Liza in utter shock looked at Gloria as she groaned and started to gain her consciousness and mobility little by little on the hospital bed.
Liza racks her brain trying to figure out why and how this was all happening as she makes sure Gloria will not wake up no sooner than 24 hours as her body still needs time to heal, So she is given an appropriate dose of medicines for it.
Which is the cause of her shock as those medicines were quite strong. There is no way Gloria was able to wake up today with that much dose but proof was in front of her.
Gloria though yet to become fully conscious, She was showing all the signs of waking up, It will not take more than an hour for her to wake fully. That too an estimate Liza was not sure about now as the speed of recovery of Gloria is too fast and quick.
"No, She should not wake up just yet, Quick she needs to be put back into it."
Liza recovered from shock as she quickly took action and started to increase the amount of anaesthesia given to Gloria to keep her in a coma. It was turned off when her heart had stopped, Which normally should be fine as it will take a long time to wear off the effects of it.
But Gloria's case is different. She somehow rapidly recovered from the effects of those medicines, Even she who is in this field never saw this happening to any normal person.
"Xin Yan, What medicines have you given her now?"
After activating and increasing the amount of drugs given to Gloria, Liza turned to look at Xin Yan as the one who operated on Gloria before they came here. She needs to know the critical information about treatment, So she is able to take the next steps of treatment.
"Wait! Mother was waking up and you put her again in a coma? Why did you do that? Are you trying to harm her?"
Grace who was acting like a bystander to prevent and get into the treatment of doctors had shrieked like a madwoman at Liza and roared at her questioning her actions.
When she saw her mother finally waking up, She was very happy. It's been a very long time since she heard her mother's voice. She was ready to take the scolding from her mother as she knew she would be angry if she knew about the fact that she was not attending school for a while.
But she was ready to take that head-on with a happy smile on her face. She did not care what her mother would say to her as long as she could talk to her, That's all she wanted and wished for.
"I know you are angry but if she wakes up without healing properly, There is a high chance she will go into shock, And trust me a controlled coma is way better than shock."
Liza as a professional doctor had encountered situations like this quite a lot, Especially since she used to treat high-profile cases who are rather protective of their family and ask and blame her from time to time.
Which is the reason she stopped treating them as no one should stop and take an objection on the things they know close to nothing. Still in the case of Grace she looked away as it's more emotional here than authoritative, Just to show their family power.
Liza is more worried about Gloria, There is definitely something wrong with her as there is no way someone's heart just stops for no goddamn reason, and there is also this quick recovery which is impossible to happen.
So she did not want to take the risk of her body going into shock and setting a domino effect. That's why she rather put her in a coma as it is more of a controlled condition than to stimulate her body and let unexpected things happen.
"Grace calm down, Even though I often make fun of her but she is a very good doctor, Let her do what she is good at, Sandra please take her outside."
Alex come to Grace as she was still angry but that anger was not targeted at Liza but at her helplessness of not being able to do anything for her mother, It was this helplessness that forced her to act out.
He can feel that, So he decided that it will best for everyone that Grace will not stay here and look at her mother like this, Sandra came in the ward for quite a while but not daring to stay in the spotlight in front of Alex.
She just stands in the corner present there but with as low a presence as possible, Alex saw her and was kinda happy seeing her act like this, He had to thank his peach blossom eyes because he was sure it was thanks to that she cooked up something her mind for her to act like this.
Alex did not want to destroy this very suitable mood of Sandra, So he decided to send her outside with Grace lowering the chances of that happening and he was even able to get Grace away from her, It was a win-win situation for him.
"No Alex let me stay, I-"
"No, You listen to me, Go in the waiting room and wait for me there, Nothing will happen to Aunty, After all, I like her more than yo-*Ahem* What I mean is go away I will handle it here."
Grace hearing Alex's words snapped and wanted to struggle to convince him to let her stay but he outright destroyed her argument before she even get a chance and said in a stern voice.
Then he looked at Sandra and gestured for her to take Grace away with her, Which she did hurriedly, Grace too was afraid of making him angry, When she heard the reassuring words of his especially that classic tsundere-type words of his, She was assured and go away with Sandra.
"Okay Liza, Tell me what do you think should be wrong with her? Pufft!~"
After they had gone, Alex put his focus on Liza who was trying to get the attention of Xin Yan by jumping in front of her, and with her small stature she was looking too comical.
