Chapter 53 - Resolve (1/2)
Chapter 53: Resolve
Translated by Shiya of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
(Unedited)
“You promised, you promised to stay with me till we’re old. I only have you, so please don’t leave me…” Li Sui knew that Lu Shang couldn’t hear him right now, but he could not help but beg in a soft voice.
The person lying in bed did not respond, beside Lu Shang, in a corner invisible to Li Sui, there was a heart monitor, unbeknownst to Li Sui it drew a slightly different signal.
The temperature in CCU was very low, Li Sui only stayed inside for a while, but his hands and feet were all freezing. Luckily, Dr. Leung gave him a thick coat. Li Sui curled himself up while wrapped in the coat, he moved slightly over, and leaned on a rack next to the hospital bed. Li Sui fell asleep while looking at Lu Shang.
It was late at night. There was no one outside the corridor. The lights in the room were not turned on, there were only flashes of lights from the monitoring equipment.
Li Sui leaned back being half asleep and half awake, he noticed the sound of a door opening and heard someone swiping his card on the sensor. Li Sui woke up immediately, the first thing that came across his mind was that, maybe it was Leung ZiRui, but when he looked up, he found that the person’s figure was different. The person was a little fat, so obviously not Leung ZiRui, it wasn’t Leung ZiRui’s uncle either.
In order to avoid getting Leung ZiRui in trouble, Li Sui hid and avoided being notice. As the person might turn the lights on, Li Sui quickly hid under the bed and kept his eyes out to look at the person outside.
However, the person who came in didn’t turn the lights on. Instead, he quietly locked the door behind him. Li Sui was alerted, he could not see the person’s face because he was under the bed, but he caught glimpses of the white lab coat.
Li Sui’s intuition towards people had always been accurate, he noticed that this person walked in a very unnatural way, as if he was a thief, so Li Sui could not help but be on guard.
The visitor stood in front of Lu Shang’s bed for a long time. He had be standing there doing absolutely nothing for so long that Li Sui was ready to crawl out to question the man. That was when the unknown visitor pulled out a bottle of liquid from his lab coat pocket, then he began replacing it with the medicine connected to Lu Shang’s IV drip carefully.
Witnessing that, Li Sui’s brain buzzed. He immediately crawled out from under the bed and knocked the bottle in his hand over, subsequently restraining the man, “Who are you?”
As Li Sui asked, he did not forget to check on Lu Shang’s condition, seeing that he was not affected, he continued to address the subdued man. The person was a middle-aged man, and his attire made him look like a doctor. Obviously, the man didn’t expect someone to be inside the CCU, so he seemed frightened, he was so shocked that he forgot to resist.
As Li Sui subdued the man, the movements triggered the alarm. There was a loud noise outside. In no time, Leung ZiRui brought others into the room while cursing and complaining.
Li Sui took off the man’s mask and he frowned. He had seen this man before, he was an anesthesiologist in this hospital.
The CCU door was opened, Leung ZiRui stepped in. Just before he opened his mouth and cursed, he turned on the lights to see Li Sui restraining a middle-aged man with a serious expression. Even Leung ZiRui was shocked for a moment, he asked, “What’s the situation?”
Soon, all the irrelevant people were cleared out of the room. Leung ZiRui locked the door to his office, his expression was dark, “The analysis is complete, there was high concentrations of potassium chloride in the liquid. If it was injected into the body, the patient would die within a few minutes. Moreover, the symptoms would be very similar to a heart attack.”
Someone tried to hurt Lu Shang right in front of his eyes, Li Sui’s breath trembled as he tried to suppress his own emotions, “Where is he now?”
“For the time being, I asked someone to keep watch on him.”
Li Sui got up and was going to go out, Leung ZiRui pulled him back, “This man has been working in RuiGe for more than ten years, he is a mediocre person. He was always timid, I don’t think he has the courage to commit homicide, so I think someone else must have been behind it.”
“Will he lead us back to who he got the orders from?” Li Sui asked.
Leung ZiRui nodded, “He did, but it’s useless. He only knows the one who contacted him, he doesn’t know who the mastermind was either. Moreover, he only ever gets unilateral contact from the other party. So, the chances of us being able to track the mastermind down is low.”
On the subject, Leung ZiRui said, “But it’s not hard to guess who the mastermind was with how meticulous everything was.”
Li Sui’s fist was clenching so hard that his bones were making scary sounds, “Liu XinTian…”
The mastermind should be someone who would directly profit from Lu Shang’s death. Plus, said culprit must possess enough power to infiltrate RuiGe Hospital. The mastermind was also someone extremely careful, everything was prepared so that even if caught, the deed would never trace back to him. Besides Liu XinTian, there was no other cunning person that could have satisfied all these three conditions.
