Ch. 356..360: Mr CEO Ex-wife Escapes Again Chapter 356-360
Chapter 356: Chapter 356: Stir Up a Huge Commotion
Xiahou Yi’s surgery proposal was not approved.
Yin Hehe returned to the ward in a rage, and after that, she stayed inside for a long time.
In the evening, as the last streak of sunset faded, the man who had slept all afternoon on the hospital bed finally woke up.
"You’re awake?"
Yin Hehe heard this and stood up from the chair where she’d been sitting all afternoon, walking over to the bed.
The man opened his eyes under the blankets, and when he saw her, he was bewildered.
"How are you feeling? Better at all? You have been asleep all afternoon."
Yin Hehe, seeing him like this, bent over to help him sit up and asked tenderly.
The man blinked, his gaze sweeping around the room, finally recalling where he was.
"Give me a cup of water!" Once he made sense of his location, he swallowed with a dry throat, demanding something to drink.
Yin Hehe quickly went to the water dispenser to pour him a cup of water.
"Gulp, gulp..."
Perhaps he was really too thirsty, he managed to drink the entire cup in one go.
"Drink slowly, be careful not to choke," Yin Hehe said, feeling a bit sorry for him.
His brain was already damaged, and now he’d suffered a concussion from the car accident. Even if the injury was not severe, it would certainly be much more painful for him than for an ordinary person.
Fortunately, after drinking the cup of water, he seemed to feel much better.
"Where did you go just now?"
"Huh?" Yin Hehe was startled, "I haven’t gone anywhere. I’ve been right beside your bed."
"Liar!" Unexpectedly, the man immediately accused Yin Hehe of deceiving him.
"When I opened my eyes, I didn’t see you. Yin Hehe, do you always ignore my words?"
He was very angry, his gaze as sharp and predatory as if he was about to devour Yin Hehe.
Yin Hehe was a bit dazed.
She indeed stayed in the ward all afternoon. Could it be that he woke up again when she went out to discuss Xiahou Yi’s surgery with the dean?
Yin Hehe suddenly realized this possibility.
"Husband, I only stepped away for a moment... Xiahou Yi showed signs of waking up, so I went to check on him briefly,"
she could only explain to him.
As she finished speaking, the man’s expression finally softened a bit. However, perhaps hearing the name Xiahou Yi, a slight frown appeared between his handsome brows.
"And then?" he asked.
Yin Hehe was again taken aback for a moment.
"Then, the dean said he could undergo a second surgery, which would increase his chances of waking up, but Xiahou Jingmu refused because there was no immediate family member to sign the consent form for the surgery,"
she had no choice but to tell him the whole story.
Of course, this was just to let him know she hadn’t ignored his wish and walked away on a whim. As for the rest, she held little hope.
Yet, as soon as she finished speaking, the man’s handsome face darkened again.
"Why should he refuse? He’s not the old man’s son either. What right does he have to refuse?"
"Huh?" Yin Hehe was shocked.
He could now even understand such complex relationship dynamics and make counterarguments? That was a huge improvement!
Yin Hehe’s reaction came swiftly, and a tinge of surprise surged from the depths of her heart.
"There’s no other way. Since you haven’t acknowledged your father-son relationship with Xiahou Yi, then the people around him, Xiahou Jingmu, are the ones with the most authority to make decisions."
She sighed and patiently explained to the man.
"Why should I acknowledge a father-son relationship with him? That annoying old man from Shengfei Bay said he has raised me for decades. If I were to recognize another old man as my father, wouldn’t he break my legs?"
"..."
For a long time, Yin Hehe stared at this man, whose way of speaking was completely different from before, her face full of lively expressions!
She really felt like laughing.
Because she suddenly thought of their second son, Cen Bao. This little guy’s way of speaking was exactly like the little fellow’s, wasn’t it?
It was hilariously funny...
"You... make a lot of sense. One can’t just casually acknowledge someone else as their father."
