251: Chapter 251 Enemy of the Enemy 251: Chapter 251 Enemy of the Enemy The next day.
Royal Hospital.
“I just heard this morning that you guys had an accident last night.
What happened?”
Helian Lu had been accompanying Qing Wu all night and completely missed the news online.
It was only this morning when his subordinates reported to him that he learned about it.
Then, he went to ask Ye Jiuqing because he knew this guy was looking for Su He last night.
Knowing that none of them were injured, he was relieved.
Su He said, “It’s nothing; we don’t know who it was.
Now is not the time to think about this.
Qing Wu’s surgery is scheduled to start at one in the afternoon.
I need to go and discuss the details of the surgery with Davis later.
For now, you keep her company and calm her down.”
Helian Lu said, “Alright, got it.”
Su He initially wanted Lan Yan to handle the negotiations, but since she injured her arm last night, she couldn’t assist Su He in the surgery today.
Therefore, Su He decided to come over herself.
“Oh, right, there’s one more thing.” Su He had just turned around, ready to leave, but then stopped and added, “I’ve asked Ella to come over.
She should arrive around eleven.
Arrange for someone to pick her up at the airport.”
Since Lan Yan couldn’t assist her in the surgery, she had to call Ella over.
Helian Lu responded, “Okay, got it.”
“…”
Inside the villa on Zhu Feng Island.
“Young Master Jiuqing, our people searched all night, but the other party didn’t leave any traces behind.
The car that plunged into the river has been salvaged by the police, but there was no one inside.”
“The river’s current is very strong; once a person falls in, it’s quite difficult to find them again.”
Ah Gui reported one by one.
It was obvious that the opponent was very careful and cautious.
Ye Jiuqing sat on the sofa, his long legs stretched out on the table in front of him, appearing lazy, but his handsome face was filled with a fierce aura.
After a moment of silence, he spoke in a deep voice, “Keep looking.
There must be some trail if they did it.”
Upon hearing this, Ah Gui nodded and said, “Yes, I will give the orders immediately.”
Just then, a phone ringtone suddenly sounded.
Ah Gui glanced down at the phone on the table; the caller ID showed it was from Helian Lu.
He looked up at the man and said, “Young Master Jiuqing, it’s a call from the Young Duke.”
Ah Gui picked up the phone and handed it to him.
After looking at it for a few seconds, Ye Jiuqing reached out to take it.
Once he answered the call, Helian Lu’s voice came from the other end: “Ye, are you free right now?”
Ye Jiuqing: “I’m not!”
Helian Lu: “Wait, I haven’t even said what it’s about yet.
Why are you not free?”
Ye Jiuqing couldn’t be bothered with him and directly stated: “Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with me!”
Helian Lu realized that Ye Jiuqing might hang up the next second and hastily said, “It’s not that I need your help, it’s Su He.”
As expected, Ye Jiuqing, who was about to hang up the phone, abruptly stopped.
He asked in a deep voice, “What is it?”
Helian Lu: “Su He wants you to help pick someone up at the airport.
She’s busy preparing for the surgery this afternoon and didn’t have time to contact you, so she asked me to do it.”
He also intentionally clarified, to prevent the young man from getting suspicious.
Right after he finished speaking, there was silence on Ye Jiuqing’s end for a few seconds.
Helian Lu wasn’t in a hurry, as Ye Jiuqing wouldn’t refuse; after a few seconds, he heard Ye Jiuqing say, “What time, and where should I take the person?”
Helian Lu quickly reported the time and place for the pickup, “Eleven o’clock, just bring the person straight to the Royal Hospital.”
After saying that, he hung up the phone first.
Ye Jiuqing: “…”
In the ward.
When Helian Lu was calling Ye Jiuqing, Qing Wu had heard the whole conversation.
“Susu wouldn’t ask Ye Jiuqing to pick up Ella, would she?” She stared at him full of doubt and asked, “What are you playing at?”
She understood Su He’s character, as well as her husband’s.
Looking at his clever wife, Helian Lu said, “Obviously, it’s about creating an opportunity.”
Qing Wu: “What?”
“What opportunity are you creating?
Helian Lu, listen to me, don’t mess things up.
Susu is already married, and she and Ye Jiuqing are simply not possible!
Even if Susu wasn’t married, she and Ye Jiuqing would have no future.
They are not suitable for each other at all!”
She thought Helian Lu was trying to matchmake Su He and Ye Jiuqing, which immediately infuriated her.
“Calm down,” Helian Lu said seeing her about to get angry.
“Would your husband be that despicable?
How could I possibly interfere with Su He’s marriage?”
