People’s hearts are so strange; as long as they know Alice is still here, they feel that their connection to this world is still intact.
The mont Daisy thinks Alice is no longer here, she feels like she’s about to be drowned in the world’s loneliness.
In this world, she has beco an orphan without parents, and the years of painstakingly preserving Alice’s firm’s significance seem to have vanished completely.
Daisy leaned into the man’s embrace, holding him quietly for a while, then with reddened eyes, she looked up at Edward and said, "I still need to talk to the dean."
Edward looked down at her, "I’ll go with you."
Daisy seed to want to give him a usual smile, but before her mouth could move, tears were about to fall. She turned her head away, took a breath, and nodded.
An incident at the hospital brought the police quickly. Daisy saw the surveillance footage of Alice leaving on the police’s laptop.
The footage showed Alice opening the door alone in the ward and wandering aimlessly from the inpatient departnt to the garden, during which not a single nurse or doctor stopped her.
The female dean explained that today at noon was the regular eting day for nurses and doctors, coinciding with the ti Alice left. It wasn’t until the eting ended and the nurses couldn’t find anyone in Alice’s room that they started frantically searching.
Finally, they found her in the garden’s pond.
Edward looked down, flipped through the video, and asked, "Is this all there is?"
The female dean glanced at him, sowhat nervously replying, "There are caras in the garden as well, but there was a thunderstorm last night, and the lightning seed to have damaged the wireless connections, making the video footage unavailable."
Edward said coolly, "So essentially, you’re not certain whether she fell in on her own?"
This made the female dean’s face turn more unsightly. If Alice rely fell into the pond by herself, it would be a case of poor managent by the hospital. But if she didn’t fall in on her own, then... it could be deliberate murder.
These are completely different judgnt levels.
Standing aside, pale-faced Daisy coldly said, "I’ll pay for it, no matter the cost, I want the truth." She looked at the female dean, "Otherwise, your whole family can accompany you in jail."
Running a private hospital inherently carries so gray inco, and once uncovered, it is indeed illegal.
The female dean understood Daisy’s implication, lowered her head, and dared not speak again, only nodding hesitantly.
After Daisy finished speaking, she sat on a bench, feeling overwheld, her chest heaving violently until Edward ca over and held her cold, stiff fingers.
At this mont, it seed that only this man beside her could bring her a shred of reality’s warmth.
Daisy looked up, her gaze sowhat confused, then tightly grasped Edward’s fingers, her voice barely audible: "Edward... don’t leave ..."
Suddenly, she felt her connection to this world was only Edward.
Edward’s deep eyes quietly accompanied Daisy for a while. Then he went to speak with the police again, who looked at him in surprise, reluctantly nodding under Edward’s persuasion.
When Daisy saw him return, she questioned him with her eyes. The man sat beside her on the bench, gently shook his head at her: "Nothing much. I asked them to send over the footage from the garden. I’ll see if I can restore it."
Daisy lowered her head, looked at her hand held by Edward, and softly asked, "Do you think... soone wants to harm my mom..."
Edward: "Just trying to find out what exactly happened. Not necessarily..."
"...if it really is soone..." Daisy’s voice was low, with a hint of confusion, "Could it be because of ..."
She painfully bent down, her pale face showing an unbearable expression of pain.
Edward frowned slightly and gently tightened his grip on Daisy’s hand.
His heart, because of Daisy’s pain at this mont, was filled with a hint of hidden anger.
Indeed, if soone...
His dark pupils flashed with malice.
*
Alice’s surgery continued until nine o’clock in the evening and had not concluded.
Daisy stayed behind, waiting anxiously at the door until she was almost numb.
At nine-thirty, soone walked down the ergency room corridor, the crisp sound of high heels ringing out. Daisy hugged her knees, heard the footsteps, and turned her head to look over.
She saw Abigail Perry walking over dressed glamorously, wearing a fur coat and carrying a thermos bottle in her hand.
Recently, not sure why, she seed to have erged from Emily Ginger’s shadow, started skincare and makeup again, dressing up ten years younger, her radiant face filled with joy.
Daisy sat there, coldly watching as she approached, seeing Abigail Perry place the thermos bottle beside her without reacting.
Abigail Perry said, "I just got the news your mom had an accident, the surgery taking so long, you surely haven’t had dinner! I had soone make sothing you love, eat it while it’s hot."
Daisy looked at her, slightly frowning, her cold face showing no reaction.
"A few days ago, it was indeed Auntie’s fault," Abigail Perry smoothed her beautifully styled hair, lowered her eyes and smiled at Daisy, apologizing, "Auntie shouldn’t have taken it out on you, Auntie apologizes, Daisy, we’re all family, don’t be mad at Auntie, okay?"
Daisy leaned against the bench, slightly raised her pointed chin, expressionless as she looked at Abigail Perry: "Who’s family with you?"
Abigail Perry paused slightly, then sighed: "Auntie has indeed wronged you over the years... but in the future, our family only has the two of us relying on each other."
Daisy sneered: "What, you want to support you in your old age?"
She never gave Abigail Perry any kind of pleasant face.
Abigail Perry didn’t seem to know what pill she took, her attitude was unusually earnest, combined with her breezy look, making Daisy suspect she’d been possessed, acting completely different.
Abigail Perry pestered her for a while until Daisy completely ignored her. She took a look at Daisy’s worn-out appearance, softly offered sympathies for Alice and her, then turned alone and left.
Daisy watched her back, then looked down at the thermos bottle Abigail Perry had brought, touching it, the tal case still warm from the food inside.
She furrowed her brow, not understanding what Abigail Perry’s purpose was for visiting today.
Around the corner, Abigail Perry leaned on the wall, laughing until she bent over.
She picked up her phone, laughing while calling William: "Mr. William, I am so happy, you should have seen her pathetic look, I really want to personally send you a picture, so you can see!"
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