0104 104 Past grievances and present troubles will end in death.
Qi Shuyao only snapped out of her daze and sat up abruptly when her stomach growled with hunger.
"So, does Changgang have this custom?"
"Are you absolutely certain this is Shen Yan's work? Is he connected to the Pei family?"
"Do you have any connection with the Shen family?"
"No."
This time, it was Yuan Ajian who answered on behalf of Song Yusheng.
"The Shen family has been entrenched in Changgang, facing Xiayang across the sea. They have been at odds for three generations. When the Song family took over this shipping route, they mostly fought with the Shen family for territory. The Pei family also provided a lot of support behind the scenes."
"But is it really possible for things to be so coincidental?"
"No, you can't be sure for sure that this was sent by the Pei family. Besides, are there other people in the Pei family?"
"I don't know. It seems like everything can be explained, but every link lacks crucial evidence. All the clues are right in front of me, but I can't believe it."
She told the bodyguard to drive first, but Yuan Ajian insisted on returning to the dock. They turned off the coast and passed the outer ring of the airport when Qi Shuyao suddenly remembered something more important.
"Did you see that Shen Guang you mentioned clearly?"
This year's snow was particularly heavy, but it was a mild winter. The snow on the road fell and melted quickly. Qi Yu was busy running between his workplace and the hospital every day. He could even feel the warm wind blowing past his ears from time to time. However, it was also possible that he had lost his mind.
Xu Mei was the first of the hospital staff to wake up. After waking up, she didn't go crazy like before; she just lay quietly in bed.
She was only in her forties, not old at all, yet she watched her daughter jump off the building twice. Perhaps this was God's retribution for her, but it didn't completely drive her to despair. In this unusual winter, her eldest daughter was still by her side.
Jiang Yu carried a suitcase and checked into the hospital, but she spent most of her time in Li Qing's ward.
On the third day after she was wheeled out of the operating room, Jiang Yu wiped her arms and then washed a clean towel to wipe her face. All the heavy makeup on her face was removed, revealing an unnatural face, with a clear incision line across it.
She landed face down, and the doctors spent a great deal of time repairing her face. Even Qi Yu couldn't bear to finish reading the full body examination report.
The plastic surgeon Shen Yan found for her was quite skilled, but the time was too short, and many areas hadn't fully recovered. She was also given a lot of training, and there were fracture marks on her arms and legs. Most terrifyingly, her entire set of reproductive organs were removed.
Jiang Yu relayed all of this to Xu Mei verbatim, and that very night she saw Xu Mei covering her face with a pillow, once again trying to escape.
But she writhed in pain on the bed, her whole body radiating sorrow and despair.
The very next day, Li Qing woke up.
She was the most seriously injured, but she woke up the earliest. The doctor said she had the will to live, but after waking up, she didn't say anything and didn't even fully open her eyelids.
Xu Mei leaned against the wall to look at her, but didn't dare to go in. The mother and daughter stared at each other through the glass for a long time. In the end, Li Qing got tired and closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Gu Chaodong's face was swollen from being beaten by Lin Zixu. At this moment, a fatherly love he had never felt before ignited within him. Even though the nurses stopped him from entering the room, he pressed his face against the glass and danced wildly at his daughter on the hospital bed, while Li Qing didn't even open her eyes.
Mr. and Mrs. Lin surrounded Lin Bai, looking at their son who remained asleep. Mrs. Lin cried out and asked what had happened, but Lin Zixu remained silent.
They all lived on the top floor of Mingren Hospital Jingyang Branch, and the entire floor was filled with their shouts and venting.
Qi Yu drifted through the dimly lit corridor like a ghost until Qi Shuyao called.
"What have you been doing these past few days? I haven't been able to reply to your messages."
"It's the end of the year, everyone's busy."
"Well, at first I didn't make any progress either. Nobody contacted any strange people or did anything strange."
"Where is the Shen family?"
“Shen Yan’s girlfriend is due to give birth in the next few days, and the entire Shen family is celebrating. However, the security there is extremely tight, and even his subordinate Li Yihe can’t get in.”
"Let's wait until his child is born."
"Also, Dad, keep an eye on that Shen Guang. I think she really might be Sister Li Qing. Otherwise, why wouldn't Shen Yan have other women around him? Shen Yan is so heartless and insane. The Shen family is the best at brainwashing. It's too normal for them to force a desperate girl to get plastic surgery and risk her life."
“…Okay, I’ll have Zhou Cheng keep an eye on things.”
"Sheng Sheng has caught a cold, and it's quite serious. There's no one to take care of her here. I'll go back in a few days."
"good."
Zhou Cheng stood beside Qi Yu, but after hanging up the phone, he asked about something else entirely.
"Have there been any news about the Shu family lately?"
"No, Shu Li intervened in a few things briefly and then completely stopped. However, I sent someone to the address Miss Tu Mi mentioned. There is indeed a large villa there, but it is empty and there is no one there."
