After The Honest Person Was Discovered For Simultaneously Pursuing Three People - Chapter 90

Chapter 90: Already Dead

“You’re bed number one, Tao Ning, right? Where are you going? Your physical condition is very poor right now. You must rest and recuperate. Hurry, come back to your bed…”

The nurse hadn’t expected this beautiful, sensational young man to be so bold. After waking up, he pulled out the needle without a word and ran outside in a hurry. Fortunately, for some reason, he then stopped moving at the doorway. A few days ago, she also encountered a bespectacled patient who also rushed out like a madman after waking up…

Was it now a trend to pull out needles and rush outside?

“I’m sorry, I’ve caused you trouble.” The beautiful young man in the nurse’s eyes looked guilty and even bowed formally to them.

“Oh, don’t do that. It’s not a big trouble…”

As the saying goes, a smiling person won’t be hit with an outstretched hand. What’s more, this patient not only knew his mistake and corrected it, but he was also polite and good-looking. The nurse’s heart instantly softened into a puddle. She quickly put on a smiling face and reached out to support Tao Ning. “Come, hurry and lie back down on the hospital bed.” But when she pulled, the person behind her didn’t move.

The nurse turned her head and saw the young man staring at her intently. He hesitated and asked, “Excuse me… where is the person who brought me here? I have something very important to tell him.”

“The person who brought you here?” The nurse’s expression was difficult to describe. “Are you talking about the very tall man covered in blood…”

“Yes!” The young man’s eyes instantly lit up, and his voice began to get excited. “Do you know where he is?”

The nurse became energized at the mention of this person and blurted out everything.

Yesterday, the emergency department suddenly received a call for help. The caller said someone had suddenly fainted, and the destination was an apartment next to Haizhou’s most famous private international school. At the time, the emergency department staff thought it was a routine rescue operation and rushed an ambulance over.

Upon arrival, they were utterly terrified. Whoa! There were two bloody people lying in the apartment, with blood everywhere on the floor, and a tall man also covered in blood was holding a young man, trembling all over. The scene was extremely chaotic.

The doctors and nurses in the rescue team had seen plenty of gory scenes from their rescue work, but the tragic state of that apartment looked too much like a murder scene, and the “killer” might be the mentally unstable tall man in front of them. After they fearfully went to check the situation, they secretly called the police while the man’s attention was focused on the person in his arms.

Therefore, at the hospital, that man was taken away by the police not long after.

In the nurse’s heart, she felt that Tao Ning was also one of the victims. She cast a sympathetic glance at him. “Oh, why are you involved with that kind of person? No matter how important the matter is, it’s not more important than your own life. You absolutely must not go looking for him…”

Tao Ning’s face gradually turned pale. His already pallid complexion was now as white as paper, as if he would collapse with the slightest breeze. He stared at the starry electronic watch on his left wrist, which was still on his hand. The watch with the samurai design that Song Yucong had given him on his right hand had already been crushed by Zhao Jingqun.

That was on the first day Tao Ning was tied to the bed by Zhao Jingqun. The man’s icy gaze fell on the watch on his right wrist. He mocked him for a while, then roughly tore off the watch and crushed it to pieces. Tao Ning was so angry that he called him unreasonable.

How did Zhao Jingqun start arguing with him back then? Tao Ning had forgotten, only remembering Zhao Jingqun’s bloodshot eyes and the deeply wronged expression on his usually arrogant face. At that moment, all of Tao Ning’s anger dissipated.

“Did you hear me, bed number one? You must not go looking for that lunatic. We all think he has something wrong with his head…” As she spoke, the nurse noticed that the beautiful young man, who had just been so polite, suddenly frowned, and his expression turned somewhat cold. For some reason, she felt flustered and closed her mouth.

The nurse remembered that when Tao Ning was first brought in, his face, which was as beautiful as a doll’s, had caused quite a stir. All the nurses on duty on one floor gathered together to discuss whether he was of mixed race, from an ethnic minority, or a celebrity.

But no one had ever questioned his gender, because even though Tao Ning’s face was beautiful, he didn’t have a hint of feminine softness. Looking closely, that meticulously sculpted face had a certain stubbornness from being overly lean.

But the nurse hadn’t expected that when this face turned cold, it would make people instinctively feel a sense of distant alienation, like the clouds dispersing to reveal a high-hanging moon. Usually, people only saw the moon’s reflection in the lake, but only the water knew that the moon in the sky was unattainable.

“He’s not a lunatic.”

Tao Ning looked at her and said with no expression, “He’s my boyfriend.”

“If he’s not a lunatic, then… wha-what? Boyfriend?!”

Tao Ning didn’t care about the strange looks from the people around him. He only felt an unprecedented anxiety and frustration in his heart. Ever since he had agreed to tell Xu Jun and Song Yucong his location, the system had disappeared.

No matter whether Tao Ning called out to the system in his mind or out loud, there was no sound in his head.

Sometimes, Tao Ning even felt that everything was just a dream—that the system and the missions were just things he had imagined. But when he clutched his own heart, which was filled with longing and worry for that man, Tao Ning knew that everything was real.

But he couldn’t find Zhao Jingqun.

Knowing that the system had the ability to let him see him, Tao Ning held onto the thought of “not having completed the mission to capture Song Yucong” or some other shameful and selfish thoughts. He planned to find Song Yucong, hoping that getting close to him would lure the system out. Moreover, Tao Ning had always had suspicions about Song Heng.

