Seeing the newcomer, Lin Miao was clearly a bit excited and couldn't wait to shout, "Aunt Lin, do you remember me? That day at Donghua Hospital, I fell, and you disinfected my wound."

Lin Ruoyi was momentarily taken aback but then her face lit up with a smile, "Of course I remember, how could I forget such a pretty girl like you? You and Lin Jie are..."

Lin Jie introduced, "She's my sister, Lin Miao. Aunt Lin, thank you for taking care of her that day!"

"It was nothing, just a small effort!"

Lin Ruoyi pulled the girl beside her and said, "This is my daughter, Zhuang Shilei!"

"The director of our department gave me a travel voucher, so I brought her along for a trip, and to my surprise, we ran into the famous you."

"Daughter, this is the person I've mentioned to you before..."

Zhuang Shilei looked at Lin Jie with sparkling eyes and said with a smile, "Mom, I already know who he is. I even met him at the beach this morning."

Her words immediately caught the curious attention of Lin Miao, An Kemeng, and Lin Ruoyi. Lin Jie explained, "This morning, I was jogging on the beach and saw Zhuang Shilei practicing the violin by the sea, and that's how we met."

Zhuang Shilei nodded in agreement and said, "That's about right. Hey, why didn't you bring your little Shiba Inu?"

Lin Miao quickly replied, "Lele likes to find a cool place to nap by noon and won't be lively again until late afternoon! Aunt Lin, you came to eat too, didn't you? The stews here are really good; we've eaten a lot."

Lin Ruoyi smiled and said, "We also came because someone recommended this place to us, and it seems their recommendation was spot-on."

At this point, the waiter brought over the bill. Lin Jie settled the bill, exchanged a few pleasantries with the Lin family mother and daughter, and then parted ways.

On the way back to the seaside villa, Lin Miao asked, "Brother, that girl used a mask to cover half her face. Is it because that half is disfigured, or does she have an unsightly birthmark?"

"Disfigured," Lin Jie replied.

"That's so unfortunate!" An Kemeng said with a look of sympathy, "Just seeing the other half of her face, she is really beautiful. Brother Jie, why doesn't she get cosmetic surgery?"

Lin Jie analyzed, "The damage to her face is quite severe, especially the facial muscles and the cheekbone are seriously injured. Restoring it through plastic surgery is not something an average cosmetic surgeon can accomplish."

An Kemeng picked up on some underlying meaning, held Lin Jie's hand, and shook it, asking eagerly, "Brother Jie, you're not just any doctor, right? Can you do it?"

Lin Jie gave a slight smile and said, "Although her cosmetic surgery is not generally simple, I can barely manage it."

At this moment, Lin Ruoyi and Zhuang Shilei, who had already ordered dishes, were also discussing Lin Jie.

"On the day Lin Jie threw the celebration party, the director called everyone to join during a meeting, and seeing everyone responding, I couldn't back out, so I contributed six hundred."

"I didn't expect a colleague to bring me back a New Year's goods voucher as a return gift from Lin Jie, which everyone got."

Lin Ruoyi smiled and said, "You can see from this that Lin Jie is quite a decent person. Leilei, tell me exactly what happened when you met this morning."

Zhuang Shilei's lip curled slightly, saying, "I was practicing the violin on a rock by the sea, and he was jogging on the beach. There was no interaction initially."

"However, he had a cute little Shiba Inu with him."

"The Shiba Inu ran over to play with me and cheekily snatched my mask with its mouth. I had no choice but to ask its owner for it back, and that's how I got to know him."

Lin Ruoyi softly exclaimed in worry, "So he saw your face, did he have any..."

Zhuang Shilei understood what her mother meant and gently shook her head, saying, "He didn't show any hint of fear, disdain, or pity. The Internet says he is an exceptional medical genius, and it's not without reason."

"His gaze while looking at me was just like a doctor's examining a patient. Not only that, but he also carefully touched my left face with his hand."

Saying this, Zhuang Shilei pursed her lips and said to the strangely-faced Lin Ruoyi, "Mom, isn't it strange?"

"Whenever I hear people talk about my mask and discuss my face, I always feel a bit annoyed, but when Lin Jie touched my face like that, I didn't feel any dislike."

"After returning to the hotel room, I even wondered if I had turned a bit abnormal?"

"After thinking carefully, I realized it was because of Lin Jie's focused and pure gaze that made me sense he truly had no ulterior motive, just an intention to touch my face."

"His gaze, how should I put it, made me feel very comfortable."

At this, Zhuang Shilei's expression dimmed, and she said gloomily, "The reason I don't want to be with relatives is that their sympathetic and pitying glances make me feel inferior."

Seeing Lin Ruoyi's face turn cloudy too, Zhuang Shilei sighed inwardly, her lips curling up again as she said, "Mom, isn't it funny? Lin Jie actually said he knows a cosmetic surgeon who can restore my face quite extensively."

Though still young, she remarked with the tone of someone experienced, "This Lin Jie is still young, a bit cocky and likes to make unfounded remarks. Several well-known experts have looked at my face."

But Lin Ruoyi was moved, saying with concern, "Leilei, he said he knows a cosmetic surgeon who can heal your face. What exactly did he say? Tell me every word without changing anything."

"Mom, do you really believe what he said?"

Zhuang Shilei found it somewhat amusing, but seeing Lin Ruoyi's face turn unusually serious, she frowned and said, "Alright, alright, let me think carefully first!"

After a moment, Zhuang Shilei imitated Lin Jie's tone and voice, saying, "He was like this, 'Meeting is fate, I really can't bear to see such a perfect you with a half-ghost face.'"

"He also said, 'The cosmetic surgeon I know can perform surgery on you to restore about eighty to ninety percent of your left face. If you trust me and are willing to try, you can come to Binhai City to find me!'"

"This guy even boasted at the last, 'I'm Lin Jie, Lin Jie from Binhai University Medical School!'"

If Lin Miao, An Kemeng, or others familiar with Lin Jie were here, they would certainly be surprised, as Zhuang Shilei's imitation of Lin Jie, from tone to mannerisms, captured the essence quite well.

Zhuang Shilei laughed and said, "His last sentence was very showy and arrogant, as if everyone in Binhai knew him."

"I almost told him on the spot that I'm also from Binhai, but I don't know him, wanting to see him embarrassed. Hmm, not entirely unfamiliar; at least with that name, I have some familiarity."

Zhuang Shilei continued, "Returning to the room, I checked online and realized who he is and remembered that you, Mom, had mentioned him before."

At this point, the waiter brought the dishes they ordered.

With a mind full of thoughts, Lin Ruoyi said, "Leilei, after lunch, take a nap. Around three or four in the afternoon, we'll visit Lin Jie and his family at the seaside villa."

However, in the afternoon, when the mother and daughter went to visit Lin Jie, they missed him and had to return disappointed.

What they didn't know was that Lin Jie had received a call from Bai Qili ahead of time and had rushed to an office in the hotel to meet the person he had been looking for.

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