To Shui Miao’s surprise, things once again exceeded his expectations.
Fang Qing’s father, Fang Liang, and her mother, Zhao Lu, whispered a few words in the car before getting out one after another.
“Kid, this young man is seriously injured. If we send him to the hospital, he won’t survive all the commotion for sure!” Fang Liang approached Shui Miao and tried to pick him up, “Our family isn’t short on money, but we shouldn’t just hand it over to those hospital vultures. Your mother studied medicine; let her treat him. She’ll definitely be better than those hospital vultures.”
Fang Qing was taken aback, “What? But Mom only worked as a nursing assistant for a few days, right?”
“Pfft, you’re really underestimating your mother. Quick, open the car door.” Fang Liang, who was quite strong, directly carried Shui Miao into the car.
Zhao Lu opened the car door and turned to Fang Qing, “Sweetie, I actually graduated from medical school, I just never told you before. We need to save this young man immediately. Don’t argue, get in the car quickly. I need to check his injuries.”
Seeing her mother speak so convincingly and with the ambulance still nowhere in sight, Fang Qing had no choice but to drive off.
What Fang Liang and Zhao Lu had whispered about in the car was inaudible to others, but not to Shui Miao. Their intention was to make Fang Qing give up by pretending to take Shui Miao home for treatment. In reality, they planned to inject Shui Miao with a drug, falsely claim he had died, then take him far away and abandon him—thus resolving the matter once and for all.
Fang Qing’s parents lived in Unit 13 of a nearby residential complex, on the first floor.
Late at night, Fang Liang sneaked Shui Miao out of the garage and carried him upstairs.
After placing Shui Miao in a small room upstairs, Zhao Lu asked Fang Liang to take Fang Qing outside while she examined Shui Miao’s injuries. Fang Qing felt something was off and insisted on staying.
Reluctantly, Zhao Lu began examining Shui Miao’s wounds.
However, Shui Miao had no wounds at all.
“Oh no! This is bad!” Zhao Lu, unable to find any injuries, pretended to panic, “Sweetie! This young man has no wounds and no broken bones, yet he’s lost so much blood. He must have a severe intracranial hemorrhage—he won’t survive!”
“Then, then we should get rid of him quickly,” Fang Liang dramatically chimed in, checking Shui Miao’s breath, “Oh no! He’s already stopped breathing! Quick, quick, let’s get rid of him while it’s still dark.”
This elderly couple’s acting skills were Oscar-worthy.
After realizing these two elderly people were the real villains, Shui Miao opened his eyes slightly and pretended to be weak as he said, “It’s okay… I… just lost a little… nosebleed…”
Seriously? Nosebleed? That much blood?
Shui Miao’s lie was clearly unconvincing, but unfortunately for him, Fang Qing believed it completely.
“He’s alive! He’s alive!”
Fang Qing immediately became excited, “Mom, you used to be a nursing assistant. He only had a nosebleed, so why did you say he had a severe intracranial hemorrhage? No, I have to send him to the hospital…”
As she spoke, Fang Qing took out her phone to dial 112.
Zhao Lu quickly grabbed Fang Qing’s hand, “Silly girl, who loses that much blood from a nosebleed? He’s experiencing a false remission of symptoms before death—he’s injured his brain and is just babbling nonsense now.”
“Exactly! That’s exactly it! No, we must act quickly and take him away—we can’t let him die in our house.” To everyone’s shock, Fang Liang actually pulled out a burlap sack from a nearby cabinet, seemingly intending to stuff Shui Miao into it and dump the body in the wilderness…
“I’m fine…”
Shui Miao truly admired this old couple. They really missed their calling—they should’ve opened a human meat bun shop at Crossroads Inn, “That blood wasn’t mine. It belonged to the person who hit me. He was driving the wrong way, panicked, and ran off…”
This time, Shui Miao sounded significantly stronger, clearly not exhibiting any sign of false remission.
“…”
Seeing this, Fang Liang and Zhao Lu were momentarily speechless.
Even more shocking to them was that Shui Miao actually sat up by himself, his complexion improving rapidly.
Seeing this, Fang Qing became ecstatic, rushing out to open the refrigerator and pull out ginseng and duck, preparing to make a nourishing ginseng and duck soup for Shui Miao.
Shui Miao exchanged glances with Fang Liang and Zhao Lu, then pretended to feel dizzy, lying back down motionless.
“Young man, young man, wake up?”
“Hey?”
Fang Liang called out several times, but Shui Miao showed no reaction whatsoever.
Fang Liang quickly turned around and whispered with his wife.
“Old partner, we can’t delay any further. Quickly fetch that neurotoxin solution and inject it into him. If he fully recovers, our daughter will never leave him.”
“But old man, he’s fine as it is! I don’t want to do this anymore. Ever since we injected that pregnant girl with the neurotoxin, I’ve been having nightmares constantly. If you want to do it, you do it yourself.”
“What are you talking about! Didn’t we do that last time for our daughter’s sake? If we hadn’t done that, would Chen Rong have stayed devoted to our family? This situation is the same. If we don’t do this, your daughter will become someone else’s mistress. If this gets out, how disgraceful would that be!”
“Pfft! What’s so great about that Chen Rong kid anyway!”
“Alright, alright, let’s not mix things up. If you won’t do it, I will. You go keep an eye on our daughter.”
“…”
Shui Miao overheard every word of their conversation.
So this old couple were the real masterminds behind everything. They had harmed Duan Hongmei, all for the sake of helping their daughter compete for a man! Now, they were ready to harm someone else again—for their precious daughter!
Shui Miao was shocked. The world was indeed full of strange things, but who would have imagined there could be such extremely selfish and heartless people?
Fang Liang rummaged through a cabinet, pulled out a bottle of liquid, drew twice the normal dose of neurotoxin into a syringe, and approached Shui Miao. He aimed the needle directly at Shui Miao’s neck and jabbed it in!
“Bang!”
Suddenly, a golden light flashed. The needle struck Shui Miao’s neck as if hitting a steel plate, instantly snapping in two. The broken needle flew up and lodged itself into Fang Liang’s eye. With a scream of pain, the syringe fell to the ground, and Fang Liang sat down hard, unintentionally injecting the entire dose of neurotoxin straight into his own buttock.
“Hmph!”
Shui Miao sneered inwardly. This was called reaping what you sow—evil begets evil.
Hearing the scream, Zhao Lu quickly turned around…
Seeing her husband writhing on the floor with a syringe stuck in his butt, Zhao Lu panicked and sat down hard herself, crying out, “Oh my goodness! You careless old man! Now you’ve gone and done it! What am I supposed to do if you go crazy or become a vegetable!”
“What happened?”
Hearing the commotion, Fang Qing rushed in.
From her mother’s words, Fang Qing sensed something suspicious. Under her relentless questioning, a mentally collapsing Zhao Lu confessed everything.
Upon learning the truth, Fang Qing also sat down hard on the floor, stunned beyond words.
“Fang Miss, what did your father do before?”
Shui Miao suddenly sat up from the bed.
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