Chapter 294 — The Legendary Love Triangle
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Important business? This was what he called important business? Qiu Lingshan nearly keeled over, and it was all she could do not to plant a few kicks on Wei Zhao's backside. But in the end, Wei Zhao wasn't one of their own, and what he did really wasn't hers to control.
Still, she couldn't keep the ice out of her voice: "Wei Zhao, surely you can tell the trivial from the critical when it comes to matters of the heart? Did you honestly just walk in there and hand him his meal? Couldn't you have found a chance to take Huang Guanya out?"
"I did take him out! Are you ever going to let this go? You're doing this on purpose, aren't you, trying to sabotage me!" Wei Zhao was furious now too. What the hell was wrong with this woman? Guan Xin was still in that room—how could he possibly stand by and let Huang Guanya do as he pleased? Did she have a brain in that head of hers?
"Took him out?" Qiu Lingshan was stunned, not quite following him now.
But just then, the door of the hospital room swung fully open and Guan Xin came rushing out. The moment she saw Wei Zhao she ran to him and threw herself into his arms: "I was terrified... absolutely terrified..."
Guan Xin clung to Wei Zhao, tears spilling down her face. The stubborn, righteous resolve she had shown minutes earlier was gone; now she was nothing but a fragile young woman...
A moment ago she had recklessly told the police to shoot Huang Guanya dead, and that too had come from her fear for the patients in the ward—from a nurse's duty, the kind of selfless goodness that lives in human nature. But now she was simply an ordinary girl again, and after the terror had passed, she only wanted a safe harbor to shelter in, someone to pour out her fear and her hurt to...
"Heh..." Wei Zhao glanced helplessly at Tang Zhi, and saw her purse her lips and turn her head away—but she said nothing.
What could Tang Zhi say? A little grievance and a flicker of jealousy stirred in her heart, but Guan Xin had only just been rescued from a madman's hands and plainly needed comforting. Tang Zhi was not a petty woman, so for the moment all she could do was pretend she hadn't seen a thing.
She just couldn't understand it—how had Wei Zhao gotten Guan Xin out? He had been inside the room for barely more than ten seconds before emerging again... She had assumed he had gone in only to hurry back out and claim his kiss from her... But now it seemed that was not what had happened at all!
Impossible as it seemed, Guan Xin really had run out alive, and that left only one explanation: Wei Zhao had dealt with the criminal...
Tang Zhi didn't believe it, Qiu Lingshan didn't believe it, and of everyone present, not a single soul believed the truth unfolding before their eyes. It was too bizarre, too utterly inconceivable.
Hearing Wei Zhao's "I did take him out," Qiu Lingshan had been about to fire back a few sarcastic words, but then she saw Guan Xin come running out after him, and she was dumbstruck—truly dumbstruck... What on earth had happened in there?
She had no patience left to question Wei Zhao; she charged into the ward ahead of everyone else—and the scene that met her eyes stopped her dead in her tracks...
Huang Guanya lay sprawled on the floor, his dagger fallen to one side, his death about as grisly as could be imagined: his eyes bulged out, and his face bore not only shock but rage. He would not accept it—no, he had died with his eyes wide open in defiance!
It was the manner of his death that left Qiu Lingshan speechless.
Huang Guanya had been killed, as far as she could tell, by a single blow—and the murder weapon left her just as speechless, just as disbelieving. It was a pair of disposable chopsticks, the very kind that came with the box lunch Wei Zhao had carried in.