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"Han Chen...." she mumbled, opening her eyes, still clutching her head tightly.

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"Han Chen!" she pronounced as she slowly raised her gaze to the mirror.

"I clearly called that name then," she brought her hand down from her head, she stood straight then she rushed out of the door.

{I need to see it for myself,}

She ran to the security room.

"I want to see the CCTV footage of an accident that occurred on the second floor," she told the security men she met in the security office, her eyes showed she wasn't joking, they nodded her eyes and signalled her to follow them into the CCTV room.

She specified the time of the accident she wants to see then the security helped her find the clip.

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Han Chen was walking with three other nurses behind him with a chart in his hand, he seemed to be discussing the chart with the nurses until he saw Chen Kai fixing his eyes on something on the second floor, he traced his gaze only to see her being surrounded by some female doctors and Alan Chen who has his hands on her neck.

He frowned immediately and handed the chart to the nurses then he instructed them to continue on their way while he walked towards the stair but as he got to the start of the stairs, Alan Chen had already pushed her off the stairs.

He ran towards her with full speed then he waited at the middle of the stairs to catch her but the impact was too great so he ended falling down the stairs with her, he could have avoided her but she saw his eyes widened when she hit him.

Just when they were about to reach the ground, he placed his hand below her head then her head landed on his arm, she saw the painful look on his face till he closed his eyes.

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She covered her mouth the moment they reached the part where they both landed on the floor, the security guards in the room were not sure if they were watching a movie or something that just happened not too long ago.

"This is...This..." the guard helping her stuttered, he couldn't imagine himself sacrificing himself like that for someone.

"He must really love you a lot, surgeon Yu Yan," a security guard who she is familiar with remarked, she turned to him with her knuckles on her lips.

Hearing what he said made her question why he went through such length to save her, she turned around and ran out of the security office, she ran towards the operating theatre where she met Jia Yu sitting at the front with her face cupped in her arms.

She quietly sat beside her and took her hand in hers, rubbing it warmly, Jia Yu raised her head to meet the guilty expression on her face, her eyes glistering with tears.

"I am sorry,"

"You don't have to be, those jerks should be the sorry ones," Jia Yu responded, wiping her own tears, she has only seen her cousin in such state once apart from then, he has always been a hero whom she admires but seeing him being wheeled to the operating room...hit her hard.

"Jia Yu...." she called hesitatingly.

"What is it?"

"Have I ever...perhaps by chance, have I ever met your cousin when we were in high school?"

"High school, I don't think so, my brother has always avoided meeting my friends even when you came by to the house, you always missed each other, why?"

"Then have I ever mentioned having a boyfriend...or a guy I am friends with, think hard?" she fixed her eyes in expectation, Jia Yu tilted her head up and down trying to remember if there is such a person.

"Oh! There was this guy you kept talking about back then," she exclaimed.

"Really, then have you ever seen him or did I ever tell you his name?"

"No, ever since your accident, you stopped talking about him, why are suddenly asking about this?" Jia Yu questioned with a suspecting gaze in her eyes.

"You see, I think...." she stopped abruptly and sighed.

{I think your brother might have been that person,}

Her mind went back to the flashback she had during the trauma cases, she was crying after a boy who was being wheeled in the hospital.

"By any chance, did your brother have an accident around the time I had the accident?"

"That is true, it just occurred to me that you both had an accident but my brother was assaulted while I only heard you were in an accident but no one knows how you were injured,"

"Assault..."

{Then what I remembered in the washroom...is real,}

"Why do you keep asking all this, and what does it have to do with Han Chen?" Jia Yu questioned.

"I think..." she stopped.

"Why do you keep stopping?" frustrated, she questioned.

"Nothing, I was curious," she smiled faintly to disperse her suspicion, she raised her gaze to the glass door separating the operating theatre from the waiting area.

{Please, be okay,}

She stood up from the seat.

"Where are you going?"

"I have to see the team leader and also treat my sprained ankle," she answered then she glanced at the door again before walking away, when in truth, she was going to go to the park to collect her thoughts.

If she wasn't in then she is sure that her duty and patients must have been temporarily handed over to someone else.

She took her seat on the bench in the park.

"Everything adds up...it can't be a coincidence, even when we first met, he looked at me like he found someone he had lost and..." her mind drifted to how the guest room was decorated and furnished in her preference and he told her the story of the female friend he had.

"The description of that friends sounds like he was talking about me and he keeps referring to the past whenever he is talking to me," she soliloquized.

"What is stranger is me, I got close to him faster than anyone else and I even kissed him..." her fingers lingered on her lips.

"You kissed him?" a masculine voice queried, she raised her gaze to see who it is.

"What are you doing here?" she questioned, her face morphing into a deep frown seeing the face of the one person she doesn't want to see, the one who made her get looked down on and even led to Han Chen being in an operating room.

"Yu Yan," he tried to hold her hand but she quickly jerked out of the bench.

"I must have lost my mind asking that question, you practically own the hospital so you can be anywhere you want to be," she turned around to leave but he held her wrist.

"I am really begging you, p.l.e.a.se l.e.t m.e g.o," she drawled, her voice sending the warning across to him.

"Yu Yan, I..." she swiftly turned around and punched his face, he stumbled and fell to the ground in an instant, she exhaled deeply.

He used his tongue to rub his inner cheek, her punch hurt...a lot even giving him a small bruise at the corner of his mouth.

He stood on his feet.

"Yu Yan..."

She swiftly punched him again with more force than the first, he didn't stumble but he fell straight to the ground.

He groaned in pain, she has never actually hit him before so he never understood why the guys always seemed cautious of her but now feeling the impact of her punch, he felt his mouth almost go numb.

She exhaled deeply again, she had the urge to sit on him and rain punches on his face but she held herself back.

He brushed his thumb on his lips but he saw blood on his thumb, he realized the corner of his lips might be bleeding badly.

"Yes, I kissed him but you don't have the right to ask me that question," she turned around to leave while he was still taken aback by her change of attitude towards him but she turned back.

"And please, never call my name from that disgusting mouth of yours, it makes my name sound disgusting too," she turned around and walked away.

"Did she really just punch me...twice?" he questioned rhetorically, perhaps he is just hallucinating,

Yu Yan might seem tough and badass to others but she has always been gentle and bold in front of him, she has always known very clearly she loves him more than he loves her.

Considering that she kept their secret relationship for so many years, if she hit him then it must mean that she really doesn't care about him anymore.

"But how is that possible, she would never...how could she get over me so easily and quickly?" he had a look of disbelief on his face when he remembered what she said.

"Han Chen,"

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She returned to the operating theatre, after three hours, the operation was concluded, the neurosurgeon came out first.

She and Jia Yu hurried towards him.