Zhao Shuyao let out a sudden laugh. "You're probably thinking too much. Qin Yusheng doesn't like me; he wishes I were dead. Don't you understand that yet? I can't be bothered to talk to you about this. If you called me here today just to say this, I'm leaving!"
As Zhao Shuyao moved to leave, Huo Yanxue called out to her, "Wait, sister, don't rush. I haven't finished speaking. Aren't you even a little curious why Yusheng chose to date me back then?"
"Why else? What else could it be but because he loves you?" Zhao Shuyao frowned.
Why was Huo Yanxue asking the obvious?
"Is that so? Sister, you're too naive. Qin Yusheng isn't an emotional person; he's a rational man. Even when he was only twenty, his mind was already mature. He chose to date me because..."
Huo Yanxue slowly stood up, glancing at the time.
It was almost time.
Huo Yanxue walked step by step towards Zhao Shuyao.
Her face was almost devoid of color.
She walked slowly, her steps unhurried.
She looked like a legless ghost.
Zhao Shuyao involuntarily stepped back.
Huo Yanxue didn't stop. She leaned close to Zhao Shuyao's ear and whispered, "Because—"
She perked up her ears, hearing footsteps outside the corridor.
"Because of what?" Zhao Shuyao had a bad feeling, a chill running down her spine.
Huo Yanxue chuckled, "Because... Brother Yusheng still thought I was the one who donated a kidney to him, which is why Brother Yusheng treated me like a treasure, doting on me and cherishing me!"
"What?!" Zhao Shuyao exclaimed, frozen in place.
Back then, she could never understand how Huo Yanxue and Qin Yusheng, two people from different worlds, could suddenly start dating.
So... it was because...
Her arm suddenly ached, and Zhao Shuyao, in pain, shook Huo Yanxue off.
Huo Yanxue cried out and stumbled towards the bedside table, her forehead hitting a corner of it heavily. A large gash opened up, blooming into a vibrant, blood-red flower.
Zhao Shuyao reacted a beat too late.
The man standing at the doorway had already rushed in, helping the fallen Huo Yanxue up.
"Zhao Shuyao— She just woke up and is still very weak. How can you be so vicious? You won't even spare a patient?!"
The man's suppressed roar sounded like the growl of an enraged lion.
It sent a jolt through Zhao Shuyao's heart, but she was too slow to react, merely staring blankly at the man before her.
"Xue'er, are you alright?" Qin Yusheng helped Huo Yanxue sit back on the bed and pressed the call button for a doctor.
"I'm fine, Brother Yusheng. Don't blame Sister Yao Yao. I was careless, and it has nothing to do with Sister Yao Yao. Sister Yao Yao kindly came to see me. Don't misunderstand her. After all, you're so good to me; even others would be jealous, let alone Sister Yao Yao."
With those words, she absolved herself completely.
Zhao Shuyao couldn't help but want to applaud Huo Yanxue.
"Look at what you've done. You treated Xue'er like this, and she's still defending you and speaking up for you. And look at yourself... Aren't you ashamed?!"
The man cast a cold glance at her.
Zhao Shuyao scoffed, "Ashamed? Why should I be ashamed?"
Then, she calmly opened her phone and played a recording.
It was a recording of Huo Yanxue calling her.
In the recording, Huo Yanxue had repeatedly coerced Zhao Shuyao to come, claiming she had a secret to tell her.
After the recording finished, Zhao Shuyao opened her phone's video player and played it. It showed Huo Yanxue pushing her away deliberately, faking a fall and hitting her head...
Huo Yanxue's face turned ashen, her eyes wide with disbelief.
Qin Yusheng glanced at Huo Yanxue. "Is that really how it happened?"
"Brother Yusheng, I..."
Before Huo Yanxue could explain anything, Zhao Shuyao coldly dropped a sentence, "Since there's nothing else, I'll be going."
After leaving the ward, Zhao Shuyao sat in her car and recalled Huo Yanxue's words.
Qin Yusheng...
Did he really think Huo Yanxue was the one who donated a kidney to him?
No wonder...
Zhao Shuyao sat in the car, trembling violently.
No wonder Qin Yusheng had suddenly started dating Huo Yanxue.
These two people, one in heaven and one on earth, were worlds apart, making it impossible to connect them. They suddenly started dating so quickly...
And so coincidentally, just a few days after she had donated a kidney to Qin Yusheng.
But how could she bring herself to tell Qin Yusheng?
That matter had passed so many years ago. If she told Qin Yusheng now, he would surely think she was crazy.
Zhao Shuyao buried her head in the steering wheel, thinking for a long, long time. Suddenly, she seemed to recall something.
Right, she needed to go to the hospital first to retrieve the records of her kidney donation to Qin Yusheng back then. With her grandfather's testimony, the truth would surely come to light...
Having made up her mind, Zhao Shuyao immediately drove back to the hotel.
Upon arriving at the hotel, she wasted no time opening her laptop, writing a program, and successfully accessing the Ren'ai Hospital system.
After searching around, she found no trace of her kidney donation from back then.
What was going on...
Impossible, she must have missed something...
Zhao Shuyao searched from day to night. The sun set, and darkness fell. She only came to her senses when she was starving, and the lights around her had already dimmed.
Zhao Shuyao turned on the lights, made herself a bowl of noodles, and continued to search through the hospital's millions of records for her kidney donation files.
Although it was five or six years ago, Ren'ai Hospital was the best private hospital in Haicheng and had established electronic records long ago. All medical records from previous years should be there.
Since she was hacking into the system, she couldn't perform precise searches and had to view each file one by one.
From day to night, and from midnight to dawn...
"Found it! Kidney donation records..."
Zhao Shuyao almost cried. Her eyes were about to go blind from searching.
She tremblingly moved the mouse and clicked on the file.
However, what greeted her eyes was Huo Yanxue's kidney donation record for Qin Yusheng...
How could this be...
How was this possible...
Zhao Shuyao's eyes widened in horror as she looked at the medical record before her.
There was Huo Yanxue's passport-sized photo, as well as an electronic check-in form. It clearly contained her own physical data, but her name, photo, and home address had all been replaced with Huo Yanxue's...
No wonder!
No wonder Huo Yanxue had asked her to come to the hospital and told her this truth in person.
Because as early as five or six years ago, Huo Yanxue had already altered this record. Even if the hospital checked, they could only find that Huo Yanxue had donated a kidney to Qin Yusheng!
With this record, even if Grandpa Qin himself told Qin Yusheng that she was the one who saved him by donating a kidney, Qin Yusheng would never believe it.