Yuan Zhibang was becoming impatient as Hao Jian kept asking questions, making him uncomfortable.
"If I'm not mistaken, you must have been beaten up! Not just your face, but your body too, right? And the injuries are not minor!" Hao Jian looked at Yuan Zhibang with a suggestive expression, having already deduced everything.
"How… how did you know?"
Yuan Zhibang was slightly stunned, the words slipping out before he regretted them—he had just admitted to being beaten up.
"Because you lean slightly forward when you walk, probably due to a painful wound on your chest, right? Also, your leg has been trembling, clearly from pain! Besides, there's a malicious look on your face, and your mood seems rather irritable. This must mean you are suffering from severe pain, causing your emotions to be unstable and easily angered!"
As Hao Jian spoke, Yuan Zhibang's face changed from surprise to shock, and finally to deep fear!
Before coming to the hospital, he had carefully concealed his injuries; even his mother and sister hadn't noticed them, but Hao Jian had seen right through him!
His insight was almost devilish!
"Tell me, who did this to you?" Hao Jian offered Yuan Zhibang a cigarette, then lit one for himself and leaned against the wall, slowly smoking.
"I don't want to talk about it," Yuan Zhibang refused to say, feeling it was embarrassing as it bruised his pride.
"Then I'll tell Yuan Shanshan." Hao Jian stepped forward as if to leave.
"No, I'll talk. It was because they made fun of me for not having a leg, so I retorted and they beat me up!" Yuan Zhibang could only say it with a grim look.
Upon hearing this, Hao Jian's eyes narrowed into slits. Bullying a disabled person, those brats were truly excessive.
"I told you everything, can I go now?" Yuan Zhibang asked impatiently.
Speaking of such an embarrassing event, he too felt uncomfortable.
Only then did Hao Jian shrug his shoulders, allowing Yuan Zhibang to leave, but at the moment, he was thoughtfully stroking his chin, his eyes gleaming with wonder.
"Where's your brother-in-law?" Back in the ward, the old lady asked irritably, confused by Yuan Zhibang's behavior that day.
"I don't know." Yuan Zhibang replied impatiently, what brother-in-law, he was simply a rascal!
"Ah… you this child…"
The old lady sighed and shook her head, utterly perplexed by the usually well-behaved Yuan Zhibang's sudden explosive behavior as if he had explosive in his system.
"Why do you smell of smoke?" Suddenly, Yuan Shanshan caught a whiff of the smell and gazed sharply at Yuan Zhibang:
"Have you been smoking?"
Yuan Zhibang's heart skipped a beat, doomed—he had forgotten to dissipate the smoke smell before returning because he'd been rattled by the jerk.
"It's the smell of cigarettes on me."
Just then, Hao Jian walked in, claiming that the smell came from him.
Hearing this, Yuan Shanshan and the others nodded and seemed relieved.
Yuan Zhibang was astonished as he stared at Hao Jian, not expecting him to cover for him.
Hao Jian winked at Yuan Zhibang, signaling that he would keep his secret, while Yuan Zhibang just rolled his eyes and ignored him.
Hao Jian sat down and began chatting with the old lady, his 'Friend of Women' nature fully coming into play, making her laugh from time to time. Before they knew it, an hour had passed.
While everyone was enjoying the lively chat, the door was cracked open and a young man peeked inside!
When the young man saw Yuan Zhibang, he suddenly grinned, his expression unnervingly sinister, then he retreated and closed the door!
This left Hao Jian and the others quite puzzled, but it made Yuan Zhibang extremely restless.
Yuan Zhibang jumped to his feet, his face ashen as he looked toward the door.
"What? Do you know him?" Hao Jian, noticing Yuan Zhibang's abnormal reaction, furrowed his brows.
"Call the police! Quick!" Yuan Zhibang yelled out, his demeanor becoming tense.
"Zhibang, what's wrong, just tell us!" Seeing Yuan Zhibang , the old lady also began to feel uneasy.
"Just call the police, I don't have time to explain," Yuan Zhibang said anxiously, trying to close the door, but at that moment, the door was kicked open from outside.
Immediately after, huffing and puffing, several fierce-looking burly men barged in!
These burly men were tall and robust, with strong, powerful builds and rough, fierce faces!
Leading them was a dark-skinned young man with his head wrapped in a bandage, about the same age as Yuan Zhibang!
Seeing this person, Yuan Zhibang instinctively backed away several steps, his face showing panic.
"Yuan Zhibang, you really made it a hell of a job for me to find you," the dark-skinned young man sneered coldly, his expression turning cruel.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" Yuan Shanshan also sensed malevolence in their arrival and stood in front of Yuan Zhibang, shouting at the dark-skinned young man.
The dark-skinned young man's eyes lit up immediately, having never seen such a beautiful woman before.
Then he chuckled, "Beauty, my name is Du Haitao. What's your name? What's your relationship with this trash?"
Upon hearing this, the old lady and Yuan Shanshan both frowned, their faces showing displeasure.
"I am Yuan Zhibang's sister. What do you want?" Yuan Shanshan asked impatiently, sensing that Du Haitao was up to no good.
"Yuan Zhibang's sister?"
Du Haitao was secretly astonished. He looked at Yuan Zhibang, then at Yuan Shanshan, indeed noticing some resemblance in their facial features.
"Didn't expect Yuan Zhibang to have such a beautiful sister," Du Haitao sneered strangely, obviously scheming something.
"Du Haitao, what... what are you here for?"
Seeing Du Haitao leering at his sister, Yuan Zhibang immediately knew what he was plotting, and his expression turned sour as he shouted.
"What am I here for? Hehe... Yuan Zhibang, don't you know?" Du Haitao's face was full of sarcasm, then he pointed at his own head:
"You bashed my head , and now you're asking me what I'm here for? I got hurt, but it's as though you're the one with amnesia?"
"What? Zhibang, is what he's saying true?"
The old lady looked at Yuan Zhibang angrily; she worked hard for him to study, and yet Yuan Zhibang was causing trouble at school?
"They started it first! They called me poor, a cripple! They wanted me to crawl through their legs, so I hit him in anger. The teacher said it wasn't my fault. He deliberately tried to stir up trouble!"
Yuan Zhibang loudly defended himself, as Du Haitao was clearly distorting the facts.
"Is that so?" Yuan Shanshan watched Du Haitao coldly, clearly unable to tolerate such treatment of Yuan Zhibang.
"So what? I didn't say anything wrong, isn't he a cripple?"
Du Haitao scoffed disdainfully, then said impatiently, "Alright, Yuan Zhibang, quit your yapping. You've cracked my head; what are you going to do about it?"
"I'll compensate you for the medical expenses," Yuan Shanshan stated sternly.
"Sis, why should you pay their medical bills? They were at fault, and I got hit too."
Yuan Zhibang was displeased upon hearing this, why should he, when he did nothing wrong.
Hao Jian also slightly raised his eyebrows, but he said nothing in the end, knowing that Yuan Shanshan must be worried.
Now that Du Haitao had brought these burly men, if they didn't pay up, today might just turn into an even more unfortunate day.
"Shut up," Yuan Shanshan scolded, then asked Du Haitao with a grim expression:
"Money? I'm not short of money."
Du Haitao shook his head disdainfully; his father was a Mafia boss involved in shady dealings. Would he be short of money?
"Then what do you want?" Yuan Shanshan felt that Du Haitao was becoming increasingly troublesome.
"You," Du Haitao chuckled lewdly, setting his sights on Yuan Shanshan.
"As long as you, the older sister, sleep with me for one night, I'll let bygones be bygones. I'll even look out for him at school from now on! Hehe... How about that?"