Alex seeing it all of a sudden after the serious atmosphere created here could not able to hold his laugh back as he burst out laughing holding his stomach or at least he intended to but a soft doll hanging on him stopped that from happing, All he did was just to feel the soft unusually warm body in his arms.
"Hey, What you laughing at? Is this all funny to you?"
Liza stopped trying to get the attention if Xin Yan as she heard their laugh of Alex, She take a moment to understand why he was laughing and when she did, She was both angry and embarrassed.
She like an angry cat try to make her bigger by puffing her cheeks as she ran towards him to make him apologize but no matter how hard she tried she was nowhere near threatening but a lot close to being a cute loli.
"Kinda, You looked too cute doing that, Why not continue doing that?"
Alex did not back off and just own it, He was really loving to see her doing that again and again as it was really funny.
So he even asked her to do it as if he did not see her hair standing up in fury but as she heard rest of his words she did not know what to do anymore.
On one hand it's the satisfaction of making him say she is cute but on other hand is her own self-respect did not allow her to do that lowly thing just because he asked her, She is better than that or she thoughts so.
"Like this? *Ahem* Xin Yan look at me, Are you okay? Answer me damn it."
Liza like the good girl she is, Goes back to doing what she was doing, Jumping in front of Xin Yan trying to get her attention on her, She still needs to ask a question about what treatment she had given Gloria.
The only difference this time is that, She doing more for to look cute in his eyes then to actually get Xin Yan's attention.
But soon she found the abnormality in Xin Yan, Before she thought Xin Yan is salty that she took her position of head of the department that's why she was not paying her attention.
But after trying for a while, This woman was not even blinked once just staring intently in one direction as if she was a life-size statue, Thie worried her and she was seriously considering asking for help as it's look serious to her.
Then she looked at beside Xin Yan, A nurse who was also in the same condition, This scared her shitless as she thought it was some type of new epidemic that made people turn into statues.
And now she was this close to them means she should be infected by whatever the thing made them like that.
"Don't worry, She is fine, It's just she could not able to process seeing the work of god like me."
Alex seeing worry about Liza has to say it, Before he could have teased her but he needed her to treat Gloria, So he had to drop that idea.
He just told her the reason why Xin Yan was in a frozen state, This new nurse should also stay like that because of him as he was not wearing the face mask he usually wears.
"That, It should not be that case-"
"Ahhh!!! It's you!!"
Liza did not buy their explanation of Alex as no matter how handsome he is, It was impossible to freeze people in place but before she could finish, A loud shout reverberated in the ward.
Xin Yan looked in surprise and euphoria at Alex as she shrieked in a joy-filled voice of hers.
It was so sudden that Liza was caught off guard and jumped up like a cat hiding behind Alex.
"Are you crazy?"
Liza ducked her head from behind Alex's back and yelled at Xin Yan for scaring her like this, Because of Belladonna's issue, She is jumpy and this sudden shriek of Xin Yan nearly gave her a heart attack.
"You- You…You…"
Xin Yan completely ignored her as she just pointed out her long index finger at Alex and tried to say something but might be because of excitement or shock she was not able to say anything she was just repeating one thing again and again.
Her eye was hyper-fixed on his figure and was not willing to look away, She was like a person put on some kinda frozen or charm spell just standing there captivated by his beauty.
"Huh!? Hey Alex, do you still think she is alright? I think we should call our mental department here to deal with her."
Liza seeing Xin Yan acting weirdly could not help to think there was something wrong with her. As a doctor she thought this was signs of some mental underlying problem that was acting out.
So she wanted to let their mental professionals deal with her. Though she does have a degree and was qualified to study and treat mental problems but Liza being Liza did not like to go near them as she was afraid of them.
Yes, she thought officially in her 40s, She still acts like a child because of Loli's logic. Bear with it like every brain-dead thing in this world .
"No, Didn't I say she was just excited to see me, You guys don't appreciate my charms enough, doesn't mean others are also blind."
Alex just rebutted Liza as he walked close to Xin Yan leaving confuse Liza not knowing what she did wrong?/Didn't she say he is the most handsome? Isn't that not enough compliment?
But she did not dare to say it, She was not that level of stupid to shoot herself in the foot and then wonder why she was bleeding. She was smarter than that, She threw her foot on the axe
"Doctor Xin Yan, Do you remember me?"
