Chapter 237: Finding answers (4)
Chapter 237: Finding answers (4)
Nana stood up and said, “Hello, Nurse Kim. My name is Liu Nana.”
Nurse Kim smiled. “En. Pleased to meet you.” As she carefully observed her, Nurse Kim slightly furrowed her brows.
“I’m sorry to bother you, but can we talk for some time? I want to know something that happened twenty-two years back when I was probably born in this hospital.”
She nodded. “Sure. Come with me.”
Nurse Kim took her to a modest-sized office she had. There was a small table and two chairs.
“So, tell me.”
Nana told her about the conversation she had with Tao Yang. “He told that the woman looked weak and her hand was dressed in cotton and medical tape. So, we think that that woman must be admitted to the nearby hospital before she came to the orphanage, and this is the nearest one. Do you know anything about the woman or anybody who knows her?”
Nurse Kim gasped in realization. “Are you talking about that stormy night?”
“Yes! It was pouring very heavily that night, that’s what Teacher Tao told me.”
Nurse Kim looked stunned.
That night…
She got a little flustered. That was a chapter of the past which she was ordered never to tell anybody. She never imagined that one day after twenty-two years, somebody would come here looking for answers.
‘Now, I understood why she does…’
Nana saw that the nurse was in a daze. “Um…”
Nurse Kim hastily replied. “Sorry, it’s been too long. I don’t remember much.”
Nana got startled. “But, you asked about that stormy night, so you must remember something, right?”
Nurse Kim hesitated. “Sorry I-“
“Nurse Kim, please. This place is the last hope I have. I need to know about that woman. It is just not about my birth. Today, that woman or somebody related to her is trying to jeopardize the happiness of my family, and I cannot let that happen.”
Nurse Kim was at a crossroads.
“Please?” Nana did her best to convince her.
“I…” She seemed to thought for a while. “Alright. There was one woman who ran into labor that night. We didn’t expect that we would get a patient when it was such a heavy storm outside. Even getting out of the building for anybody was impossible.”
‘That must be the same woman.’
“Can you tell me more about it?”
—
Serena was talking with Jianyu when she heard a voice.
“Serena.”
Serena and Jianyu turned and saw Yao Luli and Gong Hong standing in front of them.
She smiled. “You came Serena.”
Yao Luli’s sight went at Jianyu, and she couldn’t help but blush. “Hello.”
Jianyu frowned. “Who are you?”
Yao Luli’s smile cracked.
Serena tried to hide her chuckle.
Some people never change, now do they?
She felt embarrassed. “We met at the time you came to Design Premier to hand over Serena her papers? Remember? I was a colleague. I’m Yao Luli.”
He shrugged. “Maybe.”
Yao Luli tried to maintain the smile on her face. She didn’t expect that he would really forget her.
Jianyu looked at Gong Hong and narrowed his eyes. Gong Hong suddenly felt a chill run in his back. He saw Serena and recalled how she humiliated him and also kicked him that day. He felt utterly insulted as he still remembered the pain. Because of her, he couldn’t show his face in his own office, resting at home due to the injury.
As if that wasn’t enough, some goons attacked him a week later, beating him with no mercy. They kidnapped him to a barren warehouse and hit and punched and tortured him endlessly. He didn’t understand where these thugs suddenly came out of nowhere and started beating him.
So, he had to spend a few more days in the hospital. Only he knew how embarrassed he was! He reigned in his hatred and anger.
Gong Hong said, “What are you doing here, Serena? This is a big competition, but you have already…”
Serena didn’t bother with him.
Yao Luli smiled. “Boss, I forgot. She came here to cheer me up. We ran into each other one day, and I had her asked to support me. Right, Serena? We were former colleagues, after all.”
Gong Hong said, “Oh, that’s great. As your former boss, I’m glad that you are rooting for your colleague.” He was anxious if she would tell everybody that he tried to hit on her.
Serena felt bored. Jianyu said, “Let’s go.” She nodded. They treated them as air, and the other participants chuckled in their murmurs. Gong Hong and Yao Luli’s face reddened in embarrassment.
