Not long after the car pulled out, Shi Jing received a message from Wei Qinan.
Wei Qinan sent him a class schedule with the note: [This is my schedule. Aside from classes and some unexpected situations, I am free at all other times.]
Wei Qinan: [(Blinking.jpg)]
Wei Qinan majored in computer science. Shi Jing could only understand the Chinese characters on the schedule; he had no idea what the specifics meant.
Shi Jing narrowed his eyes, glanced over it casually, and replied with a “1”.
He put his phone aside and said to Ye Li, “Later, I will forward your WeChat to Wei Qinan so you can pick him up and bring him to my house later.”
Recalling the class schedule, he remembered how Wei Qinan had early-morning classes every day even as a junior in college, which was rather pitiful. With a hint of lingering fondness, he added, “Take him to Xinluo.”
Xinluo Apartment was a graduation gift from Shi Jing’s Omega father. It was a spacious flat located in the city center, relatively close to Ningda University, and in a prime location where it was convenient to go anywhere.
Ye Li remembered that the male college student earlier had a great figure and was quite tall. He had been with Shi Jing for a few years and had never seen him date anyone, so for a moment, he could not quite gauge Shi Jing’s attitude toward Wei Qinan.
Suppressing his gossipy curiosity, Ye Li did not ask further. “You got it.”
The Shi family was in the import-export business, and the old master hoped Shi Jing would inherit his mantle, but the eldest young master had no interest in commerce. After graduation, he invested in opening a pet hospital instead.
By the time Shi Jing arrived, there was a long line of people waiting in the shop, but they were all crowded around the corridor entrance, poking their heads out to watch the commotion.
The receptionist at the front desk stopped them, trying hard to persuade everyone to go back and sit down to wait.
Shi Jing was tall and long-legged, and as he squeezed through the crowd to find out what was happening, he first heard the sound of something shattering as it hit the floor inside the examination room.
Shi Jing furrowed his brow, listening to the surrounding people discussing it amongst themselves.
“Did something get smashed?!”
“What on earth is going on? Did a fight break out inside?”
“I have no idea. That guy outside does not seem to have brought a pet; he looks pretty burly.”
“Could this be a medical dispute?”
There was only one receptionist on duty today. Noticing Shi Jing squeezing through, she looked as if she had seen a savior. “Boss!”
A middle-aged woman holding a Poodle had her eyes light up, her attention completely drawn to Shi Jing’s face. “Are you the boss of this shop?”
Shi Jing lowered his gaze. “Mn.”
“Then hurry up and go inside to check! They are arguing in there!”
Shi Jing thought to himself: I was originally planning to walk right in, but you ended up calling out to me.
Shi Jing: “Please everyone go back to your seats and wait. Blocking the way here will affect others. Xiao Qin, just call the numbers as usual; I will go inside and take a look.”
As soon as he spoke, even though most people were still curious, they listened to him and dispersed.
The receptionist nodded repeatedly. “Mn mn, okay.”
Pushing open the door to the independent examination room, Shi Jing saw the glass cup that Zhong Yu usually used to steep his wolfberries lying on the floor in pieces. An Alpha in his early thirties was pointing right at his face, cursing loudly at the top of his lungs. “Conscience-less hospital! You motherfuckers are going to get what is coming to you sooner or later!”
Standing beside him was a woman of similar age, her face covered in tear tracks, sobbing uncontrollably.
Zhong Yu’s assistant helplessly repeated. “Sir, when your cat was brought in, it really was already…”
“Slap!”
The desk was heavily slammed by the man, producing a loud bang.
“Who the fuck is listening to your explanation? What kind of a thing are you? Did I ask you?”
The moment those words were spoken, a foul-smelling odor instantly filled the entire room.
It smelled like spoiled, rotten salted fish.
It was the man’s Alpha pheromone.
Shi Jing’s face darkened instantly.
The assistant was an Omega, and the Alpha’s pheromones would have an impact on her, potentially even triggering her heat.
Zhong Yu’s expression changed drastically. “No, how can you casually release your pheromones indoors?! Don’t you know that doing this is illegal? My assistant is an Omega!”
The man looked at the assistant with disdain, glancing sideways. “An Omega like you should not be staying at home having babies; why are you out working? To seduce Alphas?”
The assistant’s face turned completely white. Just as she was about to say something, Zhong Yu interrupted her first.
“Are you out of your mind?!” Zhong Yu was so furious that his blood was boiling, and only then did he notice Shi Jing standing at the doorway. He took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said. “Shi Jing, this person…”
“Get your assistant outside first.”
As he spoke, Shi Jing grabbed the young woman’s wrist and pushed her out.
After closing and locking the door, he asked coldly. “What is going on?”
His pupils were very dark, and his height was considered tall even among Alphas. His mere aura carried an innate sense of oppression belonging to someone in a position of authority.
Zhong Yu was Shi Jing’s good friend, as well as an Alpha, a few years older than him.
He was an exceptional veterinarian who could treat any animal, and the pet owners wanting to thank him could stretch in a line from the hospital entrance all the way to the moon. Since the start of his career, this was his first time encountering someone so unreasonable.
Just as Zhong Yu was about to explain, the man spoke up first. “Who the fuck are you?”
“I am the boss here,” Shi Jing said.
“The boss? Hehe, perfect. My cat died, and the doctor here could not save it while shirking responsibility! Is the professional ethics of the doctors hired by your hospital this low? He has to give me an explanation today! The hospital must compensate us with money! Damn it, a bunch of beastly doctors.”
Shi Jing’s expression turned terrifyingly cold. “If you cannot speak to me calmly, I will negotiate with you at the police station.”
“Are you fucking threatening me?!” The man was momentarily deterred by his aura, but his mouth remained unyielding. “Fine, you are awesome, you are really fucking awesome.”
“Shut your stinking mouth, and put your pheromones away.” Shi Jing turned his gaze to Zhong Yu. “What happened?”
Zhong Yu was utterly annoyed by the two of them, but thinking of that cat, his tone softened as well. “An emergency case brought in two days ago. A fall from the 14th floor. We could not save it.”
Some cats raised in high-rise buildings did not understand how dangerous the world outside the window was, and their hospital received a few cases of accidental falls from heights from time to time. The lucky ones might still have a breath left, but most were already beyond saving by the time they were brought in.
Shi Jing frowned slightly. “I am very sorry that this happened to your cat. But on what grounds are you demanding an explanation from my doctor?”
The man grew furious and roared wrathfully. “Damn it, you medicalized my cat to death and you are still asking me why?! What kind of hospital are you running if you can not even save a cat? You might as well just go bankrupt!”
“My cat is a purebred cat imported from abroad, with royal bloodlines. You lot would not even see one in your entire lifetime! How about this: you compensate us two hundred thousand, and I will not make a big deal out of this.”
The woman beside him cried and chimed in. “That is right, we spent one hundred and fifty thousand to air-freight Xiaoban back from abroad. With the expenses for taking care of it, two hundred thousand is not much. It has only been a few months, so how could something like this happen…”
Zhong Yu closed his eyes. “I have explained this to you many times already. We already performed resuscitation, and this lady witnessed the whole process. When Xiaoban was brought in, it already had no breathing or heartbeat. We tried for a very long time before declaring its death, and afterwards, we even provided the contact information for funeral-related personnel.”
“Bullshit! It was still alive when it was brought in, with its eyes wide open! It is just that your medical skills are incompetent! Your hospital is nothing more than trash, failing to cure even a single fucking cat!”
With that, he suddenly raised his arm and swung it toward Zhong Yu’s face!