beep beep... beep beep... beep beep...\ The sound of rapid footsteps in the empty hallway...\ Wei Ran (breathless): 'Quick, come with me, I'm taking you away.'\ Xia Qing (tone surprised): 'Y-you escaped. N-no, you can't do this, the school will punish you...'\ Wei Ran: '(loud) I don't care, I don't care about anything, Xia Qing, (pause) (voice weak, with sobbing tone) I just want you by my side...'\ Music\ Wei Ran: 'Xia Qing, lie in my arms, let me hold you.'\ Xia Qing: 'I don't have the strength to run away anymore (cough cough), and I (cough cough) won't run away again. For the rest of my life, (cough cough) Wei Ran, I am yours.'\ Wei Ran: 'Qing...'\ Music\ Xia Qing: 'This world (cough cough) has (cough cough) so many things I'm attached to, I can't (cough cough) take them with me, but, Wei Ran, your (cough cough)... your love for me will always, always (cough cough) be here...'\ Wei Ran: 'Qing, I can't live without you...'\ Xia Qing: 'Do you still remember?"You took me to (cough cough) fly kites, took me to pick wildflowers by the railway, to watch the sunrise by the sea, to build snowmen (cough cough)... everything, everything, Xia Qing will never forget in this lifetime...\ The sound of gently drawing back the curtains\ Wei Ran: "Xia Qing, look, the sunrise, so dazzling, that's the first ray of morning light. Today is your birthday, your birthday, you will be fine, you will definitely be fine..."\ Xia Qing (weak, with faint breath): "Ran, hold me, I'm cold (cough cough), Wei Ran, I'm cold (cough cough) (coughing gradually weakens)."\ Wei Ran: "Xia Qing, don't be afraid, this will pass, here, this is the cross-stitch you gave me, the protective cross-stitch. I am here, always here, holding you..."\ Xia Qing (weak, with faint breath): "Does Ran know, Plato (cough cough) had a famous hypothesis: originally humans (cough cough) were androgynous. Since God (cough cough) split humans in two, each half has been searching in this vast world (cough cough) for the other half. Love (cough cough) is the half of ourselves that we long to find. I found it, I really (cough cough) found it. In this lifetime (cough cough) I have no regrets... Wei Ran,... love you, I will never regret it..."\ Wei Ran: "Xia Qing, Xia Qing, Xia Qing, Xia Qing (loudly) Xia Qing..."\ Music\ Ambulance siren\ Wei Ran (monologue): "Qing was shivering, her lips had turned pale, and she murmured my name. She softly told me how happy we were back then: we flew kites in the fields, the hands of just the two of us releasing hope; we picked wildflowers by the railway, gathering the beauty given to us by nature; we watched the sunrise by the sea, seeing a new day; we built snowmen, creating our love, pure, flawless, beautiful, yet destined to melt one day, melt away..."\ Late at night, after several days of anguish, the nurse wearing thick protective clothing told me that her condition had improved. On that sunny morning,\ I saw her waving at me through the window, her smile like an angel\ Music\ Xia Qing: "Ran, look, how high the kite is flying, oh no, the kite string broke, Wei Ran, Wei Ran..."\ Wei Ran: "Xia Qing, do you still remember the SARS epidemic?""\ Xia Qing: 'Yes, just like a kite, it has already drifted far away from us.'\ Wei Ran: 'Don't you think it's like a test question?'\ Xia Qing: 'A test question?'\ Wei Ran: 'A test question given to me by God. We gave Him the perfect answer. Qing, look at what this is.'\ Xia Qing: 'Cross-stitch, hidden art cross-stitch..., give it to me, give it to me...'\ Wei Ran: 'Here it is, here it is... (the sound of two people chasing and laughing is heard)'\ Xia Qing: 'Wei Ran, look, what does that cloud look like?'\ Wei Ran: 'Hmm, it looks like, like an angel?'\ Xia Qing: 'Hehe' (happy laughter)\ Wei Ran: 'Look, the angel is smiling...'\(Thanks for attending)'