Reborn as a Rich Woman in the Eighties
Chapter 596 - 595 We Are Not Friends Right Now

Chapter 596: Chapter 595 We Are Not Friends Right Now

City Hospital, a large ward for eight patients.

Two policemen in uniform and wearing large caps were questioning a girl and taking notes.

The girl looked to be in her twenties and would have been pretty, but she had bandages around her head and her swollen face made her look particularly haggard and pitiful.

One of the policemen, a man in his thirties, asked, "Girl, besides remembering that he wasn’t tall, do you have any impression of his facial features? This would be a great help for us in solving the case quickly!"

Another younger man, who was taking notes intently, looked up and turned out to be Lin Chun.

Lately, the city had seen two more incidents involving hammer attacks to the head, with all the injured girls wearing red clothes.

One of these cases even occurred around seven in the evening, causing a very bad impact.

Various rumors were flying around, making everyone anxious.

The suspect they had originally staked out had already been cleared of suspicion.

Now, all they could hope for was to get useful information from the victims; otherwise, the pressure from above was immense. If the case wasn’t solved, no one would have an easy time.

The girl’s hand, not hooked up to an IV, nervously clutched the blanket.

If she could avoid recalling the incident, she truly did not want to remember that terrible scene.

But in order to solve the case quickly and catch the perpetrator, she had to cooperate.

She closed her eyes in discomfort, trying hard to recall the scene at the time.

Lin Chun and his colleague waited patiently, and the other patients in the ward kept silent, trying not to disturb them.

When she opened her eyes again, she shook her head in disappointment, "... I just smelled alcohol on him; apart from that, my mind is a blank. Afterward, everything went dark, and I knew nothing!"

"Then..." Lin Chun’s colleague was just about to continue the questioning when a pretty girl, carrying fruit, quickly pushed open the door and entered.

She swept a glance at the men seated by the bed and then, with a look of urgent concern, swiftly approached the bed, asking hastily, "Xiaomin! Are you alright? I was scared to death! How could something like this happen to you?"

Xiaomin smiled weakly in an attempt to comfort her, "Don’t worry! I’m fine now! Xiaoman... thank you for coming to see me!"

"Why are you being so polite with me!" Xiaoman said as she casually placed what she brought on top of a metal cabinet, "I didn’t know what you could eat, so I just bought some fruit!"

As Xiaoman turned around, Lin Chun and his colleague took an extra look at her out of professional habit.

She also curiously sized up Lin Chun and his colleague.

Upon closer inspection, Lin Chun felt she looked familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere before.

Xiaoman pointed at Lin Chun excitedly, "It’s you! Lin Chun! I didn’t recognize you with that large cap on!"

This Xiaoman was none other than Ji Man.

She had been anxious to visit her friend in the ward and hadn’t paid much attention to the two men inside or what they looked like.

But after a closer look, she recognized him as Lin Xia’s older brother.

Lin Chun also remembered then, this girl was his younger sister’s friend and had even attended the wedding banquet when Lin Xia got married.

Lin Chun chuckled, "Ah! It’s Xiaoxia’s good friend! Now I remember!"

Hearing his phrase "good friend," Ji Man’s eyes flickered slightly, but her face still showed a cheerful smile, "Yes! What a coincidence!"

Inside, she felt the irony of it all—what kind of "good friend" was she to Lin Xia now?

She couldn’t aspire to the likes of Lin Xia!

Lin Chun and she were not close, so there was nothing more to say.

Another man continued asking Xiaomin a few questions, but eventually, he saw she couldn’t think of any useful leads at the moment.

Her friends had arrived, and it wouldn’t be good for them to linger here.

So he got up and said, "Alright! If you remember anything, contact us promptly..."

"Ok! I will!" The girl held her head, frowning in pain.

Lin Chun followed his colleague and strode toward the door of the hospital room.

Ji Man volunteered to see them out, "Take care! Lin Chun! This is my good friend, so please solve the case quickly! Catch that bad person soon!"

"Don’t worry! We’ll work fast!" Lin Chun waved at her, "You go back!"

"Ok!" Ji Man stood at the door, watching the two of them leave, a cold smile crossing the corners of her mouth.

Unexpectedly, Lin Xia’s big brother looked quite decent in that uniform.

When Lin Chun got home from work, while eating, he casually mentioned to Lin Xia that he had run into Ji Man.

"Xiaoxia, can you believe it! I was with Brother Wang at the hospital taking statements, and I happened to run into your good friend—what’s her name, Xiaoman? The victim turns out to be her friend!"

"Who? Ji Man?" Lin Xia paused as she was serving the rice.

She hadn’t seen Ji Man since after the New Year!

When she was in the provincial city, she had learned from Lu Qing about the things Ji Man had said to her.

Because of this, she no longer considered Ji Man her friend in her heart.

Her feelings about Ji Man were conflicted, on one hand, she felt sympathy for her experiences and despised Xu Haimin’s shamelessness.

But on the other hand, she was disgusted by Ji Man’s back-stabbing and two-faced behavior.

Lin Chun took the white porcelain bowl full of rice from Lin Xia, "Yes! That’s her! At first, I didn’t recognize her, only felt that she looked familiar!

Then she started talking to me, and I remembered she had attended your wedding! It seems you don’t hang out with her anymore, right?"

Lin Xia didn’t know how to describe her relationship with Ji Man to her big brother. There were some things—like Ji Man almost being violated, or her telling Lu Qing that Jiang Mingyuan liked her—that she couldn’t tell her big brother.

Otherwise, it would lead to even more questions.

But she had to make it clear to him that she and Ji Man were no longer friends.

Otherwise, if Ji Man used her big brother for some scheme behind her back, it would really be troublesome.

After thinking, she said, "Big Brother! We’re not friends anymore! Some things happened! I can’t explain the specifics in a word or two!

Just understand that she did some things behind my back and caused me no shortage of trouble! Remember, if you see her again, you don’t need to bother with her! She’s quite scheming!"

Although Lin Chun was a bit curious about what had actually happened between the two girls, he didn’t press for details, "Okay! Don’t worry! It’s unlikely I’ll run into her again, today was just a coincidence!"

He didn’t believe he would meet Ji Man again, so he didn’t take it seriously.

"Okay! Just remember that!" was all Lin Xia could say.

Lin Xia was concerned about her big brother working hard and leaving early and returning late, urging him, "Big Brother! Hurry and eat! After you’re done, lie down for a bit before heading back to the office!"

Lin Chun was shoveling the food into his mouth, "Okay! You eat too! Xiaoqiu should be back soon! Once Dongzi finishes his exams, we’ll all be free!"

"Yes! Just a few more days! Hold on a little longer!" Lin Xia picked up her chopsticks and ate, her mind wandering to where they might go for fun after her brother finished his exams...