Chapter 51 2/2

Mobile phone, covering the face.

A tissue wiped his eye.

Jiang Li originally listened to Cen Lang’s words, not getting involved in his own past, so as not to lose control due to psychological shadows and make his father more uncomfortable.

But when he heard Jiang Wanlan smashing the phone, he couldn’t help but come out. Inexperienced, he coaxed, “Didn’t you promise not to get angry, Dad?”

“My medicine didn’t work, and I would be sad.”

Jiang Wanlan quickly wiped away tears: “I’m not angry, baby; I shouldn’t have trusted Wang Shu; I let down your efforts.”

Jiang Li whispered, “No, Dad.”

“Wang Shu accepted my hair and didn’t throw it away in front of me. I was happy that day. At least I know that trying to escape the sewer will lead to success one day. I succeeded, and that’s what matters, not what others think.”

He stopped Uncle Wang, comparable to a successful speech—a rare bright spot in the nineteen-year-old’s life. He could succeed.

Later, numbness was a form of self-protection. Jiang Li vaguely understood; some things couldn’t be insisted upon when too weak.

He is powerful now.

Jiang Wanlan carefully hugged Jiang Li: “Thank you, thank you for experiencing so much and still being willing to be my child.”

It’s because he doesn’t deserve to be a father.

The broken phone buzzed on the ground. The doctor told him that Wang Shu had just attempted suicide in the hospital. Jiang Wanlan said indifferently, “Don’t bother telling me. If he doesn’t die, send him for treatment. If he dies, inform the family.” Jiang Li took the phone from Jiang Wanlan, asked the doctor some questions, and hung up. “He can be saved.”

“Let Dad handle it. You rest with me for a while, okay?” Jiang Li said. Jiang Wanlan couldn’t refuse, suddenly remembered something, and said, “I’ll change to a new bedsheet.” Jiang Li: “No need, it’s clean.”

Jiang Wanlan looked at Jiang Li lying next to him, his eyes full of tenderness. Twenty-four years ago, Jiang Li, still a baby, lay beside him.

He looked at Jiang Li’s belly. Soon, Jiang’s baby would be born. Fortunately, he still had the chance to be present in the last phase of Jiang Li’s life that might need a father, taking care of his pregnancy.

Jiang Wanlan, who was collapsing, couldn’t be handled by even Lu Jing. In the end, Jiang Li coaxed him well.

Dr. Xiao Jiang is actually good at coaxing people.

Cen Lang inappropriately thought, facing his irrational self in the underground city, How did Jiang Li coax him? He must have been moved at that time, right?

Cen Lang looked at Lu Jing, who was suppressing his anger, and thought that when facing a berserk Alpha, they had something in common. “Lu Jing, how do you plan to deal with it?”

Lu Jing: “Tit for tat.”

Cen Lang: “There are enough villains, half for each person.”

Cen Lang found in the investigation of Maxi that some orphans still had contact after being adopted. Led by Maxi, they formed a group to discuss how to prevent adoptive parents from having biological children and seize their inheritance.

After receiving education in school, most orphans developed a sense of right and wrong, grew into normal people, and when asked about the bullying they experienced as children, they were initially silent, then undeniable. They were willing to apologize and compensate Jiang Li, as Jiang Li had mentioned.

Cen Lang didn’t need their apologies. After a few rounds of tit for tat, he let them go as Jiang Li suggested.

Maxi, the leader, and his supporters were exposed in the group chat records. The adoptive parents were chilled to the bone and terminated the adoption relationship through the newspaper. The opportunity they had snatched from Jiang Li was ruined by themselves.

Lu Jing beat him with a burlap sack, and Cen Lang didn’t personally do it.

In the next four years, these people had to be cautious every day. They would randomly find themselves lying in a stinky ditch, mocked, cursed, mentally exhausted, isolated, and helpless.

As for the orphanage director, Cen Lang personally tortured him with storm syndrome and then sent him to prison.

