Jay's smile grew wider as his eyes moved away from her. She watched him carefully with dreamy eyes. "Don't worry. I'm not interested in you," Jay said gently with a smile.
"Oh... that's great, then!" Doris sighed in relief. She felt that as long as she didn't do that, she could do anything for him.
And she'd do anything for him. 'Doris, you proud girl! You will end up scolding yourself for this later,' she bitterly thought to herself.
They continued to move forward together, and then Jay stopped suddenly.
Doris followed where Jay was looking, and saw the half -open door of a room. Inside the room, a woman stood beside Charles.
Charles looked depressed, he had a gloomy look on his face as he rested his back on the far wall of the room. He looked like he was very worried about something.
His current state made him look completely different from his normal handsome look.
"Charles? What is he doing here?" Doris asked confused. Her face slightly contorted into a puzzled look.
Jay rushed towards the room, pushed the door wide open and hurried inside.
"Charles, what are you doing here?” Jay asked in a surprised tone of voice as he approached Charles. He then took one of Charles' arms and supported him.
"Jay, is that you?" Charles asked as he studied Jay's face with blurred eyes. Charles smiled at him, but looked weak and pale. It seemed like he had too much to drink.
Charles was not normally like this. He was always disciplined. Even more when it came to drinking alcohol. He rarely drank alcoholic drinks and had only done so a few times over the years.
"Get out of here!" Jay growled to the woman that was hanging out with Charles.
The woman instantly ran out of the room in fear.
Charles turned to Jay with his bloodshot eyes when he heard that Jay sent the woman out of the room. "Jay!" he said but was not able to do anything else.
"Did you meet anyone today, Charles? Where's your assistant and your bodyguard?" Jay asked in a worried tone.
"Well, today... I came here all by myself. And not for any social engagements!" Charles said as he swayed while he stood. After Charles finished explaining, he suddenly relaxed as Jay steadily supported him with his arm. A short moment later, he passed out.
"I think he has alcohol poisoning," said Doris. Doris was a female doctor from the andrology department and she was familiar with many common medical issues. When she saw Charles' bright red cheeks and bloodshot eyes, she believed that he was likely suffering from alcohol poisoning already.
"What should we do?" Jay asked in a worried tone. His voice sounded like he was in the verge of panicking. Jay had never been in such a situation, especially with Charles in such a dangerous state. He looked nervous and panic was coming up very close behind.
Jay remembered that Charles would normally go to him if he wanted to drink outside of the normal social engagements. But this time, he went there to drink alone and was even hooked up by a plain-looking woman.
"He's... What's wrong with him?" Jay asked anxiously.
"Let's get him to the hospital. There's nothing more that we can do for him here," Doris suggested immediately. Doris walked to the other side of Charles to help Jay to get him up. They were surprised when Charles suddenly woke up from Doris' touch.
"Get off me, woman! Women are too unreliable! Just keep away from me!" Charles exclaimed with his eyes still closed. But he was in an extremely weakened state to be able to keep Doris away.
'What was that?' Jay wondered. Charles' reaction and statement reminded Jay of something.
Charles asked Jay to gather as much information that he could about Nancy. And since he was now in such a pitiful state, Jay guessed that he had already broken up with Nancy.
But then Jay suddenly wondered whether Charles ever had a relationship with Nancy to begin with.
Or was it all just unrequited love.
And was it unrequited love that hurt him so much to get himself in this situation?
'Alas! Charles has taken Nancy so seriously. He should learn from me. I'm never serious about relationships,' Jay thought to himself.
It was known that Charles was a business tycoon with no weaknesses. But it turned out that his one fatal weakness was love!
"Let's go, Charles. We will take you to the hospital," Jay said in a solemn voice that echoed how sorry he was for what happened to his friend. Jay braced himself to support half of Charles' weight through one of his arms while Doris helped to support the other half. They then walked slowly out of the room.
"No. I won't go. Let go of me," Charles complained weakly. But he was too weak to walk by himself. He ultimately had no choice but to let Jay help him to walk and then get into the car.
They drove Charles to the hospital where Nancy worked. Jay decided to bring him there not only because of his alcohol poisoning, but Charles also had to be relieved from his emotional anxiety by Nancy.
It was already three in the afternoon when they finally arrived at the hospital.
Nancy was just coming out of the operating room when she saw Jay and Doris supporting Charles and they were all walking towards her direction.
"Nancy! He's badly drunk!" Doris shouted out. She sounded and looked so exhausted from helping to support Charles.
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