After dinner, Quinn and Wiphy have a short walk in the yard, and then he takes Wiphy upstairs to take a shower.
Yaffe is studying cases on a Pad in the living room.
After a long while, Quinn comes downstairs.
Yaffe puts away the Pad. “Is Wiphy asleep?”
“Yes.”
“Do you often accompany him when he’s not in shape?”
“He can’t stand being touched by others. If I don’t keep him company, he may not eat or drink all day.”
Yaffe nods. If Karmier and Roi haven’t told her that Wiphy was Johnnian’s child, for Quinn’s concern for Wiphy and their resemblance, she would have thought that Wiphy was Quinn’s son.
What Quinn had done for Wiphy is far beyond what a father could do for his own child.
“Can you tell me about his situation? I’m afraid that I might something inappropriate like last night again.”
“You don’t have to worry about last night. When my parents touched him, his reaction was even worse. Before when he was not in shape, it could last for at least a week. It’s already very nice that he’s getting better after only one day. You did a good job.”
Yaffe forces a smile. She finds that the more she gets along with Quinn, the more different this man makes her feel.
Before when she heard Anne gossiped about him, she thought he was just a cool and bossy chief executive.
When he pestered Yaffe to marry him, he was a bit of a rascal.
When dealing with Wiphy’s condition, he is surprisingly patient, and will not take out on others randomly simply because he cares about Wiphy.
He is really breathtaking.
“Rich Man, you’re making it hard for me to keep the conversation going.”
Quinn chuckles, “I’ll walk you through Wiphy’s situation. After the accident, I wasn’t around him for the early days. I was dealing with an important contract overseas. At that time, we didn’t expect that an accident would have such a big impact on a three-year-old kid.”
“What happened exactly at the time?” Yaffe is puzzled.
Before getting the Practicing Physician Certificate, she was assigned to intern in the department of pediatrics for three months.
As far as she knows, a three-year-old’s memory won’t last long.
Because kids at that age don’t know much, and their brains can’t understand what they see and hear, so they won’t have a long-term memory.
What’s more, their brains are not developed yet, so it’s impossible for them to remember the information.
“On that day of the accident, my mom and Molly took Wiphy to the children’s hospital for a physical check-up. There was an accident on the road and the car was stuck on the viaduct. The families of the two sides of the accident began to fight and gradually the onlookers also started to fight in the chaos. The car Wiphy was in was smashed. My mom and Molly were injured to varying degrees for protecting Wiphy. Molly’s injury was more serious.”
Yaffe is shocked.
She has not expected a story like this.
In a chaotic situation, people will lose their reason. They will turn angry because people around them are angry, and do many things insanely that are impossible for them to do normally.
And people’s emotions are easily infected by people around them.
When most people are wildly vandalizing and looting, the sane people will do the same thing.
Otherwise, they will get beaten by insane people.
“What did the police do later?”
“People who had touched car were sentenced to life imprisonment.” Quinn’s says in a cold tone.
His deep magnetic voice now sounds like being covered with a layer of ice.
Yaffe has no doubt that if it was possible to sentence those people to death, Quinn would’ve definitely pushed them to death penalty.
“Suppose it was Mom and Molly who protected Wiphy, Wiphy shouldn’t be scared of them. On the contrary, he would rely more on them after the incident.”
“I’ve had the same thought before. But it turned out that not only they can’t get close to Wiphy, but nobody can get close to him. ”
Yaffe thinks that things should not be this simple and asks, “Did Dr. Marco give Wiphy a psychological test in the past two years?”
“Yes. Initially, it was identified as trauma, and the recovery period was half a year. But after half a year, Wiphy’s condition did not improve, and then it was re-identified as atypical autism.” Quinn wearily rubs between his eyebrows. “At first, he didn’t want to communicate at all, unlike now that he types on the Pad. At that time, he didn’t even know any words. As long as he was unhappy, he would scream or smash things, you couldn’t even figure out his temper.”
Yaffe can imagine how hard it was for Quinn at that time, while he was busy taking care of Wiphy, he had to manage the Hersh Group as well.
Without even thinking about it she knows how terribly busy he was.
“In the past six months, after he learned more words, he began to be willing to communicate in words. After knowing you, he has changed even more. I think this is a good sign.”
“He’ll be fine.” Yaffe looks at the clock in the living room and says, “It’s getting late. Have a rest. You didn’t rest well last night.”
“Okay.”
Yaffe starts reading books about children’s autism and children’s mental health in her busy work, as she wants to learn more about the theoretical knowledge.
The situation have also got better that people will come and ask her to do the operation because she is Quinn’s wife, which reduces her workload a lot.
Yaffe can also take a short break, and put more energy into her work.
“Sis Qin, Professor Zahi asked you to go to his office.”
“He is back?”
“Yes. Just finished a meeting with the leaders and directors of the hospital, then he asked you to go to his office. Sis Qin, tell me your secret technique of being so delightful.”
“Quiet. Finish your year-end report and put it on my desk before work this afternoon. Don’t be perfunctory, I’m not asking you to go through the motions. I’ll give you this year’s assessment based on your report.”
Anne immediately shrinks and shrugs her shoulders. “OK, I got it.”
Yaffe packs up a few documents and goes to Zahi Lin’s office.
“Hello, Professor Zahi.”
“Mrs. He, long time no see.” Zahi teases her.
“Professor Zahi, please stop making fun of me.” Yaffe smiles and shakes her head sitting down in front of Zahi’s desk.
“I was praising you.”
“I really can’t tell.”
Zahi looks at the documents in Yaffe’s hands and says, “You really did it.”
“So, you were just saying it casually.”
“Of course not.” Zahi takes those documents and praises her, “You are more professional than I thought.”
“I was also forcing myself to do it. My knowledge of CCVDs is still far from enough.”
“You don’t have to be modest. I’ve seen your speech when I went to Noamwin College to recruit assistants, and I could tell that you were good at your major. At that time, I even told your supervisor I wanted you to be my assistant after graduation. But Director Huang got to you first.”
“I didn’t know this.”
“Well. You are also very good as a surgeon. Director Huang has excellent professional skills and good medical ethics. Learn from a doctor with such seniority like him, you can improve quickly.”