If the symptoms persist, recovery is expected by midnight of the following day. The reason for this prediction is that there was initially fever for six days, followed by cold limbs (Jue) for nine days, and then fever returned for three days. Adding these three days to the initial six days results in a total of nine days, which corresponds with the duration of the cold limbs; therefore, recovery is anticipated at midnight on the next day. If, after three more days, the pulse is rapid (Shu) and the fever has not subsided, this indicates