237: Chapter 237 If You Win 237: Chapter 237 If You Win “Alright, alright, we’ll go out.
Don’t get angry, don’t lose your temper, and watch your wound.”
Lin Liu said with a concerned face, then took Mr.
Tang and left the hospital room.
She was really worried that her wound would burst open again, having just walked back from death’s door; she didn’t want to go through that once more.
At the hospital room door.
Lin Liu lowered her voice and asked, “What happened?
I thought the issue had been suppressed?”
Mr.
Tang heaved a sigh and looked helpless.
“It was suppressed at first, but later, I found out that someone called all the media companies and platforms, intending to heat up this matter.”
Hearing this, Lin Liu was completely flabbergasted.
In Yue City, the number of people who could mobilize all the major media was few and far between.
Obviously, that person was Jiang Yan.
Besides him, she really couldn’t think of anyone else.
If it really was Jiang Yan putting pressure behind the scenes, then the Tang Family had no choice but to admit to the matter.
Mr.
Tang had anticipated this, and with a light sigh, he said, “The Tang Family has done all it could.
There’s nothing left to do; Sirou is probably going to suffer some consequences.”
Whether in terms of strength, capability, or financial resources, the Tang Family couldn’t hold a candle to the Jiang Family.
If they continued to oppose the Jiang Family now, it would undoubtedly be like throwing an egg against a wall, an overestimation of one’s own abilities.
Moreover, he couldn’t risk the entire Tang Family, especially since the previous incident had already caused significant losses to them, and they had not recovered yet.
…
At nine o’clock in the evening.
An Xueyin received a text message from Tang Sirou.
She laughed at the content of the message and replied, “Okay, I’ll let you know when I’ve arranged things.”
After replying to Tang Sirou, An Xueyin thought for a moment and then dialed a number.
The call was quickly connected.
She immediately said, “Let’s meet at the old place tomorrow.”
Then she added, “It’s not safe to talk about some things over the phone, so that’s it, tomorrow noon.”
Tang Sirou’s scandalous video spread like wildfire on the internet overnight, becoming wildly popular, albeit in quite an unusual way.
The next afternoon at one.
Su He was lying in her office playing with her phone when a text message popped up.
She didn’t want to bother with it, but the message was from a private number, and it even addressed her by name.
She raised an eyebrow slightly and opened it, a full text message appearing before her eyes.
The content made her narrow her eyes.
Then, after reading it, she took a screenshot and sent it to their gossip chat group.
She just sent the screenshot, without saying anything.
Jiang Nanche replied in the group, “Sis-in-law, you really don’t play by the rules, eh.
The person asked you not to tell anyone, and you directly sent a screenshot to our group.
Impressive!”
Jiang You sent an “Impressive” emoticon followed by a message: “Sis-in-law, the person inviting you out isn’t that Ms.
Tang, is it?”
Su He replied, “Not sure, but it’s very likely.”
Jiang You immediately replied, “Sis-in-law, please don’t go alone.
Wait for me; I’ll accompany you.”
Jiang Nanche said bluntly:
“What’s the use of you going?
You can’t do anything.
You might even slow sis-in-law down.”
“It’s better to tell big brother about this.
With big brother there, Ms.
Tang wouldn’t dare do anything to sis-in-law.”
Su He replied, “None of you need to accompany me.
I’m not a child.”
She just sent it to the group because she wanted them to gossip too, nothing more.
Besides, she hadn’t agreed to meet up.
Surely she wasn’t obligated to go just because she was invited, right?
Furthermore, inviting her out at this critical juncture, anyone with a bit of brains would know there must be a trick involved.
The text message asked her to meet at two o’clock, which she ignored.
After talking with Jiang You and the others, she put her phone aside and closed her eyes for a nap.
She had to see patients in the afternoon and had no time to deal with these messy affairs.
Meanwhile, half an hour after An Xueyin sent the message to Su He without receiving a reply, she didn’t give it much thought.
She was still under the assumption that Su He must be on her way already.
Then, they waited until two-thirty and still saw no sign of Su He.
“Xueyin, she’s not going to stand us up, is she?” Tang Sirou, sitting in the wheelchair, asked An Xueyin.
An Xueyin’s face darkened slightly, “No, she’ll definitely come.”
The content of the text message would surely interest Su He.
An Xueyin thought she understood Su He well, not knowing that after Su He woke up from her nap, she had completely forgotten about it.
She was busy all afternoon in the clinic and had no spare energy to think about these trivial matters.
At five o’clock, the clinic ended.
Su He stretched lazily, having sat the whole afternoon.
