Chapter 41 Gu Zong can now hold his wedding.
“I…I remember being here in Wen Ruan’s ward.”
“It must have fallen outside.” Wen Han stood up. “I’ll go look for it.”
"No need to rush," Jing Yu said, pulling him back. "If someone finds it, they'll bring it to the front desk."
"That's not a good idea," Lin He said. "What if a greedy person picks it up?"
Lin He thought for a moment: "Ah, could it be that you accidentally rubbed it off when you were helping Wen Ruan just now?"
“Yes!” Wen Han immediately jumped up. “He was rubbing against me, that’s when it must have gotten off.”
Lin He pointed to the door: "I guess it got stuck on him. When Wen Ruan left, I saw the hem of his clothes twitching."
Jing Yu said calmly, "You remember it very clearly."
Wen Han asked anxiously, "Why didn't you say so back then?"
“I didn’t know you lost your brooch,” Lin He asked. “So, should we wait for Wen Ruan to come out or go look for it now? It would be troublesome if it fell on the ground again while you were walking.”
Wen Han was reluctant, but had no choice: "Jing Yu, I'll go take a look."
He rushed out, while Lin He followed slowly behind.
Wen Han stopped and asked, "Why are you following me?"
"Do you know where Gu Cheng's hospital room is?" Lin He smiled and put his arm around his shoulder. "I'll take you there."
——
Several bodyguards in black stood outside Gu Cheng's ward. Perhaps because Wen Ruan was inside, Wen Han didn't hear any arguing sounds coming from inside.
"do what?"
“I’m looking for Wen Ruan,” Wen Han said hesitantly. “You mean that pretty Omega? Could you ask him to come out for a moment?”
The bodyguard glanced at him, then resumed his arrogant demeanor: "Wait for him to come out."
"I need him out right now," Wen Han pleaded. "I have something attached to him, but I can't find it, and I'm really worried."
"Brother, could you please go in and tell them?" Lin He said with a smile. "That brooch was borrowed from someone else; it should be worth several million."
"What!" Wen Han turned her head sharply, looking at him in disbelief. "Millions? How is that possible!?"
His voice was incredibly loud, and naturally, everyone in the ward was drawn to it.
"Who's making a scene outside?" The butler frowned as he came out. "It's you. What are you doing here?"
Wen Han asked, "Is Wen Ruan still inside?"
The bodyguard whispered a few words to the butler, who then went inside. After a while, the butler said with a complicated expression, "Come in."
Lin He put his arm around Wen Han and was about to go inside with him when the bodyguard standing next to them grabbed him and pulled him down.
"Huh? Wen Han, Wen Han!"
Wen Han was also a little hesitant. He had originally wanted Wen Ruan to come out, not him to go in! Now, with Gu Zong still inside, he was starting to feel scared. At this moment, he actually hoped that Lin He would go in with him.
Seeing him dawdling, the butler taunted, "What, is this your partner too?"
Wen Han calmed down in a second and said with dissatisfaction, "Speak properly and don't swear."
*
Gu Cheng was staying in a VIP ward. When Wen Han went in, she only saw the living room. The patient's bedroom was inside, and there was even another room connected to the other side of the living room. If you didn't know better, you would think you were staying in a hotel.
Gu Cheng sat on the hospital bed, closest to Fang Zhi, his face even more pale than Wen Ruan's.
Wen Han tried her best not to look at Gu Zong on the other side of the hospital bed. Wen Ruan was sitting on a soft chair. He was surprised to see Wen Han, but his expression was stiff. He asked in a low voice, "Wen Han, why are you here?"
...You idiot, don't say my name!
Wen Han explained, "When I helped you up just now, I might have dropped the brooch on you. Check if it's caught on your clothes."
Is this it?
Wen Han stiffly raised his head, and Wen Ruan glanced at him nervously.
Directly opposite Wen Ruan sat a man in a suit.
Earlier at the banquet, Wen Han had been too far away and surrounded by people joking around, so she hadn't really gotten a strong feeling about this President Gu. Now, seeing him up close, she noticed he was wearing gold-rimmed glasses and looked somewhat similar to Gu Cheng. Gu Cheng was already quite good-looking, so President Gu's appearance was naturally not unsettling at all; on the contrary, he was extremely handsome, and people would believe he was in his early thirties. However, his demeanor was also more composed.
Compared to the oppressive presence of a thug like Gu Cheng, Gu Zong exuded a much stronger sense of pressure. Wen Han even began to suspect that the Gu family might be involved in some kind of shady business, as he looked like he could break someone's arms or legs.
Even so, Liu Ruyan still thought the other person was silly and pitiful. How big must the filter be? Did the heavens blind him?
"System, is Gu Zong really not someone who made his fortune through illicit activities?"
"No." The system was a little scared. "He's so scary, host! We even conjured up six kids for him out of thin air, what are we going to do?"
Wen Han: "......"
If Gu Zong knew that Wen Han had conjured up six illegitimate children for him, he would probably tear him to pieces.
Wait a minute, isn't that the brooch that Gu Zong is playing with in his hand the one Jing Yu gave him?
Wen Han winked at Wen Ruan: What's going on? How come the brooch is with Gu Cheng's father?