Alex gracefully walked towards the stunned Xin Yan and with his devilishly charming voice spoke to her as softly as possible so as not to stimulate her even more.
The last time he accidentally touched her, She passed out after having an instance of orgasum, So he still maintained his distance with her. It's just that this woman is not coming out of her trance at all.
'Did I really break her mind?'
Even after he himself went near her trying to pull her out of her trance and yet she did not come out of it, Alex started to doubt that he might really break.
Now that he thinks about it he did receive lots of extra things that might be added to her charm like a halo of perfection of Sandra, A dual cultivation body from Helen and much more.
So the appearance of this in theory can indeed break someone's mind accidentally, Which might be happening here.
'System use "Thought reader" on her.'
Still just to make sure what was cooking in her mind, Alex decided to use the skill he did not use much even though even having OP its power like literally hearing the thoughts of a people is because of his ego and constant search for challenge.
But this time seeing there was no way around he had to use it, So he commanded a system that quickly put it in motion targeting Xin Yan as a target of the skill.
'AHHH! HE IS HERE, WHY AM I ACTING LIKE THIS? MOVE YOU STUPID BODY DAMN IT! HE WILL THINK OF ME AS A WEIRDO IF I KEEP DOING THIS AHHH!'
As Alex used the skill on her, All he heard was the loud shout and cursing, yelling of Xin Yan cursed herself as she did her best to try to move her body but because of her nervousness, she was not able to move at all.
She yesterday all night was contemplating if she calls the him or not but she could not able e to decide at all, There was a time she even dialled the call but the next second before the call could connect she just cut it because of anxiety.
So someone like her who could not even be able to decide whether to call him or not because of nervousness and anxiety will definitely go into fight and flight response when she sees him out of the blue.
It's just her response is to freeze in place, Which is not that rare for someone like her to do it as her anxiety forces her to decide on fight or flight which takes quite some time making them appear frozen in place.
"See she was not waking up, She should have gone crazy because of losing to me, I call the mental doctor to deal with her, You should not be around her as I heard it might be contiguous."
Liza saw how softly he spoke with Xin Yan, Her so-called competitor and got jealous, She had not forgotten that Alex called this woman a better doctor than her, Even if that was a joke of his she does not allow her to be near him.
Not when he called her friend, And now she knows how hard it is for Alex to keep his pants on, It is a cuck risk if she allows them to stay together and Xin Yan is the last person she would like to share Alex with.
So she decided to use this opportunity to create some distance between them. Anyway, didn't they say stupidly that it is contiguous if that is the case then mental problems might also be contiguous, You could never know.
Liza, A doctor who has 4 PhDs in the medical field said this in her mind calmy without hesitating for a bit.
'Why is this kid here? And why is she trying to separate this fairy man away from me? Does this kid also want to fight with me for him? No, I can't do all that, I can't lose to a kid, You useless body if mine move now or I will make sure you have to pay for your sins.'
Alex, listening to Liza, wanted to go and tease her for saying stupid stuff like that. It is not only stupid but also a weak and obvious reason she came up with making him doubt she might have bought her way through college with the power of money.
But as he was about to do it, He heard the inner voice of Xin Yan make him stop in his tracks as it was even more fucked up logic being used here, He try to warp his mind around how she can able to make her body pay for its sin when she was the one in control of it.
There was a fact that she was calling a 42-year-old woman a kid, Which somehow made sense, So he let that slide and focused on the fact that she was blaming her body for not moving while she was the one who was too afraid to move.
"Xin Yan, My heart problem is yet to be treated. Are you not going to treat it? If that is the case I have to compromise with this unicorn here *Sigh* Have a good day."
Alex decided to force her out of her safe zone, So he remained her the "reason" why he went to her before but then in a sad voice decided to change the doctor as he put on his disappointed face.
Liza seeing this was not sure if she should be happy or sad, she could be happy with the fact that Alex is going to come and get treated by her which will give her time to spend with him.
Or sad with the fact that she is his second choice, Which was heaving havoc in her mind.
"Wait!! I-I will treat you don't need to bother Senior for petty things like that, She is a legendary doctor and does not treat normal case patients but I will."
Seeing Alex was ready to turn around and go to Liza, Xin Yan finally break through her contemplation as she hurriedly spoke to Alex maintaining a respectful distance from him as she did not want to offend him or make him uncomfortable.