"Exactly!" he immediately hummed proudly like a child who had received praise.
"So, what do you suggest we do now? It’s okay what this old man says about us, and he even saved your life once. It wouldn’t be good to just let him die."
Yin Hehe began to gently and skillfully persuade the man, waiting for him to come up with an idea.
Because she realized that, aside from his language, certain things were also awakening within him.
"Isn’t that simple? Doesn’t he still have a useless son? His legs are disabled, not his hands. Drag him over to sign the form, can’t we? If he disagrees, we can still use two fingers to make a thumbprint."
"..."
Yin Hehe fell silent once again.
Because she genuinely hadn’t remembered that Xiahou Maolin, that waste, was still alive.
Yin Hehe then left, and quickly, she found the hospital director.
"Director, this surgical consent form can be signed by the old general’s eldest son, Xiahou Maolin. As long as he agrees, Xiahou Jingmu will have no right to stop it!"
"Oh right, I also forgot about that. Fine, I will go find him now!"
Indeed, the director was reminded as well, his eyes lighting up. He immediately took the consent form and personally went to find Xiahou Maolin.
Yin Hehe breathed a sigh of relief.
As she turned to head back to the ward, she encountered Xiahou Jingmu, coming her way in the hallway.
"Little auntie, you really like to oppose me, don’t you? Have you forgotten what you said to me that morning? You spare me, I spare you, and we can all live better."
His face was cold as he came up to Yin Hehe and asked sarcastically.
Yin Hehe’s complexion changed momentarily.
"I did say that, but now I’m saving a life. There’s no conflict with what I said before," she replied calmly.
However, no sooner had she finished speaking than she saw a sharp, mocking smile cross the face of the man in front of her, now openly hostile.
"Are you trying to play me for a three-year-old child? Since you already know my ambition, you should be clear about how much his awakening—or lack thereof—affects me!"
"So, what you’re saying is, do you want to repay the elder who has carefully raised and looked after you since childhood with death? Xiahou Jingmu, even a dog knows gratitude, let alone you, a human being?"
"You—"
The moment these words were spoken, they utterly infuriated him, and the glare he shot her was filled with blatant murderous intent pouring out.
But it was at this moment that the door to a ward not far from them opened, and a man in a patient’s uniform, tall and imposing with an air of chill about him, stepped toward them.
"You try touching her again,"
Sheng Siyuan didn’t express much, but after arriving, he just looked expressionless and threw out these few words from his mouth!
Chapter 357: Chapter 357: He is the Hunter
"Ayuan, why did you come out? You should hurry back and stay in the ward!"
As soon as Sheng Siyuan finished speaking, Xiahou Jingmu had not even opened his mouth when Yin Hehe already started to panic. She grabbed his hand, wanting to send him back to the ward quickly.
She didn’t want him to know what they were talking about.
He was no longer the Sheng Siyuan of before, and he didn’t know how dangerous a person Xiahou Jingmu who stood before him was right now.
"Little Auntie, what are you worried about? It’s great that Uncle has come out. Since he’s here, we might as well tell him everything and let him give his opinion too."
Unexpectedly, after witnessing this scene, Xiahou Jingmu actually smiled and casually invited this uncle of similar age to himself over.
Yin Hehe’s face turned pale immediately.
"Xiahou Jingmu, this is the matter I’ve given you, it has nothing to do with him, don’t drag him into this!"
She warned sternly.
Xiahou Jingmu: "..."
"Answer my previous question!"
Before Xiahou Jingmu had a chance to pick up the conversation, the man standing in front of him asked again.
This time, his tone was significantly colder.
Xiahou Jingmu finally cast his gaze onto him.
"Alright then, I shall formally answer my little uncle. You’re asking me if I dare to touch her again, are you? Well, I can clearly tell you now, I have always—wanted—to—touch—her!"