Lu Zhenyu rushed to the restroom as soon as the last patient left.
Finally having some free time, Su He took out her phone.
Her phone had been vibrating frequently in her pocket, as she usually set it to vibrate mode during clinics.
As she unlocked it, she saw several unread text messages and two missed calls.
She casually opened the messages one by one.
It was just someone anxious because she hadn’t shown up for the appointment.
She thought for a moment and still typed a line, replying politely, “Oh, I’m busy, I don’t have time.
If you have something to say, texting works just as well.”
On the other side, the two who had waited all afternoon were looking exceptionally grim.
When An Xueyin received Su He’s reply, she was so angry that it felt like cotton was stuck in her chest—angry but unsure where to vent!
She had never anticipated that Su He would simply choose not to come; it was something she had never expected.
“Xueyin, I told you before, she won’t be fooled so easily,” Tang Sirou said.
She didn’t claim to know Su He very well, but she knew a bit, and that Su He really wasn’t like other women.
In an instant, a sinister smile flickered in An Xueyin’s eyes, “Cousin, since she isn’t coming, we’ll find a way to make her come to us voluntarily.”
“How?” asked Tang Sirou.
An Xueyin replied, “Cousin, do you remember that child from last time?”
A ripple passed through Tang Sirou’s eyes, but she said nothing, just responding with a “Hmm.”
She had always suspected that the child Su He had years ago wasn’t aborted, but Su He had hidden it too well, and Tang Sirou had found no trace of it until now.
After finding a slight clue last time, it had been completely lost again.
What she didn’t know was that the child An Xueyin referred to was not the child she thought of in her heart.
…
At six in the afternoon, Su He finished work.
She had just reached the car door, ready to open it and get in, when a chillingly low male voice sounded from behind her, “Dr.
Su.”
Su He turned around upon hearing the sound, looking as the man leisurely walked out from behind the pillar behind her.
When she saw Xi Jue’s face, her eyes narrowed slightly, yet she showed no surprise.
She leaned casually against the car door, looking at him expressionlessly and said, “Mr.
Xi Jue seems quite fond of blocking people’s way.”
Xi Jue’s narrow and deep eyes stared at her as he hooked his lips into a sly smile and said, “Anyone who I personally block is a worthy opponent to be admired.”
Su He thought to herself, ‘Admire my ass, what a load of bull!’
“When Mr.
Xi Jue says these words, you might as well hold back that phony expression on your face.” Su He spoke indifferently, “So, what is it that you want with me?”
Xi Jue: “Talking to Dr.
Su is comfortable, no need to beat around the bush.”
Su He laughed silently, but this smile did not reach the bottom of her eyes.
Xi Jue went silent for a few seconds, then spoke up, “Have you hidden the old man of the Zhou Family?”
Upon hearing this, Su He remained composed, responding with a light smile, “Who did Mr.
Xi Jue hear that from?
I’m just a doctor, don’t pin such a big hat on me.”
Xi Jue’s dark eyes narrowed slightly as he asked in a heavy voice, “Then why has it been so many days and he’s still in ICU?
Dr.
Su, surely there couldn’t be a problem with your surgery, could there?”
Su He faced his questioning without changing her demeanor, even admitting, “What if I say there was?”
Xi Jue was slightly taken aback.
Su He’s admission left him momentarily unsure how to respond.
She admitted it quite readily.
“I heard that old man is quite fond of you,” said Xi Jue.
“Could it be that he doesn’t want to see me?”
Su He still calmly said, “You also heard it as a rumor.
Words caught on the wind are hardly reliable.”
She didn’t mention anything about Mr.
Zhou.
“If you’ve come to block me just to talk about this, then I think I don’t have much to say.
Besides, as the patient’s primary physician, I have the right to protect the privacy of the patient from strangers.”
Xi Jue’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, “Am I a stranger?”
“Am I wrong?” Su He countered.
He curved his crimson lips, smiling coldly, “I thought Zhou Yixing would have told you, given the seemingly good relationship between you two.”
Su He naturally heard the implication in his words, but she didn’t need to care about such things.
She smiled faintly, with a hint of mockery, “I thought I had told Mr.
Xi Jue before that your eyesight isn’t very good, you should take care of it, but you seem to have not taken my advice to heart.”
An ordinary sentence, but he detected sarcasm in it.
Xi Jue: “…”
Then, Su He deliberately said, “By the way, I’m rather curious about something.
Miss Bai has just recovered not long ago, you’re not by her side, yet you come here – could it be that Miss Bai rejected you?”