But as said she did not forget what Liza tried to do, So she too fired a shot at her because at this time jealousy, fighting spirit and the fear of losing him overwhelmed her anxiety making her quite bold.
"Hey- He is a special case, I can treat him as a head of the department. I have the authority to choose my patients."
Liza did not back down and also fired back. She was in her anger and was about to say why Alex is not a normal case but quickly recovered and directly without much talk took her authority to show off.
"True but patients can choose their doctors and he chooses me."
Xin Yan did not lose her cool as if she knew what Liza will say, So she threw back the answer that she already prepared.
"You- Alex say something."
Liza was taken aback by her answer, What was worse was that she did not have a counter for her answer, So being helpless she turned to Alex asking for help.
"What I did-"
Alex here was enjoying their throwbacks but suddenly he was also being dragged between their arguments. He wanted to pull himself out and just enjoy the fighting but before he could finish he was cut off by another voice.
"What with all this noise? Can't I even sleep in peace?"
Everyone became silent and quickly turned towards Gloria who was now fully awake and looking at them with annoyance.
" *Ahh* Why do my head so much? Did someone hit me?"
Gloria held her head because of the sharp pain in her head. In irritation of the pain she just started to pull off the tubes attached to her, She even pulled out her IV which resulted in her hand starting bleeding, staining bed sheets in a bloody mess.
"Hey, what do you think you are doing? Those were there to save you."
"Mama please calm down, It will not do you any good by taking those things out."
Both Liza and Xin Yan were quick to action. They quickly rushed to Gloria and tried to hold her back from harming herself by doing that. The anaesthesia might still have affected her, Which made her numb to the pain of her body.
Liza tried to hold the hand of Gloria but she was too short to be able to do that, So Xin Yan had to take a lead, Liza in helplessness could only do one thing, that is just to shut off the supply of anaesthetic drugs.
"Who are you people? Where is Grace? Get away from me."
Gloria still had a muddle head. She was not able to process what was happening with her. She was at home doing her everyday job when it suddenly turned dark in front of her eyes and she might have fallen on the ground.
After that she didn't know what happened. Now that she woke up she was in a strange place which was definitely not her home, So she panicked and reacted like that fearing those people might have gotten hold of her.
In her trance, all she worried about was the well-being of her daughter. She wanted to get up and go search for her but her body did not have much strength for being able to do that action.
"How did she even wake up? It was almost twice the anaesthesia dose given to her."
Liza looked at the IV of a drug as she questioned herself in wonder, It was not a new thing she saw someone resistant to a drug as it was a daily encounter, So the simple solution should be just to increase the dose of it making sure it will not be too much.
She thought it would be the same case for Gloria, Hence why she was starting to wake, Though this is a far fetched idea but it is the most logical she could come up with at that time.
So she increased a dose of it thinking it would be enough but still nearly giving her double dose which might put any normal person into serious danger, Gloria was able to wake up as if that drug was not anaesthesia but a glucose saline.
"Why are you asking this right now? We need to administer her a rapid tranquillizer, I can't hold her down much longer."
Xin Yan was dumbfounded looking at Liza who was standing in front of anaesthesia's IV questioning herself and ignoring the distressed patient who already harmed herself and will do further harm if not calmed her down soon enough.
It was the first time she saw this irresponsible doctor. Where are the ethics, and priorities of patients' well-being? In her eyes, it is irresponsible behaviour for a doctor and should be fixed as soon as possible.
"Are you stupid? She was on a heavy dose of anaesthesia not a minute ago. What do you think would happen if we gave her a rapid tranquilizer?"
Liza turned to her in annoyance and said the reason why she was not hurrying to call rapid tranquillizer drugs, Normally they would not do much damage if given together which can be outweighed by the result of it.
But in Gloria's case, She already has a large amount of anaesthesia running in her veins, Which should have already lowered her heartbeats. If they had given her tranquillizer now then it would lower her heartbeats even more.
And you don't need to have a doctorate degree to know what will happen then, Not to mention Gloria's heart was stopped not just a moment ago, It will be lethal to administer tranquillizers to her now.
"Do you think I know that? We can't give her the full dose but can give enough for her to calm down, Which will not be that dangerous, So go and please get those to calm her down, I really can't hold her much longer."
