Gao Hongfei called Chen Xiaoxia and immediately rushed to the hospital.
When he arrived, the doctors and nurses had already left the hospital ward. Xing Zhaozhao was holding Gao Mingcheng's hand, talking to him with a smile. Gao Mingcheng looked at Xing Zhaozhao with a doting expression.
Although he had already heard about it from Wen Sinan beforehand, Gao Hongfei still couldn't help but get excited and his eyes reddened when he saw Gao Mingcheng safe and sound with his own eyes.
"Dad," he called out, his voice slightly choked.
Xing Zhaozhao snorted when she saw Gao Hongfei and looked away in disgust.
He's not young anymore, and he's caused so much trouble, even dragging his elderly father down with him. He's such a worry, I don't want to deal with him at all.
Gao Mingcheng gently patted Xing Zhaozhao's hand and looked at Gao Hongfei: "You're here."
Gao Hongfei could easily see what Xing Zhaozhao meant. His face flushed red, and he looked at Gao Mingcheng with a guilty expression, saying, "I'm sorry, Dad, I've dragged you into this."
Gao Mingcheng shook his head: "No, in the end, it's still my fault. If I had taken good care of you back then, your mother and your younger siblings would still be alive and well, and none of this would have happened..."
Xing Zhaozhao stiffened and lowered her head.
No, it's her fault. In that life, if she had been just a little more ambitious like she is now, all three children would still be alive and well. What right does she have to blame Dafei?
"Plop," a tear gently landed on the back of her hand.
Gao Mingcheng's heart tightened, and he gripped her hand tightly.
Gao Hongfei glanced at Gao Mingcheng, then at Xing Zhaozhao, and frowned. He sensed that something was off between the two of them, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
"By the way," Gao Mingcheng turned to look at Chen Xiaomo, who was still fast asleep on the sofa next to him, and asked, "Has her matter been investigated and clarified?"
Gao Hongfei followed Gao Mingcheng's gaze and saw Chen Xiaomo lying next to him. He couldn't help but ask with some concern, "Is she... alright?"
From the first day he met Chen Xiaomo, he had always treated her as just an ordinary junior. He never expected that such a thing would happen later. Watching a perfectly good child being ruined made him feel terrible. In the whole incident, she was the most innocent one.
"It's nothing, he just fainted," Gao Mingcheng said.
Gao Hongfei breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Gao Mingcheng seriously and said, "I asked the doctor at the mental hospital. According to him, Chen Xiaomo was able to leave the mental hospital with his consent. In the past two weeks, her treatment has been effective and her condition has been stable. She has hardly had any relapses. That's why he agreed to her mother's suggestion to let them take Chen Xiaomo out for a day."
"Was it Chen Xiaoxia's suggestion?" Gao Mingcheng asked, somewhat surprised.
Gao Hongfei nodded: "That's what the doctor said. However, I just called Chen Xiaoxia, and she doesn't seem to know that Chen Xiaomo suddenly came to the hospital."
“I reckon this matter is probably related to Lin Wan,” Gao Hongfei said, looking at Gao Mingcheng with a serious expression.
“Because of what happened in the past, I've never granted Lin Wan visitation rights. I haven't seen her visit for years. But two weeks ago, she suddenly went with Chen Xiaoxia. Because so much time had passed, they hadn't paid attention to the visitation rights issue. By the time they realized something was wrong and wanted her to leave, it was too late; Chen Xiaomo was causing a huge commotion. The hospital director called me. The doctor thought she might be helpful to Chen Xiaomo's condition and hoped I could make an exception. At the time, I also thought that if it could really improve Chen Xiaomo's condition, it would be a good thing, so I agreed. Now it seems she was just using this opportunity to do something shady.”
Gao Hongfei said with a gloomy face, "I just can't understand it either. No matter what, she's still her own granddaughter. She's already in this state, how could she still be so heartless as to use her again and again?"
“You’re not Lin Wan, so it’s normal that you can’t understand it,” Gao Mingcheng said, glancing at Chen Xiaomo with pity before instructing Gao Hongfei, “Notify the mental hospital and have them come and pick her up.”
Gao Hongfei nodded: "Understood."
For some reason, Gao Yang was restless at work today and couldn't sit still, so he left early. He was planning to go home, but when he realized what was happening, he found his car already parked in front of the military hospital.
He was stunned for a moment.
However, since we're already here, let's go see Grandpa.
Gao Yang got out of the car and had just reached the bottom of the hospital building when he suddenly heard someone call out to him from behind: "Hey, isn't this Xiao Yang?"
The voice sounded somewhat familiar, but I couldn't quite place where I'd heard it before.
Gao Yang turned his head and looked over in surprise.
He saw Lin Wan and her daughter Chen Xiaoxia walking hurriedly towards him from not far behind.
Gao Yang's expression immediately changed, and he tried to pretend he didn't know her and leave quickly.
Unfortunately, before he could react, Lin Wan had already darted forward and grabbed his arm, moving with a speed that belied her eighty-year-old age.
"Your great-grandmother is calling you, why are you running away? Is this the kind of upbringing your Gao family has? Don't you know how to greet your elders?" Lin Wan asked Gao Yang with a forced smile.
"An elder?" Gao Yang sneered, forcefully prying Lin Wan's hands off his arm. "Do you think you're worthy?"
Lin Wan's smile froze instantly. She looked coldly at Gao Yang and said, "The Gao family has indeed corrupted you. You don't even recognize your own blood relatives anymore."
"A so-called blood relative like you, who would send his own granddaughter to another man's bed, is better off without." Gao Yang said coldly, then turned to leave.
Seeing Gao Yang's impatient look, Lin Wan suddenly thought of something, her eyes lit up, and she said, "Judging from how anxious you are, is Gao Mingcheng really going to die?"
Gao Yang paused, turning to Lin Wan in confusion: "What do you mean by that? Who told you my grandfather is dying?"
Lin Wan was taken aback: "You rushed to the hospital so urgently, didn't you hear that Gao Mingcheng is dying?"
"I just happened to be passing by the hospital and stopped by to see Grandpa." Gao Yang said, staring at Lin Wan for a moment, then realizing something, his expression suddenly changed, and he asked sternly, "What did you do?" Without waiting for Lin Wan's answer, he immediately ran towards Gao Mingcheng's ward.
Chen Xiaoxia had already sensed something was wrong, and with a pale face, she followed closely behind.
Lin Wan's face was gloomy as she finished speaking, a bad feeling suddenly creeping into her heart.
That idiot, can't even handle a bedridden, immobile zombie? Useless thing, all her efforts over the past few days have been wasted.
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