Old Master Lin was unaware of their plans, but he could clearly feel his body growing weaker by the day.
"Didn’t you say my health would gradually improve to the point where I could undergo surgery? Why do I feel like my body is deteriorating?"
The doctor was also baffled. After all, his condition had been steadily improving before, but for so unknown reason, after the recent incident, his body had remained in a weakened state. Performing surgery was now out of the question.
"Your body has beco so frail that we are simply unable to perform surgery on you. We’ve been working diligently on your rehabilitation, but the outco seems different from what we had expected."
Just then, Gu Qixiao appeared at the doorway of the hospital room.
"You’ve already ended up like this. Do you still refuse to let her go?"
It’s often said that a dying man’s words are kind, but Old Master Lin seed to lack such compassion.
"I won’t die. Even if I do, I’ll drag her down to hell with ."
He was unwilling to accept death so easily.
But so things just never go as one wishes.
"Do you know that your company has already been divided among your children?"
This also ant that they had given up on treating Old Master Lin.
Old Master Lin’s eyes widened in disbelief, as though he couldn’t accept what he had just heard.
"Impossible. They will save . I know they still have so filial piety left in them."
"Do you truly think so?" For soone who was so mistrustful, how could he genuinely believe in his children?
Old Master Lin’s expression grew more panicked.
It seed he had never anticipated that his children would abandon him first.
"No, that’s not possible. I can still live. I absolutely can’t die just like this."
Looking at Old Master Lin’s pitiful state, Gu Qixiao couldn’t help but feel a bit sorry for him, though it stopped short of sympathy.
"As long as you divulge Yu’s location, I can still call soone over to buy you a bit more ti."
"You’re all lying to . There’s no way I’ll bring Ji Yu out." He suddenly turned even more malicious.
"No matter what, I’ll drag her to hell with . You all want dead, don’t you? Fine, then I’ll take her down with !"
Gu Qixiao frowned.
He truly couldn’t fathom what was going through Old Master Lin’s mind at this mont.
"Even if you go through with this, there will be no outco for you whatsoever."
But alas, Old Master Lin seed to have gone completely mad, paying no heed to Gu Qixiao’s words.
Lin Wenyan, observing the situation, also realized that there would be no getting anything useful out of Old Master Lin.
"I’ll take you back to the Lin family estate to have a look. Right now, there shouldn’t be anyone ho."
Everyone was preoccupied with the fight over the inheritance and simply had no ti to bother with them.
Gu Qixiao headed to the Lin estate with his team.
However, they searched every nook and cranny but failed to find her.
Lin Wenyan’s expression grew increasingly puzzled.
"I really don’t know what to do now."
He had run out of places to search, and since Ji Yu wasn’t at the Lin estate, it ant she must have been hidden elsewhere.
"She might be sowhere else. Why don’t you go and look soplace else?"
Gu Qixiao shook his head. He had a strong feeling that Ji Yu was here.
anwhile, Ji Yu was being kept in a dark, secluded corner, with no food or water to sustain her. She had grown extrely weak.
It had been days since she had eaten, and she was physically unable to hold on any longer.
Originally, these tasks had fallen to Lin Chujian, but with Lin Chujian now preoccupied with the fight for the Lin family inheritance, she no longer had ti to deliver food to Ji Yu.
"What if she starves to death? If she dies of starvation, we’ll definitely be held accountable."
"And what, you dare reveal her location now? If she’s discovered, we’ll all be screwed."
"But we can’t just sit here and watch her starve to death."
"The old man still needs her kidney. If she dies of starvation, she’ll be useless."
"You can’t be serious. The old man isn’t going to make it either."
Hearing their discussion, Ji Yu knew that her chances of leaving alive were slim.
Gu Qixiao, too, spotted the two n.
Seeing him, the two quickly fell silent, too afraid to speak another word.
"What are you two whispering about over here?"
Their faces were full of discomfort, clearly terrified.
"We didn’t say anything. You must have misheard. Sir, this is the old man’s residence—you can’t go in."
Of course, Gu Qixiao had no intention of leaving any corner unchecked.
"Move!" He was determined to find out if Ji Yu was hidden here.
The situation instantly beca tense.
Neither of the two dared to step aside, yet they couldn’t afford to offend Gu Qixiao either.
They cast pleading looks at Lin Wenyan, hoping he would say sothing on their behalf.
"Step aside." Lin Wenyan, to their dismay, didn’t speak up on their behalf. Instead, he instructed them to move aside.
The two looked at Lin Wenyan in shock, but seeing no other way, they reluctantly stepped aside, all the while praying that the basent wouldn’t be discovered. Otherwise, they’d be in deep trouble.
Gu Qixiao’s intuition told him that Ji Yu was definitely here.
But after searching every corner, he still couldn’t find any trace of her.
"Since you two haven’t found anything, shouldn’t you leave now?"
At this point, they truly couldn’t afford to let them keep searching. If Ji Yu were found, it would spell disaster for all of them.
Lin Chujian had also learned about the situation at ho and rushed back in a hurry.
"What are you doing in the old man’s room? What exactly do you want?"
She appeared collected and calm, as if her annoyance stemd solely from their invasion of the space.
"Where’s Yu?" Gu Qixiao got straight to the point without wasting ti.
"How would I know where she is?" Lin Chujian found the question absurd. Had they stumbled upon so kind of clue?
She maintained her composed deanor, acting as though she truly knew nothing.
"What you’re doing constitutes trespassing, and the old man is still alive. Aren’t you afraid of how he’ll deal with you?"
She glanced over at Lin Wenyan, curious as to why he had been so unusually calm lately, with no visible interest in fighting for power.
"All I need is for you to tell where Yu is."
He didn’t care about anything else, but he wouldn’t allow himself to stop caring about Ji Yu.
Lin Chujian was taken aback by his words. She could never have imagined that he would beco soone willing to forsake everything and pay any price for one person.
"Gu Qixiao, Ji Yu is already dead." Her words carried a tone of vengeance.
"You’re lying."
Reviews
All reviews (0)