Chapter 48 — An Ambiguous Moment: Begging for Recommendation Votes, Begging for Collections! Thank You, Everyone!
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When Guan Xin came to work this morning, she heard the whole of the surgery department — doctors and nurses alike — talking about a man named Wei Zhao. At first she paid it no mind, taking it for some bit of gossip; but listening more closely, she was astonished to find that what everyone was discussing was yesterday's bank robbery.
As someone who had been there in person, Guan Xin naturally had the most authority to speak. And when she told them how the young man in front of her had stood up on his own and volunteered to be a hostage, there was an uproar — so it was all true after all; that young man from yesterday really was a hero.
Sun Weimin had told everyone as much before, but since the police had not disclosed the details, many people had assumed Wei Zhao was bragging to Sun Weimin. Now, with Guan Xin's eyewitness account, it seemed Wei Zhao truly was a little hero.
"What? He came to our hospital for treatment yesterday? Then that means he got out of the robbers' hands?" Hearing Sun Weimin's words, Guan Xin was overjoyed at once, and the heavy stone that had been pressing on her heart lifted along with it.
All of yesterday she had been worrying about Wei Zhao and that girl's safety; she had not slept well the whole night. Now, at last, she could set her mind at ease.
"Isn't that so?" Sun Weimin laughed. "Wei Zhao is quite a fellow, and no mistake. But Xinxin, you really are a lucky girl. Yesterday Wei Zhao said that when the thug fired, he could have dodged it — but he saw there was a girl behind him, and if he had dodged, that bullet would surely have hit her. So he turned back and took the shot head-on. And that lucky girl, it seems, was you."
"Ah, so that's how it was..." Guan Xin's mouth fell open in surprise. No wonder he had turned sideways and then straightened himself again... he had been afraid of hurting her.
"Heh heh, Xinxin, Wei Zhao is coming back to the hospital in a while to have his dressing changed. I'll tell him to come and find you," Sun Weimin said with a smile.
In truth, Sun Weimin did not know Guan Xin's real identity either; the director had merely mentioned to him once that Guan Xin had been placed here by someone important, and that he should give her whatever care was necessary.
Sun Weimin was by nature a very mild and modest man. Even without the director's word, he treated everyone in the department well — the young ones especially, guiding them as much as he could and never keeping anything to himself.
Guan Xin's face flushed at once. A tale of a hero saving a beauty like this could hardly keep a girl from reading things into it — and this one was so dramatic, too: after being wounded, Wei Zhao had come to the very hospital where she worked for treatment.
Wei Zhao looked at the nurse before him, all seductive in her uniform, and found her somewhat familiar, though he could not place where he had seen her. But that line of hers, "You don't recognize me anymore?", sent a chill down his spine.
Why did it feel as though he were some heartless cad who had toyed with a girl's feelings?
"You... you are?" Wei Zhao studied her suspiciously, trying to read some clue in her big, bright eyes — but alas, he still could not remember who she was.
Small wonder. She had been no more than a fleeting passer-by he had met yesterday, whose name he did not even know. There was no way Wei Zhao could possibly have any impression of her.
"Thank you. For taking that bullet for me yesterday." Seeing that Wei Zhao did not recognize her, Guan Xin could not help feeling a little disappointed, and so she took the initiative and explained how the two of them had met.
"Ah, so it's you." Wei Zhao finally remembered who the girl before him was. She was the girl who had been standing behind him in the bank yesterday.
"You remember?" Seeing that Wei Zhao had recalled her, Guan Xin was a little pleased.