A Substitute Bride With Multiple Identities
Chapter 209: Old Madam Fu Is Furious to the Point of Collapse

Chapter 209: Chapter 209: Old Madam Fu Is Furious to the Point of Collapse

Jiang Yun didn’t hide from Fu Shuqin when she took the call.

The ward fell silent again.

Upon hearing the assistant’s words on the phone, Fu Shuqin’s eyes rolled back and her body slumped onto the bed.

The heart monitor beside the hospital bed emitted a shrill beeping noise.

Startled, Jiang Yun completely forgot the assistant on the other end of the phone, rushing forward to press the call button and pinched Fu Shuqin’s philtrum: "Old lady, don’t scare me like this! Doctor! Nurse! Someone come quick!"

In less than twenty seconds, doctors and nurses streamed in, pulled the curtains around the bed, and began resuscitating Fu Shuqin.

A nurse pushed Jiang Yun out of the ward: "Family members, please wait outside."

Jiang Yun stood in the corridor, cold and helpless.

It was a long while before she realized she hadn’t hung up the phone.

Jiang Yun picked up her cellphone, trying to maintain a calm tone as she asked the assistant, "Apart from losing those two Jingcheng branches, what else did Fu Xiao lose?"

Listening closely, one could detect the tremor in her voice.

The assistant had been worried when she heard the chaotic sounds from Jiang Yun’s side but now felt relieved hearing her steady voice and continued, "He also lost all the properties under his name, as well as his shares in the Fu Corporation."

"Today, people from the gambling house came to negotiate with us, and it was then that we learned of this matter."

"Earlier, the company’s executives were already very dissatisfied with the decision to dismiss the oldest young master, and now Mr. Fu Xiao has stirred up such trouble, the executives have quite a few objections, and the company’s business and stocks have also been adversely affected."

The assistant asked for instructions, "Madam, what should we do now? Should we hand over the Jingcheng branches to the gambling house?"

"Hand over what! No handing over! Let them go to Fu Xiao for that!" Upon hearing the assistant’s report, Jiang Yun felt as if a massive boulder was pressing against her chest, an intense rage surging within her, hating Fu Xiao to the core.

"Whoever lost at the gambling house, let them go find that person!"

The Fu Corporation had invested more than five billion in those two Jingcheng branches!

And Fu Xiao had just gambled them away.

The thought alone was enough to give Jiang Yun a heart attack.

The assistant sounded troubled, "But..."

"There’s no ’but’!" Jiang Yun’s face, with its delicate makeup, twisted with fierceness as she swept her hair back from her forehead, revealing a grim face: "The Jingcheng branches belong to the Fu Corporation, to Fu Weizhi. Fu Xiao had no right to decide on his own."

"If the people from the gambling house press further, hand over Fu Xiao to them!"

The assistant could only agree, "Yes."

Just after Jiang Yun hung up with the assistant, the door to the ward opened.

She hurried over and asked, "Doctor, how is the old lady’s condition now?"

"The patient is out of danger now. Didn’t I warn you all previously? The patient’s condition cannot withstand agitation, and her emotions must not be too intense, or there would be risk of cerebral hemorrhage, paralysis!"

"In the future, pay attention not to upset the patient again, keep her mood joyful; if there’s a next time, even Da Luo immortals would find it hard to save her."

Jiang Yun nodded repeatedly as the doctor gave a few more instructions, left a nurse to watch over, and then hurried off.

Jiang Yun entered the ward, where on the hospital bed,

The previously unconscious Fu Shuqin had now woken up, her face covered with an oxygen mask. Seeing Jiang Yun come in, she struggled to stretch out her trembling hand towards her.

Jiang Yun quickly reached out to hold her hand, repeatedly soothing her, "Mom, try to stay calm, the doctor said you can’t get too excited right now."

Fu Shuqin breathed rapidly and deeply, clutching Jiang Yun’s hand tightly and asked, "Fu, Fu Xiao, did he really gamble away the Jingcheng branch company?"