He actually enunciated each word of that last sentence, his eyes landing directly on Yin Hehe’s face, carrying both frivolousness and a possessive desire to conquer.
Yin Hehe watched, veins popping with anger!
"Xiahou Jingmu, you—"
"Ssst!"
The sharp sound of a deadly weapon piercing flesh reverberated dully in the corridor.
In an instant, the very boastful Xiahou Jingmu’s eyes widened suddenly, his expression freezing, filled with utter disbelief.
And the fear he showed as he stared at the man.
Yin Hehe was also stunned.
Not until the man effortlessly pulled out the object he had stabbed in, and the deep red blood gushed from Xiahou Jingmu’s abdomen, did she like waking from a dream, grip the man’s bloodstained hand tightly.
"You... what are you doing? Have you gone mad?" she trembled in her voice.
However, he paid her no mind, and after glancing at Xiahou Jingmu, who finally looked at him with horror in his eyes, he plunged the weapon into him again the next second.
"Splurch!"
This time, the defenseless Xiahou Jingmu even sprayed blood from his mouth.
"Ah!! Murder! Someone come! Help, murder!"
This brutal scene finally caught the attention of people in the hallway.
Immediately, they began to scream.
In just a few seconds, the floor was thrown into chaos.
Yin Hehe’s mind became completely blank, unsure of what to do. The only thing she could manage was to grip the man’s hand unconsciously, trying to prevent him from continuing.
"Husband, that’s enough, please let go, let go..."
"..."
Xiahou Jingmu also began to fall backwards.
He probably never expected that this madman would suddenly do something like this, catching him completely off guard. Now, he was so weakened by the stabbings that he had no strength to retaliate.
His vision started to blur.
"You... you actually dare to kill me?" he asked in fear, using the last of his strength as he fell, staring at the man.
The man finally let go of his grip.
As Xiahou Jingmu finally collapsed to the ground, his fingers spread open, as if he had enjoyed a very interesting game, his dark eyes filled with a sense of satisfaction.
"What the hell are you?"
His thin lips parted slightly.
In the end, he left Xiahou Jingmu with this phrase.
Xiahou Jingmu’s pupils dilated instantly, he looked into those eyes that resembled those of a predator who had caught its prey, and it seemed that at that moment, he finally understood.
It turned out that, from the beginning to the end, it was he, Xiahou Jingmu, who had been played, and the man in front of him was the highest-end player, who had easily deceived everyone with his feigned folly and madness, playing them all in the palm of his hand.
In the end, Xiahou Jingmu was so enraged that he passed out.
About ten minutes later, this man was taken to the operating room for emergency treatment, Sheng Siyuan, whose hands were covered in blood, was taken by the hospital security guards who had heard the news to the conference room, waiting for the police to arrive.
Yin Hehe was outside, banging hard on the glass door.
"Let him out, he doesn’t understand anything, I will take responsibility for everything!"
She was completely terrified, even though she was a lawyer, at this moment, she was too panicked to even think straight, other than shouting out loud here.
In the end, it was the dean who came over.
"Xiaoyin, calm down first, let’s wait for the police to arrive and then discuss this matter."
He advised.
Yin Hehe looked at him desperately, as if clutching at straws, "How can he wait for the police? He doesn’t even know what he is doing; if the police come, they will only scare him."
Her tears fell in big droplets, utterly devoid of her usual calm.
The dean believed this as well, after all, he knew the man’s situation better than anyone.
But to prevent the situation from getting worse, he still had to persuade, "There’s no choice, now what you can do is calm yourself down. You’re a lawyer, you should know how to protect him, right?"
"..."
Finally, this remark reminded Yin Hehe.
So, during the half-hour wait for the police to arrive, she managed to calm herself down with immense self-control and also quickly drafted a defense argument for the man in her mind.
Half an hour later, the police finally arrived.
"Stabbing twice in succession, this seems more like premeditated!"
