CHAPTER 274: CHAPTER 274; YOU WILL SCARE THE POOR NURSE

"Then never give it away. Not even the smallest piece."

Tang Fei chuckled quietly and flicked his forehead with her finger. "Chairman Huo, are you jealous of a seventy-year-old patient?"

He stared at her. "Yes." He openly admitted it. That earned him a real laugh.

And just as she reached for his hand, just to hold it for a moment, another voice came down the hallway.

"Excuse me..."

A young nurse, this one clearly flustered, was standing a respectable distance away, her eyes darting nervously between the couple and the files in her hands.

"I-I need to update the patient’s vitals. Room 302."

Tang Fei blinked, startled, and realized they were completely blocking the door to the wardroom, but Huo Ting Cheng didn’t move.

The nurse looked like she might faint in the next minute. Who didn’t know, Huo Ting Cheng?

From behind a nearby pillar, Huo Wu stepped out and said calmly, "Chairman Huo, if you’re finished, please allow the medical staff to pass through."

Tang Fei pinched his arm lightly. "Move, honey. You will scare the poor nurse into quitting."

He finally stepped aside, reluctantly. But even then, he didn’t let go of her hand.

And when the nurse passed by, she accidentally caught his gaze.

It was a pure warning. A silent statement: This woman is mine. Look again, and I’ll make sure you regret it.

The poor nurse dropped her pen out of nervousness.

Tang Fei rolled her eyes. "Behave."

"I am behaving," he responded, while calming down, "This is me being civil."

"Huo Ting Cheng...." she began, half exasperated, half amused.

Tang Fei sighed, but there was no real irritation in her voice, just affection worn thin by his possessiveness and deepened by understanding.

She turned to him, fingers still laced with his. "You stay here. Try not to make anyone cry while I’m gone. Behave yourself, we will be done very soon."

He didn’t answer. Just lifted her hand to his lips and pressed a kiss to her knuckles, eyes never leaving hers.

With a soft breath, she gently pulled away and stepped back into the wardroom, her composure slipping seamlessly back into professionalism, but her heart still tethered to the man just beyond the door.

Behind her, the hallway quieted once more, except for the slight scrape of a pen being picked up off the floor, and the echo of a chairman’s quiet, territorial silence.

In the recovery room, a few elderly residents were already gathered around tables. One woman clapped her hands excitedly when she saw the baskets of fruit.

"Oh my, apples! And dragon fruit? You people are either angels or lost. So many fruits!" Xu Xie, Twilight, and Qin Xinyu were going around distributing fruits and things they had brought over.

Xu Xie chuckled as she passed around oranges to them and was worried why Tang Fei stepped out of the wardroom, "Little bit of both, grandma."

Twilight handed out warm shawls and socks that had been purchased by the guards. "These are soft and comfy. They would warm you all up while you are staying here and receiving medical attention." She handed them over to them, one by one.

Tang Fei moved through the room like a gentle breeze, checking vitals with a nurse, adjusting the footstool for one of the wheelchair-bound women, listening attentively to Grandpa Wei as he recounted a love story he had clearly told a thousand times.

As she tucked the edge of his blanket, Grandpa Wei paused, looking at her with misty eyes and a nostalgic smile.

"I saw you with your husband earlier in the corridor..." he said slowly. "That man really loves you. You can see it in the way he looks at you, like the world begins and ends with you."

Tang Fei smiled, but he wasn’t done.

"A man... in the end, all he really has is his wife. Children grow up, they leave, they build homes of their own. But your partner, she’s the one you walk through life with. That’s the one you grow old with. If you’re lucky...." he tapped her hand gently...." you get to love each other for an eternity."

"He is the one who would always walk with you, and would never betray you, always loyal! Love and understand each other, if you have any problems, talk it out and solve it, you would think he has a problem with his possessiveness, but he just doesn’t want to go through something that had traumatized him... We all carry our traumas and keep them hidden. Be patient with him." He could tell what man Huo Ting Cheng was.

She blinked, her heart warming, and nodded at him with acknowledgement.

"That’s why you should always put each other first," Grandpa Wei finished softly. "Always."

Tang Fei gave his hand a gentle squeeze. "Thank you, Grandpa Wei. I will always remember that."

At one corner of the room, Feihao was already deep in a chess match with Grandpa Liu, her brow furrowed in deep concentration.

"Young lady, you play like a general who’s already three battles ahead," Liu muttered, stroking his wispy beard.

"I read a book once," Feihao said proudly. "And beat someone twice."

"That person let her win intentionally," Xu Xie said from across the room sarcastically. There was no way she could win and it was her first time playing chess.

"Hehe... Mind your own business." Feihao glared at her.

Meanwhile, at a quieter table, Zhihao laid out his Go board with ritualistic care. The elderly gentleman across from him adjusted his glasses to watch the match that seemed to be tough.

Twenty minutes later, the game had drawn a small crowd surrounding them. Twilight leaned over to Xu Xie and whispered, "I think Zhihao’s about to smoke a seventy-year-old."

"He’s his mother’s son," Xu Xie murmured back, eying Zhihao seated at a distance away, before gazing at Feihao; she wasn’t left behind, either. "Born with a poker face."

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