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”

necessarily want to clash with these folks, but she couldn’t stand

Elio. “Sir, will you be my witness?”

was fed up with

side with

balcony and

is she really Aster? Isn’t she too young?”

options at this point?” Ello asked

mother was on her last legs and he was out of

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

into a panic, “Mom!!”

barged in, with the experts on the balcony trailing behind. 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

to thank Astrid, but she made a shushing gesture at him. She then calmly

only said that earlier

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