Indeed, after they arrived and heard what had happened, they immediately believed that what Sheng Siyuan had done was an act of premeditation.
Was it premeditation?
Of course, it was!
In that half-hour of calm, Yin Hehe also thought it through; Sheng Siyuan must have decided to stab Xiahou Jingmu when he left the ward.
Because, he was too calm!
"No, it wasn’t premeditated, he was provoked by Xiahou Jingmu,"
But now, Yin Hehe outright denied it.
"At the time, we were discussing the second surgery for the old general. I originally wanted my husband to sign the consent, but Xiahou Jingmu disagreed, claiming my husband had never been acknowledged by the old general and had no right to sign."
"Then, my husband got angry and stabbed him with a pen!"
Yin Hehe calmly replied to the two police officers.
Indeed, the weapon Sheng Siyuan used was a pen; this pen was the one that Yin Hehe had been using to sign company documents for him in the ward during her idle moments over the past few days.
But there was a fruit knife in the ward, wasn’t there?
Why didn’t he take a knife, but instead brought a pen out?
An idea flashed through Yin Hehe’s mind...
Chapter 358: Chapter 358: It Seems Like He’s Back
Yin Hehe ultimately managed to save Sheng Siyuan and prevented the police from taking him away.
Because, mental illness sometimes truly is a protective talisman for a person who has committed an assault. As long as she firmly clung to this point, the police had no way of taking him away.
Yin Hehe let out a sigh of relief. She walked into the conference room and finally saw the man who had been detained there for nearly an hour.
"Husband, are you alright? Don’t be afraid. I will definitely protect you," she said.
Seeing him sitting there all alone, his hands still covered in blood, her heart overflowed with guilt and pain.
This whole incident had been triggered by her. If Siyuan hadn’t provoked Xiahou Jingmu, none of this would have happened. She deeply regretted being involved even though she had already been out of the picture. Why had she intervened?
But fortunately, seeing her cry, the man unexpectedly remained calm, a departure from his usual self, and reached out to embrace her, pulling her into his arms.
"It’s okay," he said indifferently.
"Weren’t you going to save that old man? You can go now. Xiahou Jingmu is gone, and nobody can stop the surgery anymore."
"..."
Yin Hehe was stunned.
He actually remembered that issue. So, had he done all that just to facilitate what Yin Hehe wanted to accomplish?
Yin Hehe cried even harder.
But before long, she composed herself and stood up, then turned to leave and went to find the dean.
The dean was indeed shocked when he heard that she was still insisting on the surgery!
"You two are really... I don’t know what to say," he said, his eyes reddening as he spoke. Soon after, he went to arrange the surgery.
Time ticked away second by second.
Yin Hehe had intended to take Sheng Siyuan back with her, but for some reason, the man insisted on returning to the ward. He was not willing to leave.
Until both surgeries in the hospital had concluded.
"Miss Yin, the old general’s surgery was very successful. The dean said he should wake up in three days," someone reported.
"Really?"
Hearing this good news, tears of excitement welled up in Yin Hehe’s eyes.
No sooner had she received this news than another surgeon emerged from the operating room.
"Doctor, how is my son? Was the surgery successful?" Xiahou Jingmu’s mother immediately stood up to ask when she saw the doctor.
By her side was Xiahou Maoqing.
Along with them were several military personnel, their uniforms indicating high ranks.
The doctor removed his mask, "The surgery was relatively successful. However, the sharp instrument punctured his lung. If he wakes up tomorrow, he should be fine."
"I’m going to kill him! I’m going to kill him!"
Upon uttering these words, Xiahou Maoqing began shouting like a madman in the corridor.
The Madam’s body swayed, and she fainted.
The few military personnel quickly stabilized them.
About ten minutes later, Yin Hehe returned to the ward and discovered two people in white coats standing guard outside the open door of the ward.
What had happened?
Her heart skipped a beat as she quickly made her way over and rushed to the doorway of the ward.
