Jiang Nan Fang left the ward with a belly full of anger and bewilderment.
The hospital from eight to ten in the morning is a peak time for elevator usage.
Countless patients' families and friends took the elevator to visit patients, and every elevator was full.
Jiang Nan Fang waited in front of the elevator door for three rounds without being able to squeeze in. Looking at the time, she had already been delayed for more than ten minutes.
Impatient to stay in this ghostly place any longer, she gritted her teeth and was about to go to the stairs when a gentle hand suddenly rested on her shoulder.
Turning her head, she saw a middle-aged woman's face with a smile as bright as a flower.
Isn't this Mrs. Gao?
"Still here? I didn't expect to run into you again."
Mrs. Gao took the initiative to speak to her.
Jiang Nan Fang didn't know what Zhan Bei Jue was up to, but her intuition told her that his reaction just now must be related to Mrs. Gao and Mrs. Wang.
Because he was not usually so sick.
But ever since the last time at Kangqiao Mountain Villa, when Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Gao appeared, he had been acting up.
Jiang Nan Fang did not believe this was a coincidence.
She glanced at Mrs. Gao's hand and became unconsciously vigilant.
"The elevator was too crowded, and I thought I wasn't as rushed as them, so I didn't get on. Why did you come out alone?"
Mrs. Gao smiled and patted her shoulder, signaling her to take the stairs. They walked and chatted.
"I'm not very familiar with Mrs. Lu, and we don't have much to talk about. It's enough to see her and show my respect when we meet. There's no need to stay the whole time."
"She and Mrs. Wang have been old friends for many years, so sometimes you have to leave some space for them. Don't you agree?"
Jiang Nan Fang nodded, "You're right."
She cast a curious and comforting gaze, "You are such a gentle and generous girl. Are you okay?"
From the 13th floor all the way down, the conversation between the two never stopped.
It was almost always Mrs. Gao initiating, and Jiang Nan Fang responding.
Given her status, knowing that Jiang Nan Fang was worth nothing in Zhan Bei Jue's eyes and had no value to him, why would she be so interested in her and waste time socializing with her?
There could only be two reasons.
One: She liked Jiang Nan Fang. She saw her unique personal charm and couldn't help but want to get close to her.
Two: She had a purpose beyond wealth and social status to use Jiang Nan Fang.
Jiang Nan Fang certainly wouldn't narcissistically assume the first reason.
She was the wife of the director. It was condescending and deliberate to create opportunities to get close to her. How could she not want anything?
But she couldn't figure out what it was for a while.
Money, status, beauty, she lacked nothing. At her status and age, what else would she desire?
The only thing that made Jiang Nan Fang feel she had some value was her past marital relationship with Zhan Bei Jue.
Could it be that she had enmity with the Zhan family?
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Seeing that her relationship with Zhan Bei Jue was also not good, she wanted to win an ally?
Jiang Nan Fang quickly sorted out her intentions in her mind and looked at Mrs. Gao as if she had put on 3D glasses.
Analyzing and guarding against her precisely from all dimensions.
By the time they reached the parking lot, they were already talking about children.
It was obvious that Mrs. Gao's purpose had not yet been achieved, and she had not finished speaking.
If she left like this, she would definitely rack her brains to find a second opportunity.
Jiang Nan Fang pretended to be foolish to the end, thinking it was better to play along and proactively fall into her trap now.
"I'm in a really bad mood today. Talking with you makes me feel like we've met too late. I'm not in a good mood and don't want to go back alone. Could I invite you for a cup of coffee?"
The two went to a tastefully decorated coffee shop.
It was obvious that Mrs. Gao had no intention of revealing her purpose right after they met. They sat for more than an hour, chatting about various trivial matters, and Jiang Nan Fang didn't notice any useful information.
It was only when they were leaving the coffee shop that she glanced back at Mrs. Gao from a certain angle, behind her diagonally.
She found her somewhat familiar.
She couldn't say who she resembled, but she just felt she looked like someone she knew around her.
It wasn't until Mrs. Gao invited her for another meeting for beauty treatments that she remembered who she looked like.
Hu Jia Sheng.
It was too weird. Why did she look so much like Hu Jia Sheng from a certain angle?
Jiang Nan Fang turned her car and drove to the beauty salon. The two didn't beat around the bush. She directly asked Chen Jiao Jiao if she thought Mrs. Gao resembled Hu Jia Sheng.
Chen Jiao Jiao was a little surprised when she said that.
"You noticed it too? I thought I had a filter for Hu Jia Sheng, so... I was afraid you'd laugh at me for still missing him, so I never dared to say it."
"The curvature of their side profiles really is quite similar."
"So..."
Chen Jiao Jiao shook her head and interrupted her, "I know what you're thinking. When I first noticed it, I thought of this problem too, so I quietly inquired about it. We were overthinking it."
"Hu Jia Sheng told me before that his mother graduated from university when she gave birth to him, at the age of 23, and was from Chun Cheng."
"Mrs. Gao married Director Gao at 25 and never had children. She is only 43 now. Her age simply doesn't match."
"Besides, her hometown is the same as Director Gao's, from Bincheng, completely unrelated."
"Furthermore, if it were her, given her past back then, how could Director Gao have taken a liking to her?"
There are many inexplicable coincidences in this world. Some ordinary people look almost identical to celebrities.
So, it's not necessarily true that a man and a woman coincidentally resemble each other means they have a relationship.
But Jiang Nan Fang just felt that things were strange.
She searched for Director Gao's information on the internet with her phone. His identity was special, so she couldn't find anything.
But she didn't believe Chen Jiao Jiao's superficial assumptions.
"Information like this can be faked, especially for people of their status. Can't they write whatever they want? It's completely unreliable."
"Director Gao wasn't born a director. More than 20 years ago, he might have been a junior clerk in some obscure corner."
"As long as Mrs. Gao was young and beautiful enough, even if she had a child out of wedlock and wasn't married, it would still be easy to marry a junior clerk."
"So what do you want to do?"
Chen Jiao Jiao didn't understand why she was so determined to find out the other person's identity, since it had nothing to do with her who Hu Jia Sheng was born to.
Jiang Nan Fang explained the strange aspects to her and then said.
"It's not that I actively want to get involved with her. It seems she wants to involve me now."
"You don't want me to be dragged into some struggle and become a scapegoat, do you?"
She wanted to ask Chen Jiao Jiao for help in an experiment.
"If she really has something to do with Hu Jia Sheng, she must have been silently paying attention to him all these years, and she also knows about your relationship."
"Back then, Hu Jia Sheng gave up on you so easily. Don't you want to know if it was his own decision, or if this woman helped him make it?"
One sentence successfully ignited Chen Jiao Jiao's fighting spirit, "What's your plan?"