Chapter 128#

The car’s dome light was white. After taking off Lu Lin’s shirt, the bruise was particularly obvious.

Yan Heqing pinched his hand before dipping a cotton swab into the herbal ointment to apply it.

Lu Lin couldn’t see the injury, but he could feel the pain. He estimated the mark would be obvious. He was now facing away from Yan Heqing and couldn’t see his expression, so he glanced at the rearview mirror in the front row out of the corner of his eye.

In the mirror, the young man lowered his head slightly, and his expression was still unclear.

Yan Heqing suddenly looked up. “Does the bone hurt?”

Lu Lin didn’t reply. He raised his arms slightly and put on his shirt, but didn’t button it. He turned around and hugged Yan Heqing tightly.

“You and Lu Lin are related by blood, yet you think his ‘Lu’ is different from yours.”

Yan Heqing’s words just now occupied his mind.

He hadn’t revealed his conflict with Lu Changcheng to anyone. Lu Changcheng would tell Lu Han, and possibly Lu Muchi. Among the three of them, only Lu Muchi might have mentioned this to Yan Heqing.

However, this didn’t convince him either.

Half a month ago, Lu Muchi didn’t even know he and Yan Heqing knew each other. Assuming their conversation would involve him, the possibility of discussing this matter was still minimal.

But if Lu Muchi didn’t tell him, how did Yan Heqing know?

Lu Lin had a strong feeling that Yan Heqing’s past experiences were even worse than what he currently knew; otherwise, his counterattack against several creditors wouldn’t be like this.

That was Yan Heqing’s biggest secret.

Lu Lin hugged Yan Heqing tighter, so hard that Yan Heqing’s bones hurt. Yan Heqing thought Lu Lin’s back was hurting badly, so he wanted to get out of the car. “Is it very uncomfortable? Go take an X-ray—”

Lu Lin hugged him back, buried his chin in his neck, closed his eyes and said, “It’s a small injury, it’s fine. Just hold me for a while.”

Yan Heqing felt Lu Lin’s uncomfortable emotions and hugged him back.

He just thought it was because of Lu Muchi and Lu Changcheng.

Just like the moment he awakened, knowing that Lin Fengzhi used his eyes to love and stay with Lu Muchi, just like when he learned that the fire at home came from Lin Fengzhi.

He felt the same way.

Lu Lin’s emotions were much more stable than his, and he still chose him firmly.

Through the tinted car window, Yan Heqing looked at the lights in the distance. He had decided to bury his awakening deep in his heart forever.

He didn’t need others’ sympathy, nor did he want to become an anomaly in others’ eyes.

Telling others that this is a world in a book, and he actively resisted those who would hurt him in the future in order to survive.

How absurd.

Even he himself couldn’t be sure if he would believe it if he hadn’t experienced it.

Now he changed his mind.

Lu Lin would believe.

Lu Lin would unconditionally believe every word he said, no matter how absurd.

Yan Heqing made a decision. He let go of Lu Lin. “Lu Lin—”

His voice was interrupted by vibration.

Lu Lin had a call coming in.

Lu Lin took out his phone. It was Lu Han. Lu Lin stroked Yan Heqing’s hair and swiped to answer.

Lu Han said anxiously, “Ah Lin, Yan He… Shengbing’s wife and child have been found.” He was flustered. “It was really the Cheng family who sent them away! They were intercepted at the highway entrance. What should we do now?”

Lu Lin said indifferently, “Bring them to the hospital.”

“Okay, okay, I’ll notify them now.” Lu Han was about to hang up but stopped. “Xiao Chi has entered the ward, right? How about you… you come down for a bit? On the 7th floor, Dad is still in the emergency room, I’m panicked.”

Lu Lin hung up the phone and buttoned his shirt. “You rest in the car first, I’ll go upstairs to take a look.”

Yan Heqing was neither tired nor sleepy.

He knew very well that Lu Lin brought him to the hospital because he knew he wanted to understand the situation. Not letting him go up now was because he had understood the situation and didn’t want him to face the Lu family again, even though there was only Lu Han now.

Yan Heqing didn’t make things difficult for Lu Lin. He nodded. “Call me if anything happens.”

Lu Lin returned to the hospital. On the 7th floor, Lu Han was pacing back and forth. Seeing Lu Lin, he looked like he saw a savior. “Xiao Chi…” His eyes were teary. He had already learned the situation from the butler. “Will he really be paralyzed in the future?”

