Lying in the hospital bed, Liu Chen raised her right arm, fingers splayed towards the window. On her slender fingers, a diamond ring the size of a pigeon's egg was set.
The diamond ring, under the sunlight outside the window, its exquisitely clear facets made the entire ring appear more brilliant, truly resembling stars in the night sky.
The ring was on Liu Chen’s left middle finger, fitting perfectly, not a bit too much, not a bit too little. Noticing this, Liu Chen smiled foolishly,
“This guy, when exactly did he measure my finger size?”
Only an hour had passed since the explosion. Liu Chen, due to Ren Yu's protection, had only suffered a mild concussion. However, the doctor advised hospitalization for observation. Ren Yu's back, the back of his head, and his arms were scratched by the shattered glass. He was still being treated. Currently, Liu Chen was alone in the ward.
Xia Tian and Dong Tian were also injured. The evacuation time was too short, and many residents were still in the residential area, perhaps to watch the commotion. When the explosion occurred, many were injured by the glass shards flying from the residential area.
The two of them had shielded Ren Yuanying and the arriving firefighter.
The mastermind of this explosion, Zhou Ren, had already been taken away by the police. As for Zhou Ren's injuries, they would be dealt with at the police station. Such a dangerous individual who threatened social security could not be left at large.
Liu Chen was still holding her hand up when the ward door was suddenly pushed open from the outside. Liu Chen instinctively turned her head, thinking they were bringing Ren Yu in his wheelchair.
Yes, due to the concussion, Liu Chen had been wheeled into the ward earlier.
However, Liu Chen was mistaken, for she saw her mother, Liu Fang, with her hair dyed red and curled.
And Liu Fang’s gaze fell upon the quail-egg-sized diamond ring on Liu Chen’s finger.
“The ring!”
After an exclamation, Liu Fang dragged a plastic stool over and sat by Liu Chen’s bed, asking with concern,
“Did Ren Yu propose? His father disagreed, so he blew up the building???”
“What??? Mom, where did you hear that?”
Liu Fang raised an eyebrow, “Do I need to hear it? Besides Ren Yu’s diamond ring, would anyone else propose and wear it on their finger? When I came just now, I heard Ren Yu’s father was taken away, so isn’t it obvious?”
Liu Chen listened to her mother’s analysis and inexplicably found it to be quite reasonable. At the same time, she marveled internally that her mother, with her thriving business and focus on raising her twin younger brothers, could potentially become a novelist and achieve something.
“It sounds reasonable, but Ren Yu proposed after the explosion. To protect me, he’s still cleaning his wounds. He’ll probably come over after he’s done.”
Liu Fang’s confusion deepened upon hearing this:
“I just sent your Chen Dad to Sister Yuanying’s place to gather information. Why did Ren Yu’s father hide bombs in his house? Where did he get them? You, you silly girl, if you’re going to bomb, you’re going to throw bombs? What if that bomb exploded in your hands? Do you want your mother to find you in the afterlife?”
Liu Fang’s voice quivered as she spoke. Liu Chen then noticed that her mother’s eyes were slightly red, appearing as if she had been crying.
“Mom, I had it under control, really…”
Liu Fang’s anger flared upon hearing this,
“You had it under control? What do you think this bomb is? Is it preserved egg and lean meat congee? You had it under control? You should have run! Can’t professionals handle disarming bombs?”
Liu Chen listened to her mother’s scolding and saw her reddened eyes. She decided not to argue further, as the existence of the system was a secret. As the mother and daughter fell into silence, a knock sounded on the ward door.
Liu Chen quickly sat up straight, leaning back against the pillow her mother had placed behind her. She called out loudly,
“Come in!”
As soon as Liu Chen finished speaking, the ward door opened from the outside. In came Ren Yu, sitting in a wheelchair, his head wrapped in bandages, layer after layer, looking quite serious.
Ren Yu looked up and saw Liu Fang sitting by the hospital bed.
“Godmother…”
Ren Yu’s hoarse voice made Liu Fang fall silent.
This child looked too seriously injured? The bandages all over his body… Even though he did it willingly, and was injured for his love for Chen Chen, if she said anything harsh, would she still be human?
