Chapter 78: Argument

“Yoyo, why are you here? Hurry up and leave!”

When Yin Hanyu saw Lin Qingyou, he was first surprised, but then his expression quickly turned to anger.

Lin Qingyou hadn’t been angry at first, but seeing Yin Hanyu trying to chase her away like this, she really started to get mad.

“Why can you come here, but I can’t?”

Yin Hanyu quickly grabbed Lin Qingyou and tried to pull her outside. “It’s dangerous here, and it’s filthy and smelly. This is no place for a girl.”

“No place for a girl?” Lin Qingyou pointed at Ming Yu. “Don’t tell me that this gorgeous beauty over here isn’t a woman.”

Yin Hanyu: “She’s different from you.”

“……”

That statement was obviously easy to misunderstand. And as if that wasn’t enough, Yin Yixuan fanned the flames from the side: “Did you hear that? He said you and Ming Yu are not even comparable!”

Lin Qingyou: “……”

Ming Yu: “……”

Yin Hanyu: “……”

Damn it, he really wanted to punch someone right now.

Just when Yin Yixuan thought he had successfully stirred the pot, just when he expected Lin Qingyou to beat Yin Hanyu up—

The next second.

Lin Qingyou suddenly elbowed Yin Yixuan. “You scheming rat! Don’t think I don’t know you’re trying to drive a wedge between us!”

Yin Yixuan: “……”

This wasn’t how the script was supposed to go! Where did it all go wrong?

Lin Qingyou then scolded him, “Yin Yixuan, isn’t the Yin family known for its strict upbringing? Haven’t you been taught that when your elders are speaking, the younger ones should stay quiet?”

Yin Yixuan was furious. “What kind of elder are you? Are you older than me? Elder, my ass!”

Lin Qingyou narrowed her eyes dangerously. “Haven’t you ever heard the saying: ‘The eldest brother is like a father, and the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother’?”

Yin Yixuan: “……”

“Still don’t get it? You really are slow.” Lin Qingyou helpfully explained, “Yin Hanyu is your biological brother, so that makes me your sister-in-law. In other words, Yin Hanyu is your dad, and I am your mom.”

Yin Yixuan: “……???!!!”

Yin Hanyu: “……!!!!!!”

Hell no! He refused to accept such a dumb son!

“Pfft—” Even Ming Yu, who was always composed, couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

Yin Yixuan shot a glare at Ming Yu.

Ming Yu glared right back.

In less than a second, Yin Yixuan backed down. “Are you hurt?”

Ming Yu instantly put on a cold face. “What does it have to do with you?”

“You—”

“What do you mean ‘you’?” Lin Qingyou pushed Yin Yixuan aside and pulled Yin Hanyu over. “Are you blind? Can’t you see that the one who’s hurt is my baby?”

“My—” Lin Qingyou looked at Yin Hanyu with disdain. “You can’t even protect your own woman, and yet you have the audacity to be jealous? Useless.”

Yin Yixuan: “……”

“Hmph, glare at me all you want, you’re still useless.” Lin Qingyou shot him a fierce look, then dragged Yin Hanyu out.

Outside, she was about to drive him to the hospital.

Leaning against the seat, Yin Hanyu shook his head. “I’m not going to the hospital.”

“Why not?” Lin Qingyou asked.

Yin Hanyu replied, “The explosives were stored for years. Most of their power had already weakened. My injuries are just minor scrapes.”

Lin Qingyou stared at him intently. “I’m asking you—why don’t you want to go to the hospital?”

Yin Hanyu was silent for a moment before simply saying, “I just hate hospitals.”

Lin Qingyou gritted her teeth but couldn’t hold back anymore. “Yin Hanyu, you left my house in the middle of the night without saying a word. I understood you had an emergency, so I didn’t get mad.”

“Even your own brother thinks there’s something going on between you and Ming Yu. And I actually saw you risk your life to save her. But in such a dangerous situation, I know that her safety was more important than my jealousy, so I didn’t get mad.”

“You said you and Ming Yu are life-and-death partners, so I understand why you’d risk your life for her.”

“But that doesn’t mean I have no feelings, and it doesn’t mean I don’t get jealous.”

“I told you before, we should be honest with each other. So I’m telling you now—I’m jealous, and I need you to comfort me.”

“But what about you? Have you comforted me?”

“And now, you’re even keeping things from me…”

“Yin Hanyu, why are you hiding things from me? Do you really see me as someone you can’t trust?”

Yin Hanyu immediately tried to explain. “No, it’s not like that—”

“Yoyo, it’s really not what you think.”

Yin Hanyu’s expression was full of anxiety and helplessness. A thin layer of sweat formed on his forehead—whether from pain or from nervousness, it was unclear.

“Then explain it to me!”

Lin Qingyou refused to back down, pressing him for an answer.

However, faced with her firm stance, Yin Hanyu fell silent again.

For a moment, the car was filled with an eerie silence.

In the driver’s seat, Assistant Xu sat stiffly, as if on pins and needles.

He kept glancing at the rearview mirror, watching the tense atmosphere between them, silently crying inside.

Dear God, should he start the car? Or not?

Seeing Yin Hanyu still refusing to speak, Lin Qingyou’s eyebrows furrowed in anger.

“Fine. Since you’ve made up your mind not to talk, then from now on, don’t speak to me ever again!”

With that, she reached for the car door, ready to leave.

But just as she was about to step out, Yin Hanyu suddenly snapped back to reality. In a flash, he grabbed her wrist tightly.

“After I was kidnapped, I fell into a never-ending abyss of darkness… Every day, I was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, forced onto a cold operating table.”

“I became nothing more than an experimental subject for those so-called doctors in white coats and masks.”

“Every time I opened my eyes, all I saw were their cold, emotionless gazes.”

“They held syringes and blood extraction devices, approaching me like demons… Then, a sharp pain—”

“Bright red blood flowed out of my body, filling bottle after bottle of horrifying crimson liquid.”

“But that was only the beginning of the nightmare… Because besides blood extraction, there were countless unknown drugs and terrifying viruses waiting to be injected into me.”

“The needles got bigger and bigger. I could feel them piercing through my skin, pushing those dreadful substances into my body.”

“The pain was unbearable… My body convulsed uncontrollably, my muscles spasming as waves of agony crashed through my nerves.”

“I struggled on the operating table, screaming in torment…”

“But it was useless. In the end, I was in so much pain that I lost consciousness.”

“But that wasn’t the end… Because soon enough, I would wake up again in unbearable pain, only to face the same horrors once more. The cycle never ended…”

“Day after day… It felt like there was no end in sight…”