"Madam Li is kind to me, I cannot desecrate her!"
Yang Chen quickly averted his gaze. His fingertips traced Li Yu's skin, and a network diagram naturally appeared in his mind, with numerous black dots on it.
"What are these black dots?"
Yang Chen rubbed at the black dots with his fingers, and they naturally dissipated.
"Oh... gentle... so comfortable..."
Li Yu let out moans of comfort, making Yang Chen blush even more.
Though Yang Chen didn't understand the principle, he knew that by rubbing away the black spots and masses on Li Yu's body, he could make her feel better.
He continued to gently knead, from her shoulders to her arms, then to her forearms and fingers, not missing a single one.
"That... that's enough!"
Li Yu never imagined Yang Chen's massage skills were so good. With just a few kneads, all her fatigue vanished, and she felt as if she were floating on the sea, indescribably comfortable.
*Whoosh!*
Yang Chen let out a long sigh of relief in his heart. Under the stimulation of Li Yu's "enchanting sounds," he genuinely feared he might lose control of his wicked thoughts and do something outrageous.
"Your massage skills are really good. It's a waste of your talents just cleaning here. You'd definitely be a master if you worked at a wellness center."
Li Yu stood up, a satisfied smile on her face, and handed a prepared envelope to Yang Chen.
"This is your reward. Be sure to keep it safe."
Yang Chen opened the envelope and saw a stack of crisp hundred-yuan bills. He understood that Madam Li, wanting to help him out and not hurt his pride, had deliberately given him the money under the guise of a reward.
"Madam Li has been good to me. I must repay her well in the future!"
Li Yu knew Yang Chen's intellect was not entirely sharp, so she instructed him again:
"When you get home, give the envelope to your dad immediately, understood?"
"Understood!"
"Good, then you can go home now."
"Mhm."
Yang Chen walked to the door, hesitated for a moment, and finally said:
"Madam Li, you need to be careful of Zhang Chi."
"It's best to check the surveillance footage from this morning and from the eighteenth of last month."
Be careful of Zhang Chi?
What did he mean?
Was Yang Chen hinting at something?
And why did Yang Chen sound different when he said that?
Fluent!
That's right, Yang Chen's speech was too fluent when he said that, completely unlike his usual dazed demeanor!
"Yang Chen, you're not an idiot?!"
Yang Chen's heart trembled. The sudden return to his normal state was too strange. If he revealed it, it might cause Li Yu to misunderstand and suspect him of having ulterior motives for infiltrating the company.
"Waaah, waaah..."
Yang Chen suddenly sat down on the ground, covering his face with his hands and crying out.
"My dad said no one is allowed to call me an idiot, waah, waaah... I'm not playing with you anymore!"
Li Yu sighed inwardly, "He's still just an idiot after all."
She quickly went over to comfort him, and after much effort, managed to calm the sobbing Yang Chen.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry. I won't call you an idiot anymore."
"Alright then, I'll forgive you this once. I'm going home."
Watching Yang Chen leave the office, Li Yu returned to her desk, her mind involuntarily returning to Yang Chen's suggestion to check the surveillance footage.
Finally, she picked up the phone and dialed.
"Xiao Li, please pull up last month's surveillance video and this morning's footage for me... Remember, don't let anyone know."
...
Yang Chen took a taxi directly to the hospital.
Looking at his mother's pale face on the hospital bed through the glass window, his eyes instantly welled up.
"Mom, it's all my fault. You've suffered for three years!"
"I will definitely work hard to earn money, cure your illness, and give you and Dad a happy life from now on!"
Thinking of his mother's suffering over the past three years, Yang Chen clenched his fist tightly.
"Li Ying, Gao Feng, you adulterous pair!"
Li Ying was his girlfriend from university. After graduation, they were close to marriage.
Three years ago, on a rainy night, Yang Chen went to deliver an umbrella to Li Ying, who was working overtime, only to witness a scene he shouldn't have seen in the general manager's office.
