The more Gu Xiaoer spoke, the more guilty Sister Sun felt. If she hadn't rushed Miss Gu away that night, maybe none of this would have happened.
But then again, who could have predicted such an accident?
Was it taken by someone?
That night, besides her visit, Miss Xiao Er had come over, Mr. Han had left the sickroom, and Doctor Shen had also been there…
"Hey, could it have been Han Luoli who took it?" Gu Xiaoer slapped her forehead suddenly. She had been so busy searching that she forgot Han Luoli had also passed through here. She had told him about the earring her mother left her; perhaps he saw it and took it with him.
As though grasping a strand of hope, she wiped the thin sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, her despondent large eyes reigniting with the light of hope.
But Sister Sun's expression had turned sour at that moment.
She remembered, aside from those few people last night, there was another woman who had come…
She didn't know if the woman had entered, but this couldn't help but provoke some thoughts.
"Sister Sun, let's hurry and ask Han Luoli. Let's see if he's the one who took it. Sky spirits and Earth spirits, I hope it's him who took it and just forgot to give it to me, hee hee!"
"Ah, Miss Xiao Er!" Sister Sun hesitated before calling out to Gu Xiaoer, taking her by the hand and leading her towards the sickroom, "Since we've got a clue, you should go back to your IV drip. The nurse is still waiting for you, isn't she? Mr. Han went for a check-up, too. Who knows which lab he's in right now; how can we find him?"
"Call him, of course!" Gu Xiaoer rummaged through her pockets and grimaced. She had forgotten that her phone had been nobly sacrificed in the fire.
Sister Sun nudged her, "My dear Miss. Mr. Han isn't going anywhere. You get your IV, and leave this matter to Sister Sun, okay? Please give Sister Sun a chance to redeem herself!"
"Eh? Sister Sun, don't say that… Well, alright, if you insist…"
Shen Minghan's office.
The moment Han Luoli entered, he sat on the sofa in silence, indifferent even as Shen Minghan dryly and earnestly explained post-surgery precautions to him.
With his arms crossed, he fiddled with a delicate little object hidden in his large hand. The smooth, water-burnished turquoise touch sent a gentle sensation to his fingertips—it was obviously the earring he had found at Wen Mu's last night.
After remaining silent for long enough, Han Luoli's deep gaze gradually calmed. Suddenly, he spoke out, "Can you cure a disease of being despicable?"
Shen Minghan, mid-scribble on a diagnostic report with a pen, was startled by the man's emotionless yet serious trivial question, and his hand twitched, adding an unnecessary streak to the report.
Annoyed, he set down the pen and turned to Han Luoli, pushing up his scholarly glasses and replying just as earnestly, "Mr. Han, you might as well be asking me if Wen Mu is curable!"
Han Luoli: "..." Do you know too much?
Shen Minghan continued irritably, "As a descendant of a medical family, as a senior professional doctor, I tell you responsibly that it's incurable! She's got a terminal case of despicability! I can't even begin to tell you how impressive it is. After all that you've done to her, how can she still not take a hint? You offer her money, she doesn't want it. You offer her status, she doesn't want it either. Don't tell me I'm supposed to believe that this woman truly loves you and wants to stay with you for life? Don't joke!"
"Hey, aren't you getting a bit too worked up?"
"How can I not be upset? Do you know the risk I took on the night you were unconscious? Miss Xiao Er was standing right outside your sickroom and that woman just barged in. If it hadn't been for Sister Sun arriving with food, I can't imagine how things would have turned out… I'm telling you, my heart nearly leapt out of my chest then!"
Han Luoli narrowed his eyes—so there had been this episode. Just as he was about to ask more, the office door was unexpectedly knocked on.