Chapter 55 p1
A fluffy paw stretched out from between the suite’s side bedroom, unfurling in the air like an orchid.
Chi Yu came out and saw a small, faint lump under the covers on the hospital bed, the woman’s long, soft black hair spread across the pillow.
Jiejie is too thin.
If not for her hair, if one didn’t look closely at that small lump, one might think no one was sleeping in the bed.
She pursed her lips slightly and asked in a small voice, “Jiejie, are you asleep?”
The person on the bed didn’t move, not responding to her at all.
Chi Yu was used to it. She sat down on the sofa, holding a tablet in her hand.
She said, “The doctor said your condition is stable. You just need to continue with your rehabilitation every day. This is someone else’s territory after all, and it’s not comfortable to stay here. We’ll move tomorrow.”
“I have a house that’s suitable for recuperation, with beautiful mountains and clear water, and an excellent view. I’ll come to see you often.”
There was a hint of a smile in her voice.
Chi Yu bit her lip, and her pale fingers under the covers clutched the bedsheet, trembling slightly.
She was not stupid.
The so-called “beautiful mountains and clear water” meant moving to a remote and desolate old forest in the deep mountains, to completely cut her off from the outside world and become Chi Yu’s captive in a secluded chamber.
And once she left, she would probably never see Can Can again.
And this weak body, which panted after just a few words and could hardly lift its hands, being hastily moved, would probably break midway.
But, knowing that Can Can was still healthy and well, she considered her wish fulfilled.
There was only one last thing—
Her eyes were dull and dark as she asked in a hoarse voice, “What about my house?”
“That house of yours is in the suburbs and isn’t worth much,” Chi Yu said gently. “Jiejie, what I give you will definitely be the best.”
“You sold it?” Chi Yu asked sharply.
Chi Yu didn’t speak.
Chi Yu’s breath hitched, and she choked and coughed.
She covered her mouth and coughed until her face was red, as if she were about to cough up her throat in the next second.
Her thin body curled into a ball under the covers.
That was her and her puppy’s house.
There, she had raised Can Can from a little Golden Retriever puppy that hadn’t even opened its eyes into a beautiful, large dog. They had kept each other company and had spent the happiest and most carefree time of their lives.
The house was filled with traces of their warm past.
And she had sold it.
Her reddened eye rims overflowed with moisture. Chi Yu bit her lower lip until it bled, stubbornly refusing to let out a single gasp or cry.
She didn’t want to let Chi Yu be pleased.
Chi Yu unhurriedly put down her tablet.
She had had that house in her hands and had been planning to sell it.
It was just that she had been busy with inheriting the family business these past few months and had also had to come and visit her sister, so she had temporarily forgotten about it.
It had to be dealt with soon.
As she was thinking, a sound suddenly came from the door, as if something were bumping against it.
Chi Yu immediately narrowed her eyes warily.
This private hospital had excellent security and also paid great attention to the client experience.
Without her orders, the bodyguards would not come up, and it was even more unlikely for someone to disturb them at night.
The visitor had ill intentions.
She took out her phone and sent an order to her two personal bodyguards, telling them to bring up the seven bodyguards on standby.
Then she walked slowly to the door and pressed the red button on the wall—that was the Xiao’s Private Hospital’s night security team, which clients could summon at any time. They were well-trained and highly skilled.
Last time, she had mistakenly thought Chi Yu had escaped and had casually used this security function.
Although she had later found that Chi Yu had just fallen off the bed and had passed out, and no one had noticed.
It was also that false alarm that had made her relax her guard a little with her sister and had also given her a certain trust in the security team.
With her preparations complete, she lightly touched the electronic peephole display embedded in the wall, and the screen began to broadcast the content outside the door.
Whether the visitor was a woman or a man, an eighty-year-old or a two-year-old, they had to be detained and questioned.
Chi Yu’s face was full of wary darkness. She held her breath and stared at the display, but her pupils suddenly trembled—
What appeared before her was a capybara and a pelican.
The pelican opened its large pink beak, about to clamp the capybara’s head, but the capybara nimbly dodged.
The capybara’s solid body accidentally bumped into the door of room 2010, making a loud bang.
The pelican was persistent and once again opened its beak to clamp the capybara.
But it lost its strength midway and accidentally pecked the ward door, making Chi Yu’s brow twitch.
A moment later, a calico cat appeared.
Perhaps taking the door for a scratching post, it scratched it until one’s back tingled.
Chi Yu let out a breath of frustration.
Many rich families liked to keep rare and exotic pets.
A young miss with whom the Chi family had recently collaborated had raised three capybaras and would post pictures of them in her Moments every day.
Xiao’s Private Hospital did not allow pets on the surface, but the security guards were afraid of the rich and powerful and would probably turn a blind eye to important figures.
