Qian Qi continued to come to school every day. When idle, she would stand on the balcony outside the classroom, leaning on the railing in a daze. Tang Qiqi would occasionally join her in quiet companionship.
Chapter 52: Brother’s Lover
Qian Qi hadn’t seen Zhong Mingjie for many days, not since that day.
It was the first day of school. She had overslept and missed the morning bus, with the next one at least thirty minutes away. While feeling frustrated, Xing Tuo suddenly appeared in his dazzling Porsche. She got into his car.
As the sports car entered the campus, she heard someone call her name. Turning back, she saw Zhong Mingjie with a cold expression.
“Stop here,” she quietly told Xing Tuo. She knew she had to talk to Zhong Mingjie.
Xia Qianyi sat in front of the operating room door, thinking about what the doctor had just told her: “Miss Xia, your mother has a sudden gastric perforation with bleeding and must be operated on immediately… Please sign here…”
Qianyi had always thought her mother was in good health, never knowing that she had chronic gastritis.
Should she call her father? She hesitated with her phone but finally dialed his company’s number.
“Hello, Xing Group,” came the voice of the secretary.
“Um, excuse me, I’d like to speak to the chairman,” she said nervously.
“May I ask who’s calling? Do you have an appointment?”
“I…” she couldn’t think of how to introduce herself: “No.”
“I’m sorry, our chairman is in a meeting.”
She hung up, feeling disappointed.
“Are you the family of Xia Xinwei?” a nurse approached and asked.
“Yes, I am. Is there something wrong?”
“This is the hospitalization card. Our hospital requires a deposit of 30,000 yuan for hospitalized patients. Could you please take care of it?”
“Oh.” Qianyi responded, reaching out to take the card: “Can I do it later? I want to wait until my mother’s surgery is over.”
“Are there no other family members?”
“No.”
“Alright then,” the nurse said.
Xia Qianyi walked into the home, opened her mother’s room door, and went in to find her bank card, as she had previously helped her mother withdraw money and knew the password.
