Chapter 63: Lu Youyou Risks Her Life to Save Lu Tian?!!

"Aunt Li, tell me, what kind of person would lie to the point of finally deceiving themselves?"

Lu Tian sat in a wheelchair, every ache in her body serving as a bitter reminder.

In truth, wasn't the root cause of all this suffering standing right before her—the deeply devoted man himself?

Exhausted, she rubbed her eyes. "Push me to the small garden for some fresh air. I can't stand the people in here."

"Oh, right away."

Caregiver Aunt Li curled her lips in disdain as she wheeled Lu Tian away.

Along the way, she couldn't resist complaining on behalf of Pei Jing. "Madam Pei, men will be men. You two are married, but you can't expect your husband to be a monk, serving only you twenty-four hours a day without ever making a single mistake, can you?"

"If you ask me, as long as a husband can make money and keeps you in his heart, that's more than enough."

Look around Jinggang; surely no one could fail to be moved by Pei Jing's "boundless devotion"!

By the time they reached the small garden, there was hardly anyone around.

Annoyed by the chatter, Lu Tian instructed, "I want to be alone for a while. Go back to the hospital room and tidy up."

"Fine."

Aunt Li forced a fake smile. As she turned to leave, she muttered under her breath, "Some people just don't know what's good for them. Asking for trouble. Women like this simply don't know how blessed they are!"

Ha!

She couldn't help letting out a cold laugh.

Once Aunt Li was gone, Lu Tian sent a message to Attorney Wang.

—[In Rachel's name, schedule a meeting with Pei Jing and his wife for next Monday.]

Attorney Wang called immediately. "A meeting? Miss Lu, aren't you afraid your identity will be exposed? President Pei is such a ruthless man, I'm afraid—"

"Don't worry, I have my own plans."

The countdown was drawing to a close.

It was time to set certain wheels in motion.

Attorney Wang fell silent for a moment before saying, "You are currently President Pei's wife on paper. If there's a meeting, the person President Pei brings should be you, shouldn't it? Can you be in two places at once?"

"Who said the Madam Pei has to be me?"

"Huh?"

The call ended.

Lu Tian wiped away all traces of her communication with Attorney Wang just in case.

She wheeled herself toward the ward.

But just as she reached the entrance, Lu Zhi suddenly lunged out from behind a dense cluster of bushes.

The madman grabbed her fiercely by the throat, his five fingers digging so hard into her flesh it seemed he wanted to tear her skin apart.

"Lu Tian, didn't expect this, did you? You had the audacity to ruin me, but fortunately for me, I have such a good sister like Youyou!"

Lu Youyou had thrown a massive fit in front of Pei Jing—crying, making a scene, and threatening suicide—nearly miscarrying for the N+1st time.

Terrified that her precious grandson in the womb might come to harm, Pei's mother added fuel to the fire, forcing her own son to bail Lu Zhi out.

Lu Tian's eyes were bloodshot, her fractured ribs still unhealed.

Unable to move a muscle, she could only endure as her own flesh and blood brother viciously tried to choke the life out of her.

Her throat was blocked, unable to utter a single complete syllable.

"How much Pei Jing cares about Youyou and the son in her belly—"

"Lu Tian, I shouldn't need to spell it out for you to see, should I?"

Compared to a legitimate wife being battered in broad daylight...

Pei Jing certainly cared far more about the safety of his other "wife" and son...

"Don't worry, I won't let a jinx like you die too easily."

"With a malicious heart like yours from birth—"

"Naturally, you need to be properly punished to atone for the sin of driving your own parents to their deaths!"

Fumbling with her phone while struggling to breathe, Lu Tian managed to activate the emergency voice recording feature.

Simultaneously, the evidence of Lu Zhi admitting that he was the true biological child of the Lu family was being automatically uploaded and cached in a cloud storage drive for future use.

Crash! A deafening roar shattered the air.

The wheelchair tumbled entirely into the artificial lake.

The freezing water stung the injuries across Lu Tian's back.

Unable to move, she could only watch as her battered body sank slowly beneath the surface.

On the shore.

Lu Zhi roared, "Youyou, you're pregnant! Get back here right now, stop acting foolish!"