Qing Wu rolled her eyes at him and asked with knitted brows, “Then what are you trying to do?”
Helian Lu sighed and said, “One second ago I praised you for being smart, and now you’ve turned dumb?”
Qing Wu bit her lip: “Helian Lu!”
“Hey, hey, don’t get mad, I’ll tell you,” Helian Lu soothes her back and says, “Ella likes Ye Jiuqing, can’t you see that?”
Qing Wu was stunned: “…”
She really hadn’t noticed…
“But I don’t think Ye Jiuqing is good enough for Ella,” Qing Wu said.
“Ella liking him is purely masochistic; everyone knows that Ye Jiuqing has only Su He in his heart.”
Qing Wu suddenly felt a bit sorry for Ella, who had, unfortunately, fallen for a man who was a womanizer!
She looked at the man with slightly squinted eyes and said, “I somehow feel like this isn’t about creating opportunities for Ella but more like you’re digging a hole for her.
The deeper she falls, the more it hurts.”
Helian Lu: “…”
“It’s like Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai, one willing to beat and the other willing to be beaten; you don’t need to worry about it.”
…
At the airport.
Ella had just come out of the VIP channel when she saw a familiar figure not far away.
The man leaned casually against the car door, looking relaxed, but his handsome face displayed a hint of impatience, perhaps because he had been waiting too long due to the half-hour flight delay.
It was supposed to arrive at eleven o’clock.
She walked over in her high heels with a swaying grace.
“Yo, what kind of wind has blown Young Master Jiuqing over here?”
Ye Jiuqing, who was bowing his head, lifted it when he heard her voice, and saw Ella’s face that was perhaps a bit too seductive.
He frowned slightly, as Helian Lu hadn’t told him that the person to pick up was Ella!
If he had known earlier that it was her, he wouldn’t have come!
He just stared at her without speaking, his handsome face so cold that one would feel like retreating three feet.
But Ella directly ignored it, and said, “You’re not here to pick me up, are you?”
After saying that, she looked around and found no other vehicles stopped nearby.
She answered her own question, “It seems it is indeed you.
Well then, let’s go.
Thank you, Young Master Jiuqing, for picking me up.”
Saying so, she walked past him, opened the car door, and bent down to get in.
Ye Jiuqing’s mouth twitched slightly: “…”
Ah Gui stood aside, not daring to make a sound.
During the drive, neither spoke another word.
Ah Gui sneakily glanced at the rearview mirror; the space between the two people in the back seat felt like it could fit a fat man weighing over 200 kilograms.
He always felt that since their return from Yue City, Young Master Jiuqing and Miss Ella seemed somewhat odd.
But his mind was slow, and he couldn’t articulate what exactly was strange…
Forty minutes later, the car stopped at the Royal Hospital.
Ella looked out the car window and sighed, saying with some regret: “We’ve arrived so soon?
I was hoping to spend more time with Young Master Jiuqing~”
And she deliberately spoke with a coquettish, affected voice.
Ye Jiuqing furrowed his brows tightly and said with a dark expression: “Hurry up and get out of the car!”
Ella laughed and said: “Why doesn’t Young Master Jiuqing demonstrate how to roll out of the car?”
Ye Jiuqing abruptly turned his head, his deep blue eyes glaring at her as he clenched his teeth and shouted her full name: “Helan Lingshuang!”
Ella was startled; it had been a long time since anyone called her by her full name.
She froze for a few seconds before snapping back to reality, smirking as she said: “You have this weird habit, getting angry and only knowing to shout someone’s full name.”
After speaking, she opened the car door and got out swiftly and without fuss.
With a “bang,” she slammed the car door shut, not giving him any chance to retort.
Ah Gui, sitting in the driver’s seat, felt a chill running down his back as the air in the car became thin.
After a while, Ah Gui tentatively asked: “Young Master, where to now?
Home?”
Ye Jiuqing sharply glanced at him and coldly said: “What’s the matter, we’re not going home.
Unless you want to stay here and act as a temple guardian?”
Ah Gui: “…”
He didn’t dare say another word and promptly started the car, ready to leave.
But before they even got halfway, a deep male voice from the back seat commanded: “Stop the car!”
Ah Gui slammed on the brakes vehemently.
…
At half-past twelve, Qing Wu was wheeled into the operating room.
Su He was already waiting inside.
Before the anesthesia had started, Su He stood beside her, touched her head, and said: “Relax, the obstetrics team will deliver the baby first, and then I’ll take over.
I’ll be with you the whole time.
Just think of it as going to sleep without worrying about anything.