"What are you doing? Let him go!"
To her horror, inside there were several doctors trying to pull the man out of the hospital bed.
Yin Hehe was on the verge of madness.
"You must be Miss Yin, right? We are from the psychiatric hospital. We received a call from the police about a mental patient here who assaulted someone, and we specifically came to take him with us," explained one of the doctors who seemed to be the leader of the group, as he finally turned to look at her when she protested at the door.
Yin Hehe instantly lost all color from her face.
A mental hospital?
No, how could he be taken away by a mental hospital? He’s not a mental patient, he’s just intellectually impaired right now.
Yin Hehe, completely unprepared for such an unforeseen situation, lost all composure.
"You lay a finger on him and see what happens! Who told you he’s a mental patient? What evidence do you have to claim he’s a mental patient?"
She vehemently denied it, just to keep those people from taking the man away.
But as soon as her words fell, the doctor stared at her and scoffed coldly, "Wasn’t it you who told the police that he was a mental patient? Isn’t that why they didn’t take him away? So, is he a mental patient or not? If not, then I’ll call the police now!"
"..."
Yin Hehe could no longer utter a word.
There was only a face as pale as a corpse left.
Yes, if she didn’t admit in front of these people that the man was a mental patient, then he would definitely be taken away by the police.
But if she admitted it, then he would have to go to a mental hospital!
What should she do?
What should she do now?
She felt like she was going crazy, watching as these doctors had already escorted the man out of the ward, with her tears streaming down her face; her fingers gripping his arm tightly.
"Don’t, you can’t take him away! You’re not allowed to take him!"
She had never felt so helpless and out of control.
The doctors saw this and were about to forcefully push her away, but at that moment, the oppressed man grasped her wrist in return.
"Don’t worry, I won’t be in trouble,"
he said calmly, trying to reassure her.
Yin Hehe was stunned, and for a moment, her tear-blurred eyes looked fixedly at this overly calm man, somehow unable to react.
Why was he behaving like this?
Shouldn’t he be afraid? Shouldn’t he be making a fuss? If it were the old him in this situation, he would have had an episode long ago.
She was baffled.
"Wait for me at home, don’t run around everywhere, and also, take good care of this old man. You want him to wake up, right? Then take good care of him,"
he said, noticing her dazed expression, and then reached out to gently wipe the tear stains off her cheeks.
Yin Hehe: "..."
By the time the doctors led him far away, she was still standing there, staring blankly at his retreating figure.
The feeling was very familiar.
It was as if the person from the past had returned...
——
The next day, Xiahou Jingmu indeed woke up successfully.
"Major, you’re finally awake. The person who hurt you, as per your instructions, has been sent to the mental hospital,"
said several military men who had been guarding the hospital as they immediately approached him.
Yes, the person who had arranged for Sheng Siyuan to be sent to the mental hospital was none other than Xiahou Jingmu.
After being taken to the emergency room that day, he had regained consciousness once, and then he had left these instructions.
Hearing this, Xiahou Jingmu, who had just awoken, was very satisfied.
"Then what are we waiting for? Move against the Shengshi Group now. Since he wants to play with me, let’s give him a good game!"
he said, a vicious smile appearing on his pale lips.
The men immediately went to carry out the task.
Heh
Chapter 359: Chapter 359: Storm
"Right, Major, there’s one more thing, your old man has already had surgery, and it was very successful!"
Suddenly, these few men were looking at Xiahou Jingmu and told him such news.
Xiahou Jingmu immediately turned his head on the hospital bed to look at them.
"What did you say? He had surgery too?"
"Yes, he should wake up within these two days. If he wakes up, then what you’re currently planning..."
The man hesitated to continue!
Xiahou Jingmu’s several fingers immediately clenched tightly into his palm.
"Sheng Siyuan, so this was your purpose!" He ground out each word through his teeth bit by bit.
