Chapter 3: Chapter 3: Her True Identity
The man who came was Shen Mubai, president of the second most powerful Shen Group in An City and a resident of the Wolong Tinglan community.
Qiao Ran and Shen Mubai met three months prior.
While walking in the park, a white snow mastiff dog, as big as a lion, suddenly burst out and knocked her to the ground.
Shen Mubai came to her aid, and that was how they came to know each other.
"Qiao Ran, how did you get hurt, let me take you to the hospital."
"No need to bother Mr. Shen, I've already called my husband, and he will be here soon."
"But I just saw him driving away from this road, drifting like a race car driver."
So the person who had used Hidden Weapon to wound her leg and made her fall just now was Wen Shimo?
Indeed, only he possessed the profound Inner Strength to sit in the car and use Hidden Weapon to hurt her.
"There's no need to bother Mr. Shen, I've already informed my friend, and she will be here shortly."
With every step, a piercing pain radiated from her ankle, but what hurt more was her heart.
The man she had loved deeply for a decade had, when they divorced, left her covered in wounds.
"A marriage with love will make both parties better, while one without love will lead to mutual loathing, turning them into the very person they once despised. Miss Qiao is a smart woman; you wouldn't let yourself waste too much time in an unequal and loveless marriage, right?" Shen Mubai's voice arose from behind Qiao Ran.
"The warmth and cold of a marriage are known only to those in it. Mr. Shen may think my marriage is unhappy, but how can he know whether I don't find joy in it?" Qiao Ran responded indifferently.
"It seems Miss Qiao truly loves Mr. Wen, but if I were to reveal your true identity to him, do you think he would fall in love with you upon learning that Miss Qiao is the world's top-renowned Doctor Joy?" Shen Mubai watched Qiao Ran's back, his voice clear and forceful.
"I don't understand what Mr. Shen is talking about!" Qiao Ran pretended not to understand and continued to walk in pain.
"Even though you were fully equipped when treating patients, wearing a voice changer for men and carefully sticking double eyelid tapes to cover your marks, secrets can't be hidden forever. Snowball is a beloved dog carefully raised by my grandfather, deeply attached to him, and leaped on you in gratitude upon hearing you announce a successful surgery."
"At that moment, you were so frightened that your color drained, and the eyelid tape was hence rubbed off, revealing the light pink heart-shaped birthmark on your right eyelid. At the time, Snowball only leaped onto your legs, but you covered your eyes, leading me to think that a childhood injury from a dog left a psychological shadow on you. That's why I had Snowball test you, and your reaction, immediately covering your eyes, was the same as that of Doctor Joy in the video from three years ago. It convinced me that you are Doctor Joy."
"If I show the video of you saving my grandfather years ago to Wen Shimo, with his powers of observation, having been with you for three years, he'll recognize you as Doctor Joy sooner rather than later. He'll find out that it was you who saved both his mother and Song Wanqing's lives. Even if he doesn't love you, he won't be causing you distress by allowing rumors about him to run rampant as they are now, and your life would be less hard..."
"There's no need!" Qiao Ran cut Shen Mubai off, turned around, and got into the car.
Seeing Qiao Ran get into the car, Shen Mubai's lips curled into a refined and charming faint smile.
"Why do you want to prove Joy's identity?"
"Before answering that, you should first set your sprained ankle properly," Shen Mubai said, looking at Qiao Ran's swollen and protruding ankle, his voice tinged with pity.
"Haven't you heard that doctors shouldn't self-medicate? If the force used in setting the bone is incorrect, it brings nothing but further injury."
"Sorry, but you'll have to endure the pain a bit longer!" After instructing the driver to speed up, Shen Mubai turned his gaze towards Qiao Ran. "You know that the Shen Family is in the medical business, we have long wanted to collaborate with the world-renowned surgeon, Joy, but after your surgery, you disappeared as if you had evaporated from the face of the earth."
"So I carefully watched your videos in the hospital and saw the footage of you being attacked by the snowball. From your reaction, I thought you looked more like a woman. After enlarging the footage and watching it dozens of times, I saw a pink heart-shaped mole under your raised double eyelids when you were startled, which confirmed my suspicion that Dr. Joy is a woman, not a man."
"I don't remember us meeting in person, so how could you think of connecting me with Joy and use the snowball incident to test me?" Qiao Ran asked with confusion.
"Have you forgotten the incident in the cafe when you and a model threw coffee juice on each other's faces and got into a scuffle, bumping into me? At that time, you were frantically trying to wipe the stains off my clothes, which allowed me to see the heart-shaped mark on your eyes. It's hard to find two identical leaves in the world, so a heart-shaped mole in the same place must also be rare. I decided to try and verify it, and unexpectedly, it proved that you are indeed Joy."
Qiao Ran still vividly remembered the humiliating cafe incident with Wen Shimo's rumored girlfriend that had caused a sensation on the internet.
Indeed, she did bump into someone back then, and while she was trying to clean the stains off their clothes, she was pulled down to the ground by Wen Shimo's rumored girlfriend who started pulling her hair.
Later, as she continued to scuffle with that woman, she had no idea that the person she had bumped into that day was Shen Mubai.
"I apologize for making you witness such a spectacle."
"To be honest, even after the snowball confirmed your identity, I still find it hard to associate a top surgeon who holds others' lives in their hands with a quarrelsome woman brawling publicly on the ground, and I can't believe that someone who endured her husband's infidelity for three years could be a world-renowned doctor." Shen Mubai chuckled.
Even if every man in the world were unfaithful, Wen Shimo would not cheat.
Qiao Ran had witnessed first-hand how Wen Shimo had doted on Song Wanqing with devoted care over the past three years; he would never do anything to wrong Song Wanqing.
Wen Shimo's numerous scandals were nothing but a ploy to force her to divorce and turn her into the laughing stock fodder for everyone's gossip.
"People do foolish things sometimes."
Naively thinking one is unique, capable of changing the impossible.
Wen Shimo saw Qiao Ran walking along the roadside in light clothes and initially wanted to give her a ride, so he slowly drove the car up behind her.
Upon hearing the content of her phone call, he flew into a rage and punished her for her ulterior motive in marrying him by using a Hidden Weapon to hit her calf.
He drove three miles before stopping the car alongside the road.
However, after waiting for half an hour and not seeing Qiao Ran, he drove back the same way and didn't see her anywhere along the road.
Thinking that Qiao Ran might have gone home to tend to her injury, Wen Shimo hurriedly drove back to check, only to find the big room completely empty.
Lastly, he arrived at An City Hospital with complex emotions, and as soon as he entered the lobby, he saw a man and a woman coming towards him, laughing and talking. That person was none other than Qiao Ran.
She was draped in a black suit jacket, speaking with a low brow and a smile to Shen Mubai who was supporting her by her side.
So the reason he had waited on the road for so long without seeing her was that she had already gotten into Shen Mubai's car?
When had she and Shen Mubai become acquainted?