Kieran’s eyes looked cold and deep, his thin lips pressed together. He quietly watched the protection charm in the old lady’s hand, unsure what he was thinking.

The old lady saw things had changed, so her face changed right away, and she approached him again with a fawning smile.

“Sir, sir, everything I said was true. You might want to think it over again.”

She rolled her eyes and looked over at Alarieka.

Alarieka looked at the sharp light in the old lady’s eyes and felt strangely moved and uncomfortable.

Sure enough, the old lady said, “This girl must be your girlfriend, right? She’s so pretty. How did she end up sick in the hospital?”

As she spoke, she looked rather regretfully at the hospital gown on Alarieka.

“Like this, sir, if you bought it and gave it to her, her illness would definitely get better soon."

All the hairs on Alarieka’s body stood on end. She was just about to raise her hand and say she wasn’t Kieran’s girlfriend when Kieran said calmly, “Okay, I’ll take it.”

Alarieka’s expression froze.

Kieran was fooled by love and was actually going to buy this obviously fake thing for Roschelle.

The old lady’s eyes lit up. She took out the payment QR code she’d hidden in her clothes and said, “Scan to pay, just five hundred bucks.”

Alarieka raised an eyebrow.

Wasn’t it three hundred just now? Now it’s five hundred again.

It was like the old lady could read her mind and said, “If you buy it for yourself, it’s three hundred dollars. If you buy it for the one you love most, it’s five hundred, because it takes more magic. So it’s normal for it to be a bit more expensive.”

Alarieka watched as Kieran, the sucker, took out his phone and paid by scanning the code.

After that, the old lady took the remaining protection charms and said to Alarieka and Kieran, “Hope you guys get well and leave the hospital soon.”

Alarieka thought, only this sentence sounded a bit reasonable.

She looked at the amulet in Kieran’s hand, gave a snort, and turned to leave.

Kieran suddenly grabbed her wrist, and where Kieran held her, it was like Alarieka got shocked, her whole body tingling.

She instantly yanked her hand away from Kieran like it was radioactive, “What are you doing?”

Kieran’s hand, which had been pushed away, hung in the air, and he looked at her with dark eyes.

Alarieka took several steps back and said calmly, “If you have something to say, just say it. Don’t get physical.”

Kieran slowly pulled his hand back and didn’t say anything. He just looked at her with those dark eyes.

Alarieka frowned, “Something wrong or not?”

After a few seconds, Alarieka looked down and immediately saw the yellow protection charm in Kieran’s hand.

Her eyelashes fluttered a little, then she said, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll go first.”

The moment he turned around, Kieran said in a low voice, “Alarieka, what’s with your attitude?”

Alarieka turned her head without any hesitation, nodded at the charm in Kieran’s hand with her chin, and teased, “You had time to talk to me, you might as well just take this 500 dollar protection charm up to Roschelle right now. Who knows, maybe with this charm, she could get discharged from the hospital tonight.”

She really didn’t expect Kieran would actually do something like this.

She didn’t believe Kieran hadn’t noticed it was fake, but still, because of Roschelle, he paid five hundred bucks–obviously overpriced–for the fake stuff.

Alarieka gave a sarcastic look.

The old lady said herself: “Especially if you give it to the one you love most in your heart, the effect will double, double, and double again. That person’s illness will definitely be cured in less than three days.”

Kieran was really a big romantic.

After saying that, she didn’t look at Kieran’s expression, just turned around and left without stopping for a second.

Alarieka stayed downstairs for a while before going upstairs.

When she walked down the hallway, she saw Kieran pushing Roschelle at the end of the hall. Roschelle was sitting in a wheelchair, holding the yellow protection charm from earlier, with a gentle, calm smile.

Alarieka stood there and watched for a while, and only looked away when her eyes started to feel sore.

Her face looked calm, and she turned and left.

Actually, when Roschelle was pushed back to the ward by Kieran and Kieran said he needed to go downstairs again, Roschelle already felt a bit nervous.

She didn’t forget, downstairs, there was still an Alarieka.

At that time, she was pushed back into the ward by Kieran, with both hands hidden under the thin blanket, gently clutching the fabric on her thigh, and she softly asked Kieran: