After Lin Shuangshuang left the ward, she encountered Yu Yang in the corridor outside. Seeing the person leaning against the wall, she frowned.
It wasn't that she was prejudiced against him, but ever since she met him, she never encountered anything good. Each time was worse than the last, more absurd than the previous.
This time, others were even involved. She decided that from today on, she would take a detour whenever she saw him.
If she wanted to take the elevator, she had to pass by Yu Yang.
This was also the only way to the stairs to go down, but!
Every building has a stairwell for fire escape purposes, located in the opposite direction. She decisively turned around and chose to run away.
However, she never expected that when she arrived at the first floor, huffing and puffing, and pushed open the door to the fire escape on the ground floor, she was caught red-handed.
Lin Shuangshuang's relaxed expression froze on her face. She had no trace of the gentle demeanor she showed to Wen Bai. Towards Yu Yang, there was only a perfunctory attitude that she couldn't help but exude.
Lin Shuangshuang awkwardly raised one hand to greet him, "Ha~ What a coincidence, Mr. Yu, you're here too."
Before Yu Yang could speak, Lin Shuangshuang, still with her hand raised, walked past him towards the exit, her high heels tapping quickly on the ground, "I have some things to attend to, so I'll be going now."
Yu Yang looked at Lin Shuangshuang's retreating back, his current mood indescribable.
Was it because of the unpleasantness of the last two times?
"Doesn't Miss Lin dislike me this much? If we're being honest, I haven't done anything that would make Miss Lin detest me, have I?"
Those two times were all for a reason, even though he was involved.
Since it had come to this, Lin Shuangshuang stopped. He truly hadn't done anything that made her detest him. In fact, he had even helped her, and Lin Shuangshuang was indeed grateful.
But she couldn't bring herself to say the real reason why she didn't want to see him.
She could only brake sharply, then turn around with a polite smile, "I really do have something to do. What are you waiting for me here for, Mr. Yu?"
Yu Yang fumbled in his pocket and produced something, handing it towards Lin Shuangshuang.
"Is this yours?"
In his hand was a necklace, a small jade Buddha. The small jade Buddha had a barely visible crack, and it didn't look valuable at first glance, yet it was something very important to Lin Shuangshuang.
Lin Shuangshuang had been sickly since birth, not with serious illnesses, but with constant minor ailments. Her mother had paid for it from a temple for her. However, her mother had died in a car accident when she was young, and it was considered a memento left to her. She had worn it with her since childhood.
Seeing this, Lin Shuangshuang patted her clothes pocket and indeed, it was missing.
She quickly reached out to take it, "Thank you, it is indeed mine."
Yu Yang's eyes flickered. "You..."
Before Yu Yang could finish his sentence, Lin Shuangshuang said anxiously, "Since you've given it to me, I'll be going now."
As soon as she touched the chain, Yu Yang didn't let go. Instead, he gripped her hand and flipped it over, turning Lin Shuangshuang's palm upwards.
Then Lin Shuangshuang felt her hand loosen, and the necklace was already in her grasp.
Lin Shuangshuang didn't know what he meant. However, since she had retrieved her item, there was no reason to stay any longer.
She hurried away.
Yu Yang stood behind her, frowning deeply. Her palm was perfectly fine.
Lin Shuangshuang left too hastily, fearing that if she was even a moment late, something bad might happen again, or that Yu Yang would follow her out and suggest they walk together.
In her haste, she collided with someone making a phone call right at the entrance. The other person lost their grip on their phone, and it fell to the ground.
"Ah... I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I was walking too fast and didn't notice..." Lin Shuangshuang quickly went to pick up the person's phone. When she picked it up, she found the screen was already covered in a spiderweb of cracks...
As expected, nothing good happens when I encounter him...
"Uh, sir, how much is your phone? I'll pay for it..."
Ji Tianle's luck was truly terrible today. He had parked his car on the roadside because there were no parking spaces, thinking he would only be a few minutes, just to deliver flowers and leave, it wouldn't take long. Unexpectedly, when he came back, his car had been towed away...
His brother had called to ask if he had delivered the flowers, saying that just flowers weren't good enough and that he was unreliable. He was so angry he didn't know where to vent!
His brother asked him to come over and see, and the flowers were even bought by him! And he called him unreliable? If he really cared, would he have asked him to come?
But he really cared about his brother. His brother's flaw was being too dissolute, with so many mistresses, yet he didn't want to let go of any of them, and still wanted to project an image of a romantic saint. He really couldn't do anything about his brother.
The phone call hadn't even finished when he was bumped into by someone, and his phone was knocked flying. Now he had found an outlet for his anger. Ji Tianle, who usually didn't curse, was really fired up today and started cursing.
"This is a hospital! Who is rushing around like this, in such a hurry to..."
Before he could even finish his curse, he saw the person handing him the phone with a remorseful expression. All his anger immediately dissipated with a "poof."
Have you ever met someone who made you feel like your gaze towards them had a filter, and every move they made seemed to be in slow motion? Ji Tianle felt like his entire world lit up.
At this moment, Lin Shuangshuang was a dazzling entity to him, incredibly attractive.
"Sir, sir, are you alright?"
Ji Tianle could now only see the person in front of him opening and closing their mouth, but he wasn't listening to anything they were saying.
His attention was entirely on her face. At this moment, he was absolutely certain that he had fallen in love with this woman at first sight!
Lin Shuangshuang looked at him uneasily, not knowing if he would ask for an exorbitant amount. However, it was her fault to begin with, so no matter how much it was, as long as it wasn't too outrageous, she would transfer the money now.
At worst, at worst, she could find a place to work part-time to make up for it.
"So the first meeting between the male and female leads wasn't in a bar, but during that car accident when they were still young? Did the female lead save the male lead and his family when they were little? And he recognized her because of a necklace?" Wen Bai lay on the bed, the backrest of the hospital bed raised.
His left shoulder was injured. He was currently sucking on a large straw, holding the thermos that Su Ying had previously used against his chest, drinking the soup inside. He looked extremely comfortable, if one were to ignore the wounds on his head and left shoulder.
"Yes, I've researched it. The male lead is an extremely slow-burn type. Initially, even when he interacted with the female lead, they were just ordinary friends, with no deeper feelings. Compared to the male lead, the female lead was the first to fall in love. The biggest progress in the relationship between the male and female leads was when the male lead discovered that the female lead was one of the parties involved in that car accident from childhood, the little girl who saved him at the time."