Chapter 17

Guan Ying hesitated in the dormitory for half a day, but did not receive any call from Zheng Juyong complaining about anything. It seemed that the handover at Hassan's factory went smoothly and he did not have any conflict with anyone.

Calculating the time, I called Jiawei: "How was it, did you get enough shopping today?"

There was a cacophony of voices on the phone; Jiawei must have been at the mall at the moment. "That was great! Chanel, Dior, Balenciaga, Cartier... I've been shopping at them all. I'm running myself crazy! How's it going over there? Hassan didn't give you any trouble, did he?"

Guan Ying: "It seems that there is no trouble at the moment. Well, I will come to find you later. By the way, is Xiao Weiyan with you?"

Jiawei screamed with joy, "Great! Come and stay with me! Brother Yan was here this morning, but he took a call during lunch and seemed to have something urgent at work so he left. It just so happens that I can't walk around anymore. I don't know if it's because I've been walking too much lately, but I've been feeling achy in my back the past few days. I plan to go see that Chinese doctor Brother Yan recommended. I heard he also knows Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and massage. It should be pretty good."

"You've been feeling unwell for several days? Why didn't you tell me earlier? I even asked you to run the market for me before. I really shouldn't have done that."

"Wow, it's not as exaggerated as you think. Just think of it as me getting a massage after shopping!"

"Okay, I'll leave now."

"Okay, I'll send you the address of the hospital."

A while ago, she was urgently summoned back to China, leaving Jiawei with everything. She had to oversee the process between Xiao Weiyan's law firm and Sabur's company, run to the port to check the goods with Manager Xu, and then, after the workers' incident, she also had to cover the market for herself. These tasks were already familiar to Guan Ying, but for the newly arrived Jiawei, she was probably relying on a sense of sisterhood to keep her going.

Jiawei's physical condition was not as good as mine, and she was always considerate and accommodating. I didn't notice it in time, and I couldn't help feeling guilty. I hurried to the hospital in Dubai.

The hospital wasn't large, occupying the bottom two floors of a central office building. From the outside, it looked more like a private hospital, offering one-on-one care. In the center of the lobby, opposite the main entrance, hung a magnificent ink painting of a landscape. Below, several rows of sofas were already occupied by patients, men, women, and children, roughly half of whom were Asian. Guan Ying couldn't help but marvel at the uniqueness of Dubai's hospital.

The guides in the lobby were all dressed in purple medical uniforms. At first glance, they were of different nationalities and skin tones, all smiling and friendly. Seeing Guan Ying's confused expression as she entered, one of the Asian-looking female guides approached her and, upon learning her purpose, directed her to the Chinese department upstairs.

The female guide looked at the electronic screen on the wall outside the department, which happened to show Jiawei's pinyin name: "Miss Guan, your friend has gone in for treatment. Please wait outside the department."

The layout upstairs is more spacious and cozy, and the conditions are similar to those of special specialist clinics in China.

After waiting for a while, the door of the department was pushed open and a young male assistant doctor hurried out. He met an assistant from another department in the corridor.

The man opposite was also a male assistant: "Your Director Ma has been given another appointment today, right?"

"Of course I do. I might have to work overtime again tonight. The girl who just went in mistook her pregnancy for a herniated disc. If Teacher Ma hadn't felt her pulse, I would have almost ordered her to get an MRI."

The other party seemed to have learned something: "Really? Then we have to pay attention to this kind of patients in the future."

"Yeah, this kind of early-stage stuff is easy to be overlooked. It's not very convenient for me to be inside, so Director Ma asked me to come out and change a batch of gloves for the department. See you later."

Guan Ying didn't pay attention to their conversation at first, until he took another look at the name on the electronic screen and suddenly realized what was going on.

"Hello, may I ask which number you called?" She almost jumped up and chased after the male assistant.

The male assistant thought she was the patient at the back of the queue and pointed to the electronic screen. "We admit patients one by one. First time here? Don't worry. As long as you get a number for today, you'll definitely be seen."

"Only one can go in at a time, right?" she asked again.

The male assistant was also very patient: "Yes, the person inside will probably come out soon. You just need to wait outside for your number to be called." After that, he left quickly.

Guan Ying froze in her tracks. "They're talking about Jiawei?" A sense of foreboding washed over her, and her hands and feet instantly went cold. How could she believe this? How could she accept this? Damn it! She shouldn't have rushed back home, causing such trouble.

She had heard too many stories of best friends turning against each other because of a man, and she never expected that one day she would encounter such a story. What was ridiculous was that her first reaction was different from others. The moment she found out, she was afraid of losing Jiawei!

That person is Jiawei! She's the woman who, for over a decade, has tolerated my bad temper without a second thought and is even more willing to go through fire and water for me. She can have seven or eight boyfriends, but she's always been faithful to only one person, Jiawei!

Yes, she changed seven or eight of them. Jiawei knew all of them and said yes to all of them, but Jiawei always knew her limits and never went with threesomes. Until a month ago, Jiawei met Xiao Weiyan through her introduction... Xiao Weiyan!

Guan Ying was trembling all over, her limbs were uncoordinated, but she didn't care. She staggered out of the hospital and headed straight for the underground parking lot from yesterday, crashing into the blue convertible Ferrari again and again.

Soon, the cell phone of a partner lawyer in a conference room upstairs in the office building rang.

"What! Of course I'll call the police! I don't recognize any white pickup truck!"

After hanging up the phone with the property security guard, the lawyer stood up in a rage: "A pickup truck dared to hit my Ferrari! What kind of crazy woman is this!"

