Chapter 21: Chapter 21

There were no birds chirping but there seems to be a slight floral fragrance.

The evening golden sunlight shining down into the garden brought out a unique warm atmosphere.

Arya and Dr. Jack sat down together on the bench and ate their donuts and sandwiches.

While they were eating, Arya suddenly felt the situation was very funny.

In the beginning, when she started to pursue Dr. Jack, she had tried a lot of ways to go out for a meal together with him.

At that time, if she had the opportunity to sit down and have a bun together with him, she would have died of happiness.

But now she is really sitting down together with him as if they are on a date. On the contrary, now she did not feel any anxiety or feel shameful and instead did not feel in the mood at all.

Dr. Jack did not speak and after he had finished eating the donut, he tilted his head up and drank all the mineral water in the bottle.

His actions were elegant and his side view was pleasing to the eye while the sunset rays embraced him.

She peeked at him for a long time and could not help but ask. "Dr Jack, why don’t you like Soph?"

She had wanted to ask him this question for a long time but did not have the opportunity.

Right now, the atmosphere is just right as they feel like old friends. It seems like this is a good time for chatting. So can it be true that sweet foods can make people feel relaxed?

"Why don’t you ask me why I don’t like you?"

"….."

She is wrong. The honey glazed donut also cannot heal his poison.

"What? Don’t you like me? I thought you like me very much?" He said.

She gave him a blank look.

This man is really too much! Why can't he speak in a more polite way? She glared at him and gave him an imitation expression of his own shameless Mr. I am Everythin expression.

"Oh, is it like this? Then I like you, so I don’t like Soph."

Cut! This evasion trick is too crafty!

"I'm serious." She bumped his shoulder.

"Why be serious with me?" He said.

She gave him a light kick.

Will he die if he speaks seriously?

"She is not suitable for me." He said.

Not suitable? Arya blinked and thought about this while adjusting her glasses.

"But why do I think she is very suitable for you? The two of you are the same type of people. The male is handsome and the female is beautiful. Both of you are smart, fashionable, have character and the two of you should have many common topics of discussion."

"Do you think people who are of the same type are suitable? People with common topics of discussion are suitable?" Dr. Jack smiled, leaned back against the chair and stretched out his long legs. "Arya, have you ever had a boyfriend?"

"Of course." Arya straightened her back. She was not that bad. Of course, someone had chased her before.

"Is he the same type as you? Were there any common topics of discussions?"

She seriously thought about the matter and had to nod her head.

"Why did you break up?"

"He felt that I was boring." When she thought of the reason she was dumped, she used force to squeeze the donut in her hand. "He was the one who chased me and we were together for more than a year. We lived in the same area and he was working as an accountant. When I was at a local university studying for my fourth year, I went to his place for an internship. I had also planned to work there after my graduation. Our qualities were similar and our work was not too busy. Our families were on equal standing, so when he chased me, I agreed. I felt he was very good, practical and hard-working. Although he is a quiet person, we can talk to each other and to be able to live well together was enough for me."

"Then the result was the man who was good, practical and hard-working was disgusted by you." Dr. Jack broke out in loud laughter. "He did not dislike you for your prickly thorns but instead disliked you for being boring."

Arya glared at him. "What is so funny? When a man wants to break up, he can come up with a variety of reasons. What about you? When you wanted to break up with your girlfriend, what reasons did you give?"

He has such a poisonous tongue, his words will certainly be harsh.

"I didn't. I was the one who was dumped."

Dr. Jack moved his legs, relaxed and satisfied with an expression that said he was not bothered.

"You were dumped?! Really dumped?!" Arya was astonished and felt excited. "Which woman had such foresight?"

"The one who dumped me has foresight, then the one who chased me is blind, right?.....Miss Blind?"

"Humph……" Arya shook her head. "Later, didn't I woke up in time and in my heart, I had thrown you away?" She raised her chin and displayed a proud expression on her face. Ha, ha……that is for venting my hatred!

Dr. Jack grinned and ignored her.

Arya asked with enthusiasm. "Dr.Jack, what was her reason for dumping you?"

Uncouth mouth?

Impolite?

Inconsiderate?

Domineering?

Did not keep her company? Arya gloated inside.

Dr. Jack tilted his head slightly to the side and thought for a long time. Arya waited for so long that she thought it was difficult for him to explain when he suddenly asked. "Which one of them are you referring to?"

Arya gaped with her mouth opened and asked. "How many?"

"Three."

"Did you fall in love three times or were you dumped three times?"

"Both."

"Every time you fell in love, you were dumped?" Arya excitedly pulled at his arm and her eyes flashed brightly for gossip.

She had already said so if a woman stays with him for a long time, she will eventually find out his true colors and if she is able to tolerate him then she must have extraordinary endurance, right?

"Even if you want to gloat over my misery, at least practice some restraint, okay?

"No."

"Your hand is sticky from the sandwich and you have stained my sleeve. I have to buy another shirt again. This time, you have to pay for it."

She withdrew her hands and said. "I want to hear about the three times you were dumped."

"Why should I tell you?"

"You said we are friends." Arya smiled brightly and happily. "Look, we are friends. I also went shopping with you to buy clothes, also treated you to a meal and now I am chatting with you. I am also helping you to relieve your worries and sadness."

Dr. Jack cast a sidelong glance at her and laughed. "Arya, gossip can really make someone's skin instantly thicken, is that right?"

"I don’t know about other people but I will listen with a sincere heart."

