Chapter 24: Chapter 24: Good Stuff, Girls Don’t Understand!

    “What crappy thing did you send! It almost killed my brother,” Huo Sijiao’s voice was high-pitched and carried far. “Last night, my brother was almost scolded to death by my mom and dad!”

    “That’s good stuff! You, a girl, wouldn’t understand!”

    Zhou Yu argued his point.

    “What good stuff? Don’t think I don’t know what it is,” Huo Sijiao said disdainfully, holding a jar of hot chicken soup in her hand.

    “I can’t explain it to you,” Zhou Yu said, his temper flaring. He must have owed these siblings something in a past life.

    Inside the room.

    ...

    Qiao Xi removed all the Golden Needles from Huo Xingzhou’s body and swiftly dressed him.

    “Zhou Yu knows about your medical skills, there’s no need to hide it in front of him. But Jiaojiao and mom and dad don’t know,” Huo Xingzhou said softly.

    “Mm.”

    Qiao Xi responded with a sound, saying, “I’ll go and open the door.”

    No sooner had she spoken than the door was pushed open. Huo Sijiao and Zhou Yu squeezed in together.

    “Sister-in-law! I’ve come to see you again. This is chicken soup my mom made by hand, it’s for your health,” she boasted, holding the insulated container.

    “Huo Er, you’re cutting me off over a tiny medicinal pill, is it worth it?”

    When the two of them came together, they were like 500 ducks.

    “Jiaojiao, take your sister-in-law out for a walk,” Huo Xingzhou said with a headache, trying to separate them.

    “Okay.”

    Huo Sijiao immediately took Qiao Xi’s arm, “Sister-in-law, it’s nice outside, let’s go for a walk. Don’t stay with these stinky men, your thoughts will become dirty,” she said with a suggestive tone.

    Zhou Yu was seething, “I won’t stoop to argue with you.”

    “Hmph.”

    “Jiaojiao, let’s go quickly,” Qiao Xi urged.

    The two of them left briskly, and the room finally quieted down.

    “Huo Er, you sure can hold a grudge.”

    Zhou Yu casually sat on the edge of his bed, “How come you’re disheveled in broad daylight, what indecent things have you been up to?”

    “Can you speak properly?” Huo Xingzhou methodically smoothed out the wrinkles in his clothes and said.

    “Fine,” Zhou Yu said, tossing a stack of documents in front of him. “Huo Beiting is sucking up to the project manager from Tianyuan Group, Mr. Jin, and they’ve got dinner plans tonight. Mr. Jin is asking what to do about you.”

    “Let him go, take a few who can hold their liquor, and drink Huo Beiting under the table,” Huo Xingzhou said calmly.

    “Alright,” Zhou Yu said nonchalantly, “Do you need me to hire someone to bag him and beat him up?”

    “If he drinks until he has a bleeding stomach, that will be enough. Then draw him a big pie, and entice him to sign a ‘Synergy Agreement’.”

    Zhou Yu said with a sly grin, “Got it.”

    “Xu Xiuyuan, an annoying guy. His family is in pharmaceuticals. The Xu Family and the Liu Family are in-laws; his mother is Miss Liu, and that old lady from the Liu Family took her husband’s family name, she’s quite troublesome too.”

    Xu Xiuyuan is also the honorary dean of City Hospital, mainly in charge of administrative duties and not medical treatment.

    “So her surname is also Liu?” Qiao Xi wondered, that was rather uncommon. Maybe Madam Liu really loved her husband.

    Huo Sijiao cautioned, “Yes. In front of my brother, Young Madam, you must never mention the Xu Family.”

    “Oh.”

    Qiao Xi guessed there must be some conflict between the two families.

    “Let’s hurry back and have some chicken soup.” Huo Sijiao took her arm and hurried along.

    Looking back, Qiao Xi could see from a distance that Xu Xiuyuan seemed to be watching her too, stirring a strange feeling within her.

    ...

    The next morning, bright and early.

    After getting her things in order, Qiao Xi turned to the man at the dining table and said, “Mr. Huo, I need to intern at the hospital for a while, so I won’t be able to take care of you as much.”

    “No problem. It’ll be more manageable in a couple of days.”

    Huo Xingzhou was having breakfast gracefully, “Do you need me to have the driver take you there?”

    Qiao Xi shook her head and said softly next to him, “Mr. Huo, could we keep our relationship from my colleagues at the hospital for the time being?”

    If she became a regular and continued working there, it would be difficult to explain later.

    Huo Xingzhou looked at her in surprise, “Am I that shameful?”

    “No. It’s our agreement... I don’t want too much trouble.”

    In the end, they were going to get divorced anyway.

    The man’s expression turned cold, “Fine.”

    Aunt Qian came out of the kitchen with a lunch box and shoved it into Qiao Xi’s hands, “Young Madam, I’ve heard the hospital food isn’t good. I made you a lunch box. Don’t work too hard, and if it’s too much, just quit. After all, our family is wealthy.”

    Qiao Xi smiled.

    “Thank you, Aunt Qian, I’ll be going then.”

    She stuffed the lunch box into her canvas bag and left with a spring in her step.

    Huo Xingzhou felt she was very happy, after all, healing and saving lives was her dream. He had been selfish to keep her so close.

    When he could stand up again, Qiao Xi wouldn’t need to conceal her real abilities anymore.

    By then, she would surely shine.

    After leaving home, Qiao Xi took a bus to the administrative department of City Hospital.

    She completed the procedures, got her uniform, and went to the changing room to store her things and get dressed.

    When she arrived, the changing room was bustling.

    “There, that’s the famous top student from the Medical Faculty of Haicheng.” Ye Manman winked and spoke strangely to a group, her tone mocking.

    The others exchanged glances, their expressions varied.