Crashing into an Old Flame
Chapter 149: Your unparalleled elegance

Chapter 149: Your unparalleled elegance

"Dr. Alex is great too. He joined the hospital a few months after Dr. Warner came. But when you put both of them in one frame, you would find the former lacking. Look at how he just went on vacation yesterday without any warning, abandoning his patients...’’

"Looks like our head nurse is having a field day spilling the beans about my private life.’’

As the voice faded, the strong smell of tobacco enveloped them.

Mary’s face paled.

Diana patted her arm.

About his private life? Since they were talking about Alex Qin, this should be the Director’s infamous grandson.

Diana turned around to look at the man.

Dressed in a loose T-shirt and shorts, the man stood there with his head tilted to the side. One of his hands held the cigarette while the other went to remove the aviators that covered nearly half of his face.

He was handsome. She would give him that.

"Oh? This should be the new assistant the whole hospital is gossiping about?"

He even recognized her. Diana raised an eyebrow. And he knew the rumors too.

"D-Dr. Alex, please don’t blame Diana for this. She is new here. I... I was too careless...’’ Mary clasped her hand in front of her and kept her head lowered, ’’It’s all my fault.’’

This Alex was rumored to have a bad temper so Diana could more or less understand that Mary was trying to protect her. She could not help but feel touched.

Alex shot a glance at Mary, ’’You know what you did wrong?"

"I...’’

"Cat got your tongue now? You weren’t this meek when you were gossiping about me,’’ the man clicked his tongue.

’’I am so sorry. I am sorry, Dr. Alex. I did not mean it.’’

Diana grabbed Mary’s hand, ’’Did she do something wrong?"

’’Diana, you...’’ Mary shook her head at her, her eyes reddening.

The weather was cold but Mary’s forehead was covered in a cold sweat and she looked anxious.

Diana averted her gaze and glanced at the evildoer who caused this, ’’You just said that the whole hospital is gossiping about me?"

Alex took a whiff of his cigarette, blowing the smoke like he was some emperor in a leisurely mood as he eyed her, ’’You think I am lying?"

’’Of course not. Then, when you heard them gossiping, did you confront them?"

The man scoffed, ’’Why should I? Do I even know you?"

"Ohhhh...’’ Diana pressed her palm to her mouth, ’’Here I thought you were righteous and blaming Mary for not following the protocols and gossiping. But it looks like, you were just miffed by what she spoke about you. You are not being professional here.’’

Alex stepped towards her, pointing the cigarette at her face, ’’How so?"

’’If you were being professional and cared about hospital protocols, you would have confronted the people who gossiped about me instead of eavesdropping. You didn’t do it so you don’t have the right to reprimand people who gossip about you. Now that Mary spoke something about you, you are going into defensive mode because you are offended. That’s your personal issue. Why should she care or apologize?’’ Diana smiled, barely restraining her urge to shove away the cigarette that was being pointed at her face, ’’After all, dogs are going to bark on the street. Can humans stop walking to care about them?"

"Did you just call me a dog?" he pushed the cigarette forward, looking like he wanted to shove it in her face.

’’You took offense? I was making a reference,’’ Diana smiled sweetly.

In fact, she was in no way glorifying gossip. She knew how harmful and toxic it could be. She had faced enough of it in medical school herself.

But this man was too much for bullying Mary.

Mary was just saying it in a harmless manner. Did he have to push her so far that she was almost trembling?

’’Diana...’’ Mary tugged her hand and shook her head again.

Diana pushed her back and shielded the woman behind her, ’’I thought Mary was just saying it casually. But looking at you, every word she said hits the mark.’’

Alex narrowed his eyes, ’’You mean to say what she said is true?"

’’Is it not?" Diana eyed the cigarette in his hand before looking at the no smoking signs on the walls, ’’Have a good day, Dr. Alex,’’ her gaze scanned his beach outfit.

She grabbed Mary’s hand and fled from the crime scene just as the man started seething.

...

When Alex returned to his office, Veronica was surprised to see him.

"Dr. Qin, shall I still postpone the surgery?" Yesterday, he declared out of nowhere that he was going on a holiday and asked her to postpone all the appointments. It put her in a spot about how to deal with the patients so she could not help but be relieved that he came back. He must be enlightened somehow.

But her relief was short-lived as Alex snapped at her, ’’Get out of my sight.’’

Veronica flinched. With tears pooling in her eyes, she ran out of the office.

Once she was outside, she broke down into tears. To think that she had so many aspirations when she came here. She wanted to become a doctor after learning from Maxim but she never even got the chance to be around him. What she got was instead the opportunity to deal with a young master’s mood swings.

The more she thought, the more indignant she felt.

"Why are you crying? Did that imbecile grandson of mine mistreat you?"

Veronica wiped her tears hurriedly, ’’Director.’’

Old Master Qin sighed in disappointment.

Inside the office, Alex paced back and forth.

"I dropped my vacation and came back but to think that I would hear myself being compared to that asshole the moment I stepped foot in here,’’ Alex threw the cigarette to the floor and stomped on it.

And that assistant... He would change his name if he did not get back at her for calling him a dog.

’’Who gave you the courage to spout profanities in my hospital?"

Alex stiffened, ’’Grandpa.’’

"You still know who this old man is?" Old Master Qin rushed towards him and fisted his hair.

"Ah... Grandpa, my hairstyle. Ah ah, it hurts...’’

’’Hairstyle? You want to see if I can turn you bald?"

"I came back, didn’t I?" Alex grabbed his hair to prevent it from being pulled further.

"Had I not threatened to disown you, would you have come back? You even went as far as updating pictures in your moments,’’ he gripped the man’s hair harder and shoved his head back and forth.

"Ah... Grandpa, everyone does that, what’s wrong with it?"

’’You were posting pictures while holding three girls? You want to get a harem for yourself? Boy, you think you are the emperor in ancient times?" With one hard shove, Old Master Qin pushed his grandson back to the table, watching as the man curled up like a cotton ball, ’’Even if you want that, you should still be elegant and not vulgar like you were in the pictures and with your language just now. Back in my days, I could walk around in underwear and I would still be the epitome of elegance...’’

"No wonder Grandma died early, She could not tolerate your elegance, after all...’’ Alex trailed off when the old man approached him and grabbed his collar.

’’What did you say again?’’

’’I said... Your elegance is unparalleled.’’

’’Humph. That it is,’’ Old Master Qin shoved him away.

Alex cleared his throat.

’’Who were you cussing just now, you unfilial grandson?" Old Master Qin thought of the words he heard when he entered the office.

Alex’s lips thinned.

’’You are offended when people compare you to Maxim? When you are in the same field, there would always be comparisons whether you want it or not. Rather than spouting indecent words and sounding like a worthless scum, you should rather focus on improving yourself.’’

Alex pushed himself to his feet and smoothened his collar, ’’You think too much, Grandpa. People like those are not worthy of my attention.’’

’’You...’’ Old Master Qin massaged his forehead, ’’If only you were half as good as him, I would not have had to boil my blood everyday...’’

Sigh, but then that brat was too mature for his age.

About Alex, he was worried that this scoundrel would get himself a harem and over-indulge in pleasure.

When it came to Maxim, Old Master Qin was worried that that brat would end up dying alone with no wife.

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