"What are you going to do after listening?"

"Nothing. I'm just helping you to analyze the situation and see whether you and Soph are suitable for each other. The two of you are my friends and if there is any problem, I being in the middle of this will be very troublesome for me."

"You don’t have to worry about this. Now you can straight away dispel all her thoughts. Don’t waste everyone's time."

Arya frowned. "Dr.Jack, why are you so sure? I think Soph really cares for you. Look, she had tried all possible ways to know more about you and try to understand your temper. She knew she could not approach you directly and asked your nurses for help so she could understand you more. She is also very considerate. She knew surgeons need hand creams and wanted to buy it for you. I think if someone did so much for me, I will be really touched. Dr. Jack, you have not really got to know her and so you don’t understand her. She is actually a very adorable girl and since presently you don’t have a partner, why are you rejecting her? Is it because she is my friend and you don’t want me to be involved in this matter? You can rest assured that I have thought this over and I think both of us being friends like now is also not bad."

Dr. Jack shook his head. "You think too much. This does not concern you."

"Then why are you rejecting her so quickly? What I mean is that you should understand each other first."

"What is there to understand?"

Is he seriously asking again? Arya tilted her head and stared at him. "Understand her background, her character, her preferences, her career and find out whether you and she are on the same path. As for me, I also enquired about Dr. Jack's basic information before I decided to pursue you. Then after knowing more about you then I understood that we are not suitable for each other and I gave up. Dr. Jack also knows about my situation then only you made your own judgments, right? I mean excluding other external qualities such as my appearance. Soph is different from me. She is beautiful, has a good temperament, elegant and candid. All these external qualities should not be a problem and so you should get to know her better to understand her internal qualities, right?"

"I don’t need to understand so much. I just need one thing."

"What is that?"

"Arya, do you really think she likes me?"

"If she doesn't like you, why does she spend so much effort on you? I know her. She does not waste time on people not important to her."

"I don’t feel it."

"You don’t feel the effort she put on you? Then why did you call me to make her stop?"

"What I mean is that I don’t feel that she likes me."

Arya was surprised.

"If someone loves you, you will know." Dr. Jack smiled lightly. "I can't feel that she is genuinely interested in me, so I don’t want to play along with her. I am no longer a hot-headed youngster. I don’t have the time nor the interest to play this type of game with her."

Arya blinked, turned to sit back and thought for a long while. She felt something at the bottom of her heart began to stir. What he said made sense. Suddenly she felt ashamed. It seems in the beginning, she was also like this. She still had not fallen in love but based on his appearance and his external qualities, she decided to pursue him.

He must have also been aware of this.

Therefore, before considering whether the woman's qualities are suitable for him or not, there must be emotional sincerity. Otherwise, Mark will say that he has a lot of flowers in his garden. Although this man looks very cool on the outside, he is also very particular about this and he also hoped to be treated with sincerity.

"Dr. Jack, actually the road through the Flowery garden is also a difficult path, isn't it?"

She had in a daze entered his garden and when she realized that she was not a flower but only a branch, it was already too late. She sighed and felt a bit sad.

"Arya, are you sure what we are talking about is the same topic?"

"Yes. Are we not talking about your flowery garden I mean your admirers?"

He stared at her for a long time. "Why is it that when anything reaches you, it will be transformed?"

"How can that be?"

"What cannot be?" The corners of Dr. Jack's mouth curved. "I have seen a lot of people throwing temper tantrums as a result of unsuccessful pursuits but when it reaches you, it became a funny comedy. Every day I always see people who are filled with sadness and feel heart-broken but you are like a comedian. About that sweet dinner in a garden restaurant, I was extremely curious and had tried to guess for a long time what you will be able to come up with. In the end, you were able to set up such a stylish dinner which is so inelegant and void of atmosphere. This is actually not easy. In fact, Arya, you are really a talented person."

She was so surprised that she gaped at him. He is able to humiliate people with subtle praises. He is truly that talented person.

"Dr. Jack, there is something I really need your help."

He lifted his eyebrows. "What is it?"

"If there is a day that I am hospitalized and needs surgery, I beg Dr. Jack not to perform the surgery yourself."

"Why? Afraid I will take revenge?"

"No, I'm afraid that while Dr. Jack is performing the surgery, you will recall my humorous past on the operating table and laugh. While laughing, your knife may accidentally curve sideways. Dr. Jack must have seen a lot of patients whose lives depended on the surgeries and I don’t want to be the only one that is going to die because the doctor had accidentally stabbed me on the operating table."

Dr. Jack stared at her and stared at her and suddenly burst into loud laughter.

She boldly stared back at him!

After a long time, Dr. Jack stopped laughing but his eyes were still smiling. She twitched her mouth and was dissatisfied with his attitude.

Their eyes met and the two of them faced each other for a long while. Dr. Jack's eyes were clear and deep.

Suddenly Arya felt confused, felt her heartbeat become irregular and was about to speak when she heard an old man's voice shouted. "Dr. Jack!"

Dr. Jack and Arya turned their heads together.

Standing there was an old doctor.

Dr. Jack stood up then walked over to greet and speak to him.

Arya felt it must be another professional discussion between doctors.

She was not bothered and pulled out the last piece of donut to eat. Just as she had taken a big bite, Dr. Jack turned around and spoke to her. "Arya, this is my dad."

His dad.

Arya was startled.

The big piece of donut was stuck in her mouth and she was unable to swallow neither could she spit it out.