Xin Yan was not affected by the words of Liza, She already knows what will be consequences of giving her those things but now do have any other option? Gloria was struggling with all her might.
Even though she became weak after being in a coma for quite some time, She was still strong enough that Xin Yan could not hold her back much longer, Only if there was another person to help her but there was no one.
Liza is out of the question for obvious reasons, The one who was any help to the nurse who was with her was also no good as she So she was helpless, Gloria was not willing to hear anything she just had tried to break free from her hands and go see her daughter, In was now laying on the floor and passed out when Alex got near them.
So she was helpless, Gloria was not willing to hear anything she just had tried to break free from her hands and go see her daughter, In which she was not afraid to harm herself which was quite worry, Bleeding from her yanking out her IV is stopped but it still needs to be treated to avoid infection.
Right now her body should be an immune compromise because of the drugs given to her from preventing her body from attacking and killing herself, But if she gets an infection now it will do quite more damage than it usually would do.
"You let me go, I don't have any connection with the family anymore, My daughter doesn't know anything about it, At least let her go."
Gloria was still under the influence of drugs as she tried to break free from the hold of Xin Yan but seeing it was no good she also started to say stuff like she didn't have anything to do anymore.
She also said that Grace didn't know anything about it. She was really scared that they would do something to Grace, Though she knew no one had the guts to do anything to her daughter.
After all, even if she didn't have anything to do with her family, She still has blood running through the veins of that family. They might not care if she dies in some ditch by natural causes but they take things very seriously if someone tries to harm her.
As it will be like a slap on the face and a challenge to the authority of the family, Those self-centred people will never allow that to happen, So Gloria was sure of it still her mother's heart was worried about Grace.
"I'm going to call Grace here."
Seeing the situation was really getting worse, The hamster in Liza's mind went to sleep as it worked too much today, And because of that Liza once again said some dumb shit.
Alex standing on the sideline could not help but to facepalm as he knew this will surely piss Xin Yan off and as she really did.
She looked menacingly at Liza as if she wanted to open her head of her to see if everything was alright in there, She was hardly able to hold Gloria and now herself back for different reasons.
"*Greeting Teeth* Senior you wanted to bring a family member of a patient in front of the patient who is having a panic attack and trying to harm themselves? Do you not see anything wrong with that statement?"
Xin Yan greeting her teeth said to Liza giving last a try to make this woman see the hole in her statement.
This is not a movie scene where doing things like that will calm the patient, Rather it will make them more panic and there is a huge chance that things might go out of control.
And in that chaos not only the patient but there is a chance of a relative of it and even the caretaking personnel might get harmed, So it will be a really stupid thing to try and bring the patient's relative here in this condition of Gloria.
It was a protocol of the hospital, Which every doctor out of residency is quite familiar with, So it should be impossible for the head of the department to not know about it.
"What's wrong with that? It will- "
"*Sigh* Let me talk to her."
Liza was confused as she always did this thing and patients were calmed down, Not once there was any bad encounter, So she thinks it is okay to do it not knowing she was able to do all that thanks to her heroine halo protecting her all the time.
But as she was about it and angry Xin Yan even further, Alex cut her off as he moved towards Gloria, He was standing here not doing anything thinking he might hear some important information but Gloria didn't say much he didn't know about.
So he decided to take action and come close to Gloria, Xin Yan wanted to warn him to stay away from her but before she gathered her courage to speak, Alex was standing beside her, almost touching her shoulder.
All the words she was ready to say were swallowed back by her as she silently held Gloria down a little tightly fearing she might harm him accidentally.
"Aunty, Calm down, It's me, Alex. Grace is fine, Don't worry about her."
Alex got close to her as he spoke in the calm soothing voice, Looking at her and giving her a graceful smile.
[Ding! +50 Favorability of Gloria increased for the host (Current : 70 Crush)]
"I am dead, Didn't I mister death?"
Gloria stopped moving and looked at Alex, Who was too confused to react to it.
Gloria was lying helplessly on the bed no longer resisting or trying to go away as if she had accepted her fate and was convinced that her time had come, Her two honey-brown eyes though never moved away from Alex's face as she without blinking looked at him.
"I died like this? Well, I never thought I would die this soon. What is that stupid woman going to do without me? She can't even see through the disguise of that green tea man."
