"...Qiqi..." The man on the other end seemed to be struggling to hold back his sobs. "It was her... The day she died, she was wearing her favorite pink clothes..."
He murmured between sobs, "The cherry blossoms by the road were beautiful that day, just like her clothes... Her mother bought her the doll she'd been asking for for so long."
Li Yichen listened quietly. As he watched the traffic lights at the intersection, he seemed to return to that day two years ago.
"That day... she was so happy. But when we were crossing the road, the doll suddenly slipped out of her arms and rolled into the middle of the street. She panicked and ran after it without thinking. All she wanted was to pick up her doll..."
By this point, the man could barely speak through his sobs. "I'll never forget the screech of the brakes that day... I'll never forget the moment she fell. That day, our whole world collapsed..."
"There's no greater pain in this world, is there?" As he listened, Li Yichen seemed to feel the man's anguish in the face of life and death, that suffocating pain.
Just then, an urgent voice came from the other end of the phone. "Mr. Li, your wife is having complications in labor. The doctor asked me to ask you whether we should save the mother or the baby..."
"What went wrong? Isn't your Maternal and Child Health Hospital the best in Jinling?" The man's panicked voice sounded distant, but Li Yichen could still hear him clearly.
"The baby is in the wrong position, and the umbilical cord is wrapped around its neck. We can only save one of them now. You need to decide quickly."
"Nurse, tell the doctor to save them both... No matter how