Xi Jue’s eyes narrowed, his gaze dark and piercing as he stared at her.
Su He’s lips curled into a light laugh, “It seems I guessed right.”
Xi Jue’s face turned cold, his expression dark and tone casual, “I always found you interesting, but…
I really don’t like that mouth of yours!”
Upon hearing this, Su He raised her eyebrows at him, not taking his words seriously, waiting for him to continue.
Immediately after, she slightly furrowed her eyebrows.
She tilted her head and saw a group of black-clad bodyguards suddenly emerging around her.
She glanced at them and then turned to look at Xi Jue standing in front of her, her voice clear and cold, “Is Mr.
Xi Jue resorting to force now?”
Xi Jue said, “As long as you come with me willingly, I naturally still respect women.”
Su He scoffed, “You really think highly of me, needing so many people to invite me.”
Back in Country X, he had already suffered a setback; knowing Su He was not someone with just a high IQ, he had to be more careful.
But Su He just happened to be someone who didn’t respond to threats, her eyes carrying a hint of challenge: “What if I say I won’t cooperate?”
Xi Jue scoffed, “Then Dr.
Su shouldn’t blame my men for being rough.”
Su He had just glanced around and roughly counted the number in her head – about eleven people.
If it really came to fighting, she wasn’t without a chance to win.
Leaning against the car door, she loosened her neck and wrists, looking like she was getting ready for a big brawl.
She lifted her eyelids slightly and gave Mr.
Xi Jue a faint smile, but that smile carried a chilling coldness that was not to be trifled with.
She spoke lightly, “Let me see how rough your people are, and while we’re at it, let’s see who’s rougher – your men or me.”
Mr.
Xi Jue: “…”
Her mouth, as always, hadn’t let him down.
And Fei Xu, who had been lurking in the shadows, reported to Jiang Yan the moment Mr.
Xi Jue showed up.
Sensing that something was off with the atmosphere outside, she immediately got out of the car with her people.
Fei Xu brought three people with her, making a total of four including herself.
The four of them swiftly ran over.
Hearing the commotion, Mr.
Xi Jue and his people took a glance.
He clicked his tongue and said with a smirk, “So Dr.
Su has some backup.”
Only when Su He saw Fei Xu did she remember Fei Xu had been secretly following her.
“What, you’re allowed to have reinforcements, but I’m not?”
“That’s not what I’m saying.” He drawled, “It’s just that your backup seems a little short-handed.”
Su He felt like rolling her eyes at him, “It’s not about the quantity, but the quality.
How would you know we’re short-handed without giving it a try?
How about a wager?”
The last phrase was uttered with a twinkle in her eye.
For Mr.
Xi Jue, that sentence was eerily familiar.
“Does Dr.
Su really like gambling that much?”
Instead of answering, Su He threw the question back at him, “What, you don’t dare to take the bet?
Scared?”
“…”
Mr.
Xi Jue narrowed his eyes and asked, “Speak, what do you want to bet on?”
“If your people manage to subjugate all five of us, then you win.
Otherwise, if your people are the ones to fall, then you lose.
The loser has to agree to one condition from the winner,” Su He proposed.
A cold and grim aura surrounded Mr.
Xi Jue’s brows as he spoke in a detached and deep tone, “If you win, you’re not planning to ask me to kill myself, are you?”
He always had the feeling that this was a trap!
Su He chuckled, “Don’t worry, the condition won’t cross the line of morality.
It will be reasonable and lawful.”
Mr.
Xi Jue frowned, his skepticism evident, but he accepted the challenge regardless.
“…”
Five minutes later.
Mr.
Xi Jue’s face was as dark as thunder as he watched the scene unfold before him.
The people he brought weren’t all top-notch experts, but they were at least well-trained.
Yet, they couldn’t withstand more than three moves from Su He before being brought down.
Looking at Su He, her movements were quick and agile, clearly those of someone who had trained.
Moreover, her strikes were lethal, aimed directly at the weakest points of her opponent.
It was impossible for them to withstand even her third blow.
Mr.
Xi Jue knew she was no ordinary person, but even he was taken aback by her prowess in a fight.
He now understood that this woman never engaged in a losing deal.
If she proposed a bet, it meant she was ninety-nine percent certain of winning.
So, she had fooled him once again!
“My lord, at this rate, our people are bound to lose,” commented Ah Wu, one of the bodyguards, standing beside him.
Mr.
Xi Jue clenched his jaw tightly, his eyes like two swirling black vortices that could suck people into an eternally dark abyss.
And from a distance, there were still people sneaking peeks at the whole spectacle.