Didn’t Yu Yangxun know how to use children’s ignorance to maliciously guide bullying? Then let him see what real malicious bullying was in prison.

After being half-dead, let him be released for medical treatment, see how his ex-boyfriend and wife were affectionate, and then see the joy of the hospital couple welcoming their newborn.

And Yu Yangxun could only watch all of this like a stinky rat in the gutter. Watch and throw him back to prison; release him for medical treatment again; repeat a few times.

Calculating the evil he had done in the orphanage and assisted reproduction institution, he could get about eight years in prison according to the law, exactly doubling what Jiang Li had experienced.

It was light. Ruining many people’s lives, but only serving eight years in prison.

Cen Lang would make these eight years worth it.

…

Jiang Wanlan has a whole building, and Jiang Li couldn’t refuse Jiang Wanlan’s reluctant eyes, so he had to find another floor to live on.

Jiang Li looked at Cen Lang’s luggage that he insisted on moving in and frowned. “Did my dad let you in?”

Lu Jing, who had made progress from being a backdoor security guard, was now promoted to the security guard of Jiang Wanlan’s building, with a rest room on the first floor. Cen Lang: “I arranged for his promotion. He let me in; it makes sense.”

Jiang Li: “…”

At night, Jiang Li woke up in the middle of the night and found that Cen Lang was not there. He went out for two hours before returning, and then Lu Jing went out for two hours. Jiang Li asked, “What are you guys doing?”

Cen Lang naturally wouldn’t say they took turns going out to beat people. “Patrolling.”

Jiang Li: “Isn’t the security of the sanatorium good enough?”

Cen Lang: “Very good, especially the top Alphas.”

Jiang Li: “Hmm?”

Cen Lang: “Too much energy with nowhere to vent, and Dr. Xiao Jiang doesn’t handle it for us.” He didn’t want to be violent at first, but seeing Lu Jing really made him enjoy beating people up. So they agreed to leave one person on guard and take turns going out.

Jiang Li’s eyelids twitched, recalling Cen Lang’s night training against a dozen top Alphas at the space base. Who could endure such a beating?

“Don’t go out.”

“It’s too dark outside.”

Jiang Li heard the movement downstairs when Lu Jing came back, so he decided to talk to his dad as well.

Lu Jing was not as talkative as Jiang Wanlan. When facing Jiang Li alone, he could only squeeze out a few words: “It’s so late; aren’t you sleeping yet?” Jiang Li: “Can you not go out at night? I and Dad don’t feel safe when you’re not around.” Lu Jing was stunned. So, Cen Lang was not giving him a sense of security?

Cen Lang: “…”

Lu Jing: “Okay.”

Lu Jing was a little happy but regretted that he didn’t remember to bring a gift for Jiang Li when he went out.

He hadn’t given anything since they met.

And he didn’t know what the child liked.

Seeing Cen Lang, Lu Jing suddenly remembered the lichen they dug, so he said, “Sorry, it’s a bit rushed; I didn’t bring you anything. Next time I go to space, I’ll dig lichen for you.”

Jiang Li: “Cen Lang gave me three kilograms; it’s enough for a long time.”

Lu Jing: “Three kilograms? Didn’t we dig ten kilograms?”

Cen Lang: “”

Lu Jing suddenly understood. This guy was hiding and waiting to hook Jiang Li’s appetite. He regretted letting him in.

Jiang Li: “Ten kilograms?!”

Being blamed by Cen Lang so much, Lu Jing didn’t change his expression and said, “I dug seven kilograms. Captain Cen might not want to claim credit, so he didn’t bring it out. The adenoma drug is extracted from lichen. I wanted to thank you at that time.”

Cen Lang: “…” Nonsense; clearly, it’s three for me and seven for you.

Jiang Li looked at Cen Lang and said, “Oh, where are they?”

Cen Lang was bleeding in his heart. “All in the lab.”

It was a bloody lesson. If there’s something good, you must hand it over to your wife first.