Chapter 318: Who Did It

Chapter 318 Who Did This?

When He Qiaoxiang arrived at the hospital, she saw Hao Yanyan lying in bed.

"Doctor, how is she? Is my daughter okay?"

"Ma'am, please calm down. She’s been treated and is stable now, but she needs to stay under observation for 72 more hours."

"Alright."

He Qiaoxiang walked to the bedside and sat down.

After a while, Xu Jianwen walked in.

He had arrived earlier than He Qiaoxiang and had just finished talking to the police.

According to the police, Hao Yanyan was robbed by motorcycle thieves right after she left the bank. The exact financial loss wasn’t clear, but her necklace was stolen.

Bike thieves were everywhere near the southern border but rarely seen in the capital due to tighter security.

Still, it was possible that some drifters had struck—these people often hit and run, fleeing immediately after committing a crime. They might have already left the capital.

In any case, catching them would be tough.

He Qiaoxiang's heart raced. She felt this incident was somehow tied to Ye Xiaoxiao, but she had no evidence.

Just then, Zhao Hongxia also arrived.

"Oh no, what happened? What did the doctor say? Will there be any long-term damage?"

Xu Jianwen shook his head.

The doctor couldn’t say whether Hao Yanyan would suffer any long-term damage after waking up, only that she had a bad concussion and needed rest and observation.

Hao Yanyan woke up the next day, her whole body in pain, unable to move.

Her head was wrapped in bandages, and she was still out of it.

After the doctor finished examining her, only He Qiaoxiang and Hao Yanyan remained in the room.

"Yan Yan, this wasn’t just an accident."

Hao Yanyan could hardly get the words out. "Mom... am I going to die...?"

He Qiaoxiang's face darkened. "Don’t say that. This is the capital, where there are laws. No one’s going to let that happen."

Even so, she didn’t know what the Lu family was capable of.

He Qiaoxiang held Hao Yanyan's hand. "Don’t be afraid. Mom will figure something out."

...

As for Ye Xiaoxiao, though she was still staying with the Lu family, she had gone back to work.

The date for the wedding banquet had been set—September 6th, a lucky wedding date.

Ye Xiaoxiao had also written her relatives in Baishi Village. The place here was all fixed up and ready to move into whenever.

She had also invited everyone she could in the capital.

The first person rushing to see Ye Xiaoxiao was actually Xu Jianli.

He poured out how much he'd missed Ye Xiaoxiao, then shared some gossip.

"Sister Xiaoxiao, you should be careful when going out recently. The biker gangs in the capital have been getting really bold—they even dare to rob people right out in the open. My sister-in-law... Hao Yanyan, is still lying in the hospital."

Ye Xiaoxiao stopped mid-page turn.

"Hao Yanyan is in the hospital?"

Xu Jianli: "Yeah, and it's bad."

What he didn’t know was that while Hao Yanyan was indeed badly injured, the reason she hadn’t left the hospital yet was because she was afraid of encountering danger again outside. Rather than walking around scared all the time, it was better to stay in the hospital for now.

"Yeah, even though I don’t really like her, I don’t want her to die either. That'd be rough on my older brother."

After hearing the gossip, Ye Xiaoxiao kept silent. "Thank you for visiting me today. If you can make it, you're welcome at my wedding. If not, just concentrate on school."

Xu Jianli burst out, "Of course I can make it!"

Ye Xiaoxiao asked with concern, "How's your condition holding up? Since you’re here today, would you like to try TCM treatment?"

She hadn’t suggested it before because she wasn't skilled enough yet.

But now, she was confident she could treat Xu Jianli’s illness.

"Sure..." Xu Jianli trusted Ye Xiaoxiao completely.

So, Ye Xiaoxiao examined him and worked out a treatment plan, asking him to come once a week for therapy.

After Xu Jianli left, Ye Xiaoxiao walked him out.

Before she could go back inside, two people suddenly cut her off.

"Xiaoxiao, can we talk privately?"

Looking at the two middle-aged people who had come hurrying over, all flustered, Ye Xiaoxiao roughly guessed their identities.

But before they could pull her aside, a young man in black suddenly stepped forward and blocked them.

Ye Xiaoxiao did a double take.

Mr. Song had hired bodyguards for her before, but they were withdrawn after a while when it was confirmed there was no more danger. After all, as a student, it wasn’t appropriate to always have someone following her.

The young man standing before her now carried himself even more intimidatingly.

He Wenqiang shouted, "We mean no harm! We’re your uncle and aunt! Xiaoxiao, don’t you recognize us?"

Ye Xiaoxiao chuckled. "Of course I do. Just a few days ago, my precious cousin hired someone to run me down with a car."

Due to pressure from multiple sides, He Jinghong’s case was wrapped up fast.

Hao Yanyan didn’t get dragged into it—there was no evidence linking her to the crime. And at the last moment, for whatever reason, He Jinghong shouldered all the blame.

He claimed he had been seeing red and just wanted to vent for someone else, leading him to do such a thing. He also waived his right to appeal.

With no way to argue his case, He Jinghong became the scapegoat.

"Xiao Xiao, no, this was all instigated by Hao Yanyan. Otherwise, your cousin would never have done this," Han Zhiyin interjected.

Ye Xiaoxiao's eyes turned frosty. "Ms. Han, I think my cousin is actually safer in prison, wouldn’t you say?"

Han Zhiyin stiffened, then faltered. "Xiao Xiao... what do you mean?"

But Ye Xiaoxiao didn’t answer. Instead, she left without another glance.

"Don’t come to my workplace and cause trouble again. I don’t want to see either of you anymore."

He Wenqiang shouted after her, "Xiao Xiao, Jinghong is already in prison. Can’t you, for the sake of our past, ask the Lu family to spare my company?"

Ye Xiaoxiao didn’t pause, marching straight into Rende Pharmacy.

But inside, she laughed coldly. Did He Wenqiang and his wife still think this was all the Lu family’s doing?

......

"Wasn’t Hao Yanyan hospitalized?"

Lu Hanchuan asked his right-hand man standing beside him.

Cheng Peng didn’t answer immediately, instead giving Lu Hanchuan a sideways glance.

"Boss Lu, wasn’t that your doing?"

Lu Hanchuan: "..."

The bank loan issue was something he had pulled strings on, but the motorcycle accident—that wasn’t me.

Cheng Peng wasn’t convinced. This had to be Boss Lu’s doing, part of a carefully laid trap.

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that she got hit by a motorcycle right after leaving the bank?

Though Lu Hanchuan was now a law-abiding citizen, his past methods had been way more heavy-handed.

Kids from Beijing's elite circles all had that same attitude.

"We should solve problems through above-board methods."

Lu Hanchuan said this without missing a beat.

Cheng Peng: "So, telling the bank not to lend to Hao Yanyan counts as an above-board method?"

"I was helping the bank mitigate risks. That doomed factory was never going to turn a profit anyway."