Lu Lin nodded. Lu Han first refused to believe it, then turned his head away, covered his face, and wept softly.

Lu Lin waited for him to finish crying before saying, “Don’t tell Mom.”

Lu Han now knew that the Cheng family was involved in this car accident, and his hatred for Yan Heqing lessened a bit, but he was still dissatisfied. Lu Lin only cared about Lu Ruchan. His biological father was in the emergency room, his biological nephew was paralyzed, and he didn’t care at all. But now he relied entirely on Lu Lin, so he agreed unwillingly.

After a while, the emergency room door opened. Lu Han’s heart was in his throat, daring not go up. “Ah Lin, you go ask…”

Lu Lin stepped forward and exchanged a few words with the doctor. The nurse pushed Lu Changcheng out. Lu Changcheng hadn’t woken up yet, but it looked like he had been resuscitated. Only then did Lu Han step forward, holding Lu Changcheng’s hand tightly, and followed all the way to the ward.

Zhao Huilin and Yan Feng were brought to the hospital, and Lu Changcheng just woke up.

Lu Changcheng struggled to get up. “Call them in quickly!”

Lu Han quickly supported him. “Dad, don’t get excited.” Then he turned his head and instructed the butler, “Bring them in quickly!”

The butler went out for a while and brought Zhao Huilin and Yan Feng in.

Yan Feng’s pants were soaked, emitting a disgusting stench. The butler closed the door and stood a little further away.

Yan Feng kept clutching Zhao Huilin’s clothes tightly and hiding behind her. Zhao Huilin’s heart had been beating fast since she was taken into the car. She didn’t know what had happened. She first protected Yan Feng tightly, then looked up apprehensively. She was so nervous that her vision blurred, unable to see Lu Changcheng and Lu Han clearly, but when her gaze fell on Lu Lin, her eyes suddenly straightened.

“You are—”

That big boss who looked at the house!

Zhao Huilin didn’t dare to continue, looking at Lu Lin in bewilderment.

Lu Changcheng usually got angry at a little smell, but now the room was full of the smell of urine, and he ignored it. His face, which had age spots but was well-maintained, twitched uncontrollably at this moment. He endured the pain and asked, “Speak! Who instructed you.”

Yan Feng trembled even more. Zhao Huilin quickly hugged him tightly and lowered her voice, “What are you talking about, I don’t understand.”

“Yan Shengbing is dead.” Lu Lin spoke.

Zhao Huilin immediately opened her mouth wide, tears bursting from her eyes, her voice instantly several times louder. “What did you say?!”

Lu Lin didn’t argue with her. “Yan Shengbing drove into someone and died on the spot.”

Zhao Huilin was frightened by this turn of events. Yan Shengbing drove into someone? She looked down at the two gold bracelets on her hand.

Lu Lin saw this action clearly and continued, “You know the person he hit, Lu Muchi.”

Zhao Huilin was scared silly this time. “I don’t know, my son doesn’t know either…”

Lu Lin didn’t give her a chance to breathe. “I have already called the police. The police will determine whether you knew about it and didn’t report it.”

“Sir! I really don’t know!” Before Zhao Huilin could digest the news of Yan Shengbing’s death, she fell into greater panic. She and Yan Feng would be implicated! She was about to cry. “Yan Shengbing hasn’t been home for a long time. Just today someone said they were his friend and wanted to take us to dinner. Don’t wrong good people, we dare not kill anyone!”

“Where did the bracelets come from?” Lu Lin asked.

Zhao Huilin hurriedly tried to pull off the gold bracelets and threw them far away. “Yan Shengbing bought the gold bracelets last week. I didn’t know! He was drunk, didn’t go crazy, brought me back two gold bracelets, and said he had five million and wasn’t afraid of anyone anymore. He…”

She hugged Yan Feng tightly and cried loudly. “He’s crazy, he dared to hit someone. He’s going to kill us mother and son…”

Lu Changcheng listened for a while, his whole body trembling with cold. Just for a mere five million! They harmed his grandson! His blood pressure was rising again, his eyes bloodshot. “Is it the Cheng family?”

Zhao Huilin shook her head. “I don’t know, I really don’t know…”

At this time, Lu Lin picked up the gold bracelet, turned it around and looked at it. “Shop name.”

