Chapter 634 - Unmasking Guan Gao Huan's identity (III)
A foreign doctor asked an oriental doctor in foreign language.
The oriental doctor answered him in the sa language. "Of course. I always keep my word. By the way, I told you before that I have a friend who has the sa experience as you, rember?"
"Oh?" The foreign doctor's tone changed. "Hey, I told you not to speak about that in public..."
The foreign doctor's voice stopped when he saw that there was a man in the corner most area of the coffee shop. The place was empty and silent, the waiter and the cashier who both might have been inside the staff room, so he thought that there were only the two of them currently in the lounge.
He shut his mouth.
"Oh, that's my friend who I was talking about. I asked him to et us here. Let's go." The oriental doctor led the way.
The foreign doctor hesitated. "Hey! I... I am not ready to speak any of that yet. I-I'll just leave."
The foreign doctor was about to leave when the other doctor took his arm and kept him in place, as if confused.
"Hey, what are you so afraid about? You are not going to tell him anything you don't want to say. That man just needs your advice."
"Advice?"
"Yes, I told you, dummy, he is in the sa situation like you did before. So I thought of you and maybe we can give him so advice on what to do."
The foreign doctor hesitated. Worried that he might seem too suspicious, finally, he followed the other doctor.
As they approached, the oriental doctor smiled at Linfeng.
This doctor was Linfeng's spy.
His profession was a doctor, but he was also working as Linfeng's spy from the get go, one of the n he especially nurtured when he was still on the planning stage of wanting to break the covenant between the Xiong and the Zhou families.
Since four years ago, when Guan Gao Huan got interested in his Young Miss, Linfeng began to arrange spies in different places in the Guan family. He had them start from the bottom ring or through the most normal operations to avoid suspicion.
At that ti, he just wanted to know what kind of person Guan Gao Huan, his young miss's prospective partner, was. He was too mysterious as a man who just appeared from abroad, so his focus was only to know the man more.
When his relationship with Guan Gao Huan turned bitter, he simply let his spies stay and move accordingly as their surface roles dictated while gathering more information, waiting until he could find another need for their arrangents.
Linfeng stood up and politely smiled at the two doctors. "It's been a while, Doctor Lee."
The doctor who was Linfeng's spy, Doctor Lee, smiled back as he pulled out a chair. "Yes, it really has been so long. Oh, by the way, this is the person whom I asked you to et. He experienced sothing similar to what you did. I hope he can help you clear your mind."
Linfeng shook hands with the foreign doctor, introduced himself, and exchanged so pleasantries.
A waiter appeared, took their orders, and soon ca back with cups of steaming hot coffee and breakfast.
The three n talked first of random things about hospitals and economic issues over breakfast, before going down to business.
The foreign doctor who introduced himself as Doctor Jas wiped his mouth and hesitantly asked Linfeng. "You ntioned sothing about wanting advice earlier. Just what is it that you want to ask advice for?"
He had noticed at first sight that the man looked a bit pale and down, as if he was trying to look well despite having a huge problem. They talked for a while but the other never opened up the topic, so Doctor Jas could only ask.
Linfeng smiled helplessly and sighed as if world-weary. He looked a bit worried.
"That... I hope that whatever we talk about today will not be known to another person. I'm just really confused about what to do so I had no choice but to ask for advice..."
"Feel free to speak. Rest assured, no other person will know. You have my word."
Linfeng appeared to be hesitant, but finally spoke. "...My father is a personal doctor of an extrely powerful and wealthy family. Against his wishes, he was forced to do sothing... immoral. He had no choice because he was being threatened with my life back then. I co to know about this so ti later and asked my father. But my father was told to bury this secret. Soon, there were several accidents happening around him. I am afraid that those people are targeting him. I don't know what to do... So I told my best friend, Doctor Lee, about it."
Doctor Lee nodded somberly. "It is indeed very suspicious." Then he looked at Doctor Jas. "Jas, I also rember that when we drank together a year ago, you ntioned to about how your father died unjustly because of immoral acts. You don't want to tell the whole story no matter how much I asked so I won't force you to, but I hope that you can help my friend with just a few advices. He's really on edge already."
Doctor Jas looked perplexed.
'You ask for advice, but what can I give?'
Doctor Lee patted his shoulder encouragingly.
He had been sticking to this foreign doctor ever since he got transferred here. Because the doctors who were assigned to Guan Gao Guan back then had already died, they, Linfeng's undercover agents, had no choice but to target their bereaved family to gather information.
However, most of them were tight-lipped, or have no idea of what actually happened.
The prospects were bleak, until one year ago when Doctor Lee beca Doctor Jas' trusted friend. In one of their drinking sessions, he managed to slip out that his father was murdered.
That was when they got a potential lead.
This was why Linfeng ca up with this show. Perhaps they could still get sothing out of Doctor Jas with this play.
Doctor Jas hesitated for a long ti. He stared at the bleak and worried face of the man before him.
He sighed.
"I can't really tell you my story, and I won't ask yours. But at least your father is still alive. If you really want to give you advice, then.... move away. Far away where those people can't reach you. Maybe the police can also help you."
"...." Linfeng sighed as he murmured in a low voice. "...That family has a strong influence over the police. I... I can't ask them for help."
Doctor Jas sighed as well. "Then, that would be really difficult."
The oriental man in front of him fell silent, before he slowly began to talk about his father. How his father took care of him, how they celebrated every little thing, and how his father encouraged him constantly.
Then he continued to bitterly 'weep' about how wronged his father was, that he was getting older faster, and how the old man's health seed to be having problems due to the danger around him.
The air of desperation and hopelessness grew thicker around him.
This image overlapped with another mory in Doctor Jas' eyes. He could see his forr self in Linfeng.
He could not help but empathize.
He also expressed his grievances about the past as he comforted Linfeng. As ti passed, his guard was lowered with Linfeng's skillful manipulation.
At so point, unknowingly, he began to tell his story after his father died. "When my father died, I can't gather much evidence because the murderer was too careful... Even when I told the police that it might be deliberate murder, they didn't take seriously at all. Because all evidences pointed to it being an accident!"
Linfeng's dark eyes flashed. He lowered his lashes to hide his eyes.
"The murder is staged as an accident?" He whispered. "Then, I am afraid my father...!"
Doctor Jas appeased the man bitterly. "You must not let that happen. Your father will not have the sa ending as my father..."
The man he was comforting covered his face exhaustedly.
However, his dark orbs were fixed at Doctor Jas' face through the gap of his fingers. "But if it's an accident in everyone's eyes, how did you know it is murder?"
Doctor Jas's guard was down. He was facing a weak, helpless man whom he was sympathizing with, and his friend was beside him, so he did not suspect anything.
"My father warned the night before. He even wanted us to move to other places. He gave his final words, those that I cannot understand at that ti. He was probably being hunted back then, since his colleagues died one by one. Honestly, I think they have people in the police as well. A group of doctors died through various accidents in succession, yet they dismissed them all as re coincidences. Even though there were no evidences of foul work, isn't it still weird?"
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(A/n: If you rembered in the first volu, Linfeng who had not yet truly understood his feeling with Xiong Zhi investigated Guan Gao Huan with the excuse that he needed to learn more things about him. He sent spies overseas back then.
One of the spies was also the doctor who assisted Guan Xixin's injury and he ca to learn about Guan Xixin's suspicions.
The reason why he only ca to know Guan Xixin's suspicion recently was because he started his own investigation right after Guan Xixin's investigation was stopped. At this ti, he was reinvestigating Guan Gao Huan from the top to bottom again with the lead or prospect that Guan Gao Huan is a fake.)
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