Melissa hurried out, without taking the food cart with her.

Jiang Tingzhou reached out and pressed the service bell, then explained to Xu Wan, "I asked the nurse to push the food cart out and get a new one."

Xu Wan hesitated for a moment before speaking, "...But I don't think Melissa has any ill intentions towards you. She wouldn't poison your food."

“Not necessarily.” Jiang Tingzhou took Xu Wan’s hand again. “Melissa is mostly calm, but sometimes she can act on her emotions. For example, her pregnancy happened after she quit her job and had a relationship with a stranger at a bar. She drank a lot that day and couldn’t even remember who the father of the child was.”

Xu Wan was filled with questions, "How could this happen? And drinking alcohol might be bad for the fetus..."

The nurse rushed in as soon as she heard the bell ring.

Upon learning of the situation, they pushed the food cart out.

After the nurse left, Jiang Tingzhou translated their conversation for Xu Wan.

Jiang Tingzhou only asked the nurse to change the meal; he did not ask all the meals to be made again.

He trusted everyone here, except for Melissa, the uninvited guest.

Soon, Zhou Heng personally pushed in a meal.

Upon seeing that it was Zhou Heng who entered, Jiang Tingzhou immediately asked, "Who sent Melissa?"

"It's Louis."

"Let him leave with Melissa."

"good."

Zhou Heng didn't ask any further questions, agreed, and then left.

Xu Wan looked in the direction Zhou Heng left, and was about to say something when Jiang Tingzhou spoke first: "Don't worry about other people's business, talk about yours."

"What about me?"

"How did you bring this here?"

Jiang Tingzhou's tone was somewhat serious.

Actually, he had noticed the injuries on the woman's palms and wrists a moment earlier.

I've already guessed some of the clues.

But then again, it seemed somewhat impossible.

He had surveyed the terrain of the hospital. In order to prevent vehicles from coming up, all the roads above were dug up again. Local drivers know what the situation is up there and it's impossible for them to drive up.

Xu Wan pursed her lips and said softly, "How about we eat first..."

"You go first."

Jiang Tingzhou had been running a fever and was in a coma, and hadn't eaten much. The hospital had prepared mostly liquid food for him.

He was indeed hungry.

Even so, he was more concerned about how Xu Wan got up there.

"I'll tell you after we finish eating..."

"..."

"It's a long story, you'll need to eat well to have the energy to listen carefully."

Xu Wan could tell that the man was weak, so she coaxed him gently.

Jiang Tingzhou sighed and could only agree.

The hospital prepared a meat porridge and some refreshing green vegetables for dinner.

Xu Wan took a bowl and ladled a small bowl of soup for the man, then placed the bowl in front of him.

Her dominant hand is her right hand, and she subconsciously used her right hand to hold the bowl.

When she placed the bowl in front of the man, she noticed that he was looking at her palm, and it was too late to pull her hand back.

Jiang Tingzhou reached out and grabbed the woman's wrist, pushing the sleeve of her right hospital gown up to her elbow, revealing large, treated wounds on her arm.

After just one glance, the man's expression instantly turned serious.

Xu Wan quickly said, "It doesn't hurt anymore, you should eat first."

"..."

Jiang Tingzhou took the bowl with one hand and gently supported the woman's wrist with the other, his eyes full of heartache, "You're like this, how can I have the appetite to eat..."

He looked at the woman and asked directly, "Did you come up the mountain?"

Seeing that she couldn't hide it any longer, Xu Wan could only nod and admit, "Yes, after I couldn't contact you, I didn't think about anything and just bought a plane ticket to come here. I don't speak the language here either, so I asked him to take me here in English. He didn't say anything, just drove the car halfway up the mountain and dropped me off..."

By this point, Jiang Tingzhou had already guessed the ending.

On this mountain, the area accessible by car is already close to the summit, but there is still a winding mountain road leading to the top. The straight-line distance of this road is not far, but walking up it would be an extremely difficult task.

Jiang Tingzhou raised the hand that wasn't holding the bowl and pulled the woman sitting on the side of the bed into his arms.

He tilted his head and kissed the woman's earlobe, saying in a hoarse voice, "Wanwan, I'm sorry."