Love's Perfect Match

Chapter 353 What's Between You and Him

"You want to know why?"

Arthur pulled an inexplicably baffling and amorous smile at Elspeth, who held her breath and said, "Tell me."

"It's a secret!" With that, the man walked away resolutely.

Then, something seemed to have hit him as he turned back around. "That reminds me. Our engagement party was ruined. We'll have to redo it in a couple of days. You better get ready for it again."

Elspeth had just lost interest in why he would poison Ginna, and now he threw this bomb at her.

"Can't we just leave it as it is? We've already done it once, and everyone already knows."

All things aside, just having to wake up at 5.00AM to get her makeup done was already torturous enough.

"That won't fly. I'm a man of principles; everything needs to be done through and through." Arthur shook his head with a frown. It seemed that he cared a lot about this matter.

In the end, he still left after he said everything he wanted to.

Elspeth didn't have anything important to see to either. Then, it suddenly occurred to her that she hadn't given Isabel the medicinal herbs she had brought back the other time. Hence, she decided to buy a few other medicinal herbs from the hospital to mix with that batch after reaching home.

However, there were too few medicinal herbs in hospitals abroad. Even if the hospital she was in had the city's largest medicinal herb dispensary, she couldn't enter as she pleased, let alone obtain those medicinal herbs.

Still, she went with a glimmer of hope.

middle-aged man guarding the medicinal herb dispensary stood up and cautioned gravely, "Persons concerned

herbs. May I please speak to your person-in-charge about it?" Elspeth asked politely.

began imploring and talking her way into it. Coupled with her impeccable smile, the man gave in immediately.

and returned with a Damorian guy, whom Elspeth thought looked

the latter was also from Damoria, he lowered his guard immediately after seeing Elspeth, and he asked, "May I know what you'll be doing

treatment," she answered euphemistically, "and I happened to

medicine, the man narrowed his eyes slightly, and he sized her up arbitrarily with

man doubted her because she said she 'specialized' in the study, so she backtracked her words at once. "Well,

and you already dare treat someone else so casually. Are you not worried

no matter what she

know a thing or two, and I'm not skilled enough, but my mentor's a master in traditional medicine. Nothing will

that, the man became even more skeptical.

would've long become

have much to do with my wish to purchase medicinal herbs, does it?" Elspeth's

I have to get things straight." At the end of the day, the man was just doing his job. "I only have some trust in you and asked

you my mentor's name. But I can most certainly treat my friend's illness." Elspeth realized

you can forget about purchasing any medicinal herbs from us." The man's expectant

bet on a person's life

I'll tell only you," Elspeth negotiated, seeing that the man wanted to

he looked side-eyed toward the foreign man next to him. The latter understood at once and walked away acquiescently, as

"Alright, tell me."

just the two of them, Elspeth answered

stiffened at once. "Are you sure that's

feeling crept up to her, for his expression wasn't one of