Thus, Liu Fang, who had a lot she wanted to ask Ren Yu, held back upon seeing his injuries.
However, just as Liu Fang was about to swallow her words, she heard Ren Yu say,
“Godmother, I proposed.”
“Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough!!!!”
Liu Fang was so startled by this statement that she choked, her whole upper body shaking as she coughed on her chair.
“Godmother, are you alright?”
Liu Fang finally recovered, coughed a few times, and said intermittently, “Cough, cough, cough, cough, I’m fine, I’m fine. Um, Ren Yu, you know, Chen Chen is less than twenty years old. She’s too young to get married…”
Hearing this, Liu Chen suddenly remembered, right… she was currently under the guise of being under twenty. When proposed to, she had been flustered and forgotten her age.
Thinking this, Liu Chen felt a little guilty herself.
No matter how she thought about it, her mother would never accept that she accepted Ren Yu’s proposal before she was twenty!
Ren Yu naturally understood the meaning of his future mother-in-law. He immediately stated,
“Don’t worry, Godmother. I will wait until Chen Chen graduates from university. Then, we’ll see how Chen Chen feels.”
Liu Fang nodded with satisfaction upon hearing this. University graduation meant at least two more years!
Two years would be enough time for her Chen Chen to figure out if she could get along with Ren Yu.
Liu Fang agreed, and then realized she seemed to be the third wheel between the young couple. But… even as a third wheel, there were still some things Liu Fang had to say.
Thinking about what she needed to say, Liu Fang hesitated, then cleared her throat lightly,
“Um, I’ll go talk to your Chen Dad. By the way, what do you want for dinner tonight? I’ll cook it and bring it over for you? Or can you be discharged today?”
Liu Chen’s head spun from Liu Fang’s barrage of questions. She thought for a moment,
“I’ll see then. The doctor said it’s best to observe for a few more days for any after-effects. It’s a shame about this National Day. I originally wanted to rest at home for a few more days.”
Liu Fang suppressed the urge to roll her eyes. Seeing Ren Yu there, she also managed to hold back the urge to scold Ren Yu’s father. Finally, after much restraint, she only managed to say,
“Then you rest well.”
She then opened the door and left. After leaving, Liu Fang even had a sly thought, leaving the ward door ajar, lest the young couple who had just successfully proposed spark any… flames.
Liu Fang’s action of leaving the door open was not subtle, but rather blatant. Ren Yu saw the open door and, after Liu Fang had turned the corner and was out of sight, pushed his wheelchair and quietly closed the door.
Hearing the click of the door locking, he turned the wheelchair and pushed it to Liu Chen’s bedside.
“I let you get hurt. It won’t happen again.”
Ren Yu said this with a face full of seriousness, as if making a vow. Liu Chen was unaccustomed to such a serious and stern Ren Yu, and instead asked about Zhou Ren,
“He suspected you and Ren Mo weren’t his biological sons, so he wanted to blow us up? But why now?”
Perhaps due to the concussion, Liu Chen’s words became very direct, asking whatever she wondered.
“I don’t know. We might have to wait for the police investigation to finish to know the truth. But… I suspect that the people who were making trouble behind the scenes before were also him. My dad… well, Zhou Ren, at most times, really cherishes his status and position. Acting through others behind the scenes is more in line with his character.”
Hearing this, Liu Chen looked at Ren Yu with surprise. He seemed completely unfazed as he said this. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
She had been worried that everyone wouldn’t be able to connect Zhou Ren to the person who had been causing trouble behind the Ren family for so many years. But then she realized that even with a concussion, Ren Yu’s mind was still sharp…
“Then, do you think Godmother will guess?”
Ren Yuanying indeed had not guessed. When she learned that someone had been plotting behind the Ren family to cause accidents, she had never suspected Zhou Ren. The reason was simple: people say even a tiger doesn't eat its cubs, and Ren Mo was his own son!
Of course, due to Zhou Ren’s supposed impending death, the thoughts he revealed made Ren Yuanying realize, even if she were foolish, that he had never treated their two children as his own flesh and blood during their marriage.
He even considered them proof of her infidelity.
However, perhaps due to the concussion from the explosion, Ren Yuanying was now only saddened and shocked by Zhou Ren’s thoughts over the years.
