Chapter 219 — However You Got In, That's How You'll Get Out
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The head of the inpatient department had been trying to gauge just how close Wei Zhao and Guan Xuewen really were, because a great deal hinged on the answer. If they were merely acquaintances, nothing more, then the whole affair could quietly be allowed to blow over... But if they were close, then he had just left Guan Xuewen and Director Qin with a very poor impression of himself...
And now, of all things, he saw that Guan Xuewen's granddaughter knew Wei Zhao too — surely that meant Wei Zhao was close to the whole Guan family?
Guan Xin had finished her work, and somehow or other she had drifted, half in a daze, over to the inpatient wing. She simply wanted to see whether she might run into Wei Zhao again; she had no particular aim in mind, since she had never asked him which ward he was in.
Hearing Wei Zhao call her name, she brightened at once, a sweet smile curving the corners of her mouth. "Wei Zhao, I just came by to see if there was anything I could help with."
"Oh, nothing at the moment — it's all been sorted out," Wei Zhao said, with a glance at the head of the inpatient department.
At his words, the conversation flagged; Guan Xin did not know what to say next. Then she noticed the woman beside Wei Zhao — Tang Zhi, no less lovely than herself — and felt a sudden sinking in her heart. "This is... your girlfriend?"
"No... I have nothing to do with him..." Before Wei Zhao could speak, Tang Zhi sprang forward as though her tail had been stepped on, waving her hands again and again.
"Oh," Guan Xin breathed a quiet sigh of relief, then said to Wei Zhao, "Give me your phone number. I never thanked you for last time — let me buy you dinner on one of my days off."
Wei Zhao thought nothing of it and recited a number. Guan Xin saved it, then rang him back so that her own number would appear on his phone. Beside them, though, Tang Zhi's brow furrowed. He had helped her? A pang of regret rose in her heart — why had she been in such a hurry to explain away her relationship with Wei Zhao?
This young man really did have a way with women — one turn of the head and he was already thick as thieves with a pretty young nurse. Downcast, Tang Zhi quickened her pace.
Guan Xin, a little older and more poised than Tang Zhi, took in her reaction and could not help smiling faintly. "Your friend seems to be jealous," she said to Wei Zhao. "I'll be off, then — call me when you have time."
"Ha..." Wei Zhao laughed. "All right, we'll talk by phone."
Guan Xin had only wanted to come and see Wei Zhao; now that she had actually walked over and found him, she no longer knew what to say or do.
Watching Wei Zhao and Tang Zhi's retreating backs, Guan Xin sighed softly to herself — though she could not have said what, exactly, she was sighing for...
In a superior ward, Zhao Guangdong was fawningly peeling an orange for his boss. "President Zou, this room's not bad, eh? No different from a five-star hotel, is it?"
"Hm, not bad, Guangdong. I never knew you had connections here at the hospital — seems I've been underestimating you all this time!" President Zou said. "Looks like I'll have to see about promoting you."
"Heh heh, not at all. I'm just a man who gets along well with people — friends wherever I go, and everyone does me the courtesy!" Zhao Guangdong said with a laugh.
"That's right, President Zou — our Guangdong has friends everywhere!" the heavily made-up woman chimed in from the side. "Just now some little idiot came asking for a superior ward, and the head of the inpatient department wouldn't even give him the time of day. But the moment our Guangdong brought a friend along, the room was his!"
"Who are you calling a little idiot?" The ward door was thrown open and Kang Xiaofeng stormed in, furious, jabbing a finger at the heavily made-up woman.