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The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"You... you don't recognize me?" Guan Xin pouted sorrowfully, gazing at Wei Zhao with pitiful eyes.
Yesterday had been Guan Xin's very first month's salary. She was overjoyed - she was finally independent, and no longer had to endure her family elders calling her a shallow, money-obsessed girl!
In truth, Guan Xin never lacked for money. On the contrary, her family was very well-off. But Guan Xin didn't want it that way - she wanted to earn her own money through her own effort! After graduating from nursing school, Guan Xin had stayed on at the First People's Hospital of Songshan City as a nurse.
In fact, in this fiercely competitive job market, nursing was no easy profession either. Many pretty young women had only bowed their heads to unwritten rules and compromises before landing the jobs they desired.
But Guan Xin's family background spoke for itself - compromise with the hospital shareholder's daughter? That was basically courting death. Who would dare? So by the hospital director's own appointment, Guan Xin was assigned to the surgical treatment room.
The director had also taken into account that Director Sun Weimin of the surgical department was a man of upright character, which was why he let Guan Xin stay there. Otherwise, if word ever got out about a doctor harassing the hospital shareholder's daughter, he might as well hand in his resignation on the spot.
After work, Guan Xin happily ran to the bank, ready to withdraw her salary and savor the joy of earning her own money.
Because of the peculiar nature of a nurse's schedule, by the time she got off work almost every bank had closed. Guan Xin had no choice but to walk a long way to the only twenty-four-hour bank nearby—and as ill luck would have it, she walked straight into a bank robbery.
When the robbers burst into the bank and fired their guns into the air, ordering everyone to stay still, Guan Xin was stunned, her mind a complete blank. She did whatever the people around her did, crouching down with the flow of the crowd.
At first she thought that if she could just ride it out, the robbers would take the money and leave. Who could have guessed that the police would surround the bank, leaving the robbers no choice but to seize a hostage as a bargaining chip.
When the robber walked toward her side, Guan Xin was terrified that he would pick her. To her surprise, he chose a girl not far from her, who looked about her own age.
What Guan Xin found utterly unbelievable was that at that very moment, the young man in front of her abruptly stood up and volunteered to be the robbers' hostage.
After all, at a time like this most people couldn't hide fast enough—who would volunteer to be a hostage? Guan Xin deeply admired the courage of the young man in front of her.
But the thug raised his gun and fired at him without mercy, and Guan Xin's heart nearly leapt out of her chest.
What puzzled Guan Xin, though, was that the young man tilted his body to one side and then straightened up again. Under the circumstances, what could such a movement possibly mean?
Guan Xin had no time to think it over—the gunshot had already rung out, and the young man was hit. Yet he did not make a sound, silently enduring the bullet that struck his leg.
In that moment, Guan Xin felt a powerful urge to stand up and tell the young man that she was a nurse and could bandage his wound for him. But her legs would not obey her, and it was not until the young man and the girl were taken away together as hostages that she finally came back to her senses...