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 only, miss.

like to purchase some medicinal herbs. May I please speak to your person-in-charge about it?" Elspeth asked politely. "But..." Seeing that a stunning, polite

with her impeccable smile, the man gave in

man left and returned with a Damorian guy, whom Elspeth thought looked familiar but just couldn't quite figure out where she had seen

after seeing Elspeth, and he asked, "May I know what you'll be doing with these

she answered euphemistically, "and I happened to specialize in traditional

her up arbitrarily with his piercing gaze. "You look like you're just in your early twenties, and you say

so she backtracked her words at once. "Well,

thing or two, and you already dare treat someone else so casually. Are you not worried you'll cause

was displeased no matter what she

enough, but my mentor's a master in traditional medicine.

man became even more skeptical. "You

with a good temper would've long become annoyed after so

my wish to purchase medicinal herbs, does it?" Elspeth's

So, to avoid any unnecessary issues, 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

can most certainly treat my friend's

any medicinal

anyone bet on a person's life

you? I'll tell only you,"

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

"Alright, tell me."

the two of them, Elspeth

expression stiffened at once. "Are

you happen to know him personally?" Elspeth's heart skipped a beat, and an inexplicably ominous feeling crept up to her, for his expression wasn't one of the joys of encountering a friend but the repulsion of meeting