Su Li thought he was going to die, but he woke up anyway.
His heart really was failing. It was discovered during a checkup at the university clinic last semester. The campus doctor told him to get further tests at a major hospital, saying it seemed serious.
His roommate said his older brother had the same disease. With today's level of medical care, it couldn't be cured by surgery unless he got a heart transplant. All he could do was rest and keep taking medication. In the later stages, death could come at any moment.
He kept putting off going to the hospital. When his academic advisor asked about it, he said he'd already gone, and that it wasn't heart disease, just acute anxiety disorder.
Yes, ever since he was very young, he'd always been diagnosed with acute anxiety disorder.
It was an embarrassing illness, one his parents considered melodramatic.
In truth, ever since he could remember, every time he had an episode, he couldn't help worrying that he was going to die.
For someone as out of place as him, what would happen if he died just like that, only to find out that people really did have souls?
