The Taming of the Ruffian Hero

Chapter 116 (She Was the Protective Cover)

Thinking in Depth and Planning Carefully, Zhao Yuan’s Father Tried to Protect His Only Son

“Who is she?” On the alert, Zheng Zihuan looked Chen Wanxin up and down.

“My classmate, Chen Wanxin, she comes here together with me to see my father. What is my father’s situation today?” Zhao Yuan said.

“Your father mentioned her...” Zheng Zihuan paused a little and said with a smile, “He will be fine. You see, now he is having a good rest.” Zheng Zihuan moved out of the way. He bent down to get the basin with some filth in it and brought it out. He looked so solemn that it seemed as if he was accomplishing his longed-for wish.

In the hospital bed, the mouth and nose of Zhao Mingjiang were under the breathing mask. He slept very well. He looked as if he had never suffered from any pain.

“You look pretty much like him. He is as handsome as you.” Bashfully, Chen Wanxin slightly twisted her head. While nibbling her lips with her shell-like teeth, Chen Wanxin took Zhao Yuan’s hand and stroked it with some pity.

“His weight has declined 20 kilograms. Otherwise, with a healthy and hearty look, he will be just like his old self in appearance,” Zhao Yuan said while smiling. He felt much more relieved with Zheng Zihuan here.

“Is the uncle who just left your relative? He looked so bookish and gentle that remind me of Wang Xiang.” Chen Wanxin remembered the man just now who she had never seen, and he gave Zhao Yuan’s father such meticulous care.

Chen Wanxin picked up those pills that she didn’t know on the table. Each kind of pills was placed in separated pillboxes. The label on each pillbox pasted in order and the writing on them also looked legible. The man she met just now had written the names and the dosage of those pills on those boxes, and he had also indicated whether the pills should be taken before or after meals. Perhaps, only a careful and thoughtful wife was willing to do all the things he had done for her husband.

“No, he is a friend of my father. He said that they were classmates in their junior school and high school,” Zhao Yuan said truthfully.

Chen Wanxin pursed her lips, but she was going to ask, “Has he married? Does he have any child?” Suddenly, she felt it was very inappropriate to ask such questions, which sounded like a kind of disrespect. Thus, she just nodded and said, “If it were your mother who was here to take care of him, your father would be much happier.”

Unexpectedly, a very crisp sound came from outside the door. It seemed that someone dropped something on the ground. Zhao Yuan rushed to check. He opened the door and saw Zheng Zihuan was picking up the basin in a flurry. Zheng Zihuan just clearly heard that something fell hard on the cold cement floor and was shattered to pieces.

“Uncle Zheng, are you okay? Do you need a break?” Zhao Yuan said politely.

“I’m fine. I just thought that a little kid like you have also grown up and that you even have a girlfriend now.” Zheng Zihuan patted Zhao Yuan’s shoulder and put down the basin quietly. He quickly took away the pillbox from Chen Wanxin’s hand, and said, “Those pills are expensive, and his father should take them on schedule and at the proper dose. Wanxi, you should take care not to drop the pills.”

Chen Wanxin was a little puzzled. The man before her called out her name, which surprised her. But at the same time, she felt delighted because it suggested that Zhao Yuan had already talked about her with the people closest to him. However, what surprised her was that he used a little strength to take the pillbox away from her, but obviously, it was the first time she met him.

“A Yuan, you can go for a walk around with your little girlfriend first. Lately, I always feel someone is staring at me when I go downstairs.” Zheng Zihuan said grumpily.

Zhao Yuan immediately took his suggestion and walked out of the ward with Chen Wanxin in a hurry.

“Look, the person in the ward is your father... He... Why didn’t he allow you to stay in the ward?” asked Chen Wanxin.

Zhao Yuan said, “Uncle Zheng, he is always like this. He doesn’t allow anyone to disturb my father. And the doctor has told us that Dad needs more rest and he must avoid too many mood swings.”

