Sister Sun had jogged all the way here, still panting heavily when she entered the office. Shen Minghan timely handed her a cup of warm water, waiting for Sister Sun to catch her breath.
"Sir!" Sister Sun's expression and voice were exceptionally solemn, "Did you see any earring last night? On the chair outside your ward!"
An earring?
Han Luoli's forehead tightened, his large palm tucked under his arm suddenly clenched, the earring's sharp edge digging into his palm, but he felt nothing at all.
Before he could speak, he heard Sister Sun's voice, filled with guilt and sorrow, "It's all over, I knew the sir couldn't have been interested in such a small item. It must have been taken by someone!"
"Sister Sun, what kind of earring? Where did you hear about the earring?" Han Luoli's voice was somewhat hoarse.
"It's Miss Xiao Er! It's made of a sky-blue stone. Hey, hasn't she told you? It was her mother's keepsake, a treasured item! Now it's gone, if it wasn't you guys, then there's only... only that person who went there..." Sister Sun said with a pained expression, swallowing her words and sneakily glancing at Han Luoli's expression when she mentioned that person.
Seeing his unusually calm demeanor, neither pleased nor angry, she secretly let out a breath of relief.
"Sister Sun, please tell us the details about this incident, it's all so unclear, how can Luoli understand, right?" Shen Minghan asked Sister Sun to sit on the sofa, furrowing his brows in curiosity as he listened, since anything related to Gu Xiaoer interested him.
After taking another sip of warm water, Sister Sun organized her thoughts and said, "This is what happened. Last night, Miss Xiao Er was outside the ward keeping watch over the sir, right? According to what Miss Xiao Er said, she should have had a box with her at the time, and in the box, there was something the sir had given her, the 'Eternal Heart Blue Diamond'."
Indeed, Shen Minghan inhaled sharply upon hearing this.
"The other item was that earring. Right then, that woman arrived, and in the urgency of the situation, Doctor Shen and I cooperated to handle it. He went to stop that woman, and I immediately took Miss Xiao Er away. She was saying that she left something behind, and I said I'd come back for it later. There wasn't even an hour in between, and when I went back to get it, I only found the box, with only the blue diamond inside."
"So, this morning, when Miss Xiao Er noticed the earring missing from the box, you guys went back to the ward to look for it. In the end, it was still not found, and did that make you think of Wen Mu?"
Shen Minghan continued Sister Sun's words and explained the rest of the events, with Sister Sun nodding in agreement.
Shen Minghan furrowed his brow, sighing, "Her mother's keepsake, that must be something very important... I guess both items must have been what she salvaged from the fire, the significance is naturally unsaid."
Then he turned towards Han Luoli, hardening his tone, "Luoli, in the end, Wen Mu was indeed alone outside your ward. I couldn't stop her, nor did I know about the earring. Analyzing it carefully, this incident is not impossible. That woman, there's nothing she wouldn't do. Who knows if she took that thing to use against the naive Xiao Er!"
"Then, should we look for her to inquire? I just came to tell the sir immediately because I was worried Miss Xiao Er might have spotted something. But... every time I think about asking the sir to find her, I just don't feel right..."
Sister Sun spoke with both a headache and a sense of resignation.
Meanwhile, the man who had been silent in the office seemed unusually calm. Dark eyes brewing with hidden currents, it was unclear what he was thinking.
Sister Sun and Shen Minghan's back-and-forth seemed to have not reached his ears at all, sitting quietly and steadily on the sofa, deep and mountain-like.
But the more he reacted with such extreme calmness, the more it made Sister Sun and Shen Minghan's scalps tingle.
Just when they were wondering why he was so composed, Han Luoli suddenly stood up from the sofa, his long legs carrying him out of the office.