Chapter 609 — I Do Not Know Him
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So it was that enemies, meeting face to face, saw red. When Kang Jingming laid eyes on Wei Zhao, he wished he could hack him to pieces and grind the fragments to dust! And what was worse, this creature's relationship with Guan Xuewen was a complete mystery, yet he was forever hanging about Guan Xuewen and Lai Changshan, as if it were any business of his!
"Ha, just browsing. What brings you here too?" Wei Zhao had also seen through Kang Jingming's game — the man was here to try his luck with Guan Xin. He merely could not understand why Kang Jingming had set his sights on Guan Xin again. Did the fellow truly have nothing to do with his days but chase women?
"Mm, I came to buy a couple of books..." Guan Xin's face flushed again. Thinking that her very purpose in buying the books was Wei Zhao himself, her heart pounded violently. She had always been a rather shy girl, and never more so than before the one she held dear.
"Oh. Need any help?" Wei Zhao nodded, giving it no further thought. Guan Xin was Guan Xuewen's granddaughter, after all, and worked in a hospital besides — there was nothing strange in her coming here to buy medical texts.
"No need... I've already picked mine out," Guan Xin said in a small voice.
Off to the side, Kang Jingming was about ready to explode with rage. Why was Wei Zhao in the middle of absolutely everything? A perfectly good chance to chat her up, ruined by Wei Zhao — was the fellow born to be a spoiler? He had wrecked his grandfather's birthday banquet, wrecked the Kang family's plans at the auction house, and now he even had to wreck his womanizing!
Kang Jingming simply could not swallow it any longer. Pointing at Wei Zhao, he said to Guan Xin, "This thing is no good man — don't you be with him, keep well away from him! He's a fraud who cheats the world and steals a name; even our Kang family's flagship product has been counterfeited by his people. Ours is Kang the Divine Doctor's Golden Wound Salve, so he brings out Guan the Doctor's Trauma Ointment; we put out a deluxe edition, and he puts out a deluxe edition too. It's plagiarism, plain and simple, imitation! A shameless scoundrel like that — you must never go near him! He apes our family in everything; we're called Kang the Divine Doctor, so he comes out with Guan the Doctor. He's nothing but a king of knock-offs!"
In one breath Kang Jingming poured out all the resentment long pent up in his heart. Yet when he had finished, he saw Guan Xin staring coldly at him, and it sent a chill through him. What sort of look was that?
"Huh?" In a flash, Kang Jingming understood. Was not Guan Xin's grandfather none other than Guan the Doctor? And he had just called Guan the Doctor a knock-off? Was he not cursing her own grandfather? Small wonder Guan Xin was furious!
Oh, how Kang Jingming regretted it. That worthless mouth of his had no gate on it — even if that was what he thought in his heart, he must not say it aloud! Was he not just making Guan Xin hate him? In his panic, he could only stammer out an explanation: "No... no... what I meant was not that Guan the Doctor is no good, I meant that Guan the Doctor Pharmaceuticals is no good, is a knock-off..."
Guan Xin was still glaring coldly at Kang Jingming, her eyes full of anger.
Kang Jingming was greatly alarmed. What he had just said was ill-judged too! Guan the Doctor Pharmaceuticals — was that not Guan Xuewen's own company? The way he had put it, he would have done better to keep silent; his explanation had only blackened the picture further.
"No! That's not it! That's not what I meant either — I didn't mean Guan the Doctor Pharmaceuticals is no good, I mean Guan the Doctor has been hoodwinked by that Lai Changshan and this fellow here! Made to do things that cheat the world and steal a name!" Kang Jingming babbled on. "I meant no insult!"