Free Web NovelChapter 194: Chapter 176: Never Betray in This Lifetime
The men looked at each other, their expressions shifting.
Even Shen Zueran, who was standing by Yu Lan’s side, found his gaze darkening.
They exchanged glances, feeling as if they were watching a repeat of their own rise to power.
They hadn’t thought much of it back then, but looking at it now, how was it so damn annoying?
At that moment, Yu Lan had moved to the doctor’s side and was listening to his instructions.
Yu Wenzhou was lying on the hospital bed, his face pale. He was in a weak, half-conscious state.
Sensing someone approaching, he struggled to open his eyes and look at the newcomer.
The moment he saw Yu Lan, his weak expression was instantly tinged with anxiety and panic. He tightly gripped her small hand.
"Lanlan, are you okay? Are you hurt?"
"I... I’ll protect you."
As he spoke, he propped himself up on the bed with his hands, looking as if he were trying to get up despite his injuries.
The freshly and tightly wrapped wound showed signs of tearing open again, and the faint scent of blood began to spread through the air.
"Oh, for heaven’s sake! Young man, just lie still! Your wound is about to split open again. Do you want to go through all that pain a second time?"
The doctor hurriedly reached out, trying to hold Yu Wenzhou down.
Yu Lan helped as well, her expression soothing.
"It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m fine."
"See? I’m perfectly fine right now."
"You protected me very well. Look, we’re at the hospital."
"What you need to do now is rest and get well soon, okay?"
For some reason...
Seeing Yu Wenzhou like this, Yu Lan’s heart instantly softened.
She continued to soothe him with her words.
Sure enough, as Yu Lan spoke, Yu Wenzhou finally stopped struggling to sit up.
He slowly lay back on the bed, obediently letting himself be covered by the blanket, but not without adding:
"I’ll listen to whatever Lanlan says."
"Tch!"
The moment the words left his mouth, they were met with dissatisfied clicks of the tongue from Pei Shiyi and the others standing nearby.
"As expected of a big star. He really knows how to act," Sheng Yiqing grumbled.
He put on a better show than a fox.
But unfortunately, that was exactly the kind of thing Yu Lan fell for.
After coaxing Yu Wenzhou to lie back down, she turned and said to him:
"The doctor will take you to your room now. I’m going downstairs to pay the fees."
"Don’t worry, just get some rest."
"Mm."
Yu Wenzhou nodded obediently.
Yu Lan walked briskly toward the payment counter downstairs. As she passed Huo Zhanting and the others, she didn’t forget to greet them.
"You can all go to his room and see Yu Wenzhou."
The men smiled, nodded, and readily agreed, their eyes following Yu Lan’s figure until she disappeared down the stairwell.
Under normal circumstances, there would be no need for Yu Lan to run off and handle the payment herself. The men, eager to impress her, would have been tripping over themselves to help.
But now...
They needed Yu Lan to be gone for a while so they could have a good, long talk with Yu Wenzhou.
Huo Zhanting and the others looked up, their gazes meeting Yu Wenzhou’s from his hospital bed.
The man grinned at them, a hint of triumphant satisfaction on his face.
Huo Zhanting’s gaze darkened. He realized in an instant that this person was no simple character.
*
The Ward
After all the doctors had left, Su Xingye closed the door and locked it from the inside.
Only Yu Wenzhou and Huo Zhanting’s group remained in the room.
The men’s entire aura changed in an instant. As chosen sons of heaven who had achieved high status and immense power at a young age, they were not people Yu Wenzhou could provoke and fool as he pleased.
Huo Zhanting and the others looked down on him, their arrogant and sharp gazes fixed on Yu Wenzhou’s face. They released their 3S-level auras, trying to overwhelm him and force him to reveal his true intentions.
As a mere C-level with a rabbit prototype, Yu Wenzhou had no choice but to grip the blanket beneath him tightly with both hands, his knuckles turning white, just to resist the suppression that stemmed from the very depths of their bloodlines.
While forcing his back to stay straight and refusing to retreat, he smiled bitterly to himself.
’The Beast Husbands Lanlan found... they’re truly one more impressive than the last.’
’But just the same, I will never let go. Not unless I die.’
The determination on Yu Wenzhou’s face was so obvious that Shen Zueran’s eyes darkened. He knew that continuing this would yield no results.
A cool, rational voice spoke up:
"That’s enough."
Shen Zueran then pulled a check from his sleeve and presented it to Yu Wenzhou.
"This is for one billion."
"I’ve looked into it. You’re not on good terms with your agency. Even though you’re currently the hottest top-tier star in the entire interstellar space, you’re signed to a contract with the smallest revenue split."
"With this one billion, it’s more than enough for you to terminate your contract and start a new life."
"What do you think?"
Shen Zueran’s dark eyes stared intently at Yu Wenzhou, his voice already carrying a hint of a terrifying threat.
If Yu Wenzhou didn’t comply...
...they would never allow this unstable element to remain by Yu Lan’s side.
If they joined forces to pressure him, they would surely find a way to crush him.
Taking the money and leaving was his best option right now.
However, the men, engrossed in waiting for Yu Wenzhou’s answer, didn’t notice a figure gradually approaching the door from the outside.
「Three minutes earlier.」
Yu Lan had just finished paying in the first-floor lobby and went to the nurse’s station to pick up medication.
There, she happened to overhear the nurses talking as they entered information:
"Huh, Yu Wenzhou is actually from the Garbage Star."
"Didn’t the promotional materials say he’s a noble scion from some family on the Main Star?"
Another nurse next to her spoke as if this was nothing unusual:
"That’s perfectly normal. Just standard procedure for entertainment agencies."
"The ’noble scion’ persona is always popular."
"But then again, for Yu Wenzhou to come from the Garbage Star and make it this far is even more impressive, don’t you think?"
"Keep your voice down. Don’t let this information get out. If he sues you for it, you wouldn’t be able to afford the damages even if you sold yourself."
Having said that, they noticed Yu Lan approaching, and their gazes froze.
"Hello, how may I help you?"
Yu Lan shook her head.
She was completely lost in a daze.
’What does that mean?’
’Yu Wenzhou is also from the Garbage Star?’
’He’s not from the Main Star.’
A sharp pain erupted from the depths of her brain, and large beads of sweat rolled down her forehead.
Crying out in pain, Yu Lan shook her head frantically and raised a hand to hit her own head hard.
In that single instant...
...many things flashed rapidly through her mind.
In an orphanage on the Garbage Star, a little boy with white hair and red eyes held a much younger little girl tightly and made a promise.
"Lanlan, we’ll be together forever."
"I will never betray you."
Then, the memory fragment flashed to a new scene.
The little boy had grown to look like Yu Wenzhou, and he was looking at her with a worried expression.
"Lanlan, you must be careful on your trip to the Central Star."
"You have to remember that I’ll be waiting for you on the Garbage Star. You have to come back for me."
"If you find another man and forget about me, I’ll go post notices at the gates of the Imperial Palace and shout about it until everyone knows."
One fragment after another flashed rapidly through Yu Lan’s mind.
Finally, as the sharp pain faded, everything vanished into nothingness.
Along with the very memories she had just recalled.
