Hospital 444
Chapter 137 - 14 Visitors

Chapter 137: Chapter 14 Visitors

Doctor?

Jin Yunran found it utterly absurd.

A doctor coming to play a prank? Who would have so much idle time on their hands?

"Isn’t that just Lin Lan’s side of the story?" Jin Yunran suddenly thought of something and started to worry. What if Lin Lan had colluded with someone outside and let a criminal in?

But then Jin Yunran felt it was impossible. If there was collusion, they would choose a time when her sister was not in the living room and arrange it over the phone. Lin Lan would just go open the door; why would they intentionally ring the bell? It made no sense at all.

After finishing breakfast, Jin Yunran entered the bathroom.

She locked the door and then took out that diary from her clothes.

She flipped to the last page to check...

The diary had not been "updated".

The biggest problem now was that the "updates" to the diary didn’t happen at fixed times. Now that Lin Lan had left, there shouldn’t be any new entries in the diary, right?

Thinking this, Jin Yunran closed the diary.

She suddenly realized something.

Just now, when she opened the diary, she was actually very nervous. She feared... the diary really had been "updated".

After all, keeping the diary close to her was just to confirm one thing: Is there any possibility that the diary could "update" itself?

These days, all sorts of strange details, when linked together, seemed to hint at something eerie and mysterious.

It shouldn’t... be possible... right?

Impossible, right?

Stepping out of the bathroom, she found her sister still sitting on the sofa, reading "The Red and the Black".

And Jin Yunran noticed "Wuthering Heights" on the coffee table in front of the sofa; it seemed her sister had gotten it for her.

Jin Yunran slowly approached her sister and sat down, feeling somewhat uneasy.

She had been keeping the matter of the diary secret from her sister.

At this point, should she continue to keep it from her?

"Sister."

Finally, Jin Yunran made up her mind and spoke up, "I want to talk to you."

Her sister put down the book, looked at Jin Yunran, and closed the book.

"I know what you want to talk to me about, Yun Ran."

"You... you know?"

"Yun Ran, I know why you took leave to come home and stay with me." After speaking a few sentences, Yun Lan’s gaze gradually dropped, "I understand your thoughts. But it’s not that everything can be solved just by coming over to talk to me. Actually, I would rather mourn Qishu quietly."

Jin Yunran could detect a hint of sorrow in her sister’s tone.

"It was the same when mom and dad died. Honestly, I’m sick of the way everyone gathers at the funeral, crying their eyes out around the casket. I just want to find a place where I’m all alone, facing no one, and then have a good cry. Funerals have always been held for the living, not the dead."

"Sister..."

"Of course, you can come and accompany me, and I’m happy about it, Yun Ran. But you don’t need to be with me all the time."

Jin Yunran, recalling her experiences with her sister from childhood to adulthood, suddenly felt that perhaps she had never really understood her sister.

Especially since her sister had been married for so many years, the memories of the times they had spent together in the past were now blurred.

"On Halloween, I’ll stick to the original plan," Yun Lan said, finally raising her head to look at Yun Ran in front of her.

Halloween...

Ever since that Halloween years ago, Jin Yunran no longer liked the festival. Working for a foreign company, merely going through the motions was enough; she no longer made a big deal of it as before.

Just then, suddenly, a bell rang.

It was a visitor outside ringing the call bell!

Yun Lan walked over and picked up the handset, and on the screen in front of her appeared the visitor outside.

The person was...

Lin Lan?!?

"Lin Lan, you’re back?"

Jin Yunran was also surprised, hurrying over and realizing with astonishment that Lin Lan had returned.

Was it possible that Lin Lan hadn’t fled in fear of her crimes? Had she overthought it?

"I’m sorry, madam," Lin Lan said. "I had something urgent to deal with, and now I’m back."

Could she have gone back to her hometown overnight and returned? Impossible, even by plane, that seemed unlikely to be that fast, right?

"Sister, don’t let..."

But it was too late.

Jin Yun Lan let A-Lan into the villa.

Before long, Jin Yun Ran saw A-Lan walking into the living room of the villa.

