Chapter 172 - I Like You Too,Dr An

The four men running through the forest paused to catch their breaths. They were chasing a man for the last few days but he proved to be too elusive. The men panted heavily and even clutched at their knees in apparent exhaustion. They had been hired to threaten a doctor and exhort a jade bracelet from the man, They had assumed that it would be an easy task but the doctor had to lead them on a merry chase, first through the city and now into the forest. 

The goons were now exhausted and ready to kill the doctor. One of them frowned and growling in irritation, exclaimed, "How can a doctor outwit us? I am going to kill him once we have the bracelet! To hell with the orders."

The others all agreed with this statement. These people were lazy and took assignments like beating up people for money and blackmailing them. They did not appreciate being led to a chase and having to work hard to earn their reward. Once they had caught their breaths, one of the men suddenly felt something strange. His senses heightened in the dark forest and he registered a peculiarity. He called the attention of his fellows by claiming, "Brothers? Do you hear any sounds from around? All the insects are quiet! I don't have a good feeling about this! We must leave this place. Let's give up on the doctor. We checked his house and office and there is obviously nothing there. We just have to keep looking around. He is on the run so naturally, he won't be carrying the thing with him. maybe once he realises that we have backed off,  he will return and then we can get him again."

Once the goon had pointed out to the eery silence in the forest, the others also felt a chill run down their backs. Yes.  The forest was too quiet. There should at least have been the sound of crickets. Usually, the insects all retreated and silenced only when they sensed danger and there was a predator lurking in the area. Just then the crunch of dried leaves, as if someone was walking over them reached their areas. They looked over at each other in victory sensing that their target was near just as they had been about to give up! But the next moment, the leader who was about to order chase.turned and looked directly down the muscle of a revolver. With a gun pointed at his head, he could not move at all and immediately raised his hands in supplication. The others also followed suit but their feet moved back to make a run. Their first thought was to protect themselves, they could get another leader but not another life.

Before they could take a break or it, Zhang Min's cold voice rang out in the forest, "If you think you can escape then you are highly mistaken. You are now in a military area so you need to be scared o, not just wild animals but also wildly buried land mines. One wrong step and you will be blown to pieces."

The four men were paralyzed in fear and they could feel the sweat running down their backs. Just what had they gotten themselves into. Their thoughts were interrupted by the man's question."Why have you been chasing me?" The leader wanted to look away at the question but the moment his head made a movement, The doctor c.o.c.ked his gun, ready to shoot.  Gulping in fear, the man fell on his knees making the others also follow suit,  "We were hired to get a jade bracelet from you and beat you up a little to make it look like a theft. Please let us go. We are simple thieves who just rough people up for some money! Please don't kill us!

Zhang Min narrowed his eyes at the pitiful people in front of him. So they wanted the jade bracelet. Ah, Hai had been right, Shi Qinglan had let the bracelet go too easily. Turned out that it was because of this. Well, he made a simple mistake. Shi Qinglan assumed Zhang Min was a simple surgeon. The poor man could not have imagined that handling these men was child's play for him after the training he had received in the last two years. He was not touted as a genius only for his medical skills.

In a few minutes. he had trussed up the men like turkey and made them walk back into a car. He needed to pay a visit to the person who had hired them. But first, they needed to be dropped off to the nearest police station to get their testimonies and confessions.

Zhang Min's mind wandered as he drove through the winding lanes towards the city. His mission was almost at an end. He had collected most of the evidence and witnesses. But he had needed an excuse to arrest the main doctor without exposing the real reasons. And now this was the perfect chance. The beautiful on the outside and ugly in the inside female doctor, Dr An Lili had made an error in judgement by hiring goons to handle him.

Just as the dawn broke, the sound of the doorbell ringing woke up An Lili as she frowned and went to check who was making a ruckus at her door so early in the morning. Before she could open her mouth to scold the person, several policewomen swarmed in and one of them caught Dr An Lili's wrist before handcuffing it and reading the dumbfounded doctor her rights and advising her to cooperate.

Once in the interrogation room, An Lili kept trying to deny all charges but the police questioned her incessantly and refused to hear her pleas to call a lawyer. When asked why she was after the bracelet and who had told her to get it, she refused to name anyone. In a stoic voice she claimed that she had fallen for Doctor Zhang and they had been dating but after a lover's tiff over the bracelet, she had been angry and hired the goons."

But before she could go on with her lies, the door opened and in sauntered a grinning Zhang Min and exclaimed, "Dr An. Do you like me? Well, I like you too so we can let this matter go. You just need to sign this piece of paper.."

Dr An Lili looked down at the piece of paper and felt her blood freeze in shock. This was as good as signing her own death warrant!