Karina stood frozen in shock, just like everyone else.

She didn't snap out of it until Wilfred gently pulled her aside, her cheeks glowing bright red.

Noticing her flushed face, Wilfred gave her a meaningful look and casually asked, "Why is your face so red? Are you running a fever?"

As he spoke, he reached out toward her forehead.

Karina panicked and quickly dodged him. She wasn't sick. She just knew that if he touched her, her face would turn an even deeper shade of red.

"I'm fine. Maybe it's just the heat and humidity," she mumbled, fanning herself as if she were uncomfortably warm.

Wilfred watched her, clearly seeing through her little act but choosing to keep his amusement to himself.

He recalled Xavier's suggestion to take the initiative. What a brilliant idea.

That evening, Karina put her skills to the test and prepared a platter of garlic butter crab. Wilfred happily indulged, eating several pieces with obvious enjoyment.

*

the hospital, as if he had never left the profession.

anxiously waiting for her exam results. Instead, what she heard first-straight

Karina glanced at Wilfred, pointing to herself in

am. I believe you're

about what you

a helpless sigh. "I think you're giving me way too

could feel her own progress, but effort wasn't everything. In the medical field, experience and seniority mattered most. People who became directors or deputy directors were usually in their forties

Except for him.

applied to Wilfred. If it were anyone else, patients wouldn't think, "This person must be really talented," upon hearing someone so

thought would likely be, "This person must have connections." And the second? "Am

Karina thought about it, the more helpless she

she didn't think so herself. "There's no way. If run for deputy director, people won't just gossip about me, no one will even vote for me Wilfred raised an eyebrow. "How do

Karina paused.

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