Chapter 607 — Getting Close to Guan Xin
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Yet, to his surprise, in the medicine section Wei Zhao saw two familiar faces!
Kang Jingming had been in Songshan City for four days now, carrying a weighty task from his family: to win over Guan Xin! He was to work his way in through Guan Xin and thus learn the formula of the life-extending, detoxifying pill in Guan Xuewen's possession! He did not, of course, believe that Guan Xuewen had invented the formula. In his view, Guan Xuewen was just like his own grandfather, Doctor Kang — by some stroke of luck he had encountered experts of a certain caliber and obtained the formula from them.
He was a skilled hand at wooing women, and so he would not be so rash as to march straight into the hospital and present Guan Xin with flowers or a declaration of love. That was far too trite, and he did not think Guan Xin would accept it either. According to Kang Jingming's investigations, Guan Xin had never had a boyfriend; a move like that would only frighten her off.
So Kang Jingming meant to engineer a chance encounter — in some fitting setting, to run into Guan Xin as though by coincidence, and so achieve an introduction! That would also set her at ease.
But such an opportunity was truly hard to come by. Kang Jingming had kept watch at Guan Xin's doorstep for four days and found not the slightest opening! Guan Xuewen's residence was easy enough to learn of; Kang Jingming had found it without much effort. Yet though he waited nearby and did see Guan Xin every day, he could hardly just walk up and strike up a conversation, could he?
Guan Xin would certainly take him for a rogue, and that was the last thing Kang Jingming wanted.
Guan Xin took the shuttle bus to and from work every day, as regular as clockwork, and it left Kang Jingming no opening at all! Had she taken a public bus or a taxi, he might still have found a chance to stage a coincidence. But the shuttle — he was not a hospital employee, and there was simply no way for him to board it.
This left Kang Jingming thoroughly out of sorts. He called himself the Casanova of the boudoir — when had he ever waited four days without so much as making contact with his target? Just as his patience was wearing dangerously thin, Guan Xin finally came out of the house! It was Saturday, Guan Xin's day off — no work. She left the villa and took the bus straight to the Xuehai Bookstore!
Kang Jingming felt his chance had come. He hastily hailed a taxi and followed, trailing her all the way to the Xuehai Bookstore. Seeing Guan Xin head for the medicine section, he began to ponder how to approach her.
Guan Xin, of course, never noticed that anyone was following her. She was no student of criminal investigation, after all, and it was impossible for her to discover that Kang Jingming was already standing not far away.
Guan Xin had come to the bookstore today to buy some books on the assistant physician examination for integrated Chinese and Western medicine. Back when she was still in school, although her major had been nursing, she had simultaneously studied integrated Chinese and Western medicine. She had chosen that course in the first place because her grandfather was an outstanding practitioner of Chinese medicine, and Guan Xin could not bear to disappoint the old man, so she had picked a discipline related to Chinese medicine as her second major.
After graduating, however, Guan Xin still felt that Chinese medicine was not suited to her, and so she became a nurse. Guan Xuewen was disappointed, but he said nothing more about it. Guan Xin was a girl, after all, and Guan Xuewen had never pinned any great hopes on her.