Don’t mind your grandpa’s nagging; it’s all for your own good.
Go, rest early, and do what you need to do as soon as possible."
Liu Rumeng stood up, bowed slightly to her grandfather again, turned around and left the study.
The door closed gently, isolating the solemnity of the study behind him.
She could faintly hear her aunts discussing Mr. Huo or Mr. Xiaolin in the living room, but she had no time to listen carefully.
Returning to her spacious but slightly deserted bedroom on the third floor, Liu Rumeng did not turn on the ceiling light, but only lit a crystal table lamp in front of the dressing table.
A soft halo enveloped her, making her profile look graceful yet a little tired.
She walked to the mahogany carved telephone, but did not pick up the receiver immediately. Instead, she rubbed her fingers back and forth over the cool, smooth wooden edge several times, as if she was gathering up her courage or strengthening her determination.
Finally, she took a deep breath, picked up the heavy black receiver, put her index finger into the cold hole of the telephone dial, and dialed a number slowly and clearly according to her memory - it was the private office line of Dr. Sophie, the director of the obstetrics and gynecology department of Mary Hospital.
Every click of the dial felt like a tap on her taut heartstrings.
“Beep…beep…beep…”
The phone connection tone rang regularly, and was particularly clear in the quiet room.
Liu Rumeng's fingers gripped the microphone a little tightly.
Until a female voice with a British accent came from the other end: "Hello, this is Dr. Sophie's office in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mary Hospital. I'm Sophie."
Liu Rumeng calmed herself down and said in a calm but slightly lower voice than usual: "Doctor Sophie, I am Liu Rumeng.
Yes, it’s the one I made an appointment with before... I’m sorry to bother you so late.
Could you please arrange a checkup tomorrow evening after get off work?
Yes, just like I said last time, it’s a bit inconvenient for me to show up in public, so at that time…”
On the other end of the phone, Dr. Sophie’s voice was professional and gentle: “Hello, Miss Liu.
Yes, I have the records here.
Tomorrow night... after six?
The private treatment area on the east side of the third floor of the waiting building will be quiet. Is that okay?"
“Yes, thank you very much.
Thank you, Dr. Sophie.
I will be there on time tomorrow evening at six o'clock."
Liu Rumeng's voice was steady, but the moment she put down the microphone, a thin layer of sweat broke out on her palms and forehead.
Outside the window, the lights of Victoria Harbour were still flickering in the deep night, and the sound of ship whistles could be heard vaguely in the distance.
Beneath the prosperity and bustle of Hong Kong Island, how many secrets and anxieties are lurking in the night?
Liu Rumeng walked to the window, pressed her cold fingertips against the glass, and felt the coolness of the night.
She promised Lin Huowang that she would perform well in this scene.
At the same time, she also has to protect a healthy future for herself in which she can give birth to offspring.
The turmoil in Hong Kong is just the beginning.
She stared into the deep night, and deep in her eyes was the tenacity that belonged to Liu Rumeng herself after she had shed the halo of being the granddaughter of the Guo family.
She must keep calm and solve her physical problems as soon as possible.
Her husband is laying out his big chess game, and she has to try her best to keep up with every step of this surging tide and not let herself become a burden to him.
Dr. Sophie from Mary Hospital, the diagnosis and the potentially long treatment process are the battlefields she will have to face alone and silently.
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