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

“Yes,” Richard nodded.

you been?

shy expression and instantly understood

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

further. They exchanged some

Pearl’s expression, the doctor’s face twisted slightly. “What are you doing

who the doctor was and offered a polite smile. “It’s been a while, Leah.” She didn’t particularly

ago, Pearl had met Leah while studying abroad. They were both pursuing medicine, and Leah had known 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, believing that Pearl

Leah’s expression immediately changed. “It

tone

and closed her eyes to rest.

reconnecting with her and then left the room. Shortly afterward, she ran into someone

“Hughie?”

that, the man turned around, revealing

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