Your Beloved Sweetheart Is Online

Chapter 205 - 207 - Who Has Time to be Heartbroken?_1

When she first arrived in Liberia, she could not adapt at all. There were too many poisonous insects. It was her first time in this place. After sleeping for a night, she found a scorpion nearly a foot long in her shoe, its tail raised in readiness. After that, she developed a habit of checking for scorpions inside her shoes before putting them on.

"You’ve been here for seven months and you’re still as jittery as a spooked bird; I really don’t understand why you don’t go when asked," Luo Xi sighed, shaking her head. "Do you really think you’re a nurse just because you’ve been helping the doctors in the medical team? So eager to jump into the job of saving lives?"

"I’ve been approved by the doctors, and I’m hardly any worse than those nurses who are professionally trained. What’s wrong with staying here to keep you company?"

Assured that there were no scorpions in her shoes, Chenxing breathed a sigh of relief and quickly put them on.

Then she took her basin and towel and rushed to fetch water to wash her face, leaving Luo Xi’s words unanswered.

Yes, already seven months. Astonishingly, an entire seven months had passed.

She remembered how pathetic she was back then, listlessly following her cousin through the long tropical jungle to the peacekeeping forces stationed here. When the peacekeeping soldiers saw her in a constant state of despair, crying her eyes out, Luo Xi’s ex-boyfriend simply dragged her along to accept nurse training from the medical team.

Not only was she trained in nursing skills, but every day she had to do routine physical training with the peacekeeping soldiers. It was ordinary for the soldiers, but for her, it was pure torture.

Remembering those early days, Chenxing couldn’t help but laugh from her heart.

She had to thank Luo Xi’s ex-boyfriend, who kept her so busy training every day...so busy and so tired...tired to the point where she had no time to dwell on her miseries. By the time she got used to life here and suddenly realized that she had moved on from the huge blow she’d been dealt, she had already become an additional nurse in the peacekeeping medical team stationed in Zwedru, Liberia.

The end of a 14-year civil war left Liberia, also known as the "Grain Coast", in a state of utter devastation. In order to maintain the peace and allow the war-torn populace a chance to recuperate, the United Nations deployed peacekeeping forces in Liberia. Several countries dispatched peacekeeping troops to participate in the United Nations Mission in Liberia, including engineering companies, transport companies and medical teams.

Compared to the locals, struggling for basic survival amidst backward living conditions and poverty, her personal sadness had been minimized to the point of insignificance. Who has the time to wallow in sorrow?

However, the fierce African sun had tanned her into a ’black woman’ in just eight months.

After washing her face, Chenxing calmly put on sunscreen in front of the mirror.

Liberia is the second-largest rainfall area in Africa, home to many mosquitoes and venomous snakes, and a hotspot for infectious diseases such as malaria and flu. In Liberia, people fear mosquito bites the most. Not only are the mosquitoes vicious, they also carry diseases like malaria and dengue fever. If locals get malaria or are bitten by snakes or scorpions, the peacekeeping force’s doctors would rush to the rescue.

Chenxing found a new life here and felt needed. Most of her time was spent following the medical team’s doctors to treat the locals. The work was tedious but she felt extremely satisfied.