‘She is only a bystander but still so haughty.’
But she couldn’t take her eyes off Jianyu. As they were about to go, Yao Luli quickly tugged his shirt. “You should come sit with us.” She flashed him a gentle smile and moved closer to him, showing off her chest.
Gong Hong irked, seeing her so openly approaching him. First Serena, and now Yao Luli! What was there to get so infatuated with this guy?
Jianyu’s whole aura turned as cold as ice as he shot her a deadly look. “Keep your distance. Don’t you feel ashamed that you are trying to get so intimate with your ‘former colleague’s’ boyfriend?”
She froze.
The other people snickered and laughed.
“Has she come here to compete or hit on guys?”
“Seriously, all guys should stay away from her. What if she wants to charm them and make them lose?”
“Some women are just b*tches wherever they go.”
She heard all their taunts and jokes and dug her nails in her palm.
“Y-you are misunderstanding.” She looked pitiful. “I was just-“
“And here comes the infamous white lotus act.” Another someone murmured from the crowd.
Jianyu said, “Don’t make me remind you again, or you will have to face the consequences.” He held Serena’s hand. “Let’s go.”
Gong Hong shot her a furious look. Once again, he got embarrassed and all because of her stupid attempt to catch his attention!
“Come with me, Yao Luli!” He dragged her away from there.
Yao Luli avoided everyone’s mocking gazes and could only get dragged away by him.
—
In the hospital.
Nurse Kim said, “There is nothing much to know because till date even I find everything mysterious as to what happened that night. That woman came here with a heavily pregnant stomach, and she was already in pain. Her water had broken, and we immediately shifted her to the ward. It took three hours when she finally gave birth. It was a girl.”
Nana silently listened. “T-then?”
Nurse Kim was fidgeting with her fingers under the desk.
“There was a huge ruckus at the hospital. A businessman and his wife had gotten into an accident. I was told to attend to them, and one other nurse would look after that woman.”
“And then?”
“…Then I don’t know. That woman disappeared suddenly.”
“Huh?”
“Yes, when I came back to take over again, the nurse was flustered. The woman and the baby were gone. We don’t know where she went off in such a weak state. That is all I know.”
Nana couldn’t understand.
“What did the nurse say?”
Nurse Kim’s palms were sweating.
“She was out to get one injection for a few minutes. And when she came back, the woman and the baby were not in the ward.”
“Didn’t you try to find her?”
“How could we? It was a very heavy storm outside. It was impossible to search far. We still searched for them nearby, but we didn’t find them.”
Was leaving me to the orphanage that important to her that she immediately went after her delivery?
But Teacher Tao said that there was another baby in the taxi. Where did the second baby come from?
“Was there only one baby?”
Nurse Kim was sweating hard. “Yes.”
This was getting all the more mysterious.
“This doesn’t make sense.”
Nurse Kim awkwardly smiled. “I understand, but I can help you with only this much information. We were also helpless at that time.”
Nana asked, “Do you know her name? There must be a record of her, right?”
Nurse Kim stiffened.
“No. It was complete mayhem that night. We didn’t even have the time to breathe. Before we could record her entry, she was already gone. So, we couldn’t know anything about her.”
Nana’s last hope also extinguished. She thought that she might solve the problem of the woman’s identity. But, this had spiraled up even into a thicker mystery.
Instead of getting any answers, there were more questions than before!
“Was there anybody who came with that woman?”
“No. She was alone.”
She was in pain and about to give birth, and her family wasn’t there with her? Nana was puzzled.
“Can you tell me anything about her? Anything! How does she look like? Is there any mark with which I can find out about her?”
Nurse Kim said, “Sorry, dear, but it’s been far too long. I don’t remember her face anymore.” She quickly said, “You have to leave now. It’s time for me to go on another round.”
Nana seemed hesitant but nodded. She thanked her and left.
Nurse Kim immediately dialed a number. “Dean. A woman came to know what had happened twenty-two years ago.”