It wasn’t until sunset, as the sky was turning dark, that Ren Yu appeared, sitting in a wheelchair with a bento box, pushed by Liu Chen. Ren Yuanying quickly wiped the tears from her face.
“Oh my, Mom is so old now and knows how to take care of herself. Chen Chen needs rest for her concussion, why would you let her push your wheelchair here?”
After saying this, Ren Yuanying peered behind Liu Chen. Behind Liu Chen was the brightly lit hospital corridor, where hurried family members of patients came and went, and nurses’ stations where they ate.
“Mom, what are you looking at?”
Ren Yu looked at his mother’s action, slightly confused, and began to worry about the after-effects of the concussion.
Ren Yuanying, who was asked, was also puzzled.
“Isn’t Ren Mo with you guys? I haven’t seen him all afternoon. I thought he was in your ward?”
Hearing this, Liu Chen and Ren Yu, who had both recovered fully through system cheats, exchanged a glance.
They had completely forgotten about Ren Mo!
As they looked at each other, and Liu Chen reached for her phone, Ren Yuanying’s eyes lit up:
“Oh! As expected, when you talk about people from our China, they arrive!”
Liu Chen followed Ren Yuanying’s gaze and saw Ren Mo, his eyes swollen red, carrying a large thermos on each side.
Behind Ren Mo was Sang Ling, her hair slightly disheveled. She was carrying a pile of supplements. These were supplements Ren Mo and she had bought at a nearby mall at noon. They were originally intended for Ren Mo’s father, but before they could hail a taxi back, they saw Liu Chen’s message, telling them not to return for now.
After they entered the ward, Ren Mo began to recount his day.
After buying the supplements, they received Liu Chen’s text message and chose to sit at a nearby Liang Muyuan. Not long after sitting down, they heard a loud sound like thunder. Sang Ling and Ren Mo started messaging Liu Chen and Ren Yu, but received no reply. Unable to do anything, they returned to the residential area to check the situation, only to hear that Unit 302 had exploded!
When Ren Mo asked which hospital the people from Unit 302 had been taken to, he was immediately apprehended by the police who were staking out the area and taken to the police station.
After questioning at the police station, they were convinced that Ren Mo had no connection to the explosion. They then revealed:
The police had found evidence from Zhou Ren’s home of his communication with overseas organizations. Furthermore, from the bomb fragments, the police discovered that this bomb was a military-grade bomb from a certain foreign country, hence its powerful destructive force.
If it hadn’t been thrown out of the window and into the lake, the destructive power of the bomb’s explosion could have reduced the area within tens of meters of Unit 302 to ashes.
The resulting casualties would have been immeasurable.
Upon hearing this, Ren Mo’s mind suddenly flickered, and he asked a question he himself didn’t understand why he asked.
“Then, my sister-in-law, Liu Chen, the assassins she encountered abroad, were they also because of my father? Oh, no, because of Zhou Ren?”
Hearing this question, the police officer glanced at Ren Mo silently and then blinked slowly.
Ren Mo, who was initially shocked at why he would suspect Zhou Ren so, went numb upon seeing this gesture.
“Why?”
After saying this, Ren Mo quickly answered his own question:
“Was it just because he suspected that my brother and I weren’t his biological children?”
The police officer standing nearby was also shocked. He thought about what the captain had said: after Zhou Ren was arrested, he acted like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water, saying, just execute him quickly, and he wouldn’t reveal anything else.
So, he couldn’t help but make a suggestion:
“This… um, Comrade Ren Mo, how about this: you go back today and take care of your mother. If possible, could you ask your mother to come to the police station to help us open Zhou Ren’s mouth?”
At this point, Ren Mo looked at his elder brother Ren Yu guiltily. Help! He had agreed impulsively then, but now that he had calmed down, he was really afraid his mother would disown him!
Unlike what Ren Mo imagined, Ren Yuanying remained unusually calm upon hearing this. She said nothing. After finishing the meal brought by Ren Mo, Ren Yuanying wiped her mouth, threw the napkin into the trash can, and said nonchalantly,
“Ren Mo, contact that police officer and tell him I’ll be there tonight.”