The exposed Yang Chen rushed forward and beat Gao Feng severely. However, he was caught by security guards who had been alerted, and instead, Gao Feng hit him on the head with a stick, causing him to be dazed for three years!
"Just you wait, I will make you pay back ten times over for the suffering I've endured these three years!"
Yang Chen forced himself to remain calm, wiped the tears from his eyes, and moved closer to the glass window, surveying the hospital room.
"Where's Dad?"
"He should be here at the hospital seeing Mom at this time."
Yang Chen walked to the nurse's station.
"Excuse me, nurse, has the family member of patient number 3 visited today?"
"You mean Yang Zhigang? He went to the doctor's duty room."
"Okay, thank you."
Yang Chen walked directly towards the doctor's duty room. A nurse, engrossed in her work, suddenly paused and looked up sharply at his receding back.
"He... is he the idiot from yesterday? His speech was so clear just now, he didn't look like an idiot at all!"
...
As soon as Yang Chen arrived at the doctor's duty room, he heard Yang Zhigang's hoarse, pleading voice:
"Doctor Huang, please, I beg you!"
"This thousand yuan is from selling blood today. It's really all I have left."
"I beg you, just start the IV drip for your mother."
Selling blood!
Yang Chen's heart skipped a beat, and he pushed the door open. He saw Yang Zhigang, with a pale face, bowing and pleading with Huang Hai.
"Dad!"
"Xiao Chen, come here!"
Yang Zhigang dragged Yang Chen forward to Huang Hai and said hoarsely:
"Quickly kneel down for Doctor Huang, beg him to be merciful and save your mother!"
As he spoke, Yang Zhigang "thumped" and knelt before Huang Hai again.
"Doctor Huang, I beg you, just make an exception this once. My son and I will repay your kindness by being your cattle and horses in the next life!"
Huang Hai picked up the money on the table and counted it. He glanced at Yang Zhigang, who was kneeling on the ground, and then shifted his gaze to Yang Chen.
"Yang Zhigang, I pity you and was going to make an exception. However, your son doesn't have the right attitude to beg!"
Yang Zhigang tugged Yang Chen several times, scolding him:
"Xiao Chen, hurry... hurry and kneel down for Doctor Huang..."
"Dad, there's no need to beg him!"
Yang Chen held up Yang Zhigang's arm and instead pulled him up. He bent down and dusted off his knees.
Yang Zhigang was stunned by his son's uncharacteristic behavior.
"Xiao... Xiao Chen, you... you..."
*Slap!*
Yang Chen directly slapped the ten thousand yuan that Li Yu had given him onto the table, saying coldly:
"Here's ten thousand yuan. Start the IV drip for my mother immediately!"
Huang Hai was also taken aback. Yang Chen's demeanor was completely different from yesterday. His gaze had become unusually sharp, filled with aggression, making it difficult to look directly at him.
Is this the same person as the idiot from yesterday?
"Did you hear me? Give my mother the medicine now!"
Yang Chen's roar jolted Huang Hai out of his shock. He picked up the money on the table, counted it, and sneered, "This ten thousand yuan will only cover your mother's medication for a few days. Stop acting tough here!"
"Whether I'm acting tough or not is not your concern. You're a doctor, I give you money, you prescribe medicine. Got it!"
Huang Hai looked up at Yang Chen, who was advancing towards him like a mountain. He was startled and dared not speak disrespectfully anymore, thinking:
"Damn it, let him be arrogant for now. In a few days, he'll be out of money, and he'll be kneeling before me like a dog again!"
Just as he was about to write the prescription, Nurse Xiao Yang rushed in, calling out, "Doctor Huang, patient number 3's monitor alarm has gone off! They need immediate resuscitation!"
What?!
Yang Chen and Yang Zhigang's faces changed drastically.
Especially Yang Zhigang, who had sold blood today beyond his capacity and was already weak. His vision blurred, and he swayed precariously.