Gloria muttered to herself making Alex standing near him blush in a little shame, After all the green tea in her mouth is him and he can't even counter as that is true fact.
But as shameless as he is, He quickly gets over it and was rather proud of the person he is now than before even though there was no contribution of his in it at all.
"Aunty you are not dead, You are in hospital right now not in the afterlife."
Alex stopped talking much as he didn't want to stimulate her more not only because she might overreact but because of fear he might raid her before the system initiated the raiding task.
Before he ignored them as it was very easy to forget about the fact that his system is a raiding system not fuck till conquer one, Which made him lose quite a few goods that might have given him something overpowered things.
So did not want to repeat that same mistake and just get that raid target-related reward, A Peach Blossom Eyes gotten by Rose is proof of how powerful those rewards can be.
"Huh?! Oh, right death comes to meet people who are about to die to bring them to the afterlife. Still, it will not do much as I am still going to die soon."
Gloria stopped hearing Alex's words but then she thought of the urban legends of a handsome man coming to meet people before they die, Who is known as mister death by the masses. Now that she is experiencing it she thought it might be the case.
So she figures out she might really be in hospital on her deathbed, Hence why he comes to her to give her peace to let go of these mortal bondings, Which means she was still alive but this information made her helpless as even knowing this thing she can't do much.
She was too weak to go to see her daughter. These people will believe her if she said she was seeing death in front of her, Which means they will not call and bring her daughter here.
The only option she had was to argue with "death" in front of her but the moment she saw his face she knew it was impossible to do it. The mere presence of his was igniting the fire in her body which was revitalising the new profound emotions inside her.
Her body felt itchy all over as if thousands of ants crawling on her biting into her tender flesh, But to her surprise, it was a pleasurable feeling which was quite contrary to its description.
Her face turned beat red as an enchanting hue of pink spread all over her milky white curvy body of a proper milf, Her breath was quickened which looked quite obvious and tempting in her hospital gown.
'Now what is happening with her?' n--O𝒱𝞮𝓵𝕓In
Alex looked at her strange reaction and couldn't help but to seek help from the almighty system as she was acting quite weird though it might be because of the drugs still running through her veins.
It's just that those drugs were supposed to make her sleepy not horny, He looked at her honey-brown eyes which stick to his figure desiring to devour him whole in one bite.
Normally his charm pushes people to this extent but even then it was pure emotions of wanting to win his heart to get his body, Gloria skipped that part and directly jumped on the last wanting to get his body one.
[Ding! The reason why she was acting like this is because of your "Milf Hunter" title.]
The system came out and answered him to quench his thirst for curiosity of his like the friendly system it is.
'Then why hasn't it worked on others yet?'
Alex was taken back by the answer and then he had to ask about the reason why it didn't work on others.
Helen and Isabella are both qualified women to trigger the effect of this title but none of them did, At least they didn't show it like Gloria.
[Ding! The host are not qualified enough to trigger the effect of it, Helen and Isabella were both virgins, Helen because of her body's characteristics and Isabella because never gave birth.]
System once again answered him but this time the answer really made him question reality as he could not fathom and rationalise this answer at all.
How can Isabella never give birth? She has two living offspring and they are definitely related to her by blood but he also knows that there should be the same old dumb reason that he will be dumbfounded to hear about.
[Ding! Host, She had those two by surrogacy, Though normally she still should be affected by it and she did but because of her power of A-rank warrior she was able to control showing it to you.
The reason why she agrees to your invitation is not only because of your look but also because she was under its title effect.]
System answered him, While Alex was enlightened by the new information.
'Well, surprisingly this is a reasonable excuse.'
Alex couldn't help but to have a little respect for the author who wrote this plot, At least he gave a logical excuse for her being a virgin, though still far-fetched at least it is reasonable.
[Ding!The host is was done by the author not to get into trouble because of incest, Author did not want to put together blood-related people together.]
But as Alex has little respect for the known dumb author in the past, System jumped up and poured cold water over those dumb thoughts of Alex.
'It's my fault, I expect too much from it.'
Alex was stunned and then shook his head and accepted the reality. He was thinking too much from that stupid author and this novel plot. It is really a brain-dead one.
He dropped that thought and put his attention back on Gloria who was blushing looking at him.
'At least she should be the mother of Grace, Who gave birth to her.'