Zhao Huilin was also trembling. She bit her lip and said a shop name.

This time without Lu Lin reminding him, Lu Changcheng immediately ordered Lu Han, “Go find out whose card he swiped!”

In less than half an hour, news came that the card belonged to a man named Zhang Hua, and Zhang Hua was Cheng Jian’s secretary.

Lu Changcheng hated so much his teeth hurt. He asked everyone to go out and contacted his old friend in the bureau in the ward.

This time, he wanted Cheng Jian to rot in jail!

After going out, no one let Zhao Huilin and her son leave. She could see that Lu Lin was in charge here. She braced herself, “Si-Sir, can we go?”

Before Lu Lin could speak, Lu Han got angry first. “Your husband murdered my son, and now he is paralyzed. You are the family of the murderer. No way you can leave! The police will be here soon.”

Zhao Huilin didn’t dare to refute, pulling Yan Feng to stand against the wall, not daring to speak.

Her mind was in chaos. The initial unacceptability was long gone. Hearing that Lu Muchi was paralyzed, she felt relieved instead. Yan Shengbing’s death ended everything. She had heard that many paralyzed people couldn’t stand the torture and committed suicide, but she knew Yan Shengbing too well. Yan Shengbing had no dignity. As long as he could live, he wanted to live on, only torturing her and Yan Feng for a lifetime.

…

The sky outside gradually brightened. Lu Lin returned to the car.

Yan Heqing was asleep, curled up in the back seat, covered with a thin blanket. Lu Lin got into the car gently, lowered his head, and kissed his eyes.

Yan Heqing’s eyelashes fluttered, and he opened his eyelids. His pupils gradually focused on Lu Lin’s face. He propped himself up on the cushion to get up, his voice hazy from just waking up. “How is your dad?”

“Awake.” Lu Lin put his arm around his back to help him up and repeated Zhao Huilin’s words concisely and efficiently.

Yan Heqing understood. Lu Lin went upstairs specifically to guide Zhao Huilin to bring out Cheng Jian in front of Lu Changcheng.

In the future, Lu Changcheng would make Cheng Jian pay back hundreds of times over.

He didn’t need to do anything anymore.

Yan Heqing looked down at Lu Lin’s hand. On the ring finger was the same wedding ring as on his hand. He held that hand, clasping it tightly. “I’m hungry.”

Lu Lin took Yan Heqing to eat beef noodles outside the hospital.

Full toppings, lots of meat. When they finished eating, Lu Han called again. “Ah Lin, come back quickly. Xiao Chi is awake, he…”

The background sound was a man’s painful wailing.

In the ward, Lu Muchi wanted to touch his legs, but he only had feeling above his waist. One hand was numb, and only one hand could barely move. Unable to touch his legs, his voice came entirely from his throat, terrifying and shrill. “Ahhhhh legs, my…”

He couldn’t speak a complete sentence.

Lu Changcheng’s heart ached so much he shed tears. He covered Lu Muchi’s eyes to stop him from looking. “It’s okay, don’t be afraid, Grandpa is here…”

“Legs…” Lu Muchi realized something. His head moved violently, and the taste of rust welled up in his throat. “Where are my legs…”

At this time, the door was pushed open.

Lu Changcheng looked up and saw Yan Heqing had also come. He was furious. “Get out! You are not allowed to come in!”

Lu Muchi suddenly quieted down. In the next instant, he struggled even more violently. “Kill me…” He cried and begged Lu Changcheng. “Grandpa, let me die…”

Lu Changcheng almost roared. “Lu Han! Close the door!”

Lu Han went over, glanced at Lu Lin, and closed the door.

Inside the door were increasingly painful wails. Yan Heqing turned to look at Lu Lin. Just as he was about to speak, Lu Lin suddenly stuffed two earphones into his ears.

Then he saw Lu Lin’s lips moving, saying: “Don’t listen.”

At the same time, the song played in the earphones.

[The winds blew up her bow dipped down

Oh Blow my bully boys blow Huh

Soon may the Wellerman come

To bring us sugar and tea and rum]

…

Wellerman.

The song he asked Lu Lin to listen to for the first time.

That time, he was hinting to Lu Lin that he was that injured whale, he wanted to live, he wanted to resist the sailors on the ship.

Now Lu Lin let him listen.

Wanting him, not to listen.