Chapter 433: Chapter 430: Tempting You
Facing this question, He Qianhui didn’t hesitate for a moment, and gave her answer in less than a second.
"Of course I like you, why else would I be lying here with you?"
Seeing her answer so quickly, Zhang Hao still couldn’t believe it, how could such a serious question be answered without a second thought?
"What are you thinking about now, do you think I’m just brushing you off because I answered so quickly?"
Even though that’s what he was thinking, Zhang Hao didn’t dare to say it out loud.
He Qianhui hugged him tightly and said in the calmest tone, "Actually, I’ve wanted to tell you this for a long time."
"It’s just that I never found the right opportunity before, and since you asked me today, I definitely need to express my truest thoughts."
The doubt was but a fleeting thought in Zhang Hao’s mind, how could he not know He Qianhui’s feelings for him now.
Neither of them were heartless people.
"I know how you feel, no need to explain, I like you too."
And so he held He Qianhui, inhaling the faint fragrance of her hair.
After spending a night, when Zhang Hao reached the department, he noticed Qin Miaoke hadn’t arrived yet and couldn’t help but let his mind wander.
When he left yesterday, that man was chatting with Qin Miaoke.
He didn’t know what happened afterwards, and when he got home, he didn’t continue to pay attention, not even checking his phone much.
One cannot completely understand a person through an online platform.
Not seeing her could cause resistance, but maybe after meeting and chatting happily, Qin Miaoke might change her mind, who knows.
Just as he was thinking this, Zhang Hao saw her walk in with a gloomy face.
"You’re doing well today, not late for once," he said on purpose.
Qin Miaoke didn’t react at all, changed into her nurse’s uniform, and started working.
Seeing that she continued not to react, Zhang Hao was puzzled and, taking advantage of the absence of patients yet, he, the director, needed to take good care of her.
"What’s wrong, there’s no one else here, talk to me, is it that the man wasn’t capable enough, didn’t satisfy you?"
With a clang, Qin Miaoke placed the tray on the table, turned slightly towards him, not saying a word.
Just as Zhang Hao was about to ask again, Qin Miaoke grabbed his arm and rolled up the sleeve of his white coat.
Zhang Hao, already sensing something, was still half a beat too slow to react, and in the moment he tried to pull away, Qin Miaoke’s teeth had already bitten down.
To avoid disturbing the other colleagues outside, Zhang Hao endured the pain.
Fortunately, Qin Miaoke let go after biting for a while, and he looked at the neat set of teeth marks on his arm.
In a subdued voice, Zhang Hao said, "You’re like a dog, biting people on approach, what exactly is going on, was that man not good to you?"
Under Zhang Hao’s relentless questioning, Qin Miaoke finally spoke the truth.
Last night when she got home, she discussed the matter with her grandfather.
Thinking she could sway her grandfather with her dedication to her work, perhaps convincing him not to worry about her marriage.
As it turned out, her grandfather seemed angry about it, Qin Miaoke had never seen him so stern before.
During the video call, she couldn’t help but start crying.
If it had been before, she would cry because she was scolded by her dad, or because she was disliked by her mom.
But those weren’t tears of grievance, mostly because she was a crybaby.
Prone to tears over little things, however, last night she was roundly lectured by her grandfather.
He even said that she was getting older and if she didn’t consider marriage soon, all the good men would be chosen by others.
She shouldn’t think that just because she’s the granddaughter of the Qin family, she could walk sideways like a crab.
If one day he suddenly was no longer in this world, the prestige of the Qin family would plummet.
Before that day, Elder Qin had taken a liking to Zhang Hao and had always intended to bring the two together.
What mattered most was Zhang Hao’s ability; he planned to pass on the entire medical legacy of the Qin family to him.
In this way, under Zhang Hao’s development and promotion, the medical arts of the Qin family wouldn’t decline.
But even taking a step back, there simply was no suitable person within the Qin family to inherit the legacy.
Despite Elder Qin’s good intentions, Zhang Hao was unappreciative.
In the end, the whole affair could only be hastily concluded.
After finally finding a decent young man, Elder Qin naturally tried every means to get the two to interact.
If one wasn’t suitable, then he’d find another; there was bound to be a suitable match eventually, but unexpectedly this time his own granddaughter, strongly opposed it.
How could he accept that? Qin Miaoke felt deeply wronged.
Since when had her own love become so mercenary?
On the back of her grandfather’s lifetime of effort and struggle, the Qin family wouldn’t face any significant changes for a very long time to come.
Therefore, she felt that her grandfather’s words were somewhat alarmist, even if her parents’ medical skills were nowhere near as profound as her grandfather’s.
But they were still renowned in the medical field.
It’s just that when it came to her, she didn’t feel quite the same about pursuing medicine.
The loss of such knowledge is a matter for regret, but one must not ignore the wishes of the person concerned.
Being scolded obviously didn’t make for a good mood; Qin Miaoke shared her own standards for choosing a partner with her grandfather.
To him, her standards were nothing more than idle talk, not even worthy of consideration.
Angered, Qin Miaoke eventually hung up the video call.
Although the video was cut off, messages from her grandfather kept coming one after the other.
Long voice messages, which Qin Miaoke really couldn’t be bothered to listen to.
She had thought her grandfather was just playing around this time, but it turned out he was serious.
This undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on Qin Miaoke.
Carrying such pressure to the hospital, her complexion and expression naturally weren’t going to be good.
Thankfully, there was Zhang Hao she could vent to, who listened to her entire story.
Suddenly, Zhang Hao felt that the bite mark on his arm was nothing much after all.
He rolled down his sleeve and acted as if the incident had never happened.
"The Elder might really just want you to consider your future; he’s probably just too anxious and overzealous, overlooking your thoughts," Zhang Hao said.
"Maybe when I have time, I can talk to the Elder for you; people of his age naturally think getting married is an essential choice in life."
"But in our generation, it’s different. We yearn for freedom and dislike constraints."
"We only want to be with the person we like, not thinking too far into the future."
Qin Miaoke leaned on the table; actually, it wasn’t that she didn’t want a stable relationship with someone.
It was just that so far, she hadn’t met the right person. If Zhang Hao was the right one—
Zhang Hao, on the other hand, felt she wasn’t suitable, so there was no way for the two of them to come together.
And she didn’t like to settle for less with others, which is why, at present, she found herself in such an awkward situation.
"I actually like you, but you don’t have feelings for me. However, what I did for you at the beginning wasn’t to seduce you."