Jiang Yun nodded silently.

Fu Shuqin’s breathing became more frenetic. She felt dizzy and a pain in her chest from anger, cursing him, "Good-for-nothing! Scoundrel! I should have strangled him the moment he was born!"

Jiang Yun quickly helped her catch her breath.

After her rant, Fu Shuqin’s mind was flooded with the news she had heard before—about debts in the gambling dens and people having their limbs chopped off.

Right now, she was furious with Fu Xiao for not living up to her expectations, but after all, he was her child that she had tenderly loved and raised. She didn’t want him to end up in such a dire state.

Fu Shuqin held onto Jiang Yun’s wrist tightly, the force causing Jiang Yun to frown. Fu Shuqin stared at her intensely and said, "Fu Xiao has been raised by me from a young age. Although he’s a bit naughty, gambling isn’t something he’d dare do; someone must have led him astray!"

"You are his sister-in-law; you must find out who’s been a bad influence on him!"

"Also, we are family. You all have to cover for the money Fu Xiao gambled away. You can’t let him be crippled by the gambling den! Otherwise, I will never rest in peace even in death!"

Jiang Yun felt a chill in her heart upon hearing Fu Shuqin’s words.

Thinking about how she had exhausted herself recently with the fluctuations in the Fu Family Corporation’s stocks and various household matters.

And to think, all of this was brought about by Fu Shuqin.

If it hadn’t been for her insistence on Xia Ran marrying Fu Yanhe, none of the ensuing mess would have happened, and she wouldn’t have had a falling out with Fu Yanhe so soon.

Jiang Yun couldn’t hold back anymore. Her face cold, she forcefully pulled her hand away from Fu Shuqin’s grip: "Mom, Fu Xiao didn’t just lose a small sum! It’s two branch companies in Jingcheng worth five billion! That money belongs to Weizhi!"

"Fu Xiao isn’t a child anymore! He’s in his forties! A physically healthy adult! Why should we cover for the money he’s gambled away?"

"We’ve already cleaned up numerous disasters caused by Fu Xiao over the years, even that time when he crashed while street racing... "

Jiang Yun stopped abruptly, looking at Fu Shuqin with disgust, "Do you think Weizhi and I are easy marks, destined to support Fu Xiao, that overgrown baby, for the rest of our lives?"

Fu Shuqin was rendered speechless for a moment by Jiang Yun’s rapid-fire tirade.

Jiang Yun had been dutiful and compliant since marrying into the Fu Family, never once defying her demands. Fu Shuqin was satisfied with her eldest daughter-in-law, confident that she had made the right choice.

But now, Jiang Yun was actually talking back to her?

Fu Shuqin trembled with anger, unable to utter a single word at Jiang Yun.

Jiang Yun was determined not to clean up after Fu Xiao this time, saying sternly, "Even if you complain about me to Fu Weizhi, I’ll say the same thing—I’m not going to deal with Fu Xiao’s mess this time."

"If the gambling den people come looking for him, I’ll hand Fu Xiao over to them!"

Fu Shuqin was so angry she passed out again, unable to catch her breath.

Jiang Yun pressed the call button calmly to summon the nurse and then left the ward.

One week later.

In the laboratory.

Shen Yanhe finished the first phase of his experiment and was sitting at his desk writing the experimental record report.

The ringtone of the phone on the desk sounded.

Shen Yanhe picked up the call, and Hang Mushan’s jubilant voice came from the other end, "Hey hey, big shot, I’ve already informed that old lady about Fu Xiao gambling away that stuff. Guess, guess what the old lady’s reaction was?"

Shen Yanhe’s pen paused, his tone indifferent, "What reaction."

Hang Mushan gloated, "Her eldest daughter-in-law and she had a huge fight in the ward, the old lady was so angry she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and ended up in the operating room; now she’s paralyzed in bed!"