Chapter 48 — A Moment of Ambiguity
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When Guan Xin came in to work that morning, she heard doctors and nurses all over the surgery department discussing a man named Wei Zhao. At first she paid it no mind, assuming it was just some piece of gossip, but when she listened more closely she was startled to discover that what they were discussing was yesterday's bank robbery.
As a person who had been there, Guan Xin naturally had the most authority to speak. 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, that young man really had been a hero yesterday.
Sun Weimin had told them as much before, but since the police had not disclosed the details of the incident, many people had assumed Wei Zhao was just boasting to Sun Weimin. Now, with Guan Xin's eyewitness account, it turned out Wei Zhao really was a bit of a hero.
"What? He came to our hospital for treatment yesterday? Then that means he got away from the robbers!" Hearing Sun Weimin's words, Guan Xin was overjoyed at once, and the heavy stone that had been weighing on her heart lifted with it.
All day yesterday she had been worried about Wei Zhao and that girl, and had not slept well all night. Now at last she could set her mind at ease.
"Isn't that so," Sun Weimin said with a laugh. "Wei Zhao is really something. But Xinxin, you are truly blessed. Yesterday Wei Zhao said that when the thug fired, he could clearly have dodged, but he saw there was a girl behind him, and if he had dodged, the bullet would surely have hit her — so he pulled himself 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 astonishment. No wonder he had turned sideways and then straightened himself again… it was because he was afraid of hurting her.
"Heh heh, Xinxin, Wei Zhao is coming back to the hospital later to have his dressing changed. I'll tell him to look for you," Sun Weimin said with a smile.
Sun Weimin did not actually know Guan Xin's true identity; the hospital director had merely mentioned to him that Guan Xin had been brought in by someone important, and that he was to give her whatever care was necessary.
Sun Weimin was by nature a very modest man. Even without the director's word, he was good to everyone in the department, especially the young people — he would guide them as much as he could and never held anything back.
Guan Xin's face flushed red at once. A scene like a hero saving a beauty was bound to make people imagine things — especially one so dramatic: after Wei Zhao was wounded, he had come to the very hospital where she worked for treatment.
Wei Zhao looked at the nurse in front of him, whose uniform was quite alluring, and found her somewhat familiar, though he had no idea where he had seen her before. But her words, "You don't remember me?" gave him a chill.
Why did he feel as though he were some heartless scoundrel who had toyed with a girl's feelings?
"You… you are?" Wei Zhao looked at the girl before him warily, trying to read some clue in her bright, wide eyes. Unfortunately, he still could not recall who she was.
Small wonder — she was no more than a fleeting passerby he had met yesterday, whose name he did not even know. There was no way Wei Zhao could have formed any impression of her.
"Thank you for taking a bullet for me yesterday," Guan Xin said. Seeing that Wei Zhao did not recognize her, she could not help feeling a little disappointed, and so she took the initiative to explain how the two of them had met.
"Ah, so it was you!" Wei Zhao finally remembered who the girl before him was. She was actually the girl who had been behind him in the bank yesterday.
"You remember me?" Guan Xin was a little pleased to see that Wei Zhao had recalled her.