In the hospital ward, Gan Tang lay on the bed, her face pale, one leg fixed and suspended high in the air. Her arms, legs, and other places she couldn't show were covered in scars.
"sorry……"
"sorry……"
"sorry……"
Mo Huaixing stayed by the bedside, murmuring the same sentence over and over again like a machine.
"You're too noisy!"
Gan Tang slowly opened her eyes. She had been on edge all day and wanted to sleep peacefully for a while, but Mo Huaixing was chattering away in her ear like a crow.
"You're awake!"
Mo Huaixing picked up a bowl of hot millet porridge and fed it to Gan Tang.
He fed her spoonful by spoonful, and she drank it sip by sip. The steaming millet porridge stood between them, and the ambiguous atmosphere gradually warmed up.
Gan Tang jumped in surprise and hurriedly blocked the thermos, complaining, "Mo Huaixing, where is the person you found? How did you become a real human trafficker?"
"I'm sorry!" Mo Huaixing explained, "Chairman Chu is an even more powerful figure than the chairman; a lie simply cannot fool him. The place where you were abducted is a notorious human trafficking village, where almost every household is involved in trafficking women. Therefore, I only need to create a slight opportunity for you to be kidnapped."
Gan Tang was alarmed: "Don't the local authorities care?"
Mo Huaixing said, "Every household is covering for each other. Without evidence and without anyone reporting the case, they just don't bother to care."
Gan Tang pressed further, "And now, are there still women who were trafficked along with us?"
"The woman who was trafficked was the wife of the chairman of the Chu Group. Not to mention the local police station, no police force in Hongcheng City dared not to do a poor job. The entire village was raided. Not only were the women who were trafficked with you rescued, but the women in the village who had not yet been evacuated were also saved."
"That's good, then my injury wasn't for nothing." Gan Tang smiled.
People feel inexplicably happy when they do good deeds.
"You're still laughing!" Mo Huaixing scolded fiercely, "If you were kidnapped, you should have stayed put. Who told you to be so brave and try to run away?"
He knew she would suffer, but he didn't expect her injuries to be so severe.
"You still dare to talk back to me!" Gan Tang glared angrily at Mo Huaixing. "If she really was a human trafficker, why didn't you tell me? I thought she was an actress you hired, so of course I had to make a good impression on Madam Chu. What could make her more grateful to me than me helping her escape from that den of wolves?"
Thankfully, she's alright. If Madam Chu had been injured because of me, how could I face Chu Jiahe?
"I'm sorry!" Mo Huaixing's eyes darkened again.
"It's not your fault, you were just trying to help me." Gan Tang noticed that the man in front of her had become quite sentimental lately. Not knowing what to say, she changed the subject: "What do we do next?"
"After this incident, Madam Chu will be extremely grateful to you, but it's not enough for her to sacrifice her son's entire life."
Mo Huaixing analyzed carefully: "Chairman Chu has always wanted his son to marry a woman from the political world, but at the same time, he is worried that his son's business acumen is not enough to support the empire he has built. Therefore, you need to show Chairman Chu your extraordinary business skills."
"Mo Huaixing, are you kidding me?" Gan Tang was speechless. She didn't have any extraordinary business acumen.
“You do!” Mo Huaixing nodded firmly. “Lu Zhengqian has made the Lu Group one of the world’s leading companies in just twenty years. Besides his shady businesses, his business acumen is also remarkable. You just need to learn from him. With Madam Chu praising you from the side, it will be hard for him not to waver in his decision.”
Gan Tang's heart pounded: "Will two or three months be enough?"
Mo Huaixing sensed something was wrong: "Why the rush?"
"It's nothing!" Facing the man before her, she knew he had been helping her all along, and she was very grateful to him. But his status stood between them, and she ultimately dared not tell him about her parents.
Knock, knock, knock—the sound of knocking on the door rang out.
A smartly dressed man in a gleaming police uniform stood at the door and smiled, saying, "I'm Fang Heng, a police officer from the Nanjiang branch. I'm here to take a statement from Ms. Lu. May I come in now?"
Gan Tang glanced at Mo Huaixing and quickly said, "Please come in!"
Mo Huaixing got up and helped Gan Tang raise the back of her chair.
Fang Heng walked behind Mo Huaixing, took his chair for himself, and then picked up an empty teacup with tea leaves inside.
"Please fill the water tank, thank you!"
Mo Huaixing took the teacup and poured hot water from the thermos.
Fang Heng emphasized, "Please pour in the freshly boiled water, thank you."
Mo Huaixing snapped, "Why are you making such a fuss over a cup of tea? Where's the freshly boiled water?"
"Mo Huaixing!" Gan Tang was afraid he would argue with the police officer, so she instructed, "Take Officer Fang's teacup to the hot water room and get some fresh hot water."
After Mo Huaixing left, Gan Tang apologized to Officer Fang: "Officer Fang, please don't take it to heart. He's in a bad mood today."
"Mo Huaixing!" Fang Heng murmured the name to himself, then asked with a smile, "Who is he to you?"
"……assistant!"
"Just an assistant?"
"Hmm..." Gan Tang carefully changed the way she addressed him: "...still the driver and bodyguard."
"One person holding multiple positions, no wonder he works so hard, his salary must be quite high, right?" Fang Heng's meaningful gaze was so obvious. Gan Tang felt that he was seeing right through her, and said in a panic, "It's because I rely on him more."
"Oh!" Fang Heng laughed, "Then it seems you two have a very good personal relationship."
Realizing she had said the wrong thing in her haste, Gan Tang blushed and tried to cover it up as if she had done something wrong: "Do I have to ask about this when taking a statement?"
"No, that's not it." Fang Heng looked at the shy face in front of him, took out a talisman from his pocket, and handed it to Gan Tang: "Talisman, this is for you. I hope you will be safe and sound in the future."
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