Chapter 408: Chapter 405 Not at Home
Zhang Hao stood up and returned to his office, where he grabbed some milk and bread from his locker.
Seeing an apple on the desk, not knowing whose it was, he also took it with him.
When he went back to the ward, he saw the girl still maintaining the same position as before.
Zhang Hao offered her the bread and placed the milk aside.
"Don’t see me as a doctor, just see me as a friend, I know you’re not sick," he said.
"You’re faking all of this, but why keep it up for two years? Hasn’t it been tough for you?"
In the face of what Zhang Hao said, the girl still gave no acknowledgment.
"According to your age, you should be in college by now, maybe you even have a boyfriend."
"With your looks, you must be very popular on the college campus," he remarked.
"What do you enjoy doing? Singing, painting, reading, traveling or something more intense like taekwondo, boxing, that sort of thing?"
"If you are into these sports, it will be difficult to pick them up again if you haven’t practiced them in a long time."
Zhang Hao handed her the peeled apple, but the girl didn’t take it.
"This is a hospital, no one will hurt you here. You should rest early. If you ever want to chat, just come next door to find me," he suggested.
Zhang Hao didn’t pressure the girl to talk to him right at that moment.
But no sooner had he left than the girl quickly grabbed the bread in her hand.
After wolfing it down, her empty stomach was finally satisfied.
Later, the girl left the ward of her own accord and tiptoed to the office next door.
Zhang Hao was on the computer, playing some boring little game.
Anyway, no patients were coming in at this time.
Seeing her come over, Zhang Hao casually greeted her,
then continued focusing on his computer.
It wasn’t until the character Zhang Hao was controlling got defeated by the opponent that the game exited, and he finally turned his attention to her.
"Where’s the bathroom?" she asked.
"Go straight and turn around the corner and you’ll see it," he replied.
The girl looked sideways, nodded, and headed that way.
Zhang Hao picked up a cup to get some water and when he came back, he saw the girl coming out of the bathroom.
The corridor was quiet, with just the two of them there.
The girl quickened her steps to catch up with Zhang Hao.
"You wanted to know why I pretended to be sick for so long in that sanatorium, right? It’s all because of my parents," she confessed.
"They just care about their careers taking off and never consider my feelings," she said.
Zhang Hao was curious, "What do you mean they don’t consider your feelings?"
"I’m twenty years old. When I was eighteen, they forced me to get together with the boss’s son," she explained.
"That day I had just finished school. My mom came to pick me up for the first time in ages, and I thought they finally understood how to show me love."
"But to my surprise, she took me to a restaurant," the girl continued.
"As soon as I entered the private dining room, I saw a fat man, and of course, that man was not the main character," she concluded.
"The real protagonist is his foolish son next to him; that man is my parents’ boss."
"He knew my parents only had me as a daughter, so he made them an offer they couldn’t refuse."
"He wanted me to be with his foolish son and said that as long as I married into the family, he would give my parents a certain percentage of the company’s shares."
"My parents thought it was a very good deal and even said that their boss’s son was a fool."
"As long as I was with him, that fool would definitely listen to me. Once the boss got old and died, everything in his family would be mine."
"When I found out this was their plan, I thought they were unreasonable, but in their eyes, they only recognized money."
"They didn’t even recognize their own daughter anymore. Finally, I came up with a solution, which was to feign illness."
"When they were forcing me to be with that fool again, I rushed into the kitchen, grabbed a knife, and injured them."
"To say I feigned illness is not quite accurate because, for that period, my mental state really was a bit disturbed."
"Later, I finally lived in a convalescent home, where I didn’t have to live in fear, even though those doctors always gave me some strange medicines."
"That was still better than being schemed against by my biological parents, but unexpectedly, I received a phone call. It was a classmate from high school who was getting married, and I wanted to attend his wedding."
"But my parents said I was mentally ill and were unwilling to handle my discharge procedures."
"They even said that mental illness has no cure, and they planned to confine me here for life. But how did you know I wasn’t ill?"
Facing this question, Zhang Hao didn’t directly answer.
Instead, he said, "You are now an adult, and as long as an assessment proves that your mental state is fine,"
"You can completely take care of your daily life, and you won’t have to be so afraid."
Staring at Zhang Hao for a long time, the girl smiled and said, "You seem like a very special doctor."
"Is traditional Chinese medicine really that amazing? Just by feeling my pulse, you can be 100% sure I’m not sick."
"Do you need me to cooperate with you in any way?" Zhang Hao asked.
"To prove I’m not sick, as for my parents, they just need to come back once and sign the consent form for my discharge. As for what comes after, I can handle it myself."
Zhang Hao took a deep breath, "Whether you can be discharged is beyond my control, but I can prescribe some medication to help you recover to normal."
"You’re smart and should know what to do. But you haven’t completed your studies; how do you plan to live afterward?"
With a hint of a smile on her face, the girl said, "You don’t need to worry about that for me, Doctor Zhang. They probably had already planned everything when they first sent me here."
"I know they’re still working at that company, and I have plenty of ways to handle them. I’m going back to sleep now; you should rest too, Doctor Zhang."
After saying that, the girl dragged her weary body back to her ward.
Zhang Hao leaned back in his chair and tried to think about the girl’s situation from all angles.
But he still couldn’t understand how biological parents could willingly push their child into the fire pit
Just to keep their jobs.
As soon as daylight broke, Zhang Hao wrote a prescription and then contacted the doctors at the psychiatric hospital.
So they could take the girl away.
The doctors at the psychiatric hospital were also curious about how Zhang Hao had found a cure overnight.
Upon questioning, Zhang Hao simply said he treated the symptoms with specific remedies, which could not be universally applied.
If they encountered similar cases in the future, they could also send them over.
But Zhang Hao doubted that possibility would be significant.
After the girl left, Zhang Hao got off work and went home, but upon arriving, he discovered that He Qianhui was unexpectedly not at home, and she was supposed to be on holiday these past two days.
