Chapter 121 Wanrus invitation (1/2)

She tossed and turned on the bed for a while. She couldn't sleep anymore, so she sat up and lighted a cigarette.

After she had smoked two cigarettes, the sky began to get bright. First, there was a vibrant blue color. Then the color faded and a white color came out. A beam of light could be seen in the clouds.

She believed it was going to be good weather, and sure enough, when she stopped the car at the clinic door, she saw the sun peeking out, casting a few rays of light on the moss on the steps.

It was nearly eight o'clock, and there was no one behind the information desk. Wanru could only go in from memory of her last visit. She had to walk through a corridor, which was made of old bricks, with patches of moss in the cracks. The walls were gouged out with random little squares, each with a pot of green plants. All of them were of different shapes and colors, but all were growing well.

With plenty of time, she called Xia Yu and told Xia that Zhang Hanyu asked her to deliver the invitation to her.

The fact that Zhang Hanyu could hand over the invitation to Wanru meant that the relationship between this couple had already improved. Xia Yu was pleased, and she even said a lot of words with encouragement on the phone.

Wanru wasn't as happy as Xia Yu. She had met Zhang Hanyu for a longer time than Xia Yu and knew him better. She believed that the reason that Zhang Hanyu asked her to send the invitation to Xia Yu was merely to prove that there was no affair between him and Xia Yu. He wanted to tell her that if she wanted to ask Xia Yu about something, she could do it directly but stop doing anything embarrassing.

Speaking of the relationship between Xia Yu and Zhang Hanyu, Wanru was really in a dilemma. All these years, the rumors regarding Xia Yu and Zhang Hanyu had never ended. She had hired private detectives and had personally followed them. It didn't seem right to say that they didn't have any feelings of each other. But they had been keeping as friends all the time. She had spent a vast sum of money on this spy. To fill the enormous deficit, she could only save for her life.

She had also sworn not to watch over Xia Yu anymore. But once she heard of any news about them, she would become sensitive, and her heart would immediately turn upside down. She finally knew that she got an illness.

She took a deep breath, and her gaze once again fell upon the unique scenery here. She was also curious when she came here for the first time. This was not what she expected a psychological clinic to be. At least she hadn't seen any other clinics that had so many different types of plants.

After walking along the corridor for a while, she turned a corner and stood at the door of the consultation room.

She knocked on the door and soon heard a response.

”Come in!” She heard a man's voice which was low and magnetic.

She pushed the door and scanned the room. The consultation room was empty. The treatment room was inside, like a suite, with the door ajar. She walked further in, pushed open the door, and was in a room facing south, with large windows on the floor, and a small basin of green plants on the windowsill overflowing with sunlight. In the corner, in front of a wooden rack stood a man, half-bent over an incense that was almost burnt out from a censer.

”Doctor Zhou!”

The man turned back, holding a pair of scissors in his hand. The sun was shining through the window, he was standing there by the shadows.

”Here you are!” His voice was still calm when he said, ”Take a seat, please. I'll go over once I'm done.” Then he turned around again and cut off the almost burnt-out incense sticks. When he was doing this, he kept grabbing onto the center of his brows with a serious facial expression. Finally, he brushed off all the ashes from the incense that had fallen to the side with a small brush and covered the censer with the lid. Then, he turned around, smiled at Wanru and said: ”Sorry to have you wait!”.

Only at this moment, here came the picture. Wanru stared at him. His facial features were soft with a pair of glasses; he wore a light ink-colored sweater. He was tall and thin, and from his looks, he was still very young, but why did he give off a feeling of old age?

”No, I am earlier,” Wanru replied.

Doctor Zhou put the scissors aside and wiped his hands.

”Let's go outside and have a chat.”

Wanru was in a daze. She first heard the chirping of birds outside the window, followed by her breath. She felt a light fragrance lingered around her. When she opened her eyes, it was dim in the room, for the curtains had been drawn.

Seriously, how did she fall asleep? Wanru got up immediately; there was no one in the room. Only the censer on the wooden shelf was emitting white smoke.

She tidied up her hair and went out. Doctor Zhou was standing in front of the file cabinet, his brow still furrowed, he seemed to be looking at something important.

”Doctor Zhou!”

Doctor Zhou turned around. ”You wake up?”

”Sorry, I just fell asleep.”

Wanru looked at a clock on the wall. The needle pointed to twelve o'clock, which meant that she had slept for at least three hours.

Doctor Zhou smiled. ”That's normal. You're not the first one who falls asleep here.”

”…”, Wanru didn't know what to say.

Embarrassed, she ran her hand through her hair.

Doctor Zhou walked over and asked, ”How do you feel?”

”Not bad!”

This was the truth. Wanru couldn't sleep for most of the night; the few hours of sleep were filled with nightmares. But just now she felt that she had slept deeply with no dreams at all. This was unbelievable.

Doctor Zhou nodded his head. ”The fact that you can sleep means that your condition isn't that bad. You need to adjust your mood and take fewer sleeping pills; otherwise, you will become dependent on the medicine.”

”Alright.”

Wanru went outside to pay the fee for this consultation and cure. Passing by the corridor, she saw the lush moss and green plants again. The leaves were stained with water. Someone must have just come to water them.

This scene inexplicably made her feel very at ease. That sort of vigorous peace of mind had been absent for many years.

”Doctor Zhou...” She went back the way she came.

There was a patient in the room already. Seeing Wanru standing at the door, Doctor Zhou asked: ”Miss Qin, is there anything else?”