Chapter 0001 The Patient’s Identity is a Mystery (2 / 2)

The car accident had destroyed everything he had, and he had hardly been visited by anyone for months, so tragic that it was hard for Jangha to be harsh about anything else.

“Mr. Cheng, I’m here today to inform that someone wants to see you.” Jiang Xia had tried to keep his tone as gentle as possible.

“Why do I need to contact you guys to see me?”

“The other person claimed to be your best friend, brought the gift you wanted, and said something about keeping you waiting or something like that.” Upon hearing those words, the hand that held the cigarette shook lightly.

“It’s been a long time…is it that guy? What’s his name?”

Before Jiang Xia could open his mouth, the door to ward 310 was gently knocked on, and a fresh and handsome man came uninvited.

He was wearing a brown coat that didn’t quite fit him, and his right hand was picking at the door, with large burn scars across the back of his hand.

“Ran Yi.”

JH: “Sir, you can’t come in to visit until I’ve notified the patient first.”

Jiang Xia dutifully explained to Ran Yi, “The patient’s emotions are not very stable, you should try not to stimulate…”

“Well, well, well, I don’t need to bother Miss Nurse with the next thing. Please wait outside the door for a moment first.”

Ran Yi very gentlemanly invited Jiang Xia out.

The door of the hospital room was closed with a bang, leaving a dumbfounded Jiang Xia standing in front of the door.

The atmosphere of the room suddenly dropped to freezing point, and Cheng Yu unconsciously extinguished his cigarette.

He gathered his usual skeptical, crazy look and turned to look out the window coldly.

“I had already forged my discharge information when I was transferred to the ward three months ago, I didn’t think, ah, you guys still stalked me and found your way here.”

A look that had been expected surfaced on Ran Yi’s face.

“It’s just a little bit of a small means, no one will believe that the heir of the Murin Group will vaporize, even if a handful of ashes are left, we’ll be able to find them after rummaging through the whole of F City.”

“What’s more, you never left Harmony Hospital.”

Cheng Yu laughed contemptuously, he knew that Ran Yi had long ago planted eyes around the hospital, and his every move was under surveillance.

He relit a cigarette and smoked it like no one else.

“More than seven months have passed since they left me, but the driver is still at large. My attitude is very clear, I want only the truth, you in order to fight for power how you live and die does not matter, I just want to uncover the murderer, for his wife and daughter revenge.”

Through the dense smoke ring, Cheng Yu gazed at Ran Yi’s unsmiling face, at the expression management master, who had carefully prepared a play for Cheng Yu.

“Mr. Cheng Yu, you and I are well versed in letting the tiger return to the mountain, it’s unlikely that they will let you leave the hospital and look for the real culprits, right now you have nothing but the legal bit of inheritance that exists in name only. Besides, isn’t it a cooperative relationship between us?”

“I hired you.”

“It doesn’t matter who it is, I only take orders from the side that pays better.”

Ran Yi smiled cynically and handed a file bag to Cheng Yu.

“No one would have a problem with money, and I certainly know what you want more-“

I’ve been searching for the real killer for you for the past three months, haven’t I?

Cheng Yu froze, extinguished his cigarette, and slowly opened the document bag.

A familiar image resurfaced in his mind, and he was once again reminded of that painful memory.

It was December 24, the day before Christmas, he drove his wife to pick up his daughter from school, his daughter’s school had a Christmas pageant that day, she played solo violin and shined, and on the way home his wife reviewed the video of his daughter’s performance over and over again.

[Their homeroom teacher didn’t think that our daughter could play the violin so well when she was only in the second grade.]

Dad, why don’t you praise me?

Right, husband, it’s not easy to go home for a few days’ rest, but I missed my daughter’s performance, so I have to make up for it with a celebration dinner, right?

[Yeah! Let’s go to Wanxiang Plaza! I want to eat…]

He didn’t hesitate to change his driving course.

At some point, it started snowing outside again.

Snowflakes fluttering, the city center neon interlaced, dappled halo drowned in white capped, Cheng Yu can not hear a little sound.

[Mom look, it’s so bright outside the window…]

Until the sharp sound of brake pads ripped through the twilight, when the rush of the truck crushed, Cheng Yu has nowhere to hide, he subconsciously pounced on the driver’s side of the wife.

Fortunately, this maneuver allowed his body to miraculously get stuck in the crevice of the deformation of the car’s frame.

Unfortunately, the ripped car door impaled his wife from the side.

His body was stuck in the deformed body and he couldn’t move.

[Dad…it’s cold…]

With her last ounce of strength, his wife peeked halfway out from under the car, waving laboriously to bystanders and calling for help.

She saved him and didn’t survive herself.

Can’t think anymore…

Cheng Yu slowly opened the file bag, a few sheets of miserable white paper with dense writing.

They are as cold as a wife’s corpse.

His thirsty gaze scanned word for word until his cheeks sweated and his hands trembled.

Turning to the end of the last page, the moment when the truth is about to be revealed, the writing comes to an abrupt end.

Only one line of bold, bolded text remains.

If you want to know the truth, trade me 51% of the shares of the Moorings for it.

This is the entire inheritance that Cheng Yu inherited from Elder Cheng Molin’s will.

Cheng Yu snapped his head up, and Ran Yi’s sly gaze was mixed with a few more points of playfulness.

“I hired you, gave you a full three months to investigate the truth, and you turn around and make a deal with me…”

“Mr. Cheng Yu.” Ran Yi retrieved the documents and put them back into the document bag for encapsulation, saying respectfully.

“I understand and sympathize with your unfortunate situation, but I need to reiterate that as a private investigator, I am not just employed by you, there are so many people in the Murrin Group who are eyeing the heir apparent position, and of course, the information collected needs to be mediated by multiple parties, not just you.”

“And, it will require you to personally vouch for me when you are discharged from the hospital, recognizing the legitimacy of my inheritance.”

Each of Ran Yi’s polite words seemed to deliberately sting Cheng Yu’s wounds.

That’s what he’s really after.

He thought for a long time and spoke slowly.

“As long as you can promise to send me the information on the real culprit, I’ll consider the conditions you’ve proposed…”

“Mr. Cheng Yu, this is not a time when you can negotiate terms, on the day of discharge I hope to get a positive answer from you.”

[Pleased to work with you]

Ran Yi suddenly stopped moving the moment he opened the door and knocked instead.

“It’s not polite to eavesdrop on other people’s conversations.”

Jiang Xia, who was eavesdropping outside the door, shuddered and dodged in fear.

With a smile still on his face, Ran Yi bid her goodbye in a gentlemanly and courteous manner.

“Farewell, Miss Nurse.”

Looking at Ran Yi’s gradually fading back in the corridor, Jiang Xia felt a sense of unease in his heart.

She overheard their conversation, and in the past she had simply categorized Cheng Yu as a psychopath, but the visit of this uninvited guest seemed to have left quite a mystery on Cheng Yu.

Only when Jiang Xia wanted to go to Cheng Yu to ask for clarification, he found that the door handle could not be twisted.

Cheng Yu unlocked the door.

“Scram! Don’t anyone bother me.”