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It was already the morning of the following day when Ning Shuqian woke up. Her wound didn’t hurt so much like the previous night anymore. Probably because the painkillers had worn off, she still felt that the wound was unbearably painful.
“Aunt Ning, you’re awake!” Xia Ruya’s pale face blushed slightly with wholesome joy.
Ning Shuqian looked pale and weak. Due to the blood loss, her real age showed up evidently. She looked at the Xia Ruya beside her and asked, “Silly child, why are you here?”
Xia Ruya bit her lips and said, “Uncle Wen called me in the morning and asked me to come over to accompany you. Only then did I know that something happened to you!”
“Where’s your Uncle Wen?” Ning Shuqian saw that her huge almond eyes were slightly puffy with faint traces of tears on her pale face, which looked worried and felt very touched.
Xia Ruya smiled and said, “Uncle Wen was by your side for the whole of last night and only went to the office this morning.”
Recalling how Wen Haowen had set his work aside yesterday, rushed to the hospital to accompany her, spoke to her gently, showered her with love and concern, Ning Shuqian felt a gush of joy in her heart.
“Aunt Ning, the doctor said that you can’t eat anything for the time being. Drink some water first.” Xia Ruya adjusted the hospital bed slightly, allowing Ning Shuqian to lean slightly on it, placed a cup of warm water by her lips, and fed her.
Once the warm water touched her lips, Ning Shuqian felt thirsty and couldn’t help but finish the entire cup of water.
After that, Xia Ruya gently rubbed a cotton bud dipped in olive oil on Ning Shuqian’s lips.
Ning Shuqian only felt her dry, chapped lips moisten up comfortably as she looked at Xia Ruya with an even softer gaze.
Perhaps due to drinking too quickly, Ning Shuqian felt a prickling pain in her abdomen and asked anxiously, “How’s my wound?”
Xia Ruya helped her to straighten her blanket and gently brushed the hair stuck on her face back. “Don’t worry, the doctor said that as your wound is in the abdomen area, it’ll affect your daily life slightly. However, it’s okay—after a few days of observation in the hospital and taking care of it for a while after that, it will heal!”
Ning Shuqian couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief. Subconsciously, she recalled how Shen Mengting dashed towards her as if she had lost her mind, the “psst” sound of the scissors piercing into her flesh still reverberated clearly by her ears, and the feeling of her body gradually turning cold as warm blood flowed out of it made her extremely frightened.
Raising her head, she saw Shen Mengting—that pair of deep, black eyes glowing with hysterical hatred like the boundless black hole was enough to swallow her.
She still remembered the expression on Shen Mengting then—unearthly like a ghost, cruel like a demon, scary like a man-eating beast. Till now, thinking of it still made her heart flutter with fear.
At that moment, she almost thought that she was going to die.
“Where’s Shen Mengting that little b*tch?” Ning Shuqian’s eyeballs suddenly popped out like those of a dead fish, the expression on her face twisted and vicious like she was about to swallow a person, and her voice, forced from the depths of her throat, sounded hoarse and awful like a snapped zither.
Xia Ruya was caught off guard and frightened by Ning Shuqian’s scary expression and ghastly voice. A sense of fear arose in her heart uncontrollably, but she tried to stay calm and said, “The doctor confirmed that Shen Mengting has a very serious delusional disorder—a mentally ill person doesn’t need to bear any legal responsibilities for harming others. Moreover, Shen Mengting’s mother is already dead. Without any guardians, no further punishment could be pursued. Currently, she has been sent to the mental hospital.”
“Then I suffered an injury for nothing?” Ning Shuqian widened her eyes, not expecting that Shen Mengting that b*tch actually wasn’t held responsible for injuring her because she was mentally ill.
Xia Ruya said helplessly, “That can’t be helped, either!”
Ning Shuqian’s expression turned twisted with hatred and resentment. “I can’t just let that little b*tch off like this!”
Seeing Ning Shuqian getting worked up, Xia Ruya hurriedly held her hand and consoled her. “Aunt Ning, the doctor said that you’ve got to heal your injury well and shouldn’t get too worked up.”
Ning Shuqian took a deep breath and only then calmed the resentment and anger in her heart. Thinking of the way Shen Mengting stabbed the scissors into her abdomen, she felt an inexplicable fear in her heart. She definitely couldn’t let Shen Mengting off—that b*tch hated her so much, to keep her alive would definitely pose a threat to her life.
Xia Ruya said gently, “Aunt Ning, Shen Mengting will probably have to spend the rest of her life in the mental hospital. To her, this is also a form of punishment worse than death.”
Feeling slightly accounted for, Ning Shuqian’s emotions settled down as well.
Previously, she had misled Haowen, pushing the blame of her injury to Wen Xinya. Thinking of Wen Xinya now, her suspiciousness acted up—could everything be Wen Xinya’s doing?
Thinking of which, she felt that it was possible. Her hands tightened bit by bit uncontrollably as her hatred towards Wen Xinya deepened gradually.
Seeing that Ning Shuqian’s face glowed with ravenous hatred, Xia Ruya was so frightened that her heart pounded madly and only managed to calm down after a while. “Aunt Ning, what’s happening to you?”
Ning Shuqian suddenly released her tightly held hands and relaxed her stiff body. “No… nothing, just thought of some things. Oh yes, are your end of semester examination results out yet? How did you do?”
Xia Ruya nodded and said, “Yup, they’re out. I didn’t do as well as Xinya—she was fifth in the level, and I was only eighth.”
In school, Wen Xinya was more outstanding than her in every way, trumping her everywhere, and everyone compared her to Wen Xinya, which made it unbearable for her. Thus, for this examination, she had revised hard. Thinking that after all, as Wen Xinya had not been through formal secondary school education, she had rather weak foundational knowledge, and given that the high school’s syllabus had high demands on foundational knowledge, Wen Xinya wouldn’t do better than her no matter how intelligent she was. Thus, when the results came out, she totally couldn’t believe it.
Xia Ruya recalled that previously, she had wanted to let the Xia Family take advantage of the Xiao Corporation acquiring the Ai Shang Group but was actually rejected by the Wen Family. She had thought that without the Xia Family’s assistance, the Wen Corporation would suffer a great loss this time. Unexpectedly, the Xiao Corporation failed to acquire the Ai Shang Group, the Jiang family was removed from the four major families, the Ai Shang Group actually became the subsidiary of the Wen Corporation, and the Wen Family eventually had the last laugh.
She didn’t believe that Wen Xinya wasn’t involved in this. Thus, she sent someone to investigate this, only to realize that Wen Xinya had started to collect the Ai Shang Group’s stocks long ago and was only waiting for the opponent to be lured in.
The more outstanding Wen Xinya was, the more jealously, hatred, and resentment she felt. Instantly, a peerlessly gorgeous flower blossomed in her heart—anyone would be able to tell with a single look that the more beautiful something was, the more poisonous it was!
Ning Shuqian said with hatred, “A moment’s result doesn’t count as anything. It’s still unknown who will have the last laugh!”
A peerlessly beautiful smile emerged on Xia Ruya’s gentle face instantly. Oh yes! A moment’s victory or loss did not count as anything. The most important thing was who would have the last laugh.
