144 Regaining Composure
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Madam Si did not return home with Si Qingchen.
Halfway there, she received a call from Father Si.
“Son, you can only take good care of Qingcheng once you’ve completely calmed down. Do you understand?”
“Yes. It won’t happen again. Please don’t worry, both of you.”
At that moment, Si Qingchen personally escorted his mother into the car that had come to pick her up. After bowing respectfully, his expression finally returned to normal.
Madam Si nodded, then climbed into the car and drove away.
At the same time, only after watching the car carrying Madam Si disappear completely did Si Bei step forward and say,
“Boss, we found out.”
“Speak.”
“If we want to neutralize Miss Mu’s poison, we’ll have to find… the Xu family.”
Upon hearing this, Si Qingchen rubbed the two fingertips that bore a faint layer of calluses. A moment later, he said,
“Then… invite Xu Maoyan over for a talk.”
Si Bei had considered this method before. It was just that carrying it out… would be extremely difficult.
After weighing the matter briefly, Si Bei still asked,
“If we do this… won’t it expose our identity?”
“Our identity?”
Si Qingchen narrowed his eyes slightly, and a dangerous glint seeped into their depths.
After a brief pause, the man turned his head slightly and said coldly, each word distinct,
“Without them, where would this poison have come from? If you’re afraid of exposing us, send Shadow.”
“Yes. I understand, sir.”
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With that, master and servant got back into the car and drove away once more.
Yet no one could have expected that, just as Si Qingchen’s car glided into the Si family estate, he would see from afar an unexpected figure standing at the entrance of the main building.
It seemed… that person had been waiting for him for quite some time.
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Meanwhile, on the other side—
“When will Qingcheng wake up?”
At that moment, Old Master Mu and Steward Ji sat beside the hospital bed. Looking at the pale young woman lying there with her eyes tightly closed, they sighed in unison.
Steward Ji naturally had no answer. All he could do was comfort him.
“She’ll wake up. The Fifth Miss is blessed by heaven and won’t come to any harm. Please rest assured.”
“Alas… If I hadn’t been so stubborn in my younger days, I wouldn’t have let this child remain lost outside for so many years. Now that we’ve found her, I have to take responsibility.”
“Do you mean…”
Steward Ji seemed to have understood something. Standing behind Old Master Mu, he knit his brows tightly.
The old master tenderly tucked the blanket around Mu Qingcheng and said with unusual determination,
“She and Si Qingchen are not suitable for each other.”
Steward Ji: “…”
……
The two of them lingered there for quite some time. But Old Master Mu was advanced in age, and as midnight approached, Steward Ji urged him to return home.
No one knew how much time passed. At last, once the hospital room had fallen completely silent, Mu Qingcheng slowly opened her eyes again.
The heaviness in her body remained, but perhaps because she had received treatment, she felt somewhat better.
A complete recovery was naturally impossible. Still, Si Qingchen must have exhausted every means to save her. Otherwise, given the severity of that dart wound…
She should have already been dead.
Mu Qingcheng stared blankly at the white ceiling, unable to describe what she was feeling at that moment.
She thought of the Mu family… then of the Si family… As though pushed by an invisible force, everything gradually twisted into a tangled knot.
Even more unexpectedly, she had discovered that her grandfather… had never approved of her relationship with Si Qingchen.
Just then, the phone she had left beside her began to vibrate.
The rhythm was familiar and distinctive. After pondering for several seconds, Mu Qingcheng finally answered the call.
Sure enough, Ye Zi’s frantic voice immediately rang out from the other end.
“Boss, where have you gone? I’ve looked everywhere and can’t find you! Everyone’s going crazy with worry!”
“…Something came up… and delayed me.”
“You… You’re injured… Where are you now?”
“At Si Qingchen’s hospital. I—”
“Wait for me. I’m coming over right now.”
“Wait…”
But before Mu Qingcheng could finish speaking, Ye Zi hung up on her.
And almost at that exact moment, Mu Qingcheng suddenly caught sight of something outside the window…
A strangely slight figure flashed past at tremendous speed!!!!
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