Chapter – 40
Anyone Who Likes Jiang Xuxu Is No Good
When Bai Shuqin and Guan Baocheng rushed to the hospital, Guan Ruirui and Pei Yuanheng had just been wheeled out of the operating room.
Guan Ruirui had fractures of varying degrees in both legs and a mild concussion.
Pei Yuanheng was in slightly better shape, with only one broken arm—moreover, it was the same arm Guan Ruirui had been clinging to just moments before.
The strange thing was that the driver, who had been in a head-on collision, had escaped with only minor injuries. He just needed some ointment and a bandage, without even requiring hospitalization.
Bai Shuqin was in no state to deal with the driver now. Seeing her pale daughter lying on the hospital bed, her heart felt as if it would break. Her frail body swayed, nearly collapsing before a nurse caught her.
“Ruirui… my darling Ruirui… Why didn’t you just stay quietly at home? Why did you have to go out? If something happened to you… how could your mother go on living…”
As Bai Shuqin sobbed uncontrollably beside her, Guan Baocheng pressed his forehead, unable to bear the headache, and scolded her in a low voice.
“Enough already, she’s safe now!”
At his words, Bai Shuqin retorted fiercely.
“Safe with broken legs?! Was the Pei family’s driver doing this on purpose?! Why were three people in the car, and only our Ruirui so badly injured?!”
“Shut up! My head hurts!”
Guan Baocheng sat down on the sofa and shouted at Bai Shuqin.
Since that night, his attitude had changed completely. He no longer protected her gently as he once had.
Biting her lip in frustration, Bai Shuqin fell silent for a moment before finally saying in a small voice,
“You… don’t you think it’s strange? We keep falling ill one after another, Qishen had an accident, and now Ruirui too… How can there be so many coincidences?”
Seeing his expression remain tense and silent, she continued.
“Especially that night with me… it was like I was possessed. My mouth was moving on its own, making me say things I didn’t mean. It really felt like someone was controlling me…”
Guan Baocheng snorted.
Who could believe such an excuse? Words come from the heart, after all.
But after two days of calm, he, too, felt that something was off.
——He had always been a rational person. No matter how infuriating things got, he would never lay a hand on his wife. That night, he had indeed been abnormal.
“You don’t think… it was Jiang Xuxu’s doing, do you?”
At Bai Shuqin’s words, the words Jiang Xuxu had spoken that day flashed through Guan Baocheng’s mind.
[The art of swapping your life fortunes hasn’t succeeded.]
[The great calamity destined for Ruirui will definitely return. If you want to save her, bring Grandma’s bracelet and have Ruirui come to see me herself.]
Guan Baocheng narrowed his eyes, his face turning dark and dangerous.
“…It really might be that child’s fault.”
At that moment, Ruirui on the bed groaned and woke up.
The two hurried over to her.
As soon as Ruirui saw her parents’ faces and realized it was real, tears welled up and she began to cry.
“Dad, Mom… Brother Pei said he’s breaking up with me…”
Bai Shuqin: “…”
Your legs are broken, and that’s what you cry about first…
Even her own mother was left speechless.
But in Ruirui’s heart, the words Pei Yuanheng had spoken in the car hurt far more than the pain of the surgery.
——He’s leaving me because Jiang Xuxu returned to the Jiang family, isn’t he?
It’s all that woman’s fault.
Any man who likes her is no good!
Unaware of Ruirui’s indignation, Guan Baocheng grew more certain.
The calamity destined for Ruirui hadn’t been transferred. That’s why the nightmares, the breakup, and the accidents kept happening, one after another.
He glanced at his daughter’s wrist and noticed the bracelet was missing, so he questioned her.
“Ruirui, where’s Grandma’s bracelet?”
“It’s at home… why are you suddenly asking about that?”
Guan Baocheng explained Jiang Xuxu’s words.
If they brought the bracelet to her, she might be able to save Ruirui.
For a moment, Ruirui’s face twisted, but she quickly looked pitifully at her mother.
Sure enough, Bai Shuqin raised her voice in protest.
“You want Ruirui to bow her head to that woman?! Absolutely not! I’d rather die than let her suffer such humiliation!”
Guan Baocheng retorted coldly.
“Then, do you have any other ideas? If Ruirui’s calamity is still there, today’s accident isn’t the end… it’s just the beginning.”
Ruirui’s face turned deathly pale, and she clung helplessly to her mother.
Tears streaming down her face, Bai Shuqin said,
“There are plenty of capable people in this world! There’s no way she could do it! After bearing calamity for us for eighteen years… she must be lying! Just to humiliate Ruirui and take the bracelet!”
Guan Baocheng couldn’t immediately refute her, because deep down, the same doubts swirled in his mind.
Just then, the hospital room door opened, and Guan Qishen walked in.
It seemed he had overheard everything outside.
“If she wants the bracelet, just give it to her. Nothing is more important than Ruirui. ——I’ll take it to her myself.”
Having spent eighteen years as Xuxu’s older brother, he was confident.
If he asked her, she would surely not refuse…