Her mind working at high speed, Chi Yu came to the most likely conclusion: some family on this floor’s pets had collectively escaped.
Lying in front of room 2010 and fighting, bumping and pecking, was really annoying.
Just then, a light ding sounded from the screen.
“Security team at your service. We have arrived on the 20th floor and are about to arrive at ward 2010.”
A small window in the upper right corner showed the location of the hospital security team, just outside the door.
If it were any other situation, Chi Yu would definitely have waited for her bodyguards to signal their arrival before opening the door to deal with it.
But seeing those two foolish pets fighting inextricably, bumping against the ward door, and the grating noise of the cat’s claws repeatedly scratching the door panel giving her goosebumps; and hearing the rustling of the bedcovers from behind her, the woman’s weak voice, hoarse and pitiable.
“What’s that noise… I’m awake.”
Chi Yu was not a patient person by nature, and hearing her sister’s complaint, which sounded like she was acting spoiled, made her feel hot all over.
A fierce look appeared in her eyes. She raised a hand to unlock the door and opened it a crack.
Letting pets out to disturb people in the middle of the night. She would have to vent her anger on this pet’s owner later.
Just as she was about to step out, she saw the pelican flap its wings and squeeze in, its large pink beak open, and fiercely clamp her leg.
Chi Yu let out a cry of alarm. “Security—”
The pelican’s clamping force could not cause much harm to a human, but for Chi Yu, who hated animals and had an extremely high sense of self-esteem, the mental damage was maxed out.
On the hospital bed, Chi Yu struggled to look up, her weak, reddened eyes widening slightly.
Her heart was pounding so fast it made her pant lightly.
These small animals… are they the team Can Can is with?
Over there, Chi Yu had struggled free from the pelican’s troublesome large beak and was scolding, “Get out!”
Just as she was about to kick, a sharp sting suddenly came from her right eyelid.
Chi Yu froze. She looked up and saw a small, round honeybee brazenly buzzing away.
It seemed to have intelligence. After pulling away to a safe distance, it hovered in the air, provocatively wiggling its fluffy butt left and right, its stinger, which had just stung someone, very eye-catching.
After a bee stings someone, it will die.
But the little round honeybee was a mutated bee. It looked round and fluffy and very cute, but its venom was very potent. And after stinging someone, it could easily remove its stinger without harming itself.
The effect was almost immediate. Chi Yu’s eyelid swelled into a comical large bump, both painful and itchy. She wanted to scratch but dared not.
And even more, a numbness quickly spread from there, seeping into her skin and coursing through her limbs, making her feel weak all over.
As the designated heir of the Chi family since she was little, Chi Yu had seen many pranks and had also experienced all sorts of vicious business wars.
But she had never seen such a strange method of teasing.
On the display screen, the security’s location was clearly just outside the door, but no one had rushed in to help her.
Knowing she had been tricked, she fought against the limp weakness and raised a hand to close the door—
The animal that suddenly appeared at the door made her pupils constrict.
The rich and powerful, those in high positions, none of them did not cherish their lives or fear death.
Otherwise, Chi Yu would not have had bodyguards with her every day.
But at this very moment, at the door was a giant beast, standing tall and proud, its entirely dark fur shimmering with a deep luster under the light, faintly revealing beautiful and majestic leopard spots.
Its pair of jade-green eyes were mysterious and sharp, and when they narrowed slightly, they showed the aggression of a beast of prey.
A fragile human raised in a greenhouse, facing a wild and ferocious beast, instantly had her weak nature stimulated.
As the black panther lifted its large paw and, with an elegant panther’s gait, approached step by step, Chi Yu’s limbs, which had been weakened by the little round honeybee’s poison, seemed to lose all feeling, and in her fear, she fell to the ground in a disheveled heap.
The dangerous feeling of near death pressed on her mind, squeezing her breath.
…Am I going to be eaten alive by this black panther?
A bone-chilling fear was slowly devouring her reason and clarity.
“Help…” Before she could finish, the black panther suddenly lowered its head and, with a swoosh, opened its bloody maw, revealing its incomparably sharp teeth.
So scared that Chi Yu trembled all over, she clamped her mouth shut and, stumbling, crawled backward on her hands and feet, toward Chi Yu.
Seeing Chi Yu and the black panther getting closer and closer to the hospital bed, the woman’s fragile, reddened eyes were almost unblinking.
She was already a person who could die at any moment. Chi Yu was not afraid of the black panther eating her.
It was just that a certain irrepressible expectation was repeatedly floating in her heart…
Could these animals really be Can Can’s friends?
Then Can Can…
Just as the black panther pressed a paw on Chi Yu’s shoulder, scaring her into rolling her eyes and fainting—
“Awoo~”
A puppy’s bark came from outside the door, and the tense and dangerous atmosphere in the room was instantly dispersed.