When you wake up, you’ll be able to see your baby and all of us.”
Qing Wu said: “I’m not nervous with you here.”
The cesarean section began half an hour later.
During the entire C-section, Su He was on the side, constantly monitoring Qing Wu’s vital signs.
Thankfully, everything went smoothly.
Another half-hour passed.
The obstetrics team expertly carried out the baby.
Suddenly, amidst the sound of machines, the robust crying of the baby filled the operating room.
Since the baby was premature, it needed to stay in an incubator for a while.
After the nurses quickly cleaned up the baby, they left the operating room with the newborn.
But in the operating room, another battle was about to begin.
Ella asked: “Susu, are you sure Qing Wu’s body can handle a second round of surgery?”
She didn’t doubt Su He’s medical skills, in fact, quite the opposite; she had a lot of trust.
But sometimes, a surgery not only requires a doctor capable of saving lives but also places high demands on the patient’s physical condition.
Therefore, she was worried whether Qing Wu could endure a craniotomy after just having had a cesarean section.
Su He said: “I’ll complete this surgery within three hours, don’t worry.”
Ella naturally believed her, “Understood.”
“It’s been a long time since we’ve collaborated, and if Lan Yan hadn’t gotten injured by accident this time, I probably wouldn’t have had the chance to perform surgery with you again.”
She joked with a light remark.
Su He said, “Whenever you want, you can.”
Ella is also an excellent doctor, but she has long since stepped back behind the scenes; she rarely performs surgeries these days.
She now only aspires to be a businesswoman, yet she has not abandoned her medical knowledge; instead, she’s simply shifted her battlefield.
Only when Su He needs her does she step in, just like this time.
Ella smiled and said, “Better not, I’d rather remain a backup.
Besides, I wouldn’t want to compete with Lan Yan for the spot, I think she’s more suitable than I am.”
Outside the operating room, three men stood.
Apart from Helian Lu who paced anxiously back and forth by the operating room door, the other two men appeared relaxed and sat leisurely on the chairs nearby.
Ye Jiuqing’s vision blurred from the constantly moving figure.
“Can’t you just sit down and wait?” he couldn’t help but vent, “All this pacing back and forth, are you trying to dig a hole to escape?”
“Besides, with Su He in there, what are you afraid of?”
Helian Lu indeed stopped pacing because of his words, turned around and looked at him, “The one lying inside is not your wife, of course you’re not nervous.”
He certainly trusted Su He’s medical skills; however, trust aside, worry and fear still permeated his entire heart.
Just now when the nurse asked him if he wanted to check on the baby, he outright refused.
He didn’t dare to step away from here, afraid that he might miss something.
He added, “When your wife is the one lying in there giving birth one day, I hope you can still sit here so relaxed and self-possessed waiting.”
Ye Jiuqing: “…”
He reckoned he would never marry in his lifetime, so he didn’t particularly care or take to heart what Helian Lu said.
Time ticked away second by second.
The operating room experienced some complications, but fortunately, Su He managed to handle them.
The tumor was located at the central nervous system of the brain, in a complicated spot, and was a bit more difficult than Su He had anticipated.
The slightest misstep could easily result in serious disability.
The only sounds in the entire operating room were from the equipment and occasionally Su He’s inquiries about the patient’s vital signs, while everyone else maintained silent and focused.
After all, the person on the operation table was the Little Marchioness from the Royal Family; if anything went wrong, they could not bear the responsibility.
While the tense and orderly operation was underway on this side, on the other side…
In a villa district in the northern region of Country Y.
“Are you sure you want to cooperate with me?”
Dressed in a flowing red gown, the woman lounged comfortably on the sofa, looking down with disdain at the man sitting opposite her, her red lips curling into a smile.
The man, wearing a tailor-made suit, sat erect on an armchair, with a presence equally imposing, but he toned it down a bit, for “when under someone else’s roof, one must bow low,” after all.
“We have a common enemy; collaboration is clearly the most sensible choice.
As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
The man chuckled lightly, then continued, “I believe that our partnership will surely be perfect.”
The woman silently stared at him for a few seconds before leisurely speaking, “Young Master Lou, all you want is to use my hand to pull down your half-brother, but unfortunately…”
She paused for a moment, flashing her eyelids, the curve of her red lips growing wider, sarcasm filling the depths of her eyes.
She said, “Our enemies are not one and the same.”
She had rejected his proposal!
“…”
The woman observed the slight change in his expression and brazenly laughed a few times.
“Young Master Lou, you can’t win against him.
I advise you to give up.
Acceptance can be a relief too.
Losing to him isn’t a disgrace!”