An hour after Dr. Sun left, Dr. Gao and Xu Wan came in together.
They had a good chat with Chen Ge, after which Xu Wan led him to the patients' storage room.
When the door opened, Chen Ge stood in front of his locker and carefully searched for the wedding ring Dr. Sun had mentioned, but he found nothing.
"These are all your belongings. You can change here; I'll wait outside." Xu Wan said she was leaving, but she didn't move toward the door. After hesitating for a long time, she suddenly handed Chen Ge a piece of paper. "This has my phone number and social media accounts. If your condition flares up again after you leave, you can contact me anytime."
"Okay."
Only after Chen Ge accepted the paper did Xu Wan leave.
Once the storage-room door was shut, Chen Ge began changing his clothes.
In the pocket of his outerwear, he found a black phone with a shattered screen. It wouldn't turn on, possibly because the battery was dead.
Besides that, his locker contained his ID, a certificate of recovery, and a thick file documenting his medication and physical reactions each day. His treatment had begun a year and a half ago.
At the back of the file, he also found a bill. A year and a half of treatment had used up all the savings his parents had left behind.
"Why isn't there a wedding ring?"
Chen Ge searched again, then suddenly remembered that Xiao Sun had told him that morning to check Locker 29.
His gaze shifted. Beneath his own locker, Chen Ge found Locker 29.
It wasn't locked. Inside were the belongings of a female patient, along with her medical record and an ash urn.
"Could it be inside the urn? That's way too