Gao Mingcheng quickly noticed and looked at Xing Zhaozhao's face with surprise, exclaiming, "Zhaozhao?"
Xing Zhaozhao's eyelids twitched, and she slowly opened her eyes.
"Zhaozhao, you're finally awake! That's wonderful!" Gao Mingcheng said excitedly, his eyes welling up with tears.
"Mingcheng?" Xing Zhaozhao turned to look at Gao Mingcheng, then glanced around, a look of confusion in her eyes. "Where...is this place?"
“This is a hospital. Have you forgotten what happened before?” Gao Mingcheng said softly.
Upon hearing Gao Mingcheng's words, Xing Zhaozhao immediately recalled the events before she lost consciousness. Her eyes widened in shock, and she abruptly sat up in bed: "Tan Juan..."
The sudden violent movement aggravated the wound on her chest, and Xing Zhaozhao felt dizzy from the pain, collapsing back onto the hospital bed with a thud.
Gao Mingcheng was quite frightened and quickly pressed her down: "You just had surgery, you can't move around too much, lie down properly."
Despite the pain, Xing Zhaozhao pulled Gao Mingcheng along, saying, "Mingcheng, Tan Juan wants to kill me. She's the girl from the family that used to live in the house halfway up the mountain. She came from the other side of the gate."
Gao Mingcheng kept reassuring Xing Zhaozhao: "I know, I already know, don't get agitated."
Xing Zhaozhao took two deep breaths, finally managing to calm herself down, and asked Gao Mingcheng, "You already know? Tan Juan has been captured?"
Gao Mingcheng's expression froze for a moment, then he shook his head: "No, she has already gone back."
"She went back? Back to the other side? But she clearly said before that she couldn't go back?" Xing Zhaozhao's head was throbbing with pain. She looked at Gao Mingcheng in confusion and asked, "Since she wasn't caught, how do you know everything?"
“I heard it from her son,” Gao Mingcheng said.
Xing Zhaozhao quickly recalled the photo she had seen at Grandma Tan's house: "So that was her son."
"By the way, her son seems to be doing research at Hongfei's company," Xing Zhaozhao said to Gao Mingcheng.
“I already know that,” Gao Mingcheng said.
"That's good. We must investigate them thoroughly. They went too far. If she wanted to go back, she should have gone back. Why did she have to stab me? I almost died again." Xing Zhaozhao said angrily.
Looking at the lively expression on Xing Zhaozhao's face, Gao Mingcheng smiled with relief, nodded, and said, "Yes, we will definitely investigate thoroughly."
"No, didn't you say she went back to the other side of the gate? How can we investigate if we haven't caught her? I'll go back and bring her back for you." Xing Zhaozhao said, and was about to get up again.
Gao Mingcheng quickly pressed him down again: "You just had surgery and lost so much blood. You're still weak. Stay in bed and don't go anywhere."
"No." Xing Zhaozhao's face showed anxiety. "When I came here, I promised you that I would go back before dinner. Now I've had surgery and I don't know how much time has passed. You and the child must be getting impatient at home. I have to go back right away."
Gao Mingcheng wanted to tell her that the door might no longer be there, so she wouldn't be in such a hurry, but after opening his mouth, he couldn't bring himself to say it, afraid that it would make her even more anxious.
“Even if you go back in this state, I’ll still worry when I see you. Let’s focus on recovering here first,” Gao Mingcheng tried to persuade him.
Xing Zhaozhao had already noticed his hesitant reaction earlier, and narrowed her eyes slightly in confusion, asking, "Is there something you're hiding from me?"
Gao Mingcheng's eyes flashed, attempting to deny it.
However, before she could finish speaking, Xing Zhaozhao cut her off with a stern face: "Don't try to fool me, I can tell everything."
Gao Mingcheng's throat tightened, he paused, and sighed helplessly. In the end, he told her the truth: "You don't need to rush back. You may not be able to go back for the time being."
Xing Zhaozhao's pupils contracted, and her voice changed: "What do you mean? What do you mean I might not be able to go back?"
Gao Mingcheng then told her about Tan Zhe's speculation.
Xing Zhaozhao's eyes were bloodshot as she listened, shaking her head repeatedly, saying, "No way...this is impossible...I only dared to come here this morning..."
“It was already yesterday morning…” Gao Mingcheng corrected.
Xing Zhaozhao pursed her lips, her expression resolute as she sat up in bed, pulled out the IV drip from her arm, and was about to get out of bed: "No, I have to go see for myself..."
“No, Zhao Zhao…” Gao Mingcheng tried to stop him.
But right now, Xing Zhaozhao couldn't listen to anything. The thought of possibly never being able to go back sent chills down her spine. If they really couldn't go back, what would happen to her Mingcheng? And their three little ones...
"No, I have to go today." Xing Zhaozhao was very firm.
Gao Mingcheng couldn't stop her at all, so he had to press the nurse call button and summon a nurse.
When the nurse came over, she saw that the patient was awake, which was good. However, before she could even be happy, she saw that the patient insisted on being discharged right now, and she became anxious. This would not do, so she quickly went to call the doctor.
When the doctor arrived and saw the situation was serious, he immediately ordered, "Prepare a sedative and hold the patient down."
Several nurses quickly surrounded Xing Zhaozhao and tried to hold her down.
Xing Zhaozhao sneered and flipped the man over with a single hand. Seeing the doctor approaching with the sedative, she snatched it away and tried to stab him back in.
"Zhaozhao!!"
"Zhaozhao?!"
Two voices rang out simultaneously in the ward: one was Gao Mingcheng's, and the other was Xing Zhaoming's.
Xing Zhaoming was originally waiting outside, but when he suddenly saw the doctors and nurses rushing out, he couldn't hold back any longer and rushed in, only to see this chaotic scene before him.
He was initially happy to see Xing Zhaozhao wake up, but seeing this scene, he couldn't feel happy at all, and his heart was pounding wildly.
"What are you doing, Zhao Zhao?" Xing Zhaoming asked worriedly.
When Xing Zhaozhao saw Xing Zhaoming, tears streamed down her face: "Brother, I want to go home."
Seeing his sister's tears, Xing Zhaoming could no longer bear it. Upon hearing her call him "brother," he was willing to go through fire and water for her: "Go back, go back, brother will take you back."
Gao Mingcheng: "..." One dares to speak, and the other dares to respond.
Xing Zhaoming genuinely wanted to fulfill his sister's wish, but given Xing Zhaozhao's current physical condition, the hospital dared not release her so easily. In the end, Gao Mingcheng went along to mediate and signed a thick stack of guarantees before giving Xing Zhaozhao an hour to return her.
Xing Zhaozhao had no objections. An hour was enough. If she could leave by then, she would. If she couldn't, she... didn't seem to have any other choice...
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