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

“Yes,” Richard nodded.

been?

shy expression and instantly

in his usual polite manner, maintaining a friendly tone with people he wasn’t familiar with.

this and didn’t press further. They exchanged some pleasantries before she approached Pearl’s bed

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

offered a polite smile. “It’s been a while, Leah.” She didn’t particularly like this

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 had stolen

was facing her rival. Leah’s expression immediately changed. “It has been a while, Pearl,” she

tone

closed her eyes to

charts when she noticed Pearl wasn’t interested in reconnecting with her and

“Hughie?”

around,

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