倒是身旁的 Song Ci came running over immediately, “Boss? Boss, what happened to you?”
Song Ci stood before the wheelchair and reached out to lift the man’s empty sleeve, “Where are your hands? What exactly happened?”
“Who… who are you?”
The woman pushing Qing Muy野’s wheelchair had a cold expression. She walked forward and pushed Song Ci away, shouting in the local dialect. It was vaguely heard as, “What’s wrong with you, are you sick?”
Song Ci, caught off guard, stumbled. He looked incredulously at the short-haired, slightly overweight, ordinary-looking woman in front of him. “Who are you? What’s your relationship with our boss? Why is my boss like this?”
As he spoke, he became more agitated, finally grabbing the collar of the woman’s hoodie, furious.
“Song Ci, what the hell are you doing!”
At this moment, Tang Si, who had just emerged from the courtyard, strode forward and pushed Song Ci away. “Stop it.”
Tang Si stood between Song Ci and the short-haired woman, then turned to explain to the short-haired woman, “Yang Xia, I’m sorry. This is my brother. We were all his friends before. He just can’t accept it.”
“Oh, I see.” Yang Xia glared at Song Ci, squatted beside Qing Muy野, and her tone immediately softened. “Xiao Xu, these are all your old friends. Do you recognize them?”
The man in the wheelchair looked at them, his eyes filled with unfamiliarity. He shook his head.
“What Xiao Xu?”
Meng Jingwei, who had been standing by the side, took a while to compose herself and walked over, asking.
Tang Si immediately explained, “Yang Xia saved Second Brother. She’s been taking care of him all this time. She didn’t know Second Brother’s name, so she nicknamed him ‘Xiao Xu’. And…”
He paused, pursed his lips, and stammered, “He’s… mute, and… has amnesia.”
“No, it’s impossible, impossible…”
Meng Jingwei had thought she would see Qing Muy野 injured when they met again, but no matter what, she couldn’t accept that Qing Muy野 had lost his left arm, half his face was disfigured by burns, and he couldn’t even speak.
She shook her head like a rattle. She had forced herself to be strong for three months, but at this moment, her faith collapsed, her hope vanished, leaving only the immense impact of the truth and the blow to her heart.
The pain was as if she had fallen onto a board covered with iron nails, every part of her body surging with piercing pain, so much so that she was suffocating, her eyes stinging, and she couldn’t even sob out her tears.
“Jingwei, you… you shouldn’t be like this…”
Lu Yanming, seeing Meng Jingwei in so much pain, couldn’t help but sigh, “I’m sorry. I should have listened to Han Yu and not told you.”
Meng Jingwei covered her chest with one hand and her mouth with the other. She didn’t want to cry, but tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.
Her body was weak, and supported by Lu Yanming, she leaned against him feebly.
After a long while, Meng Jingwei finally recovered. She shook her head and said calmly, “Has a DNA test been done? Is it possible that he’s not… not Ah Ye at all?”
Tang Si turned his head and glanced helplessly at Han Yu, then at Lu Yanming.
Song Ci also said, “Yeah, how could our boss, who is so formidable… how could he end up like this? But…”
He wanted to doubt, but there was nothing to doubt.
The person in front of him, although injured on his face, it wasn’t completely disfigured. How could he not recognize his boss?
“Little Pepper, stop deceiving yourself. I had the same thought when I saw Second Brother yesterday, so I can empathize with you. You… you need to accept reality.”
Tang Si’s eyes were red. “I’ve been brothers with Second Brother for decades. Would I not recognize him?”