Chapter 377
Chapter 377
Seventh Master knew nothing about Li Fuguang, either.
He had no explanation for why Li Fuguang had emerged from my body.
There had never been another case of Two Souls in One Life, so no detailed records existed.
I was the first and only example.
I suspected The Organization wanted to use me as a research subject.
Whatever the truth, I would have to be careful from now on. If they could abduct me once, they could find a way to do it again.
Lv Zhengxian should have been the greatest threat to me.
Not anymore. My enemy had gone from one man to an entire group.
I spent the following days recovering in the hospital.
Fortunately, there was nothing seriously wrong with the rest of my body. Only my leg had been badly injured.
Qingyuan had at least spared the bone. Otherwise, I would have spent the next six months in a wheelchair.
The doctor said I should be able to walk again in about a month at most.
Several days later, Song Xiaotian was released from detention.
The first thing he did was visit me at the hospital with Pan Xiaorou.
When he entered, he probably felt embarrassed. He deliberately clasped his hands behind his back, raised his head and chest, and tossed his hair.
“I have to criticize you, Chen Mo.”
“It was bad enough that Lin Yin fooled you last time. This time, you still didn’t learn your lesson and let a female college student trick you.”
“How humiliating. Honestly, being your brother is just… sigh!”
Pan Xiaorou glared at him. “He’s already injured this badly, and you’re still making sarcastic remarks.”
Song Xiaotian smiled ingratiatingly. “You’re right, dear. I’ll comfort him instead.”
“Chen Mo, I bought this spicy hot pot especially for you. Eat it while it’s hot.”
I stared thoughtfully at the spicy hot pot in his hand.
My wound had not even healed, and he wanted me to eat that.
“Brother, just eat it in front of me. No need to be polite.”
Song Xiaotian did not hesitate. He really started eating it right in front of me.
They had not come only to visit. Pan Xiaorou had already visited twice. This time, she came to transfer the three hundred thousand yuan Boss Xu owed me.
There was a story behind that.
Boss Xu should have transferred the money directly to me. The fact that he sent it to Pan Xiaorou meant he did not want to pay the three hundred thousand at all.
He had hired me to solve his problem, but I had merely uncovered the truth without providing a practical solution.
However, Pan Xiaorou had introduced me. Out of respect for her, he reluctantly paid the full amount, transferring it directly to her.
I had certainly suffered enough to earn it. I had nearly traded my life for that money.
My share was only one hundred thousand to begin with. After surgery, medication, and every other hospital expense, I would be lucky to have a few tens of thousands left when the final bill arrived. If I did, this would count as a hospital with a conscience.
Pan Xiaorou did not stay long. As the president of a corporate group, she had endless work to handle.
The moment she left, I divided the three hundred thousand. I gave one hundred thousand to Song Xiaotian and transferred another hundred thousand to Anning.
After receiving the money, Anning sent me a grinning meme.
When I looked at Song Xiaotian, the hand holding his spicy hot pot was trembling. His eyes remained fixed on the balance displayed on his phone.
“Brother, isn’t this a little excessive? Your wife is loaded.”
“What kind of talk is that?” Song Xiaotian objected strongly. “Her money belongs to her. Apart from taking advantage of her for ordinary household expenses, all her other assets are her own. I’m not some kept man. Even if she had ten billion, it would have nothing to do with me. I can’t let her family look down on me.”
I laughed. “Your own family isn’t poor, either. You live in a courtyard house. Is this really necessary?”
That only seemed to make him angrier. “Don’t bring that up. Ever since I graduated from the police academy, they haven’t given me a cent. When I first interned at the police station, I earned only two or three thousand a month. I could barely afford food and had to borrow money.”
“Isn’t that outrageous? I seriously suspect I’m not my father’s biological son!”
“I seriously suspect he’s planning to have a second child!”
I did not know whether to laugh or cry, so I stopped the conversation before he said something truly unfilial.
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A week later, I left the hospital.
I simply could not stand lying there any longer. Hospitals carried far too much yin energy. Several nights, unable to sleep, I wandered downstairs on crutches and saw unclean things.
Although I had been discharged, I still needed crutches until the stitches came out.
The next day, I had Song Xiaotian drive me to see Liang Yi.
I had to meet her again, though I wasn’t going to settle the score. If I dared touch her, Song Xiaotian and I would both end up in detention again.
We parked nearby rather than at the school gates. Liang Yi would certainly run if she saw us.
We did not wait long before spotting her.
She walked toward us from the direction of the school, holding several books. She noticed us from a distance.
Guilt made her freeze. She immediately tried to turn back.
“Don’t run. I’m not here to settle the score!”
Leaning on my crutches, I walked toward her.
When she saw my condition, she did not dare raise her head and remained ready to flee at any moment.
“You’re surprised I’m still alive, aren’t you?”
I asked, “I remember you saying that after you disappeared, I was the only person who wanted to find you, and that moved you deeply. Yet you helped those people harm me. I want to know what you were thinking when you did it.”
She said nothing. Tears simply flowed in silence.
“Did you set the fire at your biological parents’ home?”
She still remained silent, but the hand holding her books trembled.
She really had started the fire.
If she hadn’t, she would have denied it immediately.
But I did not condemn her.
I took out a small gift box and held it toward her.
She stared at me for a long time, confusion filling her face.
“This is for you. Open it.”
After hesitating for two seconds, she accepted it and opened the box.
Inside was a fountain pen.
“This pen wasn’t cheap. It cost me more than five hundred. Perhaps that means nothing to you now.”
I spoke earnestly. “But I want to remind you that you’re a student. What is the essence of education? It teaches us reason, honor, shame, right, and wrong. It gives us the ability to think independently.”
“I can’t expose what you’ve done, and I can’t obtain justice for the real An Yutong. I only hope that after sacrificing her, if you truly rise to a high position and gain power someday, you’ll treat people like your former self with kindness.”
“People make mistakes, and mistakes can be corrected. Heaven will decide your retribution. But if you keep repeating your mistakes, you’ll leave yourself no way out, and one day you’ll suffer a terrible fall.”
“I hope you become a good person. May your future be bright.”
With that, I turned and walked away on my crutches without looking back.