"But, no need to worry, even if the old man wakes up, it’s of no use now. It’s no longer his world. Whether he wakes up or not doesn’t matter."
Unexpectedly, he followed up with this statement.
The people beside him heard this and glanced at each other with looks of agreement in their eyes.
Because, indeed, in the military, this young General Xiahou had more clout. Except for that Deng surname, basically everyone else was listening to him.
They all showed a knowing smile.
In the afternoon, just when Xiahou Jingmu was finally being transferred to a regular ward, he was wheeled out, passing by Xiahou Yi’s intensive care unit, he saw her—Yin Hehe standing guard outside.
"Stop a moment," he waved his hand, and the doctors stopped him.
Yin Hehe sat on that chair, lifting her head to give him a cold stare.
Xiahou Jingmu, "He went to the mental hospital, I thought you would be in disarray. Unexpectedly, you’re still sitting here steadily guarding this old man. How come? Did he teach you this as well?"
He asked without a hint of sarcasm.
Yin Hehe stared at him for a long while before she said expressionlessly, "It seems you have a large life, surviving even this didn’t get you stabbed to death!"
"..."
Her words immediately caused his eyes to narrow and a hint of fierce aura to emerge.
"Yin Hehe, if you’re willing to pledge allegiance, I can still give you another chance now; otherwise, when I really start to deal with the Sheng Family, you won’t have a chance anymore!"
He warned her coldly for the last time.
Deal with the Sheng Family?
Yin Hehe heard this, and although she appeared calm on the surface, her fingers were slowly curling up within her heart.
This scum, he indeed still intended to go against Shengshi.
"Xiahou Jingmu, let me also give you a piece of advice. You’d better not harbor this thought. Otherwise, I’ll make sure that even if you get this piece of fat meat, you won’t be able to swallow it, and you’ll choke to death on it!"
Her pair of frosty amber pupils bore into him, their sharpness like that of a knife blade, striking viciously across the man’s face, and even Xiahou Jingmu, who had survived bullet storms, could not easily smile this time.
Because he knew this woman was no ordinary woman.
Therefore, the best approach was not to anger her, but to subdue her.
"What do you think is the best way to subdue a woman?"
The moment he returned to the ward, he began to ask this question.
The few men who followed were all taken aback.
"I think it’s to grind down her pride," one said.
"That’s not necessarily true. Some women are too fierce. If you grind down her pride, she might just go down with you in a mutually assured destruction."
"..."
Xiahou Jingmu didn’t like to hear this; he immediately ordered those few men out and called in his assistant.
"Find an opportunity to take the woman outside away." He chose the simplest and most brutal method.
The assistant glanced at him and left immediately.
That very night, when Yin Hehe was guarding outside Xiahou Yi’s intensive care unit and felt a wave of weariness, thinking of going back to her room to rest, she opened the door and saw a shadow inside.
"Who are you?" She immediately backed out, on alert.
However, as she retreated, someone was already blocking her from behind. She felt the person’s presence and was so frightened that she immediately turned around.
"You..."
"Miss Yin, if you don’t want to suffer, just come with us obediently."
Unexpectedly, these two were quite "polite."
In the darkness, Yin Hehe’s eyes narrowed slightly, "Are you Xiahou Jingmu’s men? What, after he failed to intimidate in broad daylight, he wants to take direct action now? Is this petty behavior typical of him?"
She was indeed sharp as a tack, instantly thinking of this possibility.
Once their identities were exposed, the two men no longer hesitated and went straight for her.
"Click!"
But just at that moment, a bullet suddenly flew in from outside.
In an instant, the arm of the man in black who was reaching out to grab Yin Hehe was shot right through.
"Ahh—" A piercing scream echoed through the darkness, making one’s scalp tingle with horror.
Yin Hehe was stunned as well.
It was then, as the other black-clad person saw the dire situation and tried to escape, that another bullet shot forth.
"Pfft!"