Alex looking at her could not help but wish Gloria would be a simple woman. He can't handle more brain-dead things like this for a while as he hates stupidity.
"Aunty, You should still be under the effect of drugs. It will take quite some time to go away but remember you are not dead nor will you die anytime soon."
Alex just pulled the blanket over Gloria covering her torso as he said intending for her to sleep for a while as no matter what he says she is not going to understand it.
After doing this, He had to go to Helen to make sure she doesn't do something wild and provoke his family, Though he made up his mother being Noble head which can stop her from doing too much but as Heroine there is a chance that she will dive head first into the first sign of trouble.
"Okay, Mister Death."
Gloria said to him and closed her eyes with a big bright smile on her face, Which made her look too calm but her slightly shaking body shows that she is not as relaxed as she is trying to show it.
Since he appeared in front of her, Her body was reacting strangely. She did not understand what was happening to it and because of that, she was afraid, Afraid of the thoughts that urged her to do something she knew she would regret later.
So there was turmoil going on in her heart, On one hand, she wants him to stay around her as she thinks it is her last moment in life but on the other she wants him to stay away from her as she did not know what she will do if he stays here any longer as her body was acting weird.
That's why she let him decide, If he wants to stay she will be happy but if he chooses to leave she will be relaxed and not have to worry about doing something insane.
"Senior as doctor of Ms. Gloria, please do a check-up on her to see if she is alright, Until then I enjoy my little remaining time of the break."
Xin Yan seeing that Alex was ready to leave quickly reacted, She came to Alex and grabbed the cuff of his shirt and dragged him out of the ward before Liza could react to what had just happened they both were out of her sight.
"Damn, It."
When Liza found out about her sneaky move, She was reasonably frustrated but also was helpless as she couldn't do much. Before she was ready to order Xin Yan to do a check-up on Gloria but Xin Yan was one step ahead of her.
Gloria too on the bed was reculent to let him see go away but was also glad that he was gone as she finally gave in to the drugs and fell asleep.
"*Huff* *Huff* Hehe senior I am one step ahead of you."
Xin Yan was huffing for air standing in the corner hiding behind the pillar from fear of Liza catching up to them but when she saw that Liza did not follow them she was happy as she laughed and became proud of herself.
She could not contain her excitement for finally being able to win against that woman. Since Liza came to this hospital she was always getting the short end of the stick. She even wondered if that woman was purposefully targeting her.
She has a lot of reasons to suspect that like one time there was a patient that needed urgent medical attention but she, being a careful doctor, wanted to look through the medical records of that patient like every good doctor should to figure out what might be happening to them.
But this turned out to be a big mistake in the eyes of Liza as she rushed to them and pushed everyone back or at least that was what she thought she did but in reality, they feared to provoke her and give her away.
Then without even checking the medical background of the patient she administered medicine to, Xin Yan understands there are some circumstances where one should ignore the records and prioritise saving a life but when the cause is unknown and have enough time to give to research one should give it.
That was what she was doing, The thing she learned in not only medical college but also in practice which saved upto now countless people's lives but this popular thing in the eyes of Liza was lazy and being irresponsible.
I mean she was the one who gave medicine to a person that she did not know anything about. What if that person is allergic to that medicine? And then she has to say she was being irresponsible.
Yes the medicine administered by Liza was quickly able to save that person's life, Which she was grateful for but she did not comedone that kinda practice. If it's work one time doesn't mean it always works.
Well she was wrong as it turns out everytime when she tried to go and ask the medical records of the patient which would not take more than 5 minutes, Liza out there already has been giving them medicine without checking for anything.
And what is worse and good is that they all were fine, Xin Yan thinks this is worse because seeing Liza doing it others might also try to copy her which will definitely be going to harm someone which hates to happen.
So even though she understands that Liza is quite an expert and experienced doctor but her doing that will influence others to do this practice, Up until now only Liza was doing this thing and so there were no casualties.
But if someone new, not knowing who Liza is or how good she is decided to do that thinking it is just normal practice then not only that person will put someone else in between life and death but also might destroy their life as because of that mistake they might lose their licence to practise.
Though nothing bad happened, the backlash has fallen on her as every time she waits for the medical records, People look at her weirdly as if she was doing something strange or bad to check to make sure if what she wanted to do will not harm the patient.
