Chapter 187

Chapter 187: The Argument Gu Zechuan saw the news report about the accident and came across videos taken by bystanders online. When he saw the footage of Chu Tang fighting with someone, Gu Zechuan's heart clenched. Before he could even recover from that shock, he saw Chu Tang being carried onto a stretcher into an ambulance. Gu Zechuan's heart suddenly tightened. He used his assistant's phone to call Chu Tang several times, but no one answered. Gu Zechuan was frantic with worry. He dropped everything he was doing and rushed to the hospital without a moment's pause. He didn't know which hospital Ruan Chutang had been taken to for emergency treatment. There were three hospitals close to the scene of the incident. He ran to each one, asking around everywhere, and finally, outside the emergency room of the last hospital, he saw some familiar faces. Gu Zechuan lost his composure. He hurried over and grabbed Jiang Shixu's hand. "Jiang Shixu, how is Tangtang?!" As he grabbed it, Gu Zechuan felt something sticky on his hand. He looked down and saw his hand covered in blood. Gu Zechuan was shocked. Jiang Shixu's eyes swept over him coldly. The man pulled his hand away and said coldly, "She's still in surgery." "What the hell happened? I saw eyewitnesses online saying the victim was shot. How did the attacker get a gun?" Just as Gu Zechuan finished speaking, a thought suddenly struck him, and he exclaimed in shock, "Was it Fu Yuanzhou? Did Fu Yuanzhou come to seek revenge?" Jiang Shixu's eyes carried a fierce ruthlessness. Extremely impatient, he snapped in a low, cold voice, "Shut up. You're too loud." Gu Zechuan grew angry as well. He said sternly, "Jiang Shixu, if you can't protect Tangtang, then why do you keep provoking her again and again? If it weren't for you, she wouldn't have been put in danger time and time again!" Gu Zechuan's voice was loud. A passing nurse called out in dissatisfaction, "This is a hospital! Keep it down!" Gu Zechuan lowered his voice, his eyes fixed on Jiang Shixu with burning hatred. "Jiang Shixu, haven't you hurt Tangtang enough? Why do you still have to provoke her? Is the young master of the Jiang family really this incompetent? You can't even protect the woman you love! What use are you? You used to say I wasn't good enough for Tangtang, that I had no right to love her. Well, what about you? What right do you have?" Jiang Shixu's jaw was tight. Listening to Gu Zechuan's accusations and insults, his hands clenched into fists, but he said nothing more. That's right. He couldn't even protect the woman he loved. What right did he have to say he loved her? His Tangtang had been hurt time and time again. His love was nothing but a burden. Jiang Shixu's heart ached with a dense, piercing pain. The suffocating pressure made it hard for him to breathe. "That's enough, Gu Zechuan. Now is not the time for this." Chen Yuanyuan yanked Gu Zechuan away. "Who do you think you are, pointing fingers at others? Tangtang suffered plenty of harm when she was with you too! Neither you nor Jiang Shixu has the right to talk." Gu Zechuan lowered his head and fell silent. The corridor fell into silence once more. As the sky grew darker, everyone's hearts grew heavier. When the Jiang couple heard that Chu Tang had been injured and was in emergency treatment, they rushed over as well. Lin Yueying genuinely liked Chu Tang as her daughter-in-law. Seeing Chu Tang so badly injured with her life hanging in the balance, Lin Yueying's heart was heavy with grief. When she saw the blood on Jiang Shixu's hands, Lin Yueying felt even worse. "Shixu, you're hurt too. Go get that taken care of right away." Lin Yueying's gaze moved downward, and when she saw the mess of blood dripping across the floor, she was instantly terrified. "Shixu, the wound on your hand is serious! Go get it treated!" Lin Yueying's face turned pale. Jiang Shixu had been at the hospital for over an hour now. His wound was bleeding, but he paid it no mind. "It's just a small wound. It's nothing." Jiang Shixu said in a hoarse voice. "How can it be nothing when you've lost this much blood?" Lin Yueying hurried toward the end of the corridor. "Nurse! Nurse!" In a moment, a nurse followed Lin Yueying back. Lin Yueying