Have you seen it before?
Ruan Chen opened her mouth, then said after a moment, "We might have bumped into each other sometime or somewhere."
Yan Qian nodded first, then denied it, "But I feel... it's not as simple as a chance encounter."
"Stop overthinking," Ruan Chen walked to the hotel's beverage station, unscrewed a bottle of Evian water, took out two glasses, one for herself and one for Yan Qian, "How old are you?"
"How old are you?" Yan Qian retorted sarcastically. "Alright, little sister, go home. You're not in our adult world."
When Ruan Chen saw the aloofness and indifference in those dark red eyes that she had never seen in the other world, she suddenly realized that she had been prejudiced and had prematurely shown her kindness.
Yan Qian is ultimately different from the Yan Qian of that world.
Ruan Chen, who is not from a tragic world, is also not one of them.
The timing of our meeting wasn't right either.
Yan Qian was still grumbling, "Don't think that I'll be grateful to you for the small favors you do for me, like booking a hotel room for me or braiding my hair. Our business partner is your father, not a rebellious little brat like you."
Yan Qian thought that her coldness towards Ruan Zhengde was because of her rebellious phase?
Seeing Yan Qian's appearance, Ruan Chen also put away her gentle kindness and became sharp-tongued, "But you have hurt my friend and his family."
Ruan Chen asked Xu Xiaolan, and she learned that Bo Nian's condition was very bad after he woke up. He would talk and laugh normally with his parents for a while, but at any moment he would hysterically try to kill himself—banging his head against the wall, strangling his own neck, and crying out that he should die.
The city bureau's psychological experts have been working on it and have tried to comfort Bo Nian using their mental health network, but with little success and a heavy burden on the experts.
Psychologists suggested that Bo Nian's classmates visit him to distract him and talk about school life, which might help Bo Nian break free from his mental control. However, Bo Nian was normal at first, but then suddenly lost control at a certain moment and pulled out the plastic fork from the side of the cake that Yu Xiaoya had brought him, intending to gouge his own eyes out.
Thinking of this, Ruan Chen felt incredibly suppressed, a thin layer of malice appearing in her eyes, her voice icy, "What did he do wrong? I don't know what you want, or what Ruan Zhengde wants, but none of this should come at the cost of an innocent life!"
"It's not that serious," Yan Qian said dismissively. Following Ruan Chen's example, she ran to the snack cabinet in the hotel, grabbed a bucket of purple cashews, and happily started chewing them.
Ruan Chen glanced at the price tag indifferently and told the front desk as she was about to go downstairs that Yan Qian should pay for everything except the room fee herself.
Yan Qian ate cashews and watched a movie on the hotel's large screen, laughing heartily.
Ruan Chen sat on a chair to the side, fiddling with her phone.
She remembered that she had left a listening device in Ruan Zhengde's study.
She found the old eavesdropping software, improved it, and tested it to see if it still worked.
Yan Qian finally couldn't sit still any longer than Ruan Chen, "Why aren't you leaving yet?"
“I’m waiting for you to finish eating before I take you to see the person you said is ‘not that serious.’”
Yan Qian frowned. "I don't care what I do with you. I'm warning you, I'm only being polite to you because you look familiar. Otherwise, what happened to your classmate today could happen to you tomorrow!"
Yan Qian's threat seemed ordinary, but Ruan Chen understood it in a flash.
Even if Yan Qian's identity is that of a "holy maiden" from some unknown organization or tribe, their organization is so poor that even their holy maiden has to stay in a budget hotel, so Ruan Zhengde wouldn't be that wary.
Unless Yan Qian frightens Ruan Zhengde.
Yan Qian from Les Misérables was able to pass through layers of selection to enter Crescent Bay, so her mental strength must be quite high.
Perhaps... that's the expert who controlled Bo Nian.
So only she knew how to pull Bo Nian out of that chaotic state.
"Not going to look? No problem." Ruan Chen smiled kindly. "You can pay for the room yourself. And that bucket of cashews you just ate...it was delicious, wasn't it? Look at the price tag on the side, it's only a little over seven thousand, which is nothing compared to the room fee."
Yan Qian stared at the price tag on the side for thirty seconds, then stood up with a dark expression.
As she reached the door, she asked again, emphasizing her question, "Ruan Chen, I'm just going to take a look, you'll pay for it for me, right?"
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The First Affiliated Hospital of Beijing University of Technology.
Ruan Chen explained to the policeman guarding Bo Nian at the door, "This is my friend. She's a student at the First Affiliated Hospital. Maybe she can help."
Ruan Chen's friend was a student at the First Affiliated Hospital, so the police didn't make things difficult for him. They just reminded Ruan Chen not to bring any sharp objects in and not to provoke Bo Nian.
"We're not going in, we'll just look through the glass."
The two walked outside the ward, some distance from the police. Yan Qian asked in a low voice, "You investigated me? How did you know I'm a student at the First Affiliated Hospital?"
Ruan Chen made a shushing gesture, indicating that Yan Qian should look into the ward.
In the ward, Bo Nian had several more scars on his face, forehead, and neck.
In just two days, he became extremely thin and unrecognizable.
Bo's parents stopped caring about business and stayed by their son's side every step of the way. They initially hired a caregiver, but Bo Nian started acting strangely and even tried to strangle the caregiver.
At this moment, Bo Nian's father is watching his son eat fruit with a look of heartache in his eyes.
He had already cut the fruit outside before bringing it in. He didn't dare use toothpicks or forks, so he let Bo Nian eat it with her hands.
Yan Qian glanced at it and said dismissively, "See, I told you it's nothing serious, isn't it? We don't want to make a big fuss."
Ruan Chen said, "Keep watching."
Three or four minutes later, Yan Qian started to get impatient, muttering something under her breath. If she really couldn't afford the room fee, she would have left.
The next second, a strange change occurred in the cozy hospital room!
Bo Nian, who had been earnestly eating an apple, suddenly twisted his face. He grabbed all the fruit in the box and shoved it into his mouth, his lips bleeding from the rupture, but he was completely unaware of it.
He didn't chew the fruit he stuffed into his mouth, but swallowed it whole, choking until his eyes rolled back. The wound on his neck from yesterday was reopened and started bleeding again.
Yan Qian, standing to the side, widened her eyes in surprise.
This was clearly not the first time the Bo family parents had experienced something like this in the past two days. The mother snatched the remaining fruit from Bo Nian's hand, and the father reached into his son's mouth to pick something out of his mouth. Bo Nian bit his hand until it bled, but he didn't even realize it.
The police outside, who had been keeping an eye on what was happening inside, rushed in to help.
“This is what you call ‘it’s not that serious’,” Ruan Chen said softly. “Just yesterday, he was so proud and dazzling. He was going to win first prize in a competition, he was going to enter a prestigious university. He was an only child, and his parents loved him dearly… Why did you have to use such a cruel method to ruin him like this?!”
As she spoke, Ruan Chen's eyes reddened and her voice trembled slightly.
Yan Qian looked at the chaotic ward, at the boy who wasn't much younger than her struggling in pain, and took a step back. "I don't know why this is happening... I was just following my father's orders. He said it would be alright..."
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