Manager Huang turned and saw her daydreaming, immediately began scolding her discontentedly, “What are you looking at?
Someone has climbed up the ranks and transformed into a phoenix.
If you have the ability, go hook one yourself; if you don’t, just work honestly, don’t stand here slacking off.
If you can’t do that, then get lost.”
The girl nervously pinched her fingers and, without saying a word, hurriedly turned around to get to work.
Mu Anran sat in the taxi, thought for a moment, and then pulled out her phone to look up Ling Li’s number.
Ling Li was her childhood friend, the neighbor brother she had grown up with.
Nie Xiaoxun, her best friend, had only transferred to her high school suddenly.
The phone rang twice and then connected.
Ling Li’s voice sounded tired but was still very gentle, “Mumu?”
Mu Anran hesitated, “Brother Ling, are you busy right now?”
On the other end of the phone, in the conference room, Ling Li closed his laptop and signaled the end of the meeting, prompting the staff, who had the good sense, to get up and leave.
“Mhm, I am not busy.”
“Can you help me check if there’s a hospital called Maitos in American Texas?”
Ling Li frowned, “Mumu, are you looking for your brother?”
Mu Anran didn’t know where to start, “My dad won’t let me see my brother.
I am worried about him, but I can’t think of any other way.
Brother Ling, can you help me look it up?”
As soon as Ling Li had news of her brother, she naturally had a way to contact the hospital and send over the medical fees.
“Okay.” Ling Li hesitated, “Has something happened at home?”
Mu Anran quickly said, “No, really, nothing’s wrong.
I…
I just miss my brother.”
She said this with a slight nasal tone.
Ling Li had been schoolmates with Mu Anran’s brother, and back when the Mu family was in its heyday, almost everyone in C City knew her brother was extremely protective of his sister.
No wonder Mu Anran sounded so sad when she mentioned her brother.
“Alright, I’ll look into it as soon as possible and let you know immediately.”
“Okay.” Mu Anran nodded and hung up the phone.
Returning to her rented room, Mu Anran felt completely exhausted, the aftereffects of high fever making her a bit dizzy.
She opened the envelope Yu Lingqian left for her and found that besides a black card and keys, there were some medicines at the bottom with instructions on how to take them.
“Could it be that the poker-faced guy prepared this for me?”
No sooner had Mu Anran said this than she shook her head:
How could that demon possibly care about whether I live or die?
If he had any humanity left, he wouldn’t have tormented me like that last night.
With her cheeks flushed, Mu Anran still boiled some water and took the medicine.
Before long, as the medicine took effect, she nestled into the blankets and fell into a heavy sleep.
She wasn’t sure how long she had slept when she was awakened by a series of frantic knocks on the door.
“Bang, bang, bang”—the intense knocking sounded like it was about to explode her head.
She got up groggily and had just opened the door a crack when the person outside pushed the door open impatiently.
“Thud!” The door slammed against the wall, the crisp sound instantly jolting Mu Anran awake.
Standing before her, the furious middle-aged man was none other than her good-for-nothing father.
“Mu Anran, are you trying to kill me, to kill your brother?” The man roared with full force.
Seeing his face, Mu Anran felt nauseous.
This was a man who could sell his own daughter, someone who simply didn’t deserve to be a father.
“Dad, you seem quite energetic.
Even if my brother were driven to death, you wouldn’t die, would you?”