Xiao Weiyan on the other side heard something strange: "Eric, what happened?"

The partner lawyer slammed his fist on the conference table. "What the hell is this day? Daniel is helping someone poach my girlfriend, and now this crazy woman is hitting my Ferrari!"

Eric, a partner lawyer in the Dubai branch, was having a conversation with Xiao Weiyan about something unpleasant, and now he simply took advantage of the situation to vent his anger.

There are not many women driving pickup trucks here. Xiao Weiyan stood up in panic: "Eric, I was driving your car a few days ago. Let me handle this matter." After that, he ran to the elevator in a panic.

Eric followed behind him, furious: "Let the police arrest her, I want to see who it is!"

The basement had been cordoned off by building security. Inside, a white pickup truck rumbled through the traffic, shifting gears, accelerating, crashing, backing out, and shifting gears again... The noise was so deafening that no one dared approach. Other drivers passing by parked their cars outside the cordon and stood outside the cordon, curiously watching.

"Chinese women are amazing, amazing!"

"Oh hey! This pickup truck is sturdy!"

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The Ferrari had a low chassis and had probably been hit by Guan Ying several times, so when it hit him from behind, Guan Ying simply drove the front of the car onto the hood of the Ferrari and then backed up with a loud bang. This really showed his extraordinary driving skills and courage. The scene was really grand: if the situation continued, it would probably alarm the local news media!

Leaving Eric outside to communicate with the building security, Xiao Weiyan took the opportunity to rush in: "Officer! What are you doing? Are you crazy?"

"Xiao Weiyan!" Guan Ying was parked on the "stacks" of the two cars with great speed.

"Get down, get down quickly! Oh my God, are you going to heaven?" Xiao Weiyan jumped onto the hood of the Ferrari in a hurry, pulled open the door of the pickup truck, and finally dragged Guan Ying down.

As soon as Guan Ying's feet touched the ground, they felt weak. It wasn't that she wasn't afraid at all, but Zheng Juyong's words kept popping up in her mind: "He's just deliberately violating traffic rules! He's a lawyer, he knows his way around here, and he knows a lot of people!"

Since Xiao Weiyan loves to cause trouble so much, she will fulfill his wish and give him a big one!

"Guan Guan, you already know everything? How could you be so stupid? I promise you, I won't go to Vancouver, and I won't be that partner! You should at least ask me first, why are you doing this!" He still thought she was making such a fuss because she misunderstood that he had accepted Daniel's intentional olive branch. After his anger subsided, he actually felt a hint of joy. "I thought you hadn't accepted me because you were still comparing me to Daniel. I know I don't have the same high status as him... I really didn't expect you to go this far for me... I promise you, I won't leave."

Guan Ying's brows knitted together. Perhaps because she had driven the car too hard just now and then he had violently carried her down, she now felt nauseous in her chest. She pushed his iron-like arms away with all her might, "Go away!"

Eric also ran in at this time. Looking at his beloved car that needed a major repair, he cried out twice: "My! God!"

Xiao Weiyan put Guan Ying aside for the moment, already thinking about the aftermath: "Eric, I'll pay for the repairs. Or maybe you've always wanted to buy a new car? Why don't I just buy it!"

Eric was stunned for a moment and turned around: "Huh? You want to buy a car? What do you mean, have you made up your mind and are not leaving?"

Just now in the conference room, he'd been using Daniel's letter of recommendation to try to negotiate a promotion, threatening to let him go if his conditions weren't met. While he knew it was a tactic, it certainly played into his hands. And everyone in the law firm knew Xiao Weiyan had been on this assignment for two years, earning a lot while spending very little, renting a house and borrowing a car, all so he could leave at a moment's notice when he finally ascended.

But at this critical moment today, he suddenly decided to buy a car. How could Eric, the car owner and boss, not understand what this meant?

Xiao Weiyan nodded hurriedly: "Eric, please, don't call the police!"

Eric felt relieved, thinking it was a blessing in disguise. He slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, why didn't you tell me earlier? She's such an important person! It's too late. Security has already reported it, and the police will be here soon! But don't worry, as the owner of the car, I will definitely not pursue any responsibility. I have to thank this girl!"

Speak of the devil, and he will appear. Several police officers in green uniforms, led by the building security, rushed in. No matter how Xiao Weiyan explained, Guan Ying was still arrested in full view of the public.

Sitting in the Bentley police car, Guan Ying wasn't afraid. Instead, she wanted to laugh: "Your police cars are all Bentleys, so the prison must be like a five-star hotel, right?"

"What?" The local police officer, who didn't understand Chinese, saw her smile and laughed too, seemingly not thinking she was guilty of anything serious. He even turned to ask Xiao Weiyan on the other side, "Your girlfriend? Wow~ pickup, hmmm? Peng! Peng! Peng! Cool~"

Xiao Weiyan smiled awkwardly.

"Is he making fun of me?" Guan Ying turned around and questioned Xiao Weiyan, as if deliberately making things difficult for him.

Xiao Weiyan scratched his eyebrows. "Eh...whatever he thinks, but why are you still laughing? Even if Eric is willing to cooperate with us to settle privately, once we go to the police station, it will be a lot of trouble. At this time, with their efficiency, you'll probably have to stay there."

"Oh, that's good too. It saves me from spending money on a hotel!"

Guan Ying was still deliberately trying to anger him, which made Xiao Weiyan a little confused. After all, he had already said that he would not go to Vancouver, and this decision was not easy for him.