He thought it would take some effort to see Song Yucong again, but to his surprise, he met him easily. He didn’t go looking for him; he was taken there by someone. Tao Ning also knew the person who took him to the VIP room: Gao Yu, the assistant who had picked him up to go to the Song family villa.

Gao Yu looked at the hickeys on Tao Ning’s collarbone with an awkward expression. “Young Master Song said he must see you after he woke up, but don’t worry…” He had clearly misunderstood something and covered half of his mouth, saying, “He won’t be able to get out of bed for a few weeks, so he won’t get handsy with you.”

Tao Ning looked at him with confusion but still nodded. Before going in, he asked casually, “…Did the eldest young master not come?”

However, what completely surprised Tao Ning was that Gao Yu showed an even more bewildered expression than his. “What eldest young master?”

In that instant, Tao Ning felt a chill run from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. He stood in front of the hospital room door for a long time, not moving. Why was this happening? Since Gao Yu could be the president’s assistant in a major company, his reaction couldn’t be this slow. When he mentioned the eldest young master, Gao Yu should have immediately thought of Song Heng, not asked him “what eldest young master.”

…How could this be? Or was his question not detailed enough, and Gao Yu hadn’t understood?

Right after he lost contact with the system, something was wrong with Song Heng. Tao Ning’s mind was in a complete mess, but he still pretended to be calm and repeated himself: “Did the eldest young master, Song Heng, not come? Since Song Yucong is in the hospital, did he not come to visit?”

Tao Ning stared intently at Gao Yu’s face, not missing a single expression. But a voice in his heart kept saying: No matter who it is, don’t play this joke on me. However, Gao Yu still showed that same bewildered expression that made Tao Ning’s hair stand on end. And this time, upon hearing the name “Song Heng,” he looked as if he had seen a ghost.

“Song Heng? The eldest young master? …There was a person with that name in the Song family, but he died ten years ago…”

Tao Ning stood in a daze outside the VIP room.

Gao Yu’s words echoed in his mind: Song Heng died ten years ago. He felt that Gao Yu was joking with him and asked many more questions, such as Song Heng’s financial support of him and Song Heng’s identity as a prosecutor.

But Gao Yu once again looked at him with that same confused, and even sympathetic, gaze. He said that the Song family did indeed have a prosecutor, but he was a relative with a good relationship with the Song family. He then asked if Tao Ning had suffered mental trauma because of Song Yucong’s situation and even offered to help him refuse Song Yucong’s unreasonable demands…

These words completely jumbled his mind. In the end, Tao Ning couldn’t even hear what Gao Yu was saying. He shook his head haphazardly and pushed the door open to enter the VIP room.

Compared to Xu Jun, who didn’t have many injuries on his face, the man on the hospital bed had a face completely wrapped in bandages, only revealing his eyes, nose, and mouth. At first glance, he was a little scary, especially with his phoenix eyes glaring viciously.

Unfortunately, the visitor was clearly absent-minded. Song Yucong was in so much pain that he felt like he was dying. As soon as he woke up, he immediately had someone call Tao Ning over. He was furious. All he could think about was how that country bumpkin Tao Ning dared to team up with that mad dog Zhao Jingqun to lie to him!

Even though Xu Jun had told him that Zhao Jingqun was Tao Ning’s ex-boyfriend, Song Yucong was enraged at the time, but he couldn’t easily believe Xu Jun. He needed Tao Ning to admit it himself.

He believed everything Tao Ning said.

But in that apartment, as soon as Song Yucong burst in, he saw Tao Ning covered in hickeys. His mind went blank. Then, when Zhao Jingqun smugly said that Tao Ning was his wife, Song Yucong wished he could sink the cheating pair into a pond immediately.

It was so ridiculous! He had actually believed Tao Ning’s nonsense that Zhao Jingqun was his cousin! Song Yucong was so angry he nearly had a cerebral hemorrhage. Tao Ning was a liar who wanted to have his cake and eat it too!!

He wanted him to donate bone marrow in the future? Not a chance! Even if Tao Ning died right in front of him, he, Song Yucong, would never get involved with Tao Ning again.

The jealousy and resentment in his heart turned into rage. Song Yucong’s eyes were about to spit fire, but the person in front of him remained unmoved, staring absentmindedly at the fruit basket on the table, completely ignoring him.

With a clatter, everything on the table was swept onto the floor. Tao Ning’s mind came back to him with the loud sound. He saw the bandage on Song Yucong’s arm faintly bleeding and quickly tried to stop him. “…What are you doing? Don’t move. Do you want some water?”

“Get out…” Because he was in so much pain, Song Yucong wanted to curse, but the voice that came out was not even a tenth as loud as usual and carried a hint of grievance.

Tao Ning’s heart softened. To be honest, even if the mission to capture Song Yucong was completed or if the system existed, he still couldn’t let go of the person in front of him. He simply couldn’t. Maybe they were right; he was a complete liar. If he had to let go, he should be more decisive.

He needed to actively seek answers, whether by finding Zhao Jingqun or investigating this person named Song Heng, instead of passively staying put and using the excuse of a mission to hurt Song Yucong again…

After thinking clearly, Tao Ning silently picked up the fruit that had fallen to the floor and put it back in the basket. He tidied the table and poured a cup of hot water, placing it somewhere Song Yucong could easily reach. He then said softly, “I’m sorry.”

After saying this, Tao Ning was about to turn and leave, but he had only taken a few steps when the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground came from behind him, accompanied by Song Yucong’s hoarse, broken roar: “Get back here! Who gave you the guts to leave without my permission…”

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