Because of that she had to go through the day being weird out by everyone. Not only that though upper management gave different reasons for it but she knew it was all because of Liza's stunt she was demoted from her post of head of the medical department to Head of ER.
It was a demotion, not the transfer as they said it to be, She knows and accepts that she is not as good as Liza but she was not bad either, If she wants she too with one look can see what is not suitable to treat the patient but she never did it because she not only wanted to rely on it.
She only does something like that if it was necessary, If not she more believes in the tested and proven medical records than the superstition feeling of hers.
Maybe Liza knows she too can do it but chose not to do it, Maybe because of that she is doing this to provoke her and force her to use it, After that she can openly challenge her and beat her.
Xin Yan thinks for Liza's medical practice is fun and she love to find challenges and overcome them, Which was not bad but when someone's life on the line no matter how good Liza thinks she are or she confident she is in her treatment, Xin Yan wanted her to treated as a server thing while Liza treated as a hard game.
That is why Xin Yan suspects Liza of purposefully challenging her, challenging her to fight and prove she is the best doctor, Just there is no evidence of it.
"If you are done with your monologue, Can you let me go or do you want to take right here and now to cure my disease, If that's the case go for it, I am all yours miss beautiful doctor."
Alex looked at in trance Xin Yan, He wanted to be a gentlewoman and wait for her to finish her train of thoughts like any good person should but after seeing she was taking too much time he ran out of patience.
He is not a good man, So it was okay for him to do that. He looked at Xin Yan wondering how and where did this woman get the courage to not only hold him but also drag him away.
Last time with his just simple touch she was on cloud nine of euphoria and now she was not being that affected, System does say that people will start to get used to his charm slowly to handle it but this is too fast, Still not faster than the gun of men in this word.
"What!? Huh? Ohh I am so sorry, I-I didn't realise I dragged you with me, Please don't misunderstand me, I did not have any bad thoughts, I just wanted to win for once, You might not know, I am from a big well-respected family, I have tons of money, Which were earned by all good means of selling genuine medicines, I am also the sole heir of the family without any contender for it, And I am also good girl, I never had a boyfriend as I was much into books than boys,
Wait that didn't mean I don't like boys, No, I mean not boys but men, But I don't have anything wrong with women liking women, I just do not born like that and I-"
"Stop, You are ruining the mood, Take a deep breath and tell me if you like men?"
Xin Yan, taken aback hearing the sound beside her as she came out her thoughts, saw the man of her dreams standing beside her, Too close to her that she could feel that smoothing warmth his body radiating, Then her eyes fell down as she saw she was holding the cuff of his shirt.
This put her in panic mode as she was not sure what was wrong with her, Why she had to drag him, She read men don't like rough and like the good girls over bad ones after a certain age, That's all she read that article as she was not interested in boy- *Ahem* in man at that time.
But now that one was near her, she somehow remembers that then she just started ranting about it. She was not sure what she was even saying. All she knew was that she must keep talking to make him forgive her for her actions.
Alex seeing her condition had to stop this going further as she was already derailed from the topic. If he let her talk further, who knows what she might start talking about? Maybe even she did not know about it.
So he asked her a straight question to pull her out of the barrage of her answers.
"I like men, I mean not all of them, Wait I-I mean is that-"
"You like men, Then do you like me?"
Xin Yan was stunned hearing his question but out of instinct she was started talking as she started it she was once again brink of derailing but Alex pulled the break by asking her another question.
".....y-e-s *whisper*"
Xin Yan once again stopped by him and again out of instinct she wanted to answer but stopped realising what was being asked of her. Her anxiety was through the roof but she still held her heart as she said in a mosquito-like low voice.
"I didn't hear it, Say it aloud."
Alex did not let go of this easily as he was enjoying her flustered look, She looked quite cute like this, Given she did not pass out being too close to him.
"y-e-s."
Xin Yan was embarrassed to even say it but she still did not want to defy him and answered him as loud but her voice was still just barely audible.
"Ohh, Then you're not going to have a problem treating me right?"
Alex got a little closer to Xin Yan as she out of instinct backed off but was not able to because of the wall.
"That- That"
Xin Yan was not able to answer as her mind was clouded by too many emotions that it could not process the information giving it to it, She just kept looking at Alex.
"Hey Alex, what are you doing here?"
But before Alex takes things forward, A surprise voice breaks the atmosphere between them.