Chapter 256: The Puppet Master

"If you really feel bad about it, just buy me a drink," Lin Fei said.

Seeing Old Zhang hesitated as he was about to speak, Lin Fei, without further ado, simply pulled Old Zhang out, "I'm not going to lie to you, Old Zhang, my wife keeps a tight leash on me, and I haven't had a drink in days. If you really want to thank me, then treat me—"

Mid-sentence, at the turn of the hospital corridor, Lin Fei's peripheral vision accidentally caught a glimpse of a familiar silhouette etched deeply in his mind for many years.

The once slightly pheasant-like oval face had blossomed into a radiant and perfectly proportioned melon seed face.

But the familiar innocence in the eyes of the young woman, that clarity which could not be more familiar, and the composed and graceful demeanor naturally exuding from her, sent shivers through Lin Fei's heart. It was as though, in an instant, he had traveled through time back to those youthfully naive yet sweetly innocent high school days.

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