Chapter 40: The CEO's Self-Inflicted Trick

Huo Juncheng looked at Lin Yilan with a dark face.

After a long while, he said, "Why don't you leave? Is it comfortable here?"

When Lin Yilan came to her senses, Huo Juncheng had already extended his hand to her. She hesitated for a moment and then took Huo Juncheng's hand.

Huo Juncheng didn't say a word until they got in the car, and the atmosphere was terribly low.

"Um, are you going back just like that?" Lin Yilan looked at Huo Juncheng and asked in surprise.

"If I don't go back this way, what else do you want?"

Seeing the look on Lin Yilan's face, Huo Juncheng added, "I've already transferred the compensation to the couple's card. Please stay out of this kind of business from now on."

So that's how it is. No wonder Huo Juncheng took her away as soon as he arrived. Lin Yilan thought the police also thought her way of upholding justice was correct.

"Your leg hasn't healed yet, and I made you come here in person for my matter. I'm sorry." Lin Yilan looked at Huo Juncheng apologetically.

"There's something I want to ask you. What did you take grandma to eat today? Grandma is in the hospital now with food poisoning." Huo Juncheng didn't take Lin Yilan's words to heart at all, but asked in a questioning tone.

Food poisoning?

Lin Yilan's eyes widened like bells. She thought carefully, she had eaten several meals! Why was she fine?

"Grandma, is she okay now? I'm sorry, I just took grandma to eat rice with toppings on the campus. I, I didn't mean it." Lin Yilan lowered her head silently like a child who had done something wrong.

She didn't dare look directly into Huo Juncheng's eyes. Lin Yilan never thought that she would end up making things worse.

Outside the hospital, Huo Juncheng ordered someone to stop the car.

"I will send someone to investigate that fast food restaurant, but, Lin Yilan, I hope this is the last time! Grandma is so old, she can't stand your tossing and turning!" Huo Juncheng scolded Lin Yilan harshly. His angry tone made Lin Yilan particularly sad.

Lin Yilan paused and did not choose to go to the hospital. Instead, she walked towards the south.

"What are you going to do!" Huo Juncheng stood still and roared.

Lin Yilan lowered her head in shame and whispered, "I'll go find that fast food restaurant and find out what they put in the food."

"They used gutter oil, and grandma has a sensitive stomach."

Huo Juncheng looked at Lin Yilan in frustration. What would happen if she went? Would she beat up the couple again?

Lin Yilan followed Huo Juncheng obediently to the outside of the ward without saying a word the whole time.

Lin Yilan's uncharacteristic behavior today made Huo Juncheng feel mixed emotions.

After all this time, he knew Lin Yilan better than anyone else and was even more convinced that she probably didn't intentionally cause her grandmother to get food poisoning...

After Lin Yilan was taken away by the police, Mrs. Huo was taken to the hospital by ambulance. During this time, she was given several bottles of water and her health has improved a lot.

However, in just a short while, Mrs. Huo's face turned pale and bloodless.

Lin Yilan was heartbroken after seeing this. She quickly stepped forward and held Mrs. Huo's hand tightly. "I'm sorry, Grandma. I really didn't expect it to turn out like this. If I had known, I wouldn't have taken you there for dinner even if you tore me into pieces!"

"I accept it no matter how you hit or scold me!" Lin Yilan said as she pulled Mrs. Huo's hand and hit herself.

Mrs. Huo smiled calmly, looking doting. "What nonsense are you talking about, silly girl? Grandma and Jun Cheng both believe that you definitely didn't mean it. Besides, it wasn't you who forced me to eat with a knife. Why are you apologizing to me?"

After saying that, Mrs. Huo brushed away the loose hair on Lin Yilan's forehead.

"Starting today, I will punish myself by not eating dinner for a month!" Lin Yilan patted her chest and promised solemnly.

"Don't do that. If you get sick from hunger, grandma will be the first to pick on me." Huo Juncheng had learned his lesson, so he expressed his position at the first opportunity.

Madam Huo smiled and shook her head. "Really? What nonsense are you talking about? Why don't you just say you're worried about your wife and can't bear to see her skipping dinner? Just be a good girl and don't do anything stupid. If you don't eat and starve yourself to death, when will Grandma ever be able to hold her great-grandson?"

Lin Yilan blushed at what Mrs. Huo said. She bit her lower lip and stopped talking.

After staying in Mrs. Huo's ward for a while, Mrs. Huo ordered us to leave.

It was late at night, and the bright moonlight shone on Lin Yilan. She and Huo Juncheng were strolling in the deserted hospital corridor.

"There is a bed for a companion in my ward. I will stay in the hospital tonight." Huo Juncheng suddenly said.

Lin Yilan turned her head to look at Huo Juncheng and refused without even thinking: "Forget it, the bed in the hospital is too small and it's not comfortable to sleep on!"

Cough, Huo Juncheng almost vomited blood in the hospital corridor. Was it so decisive to reject him?

"My bed is more comfortable to sleep on."

Huo Juncheng added hesitantly, but his eyes looked elsewhere, deliberately avoiding looking at Lin Yilan.

Lin Yilan looked up at Huo Juncheng in disbelief. After a long pause, she added in disbelief, "No matter how comfortable a hospital bed is, how comfortable can it be? I'd better go home and sleep. You even came all the way from the hospital to pick me up because of something. I won't disturb your sweet dreams. I'm leaving now!"

After saying that, Lin Yilan waved goodbye to Huo Juncheng.

Huo Juncheng looked at Lin Yilan's figure walking away, and his right fist clenched so hard that it made a crackling sound.

Damn it, I really want to pry open this woman’s head and see if she really has only one brain!

"Ugh, my chest feels like something is pressing on it. It's so uncomfortable..."

Huo Juncheng pretended to be in great pain, holding the handrail of the corridor with his other hand.

Lin Yilan heard the sighing sound from Huo Juncheng behind her in the yard. She quickly turned around and saw that Huo Juncheng seemed to be in real pain!

That’s all.

It’s not that Lin Yilan is unwilling to live in the hospital or doesn’t want to live with Huo Juncheng, but she always accidentally hurts Huo Juncheng.

She naively thought that as long as she was careful to keep a distance from Huo Juncheng, he would be able to avoid suffering less physical pain.

At the moment, it certainly seems unrealistic.

Lin Yilan turned around and walked towards Huo Juncheng, consciously holding Huo Juncheng's hand. The little sun was emitting a scorching light all the time.

It was a lie to say he was feeling unwell. Huo Juncheng himself didn't know why he was behaving so strangely. Damn it! What on earth was his purpose in doing this?

"Oh, it's all my fault. If I hadn't gotten into trouble today, you wouldn't have to run from the hospital to pick me up. I'll transfer more of my internal energy to you today, so I won't go back yet." Lin Yilan said as she held Huo Juncheng's hand and walked towards his ward.

Huo Juncheng glanced at her, and a wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.