Shen Jiayue was thrown onto the roadside like a piece of trash. She wasn't taken away with Shen Youling. Stumbling all the way ho, her heart was still pounding in terror.
"Jiayue, look! This is the invitation Chairman Wei's people sent over!"
"It's all thanks to you asking the Wang Family's second young master for help. Otherwise, how could we ever qualify to attend such a high-class banquet?"
Shen Xin and Dong Mingfeng were beaming, treasuring the invitation as if it were a priceless gem they couldn't bear to put down.
"Where's Youling? Did she already go book a room with the second young master of the Wang Family?" Lu Zizheng asked, feigning nonchalance.
The thought of Shen Youling being taken by that country bumpkin, Lin Tang, only to be bullied by that ugly Wang Shouzhen right after, made him deeply uncomfortable. At the sa ti, a wicked thought began to stir.
Since she's a fallen woman now, couldn't I get a taste too?
"Ugh, don't even ntion it. My sister and I were nearly dood today," Shen Jiayue said, patting her chest with lingering fear.
"What do you an, 'dood'?"
"This is what happened..."
After she recounted the events, the expressions on Shen Xin's and the others' faces changed drastically.
"Who on earth is this man who took Youling? Even the Wang Family's second young master is afraid of him?"
"Jiayue, call the Wang Family's second young master right now and find out his exact identity!"
Wang Shouzhen himself was in a state of utter panic, terrified that Mo Zhongyuan would show up to settle the score. He was in no mood to deal with Shen Jiayue. After being bombarded by several of her calls, he furiously cursed her out. After getting a vicious earful, Shen Jiayue finally had her answer.
Mo Zhongyuan!
The young master of the Mo Family in Jinhu City!
His background was imnse!
He was absolutely not to be trifled with!
In his eyes, even the Four Great Families of Jiangbei were nothing but trash!
Shen Xin sucked in a sharp breath, becoming deeply worried.
Dong Mingfeng's eyes glinted, and she actually let out a laugh.
"And you call yourself a mother? Youling is in serious trouble, and you're laughing?" Shen Xin said angrily.
"You don't know anything!" Dong Mingfeng clapped her hands. "This young master of the Mo Family has an even more powerful background than the Wangs. How could it be a bad thing that he's taken a liking to Youling? If Youling pleases him and he ends up marrying her, won't our Shen Family be set for life?"
"Huh?" Shen Xin paused. That actually seems to make sense...
The realization dawned on Shen Jiayue as well. That's right. She had been foolish. It was a trendous stroke of luck for her sister to be noticed by Mo Zhongyuan. Taking it a step further, even if Mo Zhongyuan just used her and threw her away, there was no real loss.
They had no idea that Mo Zhongyuan had already given Shen Youling to his senior martial brother, Hou Baoshu, who was planning to use her in a blood sacrifice!
Just as they were getting excited, they suddenly heard Shen Qiushi's urgent, labored breaths. "Youling... Lin Tang..."
"Dad, you're awake! Don't get agitated. What are you trying to say?" Shen Xin quickly moved closer, leaning in to listen.
Shen Qiushi tossed and turned, managing only to repeat Lin Tang's na, unable to form any other words. He was simply too weak.
Dong Mingfeng pursed her lips, but before she could speak, Shen Jiayue interjected, "I almost forgot! I ran into that Lin Tang fellow today, too. He actually stole the keys to Chairman Wei's granddaughter's villa!"
"What? That bastard has so nerve!"
"We were barely forgiven by Chairman Wei, and now he's causing trouble for us again?"
"We have to cut all ties with him! For one, it'll prevent Chairman Wei from taking his anger out on us again. And for another, what if the young master of the Mo Family was planning to take Youling but changes his mind because she has a husband? We'd lose out big ti!"
"I'll contact the dia right now! We'll publicly announce that Youling's marriage to that nace is void! The Shen Family is severing all ties with him!"
"You... you all..." Shen Qiushi's eyes bulged, and his jaw trembled. He tried to stop them, but he felt his strength failing. Overco with rage and anxiety, he fainted once more.
「Hospital.」
Lee Encai, the young miss of the Li Family whose heart Lin Tang had previously treated, raced toward the ergency room on her long legs.
"How is Dad? Why did he collapse so suddenly?"
Her mother, Pei Huixian, looked fragile and graceful in her cheongsam. She was swaying on her feet, tears streaming down her face. "Your dad was perfectly fine, but then he clutched his chest in agony and collapsed."
"Chest pain?" Lee Encai froze, instinctively touching her own chest as she recalled Lin Tang's treatnt and the things he had said.
Just then, a doctor erged. The Li Family mbers rushed forward, desperate for details. The doctor explained that the patient was suffering from a rare heart condition. Its onset was so sudden that his condition was now terminal. There was nothing they could do. They could only keep him on life support, but it was a temporary asure that wouldn't cure the underlying problem.
"You should start preparing for his passing..."
