Bai Qingyu seemed oblivious to his sister's shivering, his eyes darting around before he awkwardly asked:
"Is Mu Bao'er awake? Does she... know about her situation?"
"She's not awake, she's dead." Mu Bao'er's voice rang out coldly behind him.
Xiao Yuan took Bai Qingzhi's hand and left the ward.
"Um... I really didn't know it would turn out like this. If I had known, I definitely wouldn't have let you go." Bai Qingyu strained her eyes to look at Mu Bao'er.
Seeing the large expanse of white in his eyes, Mu Bao'er took a slight step and came into his field of vision.
"It's alright. I'm your bodyguard, so your safety is my top priority." Mu Bao'er carefully adjusted the gauze on his body, her tone earnest.
But Bai Qingyu found it somewhat jarring.
"What if someone else hired you?" Bai Qingyu asked instinctively.
Mu Bao'er seemed stunned for a moment, then a helpless expression appeared on her face.
"I would obey anyone else's orders." It's just that I wouldn't knowingly go into danger.
Mu Bao'er did not say the last sentence.
"Mu Bao'er...you...you are truly stupid!" Bai Qingyu cursed viciously.
Seeing the other person's nonchalant expression, Bai Qingyu felt her breathing becoming increasingly difficult.
He had just learned about his situation, and to be honest, becoming a cripple was more painful than death for him.
But if given another chance to ask him if he would still go after those scumbags, Bai Qingyu would still nod.
The more indifferent Mu Bao'er became, the more frustrated Bai Qingyu felt. Finally, he couldn't hold back any longer and grabbed Mu Bao'er's hand, questioning her:
"Mu Bao'er, you may not be able to have children in the future! Do you know that? You won't be able to be a mother!"
Mu Bao'er kept her head down, but continued to adjust the gauze in her hands.
"If I can't do it, I can't do it. Anyway, I don't like children. Besides, we bodyguards would risk our lives without hesitation if our employers were in danger, let alone a child."
Even if I'm not your employer?
“Yes, whoever pays my salary is my boss. Isn’t it normal to risk my life for my boss?” Mu Bao’er raised her head this time, and their eyes met.
Bai Qingyu felt increasingly short of breath, and after Mu Bao'er finished answering, he swept everything on the bedside table to the floor.
"Get out!"
Mu Bao'er didn't say anything, but silently picked up the things and put them back in their place. When Bai Qingyu shouted for her to get lost a second time, Mu Bao'er left.
Bai Qingzhi and Xiao Yuan didn't go far; they sat opposite each other in the ward and heard the entire conversation.
After Mu Bao'er came out, she smiled at Bai Qingzhi and then limped back to her ward.
"Tell the doctor I don't need to treat this leg anymore," Bai Qingyu said as she saw her younger sister come in.
Bai Qingzhi subconsciously felt that something about her third brother seemed to have changed.
Although I may become lame in the future, with the advancements in modern medicine and the abundance of experts available, there is still a great chance of a cure.
So when Bai Qingzhi heard her third brother's words, she was stunned for a moment, and then shook her head to indicate her disagreement.
“That way, I won’t owe her anything.” Bai Qingyu looked up, and Bai Qingzhi noticed that her third brother’s eyes were already red.
"You're really stupid." Suddenly, Bai Qinghuai's voice came from the doorway.
He had just finished a meeting when he heard that his third brother had almost lost his life. He rushed over and then heard Bai Qingyu make such a stupid statement.
"When did the Bai family ever teach you that you have to take revenge yourself? You won today, but have you ever thought about what would have happened if even one of those thirty-odd stabs had hit a vital spot? We would be seeing your corpse right now." Bai Qinghuai was quite frightening when he got serious. He walked closer step by step and then suddenly reached out and punched Bai Qingyu in the wound on his shoulder.
Instantly, blood gushed out again.
"Now you know what pain is?" Bai Qinghuai continued to ask, seeing his third brother's grimacing face.
“She’s a bodyguard, and you’re the employer. It’s only natural for her to protect you.” After Bai Qinghuai finished speaking, he felt several eyes staring at him.
“She is not!” Bai Qingyu answered firmly.
“How could it not be? You paid her a salary for three years, and during those three years she did her best to ensure your safety and eliminate some potential safety hazards for you.” Bai Qinghuai answered fluently.
Bai Qingyu gritted his teeth, wanting to retort, but suddenly he didn't know what to say.
"That's why I say you're stupid. I've never heard of an employer risking their life for a bodyguard," Bai Qinghuai said with a sneer.
Turning my head, I saw my sister's questioning gaze.
Seeing his third brother still struggling with his thoughts in bed, Bai Qinghuai left the ward.
Bai Qingzhi understood her eldest brother's meaning and knew that she wanted her third brother to have some peace and quiet, so she also took Xiao Yuan's hand and left.
"Big brother, is it okay for you to provoke Third Brother like this?" Bai Qingzhi saw through her eldest brother's intention.
Looking through the glass in the door, Bai Qinghuai focused his gaze on his third brother, and only answered softly when he heard his sister's question:
"Qingyu is so stubborn. If you don't let him figure it out himself, he'll never know in his lifetime."
When he recklessly sought revenge, everyone had already seen through his true intentions.
In Bai Qingyu's heart, Mu Bao'er was not just a bodyguard. Although she didn't know whether her feelings for him were familial, friendly, or romantic, it was certainly not a simple employer-employee relationship.
Bai Qinghuai had a suspicion in his heart that this was a deliberate attempt to provoke him today.
"Aren't you afraid that this will make Third Brother rebellious?" Bai Qingzhi had seen what had just happened between the two of them. She was afraid that after being provoked by her eldest brother, Third Brother would give up on himself and think that what her eldest brother said was right.
“Sometimes what you think in your mind is one thing, but what you do is another,” Bai Qinghuai said with certainty.
Bai Qingyu, in the ward, pondered her elder brother's words repeatedly, and eventually began to numb herself, repeatedly telling herself that her elder brother was right.
Mu Bao'er is just a bodyguard; she's not worth making a fuss about.
Even so, Bai Qingyu refused the doctor's treatment for his ankle.
Half a month later, most of his wounds had scabbed over, but his ankles were left with a lingering effect, causing him to walk with a limp.
During these two weeks, Mu Bao'er hardly appeared in front of him, but silently guarded him outside his ward.
The family of those scumbags on the other side naturally wouldn't let it go, after all, Bai Qingyu had cracked open the skulls of several of them and almost killed them all.
So they joined forces to condemn the Bai family and also tried to stir up public opinion online.
Xiao Yuan had already prepared countermeasures for all of these matters. The matter only caused a ripple on the internet before disappearing without a trace.
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