"A-Lan," Jin Yun Ran’s face darkened, "what happened last night? What urgent matter came up at your home that you just left a note and took off without saying a word to us?"

"I’m sorry." A-Lan quickly apologized, "Actually, it wasn’t anything with my family. In fact, my boyfriend came from my hometown to see me, and I... I went out to meet him, and then spent the night with him. After I sent him off in the morning, I came straight here."

"You have a boyfriend back in your hometown?" Hearing A-Lan’s explanation, Jin Yun Lan asked, "I’ve never heard you mention it before. Didn’t you say you were planning to work for a couple more years, save some money, and then go back to help your parents with their business before finding someone to marry?"

"This, actually, I’ve been keeping it a secret from you, Madam. He’s quite poor and unwilling to come out to work, and my parents don’t approve of him. I felt ashamed, so I..."

Jin Yun Ran found A-Lan’s story incredibly hard to believe; it was full of holes.

Her boyfriend came to see her, and she was so rushed that she couldn’t even spare a word for her sister and just left a note? And...

"Why was your phone unreachable the entire time?"

"At that time, I was with my boyfriend, and we didn’t want to be disturbed... and perhaps the signal was bad in that area."

"What place?" Jin Yun Ran walked up to A-Lan and said coldly, "You hadn’t been gone long when your sister tried calling your phone. Is the signal that bad around here? A-Lan, you’re kidding me!"

Then, she took A-Lan by the hand and said, "Come with me! Sister, you stay here for now, I have something to ask A-Lan!"

Jin Yun Ran took A-Lan by the hand and went up to the second floor, stopping in front of that study.

"I didn’t say it in front of sister as a courtesy to you." Jin Yun Ran glared at A-Lan, "Lin Lan, I’m giving you one last chance to tell me the truth!"

"What... what do you want me to say?"

"The diary!" Jin Yun Ran spat the words out between clenched teeth, "Do I need to say more? You’ve been forging my brother-in-law’s handwriting in the diary, right? You’ve been pretending all along; what exactly are you trying to do!"

Finally voicing these thoughts brought Jin Yun Ran a measure of relief.

"The diary?" However, A-Lan looked utterly confused, "What diary are you talking about? I really don’t know?"

"Keep pretending! Go on, keep pretending!" Jin Yun Ran didn’t believe a word A-Lan said, "You dare to say the diary wasn’t written by you?"

"I... I don’t understand, what exactly do you mean?"

Suddenly, Jin Yun Ran noticed something strange about A-Lan.

Why wasn’t she referring to her by her name?

"A-Lan," Jin Yun Ran said coldly, "what are you..."

But the next moment...

A-Lan said something unexpected.

"Could you tell me more about the diary? I want to understand."

Jin Yun Ran was taken aback.

What kind of tone was this? She even seemed to have the high ground.

Could it really not be her?

"Please believe me, trust me," A-Lan emphasized, as she continued, "You must believe me."

After hearing the last sentence, the coldness in Jin Yun Ran’s eyes gradually faded.

In the end, she said, "Here’s what happened..."

"Are you guys alright?" Just at that moment, Jin Yun Lan came upstairs, "What happened?"

A-Lan hurriedly said, "It’s nothing, nothing at all."

Jin Yun Lan looked at A-Lan blankly, then, surprisingly, she really didn’t ask anything more and went back downstairs.

Afterward, A-Lan turned her head and looked at Jin Yun Ran.

"Now, tell me about the diary."

...

Thirty minutes later.

In the study that once belonged to Gao Qishu, A-Lan held the diary, having reached the final page.

She rubbed her forehead and handed the diary back to Jin Yun Ran.

"Keep it close and safe, and if anything changes, come tell me."

"Yes."

And just like that, Jin Yun Ran left.

A-Lan picked up her phone and muttered to herself, "Although I can’t get in touch with Dr. Tang, the mental influence she applied is still ongoing. In their eyes, I am A-Lan. As long as I can make them believe me, they will trust me. It’s just that now, I can’t go back to the hospital."

She looked around.

"Dai Lin must be within this villa. I must find him and take him back to the hospital before it’s too late!"