Chapter 259 (1/2)
Chapter 259: Only as Strangers
Translator: GravityTales Editor: GravityTales
Tang Yunpeng watched his father’s constantly changing expression with eyes full of curiosity, whereas Tang Min and Tang Dong looked confused, as they were clueless about what kind of situation they were in.
“Why aren’t you chasing him!”
Tang Guosheng came out from his daze and immediately called out as he saw that his children were still there.
Tang Yunpeng hesitated for a while. Then, he turned around and walked out of the ward. As he entered the corridor outside, he was still figuring out the whole process. He waved to a bodyguard in casual attire and asked, “The young man who just came out of the ward, where did he go?”
The guard pointed to the stairs, “There!”
Tang Yunpeng nodded and strode toward the stairs. Just as he reached there, he saw Tang Xiu leaning on the wall, looking gloomy and smoking a cigarette.
“Divine Doctor Tang, I want to know the reason you acted like that.”
Tang Xiu looked at him with a cold and detached expression, “You have neither the right nor the qualification. Even your father doesn’t have that right either. If I’m not mistaken, at that time, Tang Yunde was expelled from your family and then came to Star City alone, am I right?”
Tang Yunpeng knitted his brows as he asked, “How do you know so much about my youngest brother’s situation?”
Tang Xiu shook his head, “I know very little, but these are enough for my family to detest your Tang Family. So I’m telling you to not provoke me. Your Tang Family might be big and powerful, but if I want to destroy you, it’s still within my capabilities.”
The frown on Tang Yunpeng’s face grew deeper as he continued asking, “You seem very hostile toward us. Do my Tang Family and yours have any hatred and grudges?”
Tang Xiu sneered, “A grudge? How I wish that it was only a grudge! Just forget it, I already told you that I cannot treat your father’s illness. Do your best to deal with it yourself.” Having said that, he walked downstairs.
“Wait!”
A loud voice reverberated. It wasn’t Tang Yunpeng but Tang Guosheng who came with someone propping him up.
Tang Xiu stopped and looked at him coldly.
Tang Guosheng stopped in front of Tang Xiu. He prudently looked at Tang Xiu’s features for a long while before muttering, “You look like him, at least 60 percent! Twenty years ago, I almost turned Star City inside out, but still, I failed to find my youngest daughter-in-law, a woman called Little Yun. Since Yunde suddenly got injured and turned into a vegetative state, it’s already been twenty years that I’ve been hoping for him to wake up, so he that can tell me personally that woman’s full name. At that very same time yesteryear, he told me that she was already pregnant and lived here!”
“WHAT?”
Tang Yunpeng and Tang Xiu exclaimed out in alarm without them realizing. Even Tang Dong’s eyes turned wide, disbelief shooting out from his eyes.
They all knew about this matter, and it had been a long time they had been seeking for the answer!
Could it be…
The three people’s eyes looked at Tang Xiu intensely.
Tang Xiu was silent. He knew nothing of the actual facts that had happened that year. If that man suddenly went missing because he was severely injured and turned into a vegetative state and then was brought back to the capital, should he hate him for this?
Finally, Tang Xiu slowly raised his head and looked at the excited Tang Guosheng, saying indifferently, “That’s your family’s problem, nothing of it is related to me whatsoever. I may help and treat your illness, but I want you to never again appear in Star City afterward.”
Tang Guosheng walked forward a step and said with all solemnness, “If you’re my…”
Tang Xiu waved his hand to interrupt him and said with a cold and detached expression, “No! The more I hear that hated name, the more extreme I’ll respond to it. Furthermore, I’m already twenty-two and I shall have nothing whatsoever related to you. So, just go to the ward and I’ll treat you there.”
Twenty-two years old?
Tang Guosheng frowned deeply. If Tang Xiu’s age became the reference, he couldn’t be his own grandson, yet his response and appearance were too unusual. Even if he wasn’t his grandson, perhaps there was an unseparated relationship between him and his daughter-in-law.
“Tang Xiu, you know about my youngest son’s situation and your response is way too unusual. So, I’m very sure you must know something. Please tell me, my Tang Family will certainly thank you for this.”
While walking toward the ward, Tang Xiu replied with a cold and detached voice, “I couldn’t care less about the gratefulness of your Tang Family. You’d better not to think about this messed up shit and rather focus on your asthma. If you want me to treat you, then cut the crap. If you don’t want me to treat you, then don’t shit much longer here and go the hell back to Beijing.”
Tang Guosheng wore a complicated expression on his face. The more unusual Tang Xiu acted, the more he was certain about his suspicion. Tang Xiu must know a lot about his youngest son and his wife. Yet, with the apparent hostile attitude Tang Xiu had toward him, he felt that he must not act with undue haste.
A strange light glinted from Tang Dong and Tang Min’s eyes even though they kept silent. Tang Yunpeng, however, frowned and said with a heavy tone, “Tang Xiu, you’d better pay attention to your attitude.”
“Hmph,” Tang Xiu snorted coldly, “You think that my attitude isn’t good enough? If you feel so, then get the hell out.”
Tang Yunpeng was incensed. He was a man with a prominent position and also a high-ranking official of the region. No one dared to speak to him with such attitude for many years. Furthermore, his father had a more distinguished status and was someone of equal status with the few senior statesmen of the country. Now, however, a 20-year-old young man humiliated him, causing him to want to act against Tang Xiu at once.
Tang Guosheng raised his hand to stop Tang Yunpeng as he glared at him. Only then did he look at Tang Xiu and said, “Then I’ll have to trouble you for this, Divine Doctor Tang.”
After returning to the ward.