Chapter 854 — The Greedy Flower Shop Owner

Before Guan Xin could even react, Kang Zhaoming had started singing: "There's a girl in the hospital named Xiaoxin, pretty and kind, with a pair of lovely big eyes and braids thick and long..."

Kang Zhaoming strummed the guitar as he sang, and he did rather cut the figure of a passionate prince — except that his voice was dreadful, a bit like a toad croaking. It not only gave Guan Xin a fright, it also made everyone watching frown as they listened!

"Xiaomei, let's go, quick, don't pay him any attention!" Guan Xin had never faced a scene like this, and Kang Zhaoming had truly frightened her.

Seeing that Guan Xin was about to leave, Kang Zhaoming panicked. He couldn't be bothered with the singing anymore and went straight into the confession: "Xinxin, you are the goddess of my heart, you are electricity, you are light, you are the only myth; I love only you..."

"Where are you from? Flammable and explosive materials are not permitted in the hospital, let alone setting off fireworks! And shouting through a megaphone has already disturbed the patients here — come back with us to the police office to be dealt with!" Just as Kang Zhaoming was hollering, the police from the hospital's duty office received the report and came running over, surrounding him in the blink of an eye.

"Huh?" Kang Zhaoming hadn't expected to actually bring the police down on himself. He was dumbstruck for a moment. "Is chasing a girl a crime now too?"

"Chasing a girl isn't a crime, but the methods you've used violate the hospital's regulations. Come back with us now!" The two policemen took him, one on each side, and led Kang Zhaoming away.

Everyone had gathered around expecting to watch a farce, but Kang Zhaoming was hauled off by the police before he'd even finished his confession, so the crowd soon dispersed.

Guan Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief. Kang Zhaoming really was a nuisance, kicking up such a spectacle and leaving her at a loss. She'd never lacked suitors, but this was the first time anyone had made such a commotion!

"Phew..." Guan Xin let out a long breath. She decided that the next time she saw Kang Zhaoming she would have a proper talk with him: there was no hope whatsoever for the two of them, and he should stop wasting his effort!

"That guy really has rotten luck — he didn't even finish his confession before the hospital police arrested him!" Li Xiaomei curled her lip, finding it rather funny.

"At least he was taken away. Otherwise I really don't know how I'd have handled it!" Guan Xin shook her head, and she and Li Xiaomei hurried off toward where the hospital commuter bus stopped...

In the hospital's police office, Kang Zhaoming wrote out a guarantee, paid a small fine, and was released. After all, he hadn't done anything too serious; the police gave him a lecture and a warning, then let him go.

Kang Zhaoming didn't take a single word of it to heart. Secretly frantic, he quickly maneuvered his wheelchair out of the police office, and there were Zhu Xiaozhang and Wang Shubin, both waiting at the door.

"Where's Guan Xin? How did it go?" Kang Zhaoming asked urgently.

"She left ages ago!" Wang Shubin said helplessly. "Young Master Ming, you weren't here. There was no way we could stop Guan Xin from leaving!"

"Then what kind of expression did she have when she left? Did she look happy?" Kang Zhaoming asked.

"No, she looked pretty angry..." Wang Shubin said cautiously.

"Damn it, all that buildup for nothing!" Kang Zhaoming said, thoroughly displeased. "Why does this hospital stick its nose into everything?"

The three of them left the hospital together. The sea of flowers out front had already been cleared away, and the guitar and megaphone had vanished to who knew where — but Kang Zhaoming didn't care much about such things. What occupied his mind now was how to win Guan Xin over! By the look of it, the confession earlier had been a total failure!

He just didn't know whether she was angry because she didn't like him, or because the confession had been cut off midway.

The owner of the flower shop by the gate had struck it rich! Kang Zhaoming had been arrested, Wang Shubin and Zhu Xiaozhang had left, and the more than ten thousand roses at the entrance had all become ownerless goods. The flower shop owner hurriedly called over a few workers and had every rose collected and stored away in his own cellar.

The owner had picked up a huge windfall, and yet he was not satisfied; he kept on scheming, planning to sell those fresh flowers back to Kang Zhaoming the very next day! He waited at the hospital entrance, and when he saw the three of them come walking over, he hurried up to them wreathed in smiles: "Bosses, still buying flowers? I've got cheap roses here, guaranteed cheap. Will you be wanting them again tomorrow?"

"Like hell we will!" Kang Zhaoming glared at the flower shop owner in annoyance. Buy more? So he could make a fool of himself again tomorrow?

"Boss, didn't you fail today? You're not going to keep at it tomorrow?" The owner was taken aback, and rather unwilling to let it go. He had seen Yu Xiaoke rake in money, and jealousy and envy burned in his heart. Now he'd picked up ten thousand roses for nothing, and he still wanted to sell them to Kang Zhaoming.

The owner would have done better to keep his mouth shut. The moment he brought up the failed confession, Kang Zhaoming flew into a rage — it really was the one topic that should never be touched! Furious, he jabbed a finger at the flower shop owner and ordered Zhu Xiaozhang and Wang Shubin: "Beat him up for me! Damn it, jabbering away right in front of me!"

As the saying goes, a heart that is never satisfied is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant, and this owner was exactly that sort of man. He had already picked up ten thousand roses for nothing, and still he wasn't content — he actually wanted to sell those ten thousand roses back to Kang Zhaoming!

And now look at him: Wang Shubin and Zhu Xiaozhang gave him a solid beating and knocked every last bit of fight right out of him!

The owner did have some connections, and he even knew Brother Mad Bull, the big shot of this area, but when he saw that the three of them had arrived in a Porsche Cayenne, he knew at a glance that they were rich. How would he dare provoke them? He could only howl and whimper and beg for mercy.

And so Kang Zhaoming's great love offensive came to an end amid farce. Guan Xin was not moved in the slightest, and Kang Zhaoming had squandered fifty thousand yuan for nothing.

But Kang Zhaoming had not given up. The next afternoon, as quitting time drew near, he staked out the entrance of the First People's Hospital together with Wang Shubin and Zhu Xiaozhang, waiting for Guan Xin to get off work.

"The way things stand, what am I supposed to do?" Kang Zhaoming sighed, at his wits' end. He had accepted this task from his family full of confidence, thinking he would carry it off perfectly and brilliantly — who would have guessed this Guan Xin would be so hard to deal with! Whatever he did, she remained unmoved!

By rights, his family background was about the same as Guan Xin's, so they were a well-matched pair. Why wasn't she moved?

"Young Master Ming, my thinking is, Guan Xin was born into that sort of intellectual family, so she must have had a good upbringing — otherwise she wouldn't be this hard to hook!" Wang Shubin analyzed.

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