Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
When the time came to eight and a half minutes, Elspeth placed a box of medicinal herbs on the table beside the man.
“I’m done.”
The man hadn’t even finished his tea when he saw her standing confidently aside, waiting for him to inspect her prescription. At that, he quirked his lips.
This girl managed to get the prescription ready in less than ten minutes?!
Even his mentee spent an entire two weeks just memorizing his dispensary, but this girl picked out the herbs like this was her dispensary!
That said, he still couldn’t trust her judgment so simply just yet. At that, he checked the herbs she picked out thoroughly, and by the end of it, he turned grim.
Everything was fine until he saw the last two herbs, which evidently conflicted with the other herbs earlier. The patient will probably get seriously sick from this prescription.
“Are you sure you haven’t mixed up your dispenses?”
“Impossible.”
Elspeth looked innocently at him.
“This is exactly it. Do you not know the prescription?”
“I think I still know a cure for an illness as basic as typhoid when I’ve been in this field for forty years.”
The man turned grim at once, surprised that she would question his ability.
At that, Elspeth burst into a chuckle.
“Then it must be that you haven’t updated your knowledge for a while. You probably haven’t come up with new innovations for a while either, have you?”
Great, she’s challenging my authority now!
The man turned grimmer by the second.
“Impossible. I’ve also added these herbs in the past, but none of them are usable!”
“Then, the problem probably lies in the way you make them.”
Elspeth spread her hands out, not looking nervous at all.
The man narrowed his eyes and stared bewilderedly at her at that.
“You’re saying you’ve achieved success using this prescription?”
Oh, how Elspeth had a say in this topic.
“My mentor would always use this prescription to treat me whenever I was down with a cold back then. I had so much of it that I can even point out what herbs have been used as soon as I taste it now.”
That is so outrageous… yet common. The man couldn’t help but sigh as he looked at how confident the young woman was.
“You really can’t overlook the young ones.”
How can such a wonderful young lady be Schwartz’s mentee?!
The thought of Sonny had him gritting his teeth in anger and his expression turning from admiration to deploring.
“So… Have I passed the test?”
Elspeth wasn’t sure what he was thinking when she saw how quickly his countenances shifted.
At that, the man cleared his throat.
“I… If you want to pass the test, I have one more condition.”
“What is it?”
Elspeth grew bewildered as she looked at his awkward expression.
“You… I’ll give the medicinal herbs to you for free if you agree to sever your mentor-mentee relationship with Schwartz.”
Elspeth was stunned. It would be even better if I could just become his mentee! That way, I’d inherit the entire dispensary. That mentee of his he mentioned sounded incompetent anyway…
“You won’t get a second chance at this. Once you pass up this offer, this is it!”
said the man with beaming eyes while devising his plan.
Elspeth, on the other hand, couldn’t make out what the man had in mind. Sure, Sonny was quite annoying, but she still wasn’t very willing to sever her mentorship with the old man.
“This demand’s a little imposing, don’t you think? I refuse.”
With that, the man snorted and said,
“Alright, so be it then. Please leave.”
How exasperating. The mentee-to-be right in front of him, gone, just like that.
However, Elspeth suddenly smirked icily.
“But… since you’re not going to play nice, we’ll do it the hard way then.”
The man was stumped, and his heart skipped a beat when the benign young woman’s gaze at him turned hostile the next second.
“What do you want?”
“Nothing, of course.”
Sure, that was what she said, but Elspeth still rotated her wrist while approaching the man.
“I’m warning you, you better not touch me. I’m-“
the man cautioned in panic and nearly revealed his identity, but he quickly shut up, his face dark.
“You’re what?”
Elspeth was rendered stupefied, and during the moment she zoned out, the man’s countenance shifted multitudes.
“No, nothing. I’m no one. Alright, what do you propose?”
Lo and behold, Elspeth clasped his wrist the next second, and it was only now that he realized her grip on him half an hour ago was already considered loose. Now, not only could he feel a sense of restraint but even intimidation.
At that, he gulped, suddenly realizing this young lady wasn’t someone he could mess with.
“Do as I say. Be a good doctor and hand me the herbs I want.”
“Ptui! Dream on!”
the man cussed.
“Right now, you’re in my hands, and there are only the two of us here.”
Elspeth shrugged. It seemed that she wasn’t afraid at all.
“What makes you think I will listen to you?”
The man sneered in response.
“I’m warning you-there’s a trap in here…”
At that, Elspeth moved to his back and yanked the button out when she felt it by his feet. Then, she dangled it in front of him and asked him with feigned innocence and shock.
“What trap? You don’t mean this thing, do you?”
