A coward?
A coward?
"Yes, three days back she had hit my client Tong Po on the head with a bottle of alcohol and fled after he refused to give her the job."
"Brother Wang—"
With the rise of finger Wang Shi stopped Fei Hong from speaking without breaking eye contact with the lawyer, "And where was your client for the past three days?"
"I-In the hospital. Unconscious." Don't know why, but the lawyer couldn't bear the pressure of Wang Shi's gaze.
"I just asked a question. Is there a need to sweat?" Wang Shi appeared to be calm and easy-going, but the body language and the command in his voice were enough to make one shudder. "Officer, Miss. Fei can't go with you."
The lawyer revolted, "B-But…"
"I'm talking to the police officer. Must you interrupt? Did I say a word when you have issued the warrant based on these fake medical reports?" His stern voice hit the wave of anxiety through the lawyer and the police officer.
The police, "Dr. Wang, Tong Po is genuinely injured. We've taken his statement already."
"See. These reports are factual." Lawyer added.
"Then how about I examine him? Let's bring him to this hospital, I promise to wave the charges and my fees. Sounds good?" as he shifted his gaze to the police, they did the same by looking at the lawyer.
The short height lawyer tried to act confidently by folding his hands and raised chin up, "No thanks. My client won't come to the hospital where she had received the treatment. Who knows what else she might do."
Li Han's mouth twisted, "You should have looked for a better and more convincing excuse. Lame!"
"Director Li, call Wenwei and ask her to complete the legal formalities. My patient is not going anywhere." Wang Shi's words left no space for discussion, he treated the lawyer like air and concentrated on the police officer, "Being her doctor, I declare her unfit to be taken out from here or conduct an interrogation. If you have opinions, contact my lawyer, Miss Chen Wenwei. Now please, step out, you are disturbing her rest."
Chen Wenwei came there instantly, she had just reached the parking when she received Li Han's call. It didn't take her much effort to arrange the papers, considering Wang Shi had given her a signed letter declaring Fei Hong medically unfit.
The lawyer left, throwing a malicious gaze at Fei Hong.
"You shouldn't have done that." Fei Hong spoke to Wenwei and Wang Shi when they were the only ones left in the room, "They were not lying; I HAVE smashed an alcohol bottle on Tong Po's head three days back in Caesar's hotel."
Without a tinge of guilt and shame, she looked into their eyes and accepted.
Wenwei, "Yet you are not sorry about it! This means you have got a story to share, sadly I don't have time to hear that. Important work, you see! Dr. Wang Shi, please summarize it for me later. Bye."
Wang Shi latched the door to the room as soon as Chen Wenwei left and pulled the stool next to Fei Hong's bed.
"Shall we start?"
She crossed her legs beneath the blanket and looked away, "I can handle this. You don't have to—"
"Hong, remember we met for the first time in this very hospital when you had come to pay a visit to Xiu Mei? Neither Junjie nor I liked you because of how annoying and bossy you were. But over the last four years, you've become a part of our family. Especially with Junjie, your relationship has turned from deadly fighter cocks to friends to--"
"Brother Wang, please. We are just friends."
"Did I say something else? I was about to say 'friends to best friends' but you cut me off." There was a note of triumph in his voice. Damn! He's too good at setting traps of words.
"You are cruel."
"That's one of my achievements." Seeing her making a face he turned serious, "Hong, eventually you would have to tell us, why not sooner? Or should I wait for Junjie and Mei?"
"No please," She raised her tone in irritation, "I just want this matter to settle quietly without any drama that could make my life miserable. With Mei and Junjie, it will escalate unnecessarily. Why did you tell them?"
"Woww….." he clapped, "I thought of you as a strong woman, you had always been vocal about her thoughts and created a hit show with her capabilities, becoming an inspiration for the many. Never knew she would be a coward from inside who would take the matter of her own sexual abuse quietly and would be willing to settle it without a whisper. For you, it's an unnecessary matter that might escalate. Right?"
Shocked, she blinked at him, "How did you know?"
"Apparently, as per Tong Po's statement, you came uninvited to his private lounge, provoked him by getting intimate to get the job, and when he declined���. You smashed the bottle." He sat back leisurely, "Knowing you personally, it's impossible. But since you've really smashed the bottle, it can only happen when it was him who did something..."
"And now you are hiding it from everyone because you are afraid if the matter comes out, it will affect your family and friends. People will make opinions about you. They will bash at your family for giving you too much freedom. They will question why you left the first job when everything was going smoothly. Am I right? But do you think Tong Po will let you live in peace? Or is that you've decided to leave the country?"
A tear rolled out from Hong's eyes, "I'm not a weak woman. I know this is wrong, I want to fight too and drag that sleazy Tong Po to the police station and get him punished. I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING that Fei Hong should have done. But even the strongest person gives up when your family gets attacked."
"Family?"