Chapter 40: How Can This Be?

  "Rustle..."

  A sudden screeching of brakes broke the silence, startling the two people holding hands in the small pavilion.

  Ye Han turned his head to look, and saw a luxury off-road vehicle worth millions of dollars coming from afar and stopping outside the pavilion. The door opened, and a young man in his early twenties, dressed in a luxurious white suit, got out. The young man had sword-like eyebrows, starry eyes, a straight nose, thin lips, and an elegant demeanor. His neatly combed hair shone brightly in the sunlight...

  In the eyes of many girls, this young man is undoubtedly the image of a wealthy and handsome prince that they have fantasized about countless times.

  The young man seemed to know Qin Yiran, after getting off the car, he glanced at Qin Yiran with a few hints of eagerness in his eyes, then saw Ye Han holding onto Qin Yiran's small hand and not letting go, his face suddenly sank, and his gaze revealed a few hints of doubt. He didn't rush to walk into the pavilion to greet Qin Yiran, but instead leaned against the car, slowly pulled out a cigarette, lit it up, and started smoking leisurely.

  In the midst of swirling smoke and fog, a young man with hostile and murderous eyes pierced through the haze, staring straight at Ye Han's face.

  If the other party was a beautiful woman, Ye Han might have looked at her with admiration for a few more seconds. However, since the other party was a handsome young man who seemed very capable of putting on airs, Ye Han lost interest and didn't even bother to react to the youth's hostile and murderous gaze. He turned his head back to talk to Qin Yiran, only to discover that when she saw the young man, her expression changed slightly, her body trembled slightly, as if she was somewhat afraid of him.

  "Who is she?" Ye Han furrowed his brow and couldn't help but ask.

  "He... He's Liu Zhiyong, the son of Dean Liu." Under the young man's gaze, Qin still looked a bit flustered, his whole body tensing up, seemingly at a loss.

  Ye Han knew that the "Director Liu" in Qin Yiran's mouth referred to the hospital director, Dr. Liu Yide. Ye Han had a deep impression of this Dr. Liu Yide. When he first saved Tang Yunshan, Tang Xue's grandfather, at the square, Ye Han had met him once before. At that time, he didn't expect that the white and chubby guy was actually the director of the city's First People's Hospital. This time, when Ye Han was hospitalized, Dr. Liu Yide ran to his ward at least twice a day, each time with a smile on his face, asking about his condition as if it were his own father who was in the hospital.

  "What's wrong with Director Liu's son? Are you afraid of him?" Ye Han asked again.

  "Uh-huh." Qin still didn't deny it, and a layer of misty fog quickly appeared in her clear eyes. She lightly bit her lip and said in a low voice: "Liu Zhiyong has just been promoted to the director of the hospital's nursing department... he is my direct superior..."

  Ye Han glanced at Liu Zhiyong outside the pavilion and said disapprovingly, "Let him be in charge if he wants to be. You work so diligently, can't he just let you be? Must he always find fault with you?"

  Qin sighed again, not looking at Liu Zhiyong, and said in a low voice: "You don't understand the situation... Alas, anyway, Liu Zhiyong is... he's a bad person! A very, very bad one..."

  "Oh, how bad is he?" Ye Hanjiao asked with interest. In his opinion, Qin Yiran was a kind and gentle person, so if she said someone was "bad" and "very very bad", then that person must be extremely evil.

  Liu Zhiyong drove a luxury car, wore famous brands, and looked like a model, but on the surface, he seemed to be in high spirits. However, Ye Han saw at a glance that this young man was empty and lacking in substance, with kidney deficiency, and was definitely a spoiled rich kid who loved to indulge in pleasures and vices. Although he now had a cigarette dangling from his mouth and looked arrogant, in reality, he was just a weakling, and any slightly stronger man could beat him until he cried out for his father and mother.

  Qin's expression was still complex, and after hesitating for a moment, she finally said in a low voice: "He... he always likes to bully girls. Many nurses in our hospital have been insulted by him. I have a pretty good friend who just started working two months ago, but was taken advantage of by him, and even got pregnant. My friend wanted to reason with him, but didn't get anything, not even keeping her job. Later, she went to sue him, but lost the lawsuit too. My friend couldn't take it anymore and cut her wrist...

  Qin's face turned sorrowful as he spoke up to this point, and tears welled up in his eyes.

  "Mother, he's worse than a beast!" After hearing Qin Yiran finish speaking, Ye Han raised an eyebrow and spat in the direction of Liu Zhiyong. He tightened his grip on Qin Yiran's small hands to comfort her.

  In his opinion, men can be romantic and have feelings everywhere, but they absolutely cannot be too heartless.

  If man is without emotions, how can he be different from beasts?

  For a time, Ye Han's impression of Liu Zhiyong had fallen to an all-time low, and he also despised Liu Zhiyong's character to the extreme.

  After Liu Zhiyong appeared, he immediately caught the attention of several plainclothes police officers around him. They exchanged glances and quickly approached the small pavilion. Ye Han wanted to see what Liu Zhiyong was going to do here and didn't want the police to intervene, so he waved his hand to indicate that everything was fine.

  Several plainclothes police officers were tasked with protecting Ye Han, taking orders from him. When they saw that Ye Han wouldn't let them pass, they hesitated for a moment before lingering in place, but remained highly vigilant. If they discovered Liu Zhiyong making any moves that threatened Ye Han's personal safety, they would rush over to subdue him.

  Liu Zhiyong smoked a cigarette halfway, seeing Ye Han still holding Qin Yiran's hand without letting go. The two of them were also chatting about something, and in the meantime, Ye Han even spat in his direction with a disgusted look on his face. From this, it can be seen that the content of their conversation must have been related to him.

  He furrowed his brow, Liu Zhiyong spat out the cigarette in his mouth, adjusted his suit and tie, and walked slowly into the pavilion. He first gave Ye Han a cold glance, then put on a smiling face, stood in front of Qin Yiran, and asked with a smile: "Yiran, what are you doing here?"

  He was half a head taller than Qin, looking down on him with an air of superiority, giving Qin a sense of oppression. Qin had been intimidated by him from the start, and when he asked, she wriggled free from Ye Han's hand, took a small step back, hung her head and said in a low voice: "I... I came out to take a walk with the patient."

  "Oh?" Liu Zhiyong looked at Ye Han again and said, "What kind of patient is he? He actually let you accompany him personally... Is he your relative?"

  Liu Zhiyong, although he was the head of the hospital's nursing department, rarely came to work at the hospital all year round. He handed over all his work to his assistant and spent his days traveling around, carefree and happy. Having just returned from a trip abroad, he didn't recognize Ye Han.

  Qin still looked at Ye Han and said: "We are not relatives, he is..."

  She was about to reveal Ye Han's identity, but Liu Zhiyong had already turned pale with rage, glaring at Ye Han and coldly snarling: "Not your relative, why is he holding your hand? How dare he!"