Jiang Li learned the answer to the question in his mind half an hour later.The girl did not hide her sour expression after hearing the doctor"s evaluation, her hand which received the prescription for cold and cough was trembling badly.
Back then Jiang Li did not have any more time to wonder why even cough and cold in this world needed prescriptions when over the counter drugs should be available and easy to purchase. Because even though they were in front of a doctor in his late forties and there were a few nurses nearby, Selena Tang openly glared at him. "You...!"
Another second after, a man"s groan echoed in the place. The owner of the pained voice had his face contorted in a way different from the girl. He got stepped on by the woman using her pointed heel!
While Jiang Li was complaining in his head as he hopped around in one foot, the angry and cold voice of the woman rang. "As expected, men like you can"t be trusted and are opportunists! Shameless! How hard is it to properly explain your condition, huh? Is it that your tongue is giving you trouble speaking the truth? No worries, I can sponsor a transplant! I"ll also make sure to teach you how to use it properly!"
"… I explain though." The man who felt wronged hissed as he endured the pain on his right foot. He also glared at Selena who, with her balled fists on the sides, still looked like an Amazona about to hack him to death. "Hey, Miss Tang. Didn"t I explain? It"s you who suddenly made me get into your car! In a sense, you kidnapped me!"
"What?" The scriptwriter felt like she heard something unbelievable. Actually, it was not only her who thought of this, but the others spectating the scene also let out a "huh?", exchanging glances with each other as they processed in their mind what they just listened to.
"I kidnapped you? If you had just explained earlier that you didn"t vomit blood, that it came from you accidentally biting your tongue, I would not have rushed you to the hospital!" The frost in her tone was enough to send chills to the spines of the nearby bystanders.
Yet the guy getting the full brunt on it seemed to be not affected. Was he simply fearless?
Jiang Li replied, "Hey, it"s a fact that you pushed me into your car without asking for my permission and took me somewhere. It"s true that I"m not blindfolded or rope-bound. Still, if it"s not kidnapping, then what?"
His words held some sense. But he said it in a matter-of-fact manner that people, including Selena, could just not help but think that something was wrong with his phrasing.
"There"s a problem with this man"s head. Yet his logic sounds reasonable…" thought the majority who heard their exchanges.
For a while, Selena did not speak, not because she couldn"t think of any words to say. But that she was afraid she would spout something unbefitting of her lady-like image. As they said, less words, less mistakes…
"Keep calm… Don"t think of murder… You"re a law-abiding lady, Selena." She chanted.
As for the man, it took some time before he was no longer making all sorts of jumps in place. However, his face still contained sorrow and pain. One corner of his lips was still twitching as he wondered whether the unlucky toenail that had been stepped on hard was still alive. There was no way he could take off his dress shoes to take a look at it before a crowd. He could only grumble.
The man who was still thinking that he was sacrificing a part of his body for a n.o.ble cause regained his senses half a minute later when he saw that the woman was eerily quiet without withdrawing her sharp, deadly stares.
Selena swept her gaze around once. And felt like her chest was once again burning from too much anger. Her blood pressure was rising at an exponential rate, the palpitation in her chest was a little scary. Strangely though, she was able to think more clearly than ever. Or perhaps the silence just helped.
"Attention-seeker." After going through her memories and recalling her few encounters with him, she felt like everything that happened so far was for a purpose or setup. The word just flashed through her mind a moment later.
Her sight went back to Jiang Li. Suppressing the fiery beast inside her which wanted to cut this guy apart, her soft hand grabbed the man by the left arm and pulled him outside regardless of his opposition.
The crowd automatically parted for them, most likely scared by the look in the girl"s face. "Hey! I"m injured! Wait!"
For the first part, he was complaining about his foot.
However, the latter was because while he was being dragged around, he seemed to have taken a glimpse of someone familiar emerging from the elevator. No, actually since his eyesight was quite good, he only needed a single squinting to make sure he did not see wrongly.
He surprisingly chanced upon the male lead outside the capital!
"Liu De is injured?" He once again squinted his eyes.
The male lead was talking to a beautiful nurse and he was sporting a radiant expression. Wow. How admirable that he could have a nice conversation with a beauty even though his forehead was full of huge beads of sweat.
"We"re talking in a while, man!" The voice of the woman pulling him violently rang, making him turn his head to her. A wry smile briefly formed on his lips as he knew he had angered for real this time.
When his gaze went back to the direction of the elevator, he could no longer see Liu De. The man and the others with him must have vanished in one of the corridors there. Jiang Li could only shrug. He was not really curious about the other guy. But his appearance there was quite the coincidence. Who would have thought he was also outside the capital?
"Now that I think about it, I forgot to check on the lead and his harem yesterday. I"ll do it later. To know if this Liu De came here with Mo Fang."
The walk did not take more than a minute. The goal of the girl seemed to be to only find somewhere people would not temporarily go to.
Selena stopped when they were near a restroom, on the opposite of the corridor leading to the ladies". It was a short hallway leading to a locked door with a "Staff Only" signage. The room behind it must be housing cleaning tools and other maintenance stuff.
"She made sure it"s a spot that is still within the scope of a CCTV." A satisfied glint flickered across his eyes. It was pleasing to know that she was at least this cautious.
"Why did you pull me here?" he asked.
Selena took a few deep breaths and distanced herself a bit from the man. The slight smile she cracked was paired with widened eyes and head tilted up a bit to the left. It made her appear intimidating and dangerous, like a lioness that would pounce and shred him to pieces using her claws. "Mr. Jiang. Do you believe that I won"t call my lawyer to talk to you for saying those misleading and infuriating statements earlier? Do you believe I don"t have means to let you enjoy some prison time for a minimum of a year?"
Jiang Li blinked using his innocent eyes. He appeared extremely puzzled. "Wait, what did I do to deserve that?"
Selena became more annoyed. "Hah. You have the nerve to ask something obvious. Great! I have to acknowledge, you can rank within the top five of the most annoying people I have encountered in my whole life."
The man didn"t seem embarra.s.sed. However, he was also not idiotic enough to think he got complimented. He only paused for a couple of seconds to look at her before he laughingly replied. "Miss, don"t worry, you don"t lose out to me that much. You"re one of the most unreasonable women I have encountered. The one who always getting angry at her victim whenever her crime is exposed."
He continued laughing. While shaking his head, he amusedly added, "Actually, the sole girl I tolerated shouting, glaring, and threatening me."
Unfortunately, Selena couldn"t read minds and did not know what he just thought of her. Yet even if she could, at the current stage of their relations.h.i.+p, it would be impossible for her to appreciate it.
Silence reigned between them for some time. Jiang Li kept the grin on his face as he waited for her response. Yet when she finally spoke, the corner of his lips arced down.
"I don"t think I can tolerate this anymore so we should stop the riddles. I"ll just be direct, Mr. Jiang." She narrowed her eyes at his clean-shaven face and slowly enunciated. "Are you purposely coming after me, pestering me with the intention to court me … so you can dump me, or perhaps, ruin me after."
"Huh?" From hearing what she just said, he had even forgotten about the slight ache from one of his toes as an expression of displeasure and disbelief showed on his face. What had gotten into this woman"s head? Was she practicing some sort of script on him and he just did not know?
He was truly baffled. "Miss, do you need me to call a doctor? We"re still at the hospital, and I don"t think I"m the only one needing to see one today."
Selena Tang crossed her arms above her chest. She ignored his snide remarks and sneered in a condescending manner which would remind one of a detective proud to have uncovered a scheme.
"Stop acting, Mr. Jiang. Just answer me. Are you doing this because your friend, Mr. Wei, son of that politician, hired you to do so?"