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”

want to clash with these folks, but she couldn’t stand their short sighted

to Elio. “Sir, will you

was fed up

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

balcony and started

is she really

this point?”

her last legs and he was out

She punctured many of the old lady’s acupuncture points with silver needles and fed her

into

Just when everyone thought the old lady had passed. A faint cough emanated from the bed. It was very faint, but it silenced the entire room. Elia glanced at the young woman next to him, deep in

monitor on the bedside slowly returned to normal. Overwhelmed with joy, Wylle was about to thank Astrid, but she made a shushing gesture at him. She then calmly wiped the sweat from

other. They had only said that earlier because they were certain the old

world. How could they kneel to a young girl? Even if the person