“It’s your turn!”
“Weren’t you just arrogantly trying to kill me? How do you want to settle this now?”
Lu Yang’s gaze fell upon Liu Hui, and he asked coldly.
“What do you want?”
“I’m from the Hongmen!”
“Kid, don’t think you can disregard everyone just because you’ve learned some impressive techniques. Hongmen has countless experts. If you dare to touch me, Hongmen will search heaven and earth to kill you!”
Liu Hui roared at Lu Yang.
“Is that so?”
“Frankly, if you hadn't spoken so much nonsense, I might have let you go out of good spirits. But you’re too mouthy and even threatened me. Threats are what I dislike the most!”
“Since that’s the case, I’ll cripple your martial arts and turn you into a cripple!”
“Let’s see if your so-called Hongmen will stand up for a cripple!”
Lu Yang sneered and walked up to Liu Hui, preparing to act.
“Big brother… Big brother, I was wrong, I was truly wrong. Please spare me!”
“As long as you don’t cripple my martial arts, you’ll be my big brother from now on!”
Seeing Lu Yang’s seemingly harmless yet fiercely menacing eyes, Liu Hui was instantly terrified and began to beg loudly.
He knew that if Lu Yang crippled his martial arts and turned him into a cripple, Hongmen would never shelter him. Hongmen wasn’t a charity; how could they take in a cripple? They might even silence him.
“Forget it. Given how sincere you are, I’ll accept you as my little brother!”
“Remember, my name is Lu Yang, the useless live-in son-in-law of the Tang family!”
After speaking to Liu Hui, Lu Yang left with an utterly astonished Meng Hongda.
“Lu…”
The word was on the tip of his tongue, but Meng Hongda didn’t know how to proceed.
“If you have something to say, just say it. Don’t be so hesitant!”
Lu Yang said impatiently.
“Please accept me as your disciple, Mr. Lu!”
Meng Hongda immediately knelt before Lu Yang, imploring him.
“This…”
“Alright, you’ve helped me a great deal. I’ll make an exception and accept you as an outer disciple!”
Lu Yang considered it for a moment and then agreed.
“Thank you, Mr. Lu!”
“I will choose an auspicious day as soon as possible to perform the ceremony.”
Hearing Lu Yang’s words, Meng Hongda was ecstatic.
“Alright, I need to go treat my wife. You can head back on your own.”
Lu Yang finished speaking and walked directly into the hospital.
Inside the ward, only Tang Shimin remained, reading a book on economics.
Upon seeing Lu Yang enter, she immediately became vigilant and stared at him.
“What are you doing here?”
“I’ve made my position clear regarding the two of us. You saved me back then, and I thank you for that. However, marriage is not a child’s play, and I won’t marry you just because you saved me!”
“You’ve also done a lot for me during my illness. Don’t worry, once I’ve recovered and join the Tang Corporation, I’ll give you one million as compensation!”
“With this one million, your remaining life should be more than enough!”
Tang Shimin said coldly to Lu Yang.
After hearing Tang Shimin’s words, Lu Yang could only scoff.
He hadn’t expected the recovered Tang Shimin to be so heartless.
Lu Yang said nothing. Instead, he quietly went to the hospital’s decocting room, took out all the prepared medicinal herbs, and began to decoct the medicine according to the steps in the Ancient Medical Dao.
This decocting method differed from ordinary methods. The time for each herb to enter the cauldron was strictly regulated. If the order was wrong, the medicinal effect of the resulting medicine could be greatly reduced. Therefore, Lu Yang dared not be negligent in the slightest. He meticulously followed the sequence in the Ancient Medical Dao, placing each of the medicinal herbs into the medicinal cauldron to begin decocting.
Half an hour later, Lu Yang finally produced a bowl of medicinal soup.
Lu Yang, disregarding the heat, directly brought it to Tang Shimin.
“Shimin, drink the medicine while it’s hot!”
Lu Yang said with great concern.
“Drink the medicine?”
“What medicine is this?”
Tang Shimin asked suspiciously.
“This is medicine I personally brewed to nourish your body. You suffered severe injuries and won’t recover quickly. However, after drinking this bowl, your body will recover soon!”
Lu Yang continued.
“I won’t drink it. I’m receiving an IV drip every day and will recover soon. You don’t know where you got this medicine from, and you want me to drink it? What if it causes some other ailment? Can you afford the responsibility?”
Tang Shimin stared at Lu Yang and said coldly.
“Shimin, this will be very beneficial for your body. Drink it quickly. If the medicine cools down, its efficacy will be greatly reduced!”
Lu Yang said anxiously, looking at Tang Shimin.
“You’re so eager for my daughter to drink the medicine you brewed. Did you put something in it?”
“Oh, I see. You found out that after my daughter recovered, she ignored you and wanted a divorce, so you put something in it, wanting my daughter’s intelligence to revert to its previous state. You black-hearted scoundrel, I’ll fight you to the death!”
Just as Lu Yang was earnestly persuading Tang Shimin to drink the medicine, Li Xiumei walked in and said fiercely. She flailed her arms and lunged at Lu Yang.
Lu Yang protected the medicine with one hand and pushed Li Xiumei away with the other. She fell to the ground.
“Ouch, murder!”
Li Xiumei, lying on the ground, immediately started acting hysterically.
“Lu Yang, why did you push my mother?”
Tang Shimin also glared fiercely at Lu Yang and shouted.
“Shimin, I’ve left the medicine here. Please drink it as soon as possible!”
Seeing Tang Shimin’s extremely hostile attitude, Lu Yang shook his head, placed the medicine on the table, and left the ward in disappointment.
“This kid definitely has ill intentions. Shimin, you must not eat anything from him. In my opinion, you should just throw it away!”
Li Xiumei said, picking up the medicine Lu Yang had just brewed and preparing to pour it out.
“Mom, don’t pour it out yet. This is also Lu Yang’s gesture of goodwill. It would be too much of a waste to just pour it out directly!”
Tang Shimin still remembered Lu Yang’s care for her over the past three years and wasn’t completely heartless.
“Gesture of goodwill? A waste?”
“What good can a weasel’s greetings to a chicken bring? Shimin, it’s precisely because you’re too kind that this boy has been deceiving you for three years. Now that you’re recovered, you absolutely cannot be kind to this boy, or you’ll never get rid of him!”
“Your current goal is the mysterious chairman of Haitong Group. Only by being with that mysterious chairman will your life be perfect!”
Li Xiumei persuaded Tang Shimin earnestly.
“But… I haven’t even met the chairman of Haitong Group…”
Tang Shimin said helplessly.
“What are you afraid of if you haven’t met him? The main thing is that he’s taken a liking to you! Otherwise, he wouldn’t have invested so much money in the Tang family and specifically appointed you as the person in charge of this project!”
“Who is he? He’s the chairman of Haitong Group, with a net worth of hundreds of billions. Shimin, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You must seize it!”
Li Xiumei persuaded Tang Shimin again.