This time was even more terrifying.
A grotesque bloom of blood burst from his forehead in the darkness, and he fell down stiffly.
Then there was no more movement.
Too horrifying!
Yin Hehe was completely scared senseless, clinging to the wall, trembling, not even noticing the man whose arm had been shot through as he crawled away from her step by step.
She was blind to it all.
Such precise marksmanship could only belong to a top-tier assassin, and undoubtedly a sniper.
Xiahou Jingmu, who had been waiting for news, jumped up from the bed in shock upon hearing this.
"Ah!" A shriek of intense post-surgery pain escaped him almost at once.
"Major, are you alright?"
The person who was watching over him in the ward rushed over immediately.
It took several minutes for Xiahou Jingmu to finally regain enough strength to speak.
"A sniper? Where did a sniper come from? Who would dare to bring a sniper here?"
He clutched at his wound, roaring angrily.
The onlookers were all too scared to respond.
Such an incident was rarely seen, especially under the watchful eyes of these military men, and at the feet of the emperor no less.
But if someone was especially mad!
Or rather, if this person’s powers actually surpassed his, that would be a different matter.
And right now, his hysterical rage was nothing more than a refusal to accept this reality.
Crucially, at this time, someone else came in.
"Major, there’s news from Shengshi Group... They replied that a merger is completely out of the question."
"What do you mean?" As these words came out, Xiahou Jingmu’s furiously red eyes immediately fixed on him.
"He’s privately-owned, I’m official, I want to acquire him, on what grounds does he have the right to refuse or resist?" he said fiercely.
However, the person still wore a dejected expression.
"If it were a national enterprise, of course, he couldn’t resist, but according to today’s investigation, Shengshi Group has long been acquired by a foreign company, and it’s the world’s largest financial firm."
"..."
Xiahou Jingmu was completely dumbfounded...
Chapter 360: Chapter 360 Awakening
Shengshi Group had actually been acquired by a foreign company, something Xiahou Jingmu had never anticipated.
Why had it been acquired?
As the top domestic company in its prime, how could it possibly be acquired? It wasn’t as if it couldn’t operate anymore. Besides, its current person in charge was insane and had never returned to the company; how had it been sold?
It surely couldn’t have been that old man from the Sheng Family, could it?
The very next morning, Xiahou Jingmu, not caring that his wounds had not yet healed, had his subordinates wheel him to the mental health facility.
"Major, you’ve arrived."
Seeing him, the head of the mental health facility personally came out to greet him.
Xiahou Jingmu’s expression was dark, "How is Sheng Shiyuan? What is his condition now?"
"Per your instructions, he has been kept in the ward, but..."
The head hesitated, suddenly adopting a look as if there was more he wanted to say but couldn’t.
Seeing this, Xiahou Jingmu’s assistant immediately scolded him, "But what? If you have something to say, then say it quickly!"
Only then did the head speak, "We can’t administer any medication to him. Just yesterday when he was brought in, a lawyer named Lan Ling came over. She warned us that if we medicated this man before the results of his psychiatric assessment came out, she would send all of us to jail and sue our hospital!"
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead as he spoke.
The assistant, upon hearing this, blurted out without thinking, "Are you out of your mind? In this place, which lawyer would dare cause trouble for you? This is an order from the Major himself!"
"Ah?" The man immediately showed a very troubled look.
"But she said, she isn’t just any local lawyer, she’s from the International Lawyers Association, and moreover, she has never lost a case!"
"..."
What else could the assistant say?
But at that moment, Xiahou Jingmu had already waved his hand, cutting him off.
He, of course, knew exactly who this Lan Ling was.
Xiahou Jingmu went to the inpatient department. As he was wheeled in, he felt a peculiar oppression and gloom seeing the iron bars installed on each of the ward’s windows.
The very room he was looking for was located at the very back, with not one but two layers of bars added.
