Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 430

Pearl was taken to the hospital with Richard’s assistance. The smell of disinfectants in the hospital room made her scrunch up her nose. “Is there any way I can avoid staying in the hospital?”

Richard gave her a cold look. “What do you think?”

“Um…” Pearl smiled awkwardly. “I guess not.”

“Good, now behave,” he replied, sitting there with an air of aloofness and checking his phone.

“What about our travel plans?”

Richard, still composed, answered, “Life is full of surprises. Just stay here and recover. We have plenty of time so there’s no need to rush.”

Pearl silently lay down on the bed. Shortly after, a doctor doing her rounds entered the room. She found her vaguely familiar but couldn’t quite place where she had seen her before.

The doctor suddenly let out an excited squeal. “Rick, it’s you!”

frowned when she heard this and shot a glare at

“Yes,” Richard nodded.

you been? How’s Hughie?”

expression and instantly understood what was happening.

all doing well,” replied Richard in his usual polite manner, maintaining a friendly tone with people he wasn’t familiar with.

of this and didn’t press further. They exchanged some pleasantries before she

twisted slightly. “What are you doing

polite smile. “It’s been a

Simon was abroad, so she tried to find him and hoped he would become her mentor. However, Simon had chosen Pearl instead, and Leah harbored resentment,

expression immediately changed. “It has been

tone

her and closed her

the charts when she noticed Pearl wasn’t interested in reconnecting with her and then left the room.

“Hughie?”

that, the man turned around,

softened when he saw Leah. “Oh, what a small world. It’s