said to the nurse, "Please take him to get his wound treated." Jiang Shixu stood rooted to the spot, his vacant eyes fixed on the words "SURGERY IN PROGRESS" above the emergency room door. He didn't move. Lin Yueying wiped away her tears and gave Jiang Shixu a push. "Go get it bandaged. You don't want Tangtang to wake up and see you like this, do you?" Those words seemed to get through to Jiang Shixu. He nodded slightly, moved his feet, and followed the nurse away. Chen Yuanyuan watched Jiang Shixu's retreating figure and let out a long sigh. What a pair of star-crossed lovers. After Jiang Shixu left, Lin Yueying grabbed Jiang Yi forcefully and pulled him along. "Come with me!" Lin Yueying's attitude was firm as she dragged Jiang Yi outside the hospital. Her lips were pressed tightly together, and her eyes blazed with fury as if they were about to spit fire. Along the way, many medical staff and nurses cast curious glances at them. "What are you doing? Let go of me!" Once they were outside the hospital, Jiang Yi shook off Lin Yueying's hand. A sharp crack rang out. Lin Yueying slapped Jiang Yi hard across the face. "Have you lost your mind?!" Jiang Yi roared. Lin Yueying was furious. "Am I the one losing my mind? If it weren't for you messing around back then, getting that woman pregnant, and then being too soft-hearted to let that bastard be born, how would any of this mess exist now? Do you have any idea that Fu Yuanzhou almost killed Shi Xu today?" Jiang Yi's face darkened. "I had no idea back then that Fu Yuanzhou would turn out like this when he grew up! Blaming me now won't change anything!" "Jiang Yi!" Lin Yueying pointed at Jiang Yi's nose and cursed, "You're the root cause of all this! Everything started because of you, yet you can still stand here acting like nothing's wrong, completely at ease?" Jiang Yi's eyes were bloodshot as he shot back, "Fu Nian lied to me back then, saying she'd had a miscarriage, and secretly went abroad to have the child without telling me. What was I supposed to do? I only found out afterward that she hadn't aborted it! By the time I knew, Fu Yuanzhou was already born. Even a tiger won't eat its own cub—were you expecting me to kill my own son with my own hands?" Lin Yueying was so angry that tears kept streaming down her face. "So you just stood by and watched your illegitimate son come after Shi Xu? Isn't Shi Xu your own flesh and blood? This situation is entirely your doing!" "Heh." Jiang Yi let out a cold laugh. "My doing? Back then, I begged you all to bring Fu Yuanzhou back to the Jiang family and restore his status. But not a single one of you would agree—you threatened to kill yourself, and Dad even threatened to sever father-son ties. If Fu Yuanzhou had grown up in the Jiang family, how could he have gotten involved with the underworld in Country A? And how could he have harbored such resentment to take revenge on Shi Xu?" "Fine, just fine!" Lin Yueying laughed bitterly. "You heartless, ungrateful bastard! So in the end, it's all our fault, is it? I, Lin Yue, really misjudged you—marrying a piece of trash like you! Jiang Yi, I want a divorce!" "Have you lost your mind?" Jiang Yi's face darkened. "Fu Yuanzhou has already been arrested, and Shi Xu is perfectly fine. Why are you talking about divorce at a time like this?" "Because deep down, you're a cold and heartless person." Lin Yueying's emotions no longer seemed as agitated as before. She softened her voice and said quietly, "You're the root cause, yet you've washed your hands clean of everything. Because of your mistakes back then, Shi Xu nearly lost his life, and the Ruan family nearly fell apart—yet here you are, blaming me for threatening to kill myself? Blaming Mom and Dad for not letting Fu Yuanzhou reclaim his family name? Jiang Yi, do you even have a conscience?" Jiang Yi's face was grim and dark, and he said nothing in response. Lin Yueying looked at Jiang Yi, her eyes icy cold. She said softly, "Jiang Yi, the person Fu Yuanzhou should have taken revenge on the most... is you." With that, Lin Yueying turned and walked away coldly. "I..." Jiang Yi tried to say something, but suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. His vision went black, and he collapsed.