Chapter 430: Chapter 401: Seeking the Truth
At night, when he’s alone, besides thinking of Wen Nuan, he mostly thinks about Li Qiu. He knows that Leng Ye pretends to be good to Li Qiu only on the surface. He also knows that Leng Siyan’s feelings towards Li Qiu are more out of guilt, so he’s very worried. When that day comes, when his life ends, and he disappears from this world, what will happen to Li Qiu?
The closest person to her is him, yet he could face death at any time. He cannot imagine Li Qiu in pain, nor can he imagine how Leng Ye will treat her. Therefore, after learning about his own illness, he transferred a lot of money to her, enough for her to live the rest of her life without worry. Afterward, he deliberately stopped listening to Li Qiu, deliberately reduced the number of times he visited her, hoping that her love for him would diminish due to resentment, so it would hurt less when he’s gone.
When Li Qiu suggested visiting Ji Wei to persuade Ji Wei to abort the child, he even more deliberately blocked her, saying that his affairs with Ji Wei did not concern her, and there was no need for her to take care of the child when it was born. Because of this, Li Qiu was deeply hurt and they didn’t speak for half a month.
While he was in the UK, he rarely made phone calls. For a long time, Li Qiu, in her dismay, felt that Leng Yan was no longer the Leng Yan he once was, and it made her extremely saddened. Now, he suddenly reversed his previous coldness, holding her so affectionately, leaving her bewildered. But seeing him smile so brightly, her heart finally calmed down, filled more with comfort and satisfaction.
"The doctor said you need more rest." Li Qiu smiled, patting her son’s hand: "Good boy, go inside and sleep for a while. Whatever you want to eat, mom will have the servant bring it."
"There are a lot of things I want to eat." Leng Yan blinked, rare in his coquettishness: "However, what I want most is to get my phone back. Mom, give me back my phone."
"No way!"
Li Qiu rejected firmly, her tone leaving no room for negotiation, with a faint sadness between her eyebrows: "I don’t want to bury you with my own hands, your body needs rest, no need to go to the company lately. Put aside the company’s affairs for now."
Leng Yan insisted, "Mom, I’m really fine, give me the phone, I want to call Nuannuan."
"Call Nuannuan?"
Li Qiu’s first reaction was that her son must have fainted to the point of losing his mind. She was startled afterward, instinctively putting her hand on Leng Yan’s forehead, frowning gently: "No fever. But why suddenly think of calling Nuannuan, didn’t you break up with her ruthlessly?"
"It’s a long story!"
He definitely will hold Dr. Wang and Dr. Ma accountable, but at this moment that’s not the most important thing.
He wants to tell Nuannuan that everything before was fake, he loves her, he never gave up on loving her. He wants to marry her, to wear the shoes she gave him to go pick her up, he won’t overwork, he’ll spend his life with her well.
"What about Ji Wei then?"
Li Qiu’s mind buzzed, completely disoriented by Leng Yan: "Son, what exactly do you want? Regret being with Ji Wei and want Nuannuan back? But you must clear up things with Ji Wei before finding her. Like the child..."
At the mention of that name which made him sick, Leng Yan’s face immediately darkened: "The child is not mine in the first place."
"What is going on..."
Li Qiu was utterly confused, and before she could finish, Leng Yan noticed the phone in her hand, a sly look flashed in his eyes, and he gently reached out to take it.
He couldn’t wait to talk to Wen Nuan, ever since she left with Leng Ye, he’s been restless.
Even if the one protecting Wen Nuan isn’t him, it shouldn’t be Leng Ye. Although he was also moved by Leng Ye’s disregard for his own life to protect Wen Nuan, Leng Ye is too scheming, especially recently there’s more evidence indicating that the Leng Family’s crisis is tied to Leng Ye, deepening his suspicion.
Several times, he thought of bringing Wen Nuan back, but whenever he remembered her cold look and words, "what right do you have", he felt lost.
The night he learned they went to the United States with Leng Ye, he stayed at the company till late, then ran to the rooftop alone. The cold wind howled, he stood on the roof, looking up at the stars, despair rampant in his heart.
Her words echoed in his ears over and over, she called him Young Master Leng, she said what right did he have...
Pain made him hold his head tight, until the stomachache became unbearable, he went back, took the medicine Dr. Wang gave him, slept in the office, got a fever at midnight, took a cold shower to reduce it, and insisted on working the next day.
He wanted to tell her, just because he loves her. But he couldn’t say it. If not for Leng Ye’s health condition, he wouldn’t know when he’d impulsively bring her back.
Now, finally without any worries, he could no longer endure days without her.
The call went through, only disappointment answered him.
"What happened?"
Li Qiu asked softly seeing his gloomy face.
"The phone’s off." Leng Yan’s voice sounded like a sigh.
