Chapter 188: Turning the Tables 3
Thank you, Ling Hanmu! Xia Chenge could only respond to his confession in her heart, I won’t let you wait too long.
Perhaps sensing her response, Ling Hanmu held her hand and stopped speaking.
Not long after, Ling Hanmu’s phone suddenly rang.
He let go of Xia Chenge and walked out of the hospital room with his mobile phone.
“Hello.” He answered the phone as soon as he opened the door, then gently closed it and spoke in a low voice, “How are things going?”
Xia Chenge concentrated slightly and overheard their conversation.
“Young Master Ling, Fang Nai is stubbornly denying any involvement. Additionally, the prop crew has all been apprehended, and the matter has been temporarily suppressed without alerting the police.”
“He won’t confess?” Ling Hanmu’s tone was cold. “There’s no mouth in this world that can’t be opened. If I hear this kind of news again, you can wash your necks and wait for this Young Master to come and deal with you.”
“Young Master Ling, please calm your anger. We will definitely find a way to make him confess. Please rest assured.”
“By tomorrow morning at the latest, I want results!”
“Yes, Young Master Ling.”
“If you can’t handle this properly, you can commit seppuku. This Young Master will at least leave you a whole corpse.”
After speaking, Ling Hanmu hung up the phone with a snap.
When he re-entered the hospital room, Xia Chenge could no longer feel the ferocity he had when he was on the phone.
“I won’t let anyone who hurt you go,” Ling Hanmu said gently to Xia Chenge. “Little Brother, I’ll go see those people later and will be back to accompany you soon.”
Xia Chenge felt a burning gaze fixed on her face. After about ten minutes, a shadow fell over her head, followed by a soft kiss lightly landing on her forehead. Xia Chenge’s heart stirred.
Ling Hanmu’s footsteps sounded, and he soon left the hospital room.
She suddenly felt an emptiness in her heart, a sense of melancholy.
However, she didn’t let herself dwell in such thoughts for too long. She quickly calmed her mood and lay there, secretly competing with Ling Zhongwen.
Xia Chenge originally thought she wouldn’t be lying in Rende Hospital for too long, that Ling Zhongwen would make a move soon… but ten days passed in a flash. Not only did Ling Zhongwen not make a move, but he also had several people with him whenever he visited her hospital room.
Ling Hanmu told Xia Chenge that he had used her being busy with the film crew as an excuse to tell the Xia family that she wouldn’t be home before summer vacation. Although the two elders were displeased, they accepted it and asked him to take good care of her.
“By the way, Little Brother, I took the liberty of changing the movie’s plot. I made your character get disfigured in that scene, and then undergo plastic surgery, with the new Movie Queen Lu Na taking over your role for the remaining scenes. The movie has now wrapped up and entered the post-production special effects stage.”
“I know this movie is very important to you, but you’ve been unconscious for so long, and I was afraid that if it stopped, all your efforts would be forgotten by everyone. So please don’t blame me, okay?”
Idiot, how could I blame you? From the Apocalypse to the 21st century, you are the person who understands me the most. Even if you hadn’t done this, I would have found a way to have someone find someone to finish the movie for me! Xia Chenge said silently in her heart.
In a sense, this is also my past life. If one day I truly disappear, this will be the evidence that I lived. Even if it can’t last forever, I selfishly hope that my participation was once part of your life.
Xiao Mu, the mission I carry is too heavy, but even so, I accept it willingly. From the moment I was born, it was destined that I could not live for myself. But these words I can never say to you. I only hope the apocalypse never descends and humanity never enters the end times.
“Little Brother, I’m so lonely waiting for you, when will you be willing to open your eyes and look at me?”
“Without you, every second is torture for me.”
“It should have been me who got hurt, why were you so foolish?”
“I said I would protect you, but in the end, you protected me.”
“Little Brother, I feel so useless.”
…
Ling Hanmu murmured, and by the end, his voice was choked with sobs.
Snap.
A cold tear fell onto Xia Chenge’s hand.
Xia Chenge almost couldn’t control herself and wanted to open her eyes to tell Ling Hanmu that she was fine.
However, reason ultimately prevailed.
She forced herself to harden her heart and remained ‘unconscious’.
Heaven knows how much she was suffering.
Just then, footsteps outside the hospital room interrupted Ling Hanmu.
Ling Hanmu withdrew his hand, seemingly wiping away a tear, and sat quietly by the bed looking at her.
“Xiao Mu, why are you here?” Ling Zhongwen entered. “Xiao Ge’s physical condition is getting better day by day, don’t worry.”
“Then why hasn’t she woken up yet?” Ling Hanmu’s voice was thick with a runny nose.
“With someone like her, no doctor can guarantee when she will wake up, but her injuries are healing, which is also good news. Nothing else can be rushed. When you come to accompany her, you can talk about topics she’s interested in or things she likes, as that will also help her.”
“Is there a possibility she might never wake up?”
“This…” Ling Zhongwen seemed to hesitate. “Xiao Mu, no, Xiao Ge is so strong, she will definitely wake up.”
As soon as he spoke, Xia Chenge felt like she was being stared at by a venomous snake again.
After lying down for so long, except for the first day she came to Rende Hospital, Ling Zhongwen had been normal… Now that this feeling reappeared, Xia Chenge had a bad premonition.
“Has Little Brother become a vegetable?” Ling Hanmu asked faintly. “Uncle, tell me the truth, so I can be mentally prepared, okay?”
“Xiao Mu, Uncle said it depends on Xiao Ge herself. Vegetative states aren’t always permanent. There are quite a few cases in medicine where vegetative patients wake up, so you need to be optimistic and believe in Xiao Ge,” Ling Zhongwen advised.
“I believe in her, but she hasn’t given me hope,” Ling Hanmu started crying without warning. “She’s a big liar, making me wait day after day, and what’s the result?”
“Xiao Mu, you need to calm down!” Ling Zhongwen said urgently, but no one saw the fleeting smile in his eyes.
“I can’t calm down, I just want to kill those people to avenge Little Brother,” Ling Hanmu said excitedly. “Only when they die will Little Brother wake up. She must blame me for not helping him get revenge, so she’s unwilling to open her eyes to see me.”
“Don’t be impulsive, Ling Hanmu!” Ling Zhongwen reprimanded. “Doesn’t killing people carry a death penalty? Why don’t you think about the consequences? Will killing them make Xiao Ge wake up immediately? What if she still doesn’t wake up?”
“No, she will definitely wake up. I’m going to kill those people right now.” Ling Hanmu suddenly stood up and kicked a chair, which crashed against the wall.
Xia Chenge’s heart immediately leaped into her throat.
