Ten minutes later...
"Are you sure we only talked about this?"
"Captain Jiang, I swear!" He was so anxious he even raised both hands.
Jiang Ye's gaze darkened slightly, yet the corners of his mouth faintly curved upward:
"Don't talk to her about these things anymore," he admonished.
Clearly, he didn't want to cause anyone worry!
Lai Xingchen nodded vigorously, like a pecking chicken:
"Got it, Captain Jiang."
An hour passed...
Two hours passed...
Three hours passed...
The IV fluid had actually been completed over an hour ago, and the man's patience was gradually wearing thin.
With a dark face, he rose from the hospital bed and left the room.
Upon exiting, he first went to the doctors' office, standing at the door he could tell at a glance that no one was there.
Then he turned toward the nurses' station:
"Hello, I would like to ask where Doctor Lu is?"
The nurse looked up:
"Ah? Doctor Lu? Still in the operating room, I guess!