"What’s with this young lady, being all secretive about a phone call?" Lin Wan couldn’t help but mutter.
"Why bother with it so much, just focus on your own duties."
After being chided by Zhang Hao, Lin Wan’s face soured a bit when the other two doctors weren’t looking.
She pinched Zhang Hao’s arm fiercely, causing him imdiate pain, and he sharply inhaled a breath of cold air.
He looked at Lin Wan in astonishnt, and although he said nothing, his face conveyed a thousand words.
Just at this ti, Qin Miaoke had finished her phone call and returned with a preoccupied mind.
"How co after taking a call, you look like you’ve lost your soul?"
Facing Zhang Hao’s concern, Qin Miaoke wasn’t able to conceal her emotions.
"It was a call from my dad. He wants to go ho tomorrow night for a blind date."
Qin Miaoke, in her early twenties, could experience dating or blind dates. It wasn’t a big deal.
"That’s great, getting married early, having kids early. Sotis delaying things isn’t better."
Zhang Hao felt he was looking at the issue from a neutral standpoint.
But Qin Miaoke didn’t see it that way: "But I feel like I’m still young. I want to experience free love, not sothing arranged by my family."
Qin Miaoke complained just a bit to avoid affecting their work and then pushed down the negative emotions.
It was evening and ti to get off work. Zhang Hao has just finished packing up his things and was ready to visit his dad at the city hospital.
Taking the chance, Qin Miaoke rushed over and grabbed his arm. "Zhang Hao, I’ll give you two thousand yuan if you help out, okay?"
Unprovoked offers of help suggest ulterior motives.
Zhang Hao extracted his arm from Qin Miaoke’s embrace: "You should tell what it is first. After that, I can decide whether to agree or not."
Seeing Zhang Hao being so cautious, and among everyone at the hospital, she was closest to him.
After so thought, Qin Miaoke still shared her idea: "I don’t want to go to this blind date, so just pretend to be my new boyfriend. Just fool my parents, and you won’t have to worry about the rest. How about it?"
Zhang Hao didn’t imdiately know what to say, as this wasn’t the first ti he had pretended to be soone else’s boyfriend.
He could say he had beco quite experienced in this role.
"If it really won’t work, you could rent one. We work so closely, and if your parents did even a little investigation..."
"They’d know I’m deceiving them. So maybe you should ask soone else. I’ve got to go; I have things to do."
Qin Miaoke was taken aback by Zhang Hao’s refusal and anxiously paced back and forth in the departnt. After a long while, she still hadn’t co up with a suitable solution.
She could only wail in the departnt, causing the patients outside to cautiously poke their heads in,
wondering what could possibly have happened. If even Zhang Hao wouldn’t agree to help her,
who would she turn to?
She couldn’t possibly post a "Boyfriend Wanted" ad online; it wouldn’t sound good if it got out, Qin Miaoke chided herself.
Zhang Hao drove to the city hospital, and although he knew his father was not in serious trouble, he still couldn’t let go of his worries.
Upon arrival, he found that the old man was already able to sit up.
Today, it was his mother taking care of him.
"Mom, take a break. I’ll take care of things here."
"It’s fine. You’ve been busy all day, get so rest."
After a bit of courteous back-and-forth, Zhang Hao put down his bag and checked the ti. It was almost dinner ti.
He asked his father what he’d like to eat, and everything his dad wanted was heavy in flavor.
These things were not good for his recovery, so Zhang Hao vetoed them one by one.
"I’ll arrange sothing light for you, which will be better for your health."
Seeing his son say this, Zhang Jian’s face imdiately turned sour. He glanced at his wife,
"Look at this, my son is now bossing his old man around, but I can’t even refuse because I know he ans well."
"Raising a son to provide for old age, isn’t that the purpose? Don’t be too stubborn with the kid. We’ll both get old one day, and then we’ll have to rely on him."
After this injury, Zhang Jian finally understood the aning of these words.
"Just go ahead and arrange it as you like. Anyway, I’ve been recuperating in the hospital lately, can’t go anywhere, can’t eat much."
Zhang Hao went to a fast-food restaurant near the hospital and, seeing that there wasn’t much left of the dishes, he switched to another one.
He bought so lightly stir-fried dishes. Although his mother didn’t have any discomfort, Zhang Hao also prepared so light als for her.
As for himself, he got a takeout order of beef noodles with extra chili to take back.
Just as he got back to the ward, he heard his dad chatting with soone else.
"Being a doctor is great, healing the sick, doing good deeds, and even as a young man, he’s already a director. His future is very promising."
"Unlike my kid, who’s got no skills, can only do manual labor, doesn’t make much in a month."
"And from ti to ti, he still needs my help. What I hope now is for him to get married and have children soon."
"Once he’s got his own family, I’ll be able to let go completely, hands off."
Zhang Hao, carrying the al, entered, breaking up the conversation between the two patients.
"Stop chatting, it’s ti to eat."
Just as he finished arranging the food, Zhang Hao’s phone rang.
He assud it was the hospital calling him back for an extra shift since he had run into the surgical director when he was leaving.
Who had said it was very likely he’d need to co back tonight to work overti.
Only when he saw the na flashing on the screen did he breathe a sigh of relief.
But he couldn’t understand why Qin Miaoke would call him at this ti.
With all sorts of guesses in mind, he answered the call.
"Zhang Hao, I’m at the gate of the city hospital. Can you co out and see ?"
"You’re at the city hospital? What are you doing there?"
"Nothing much, just co down if you’re still around. If you’ve gone, then I’ll leave."
Zhang Hao quickly stood up and moved to the window; the outpatient building and inpatient departnt were side by side.
Looking out the window, he spotted Qin Miaoke imdiately.
If it were up to him, he would prefer not to et.
But then he thought about Elder Qin constantly saying he should take care of his granddaughter.
He really had no reason to leave her standing outside alone.
"Alright, I’m coming down now. Wait for ."
The thought of seeing Zhang Hao soon filled Qin Miaoke with imnse excitent.
More than ten minutes later, she finally saw him appear, and Qin Miaoke bounced up to him.
"Why have you co here? Is there sothing you need from ?"
"Nothing specific, I just wanted to have dinner with you," said Qin Miaoke.
Zhang Hao felt there had to be a catch, and after scrutinizing her for a while, he refused.
"My dad’s still in the ward, waiting for to take care of him. Let’s have dinner so other ti."
"Then I’ll go up and see Uncle. But he won’t mind coming empty-handed, right?"
Since she had co all this way, it seed unreasonable not to let her go up for a visit.
"It’s fine, co if you want. Neither of them is the type to care about formalities."
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