Chapter 1850: We've Broken Up

Xu Tingting opened the drawer and took out a piece of gummy candy.

As Xu Shu was finishing up for the last time, she took his coat.

At that moment, the door was knocked, and before Xu Shu could speak, the nurse knocked again and came straight in.

“Doctor Xu, there’s a critically injured patient in the emergency room. Do you have time now? Could you please go over?”

Xu Shu immediately shook the water off his hands, “I’ll go.”

He put on his white coat, “Tingting.”

“I know,” Xu Tingting held the coat and stood there obediently, “I know where your car keys are, I’ll drive home myself.”

He nodded slightly, “Be careful on the road. Send me a message when you get home. Let Uncle Qing pick you up at the intersection.”

Xu Tingting agreed to it all.

She only followed him out after Xu Shu had left, watching his silhouette fade away down the corridor. She sighed lightly, knowing it would turn out like this.

She went back to get the car keys, put them in her pocket, placed the coat back on the chair, and then carried the box of leftovers out.

Xu Tingting didn’t leave, she still planned to wait for Xu Shu to finish work.

After feeding the stray cats, she returned, only to see Song Jin wandering downstairs unexpectedly.

She instinctively hesitated for a moment, then immediately turned to leave.

“Tingting!”

Suddenly, hurried footsteps approached from behind. Xu Tingting didn’t get a chance to run before her wrist was grasped, and a fierce force yanked her back. Xu Tingting swung her hand, grazing past the man’s face.

Song Jin stumbled backward, catching himself on a tree trunk, barely staying upright. Without pausing to catch his breath, he rushed at her anxiously, “Tingting, why haven’t you been answering my calls? I went to your house, and the guards wouldn’t let me near. I tried finding you at school, but there were people watching. I really miss you. Are you okay? Have you been eating regularly? Have you been sick?”

Xu Tingting looked at him coldly, stepping back a little, “Song Jin, we’ve broken up.”

“We haven’t broken up! We’ve been fine all along. I can explain. There’s really nothing between me and Li Jiaojiao. But why won’t you even listen? I’m really at my wits’ end.”

Song Jin moved closer again, trying to grab Xu Tingting’s hand, but she avoided it. He stared at his empty palm, gritted his teeth, and spoke without thinking due to provocation, “I didn’t agree to it. You unilaterally decided it!”

Xu Tingting furrowed her brow slightly, inexplicably sensing danger, especially as Song Jin took two steps forward, stepping right into the lamplight, the bloodstains on his body and hands were shocking.

It hadn’t been noticeable before, but now the smell of blood filled the air.

“What happened to you?”

From a window upstairs, Xu Shu stood there, looking coldly at the two under the streetlamp.

He held a lighter in his hand, the flame flickering on and off as his well-defined fingers moved. A shadow seemed to cover his face, and a hint of coldness flickered in his restrained eyes.

The critically injured patient was Li Jiaojiao.

Beaten so badly that there wasn’t an unmarred inch on her face.

Xu Shu recognized her at a glance.

Yet without any hesitation, he quickly inquired about the situation. Another on-duty surgeon happened to come over to take the surgery, and Xu Shu immediately went back to his office to find Xu Tingting, just in time to see Xu Tingting being entangled by Song Jin downstairs.

“Xiao Xu?” a voice came from the side.

The lighter in Xu Shu’s hand went out, he pressed his eyebrows slightly, turning halfway to look at the newcomer, “Doctor Li, haven’t you left work yet?”

“I’m just leaving, my son is here to pick me up. They all think I’m too old to handle long night shifts. Actually, I’m in good health, I just can’t take the nagging, especially when the whole family does it together. I just can’t bear it.”