"No! Even if Sister is deliberately trying to frame me by harming herself, I can't just stand by and watch her drown!"

In an instant, the small hospital garden descended into complete chaos.

Pei Jing rushed over upon hearing the commotion.

What he saw was a small wooden boat about to collide with the drowning Lu Tian.

Lu Youyou threw herself forward with reckless abandon to shield her.

"Youyou!"

"Lu Youyou!"

Two male voices pierced the air.

They rushed desperately into the water, lifting the bruised and bloodied Lu Youyou and racing toward the emergency department.

Half-conscious, the young girl kept repeating frantically, "Save my baby... I can die, but my child cannot... That is the precious baby belonging to me and my husband..."

"Wife! Our son will be fine, with me here, neither of you will be hurt!"

WIFE!!!

Lu Tian was completely forgotten. In the very last second before she lost consciousness in the artificial lake,

the corners of her lips curved upward in a faint smile, and she thought to herself, "Pei Jing, the Lu Tian who once loved you more than her own life... has finally been murdered by your own hands."

Early the next morning.

The entire floor of the luxury VIP ward was sealed off and guarded by blond-haired, blue-eyed professional security personnel.

More than a dozen specialists in trauma surgery and orthopedics hovered anxiously outside the door, monitoring the situation for one-on-one VIP treatment.

"Where am I..." Lu Tian's throat was parched; even speaking a single word caused her too much pain to produce any sound.

Simon rushed in and quickly performed a physical examination.

Patting his chest in lingering fear, he said, "Good thing, good thing. Your cancer is under stable control, and your fever has broken, otherwise Liyan Chen and the little bun would have swallowed me alive!"

"What Liyan Chen and little bun?"

Lu Tian's head throbbed fiercely, and she was completely baffled.

Quick-witted Simon explained, "Nothing, you heard wrong. But the one who saved you is the head of the Nordic Li family, so just rest assured and recuperate here."

The Nordic Li family again?

She didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

When she wanted to question Simon further, not a trace of him was left by the bedside.

She picked up her phone from the bedside table and powered it on.

A barrage of accusatory WeChat messages from Pei Jing popped up one after another.

—[Tianfang, Youyou risked her life to save you, yet you had the head of the Li family throw her out?]

—[Answer the phone right now, I know you're fine!]

—[Youyou is at the Pei Group hospital right now, she needs an obstetrics specialist named Ruan Ning.]

—[I reached out, but the other party said they needed your approval.]

Ruan Ning?

Lu Tian thought for a moment and recalled the aloof beauty she had bumped into in the hallway the other day...

"Out of their minds! What does the life or death of a mistress and her illegitimate child have to do with me?" She deleted the chat dialog straight away and found the contact saved under "Head of the Li Family."

Sure enough.

There were two or three unread text messages.

—[Letting you play the role of a true princess for once.]

—[Enjoy the show.]

—[Recover your health quickly, or my heart will ache.]

My heart will ache?!!

Lu Tian replied with a hint of awkwardness: [Madam Li, surely you don't have a crush on me, do you?]

In an old residential compound, a two-bedroom apartment.

Little bun Li Tuantuan hurled a steamed bun straight into Li Liyan Chen's face.

"Stinky Daddy, stupid Daddy, are you out of your mind?

"Is it appropriate for one woman to tell another woman that her heart aches?"

Staring at the message sent by her mother, the little bun burst into loud, angry tears.

Sobbing uncontrollably, she wailed, "Wuwuwu, it's over, Mommy is definitely going to think I'm some weird perdo! Li Liyan Chen, I curse you never to find Mommy for the rest of your life!!!"

"Oh."

"?"

"No chance."

"..."

It seemed that without Lu Tian by his side, Li Liyan Chen had lost the human instinct of verbal expression entirely.

Three o'clock in the afternoon.

Central Hospital, inpatient department.

Accompanied and surrounded by medical specialists from all over the world, Lu Tian was being escorted for an MRI scan.

Just as she reached the outpatient building,

she saw Pei Jing walking toward her with a dark, gloomy expression.

At the same time,

on the wall-mounted LCD television, a news anchor was broadcasting: "An incident of mass resignation among all medical staff has suddenly occurred at Blue Sky Hospital, affiliated with the Pei Group..."