Hearing a knock on the door, Qiao Ruo scrambled out of bed as fast as she could.
She knew the nurses on duty would make their rounds early in the morning, and hurriedly pulled on her dress. Surprisingly, Cree was already awake and was already at the door. He was not like a patient and all, energetically humming as he walked towards the door. Qiao Ruo ignored him and instead walked into the bathroom and cleaned herself up. As usual, the moment the nurses entered, he transformed into his cold and uncaring self.
"Very good today, Mr Ye," the older nurse said, after taking a measurement of his vitals. "The doctor will see you in about an hour from now. If everything goes well, you may get discharged." Cree remained silent, and just nodded. The younger nurse remained, while the older nurse left to attend to other patients.
Zhuo Li, though dressed in a white nurse's uniform, was not an actual nurse. She behaved rather suspiciously, and was eyeing Cree from head to toe. In fact, she was staring at Cree flirtatiously! It didn't seem new to Cree at all, and Qiao Ruo had been watching them from her hiding place since the older nurse had departed. She noted how Zhuo Li had an exceptionally annoying and childish voice, that sounded irritating to her ears.
"Mr Ye, we have an hour. So what do you want to do?"
He ignored her.
"Who is the girl with you? I don't see her now, is she your caretaker?"
Again, silence greeted Zhuo Li. She was undaunted, and ventured closer to Cree, piquing Qiao Ruo's jealousy. However, Qiao Ruo wanted to eavesdrop on them for a while longer and see what the nurse was up to.
"We can have fun when she isn't around." Qiao Ruo gritted her teeth and clenched her fists in anger at the audacity of the nurse standing by Cree's bed.
Cree turned away from the source of the noise and continued reading his newspaper coolly, like nothing had happened. The girl didn't give up.
"Mister, there's nobody else in the room but us. Could you consider me at all? I really don't mind serving you, even right now." She tried to take his newspaper from him.
"Get your filthy claws away from me this instant." She felt assured hearing it from him, and then she tiptoed closer to realize that the girl had unbuttoned her top and was attempting to goad Cree into being seduced by her. Qiao Ruo was infuriated further, but before she could say anything, Cree coldly ordered, "Get out."
The girl refused to budge, and cajoled, "Am I not sexy enough? I'll pleasure you well, I promise." Qiao Ruo heard the sound of a zip being pulled and the girl moaning in a high-pitched voice minutes later, and she immediately burst out in anger. It was too much for Qiao Ruo to handle, and she feared that the worst was about to happen. The green-eyed monster in her was starting to consume her, and she charged as fast as she could to Cree's bed.
"Ah!" Terrified, the girl shrieked and threw on her nurse disguise, before scurrying out of the room as fast as her little legs could run. Qiao Ruo was relieved to see that nothing had apparently happened between them, and Cree was still fully clothed, but after the nurse had been so close to doing it with Cree, she was still unsettled. It would take some time to extinguish the fire in her.
Why hadn't he just thrown the girl out? The question bothered Qiao Ruo in her mind.
Qiao Ruo glared at Cree. "Did I just disrupt your special moment?"
"What took you?" he gazed at her hauntingly, and reached out to grab her hand, but she pulled it away from him.
"You're disgusting," she retorted. "What if I didn't come on time? Would you have done the deed then?"