"Major, he’s inside there," said the head, having arrived at the destination and opening the first layer of the iron door.
Xiahou Jingmu was pushed slowly inside.
About Sheng Siyuan, Xiahou Jingmu had never actually directly interacted with him, but he had known about him for a long time, especially upon learning that Xiahou Maolin had taken a risky move to try to kill him in Chongzhou.
He had then thoroughly looked up Siyuan’s information.
An impressive figure.
He had a congenital heart disease and spent his childhood brought up by the Wang Family in the capital. During those years in the capital, there was basically no hope for him with the Sheng Family.
But later, after the cure following his heart transplant, he managed to take full control of Shengshi Group in just two short years.
He had quashed all those from the Sheng Family who opposed him.
At the board meetings, faced with many who didn’t submit to him, he employed decisive, swift measures to suppress them all, ensuring that thereafter, not a single complaint was raised against him.
Thus, after studying his information, Xiahou Jingmu was almost certain that Xiahou Maolin was bound to lose.
Sure enough, he received news that Xiahou Maolin had met his downfall in Chongzhou, and his sickly son had also died there.
He was delighted!
But amidst his delight, he felt a tinge of worry.
Because the failure of that father and son meant the success of that man. If Xiahou Yi acknowledged him and took him back, he would undoubtedly never have a chance with the Xiahou Family again.
He waited all day long.
In the evening, just when he thought everything was set in stone, he suddenly received some rather favorable news.
Xiahou Yi called him, saying that Sheng Siyuan was critically injured, and told him to send a private jet to pick him up immediately.
He struggled for a long time, but in the end, he delayed for 10 minutes.
And so, in those 10 minutes, Sheng Siyuan’s brain suffered severe damage. Although he woke up, he had become an idiot.
Xiahou Jingmu initially felt guilty and was often plagued with fear, worried that he might be discovered. After Sheng Siyuan finally woke up, he truly wanted to make it up to him and treat him well.
However, everything changed after his sister, Xiahou Jingxiao, died.
His sister, whom he had doted on for so many years, was gone, and the elder he respected the most only commented that his lake was dirtied!
His respect for this person crumbled.
His faith was also gone.
Especially after his father, Xiahou Maoqing, told him that the reason Xiahou Yi had been grooming him all these years was just to pave the way for his own son.
He became even more desperate.
So, the events of today had nothing to do with the ambition of Xiahou Jingmu; he was compelled to act the way he did.
Xiahou Jingmu finally saw the man in the hospital room.
As he expected, he was very calm. When he entered, the man lay quietly on the bed, flipping through an outdated newspaper as if nothing had happened at all.
Would a person with a damaged mind be this calm in such a situation?
"Sheng Siyuan, there’s no need for pretense now that it has come to this. I know you’re already better!"
He looked at him for a long while before speaking out directly.
Yet, as his words fell, the man looking at the newspaper still didn’t pay attention to him, as if he hadn’t heard him at all.
Seeing this, Xiahou Jingmu finally lost his patience.
"When did you sell Shengshi Group? Was it during your recent visit back home?"
He asked bluntly about the matter.
"Let me remind you, for a multinational corporation like this, if you let a foreign financial company acquire it privately, you will be committing a crime due to the related debt, equity, and domestic assets linked to official interests!"
He actually understood some economic laws.
Sheng Siyuan finally put aside the newspaper in his hand, glanced at the man, and got up to sit on the bed.
"You seem to have not realized why you still can’t get your hands on Shengshi Group. A big part of the reason is not that you, Xiahou Jingmu, are incompetent, but that no one can control Sheng Siyuan."
He spoke up.
Indeed, his voice, tinged with a chilling coldness, was no longer filled with the previous frivolousness but with a piercing sharpness.
Xiahou Jingmu’s face immediately changed.
Looking at the defiant man, whose eyes held supreme confidence and coldness, he, who had come prepared, suddenly found his confidence waning again!