The camera shifted, and a face of breathtaking beauty appeared on the screen, drawing a collective gasp from the restaurant—
"Wow! Even a lunatic can have such presence..."
"If I saw him in person, I wonder how handsome he'd be..."
Gu Qiqi gasped too, and she was the loudest of all, for two reasons:
First, Zhuang Ruotong had a habit of involuntarily pinching the person next to her whenever she saw a handsome guy, and the intensity of the pinch was directly proportional to the guy's attractiveness—sure enough, Gu Qiqi's left thigh was already numb from the pain, showing just how stirred up the girl was inside. Second, the stunningly handsome, tear-jerkingly beautiful madman on TV was none other than the Wolf King, Lord Rong Yi, the man Gu Qiqi had kicked out of her house a week ago. Now he lay alone in the hospital, in a state even worse than when he'd been vomiting blood from his injuries that day, leaving her no choice but to gasp.
Wolf King Rong Yi was forcibly strapped to a hospital bed, his face haggard, his eyes vacant, the once defiant gaze now numb and hollow—Qiqi understood that it must be from the heavy doses of sedatives they'd injected him with at the hospital!
Oh my god, in just a few days, how had the Lord Wolf King gone from a refined gentleman to a lunatic?
Gu Qiqi was stunned. Just then, the camera zoomed in, and Rong Yi looked into the lens with a childlike, bewildered expression.
Gu Qiqi felt a sharp pang in her heart.
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The next afternoon, Gu Qiqi arrived at the psychiatric ward of the city hospital.
"I'm a family member of Rong Yi. I'm here to take him home."
Gu Qiqi stated her purpose and handed over her student ID.
The receptionist gave her a strange look, sizing her up from head to toe before sliding over a form with a cold tone: "Fill this out first."
Gu Qiqi obediently took the form and saw it was an information sheet for meeting a patient.
She filled in her basic details one by one and wrote "Cousin" in the "Relationship to Patient" field.
The receptionist glanced at the form and asked, "You're his cousin?"
Gu Qiqi quickly nodded: "Yes, yes."
The receptionist's eyes grew more mocking as she shot a look at Qiqi, then picked up the phone: "Dr. Lu, there's another person here to pick up the patient named Rong Yi... Mm, yes, she claims to be his cousin... No, not the lady from this morning, a female student..."
Qiqi listened, puzzled—were many people coming to pick up Rong Yi? Did the Wolf King have relatives in this city after all?
After hanging up, the receptionist said coldly: "Rong Yi's attending physician is in a consultation and won't be free for about an hour. Wait outside for now."
Qiqi asked cautiously: "Nurse, has... anyone else come to pick up Rong Yi today?"
The receptionist let out a cold laugh: "Of course. You're the eighth one. And I'm probably not older than you, so don't call me 'nurse.'"
Seeing the woman's cold demeanor, Qiqi had no choice but to back away awkwardly. As she turned the corner, she heard the receptionist sneering to a colleague: "Girl students these days have lost their minds, bringing a lunatic home..."
Qiqi found it a bit baffling.
She went to the waiting area in the main hall, which was bustling with activity. All kinds of patients, accompanied by family or caregivers, passed by her constantly, making her sigh at how stressful modern society was—so many crazy people!
Qiqi was a medical student and had never dealt with psychiatric patients before, so she found the place fascinating. She checked her watch—she still had an hour to kill—so she decided to wander around a bit, treating it as an academic observation.