When Chen Xu woke up, it was already dawn. He looked around and saw that the layout of the room and the treatment equipment beside the bed indicated that this was a VIP ward. However, there was no one in the ward except him. He slowly closed his eyes and let out a meaningful sigh.
The bodyguard outside the door heard the noise in the room and opened the door to check. Chen Xu opened his eyes again when he heard the sound and saw the person coming and asked, "Ning'er... is she... is she okay?"
Seeing that Chen Xu had woken up and didn't respond, the bodyguard turned and closed the door. He smiled and walked towards the next ward. After knocking on the door and entering the room, he nodded slightly to everyone. He walked towards Fu Linxiao, who was guarding Jiang Luoning by the bed, and leaned over to whisper in his ear. Fu Linxiao nodded to indicate that he understood, and the bodyguard turned and left.
Seeing the bodyguard leave, Jiang Linghao put down the documents in his hand and raised his head to ask softly: "What happened?"
Fu Linxiao glanced at Jiang Luoning who had just fallen asleep on the hospital bed, took out his mobile phone and typed a message to the group of four brothers.
Fu Linxiao: [Chen Xu wakes up]
Jiang Linghao saw the screen of his mobile phone flashing, picked it up to check, and after seeing the message, he patted Jiang Shuyan, who was resting with his eyes closed on the sofa, showed him the message, and the two looked at each other and left the ward.
Jiang Linghao: [I'll take Shuyan over to take a look first. You stay with Ningning for now.]
Fu Linxiao: [OK]
Chen Xu's ward.
Chen Xu lay on the hospital bed, his eyes dull and his gaze empty, as if he had been possessed by another spirit and had no life in him.
Jiang Shuyan pushed open the door and went forward to check Chen Xu's wound. It was not serious. He nodded to Jiang Linghao and left the room and returned to Jiang Luoning's ward.
At the same time, Jiang Linghao questioned Chen Xu why he was at the scene of the car accident and why he lingered around Jiang Luoning so many times.
But Chen Xu remained silent, and the room was eerily quiet.
After a long silence, Chen Xu's hoarse and bitter voice came: "How is she? Is she hurt?"
Seeing Chen Xu, whose legs were injured, expressing his concern for Jiang Luoning on the hospital bed, Jiang Linghao suppressed the doubts in his heart and replied: "Ningning is fine."
Hearing Jiang Linghao say that she was fine, Chen Xu exhaled a breath of turbid air, nodded as if relieved, and murmured softly: "That's good, as long as she is okay."
The ward door was pushed open again.
Jiang Luoning walked in front, followed by Jiang Shuyan, who looked tired, and Fu Linxiao, who was full of murderous aura.
The man said, "Brother, please go out first! I want to talk to him alone."
Hearing what his sister said, Jiang Linghao was about to refuse, but he saw Fu Linxiao standing behind her shaking his head slightly at him, signaling him not to speak.
Helpless, the three of them prepared to leave the room.
Fu Linxiao was walking at the end and was about to speak when Jiang Luoning smiled at him and told him not to worry.
When Chen Xu heard Jiang Luoning's voice, he woke up as if from a dream. He wanted to stand up and look, but the pain in his legs made him tremble all over. He could only turn his head to look in her direction and said softly with a sob: "Sister Ning'er, Sister Ning'er, I finally see you."
Fu Linxiao walked to the door and frowned when he heard Chen Xu's voice. He stopped and paused for a moment. Without turning around, he gently closed the door and waited at the door.
Chen Xu's gentle call sent Jiang Luoning's mind into a state of confusion. It was as if thunder had struck her head, and she froze in place, not daring to move forward. Her hands began to tremble unnoticeably, and beads of cold sweat formed on her forehead and back. She tried hard to control her emotions, suppress her inner fear, and remain calm.
She was too familiar with this name. Chen Xu called her that in her previous life. He wrapped himself in the most gentle appearance, but in the end he gave her a fatal blow when she was about to die. But in this life, they obviously didn't have much contact. The last time they met in a cafe, Chen Xu still called her Miss Jiang in a distant manner. What happened in between?
She closed her eyes slightly to organize her thoughts, and when she opened them again, she had returned to being the eldest daughter of the Jiang family with cold eyebrows and an icy face.
Seeing Jiang Luoning still standing there, Chen Xu realized what he had called her and quickly explained and apologized, "Miss Jiang, I'm sorry. Perhaps because of the injury on my forehead, my words were a little disorganized and I offended Miss Jiang."
After hearing Chen Xu's explanation, Jiang Luoning looked suspicious and didn't say anything. Instead, he continued, "Thank you, Young Master Chen, for coming forward to save me. May I ask why you were in that area?"
Facing Jiang Luoning's undisguised questioning and suspicion, Chen Xu did not get angry. Instead, he smiled faintly and replied, "I just happened to be passing by. Miss Jiang, don't take it to heart."
After saying that, he looked up at the ceiling and closed his eyes, as if he didn't want to argue with Jiang Luoning anymore, as if he was hiding his uneasy emotions...
What Jiang Luoning didn't know was that ever since the birthday party, Chen Xu's mind kept flashing with scenes, including her and Jiang Luoning walking on the beach, and the two of them choosing wedding dresses, but the one that left the deepest and most lingering impression on him was that he tied Jiang Luoning up in the warehouse, injected her with drugs with his own hands, told her about the heinous things he had done, boasted about his engagement to Dong Siqing, and finally watched her die in Fu Linxiao's arms with his own eyes.
He had originally thought it was just his own imagination, born from exhaustion. But when he received the pair of brooches Jiang Luoning had given him and Dong Siqing, and saw the trackers on them, he was lost in thought. A flashback flashed through his mind: a masked man in black gave him a bracelet and told him that the tracker hidden inside could create a chance encounter between him and Jiang Luoning. The bracelet was identical to the one Dong Siqing had given Jiang Luoning. Only then did he realize that perhaps all this wasn't a dream.
But there were some things he didn't remember. Wasn't that bracelet prepared by Dong Siqing? He hadn't seen the man in black either. And what about his loving relationship with Jiang Luoning? After days of internal struggle, he wanted to find Jiang Luoning and ask for clarification, but when he saw Jiang Luoning in danger on the side of the road, he drove over without hesitation.
He had no way of explaining all this, nor did he know how to approach Jiang Luoning. Should he ask her how she came back to life? Or what he had done to her in the past?
He didn't know that his subconscious told him not to say or do anything, as long as he didn't hurt Jiang Luoning again.
Jiang Luoning looked at Chen Xu, who was lying on the bed without saying a word and with his eyes closed. She felt that the current Chen Xu was different, different from the Chen Xu she saw in the Jiang family's old house in the cafe. But she didn't understand what was different and why he had changed. After thinking for a moment, she turned around and left the room without communicating with him.
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