TSFLIP Chapter 1096

Qi Wei took Fengguang back to the couch, then went into his room to grab the medical kit. As Fengguang looked at the small cut on the back of her hand, she couldn’t help replaying the scene she had just witnessed. Lowering her gaze, she caught sight of a phone lying on the couch—it was the one Jin Guoguo had left behind.

“To prevent infection, it’s better to bandage it,” Qi Wei said as he walked out of the room.

Hearing his voice, she instinctively hid the phone in her bag. Then, as if nothing had happened, she sat still and watched him come over.

Qi Wei sat beside her. Seeing how pale she looked, he sighed and gently placed a hand on her cheek. “Don’t worry. I’ll handle everything. You don’t need to be afraid.”

“You don’t understand…” Her clenched hand was still trembling slightly. “She was just talking to me like everything was fine… and then… then she jumped right in front of me… Maybe… maybe if I had been just a little faster, I could have stopped her. She wouldn’t have died…”

It was a very typical kind of guilt, like when someone gets hit by a car right in front of you and you can’t help thinking that if only you had grabbed them in time, the tragedy might have been avoided.

“This isn’t your fault.” Qi Wei took her hand and gently pried open her fingers, which had been clenched so tightly her nails were digging into her palm. “None of us can predict the future, so no one knows what’s going to happen next. Nurse Jin jumped because of her own emotional state, not because of you.”

“She… I mean Nurse Jin… why did she call me ‘Xiao Jia’? Who is Xiao Jia?”

“As far as I know, Xiao Jia was a friend of hers. Something happened later on, and that may be why Nurse Jin’s emotions were unstable.” As he cleaned the wound on her hand, he continued, “She developed depression because of it. After treatment, she seemed to recover, so the director allowed her to return to work.”

“Do I… look like that, Xiao Jia?”

“I wouldn’t know.” Qi Wei looked up and smiled faintly. “I’ve never met this girl named Xiao Jia. But Nurse Jin tends to become overly fond of pretty women. So maybe that girl was very beautiful too.”

“Doctor…”

“Hmm?” He looked at her, a soft smile lingering in his eyes.

She stared at him blankly. “Why… can you still smile so gently when someone you know has died?”

“But I can’t bring myself to cry either.” He gently patted her head, his eyes deep and unreadable. “Nurse Jin and I were nothing more than strangers who had met a few times and knew each other’s names.”

“She seemed to like you…”

He gave a small laugh. “Did she?”

Just two simple words, without the slightest emotional fluctuation—perfectly fitting for the description of “strangers.”

Fengguang told herself this was a normal reaction. If she heard that a stranger liked her and then that stranger died, she probably wouldn’t show much emotion either.

And yet, she felt afraid—a strange, unexplainable fear creeping up inside her.

“Doctor Qi…”

“What is it?” he asked softly, carefully placing gauze over her wound, just as attentive as when he had treated her burn earlier.