Reborn as a Rich Woman in the Eighties
Chapter 600 - 599: Emotional Entanglement?

Chapter 600: Chapter 599: Emotional Entanglement?

When the first ray of morning light pierced into the hospital ward, Lin Xia opened her sore and tired eyes.

She immediately hurriedly looked towards the person lying on the hospital bed.

She saw Lin Chun’s head wrapped in thick gauze, his complexion pale, eyes tightly shut, he had not woken up!

Lin Xia glanced at Lin Qiu, who lay on another hospital bed with a weary face, deep in sleep.

Not wanting to wake her, she covered her mouth and silently wept.

Her older brother, who had been home eating lunch just at noon, was previously fine.

He had even excitedly said, after his younger brother finished his exams, he’d take a few days of leave to accompany them on a trip somewhere.

How could such an accident have befallen him in so short a time?

Lin Xia was both worried and filled with an inward sense of regret.

Why on earth had she agreed to her older brother’s wishes, allowing him to go to that job?

If he had gone to a different company, might such dangers have been avoided?

Last night, after receiving that phone call, she and Lin Qiu had rushed to the hospital in the thick of night.

At that time, standing outside the operating room, she felt as if her heart would shatter, overwhelmed by regret like an engulfing tide.

Her concern was deeper than Lin Qiu’s.

Because in her brother’s previous life, he had already passed away at this time; she thought that having passed that day safely, everything had changed, and they could live a carefree life henceforth.

Yet, life always seemed to strike a lethal blow just when she let her guard down!

Lin Qiu now slowly awoke to see Lin Xia quietly staring at their older brother, silently crying, her heart ached as if pricked by needles.

"Sis!" Lin Qiu’s tears started falling too.

Who could have anticipated their older brother would encounter such a thing?

Last night, she was so bewildered; she was even unsteady riding the bike, arriving at the hospital before belatedly recalling the hammer attack.

But before that, she couldn’t think of anything else, only that she needed to get to the hospital quickly to find out her brother’s condition.

Seeing her sister awake, Lin Xia instead gathered her strength, "Xiaoqiu! You should sleep a bit more!"

None of them had slept the previous night from all the commotion, until eventually they were so exhausted they lay down on a spare hospital bed to rest for a while.

"I’m not sleepy anymore! Sis!" Lin Qiu put on her shoes and came to Lin Xia’s side, unable to stop herself from crying as she asked, "When will our big brother wake up?"

Lin Xia wiped her tears away, her tone resolute, "He should wake up very soon! Don’t cry! I won’t either! Big brother would feel terrible if he knew we were like this!"

She didn’t know if Lin Chun was conscious now or if he could hear their conversation.

She wanted him to wake up soon, and she would do anything.

Lin Qiu restrained her sadness and silently wiped her tears, "Okay! I won’t cry! Sis, you shouldn’t either! Your eyes are swollen, and if Dongzi sees them tomorrow, he’ll surely ask!"

Lin Xia rubbed her eyes forcefully, "That’s right! Dongzi has his exams tomorrow; we mustn’t let him be distracted at such a critical time."

As the sisters spoke, someone gently knocked on the hospital room door.

Lin Xia quickly got up to open the door and saw Lin Chun’s two colleagues from work coming in, carrying milk powder and canned goods in their hands.

Lin Xia recognized one of them, "Brother Wang! You’ve come! And brought things too!"

"It’s nothing! We came to see you and wanted to get an update on the situation!"

"Come in quickly!" Lin Xia put on a brave face to welcome them.

Brother Wang looked at Lin Chun lying there motionless, feeling a bit sorrowful.

"Actually, both of us left work together last night. Your big brother had a flat tire. If only I’d known something like this would happen, I would’ve given him a lift—maybe then this wouldn’t have happened!"

"Wang Ge! Don’t think like that! It should have been my brother, Lin Xia, who encountered the trouble!" Lin Xia had no mood for pleasantries or consoling others now, "Can you tell us what happened?"

The colleague of Lin Chun who followed to the hospital yesterday didn’t know the details too well, only that the person was taken back to the station.

Wang Ge had returned home last night and also didn’t know the specifics.

Another man explained the whole story to Lin Xia and her sisters.

Lin Chun was attacked by a man with a hammer on his way home from overtime work late last night.

The two grappled, and the attacker injured his head with the hammer while Lin Chun managed to stab his assailant.

After that, he felt that this person was connected to the hammer case, so he pursued him despite his injuries.

They happened to encounter two people passing by on bicycles, and together they subdued the attacker.

Later, Lin Chun asked them to help escort the man back to the station, but he collapsed at the doorway.

Lin Xia and Lin Qiu could imagine the danger at the time, but what they couldn’t understand was why that person would attack Lin Chun.

"Wasn’t that person only attacking girls in red? Why would he attack my brother?"

"This was the part we were initially puzzled about as well!" Wang Ge began to get to the heart of the matter, "Our colleague interrogated the suspect overnight yesterday!

We originally thought he was related to the hammer case! It turned out he just wanted to disguise himself as the hammer case suspect to take revenge on your brother!"

"Why would he want to take revenge on my brother?" Lin Xia was baffled. Her brother was just an ordinary person. How long had he been working for someone to meticulously plan to harm him?

Wang Ge continued to clarify for her, "He said it was because of a romantic dispute with your brother that he sought revenge!"

A romantic dispute?

Lin Xia and Lin Qiu looked at each other, finding it unbelievable. How could their brother be involved in a romantic dispute?

"Impossible, right? My brother has only returned to work for so long!"

"Yes! My brother doesn’t even have a partner yet!" Lin Qiu added anxiously, completely confused.

Wang Ge made a gesture to calm them, "Don’t rush! He mentioned it was because of a girl named Ji Man! Do you know her?"

"Ji Man?" Lin Xia’s eyes blazed with fury, almost grinding her teeth to dust.

She vaguely began to understand some things.

Seeing Lin Xia’s angry face but getting no response, Lin Qiu hurriedly said, "We know her! But she’s not at all familiar with my brother!"

In her memory, it seemed Ji Man had only met their brother briefly, without any significant conversation.

Lin Xia, with a dark expression, asked, "What’s the name of the man who injured my brother?"

Though she had a premonition, she still wanted confirmation.

"Xu Haimin!"

"How could it be him? Isn’t he Xu Haihua’s brother?" Lin Qiu had no clue about the finer details, so she was utterly astonished when she heard the name.

She couldn’t understand how Xu Haihua’s brother ended up with Ji Man and what did that have to do with their brother?

Wang Ge asked, "Did you know them before?"

Lin Qiu glanced at Lin Xia before responding, "Not really, just aware of him! We rented their family’s place for half a month before! But Xu Haimin was working out of town then and wasn’t at home!"

Lin Xia clenched her fists, barely holding back the urge to curse out loud, as she suspected something fishy when Ji Man suddenly found her brother’s workplace and tricked him into going out.

But no matter how she thought about it, she couldn’t understand the purpose of Ji Man’s actions.

Now as everything connected, what was there not to understand?

It must have been Ji Man wanting to use her brother as a shield!

As a result, Xu Haimin harbored resentment and sought retaliation...

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