Capítulo 846: Chapter 846: The Asylum Arrangement
Tang Li voiced her concerns, “Will she…”
Before she could finish, Lai Wenyan interrupted, “You don’t need to worry about her; your relationship with the Lai Family, she wouldn’t dare talk about it everywhere.”
Hearing this, Tang Li sighed in relief, giving a faint smile, “Then I am relieved.”
Just at this moment, Lai Wenyan’s cellphone vibrated.
Lai Wenyan didn’t take the call, directly pressing the end button.
Tang Li guessed who was calling and tactfully stood up, “I have to shoot a scene tonight, so I won’t stay with Dad for long.”
To show concern, Lai Wenyan asked Jiang Yuan to see her downstairs.
Tang Li left the Parliament Building and stopped by the hospital on her way back to the crew.
Outside the ward, policemen were still on duty.
Seeing Tang Li, a policeman opened the door for her proactively.
Lai Shengxia sat barefoot at the bedside, hair disheveled, expression wooden, wearing a hospital gown, looking very much like a mental patient.
Even with someone entering, she didn’t turn her head for a glance.
Tang Li closed the ward door and sat on the chair behind Lai Shengxia.
After a long silence, Tang Li’s soft voice broke the air, “Dad told me he’s already arranged a place for you, a hospital in Lin City specializing in the treatment of schizophrenia.”
Lai Shengxia didn’t move her back, but the force holding her pillow tightened a bit.
“I don’t really care if you’re crazy or not,” Tang Li said with a slight curl of her lips, “If it were me, I’d rather go to prison than a sanatorium—after all, it’s full of mental patients; who knows if you’d become like one of them over time.”
“But I see Dad’s mind is made up, and it’s hard to change.”
“Only if you go to the sanatorium, Dad can run for senator smoothly; the trafficking case will also end inconclusively. I’ve asked the lawyer, with a situation like yours, the main culprit in the trafficking case, it’s at least a five-year sentence.”
Tang Li didn’t expect Lai Shengxia to suddenly “wake up;” she continued on her own, “Oh, right, Dad recently found a lover about the same age as Yuanyuan. Yesterday, your mom had a big fight with Dad over this, and Dad didn’t come home at night. I think Dad really likes this lover.”
Lai Shengxia remained silent, but stormy waves surged in her heart.
“Going crazy is also better than being with AIDS. Before my mother passed away, she was so thin she looked like a skeleton. Sometimes, I wonder whether to repay her in her own coin.”
“Seeing you like this now, I think it’s quite good.”
Awake in consciousness but pretending to be insane every day—isn’t that also a form of torture?
Especially being in a sanatorium for a lifetime.
Tang Li stood up, “I came today to say goodbye because, in the future, we might not have the chance to meet again.”
Lai Shengxia’s fingers tightened around the pillow.
“Because of you, Dad’s time as a councilman may end here.”
Tang Li walked to the door, looked back at Lai Shengxia, and lightly smiled, “As for your mother and younger sister, I’ll help take care of them.”
After saying that, Tang Li opened the door and left.
Not long after, the sound of a broken thermos echoed from the ward.
Lai Shengxia had calculated everything but never expected Lai Wenyan to send her to a mental hospital.
In the evening, Ouyang Qian came to the hospital, and Tang Li’s words were confirmed.
In the bathroom, Lai Shengxia had a dazed expression.
Ouyang Qian softly reassured her daughter, “After your dad’s election ends, we’ll get you out; your dad has discussed it with me, it’s just a temporary measure, we won’t let you stay there forever.”
Lai Shengxia had a bad premonition.
Once she went in, it feared she might never come out of that sanatorium.