“If I was not here today…” Li Sui thought and then he was so afraid that he began sweating excessively. Li Sui looked up at Leung ZiRui and said with a serious look, “The surgery can’t be done here. It’s too dangerous.”
Leung ZiRui thought about it and nodded slowly, “I really didn’t think Liu XinTian would resort to such a thing. I’m going to inform Dr. Leon immediately. Besides that, what are you going to do with that person, are you going to hand him to the police?”
Li Sui contemplated for a moment and his eyes were sharp, “Don’t call the police yet, we should not frighten the snake by beating the grass (i).”
T/N: (i) A Chinese four character idiom, meaning to give the enemy warning.
Leung ZiRui nodded. As soon as he left, Uncle Yuen knocked on the door and entered. He said quietly, “Something happened in the company.”
It was winter, and cold everywhere. As the New Year’s had just past, there were very few people on the streets. Inside the car, both of them had a cold expression, as if they were infected by the temperature.
“As of today, there are already more than half of the shareholders who support holding a shareholders’ meeting, so they could replace the board of directors anytime now. With Mr. Lu’s absent, we have no way of stopping them,” Uncle Yuen said seriously.
“But don’t we have 40% at least? Plus, the amount I’ve won, it’s impossible that we stand zero chance.”
Uncle Yuen shook his head, “Company rules stipulated that only the legal holder of the shares could exercise the rights given by the shares. Mr. Lu is now in a coma, so his shares are temporarily frozen.”
“Lu Shang has just entered the hospital, and Liu XinTian is already staging a coup?” Li Sui’s voice was so cold, as he thought of the anesthesiologist who tried to replace Lu Shang’s IV drip at night. It seemed like Liu XinTian was planning to kill off the Lu household entirely.
“How’s the company’s employees?”
Uncle Yuen shook his head, “After the news of Mr. Lu’s critical state spread around, everything became chaotic.”
When Li Sui arrived at Tong Yan, he understood that Uncle Yuen’s descriptions were not exaggerated. The reception was a complete mess, there were wastepaper and garbage everywhere. Several employees gloomily walked to the garage bin, carrying big cardboard boxes in their arms. Li Sui walked across a familiar face, she was one of the workers in the administration, Li Sui stopped her and asked, “Where are you going?”
When the girl saw Li Sui, she became furious and dumped the cardboard box on the ground. “Director Li, I have been working in the company for five years. I might not have any special merits, but I did a lot of hard, solid work. It’s the New Year’s, director Lu had only just left and you’re here to dismiss all of his employees?”
Li Sui was being scolded by her so hard that his brain didn’t even had the time to process what was happening.
Another passing employee saw them and rushed to persuade the girl to leave. Before leaving, she gave Li Sui a glare, the glare was obviously disdainful.
Li Sui was puzzled, as he turned his head around, he caught a glimpse of Xiao Tang standing on the stairs.
Logically, she should still be in Japan on business. When did she come back? Did they finished signing the contract so early?
He wanted to call her over, but Xiao Tang noticed his intentions. She turned around and went upstairs before Li Sui had the time to call her over, deliberately avoiding him. Then she asked aloud, “Is the tea for director Liu ready?”
Li Sui stopped and clenched his hands, he said nothing.
After getting out of the elevator, Li Sui found that the office was also in a complete mess. A few of the employees who followed him had moved their office tables away. When they saw Li Sui coming in, they lowered their heads and dared not look at him.
Li Sui stood in the middle of the desks for a while, the gloomy atmosphere around him was suffocating. At that exact moment, a text message arrived on his mobile phone, it was sent by Xiao Tang: The lounge on the 34th floor.
Li Sui put his cell phone away and went around to the stairs at the back.
Xiao Tang had been waiting there for a long time already. When Li Sui came down, she immediately pulled him inside, she looked around and closed the door. Turning her head to Li Sui, she took a long breath and whispered, “This morning, Mr. Liu issued a layoff announcement. He cleaned up all of Mr. Lu’s employees. Those who did not choose a side in time were all dismissed as well. Since the announcement came through the normal channels and everything, they all thought it was you who fired them.”
A good move, two birds with one stone, Li Sui sneered.
“Actually, how sick is Lu Shang? When will he come back?” Xiao Tang seemed to be in a hurry.
“Let’s just say he won’t be back anytime soon.”
“Ah? Is it that serious?”
Without answering her, Li Sui lowered his head in silenced for a while, then he asked, “What about lawyer Xe and the others?”
“Lawyer Xe has been assigned a lot of difficult cases by Mr. Liu, and I assume he is also in a lot of trouble right now. Everyone in the company are scared for themselves, nobody dares to help Mr. Lu.”
Li Sui felt a burst of exhaustion. He was to blame for all of these, after Lu Shang got hospitalized, Li Sui did not put Tong Yan in his priorities. Li Sui’s carelessness gave Liu XinTian the chance to do all these.