Wen Ruan looked even more pitiful than Wen Han at that moment: I don't know either.
"What?" Gu Zong had seen through their little actions. "Weren't you shouting and yelling outside just now because you were looking for it?"
He held out one hand, but made no move to ask someone to give the brooch to Wen Han.
"I didn't yell or scream." Wen Han numbly moved his steps, feeling that this person would have someone tie him up and send him to the distant Atlantic Ocean to be eaten by sharks at any moment.
Gu Zong asked him, "How old are you?"
"Seventeen."
"Age in years or age in the traditional Chinese way?"
"...nominal age."
"The same age as Gu Cheng."
They're classmates, so they must be around the same age. Wen Han was carefully taking the brooch away when Gu Zong suddenly asked, "You like lilies of the valley?"
Wen Han was completely confused, but Gu Zong reached out and pulled his wrist over, pinning the brooch to his cuff. The delicate diamond flower shimmered under the light: "Lily of the valley is pure white and flawless, symbolizing purity and humility. It doesn't seem to suit you."
Jing Yu giving him this brooch must be a compliment, but Gu Zong and Wen Han felt there was something more to his words: "System, what does he mean by this? Is he insulting me? Does he think I don't deserve to wear this?"
"However," Gu Zong said, his body emanating a slightly bitter pheromone, "despite the flower's meaning of waiting for happiness to return, the entire plant is poisonous, even the water used to water it is poisonous."
Wen Han was filled with regret after hearing this. If he had known it would turn out like this, he should have advised Wen Ruan to give Gu Cheng a bouquet of lilies of the valley. That idiot would definitely try to show off in front of Wen Ruan by holding the flowers in his mouth, and then he would have been dealt with effortlessly.
"That young master Fang Zhi's pheromones are oleander, but many people know that oleander is poisonous, while not many people know that lily of the valley is poisonous."
Why bring this up? Wen Han was a little bored, and her fear of Gu Zong lessened considerably, causing her body to relax unconsciously.
"alright."
Wen Han lowered her eyes and withdrew her hand, just in time to see a trace of dark blood on Gu Zong's cuff.
"...System, this shouldn't be strawberry juice, right?" Wen Han's eyes widened. "My goodness, could it be blood?!"
“Now, we should talk about something else.” Gu Zong saw Wen Han’s face suddenly turn pale and smiled. “You can tell your uncle why you advised Gu Cheng to apologize to me and make up with me, right?”
"Huh?" Wen Han's mind went blank.
Gu Zong asked with great interest, "What, wasn't it you and Zhang Yongqi who said this?"
Now Wen Han not only dared not look at Gu Zong, but he also dared not look at the expressions of Gu Cheng and Wen Ruan behind him.
The system whispered, "Host, what should we do? This is so embarrassing."
How would Gu Zong know? Did Zhang Yongqi tell him? Impossible, but there was no one else around at the time. Could it be that bastard Lin He? But that wouldn't do him any good either.
Wen Han vehemently denied it: "When did I ever say that to Zhang Yongqi—"
The 1.9-meter-tall bodyguard next to Gu Zong suddenly cast a dangerous glance at Wen Han.
For some reason, Wen Han suddenly felt that if she continued to lie, the consequences would be dire.
He asked with difficulty, "How did you know?"
"Gu Cheng will not back down."
No one knows a son better than his father. If Gu Cheng were to back down, it would surely be because someone else was persuading him. By investigating Gu Cheng's close friends one by one, they would quickly find Zhang Yongqi. And Zhang Yongqi, in the end, was just a high school student eager to ease his family's burden. If he was already helping Wen Han frame Gu Cheng, it would be perfectly reasonable for Gu Zong to offer him some benefits and intimidate him, making it easy for him to betray Wen Han.
When we get back to school, I'm definitely going to tear him apart. Seeing that Gu Zong hadn't said anything, Wen Han knew he wouldn't be able to leave without saying something. So he simply admitted, "I was the one who persuaded him."
"Why?"
"Because Zhang Yongqi's family is so pitiful, I thought if Gu Cheng bowed down to his family, wouldn't that help him pay off his debts?"
"Then why did you bring Wen Ruan along?" Gu Zong asked. "Is it also because Wen Ruan is too pitiful?"
Wen Han couldn't continue making up a story. If only Jing Yu were here.
"Hey, system, help me! What should I say?!" Wen Han was practically going crazy. "I feel like my true nature has been exposed. No matter how I pretend to be kind, it's no use!" Moreover, that butler must have exaggerated the situation. Wen Han felt like she was performing as a clown.
"Host, they've never lied," the system advised. "Why don't you try a different approach?"
Desperate, Wen Han asked, "How do I change it?"
"Well, just say that you sent Wen Ruan to show off how capable you are and that you want him to beg you. That way it won't go against your usual persona."
Wen Han had no choice but to say that. Sure enough, Gu Cheng cursed him for being vicious after hearing it, but Wen Han didn't care about that for the time being.
Gu Zong's smile made him feel uneasy: "Then I should thank you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have known that my son has a boyfriend."
"Now we can hold the wedding."
Wen Han: "?"
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