Liu Man and his two companions were arrested on the spot. Ten minutes later, Zheng Lin swam out of the sea, soaking wet, and staggered a few steps.
His glasses were also washed away by the sea, which shows how turbulent the sea was.
Assistant Gao went up to her and said, "Thank God you're alright."
Zheng Lin looked up, his eyes reddening. "I couldn't find her."
Assistant Gao: "The search and rescue team will continue to look for her. The boss lady is a lucky person and will be alright."
Zheng Lin wouldn't listen to any of that. "But she was right there, I saw it with my own eyes. I'll go look for her again, I'm sure I can find her."
He turned to jump again, but Assistant Gao stopped him and pulled him back. "Don't go anymore. We've been searching for so long. If you go again, you might drown yourself. Calm down. You've always been calm."
Zheng Lin gave Assistant Gao a hard shove, then glanced at Liu Man, who was about to get into the police car.
Just as Liu Man was about to be taken away, Zheng Lin punched him hard, pinning him to the ground.
"He's gone mad." Upon seeing this, Assistant Gao quickly dragged Zheng Lin away. He had never seen his boss cause such a commotion before. He was terrified to see this happen today.
No one knows who's really gone mad, or what the price will be for those punches. The boss couldn't possibly be unaware of that.
Knowing this and still doing it, they're insane!
"You promised to let her go, and now you've killed someone! You've killed someone!" Zheng Lin was pulled away by the police, who were holding his arms.
Liu Man lay on the ground, his mouth full of blood, laughing arrogantly: "She's just a woman, so what if she's dead?"
He looked terrifying, and Assistant Gao frowned and hid behind the police.
Because the boss had thrown those punches, it became more complicated for Assistant Gao to handle the aftermath. He returned to the law firm, while Zheng Lin remained at the beach, watching the search and rescue team recover people.
Every time Zheng Lin saw the search and rescue team return, his heart sank a little lower.
Time and time again.
From a glimmer of hope to despair.
Late at night, Zheng Lin received a call from a hospital. A kind fisherman had pulled a woman out of the water, brought her to the hospital, and sent him a photo to identify her.
After confirming it was Su Jin, he immediately rushed to the hospital's emergency room.
Zheng Youguo and He Rong also rushed to the hospital.
In the elevator, He Rong said, "How could she fall into the sea? My heart has been pounding these past few days. I've been saying for a long time that she's a widow and bad luck. It's not like I have any real problem with her, but you're making it sound like I'm some kind of wicked person. If she had listened to my advice back then, this wouldn't have happened. I also hope that our family will be harmonious and happy."
"You've already got the marriage certificate, what's the point of saying all this? You don't care about your daughter-in-law at all, and you're just making sarcastic remarks. When you see Zheng Lin later, don't say any more of this."
For once, Zheng Youguo didn't go along with her words. He just wanted to be considerate of his son, and after thinking for a moment, he added, "Remember. Otherwise, don't make a sound."
Outside the emergency room, Zheng Lin sat there looking dejected, his clothes all wrinkled. He only looked up when he saw Zheng Youguo and He Rong arrive.
"What happened to you? Go change your clothes." Zheng Youguo said, "I'll stay here and watch over you. Go change your clothes and rest for a bit."
"Dad, I'm not in the mood." Zheng Lin didn't have time to say more to them. He immediately walked away and called his assistant, Gao, to work on Liu Man's case. He had to avenge her.
Assistant Gao asked several times how it went, and Zheng Lin's answer was always the same: "Go all out."
After the two finished discussing the case, Assistant Gao on the other end of the phone said nervously, "Fortunately, it was handled quickly enough, and the assault has been settled. It was really irrational of you to assault someone in front of the police. Originally, this kind of grudge could have been resolved by having someone beat him up in jail privately. Why did you have to make it so ugly?"
Zheng Lin said coldly, "It won't affect your salary. If you're not comfortable with that, you can find another job."
"I've worried for nothing. Let me know if the boss lady is out of danger."
"Wordy."
Zheng Lin hung up the phone, turned around and saw the two people sitting in the chair. He didn't want to go over and join them. He touched the cigarette in his pants pocket, took it out, and found it was wet and unsmokable.
He threw the cigarette into the trash can and leaned against the wall for a while.
After what seemed like an eternity, the lights outside the emergency room finally turned green.
The nurse wheeled the patient out, and Zheng Lin quickly walked over.
The doctor told them, "The surgery was successful, but she's not completely out of danger yet; she's still in a coma. The next twelve hours are crucial. If she doesn't wake up, she could become a vegetable."
Hearing this, Zheng Lin felt as if his heart had been punched hard.
After entering the ward, Zheng Lin sat by the bedside to take care of the patient.
Su Jin lay on the hospital bed with a ventilator, her head wrapped in bandages, her face as pale as paper, as if she would disappear at the slightest touch.
She suffered a mild concussion from hitting the rocks, and some of her wounds festered from prolonged immersion in seawater.
Zheng Lin clenched his fist silently, his heart aching inexplicably as he recalled the vibrant Su Jin from before.
He Rong shook her head and sighed repeatedly, "The doctor just said she might become a vegetable. What will happen then?"
Zheng Lin's face darkened.
Zheng Youguo squeezed her arm hard to prevent her from saying anything more hurtful. "I'll call Zheng Guang to help you later. Your mother and I are going back first. Don't overthink it. Just take good care of Su Jin."
Feeling irritated, Zheng Lin didn't even look at He Rong. Instead, he said to his father, Zheng Youguo, "Tell Zheng Guang not to come. He's so busy. If he accidentally passes on his bad luck to him, Su Jin and I will both become sinners for all time. We can't bear that responsibility."
He Rong was furious, and Zheng Youguo took her away.
Once outside, He Rong took her anger out on her husband again: "I think it's not that he can't take responsibility, it's that he's targeting me. He's never been half as well-behaved and honest as our Zheng Guang since he was a child. It's all your fault for bringing such a wretched child back!"
"Why are you bringing up old things again? It's been so long." Zheng Youguo felt a headache coming on. More than ten years had passed, and these old stories kept being brought up.
"Of course you don't want me to bring it up. You're the one who did wrong, but I'm the only one who has to bear the pain!" He Rong suddenly got carried away and the topic turned directly to the grudges from back then.
She slapped Zheng Youguo on the back several times, yelling fiercely, "Go to hell, go to hell, go to hell!"
Shrinking back as he was struck, Zheng Youguo blurted out, "I also have my reasons."
"What excuse? You just made a mistake that every man in the world makes. That's your excuse!"
Zheng Youguo: "......"
"Fine, you'll come with me to the temple tomorrow during the day."
Zheng Youguo looked at his wife, thinking she was about to try something to torment him again.
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