Love in the Limelight

Chapter 8

“Can anyone just claim they re Aster? Rumor has it that Aster is a man in his thirties You, are a young girl How dare you pretend to be him? What’s your endgame?”

Astrid glanced at the man before her, a tad annoyed “I can cure her”

“Cure her?” The experts present burst out in laughter “We’re the top dogs in the medical field if we cant treat her how can you?”

Another expert chimed in “Looking at your age, you’re probably a Uni student still, right? You’m just here to catch the eye of the rich bloke Wylie, hoping to bag yourself a wealthy hubby. Girl, get lost. This ain’t your playground”

“Scram before you make a fool of yourself”

you actually manage to cure the old lady, we’ll bow down to you!”

“Bow down and hail me queen, you mean?” Astrid raised an eyebrow, “Deal”

with these folks, but she

Elio. “Sir, will

he too was fed

experts didn’t expect Elio to side with the young girl and exchanged surprised glances.

the balcony and started treating the

is she really Aster? Isn’t she

at this point?” Ello asked back, and Wylie

on her last legs and he was out of

old lady’s acupuncture points with silver needles and fed her some medicine. As time ticked by just

Wylie into

Just when everyone thought the old lady had passed. A faint cough emanated from the bed. It was very faint, but it silenced

returned to normal. Overwhelmed with joy, Wylle was about to thank Astrid, but she made a shushing gesture at him.

glanced at each other. They had only said that earlier because they were certain

were big shots in the medical world. How could they kneel to a young girl? Even if the person in front of them