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”

folks, but she couldn’t stand their short sighted

to Elio. “Sir, will you be my witness?”

but he too was fed up with the so–called experts. So he nodded, “Sure

Elio to side with the young girl and exchanged surprised

led everyone to the balcony and started treating

nervous wreck “Elio, is she really

point?” Ello

mother was on her last legs and

glass of the balcony everyone could see Astrid bustling around the old woman. She punctured many of the old lady’s acupuncture points with silver needles and fed her some medicine. As time ticked by just when Astrid was about to leave, the old lady’s hand suddenly relaxed!

into a

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

thank Astrid, but she made a shushing gesture

had only said that earlier because they were

young girl? Even if the person in front of them was Aster, they