“But I still think he seems to be a little sensitive, and he said that someone is staring at him...”

“He says that all the time. I have paid attention to that, but I haven’t found anything wrong. After all, the hospital is so big, and we are on the 29th floor...” Although Zhao Yuan said something like that, he still wandered around the hospital with Chen Wanxin for a long time. Zhao Yuan knew it very clear that his father entered the hospital in the name of the medical parole, so his father was unprotected now. If someone that had some connection with the condemned prisoner who had tried to assassinate his father came here, Zhao Yuan could not guarantee his father’s safety. Therefore, he spent a lot of money to transfer his father to the ward next to the room where the nurses stayed. In here, people came and went, and most of them were nurses. Finally, Zhao Yuan felt a little relieved.

In the ICU.

Zhao Mingjiang dumped all the pills that Chen Wanxin had touched into the trash can and loaded the boxes with new pills. Then, he gently touched the man’s arm and said, “Zhao, write a few words.”

Zhao Mingjiang nodded with difficulty.

Zheng Zihuan carefully checked and counted the medicine. Resting his chin in his hands, he gazed at Zhao Mingjiang and said, “Brother Zhao, cannot we tell A Yuan the truth?”

Zhao Mingjiang shook his head slightly and reached out his hands to write on the drawing board in the hands of Zheng Zihuan, one letter at a time. “No.”

“If Chen Wanxin is the same with her father. Then, A Yuan...” Zheng Zihuan looked extremely embarrassed.

“No, she isn’t.” Zhao Mingjiang seemed to be very determined. Pointing to the pills in the trash can, he shook his head helplessly.

“I cannot trust anyone from the Chen family!” With this, Zheng Zihuan sighed again. “When will you tell him?”

Zheng Zihuan knew that he did not want him to intervene in, so he nodded somewhat reluctantly.

Just like Zhao Mingjiang, Zheng Zihuan felt that the thing happened in that year had inscribed in his heart. Although he tried in many ways to save him and asked help from many people, he could only watch his childhood friend be thrown into prison.

However, both of them were very clear that the person who was in charge of the city construction in that year was Chen Tianjiao. At that time, Chen Tianjiao had a daughter named Chen Siya. The first time Zhao Mingjiang saw Chen Wanxin, he did not pay attention to this little girl surnamed Chen who considered herself as Zhao Yuan’s girlfriend.

Until the time Zheng Zihuan came to take care of Zhao Mingjiang in person, he finally noticed that there was such a girl named Chen Siya when Zhao Mingjiang gestured him the things about Zhao Yuan. However, when Zheng Zihuan was working in the bank, he saw many times that Deng Yifei, Chen Tianjiao’s wife, came to the bank to remit money. He especially noticed the beneficiary’s name, which was: Chen Wanxin.

Zheng Zihuan lightly mentioned Chen Wanxin to some reliable higher-ranking officials. It was then that he learned that Chen Wanxin was precisely the daughter of Chen Tianjiao. Presumably, to protect his only daughter, Chen Tianjiao changed her name from Chen Siya to Chen Wanxin when she started high school.

Zheng Zihuan wanted to make the thing about Chen Wanxin clear to Zhao Yuan at this moment. But Zhao Mingjiang had his plan, which sounded a little amusing.

“With Chen Wanxin around, maybe... the Chen family won’t hurt A Yuan.” It was precisely the idea of Zhao Mingjiang when he was awake. Zheng Zihuan had no choice but to agree with him. Zhao Mingjiang came across the person who raped his wife in that year who provoked him for no reason and even insulted his wife, so Zhao Mingjiang killed him on the spot. After that, he was arrested for murder, and he was put in prison without any serious interrogation. When he was in prison, someone nearly killed him. The whole series of events looked like a huge net of conspiracies. Though they didn’t have any evidence that Chen Tianjiao was behind all those events, both of them was almost sure that Chen Tianjiao was closely related to those events.

