Chapter 367 The People Who Truly Hate Each Other
Human instincts are terrifyingly accurate at crucial moments.
Jiang Ning turned around abruptly, and the "doctor" who had appeared in her field of vision without her noticing made her expression change drastically.
"Gu Jinci?!"
Gu Lanlan also saw the Joker and trembled with fear.
Joker squinted his eyes, and the smile on his baby face looked forever innocent and childlike.
Gu Lanlan immediately spread her arms and shielded Jiang Ning behind her.
Joker raised an eyebrow, his smile turning into a sneer.
"What, are you starting to act like best friends now? You weren't this affectionate towards her when you put a virus on her computer for me."
Enraged by Joker's sarcastic remarks, Gu Lanlan became furious.
"You've lied to me!"
"hehe!"
The joker let out a contemptuous laugh.
"If you fall for a lie, it just means you're stupid."
"Gu Jinci!"
Gu Lanlan gritted her teeth in anger, shook her head, and said, "No, the real Gu Jinci has already been killed by you. You are the gangster's Joker!"
Just as Gu Lanlan was confronting Joker, Jiang Ning, who was hiding behind Gu Lanlan, secretly tried to call the police on his phone.
Snap!
As the phone shattered, a bullet grazed Jiang Ning's palm.
Jiang Ning was shocked.
Gu Lanlan was also greatly shocked.
The two of them looked at the Joker simultaneously.
Joker was holding a pistol with a silencer attached.
The dark muzzle of a gun was pointed directly at Jiang Ning and Gu Lanlan.
Gu Lanlan began to tremble uncontrollably.
Jiang Ning immediately stepped forward.
“Ah Ning…”
Jiang Ning gently patted Gu Lanlan's back as Gu Lanlan grabbed his arm tightly.
"Don't be afraid..."
Jiang Ning's voice was calm, but in reality, her heart was in her throat.
Logically speaking, the only person the Joker should want to kill is her.
However, Joker is a professional assassin after all, and it's possible that he might kill Gu Lanlan as well to silence her.
It's understandable that Gu Lanlan was so afraid when faced with a gun.
Jiang Ning was also afraid.
But she couldn't show fear.
"Joker, can we talk?"
Seeing Jiang Ning standing tall and composed, Joker shrugged and smiled.
"I don't like talking to dead people."
Why do you want to kill me?
Jiang Ning ignored Joker's reply and asked to himself, "I have no grudge against you... There's no reason for you to hunt me down, or... do you have some kind of grudge against the Lin family?"
Jiang Ning asked the question directly.
She didn't believe the Joker wouldn't know her true origins.
"Inference error."
Joker smiled and shook his head. "I have no connection with the Lin family, and... I won't kill you today."
As he spoke, Joker actually put the silenced pistol into his white lab coat.
Jiang Ning frowned.
She didn't understand what the joker meant.
He traveled a long way disguised as a doctor to sneak in, wasn't it all to kill her?
Seeing the serious confusion on Jiang Ning's face, Joker let out a string of silvery laughter.
In the quiet hospital corridor, the laughter sounded eerie enough.
Jiang Ning and Gu Lanlan both got goosebumps.
"You think I came here to kill you?"
Jiang Ning did not answer Joker's question.
"Don't flatter yourself, I'm here to visit a patient."
The joker spoke casually.
Jiang Ning couldn't tell whether these words were true or false, but his inner vigilance wouldn't be relaxed because of them.
Whom are you visiting?
I won't tell you.
Joker grinned and slowly turned around.
"Don't rush, wait until he wakes up... then I'll come and kill you."
After saying that, the Joker disappeared from Jiang Ning and Gu Lanlan's sight.
Jiang Ning only relaxed his shoulders and breathed a sigh of relief long after the figure in the white coat had disappeared from sight.
She and Gu Lanlan sat down in the hospital corridor, embracing each other. Both of them felt exhausted and powerless.
"That really scared me to death! I thought he was going to shoot!"
Gu Lanlan's face was covered in cold sweat.
As Jiang Ning took out a tissue to wipe Gu Lanlan's sweat, he recalled what Joker had just said.
"Lanlan, are you okay being alone?"
Gu Lanlan looked at Jiang Ning in surprise.
"Sure, what's wrong?"
"I... want to go see Lu Junyan."
"Then I'll go with you."
Knowing that Gu Lanlan was worried about her acting alone, Jiang Ning nodded.
"good."
The two arrived outside the ICU. It wasn't visiting time, so they could only look inside through the glass window.
Lu Junyan lay inside, the tubes inserted into his body were a shocking sight.
Gu Lanlan secretly glanced at Jiang Ning's face beside her.
She didn't know why Jiang Ning suddenly wanted to come see Lu Junyan.
Even Gu Lanlan, who had no close relationship with Lu Junyan, felt uncomfortable seeing him like this.
Jiang Ning silently watched Lu Junyan in the ICU. After a while, she and Gu Lanlan went to find the nurse on duty.
"Excuse me, nurse, has anyone visited Lu Junyan just now?"
The nurse shook her head. "Probably not, it's so late."
"I see..."
Jiang Ning looked preoccupied the entire way back to the hospital ward with Gu Lanlan.
"What's wrong, Aning? What are you thinking about?"
Gu Lanlan asked curiously.
“I was thinking… what the Joker said before, that he came to visit a patient…”
Hearing Jiang Ning's words, Gu Lanlan tilted her head and suddenly realized.
"You mean... the patient Joker was referring to is Lu Junyan?"
"Um……"
Jiang Ning nodded.
Joker also said he would kill her when he woke up.
In other words, Joker wanted Lu Junyan to witness her death.
Otherwise, killing her would seem pointless.
Jiang Ning and Gu Lanlan returned to the ward, and the two girls squeezed onto one hospital bed.
Even though it was Jiang Ning who was being targeted by the Joker, Jiang Ning felt that Gu Lanlan was terrified and huddled under the covers, trembling with fear.
So she gently hugged Gu Lanlan.
Gu Lanlan fell asleep in her arms.
Gu Lanlan was fast asleep in the ward, but Jiang Ning was unusually awake.
She was still thinking about what the Joker had said.
if……
Joker's prerequisite for killing her is that Lu Junyan wakes up.
So……
Could the person Joker truly hates actually be... Lu Junyan?
For two weeks in a row, Jiang Ning was hospitalized to protect her pregnancy. After meeting Joker last time, Bai Yichen suggested hiring two bodyguards for Jiang Ning, but Jiang Ning thought it was unnecessary.
Although the Joker is a cunning person, she didn't believe that he was lying that night.
He clearly had the opportunity to kill her.
But they didn't take any action.
This shows that Joker is indeed waiting for Lu Junyan to wake up.
Two weeks later, the obstetrician told Jiang Ning that she had saved her pregnancy and could be discharged from the hospital, but she would need to come for regular prenatal checkups.
Until she was discharged from the hospital, neither Gu Lanlan nor Bai Yichen knew that she had stayed in the hospital for so long because she was pregnant.
Lu Junyan did not wake up until she was discharged from the hospital.
Will Lu Junyan ever wake up?
No one knows the answer to this question.
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