Chapter 568 — Visiting Zhong Yongliang
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"It won't be wasted! An Liwen, Gu Pengzhan—I'll let neither of them off!" Zhong Yongliang shook his head. "But for now, let's pick the softest target first. Dad, aren't you tearing down that shantytown? I know Wei Zhao's girlfriend lives there. When the demolition comes around, make things difficult for her family. Better yet, steer the whole mess toward Bing Shao. If Wei Zhao tries to shift the blame elsewhere and use An Liwen's hand against me, then we use Bing Shao's hand against Wei Zhao! If anything goes wrong, the ones Wei Zhao and Gu Pengzhan will be furious with will be Bing Shao—not us!"
"Mm..." Zhong Fabai listened to his son's suggestion and nodded. "That could work. But what if her family isn't holding out as a nail house? Then there's no way to stir up a conflict."
"We can manufacture one! Like a forced demolition—ha ha—just bulldoze their house flat. Best if Bing Shao personally operates the machine!" Zhong Yongliang suggested.
"Good, I'll do my best to arrange it." Zhong Fabai's own hatred of Wei Zhao burned deep, and he would gladly use Bing Shao to give the man a beating if he could. As they were speaking, his phone rang. He glanced at the screen: Zhong Yongliang's homeroom teacher. He hurriedly picked up. "Hello, hello, Mr. Liu... Oh? You've organized the students to come see Yongliang? That's wonderful, thank you so much... You're already at the hospital gate? Good, good—come on over. Building Four, Inpatient Department, Room 418!"
After hanging up, Zhong Fabai turned to his son. "Your teacher and classmates are coming to see you. I'll step out for a cigarette."
Zhong Yongliang nodded, warmth spreading through his chest. It seemed his teacher and classmates hadn't forgotten him after all. The treat he'd thrown for their last outing was finally paying off. Otherwise, how wretched would it be to lie in the hospital without a single classmate bothering to show up?
But after waiting a while, no one appeared. It would presumably take some time to find Building Four from the main gate. So Zhong Yongliang picked up the iPad 2 lying beside his bed, logged onto the mobile reading platform's website, and started reading a novel called *Pure and Ambiguous: The Prequel*.
It was a wish-fulfillment urban campus novel with a supremely satisfying protagonist who flattened everyone in his path. Zhong Yongliang had been obsessed with it these past few days, constantly fantasizing that he was the main character—imagining the day he could summon storms and rain at will, grinding Wei Zhao and An Liwen beneath his heel!
But the more he read, the more disheartened he became. Didn't he resemble one of the side characters who constantly got trampled? So Zhong Yongliang began fantasizing that this particular underdog might rise up and take out the protagonist.
He did not know how long had passed. He was deep in the story and thoroughly enjoying himself when footsteps echoed outside the ward. The door swung open, and his classmates filed in one after another.
Zhong Yongliang quickly set the tablet aside, then looked up with a smile. Though his eyes fell first on Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao leading the way, there was nothing off about his gaze.
He had already learned to conceal himself. He was not particularly surprised that Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had been rescued safely—if they hadn't been, An Liwen wouldn't have dared act rashly. As for how the rescue had unfolded, Zhong Yongliang saw no point in dwelling on it. It was entirely meaningless anyway.
"Oh! Little Liangzi, I heard you had a kidney cut out!" The moment Shen Yushu stepped into the ward, she blurted it out. "Does that mean you're not really a man anymore?"
Zhong Yongliang's face burned with shame and fury at Shen Yushu's words, yet he could summon no anger to speak of. After all, he had kidnapped them first. Shen Yushu had probably come just to needle him. The trouble was, her expression was so perfectly innocent that no one could take it as mockery.