Finally, Xu Lin sat up and gritted his teeth, saying, "Miss, don't worry about me. Bring him here. He knows so much, he must have been involved in Patriarch Nie's research base."

“If he can take charge of the hospital here, Miss can rest assured, and we can free up our hands to do other things.”

Kong Sang also sat up and sighed, "Your father is indeed the best candidate, but as you can see, he hates me. What can we do?"

Xu Lin looked at Kong Sang for a while and said, "I will go and persuade him to take off the bandage. My mother and I took responsibility for the trouble he caused before, so it's time for him to pay back, isn't it?"

Kong Sang laughed out loud: "Xu Lin, do you know why I like you?"

Xu Lin shook his head.

"That's because you are timid yet brave, humble yet possess the vision to achieve great things, and you always make the best choices for yourself."

"You may seem like an ordinary person, but you've always operated according to your own thoughts. You're an exceptionally talented individual. So... I'm giving you bandages because I have no intention of letting you go, understand?"

Xu Lin blushed slightly and lowered his head: "I... I'm not as good as Miss says..."

Kong Sang patted Xu Lin on the shoulder affirmatively: "You do! Go on, bring your dad over."

Xu Lin stood up: "Okay, Miss, wait for me. I'll be right back."

Before you've gone far from home, a familiar figure with an unfamiliar face appears.

Xu Lin scoffed. He used to ignore him, but lately he's been keeping a close eye on him every day.

I went straight into the coffee shop, ordered two coffees, and only when I put them down did I realize they were my dad's favorite Blue Mountain coffee...

Zhang San sat down opposite him, looking at the coffee, a hint of guilt flashing across his face: "Xiao Lin... I..."

Xu Lin interrupted directly: "I don't want to hear your explanation. No matter what your reasons are, the harm you have caused to me and Mom can never be made up for."

"If you hate the Nie family, if you feel guilty towards me, then take off the bandages and do things for the young lady."

Zhang San was furious: "What kind of nonsense did she give you? Why do you insist on following her?"

Xu Lin took a sip of coffee and said calmly, "After graduating from university, I thought about living the rest of my life as an ordinary person."

But while cleaning the house one day, I found a document from the Nie family. It was just an ordinary document, but a thought struck me: your disappearance… might be somehow related to the Nie family.”

"I submitted my resume to the Nie Group with the intention of giving it a try, even though I knew I would be rejected. But I got accepted and became Mr. Nie's secretary..."

Zhang San opened his mouth in surprise, as if he were seeing his son for the first time...

"You deliberately approached Nie Kongsang?"

Xu Lin shook his head: "I knew from the first day I came to Nie's that you probably have some secrets with Nie's that are not known to others, and President Nie knows about them."

"I pretended to be hit by a pie, playing the role of a lucky and cautious college graduate starting a new job, thinking that one day, maybe I would figure out the whole thing."

"Later... the young lady appeared. She went to and from get off work with me every day, treated me to meals that were frighteningly expensive, and bossed me around, but she never felt that she was superior to others from the bottom of her heart."

"She is different from the Nie family. She uses arrogance and sharpness to disguise herself as bad and strong, but in reality she is a soft girl."

“I watched quietly from the sidelines, observing her living her life in the quagmire of the Nie family in her own way. Perhaps I had seen too much, and without realizing it, I wanted to reach out and give her a push.”

"I've tied myself to her; either we reach the shore together and climb to the top step by step in the future, or... we sink together."

"Dad, the eldest daughter wants to develop gene therapy drugs herself and go head-to-head with the Nie family. If you hate the Nie family, then come and help us."

Zhang San's pupils contracted, and he stared blankly at his son.

Arm wrestling with the Nie family... These young people today really dare to dream!

Kong Sang wasn't surprised that Xu Lin was able to bring the person back; anyone she considered was never a fool.

Looking at the scarlet pill in his hand, Zhang San's expression was complicated: "Before you take it, I want to ask you one last question: Are you serious about going against the Nie family?"

"Of course," Kongsang replied without hesitation.

"Before your father achieved such success, we had a good relationship. I was also involved in the early development of gene therapy drugs, which initially was really just about enhancing human physique..."

"Later everything changed. I couldn't stand using humans for experiments, so I quit and focused on opening a hospital. But your father didn't intend to let me go, and soon the hospital had a series of problems."

“I know he’s trying to suppress me and make me back down, but I really don’t want to be so heartless. So I had to cut off all the fuel supply by destroying everything and pretending to abandon my wife and children and flee.”

“I was afraid your father would find out, so I didn’t discuss it with my wife and children. I planned to come back after I had plastic surgery, but I never expected to have an accident. When I came back years later… my wife was already gone…”

Kong Sang didn't interrupt, but listened quietly. She knew that these words weren't addressed to her, but rather to Xu Lin, to give him an explanation.

Xu Lin remained silent; if it weren't for his clenched fists, he would probably feel quite calm inside.

"I heard from Xu Lin that you want to develop gene therapy drugs. Do you know how many people around the world want to develop their own but are helpless? What makes you think you can do it?"

Kong Sang curled her lips: "Because I'm the developer of bandages."

Zhang San gasped, "How is that possible?"

“Nothing is impossible. I’m telling you this so you’ll have some idea. The reason why countries can’t replicate gene therapy is because they’re missing a key drug factor. They can’t figure out what that is.”

“I can get my hands on this stuff. You can buy the equipment if you have the money. Since you were involved in the initial development, it shouldn’t be difficult for you to create a gene drug that’s on the market.”

"You can continue doing what you're doing now. In today's human world, gene therapy is the mainstream. What I can promise you is that I will never use living people for experiments, and I will never make disgusting things like Overlord or immortality."

Zhang San stared at Kong Sang for more than ten minutes, then swallowed a scarlet pill and said, "I hope you keep your word, otherwise I will kill you even if it means my own death."

Kong Sang chuckled and took out his phone, asking Zhang San to scan the QR code to join the group.

Zhang San was stunned for a moment, then Xu Lin snatched his phone and changed the nickname in a few simple steps.

The young lady's troop types:

The Imperial Guard Arrives: [Welcome to the new team!]

Soldier Zhang San: [??]

Gatekeeper Bingyu: [Welcome, ragtag soldiers!]

Miss Sandy: [One more person has boarded the ship, everyone keep it up!]

The imperial guards arrived: [Long live Emperor Sang!]

Gatekeeper Bingyu: 【Greetings, Miss!】

Soldier Zhang San: [??]

Not only was Zhang San bewildered, but Yu Wei was also bewildered.

After Kong Sang and Xu Lin left the hospital that day, Yu Wei knew that the two had something to talk about, so she didn't go back to her room and booked a room at a hotel with Lin Changli and Si Yu.

I've been trying to contact them by phone for the past few days, but we haven't met in person. Then I received another call from Kongsang, telling me to make one last trip to the hospital before heading back to Kyoto.

When the three arrived at the hospital, they were stunned.