Adopting/Raising The Male Lead and The Villain

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On the other hand, Li Jinyuan and Huo Chengming had already arrived in City Hai. They checked into the hotel first before they asked around to see if there were any incidents in City Hai recently.

There wasn't much in terms of news except that Young Master Nan had finally graduated college and his family was preparing for his wedding again.

Could he be the reason?

Li Jinyuan and Huo Chengming exchanged a look; both of them looked cold.

***

A private hospital in City Hai.

Zhong Chi was finally transferred from ICU into a regular VIP room.

He had regained his consciousness and learned that Xu Yunhui kept the words out of the media about him falling ill. Zhong Chi agreed with her decision for the sake of keeping their stock prices from plummeting.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Xu Yunhui and Xu Yushan on both sides of him, looking very worried.

Zhong Chi was a little touched when he saw that.

The contrast, naturally, made Zhong Yuhuan seem even more ungrateful.

Xu Yunhui helped Zhong Chi sit up and said tenderly, "Don't worry, Chi-ge. The doctor said it won't take you long to recover."

Xu Yushan, on the other hand, was starting to get impatient with all the pretending.

Someone happened to knock on the door at this moment. "Is Boss Zhong awake? I am Xiao Zhao."

"Oh, Assistant Zhao is here," smiled Xu Yunhui as she stood up. "Then Shanshan and I will excuse ourselves. We will let you two talk."

Zhong Chi, too, was eager to find out what had happened during this time so he just nodded, with no intention of asking them to stay.

Xu Yunhui's expression froze a little.

She had forgotten what kind of a person Zhong Chi was. As touched as Zhong Chi was, he wouldn't mix his personal feelings with work that needed his attention.

Xu Yunhui and Xu Yushan walked out of the room.

Assistant Zhao walked inside.

Assistant Zhao turned and looked at the room entrance before he looked back at Zhong Chi. He was startled by what he saw.

He hadn't expected Zhong Chi to have aged so much during such a short amount of time. His face was a waxy yellow with dark black circles under his eyes. His face was slightly swollen, making it look twisted.

He looked like an entirely different person!

Assistant Zhao stuttered a little and said, "Boss... Boss Zhong. We have been investigating. We have notified the police... when your family doctor disappeared. We suspect he was the one who did it."

Zhong Chi's face was dark and vicious. He gritted his teeth and said, "I have always been nice to him. We must find him so we can find out who ordered him to do that. I have been in business all these years. Who did I offend to a point that they wanted me dead?"

"Could it be... the Ding's?"

Zhong Chi shook his head and overturned that right away, "If Old Man Ding hated me that much he wanted me dead, he would have acted upon it a long time ago. Not to mention that Ding Qiuyue had been their head of household for a while now. She doesn't have the brain to do something like this."

Assistant Zhao sighed.

"Oh, yeah! I needed to let you know something else."

"Shoot."

"When you first fell ill, Madam had instructed us to not mention to anyone about your illness."

"Yes, I am aware of that."

"But later on, Miss called and said she wanted to talk to you. I gathered that Madam didn't give her any details so Miss called me instead."

Zhong Chi's face changed colors.

It was the right thing to do for the company to not mention his illness.

But what would be the reason to keep it from Zhong Yuhuan?

Zhong Chi never had any problems gauging others with the worst intent. He let out a breath lightly and said through gritted teeth, "She thought I was about to die? So her intention was to keep Zhong Yuhuan from coming back?"

Slowly, a peculiar idea crossed his mind.

He had never thought about it before, but once it had occurred to him, it started forming a clearer and clearer picture.

"Go... and investigate. I want to know if Madam has anything to do with this."