Chapter 214 The Dead Can’t Come Back to Life
“Eat whatever you want. I’ll treat you to it.” Shay waved his hand grandly and reserved the entire oden stall.
The lady selling oden was so happy that she couldn’t stop smiling. “Come; come. Have one cup each. Help yourselves to whatever you want to eat. It’s all made of fresh ingredients.”
He filled the cup to the brim and asked the lady to drizzle some sauce on it. Then, he handed it over to Casey with great sincerity. “Here; my treat.”
Get lost after finishing this. He was secretly delighted inside. Casey is a rich young master who was spoiled and coddled all his life. How can he possibly bring himself to eat at this random roadside stall where you can’t even tell what ingredients the food was originally made out of?
Casey looked at the large cup of skewers in front of him. He finally accepted it after examining it for several seconds. “What is this? What is it called?”
“Oh my! Mister, how can you not know what oden is?” The lady sounded helpless.
He nodded and commented, “It’s a simplified version of hotpot.”
“You eat hotpot?” Shay looked at Casey a little suspiciously. For some reason, he always assumed that Casey was born eating western food. He thought Casey only ate stuff like expensive foie gras and caviar—food that wouldn’t even fill up the stomach of a cat.
“Compared to western food, I prefer Otharian food which has greater variety and is richer in taste.” Casey glanced at Shay before eating the ‘simplified hotpot’ skewers in his hands. He ate slowly and elegantly. The skewers of meatballs gradually disappeared one by one, followed by the skewers of the fish cakes. The dried tofu strips, lotus root slices, mushrooms, seaweed, and quail eggs also disappeared one by one—
Casey Lewis, are you a pig?! Shay was so shocked that his eyes were about to fall out of their sockets. “You finished everything?!”
“It’s delicious. Can I get another portion?” Casey looked at him and handed him the empty cup with an expectant look.
At this point, he believed that Casey truly liked eating oden. Therefore, he began to regret his decision—he regretted overestimating himself and bringing this ‘oden blackhole’ here. “Can you stop eating?”
“Are you not eating?” Casey reached out to Shay with a fish cake in his hand. The special sauce covered the fish cake and made it glisten. “Try it; this is very tasty.”
“Of course, I know it’s delicious.” Shay nearly went mad with frustration. “If I can eat it, why would I need to wait for you to feed it to me?! If I eat any of these, I’ll have to run on the treadmill for two hours tonight! I’m tired; I don’t have the strength to do that.” A male boss will never understand the life of a male celebrity!
Casey nodded. “You don’t need to be so demanding of yourself. I think it doesn’t matter whether you are fat or not. Besides, you might feel even better to the touch if you gain a little more weight.”
Upon hearing those words, Shay’s face immediately burned in embarrassment. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the expression of the lady selling oden had also changed at those words. Thus, he said through gritted teeth, “Suck your grandfather’s d*ck!”
“I’m afraid my grandfather passed away a long time ago. But, you can feel free to curse at my sister. She deserves it.”
“You’re insane.” He rolled his eyes at Casey before lowering his head to pay for the meal. All of a sudden, he noticed that he had several missed calls on his phone. They were from Mrs. Bell, the old housekeeper at the Hunter Residence. He hurriedly returned her calls. “Hello? What’s the matter, Mrs. Bell?”
Casey was enjoying the last of his oden. Then, he watched as Shay’s complexion turned deathly pale after making the phone call. “Have you informed Courtney about this? Tell me the hospital’s address; I’ll be there immediately.” After saying those words, he turned and ran toward the side of the road.
Casey was about to chase after him, but the lady grabbed him. “Hey, you haven’t paid!”
Hence, he threw a stack of cash on the table before running like the wind after the figure in the distance.
It was late at night. Weeping sounds mixed with the apologetic voices of all the doctors that had participated in the operation rang out from inside the hospital. “I’m sorry, but the dead can’t come back to life.”
The doctors did not know how many times they had said these words, and they had long since become numb to them.
It was a mess outside the operating room. When Shay arrived, Courtney was standing alone in the corner. Her eyes were red-rimmed as she looked in the direction of the door to the operating room. She had no intention of stopping Susan from harassing the attending doctor.
“Look; you can’t do this. The patient passed away from sudden liver failure. We did our best to save him; we’ve tried our best.”
“Nonsense! Luke was perfectly fine while he was at the hospital! You said that it was okay to discharge him from the hospital! It hasn’t been long since his discharge. And now, something like this occurred! How can you say that you are not responsible for this?!” Susan grabbed at the attending doctor’s white lab coat like a madwoman. She pulled so hard that the pockets of the lab coat were torn at the seams. To be honest, she did not look sorrowful. Rather, she seemed to be full of resentment. Unfortunately, nobody knew why she held so much hatred for a doctor.
Anna and Courtney were separated by the body of their father, which was covered with a piece of white cloth, and Anna’s mother, who was raising hell in the hospital. Anna never expected to be put in such a difficult position one day. Her mother was arbitrarily kicking up a fuss and trying to pin all the blame on the doctor. Looking at her mother’s crazy behavior, she felt extremely humiliated. Never in her life had she ever experienced this emotion before—at this moment, it felt as if her hands were covered in blood.
“Mom, that’s enough,” she suddenly said as she grabbed her mother, who was lying on the ground. “Dad is dead. Can you please be quiet?”
There were tears at the corners of Susan’s eyes. At the same time, her expression was filled with shock and dissatisfaction as she shook off Anna’s hand. With the help of the surrounding people, she moved to the side. Only then were the doctors allowed to push the body trolley to the morgue.
Among the chaotic crowd, Courtney was the only one to quietly follow the body trolley into the morgue. Shay, who arrived late, moved to follow her too.
“Shay,” Anna stepped forward and called out to Shay.
“What is it?” Shay turned back to look at Anna.
“I-It’s nothing.” The words were on the tip of her tongue, but she could not say them. “I’ll deal with things here. Go and comfort her. After all, the dead can’t come back to life.”
He frowned. “I know.”
After saying those words, Shay chased after Courtney without looking back. Anna watched his back for a long time, watching as his back got further and further away from her. A touch of self-deprecating laughter flitted across her eyes. From the past to the present and even the future, his back will forever be the only thing I see. He has never taken the initiative to look at me before. I wonder why I still hope for something different.
“Why don’t you look sad even though Mr. Hunter just passed away, Miss Hunter? Do you have a terrible relationship with your father?”
A cold voice entered her ears, bringing her back to her senses. She looked up and saw Casey, who had appeared next to her at some point without her noticing. Stunned, she said, “What do you mean by that, President Lewis?”
“It’s nothing. I just found it funny. Your father just passed away; your mother made a huge fuss in the hospital, trying to blame his death on the hospital. Does the Hunter Family lack that amount of compensation? Or, do they lack a reason to comfort themselves?”
nna’s expression tensed. “President Lewis, please watch your words.”
“It just slipped out by accident.” Casey smiled. The chilly look in his eyes landed on Anna, making her shudder in response. He had seen many disputes among the wealthy families in his time. Lucian Hunter died of organ failure even though he was only in his fifties. Moreover, even the hospital could not determine what the cause of death was. That was simply inconceivable. Besides, the reactions of this widowed mother and daughter pair of the Hunter Family were quite suspicious too.
