Finally, the person on the bed reacted.
She slowly opened her tear-filled eyes, staring intently at Grandma Gu and Mother Gu. Her voice trembled slightly, "Are you threatening me?"
"If there was a better way to solve this matter, we wouldn’t want to do this either." Mother Gu said somewhat helplessly, "He Teng, we hope you understand the hearts of parents and elders, and also understand that from the position of the Gu Family, many things are not as easy as we’d like them to be."
"Still, isn’t it just as you want? You want to threaten me, so you threaten me. You want me to lose the opportunity to study, so I lose it. Your threats, so delicate, but do you know how much effort it took me to get to the capital? Do you know how much hardship He Teng has gone through to get to where he is today? Thank you for showing me the true colors of the Gu Family, treading on others’ lives with your power. I’m glad my surname is He, not Gu. I’m embarrassed for you!" He Zhilan slightly raised her hand, pointing towards the door, "Now, please leave. Get as far away from me as possible. I never want to see anyone from the Gu Family again!"
"In other words, do you agree?" Grandma Gu was joyous, even though she felt guilty towards the girl. There was no other way. The Gu family couldn’t afford to lose face, let alone lose their futures.
"Get out! Just go!" He Zhilan suddenly roared, sitting up and sweeping everything off the bedside table in anger. Her emotions finally broke down with the explosive sound of the thermos bottle falling to the floor.
"Leave! Everyone, leave! Don’t ever let me see you again in my life! I hate you all! Each and every one of you! Go away! And I will never forgive you, not in a lifetime!"
The boiling water splashed everywhere with the explosion of the thermos, scaring Mother Gu and Grandma Gu into fleeing the ward with screams.
Outside the ward, the people who heard the loud noise stood up immediately. Lin Chan, because he rushed out too quickly, nearly collided with Mother Gu and Grandma Gu who were also running out. "Move!" Lin Chan pushed past them and rushed in.
"What happened?" As soon as he entered the ward and saw the mess all over the floor and the broken shards of the thermos, He Zhilan’s heart wrenching sobs filled the room and she kept repeating she would never forgive them.
Just as Lin Chan approached to comfort He Zhilan, he noticed her breath was becoming increasingly rapid. He was shocked and immediately ran out, "Call a doctor! Get a doctor here immediately!"
Lin Deng responded outside the room, helping Mother Gu up before turning around, only to run directly into He Teng who had returned.
"What happened?" He Teng saw the flustered group of people and immediately pulled Lin Deng to a halt after he saw the panicked expressions on the faces of Mother Gu and Grandma Gu.
Lin Chan, standing at the door, urgently said, "Go get a doctor quickly, the faster the better!"
When had He Teng ever seen Lin Chan, who was usually so indifferent, so anxious? He knew something must have happened to He Zhilan without even going inside. He dropped the food he had brought for He Zhilan and ran straight towards the doctor’s office, faster than Lin Deng.
"Doctor! Doctor! Please come check on my wife!" He Teng began shouting even before he reached the doctor’s office. The director of the office heard the commotion and came out.
"What’s the matter?" The director put the pen in his hand into his coat pocket, asking as he did so.