Night Fire Lingering

Chapter 373 Feeling uneasy already?

"What...what do you mean?" Ying Kaian asked with difficulty.

Lou Qi intended to let him succumb to the fear of the unknown, so he didn't answer him and led Jiang Xing away.

Jiang Xing suddenly remembered that Lou Qi had asked him something like "What if he becomes disabled?"

She suddenly stopped and turned to look at Ying Kaian. He was wrapped in bandages all over his body and couldn't move; he was even weaker from the emotional turmoil he had just experienced.

“You…” Jiang Xing looked him up and down. His hands were still there, exposed outside the blanket, receiving IV fluids and wearing monitors, but—

"How does your leg feel?" Jiang Xing asked with a smile, a hint of anticipation in his voice.

Ying Kaian felt a chill run through his body and began frantically pressing the call button beside him, shouting, "Doctor! Doctor, my leg hurts!"

"Do you have legs and your legs hurt?" Jiang Xing said. "Oh right, and my wounds hurt too."

"Shut up! I... I have... my leg..."

He muttered to himself like a madman, as hysterical as those characters in TV dramas who couldn't accept the fact that they had suddenly become disabled.

He couldn't believe he had lost his leg.

Jiang Xing looked at him and felt a strange sense of satisfaction.

She cruelly wanted to see him suffer even more.

Jiang Xing walked back, went to the foot of the hospital bed, and pulled off the blanket!

Ying Kaian was forced to confront his current situation—his right leg was completely empty below the groin, leaving him with no chance of even getting a prosthesis.

Ying Kaian's pupils dilated violently, and he momentarily stopped breathing. The instrument testing his physical condition emitted a piercing warning sound.

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Walking out of Ying Kaian's ward, Jiang Xing finally felt the sunlight at the end of the corridor.

She felt as if she had been rescued from deep darkness and breathed a huge sigh of relief.

"You feel guilty now?"

Jiang Xing lowered her eyes and met Shang Louqi's ambiguous smile.

Jiang Xing pursed her lips and said firmly, "I don't need him."

She just felt a little scared by this unfamiliar way of kicking someone when they were down.

Lou Qi chuckled softly, finding her adorable!

Jiang Xing looked at him in confusion: What are you laughing at? What's so funny?

Lou Qi looked up at her with eyes full of tenderness and love: "A-Xing, you have no idea what a villain should be like. You also don't know how a villain should deal with another villain."

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A week later, Lou Qi was discharged from the hospital with the approval of the doctor.

His health has only met the discharge criteria; he still needs to rest.

On the day of discharge, the Lou family finally reappeared.

"Your little lover isn't here?" Lou's father looked around but didn't see Jiang Xing.

Clearly, he hadn't visited Lou Qi during this time, yet he knew everything about Lou Qi's condition in the hospital.

“She doesn’t need to see you.” Lou Qi looked at his parents calmly.

Actually, he doesn't need it.

His father is old and incapable of asserting power, and over the past six months, he has gradually marginalized his father. In the two weeks since the incident, his father has not visited him once, clearly intending to seize power while he is weakened by illness.

But unfortunately, it failed.

Therefore, he had to show his fatherly love and maintain the father-son relationship at the last moment before Lou Qi was discharged from the hospital.

Lou's father was furious, but out of pride, he was unwilling to reprimand his son and glared at Lou's mother instead.

Lou's mother immediately stepped forward: "Son, we're all doing this for your own good. Finding a girl who is of equal social standing will make your power and status more secure!"

After signing the last work email, Lou Qi looked at them with a mocking expression: "Even blood relatives can't secure my position, let alone women?"