Trapped with a Doctor

Chapter 161 Love Token

After primly seating herself next to the most honorable first lady of the land, Angela listened to her chat

with Nicole silently. After some time, never mind how long exactly, the first lady turned to Angela and

said, "I heard a rumor that you were recently given a South Sea Pearl, the world's most famous one,

and I had to ask, really?"

Her words drew the attention of innumerable people; now all eyes were on Angela, waiting to hear what

she would say in return.

"Is the pearl in her hand?"

"It's nothing extraordinary, after all she is the heir to Chengyang Hospital!"

"But I heard that the South Sea Pearl had been acquired by a very powerful figure in J city."

......

The baby fist-sized South Sea white buttercup pearl, whether in C country or in the Shine Empire, or in

A country, had been the hottest topic of late.

Angela, after a spell, nodded with honesty in her look. She really did not expect the president's wife to

know this information, much less to ask her outright about it.

The president's wife nodded and said nothing more.

Instead, a lady beside her, who had observed Angela for the longest time, now spoke, and asked the

question which had been on the lips of all the people who knew about the South Sea Pearl. "Does

Angela have a mind to sell the pearl at some stage? Money is not the obstacle......"

'Money? Why did you talk to her about money?' Janet laughed sarcastically while eating sunflower

seeds.

Angela was also a straightforward person, not some hypocritical bozo who's used to beating around

the bush; immediately, she responded to her. "I'm sorry, this pearl was given to me by someone who is

very important to me. I like it so much that I will never sell it."

How could she give it to someone else? It is a gift from Arvin.

The fair lady did not expect Angela to reject her offer, her face colored a little out of embarrassment.

She forced herself to say, "Mr. President's wife seems to like it too... "Can Miss Angela give it up?"

The president's wife looked at the lady reproachfully. "Well, Miss Angela has said that she likes it very

much, and that means we can't impose..."

A look of reproach, but a tone of conciliation.

How could Angela not see the situation between them? As she indifferently put a piece of Plum Meat

into her mouth, slowly chewing it down into her stomach, she responded, "Well...... Surely our Lady is

sensible, unlike you. I've said that I will never part with the pearl, but yet you still asked me to. I know

you have no vicious meanings, at least none that I know of, still, some people would think you are

intentionally here to discommode me!"

"How do I dare to do that?" The lady was red in the face when she was told this by Angela, who was

also the precious princess of the Si family. She could only hold her discontent in her heart while the

flames rasped against her every fiber.

Nicole's eyes swept over several people before looking at Angela with a cautionary smile. "Angela, Ms.

Duan was just asking. She didn't mean anything else, I assure you. The South Sea pearl has been

given to you by a man of great prestige, no doubt. It's yours, and no one can take it away from you!"

Nicole sounded her words out slowly to be understood perfectly by Angela. The fair lady's meaning had

to be elucidated clearly to Angela so that she could understand, but her words also served to protect

Angela. The meaning of her words directly and indirectly declared what's hers was hers, nobody could

take it away!

Janet spit out a sunflower seed skin, then said to Angela, "Angela, your boyfriend really loves you!

Taking a South Sea pearl valued a few billion dollars...as a love token! You must cherish it with all your

heart!"

Love token? People who heard these two words grumbled enviously to themselves, and the one

recurrent thought among them was, 'Who gave her the pearl? Is a token worth billions?"

Money was not the point, the point was that in the contest involved ten thousand men, it ended up in

his hands.

So, this showed that this person was not only rich, but also... Powerful!

Some people jealously said, "Miss Angela, was this South Sea pearl sent to you by Dr. Si, or by your

boyfriend? Can you confirm for everybody?"

"Yeah, we're all curious about this!" "Who is Miss Angela's boyfriend?" There were a small number of

distinguished fellows in C Country who had the capability to earn enough money to give such a thing

away as a love token.

"In C Country, rich and powerful families include only Harry's, Chuck's, Eason's and Samuel's families,

the princes in Harry's and Eason's families have been married. So does he come from Samuel's

family?" Scott's name came to their mind.

Scott was studying for a master's degree in the United States. Such a student was dependent on the

family money. So perhaps he wasn't the likely candidate to go around splashing cash on a pearl. If that

was the case, Angela was the apple of someone else's eye.

......

More and more were talking about such outrageous things. Scott was innocent of any involvement at

all. As the owner of the city of Rose, Janet patted off the crumbs from her lap, "Why do you women

have so many opinions and judgments? This is only a pearl! Angela's boyfriend gave it to her out of

love; is that so very abnormal?"

After Janet said these words, nine out of ten of the women in vapid but animated discussion shut their

mouths completely. At the expense of Angela's sense of privacy, a person at the bottom of the table, a

lubber, continued to ask anyway, "Who is Angela's boyfriend, say it out loud and let everybody know!"

When one man dared to speak, many followed him. "Well...... We are all curious and envious!" "Please,

Miss Angela, satisfy our curiosity and speak your truth!"

If Angela didn't speak out, there would be a new topic for discussion on the table, namely a "Hat but no

cattle" discussion, about the mysterious but non-existent boyfriend she kept mentioning, the

authenticity of his existence would be brought into question. Did she dare make up such a scandalous

story in the presence of the first lady of the land?

Angela really regretted coming to this women-only banquet. She gave a sideways glance at the

President's wife seated in the chair of honor. The first lady smiled with grace all the time, and

whispered to the people sitting closest to her, as if she didn't care about what was going on on the

other side of the table.

When Nicole was about to speak, there were exclamations and screams, one by one, coming from the

door.

The noise was so loud that people could not help looking toward the door.

"Who is he? What a handsome man! But look, how familiar!"

"Such a handsome man, I certainly know, he is Arvin, the Shine Empire's most brilliant doctor!"

"My god, how could he be so handsome!" "Oh!" "My heart is going to jump out of my chest!"

"He must have come to look for someone he knows, oh but who?" "Who is he looking for?" "Me?"

......

Hundreds of women like these, secluded from any sort of true sense of love from their bitter husbands,

immediately made way for the man in a suit. Angela, drinking a Long Island Ice tea, suddenly choked.

Out of emotion for this stunning man, it was assumed.

After intense coughing, her face became red...

She rubbed her eyes in disbelief. It was hard to imagine that the man who was supposed to be in J City

at that exact moment, had just appeared suddenly before her eyes.

Arvin, with two aides, finally stood at the first lady's round table.

He stared at the women in front of him one by one and then said politely, "I'm so frightfully sorry to

bother you ladies, and please excuse the intrusion, Mrs. President, I'm here to find someone I know."

She knew Arvin, because of a trip to the Shine Empire for an interview. She had had a sudden illness,

and Arvin was the one who gave her the treatment she needed to live a full and beautiful life.

Arvin had a face that was so handsome, too handsome to forget easily. ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

The President's wife, who was a middle-aged woman, almost indulged in the man's handsomeness

before she snapped out of it when someone whispered to her. She said to Arvin with a smile. "Dr. Gu!

You're so polite, but how would I know who you're looking for. Is it some lady here?"