Chapter 416: Chapter Four-Hundred and Sixteen: Missing
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Seeing this, John quickly went to pull Xi Cheng off. “Xi Cheng! Xi Cheng! Let go! Let go! She’ll die at this rate! Xi Cheng, let go!”
John used all his strength to pry Xi Cheng’s hands off. Air rushed down her throat, and Gu Man coughed violently as she sat on the ground weakly.
Xi Cheng was so angry he saw red. Even with John holding him back in a bear hug, he still swung his fists and feet at Gu Man. “What did you do? What did you do behind my back?” he roared at her.
Gu Man was terrified. She cried as she dodged Xi Cheng’s kicks and punches, “I didn’t! Xi Cheng, I didn’t do anything! I really didn’t! Believe me, I really haven’t done anything!”
Xi Cheng wasn’t in the mood to listen to her at all. He firmly believed that Gu Man was the culprit.
John tried his best to stop and hold Xi Cheng back despite his injuries, saying, “Xi Cheng! Young Master Xi Cheng! The most important thing now is to go to headquarters! You have to go explain yourself to headquarters! Mr. Shi is waiting for you there! So let’s go ASAP! Come on!”
John pushed and pulled Xi Cheng away, leaving Gu Man on her own.
Xi Cheng was still swearing up a storm when he walked out the hotel’s front door, anger not yet abated. John didn’t say a word. He endured the pain of his wounds and led his boss to the car.
When the car started up and got on the road, Xi Cheng took out his phone again and looked at the many missed calls on it. He called Lily back, but no one picked up. Xi Cheng was taken aback for a moment. He promptly called Lin Yu, but again, no one picked up.
John glanced at him but didn’t say anything. “John, turn the car around immediately. We’ll go to the hospital first,” Xi Cheng distractedly ordered before muttering to himself, “Why aren’t Lin Yu and Lily picking up?”
John momentarily hesitated before suggesting, “Maybe they went for a checkup and didn’t bring their phones with them?”
Xi Cheng shook his phone and replied, slightly anxious, “No way. Lin Yu is very meticulous; she would always have her phone with her! Quick! Turn the car around! We’re going to the hospital. I have an uneasy feeling about this!”
John paused and then began, “Young Master Xi Cheng, but headquarters—”
“My mom is the most important! No one’s more important than my mom!” Xi Cheng bellowed.
John’s mouth tightened into a thin line. He gripped the steering wheel tightly, turned the car around, and drove toward the hospital.
Kneeling on the ground, Gu Man’s mind wandered for a minute before she slowly got up with the help of the wall. A waitress came over and asked softly, “Miss Gu, are you alright?”
Gu Man shook her head. “Do you know where Young Master Long is?”
The waitress bowed her head and answered, “Young Master Long is having a meeting in his office. No one is allowed to disturb him.”
Gu Man bit her lip. “Okay,” she uttered detachedly as she headed back towards her room using the wall as support.
She clenched the corner of her shirt tightly and thought to herself, ‘Xi Cheng, I’m doing this for your own good! You’ll see that Lin Yu will make you lose everything, and only I am genuinely protecting you. Even if you lose everything one day, I will still stay by your side. I will make you see that I’m your best choice!’
Xi Cheng sped toward his mother’s ward, John following closely behind in spite of his injuries. In the ward, Han Yuan’s hospital bed was clean and tidy as if no one had ever been on it. Xi Cheng was briefly stunned by the sight, frightened by what it could mean, and then he turned around and ran towards the nurses’ station, bumping into the young nurse who had rushed over after hearing news of his arrival.
Xi Cheng grabbed the nurse’s shoulder and shook her vigorously. “Where’s my mom? And my wife? Where are they? Where did they go?”
Dizzy from all the shaking, the young nurse stuttered, “G-gone, they’re gone…”
Dumbfounded, Xi Cheng released her. “Gone? They’re gone? How’s that possible? They were fine a couple of days ago. How could they be dead?”
Xi Cheng’s eyes reddened, and he felt tears prickling. He’d been hanging out with Gu Man for the past few days, living the dream in her arms and bosom, reluctant to wake up to the world outside.
He’d thought, ‘In any case, Lin Yu’s there to look after everything at home. There’s nothing for me to worry about.’ Unknowingly, he’d gotten into the habit of relying on Lin Yu, just like how he relied on his mother.
The nurse caught her breath and quickly said, “No, no, they’re not dead. They left us. They left!”
Xi Cheng was flummoxed. ‘Isn’t that the same thing?’
John’s brow furrowed, and he asked the nurse seriously, “When was this? Where did Madam and Young Madam go?”
“T-they went home t-this morning,” the nurse stammered, intimidated by Xi Cheng.
John heaved a sigh of relief and quickly held Xi Cheng’s shoulders in support. “Young Master Xi Cheng! You misunderstood! Madam and Young Madam have gone home! They went home!”
Xi Cheng looked at John blankly, still not recovered from the previous shock. “Yes, they went home!” the nurse hurriedly said. “They were discharged and went home!”
John swiftly pulled Xi Cheng towards the exit. “Young Master Xi Cheng,” he stated, “Madam and Young Madam are fine. They were discharged from the hospital and returned home. Let’s go to the corporation headquarters to settle company matters first and then we can go back to check on them, okay?”
“But why aren’t they picking up my calls?” Xi Cheng asked, puzzled.
John patiently reassured him, “Young Master Xi Cheng, they’re bound to be busy for a while after just arriving home. It’s fine. With Young Madam around, what do you have to worry about? Young Madam will surely have everything sorted.”