According to the things Chen Wanxin had done in previous, she should have intense feelings for Zhao Yuan. Perhaps, God blessed his only son, so God gave his son a protective umbrella, Chen Wanxin.

How could Zhao Mingjiang not feel happy and relieved about that?

The time Lin Wenxi arrived at the hospital was late at night. Hong Xuan had told him the address of the ward of Zhao Yuan’s father, and Lin Wenxi kept it firmly in his mind.

Lin Wenxi went all the way here. He barely ate anything, so he felt flustered in his heart at this moment because he was too hungry. Holding the wall, Lin Wenxi searched the ward number by the light. Before he could make it to Ward No. 8, he spotted Zhao Yuan and Chen Wanxin sat side by side on the bench.

Chen Wanxin nestled up against Zhao Yuan like a bird. In her heart, she felt endless joy. Chen Wanxin thought that it seemed that Zhao Yuan’s father had already accepted her. Now she could skillfully sort the pills into those boxes. And as a girl, Chen Wanxin could be careful enough to notice where Zhao Yuan’s father felt uncomfortable, and how to help Zhao Yuan’s father massage his body with the most suitable strength.

Sometimes, she thought that she had never done these things to her parents, but she was willing to do everything for Zhao Yuan. It seemed that she had become an indispensable part of this broken family. Although the friend of Zhao Yuan’s father, Zheng Zihuan, always watched out for her for no reason, he also became more or less more friendly to her recently. Chen Wanxin felt that something inside her body was melting. In the endless joy, the world looked like extremely wonderful to her, and in her eyes, everything in the world turned into happy symbols.

As for Zhao Yuan, he didn’t reject her when she carefully attempted to get closer to him. Chen Wanxin found that she cherished the period of time a lot. Even if she knew that Zhao Yuan was always suspicious of her for making use of Lin Wenxi, she believed that it was only his doubt and it could be resolved slowly. She firmly believed that.

Lin Wenxi wanted to leave. He tried to run away as crazily fast as he could. But it was unknown that whether he was hungry or desperate, the fruits he carried in his hand dropped to the ground all in a sudden. Lin Wenxi remembered that the kiss Chen Wanxin gave to Zhao Yuan outside the boxing field. Whether it was that she had a thing for him, but he had nothing for her, or that the love between them was already so deep that they kissed naturally? Lin Wenxi was at a loss.

Zhao Yuan and Chen Wanxin looked toward him together. What they saw was a boy with a ghost-pale face who leaned against the wall, feebly. In a daze, he looked at them blankly.

Zhao Yuan got up, and so did Chen Wanxin. Zhao Yuan went forward, and so did Chen Wanxin. At the sight of Lin Wenxi, somehow, she would suddenly find herself in a dark forest, and each breath of air in the dark forest could be deadly to her. Chen Wanxin felt her whole body and heart were shaking. Disappointedly, she found out that although she had accompanied Zhao Yuan for such a long time, Chen Wanxin still felt inferior to the extreme when she met Lin Wenxi.

A glimmer of surprise flickered in Lin Wenxi’s eyes at the time when he spotted Zhao Yuan, but gradually, his surprise turned into helplessness.

Lin Wenxi thought for a second. Then he gently smiled and said, “I just come to see how Uncle Zhao is now.”

“How do you know this place?” Chen Wanxin asked first.

“What happened to Uncle Zhao?” Lin Wenxi only looked at Zhao Yuan.

“He is okay,” answered Zhao Yuan. After that, he felt unspeakably heavy. Zhao Yuan thought that he had much to say to Lin Wenxi, but the more he wanted to tell him, the more difficult for him to open his mouth, or it should be said that Zhao Yuan didn’t know where to begin.

“Oh, then I, I will leave.” Lin Wenxi shrugged breezily and went to the elevator. When the elevator door opened, the three of them cried out in surprise.