"No! Impossible!" All the strength seed to drain from Lee Encai's body. "Maybe that guy can do sothing... If he could cure , he can definitely cure my dad!"
Her hands trembled as she took out her phone to call Lin Tang, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't rember the number he'd given her.
She asked her bodyguard.
The bodyguard said nothing. He hadn't thought to get the number at all.
"Damn it!" Lee Encai's vision swam with dark spots as she was consud by regret and frustration.
Pei Huixian and the others were like ants on a hot pan.
"Should we try traditional Chinese dicine? I know a famous doctor nad Ge Shijian..."
"Then what are we waiting for? Get him over here, quick!"
Soon, Ge Shijian was brought over. After his own diagnosis, however, he was equally helpless. The glimr of hope that had just sparked within the Li Family was snuffed out once again.
"My master's dical skills are profound, and he has mastered the Qiankun Qi-controlling Needle technique! I believe he can definitely cure him!" Ge Shijian suddenly declared, his voice filled with confidence in Lin Tang.
Pei Huixian and the others were once again ecstatic. "Dr. Ge, I'm begging you, you must ask your esteed master to co!"
"As long as he can cure my husband, we're willing to pay any price!"
In their eyes, Ge Shijian was already an old man, so his master must be an even more venerable and respected elder.
Ge Shijian spread his hands in embarrassnt. "But... I don't have his contact information."
"What?"
"Are you toying with us?"
"He's your master! How could you not be able to contact him?"
The expressions on the Li Family mbers turned hostile. The more hot-tempered among them looked ready to draw their weapons.
Cold sweat beaded on Ge Shijian's head as he quickly tried contacting Wei Shanhe. He was in luck! His master happened to be with Chairman Wei! Fantastic!
By the ti Lin Tang arrived at the hospital, following the address Ge Shijian had given, his apprentice rushed up to him.
"Master, you're finally here!" Ge Shijian greeted him with a fawning smile. If Lin Tang had been a mont later, he suspected the Li Family might have torn him to shreds.
"This is..."
"No way."
"Dr. Ge, are you serious?"
"This kid who's barely more than a boy is your master? The doctors at the best hospital in Jiangbei were helpless, and you think he can succeed?"
The Li Family was rife with skepticism.
Just as Ge Shijian was about to describe how Lin Tang had saved Wei Shanhe, Lee Encai suddenly cried out in surprise.
"It's you!"
"Well, well, we et again," Lin Tang said with an unexpected smile. "Have you cald down now? Are you ready to pay that five million?"
"Encai, you know him?" Pei Huixian asked.
"I..." Lee Encai's mouth opened, then closed. Should I tell them he groped on the street? Of course not! "I had chest pains before, though not too severe, and he... he treated ."
"You happened to have the sa illness?" The Li Family mbers were all startled, so even beginning to wonder if they had it too. Could it be a genetic disease?
At that mont, a doctor burst out of the room. "The patient is hemorrhaging again! The situation is critical!"
"What? Quick, quick! Please, have this... young man go in and see the patient!"
"Are you sure you want to let a young man of unknown origin try?" a doctor questioned.
"Yes!"
To put it bluntly, it was a desperate asure. Lee Encai placed her last hope in Lin Tang, her voice sincere. "I'm begging you. Please, you have to save my dad."
"You still haven't paid for the last treatnt. How do you have the nerve to ask for another favor?" Lin Tang replied, looking rather unenthusiastic.
"Co on, just treat him first! I promise I'll pay you ten tis the amount afterward!" Lee Encai was so frantic she wanted to slap him across the face. This guy is so greedy!
"You said it, not ."
With that promise secured, Lin Tang was finally satisfied. He strode casually into the ergency room, glanced at Li Weihai on the operating table, and gave a direct order. "Remove all those tubes and equipnt from his body."
"Are you joking?"
"The patient will die the instant we remove that equipnt."
"Young man, this is absolute madness!"
The doctors and nurses all voiced their objections. Lin Tang was simply too young and unknown to command any authority.
"With here, not only will he not die, but even if he did, I could bring him back!" Lin Tang retorted, not bothering with modesty. Seeing them hesitate, he wasted no more words and ripped the equipnt off Li Weihai himself.
He then grabbed a scalpel and sliced open the man's chest.
SPURT—
Blood sprayed three feet high, gushing like a fountain and splattering the ceiling in the shape of a giant crimson flower.
"AHH!"
"He killed him!"
"You call this a treatnt?!"
"He's insane! Utterly insane—"
The doctors and nurses flew into a panic, their eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
Outside the door, the Li Family was completely dumbstruck. Pei Huixian let out a muffled groan and fainted on the spot.
Lee Encai, believing her father had just been murdered, saw red. She let out a piercing shriek, "You bastard! I'll make you pay with your life!"
Ge Shijian was drenched in cold sweat and swallowed hard.
I wonder if it's too late to pretend I don't know him...
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