"It’s 1 a.m. now in the United States." Li Qiu thought for a moment, comforting him: "Nuannuan should be sleeping now, call her when she wakes up."
The fact that Nuannuan went with Leng Ye to the United States for treatment wasn’t hidden from her, so knowing this, she was angry, blaming her son for having water in his brain to give up on Wen Nuan.
"That’s all I can do." Leng Yan handed the phone back to Li Qiu, looking at Uncle Wang who came out, gritting his teeth: "Uncle Wang, call Dr. Ma, I want to talk to him."
"What’s wrong?" Uncle Wang was puzzled, but still helped connect the call.
Listening to the explanation over there, Leng Yan’s frown deepened.
Dr. Ma said, if a mistake occurred, it should be because of the new nurse at the time who mixed up his and Leng Siyan’s test results. Since an urgent matter occurred, it hasn’t been resolved till now, he didn’t tell anyone about this, including Uncle Wang who didn’t know either.
The reasons sound valid, so what about Dr. Wang?
Did they really take the wrong test results, or was it a misdiagnosis?
Could such a coincidence really happen? He found it hard to accept! He didn’t believe it at all!
But if it wasn’t...
Leng Yan frowned tightly, probably there really was a conspiracy here.
Returning from Leng Siyan’s place, he took back the phone, disregarding Uncle Wang’s and Li Qiu’s advise to rest, drove himself to Dr. Wang’s hospital.
"Mr.... Mr. Leng."
The office door was slammed open, and Leng Yan’s appearance shocked Dr. Wang, his scalp tingled immediately.
The window was opened by Leng Yan, and the cold wind roared in, filling the room with coldness, and Dr. Wang couldn’t stop sweating from his forehead.
"Tell me, what’s going on?"
Standing by the window, Leng Yan abruptly pulled it open, a cold smile on his lips, he came over and sat across from Dr. Wang, his index finger tapping the diagnosis book on the table. His voice was as light as a spring breeze, yet it chilled the ears like icy wind: "Who’s behind this?"
"I don’t know." Dr. Wang shook his head, sweating again, wiping it with a tissue, eyes filled with pleading and regret: "Mr. Leng, I’m sorry, I admit I deceived you, but I really had no choice."
"No choice? My trust in you resulted in this, and all you say is you had no choice?"
Leng Yan stared coldly at him: "How much did they give you?"
"Not a single cent."
Dr. Wang’s lips trembled: "Someone threatened me over the phone."
"Threatened?" Leng Yan was suddenly stunned: "Details?"
He gritted his teeth: "Do not lie by a single word!"
Dr. Wang said that the night of reporting the diagnosis, he received a call from someone fierce saying he was downstairs at Dr. Wang’s daughter’s boarding school, waiting for his daughter to come out anytime. If Dr. Wang didn’t report it, the person gave him a choice:
1. Assault before killing. 2. Kill before assault.
"I only have this one daughter, at first, I didn’t believe him, but he described my daughter’s name, appearance, and her class and dormitory number in detail, so I had no choice but to believe him. I called the homeroom teacher, but it was also in a state of being turned off, I..."
Dr. Wang, recalling the event, was still trembling with fear. He looked down, ashamed to face Leng Yan, staring at the table: "I dared not, so I did it against my conscience... Mr. Leng, I beg you, forgive me. I really didn’t mean to harm you, I even specially prescribed some mild medicine, I told you not to undergo chemotherapy yet, hoping in time you’d realize it wasn’t gastric cancer. I did this only to not lose my daughter, she’s still young, in the first year of middle school, I really..."
"Enough!"
Leng Yan’s face was ashen: "Why not say after the fact?"
"He kept calling to threaten me, intermittently calling, I transferred my daughter to another school, yet he still found out." Dr. Wang’s voice was already quivering: "I wanted to call the police, but he always used public phones, I recorded the calls, you can listen."
Listening to the recording, Leng Yan’s browed furrowed deeply. Just as he moved to turn it off, suddenly his expression tightened, replaying it.
The voice was somewhat familiar as if he had heard it somewhere.
Especially when he heard, "Damn, you want to meddle? Looking for death?"
This phrase was said when Dr. Wang mentioned to the caller not to do immoral things.
Where had he heard this?
His excellent memory searched his mind repeatedly, finally freezing, biting his teeth tightly.
In E City, when Nuannuan was almost raped by an escaped convict... when he rushed in, the perpetrator maliciously said something similar.
He didn’t get a clear look at the person because he wore a black mask and a cap at the time.
The image of the video after Wen Nuan’s car accident floated in his mind. A brick was raised high by a man’s hand.
The angle the man took was very good, making it impossible to capture his full face. But his build, combined with the recording from Dr. Wang, naturally linked all these together in his mind.