"The internal conflicts within the Shu family haven't been resolved yet. Even if they get involved, who do you think Shu Li plans to put up as the leader?"
"It can't be Shucheng, can it?"
"Then who else is in the Shu family?"
He approached and stood outside the glass, looking at the quiet Li Qing. She was the only one of Xu Mei's daughters who wasn't from Shu Cheng. She was quiet and had endured the most suffering. Before that, no one even knew she existed.
Jiang Yu applied medicine to Qi Yu's face inside, her movements very gentle, afraid of ruining the face that could no longer be operated on. Those movements, repeated every day, were filled with sadness and heartache, but today, they gave Qi Yu a different kind of inspiration.
He quietly and quickly led Zhou Cheng away, giving him instructions as they went.
"Find a few top-notch plastic surgeons who can deduce your original appearance from your current face."
Seeing Qi Yu leave, Mrs. Lin, who had been standing behind the corner, came out. She walked slowly, with her head down but her eyes raised, as if she were hanging on by a thread, clinging to her last breath.
With a gloomy look in her eyes, she walked towards Li Qing's hospital room door, and leaned against the corner of the glass. Inside the room, the two sisters were whispering to each other, and no one saw her.
She was icy cold, standing there like a statue. Gu Chaodong walked over from the side and called her three times before she responded.
"Sister-in-law, how's our son?"
"He's just started to get a little better, but he hasn't woken up yet."
"His injuries weren't serious, so why hasn't he woken up yet?"
"He lost too much blood and had a weak will to live, so he remained in a coma."
“He lost too much blood. That’s not good. My son has a rare blood type and the hospital has a low blood supply. If we weren’t family, I would have donated blood for him.”
Mrs. Lin turned around stiffly, staring at him intently, even loosening her clenched fists when facing Li Qing.
Gu Chaodong deliberately came over to tell her this. After he finished speaking, he seemed to float away. He even waved to her and turned to leave.
It felt even colder in the hallway.
It was night, and a north wind was blowing.
All the lights on the hospital's top floor went out, and the entire floor fell into a deep sleep, leaving only Mrs. Lin sitting by Lin Bai's bedside, holding his hand.
She gently stroked every inch of his skin, then bent down and hugged him in her arms as she had when he was a child. But now her son was grown up, taller and stronger than her, yet he could not respond to her.
The lights were off and the curtains were not drawn in the ward. The translucent moonlight shone in, illuminating half of Mrs. Lin's face and her left hand, which hung down and remained motionless.
The knife gleamed coldly in her palm, reflecting the moonlight even more icy. She used it to peel an apple for her son one last time, then got up and left with the knife in her hand.
She passed by Lin Zixu's room, then Xu Mei's room, then Li Qing's room, and could see Jiang Yu sleeping beside her through the glass. Finally, she arrived at Gu Chaodong's room and could even hear snoring from inside.
Gu Chaodong never locked the door, which allowed her to enter smoothly and see him lying on the bed in a starfish position, sleeping soundly without a care in the world.
He has no heart at all; his heart is just an ornament in his body. So she will act as a righteous person to rid the people of this scourge and free his heart as well.
Lin Zixu woke up from his dream, dragged his shoes out of bed and went to the bathroom. The bed next to him was empty, the blankets were neatly folded, and the man sighed, raising his hand to touch the white hair that had grown in the past few days.
His wife must have gone to watch over their son again, but why did he hear a woman's laughter coming from the corridor?
He kicked off his slippers to open the door and ran barefoot toward the sound. In the open ward number 04, blood was flowing from the bed and had already reached the doorway.
His wife, straddling the hospital bed, repeatedly stabbed Gu Chaodong's already exhausted body with an apple peeler. Before he could stop her, she used all her strength to plunge the bladeless knife into Gu Chaodong's skull.
Xu Mei, who was in ward 03, was awakened by the noise. She turned on her phone's flashlight to check and was so frightened by what she saw that she dropped her phone. This time, she did not hesitate and immediately called the police.
When Qi Yu arrived after receiving the news, the police had already handcuffed Lin Zixu, Gu Chaodong had been rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment, and Mrs. Lin seemed to have really gone mad. Four policewomen couldn't stop her. She was crying and trying to pounce on Lin Zixu.
Outside the ward, Xu Mei lay sprawled on the floor, unable to stand up. The wards 01 and 02 in front were quiet. Lin Bai was still fast asleep, and Jiang Yu had his hands covering Li Qing's ears, both with their eyes closed.
Lin Zixu remained remarkably calm. He was covered in blood, with most of his face stained. The police brought him shoes, but even when he lifted his leg, strings of blood still dripped from his feet.
“I did kill him. It wasn’t an impulsive act; it was premeditated. I’ll go back to the police station with you and confess everything, but I demand that the contents be kept confidential and that no one else be present during the entire process. Also, my wife has some mental health issues. Please contact a psychiatrist; she needs to be detained.”
After calmly finishing speaking, the man didn't look at anyone again and closed his eyes.
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