Chapter 1 The Hospital

At the hospital entrance, Bai Xun, wearing the delivery uniform he had prepared earlier, complete with hat and mask and a large food delivery box on his back, hurried onto the hospital elevator with two cups of milk tea in his hand.

He was already familiar with the routine, having delivered "medicine" to Zhao Di last time, and this time it was a meal.

As soon as the elevator doors opened, Bai Xun stepped out calmly. In the box on his back, Jin Mao didn't make a sound, not even a move, because it had an electric shock collar around its neck.

If Jin Mao barked, the electric shock collar would activate. After learning its lesson several times, it wouldn't bark unless Bai Xun told it to, even if it meant death.

Bai Xun stopped in the restroom one floor below Zhao Di's ward. This floor was the cardiac surgery department, and he already knew the hospital's floor plan well.

He let the dog out of the box in the restroom stall, made sure the collar was working, and then left the dog in the restroom with the door closed. He took the milk tea and walked up the stairs to the floor where Zhao Di was staying, pretending to look for the person who had ordered the delivery.

A man was sitting not far from Zhao Di's ward. Bai Xun walked past nonchalantly, his eyes constantly scanning for a way to get the dog into Zhao Di's room without being noticed.

Finally, his gaze settled on a nurse's trolley in the hospital.

The trolley for injecting medicine at the nurses' station was for public use, with a cloth surround on the side. When Bai Xun had first entered the building, he had seen a nurse leave the trolley in the corridor while she prepared medication, leaving the trolley in the ward when the injection was ready, and then disposing of needles or waste in the trolley's trash can.

He could now see that the inside of the trolley was empty, just a frame. There was no one at the nurses' station, and the trolley was parked very close to a temporary medical bed. There was enough space under the bed for a person to crouch. Next to the bed, on the wall behind a desk, was a work schedule.

"Hey, young man, can I help you?" A nurse came out of a patient's room and asked, seeing him looking around.

"Oh, no, I'm just wondering, which doctor is Zhang Jianguo?"

"We don't have a Doctor Zhang here."

Bai Xun glanced at the schedule on purpose and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I must have come to the wrong floor. I thought this was cardiac surgery..."

"Cardiac surgery is downstairs," the nurse kindly reminded him.

"Oh, thank you," Bai Xun said as he headed downstairs. He had already clearly seen the ward visit schedule on the desk. The nurses would be doing their rounds in twenty minutes, and the first room they would visit was Zhao Di's.

He had to get the dog onto the nurse's medication trolley before the rounds. He had observed that the nurses also brought two IV drips for Zhao Di during their evening rounds. Taking advantage of this, the dog could hide in the trolley and enter Zhao Di's room without being seen by anyone else.

At this moment, Bai Ma Shan in the car was feeling uneasy. He knew his son's personality. Once he set his mind on something, he would go all the way, no matter what.

He left the apartment complex, took a taxi, and headed to the hospital. He had done so much to ensure that Bai Xun could escape this disaster. He couldn't let it all fall apart now. He had to stop him.

Sitting in the taxi, Bai Ma Shan was in anguish, filled with regret.

His son was introverted and didn't like to communicate with people. But it wasn't his fault. For a long time, he had lacked the guidance of a mother's love. His personality was偏执固执, and he didn't know how to express his feelings, and was extremely possessive. And he hadn't been patient enough to guide his son, nor had he noticed in time that his son was having emotional problems due to adolescence, which led him to make such a big mistake.

He still remembered that evening when he heard the deafening explosion in the apartment complex. He rushed home. The lights weren't on. He pushed open the door and saw his son hiding in a corner in the darkness, muttering over and over that she was dead.

Bai Ma Shan learned from the residents' group that a girl in the apartment complex had jumped from a building. Under questioning, his son told him that he had seen the girl talking and laughing with other boys, and he suspected that she was having an affair. He had argued with the girl, and she had been so angry that she said she wanted to break up, and even stood on the balcony, saying she was going to jump.

Bai Xun was also frightened at the time. Afraid that she would really fall, he told Jin Mao to bite her clothes and pull her back. He didn't expect that Jin Mao would put its two front paws on her. The girl, who was already wobbling on the railing, was pushed off balance by the big dog's force and fell instantly. He rushed over to pull her back, but it was already too late.

The father and son stayed up all night. He knew the seriousness of the situation. Bai Xun said that the dog had pushed her, but who could prove it? Who would believe it? Now the girl was dead, and the Great Yellow had barked wildly. Bai Xun saw the reflection of the light on the window of Zhao Di's apartment across the building when it moved. He knew there was someone behind that window. He saw that woman. And at that moment, her hand was reaching out, as if she had just pushed the person down.

At that time, only Bai Xun, the girl, and Jin Mao were in the room. The girl fell, and someone across the building saw Bai Xun's hand in the air. He believed his son, but would others believe him?

Reason told him that this matter should be explained to the police, but could it really be explained clearly?

Fortunately, when the police came to investigate, Zhao Di didn't reveal what she saw for some reason. But this matter was a hidden danger sooner or later. They couldn't leave a bomb next to them. He only had one son, so he absolutely couldn't take any risks.

In just a moment, he decided to get rid of Zhao Di.

Bai Ma Shan was a good manipulator; he could convince anyone if he wanted to.

He mobilized all his abilities from the past few decades, used all the connections he had made with friends over the years, and tried every possible way to plan how to eliminate Zhao Di quietly.

At that time, he happened to come across the property management's deep-sea fishing opportunity. Unexpectedly, Zhao Di and her rival, Jia Wenjun, both won tickets. This was like a pillow sent just when he was about to fall asleep. The target and the scapegoat were on the same boat, and they would be spending the night on the sea. There was no better time or place than this.

Watching things unfold according to his plan step by step, he thought everything was over. He didn't expect Zhao Di to come back, which disrupted all his plans.

One wrong step led to another, and now things had reached this point. He rubbed his numb face with his hands, hoping he could still make it in time to take the blame for his son.