Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman

Chapter 3: Friend List

It was already night time, so the doctors from the outpatient department had mostly gone off duty. The driver Old Zhang quickly took out his phone and dialed a number, and in a few minutes, a team of doctors came rushing in.

These doctors had always been proud and self-important since when were they at the beck and call of a mere driver?

Gu Xiqiao watched calmly as the doctor picked out the gravel in her wound with a pair of tweezers, not thinking more about receiving help from these mysterious people. They were only passersby that would never be able to meet each other again after this, after all.

But she didn't expect the driver to ask for a way to contact her family.

Gu Xiqiao lifted her head and fixed Old Zhang with a clear gaze, her jet black hair resting on her shoulder and making her seem meek and demure. "It's fine, just a small wound. I'll be able to get myself home later."

Call the Gu family? Su Wan'er probably wanted to choke her to death, Gu Zuhui hadn't even looked her in the eye since she joined the family, and Gu Xijin acted like she cared, but wanted to get rid of her anyway. If they received the call, it would probably further serve the 'Gu Xiqiao is a harbinger of misfortune' agenda that they had going on. They probably wouldn't even send a servant to help her out.

Under the lights, the girl seemed especially pale and fragile like a porcelain doll, and with how thin she was, she seemed quite sickly.

Before Old Zhang could reply, the nurse that was helping to wash her wounds couldn't help but speak. "How could you not tell your parents after being hurt like this? You probably fought with your family didn't you, young lady? I understand having a rebellious phase, but please go home and apologize alright? Parents are always like that, but you must know that they mean well. It's hard enough to work day in and day out, so don't worry them so much..."

And so the nurse continued nagging on and on, to the point where Gu Xiqiao could feel a migraine coming on.

Were nurses nowadays all so passionate?

"My mother is dead." Gu Xiqiao glanced at the nurse. "My father doesn't have the time to deal with me, either."

"Ah, I'm sorry." The nurse paused in her nagging, realizing that she said something that she shouldn't have. As she made up the details of a familial soap opera in her head, she gave Gu Xiqiao a pitying look. "Then you..."

Gu Xiqiao's expression was as calm and collected as always, but she was silently organizing her thoughts. As soon as she came back to when she was eighteen, she was given an unreliable system and was hit by a car as soon as she stepped out...Was there something wrong with her luck?

She was quite caught up on this and reached to massage her temples gently.

The nurse thought for a bit and decided to continued speaking. She was a nurse in-training and still hadn't had much experience in dealing with patients, so she decided to advise this 'lost lamb' from her so-called justice.

But didn't she know that her self centered sense of justice was the same as stabbing a knife into one's heart?

Old Zhang couldn't keep watching anymore and decided to stop the young nurse from speaking.

Before he could do anything, however, he heard a creak coming from the entrance, and a lean, tall man made his way into the room. As he walked, the room itself seemed to freeze with an invisible pressure.

The nurse felt a chill run up her spine, and she unconsciously clammed up and worked faster on cleaning the wound, before shivering and making a break for it.