Rose Hotel 17

Su Man did not argue with him. She gave him a subtle, sweeping glance and asked, "You're injured."

When he was dragging Su Yuye earlier, his abdomen had been exposed, and it was bleeding. Unsurprisingly, the blood on the ground was likely all his.

"This is a necessary price to pay." Li Xing was not a man of many words, but because Su Man had shown him kindness before, he didn't want to lie to her. "After I heard the legend of the hexagram from Yuye in the past, I specifically looked into it. I came across a claim that anyone whose wish is fulfilled by the hexagram is forbidden from harming others. Once that rule is broken, all the blessings of the hexagram will be retracted... I just proved it a moment ago."

He lowered his gaze to look at Su Yuye, his eyes tender. "Now, she is no longer some inexplicable Lin Hui. She is my Yuye, and I am going to take my Yuye home."

He bowed his head. "I don't know what you and that woman calling herself Lin Hui are up to, but if you try to stop me, I won't show mercy."

Clearly terrified, he was forcing himself to look strong. "I can do anything for Yuye."

"I never thought of stopping you. You can leave whenever you want." Su Man even offered a kind reminder, "This is a hospital. You might want to go get your wound treated."

"No need!" Li Xing interrupted her forcefully, gritting his teeth as he hoisted Su Yuye onto his back and walked down step by step, leaving a trail of bloody footprints. After descending two steps, he suddenly paused and spoke in an extremely faint voice, "Thank you."

With that, he walked away with a resolute stride.

Su Man stood in place, watching him stagger away with Su Yuye on his back until they vanished from sight, whispering in a voice that was barely audible, "I let you leave, and you thank me... What are you thanking me for? If Su Yuye doesn't want to leave, where on earth can you take her?"

"Oh, Li Xing, your ending was sealed long ago."

Su Man left the rooftop and went to Kang Fu's ward.

Bei Jia was not there; according to a nurse, she had gone to pick up some medicine.

When Su Man entered the room, Kang Fu had just woken up. Seeing that it was her, he wore an expression that was neither a smile nor a tear.

Before he could speak, Su Man held out her hand to him. "You'll have to pay for the injection as well."

"Is that another product from Zhou Miaomiao, the person who delivers goods to you? Fine, I'll pay." Having narrowly cheated death, Kang Fu had lost his temper. He didn't want to probe why the medicine was so effective, and merely said with helpless resignation, "I almost thought you were actually going to kill me."

"If you hadn't put on such a convincing act, no one would have bought it. I put quite a bit of effort into it myself. Judging by the results, it worked out very well. Congratulations, Mr. Kang, on successfully winning the fair lady."

She didn't yet know how they would reconcile with Lin Hui's side, but Su Man decided to say the pleasant things first. She even felt like saying, "Shouldn't you settle my wages first?"

That way, even if she switched sides to Lin Hui later for the sake of her mission, she wouldn't feel heartbroken over unpaid wages.

"Miss Su, don't be in such a rush. Let's put that aside for a moment. Actually, I was so badly injured before that I didn't even hear what vicious oath Bei Jia swore. Could you repeat it to me?" Kang Fu looked at her with shining eyes.

Su Man said, "I am in a huge rush."

Still, she went ahead and relayed everything Bei Jia had said to Lin Hui.

"Lin Hui believes that it was you, Mr. Kang, who gave her the chance."

As Kang Fu was listening intently to Su Man's analysis, he heard her earnestly follow up with, "Mr. Kang, you should really give me the money first."

She was in a hurry to deal with matters on Lin Hui's end.

Kang Fu replied, "..."

"What if I go back on my word..." Kang Fu wasn't actually planning to renege, but he asked probingly.

Su Man replied with a forced, mirthless smile, "Then the way Mr. Kang came back to life is the exact way he'll die again."

"Just kidding, just kidding." Kang Fu chuckled dryly. However, to prevent any future trouble, he played a little trick. "I can only give you half the money now. The other half will be paid to you after Bei Jia and I get married."

His wedding with Bei Jia had been rescheduled for the day after tomorrow, which was just around the corner.

Upon receiving the half a million, Su Man generously dropped the matter.

Before leaving, she specifically said, "Kang Fu, considering you gave me such a huge sum of money, I've changed my mind. No matter how troublesome it gets, I'll do my absolute best to keep you both safe."

Kang Fu, "....??"

Though he didn't understand, he nodded anyway. "Then... thank you."

Su Man paused on her way out the door. Why was everyone thanking her? She clearly hadn't done anything.

Upon returning to the inn, she surprisingly saw Li Xing and Su Yuye at the entrance once again.

She didn't know whether to marvel at Li Xing's cockroach-like tenacity. Blood was still actively seeping from his abdomen, yet he was vividly alive and arguing with Su Yuye right outside the inn door.

Yes, it was Su Yuye this time. Judging by Su Yuye's decisive and ruthless rejection style, there was no doubt it was her.

"Li Xing, I've already broken up with you. Now that we've broken up, let's stop seeking each other out. This is something we promised each other before."

Su Yuye tried hard not to look at Li Xing's pale face, but her gaze kept involuntarily drifting to the pool of blood on the ground. "Li Xing, you need to go to the hospital. Otherwise, you really will die."

"Li Xing, I'm not worth this. Go back. Can we just pretend we never met?"

Yet Li Xing acted as though he hadn't heard a word, offering a humble and pathetic plea, "Yuye, why do you always say that? We've already met, how can we pretend we never did? I truly love you, and I finally found you. I can't lose you again. Yuye, come back with me. Didn't you say you wanted a house that belonged to just the two of us? I've already bought it, right in the location you mentioned."

He tried to pull Su Yuye by the arm, but she coldly and sharply dodged away.

"Yuye, let's stop fighting, Yuye..." Li Xing's face grew paler and paler, his gaze began to blur, and his voice grew weaker and weaker.

The aloofness Su Yuye had forcefully put on showed faint signs of cracking, unable to suppress a surge of pity.

Her arm instinctively moved as if to reach out for Li Xing's hand.

Just as this thought surfaced, her mother rushed out brandishing a broom, cursing angrily.

The broom landed mercilessly on her body, and the reprimands came one after another. "Why did you snatch the body back? What about Hui Hui? Didn't you promise your mother? Didn't you promise to let Hui Hui use this body?"

Li Xing wanted to stop her, but he truly lacked the strength. His body was swaying, and the only reason he was still standing was thanks to his ironclad willpower, driven by the intense desire to bring Su Yuye home that kept him from collapsing.

"You, let..." He wanted to say "let her go," but before he could finish, the older woman stopped swinging her broom. Without even looking at him, she said viciously to Su Yuye, "I don't care what method you use, if you still want to step foot into this house, chase this man away right now! Hui Hui is still waiting for your body!"