Transmigrated as the Domineering Scumbag Alpha Forced into Marriage by a Delicate Subordinate (GL) - Chapter 29

Qin Jue drove the car into the hospital’s underground parking lot. All the way there, Aunt Wang didn’t call a second time. Tang Yun’s heart was in her throat, unsure of the situation inside the hospital. The car had just stopped when she pushed the door open and rushed out, simultaneously calling Aunt Wang to ask what was going on.

The Nephrology Ward 1 was on the fifth floor. Luckily, an elevator was waiting on the first floor. Tang Yun sprinted in, lifted her hand to press the close button, and headed straight for the fifth floor.

The moment the elevator doors closed, Qin Jue stepped into the lobby on the first floor.

The phone signal was poor in the elevator. Tang Yun stamped her foot in agitation, watching the floor numbers jump up. Finally, the doors opened on the fifth floor, and Aunt Wang’s call connected.

“Hello, what’s the situation now? Is she in the emergency room, or…?” Tang Yun asked.

“She’s fine, she’s fine! They gave her some kind of shot, and Xinxin woke up. She’s in the ward,” Aunt Wang said, smiling broadly.

The single sentence calmed Tang Yun’s heart. She let out a long breath, and her eyes instantly reddened.

“It’s good that she’s fine,” Tang Yun said.

Bed number 15 in Nephrology Ward 1 was in a room at the end of the corridor. Tang Yun jogged over. Tang Xin’s bed was the first one by the door.

The small body was curled up on the bed, pale and frail, with a large bottle of liquid hanging above her head. Hearing the familiar footsteps, Tang Xin turned her face, saw Tang Yun, and immediately broke into a bright smile.

“Sister!” Tang Xin called out in surprise.

Her voice was soft, showing weakness, but the happiness on her face was genuine.

“Why did you come, Sister?” Tang Xin asked.

Tang Xin tried hard to sit up. Aunt Wang cranked the bed up a bit. Tang Yun sat on the edge of the bed and let Tang Xin lean against her.

She looks thinner again.

“Sister missed you, so I came over to see you,” Tang Yun said.

She deliberately omitted how Aunt Wang called her and how she rushed all the way there. Since Tang Xin was fine now, there was no need to mention any of it.

“How have you been feeling lately?” Tang Yun asked.

“Hehe, I feel like I’m getting better soon,” Tang Xin said.

Tang Yun knew Xinxin was telling a little white lie to ease her worries. She pretended to be fooled by Xinxin. Her younger sister, at such a young age, had instinctively learned what a white lie was. The two sisters worked hard to create an image of peaceful tranquility, allowing each other to bask in illusory hope.

“Yes, get better quickly. When you’re better, I’ll buy you ice cream from the amusement park,” Tang Yun said.

“Then I want strawberry flavor,” Tang Xin said.

“Okay, we’ll buy strawberry flavor. I’ll also buy a chocolate one. Sister likes chocolate…”

Tang Yun rested her chin on the top of Tang Xin’s head, slowly imagining the scene after she was healthy and discharged, her lips subconsciously curving up, her gaze drifting aimlessly.

Until it landed on a long shadow on the floor near the ward door.

Tang Yun suddenly snapped back to reality. In an instant, she recognized whose shadow it was. She had almost forgotten—she came with Qin Jue.

Tang Yun’s heart started pounding furiously. If Qin Jue walked in like this, the beautiful image of independence and self-reliance she had painstakingly built in front of her sister would shatter immediately. She couldn’t let Tang Xin see Qin Jue!

“Sister is going to find the doctor.”

Tang Yun immediately walked out of the ward after speaking. Her overly fast steps betrayed her agitation. Qin Jue was standing just outside the ward door. The door was wide open. She was standing sideways, leaning against the wall with her arms crossed, and a slight smile played on her lips when she saw Tang Yun come out.

Tang Yun felt overwhelmingly guilty. She quickly closed the ward door, cutting off any possible sightlines between the two sides.

“It looks like the situation is okay?” Qin Jue asked.

“Thank you for your concern, CEO Qin. It’s stable now,” Tang Yun thought for a moment and added, “It’s all Aunt Wang being too jumpy.”

“You agreed to be with me because of your sister, didn’t you?” Qin Jue asked.

Tang Yun remained silent. Not speaking at a time like this was equivalent to tacit approval.

“Is the money enough? I don’t recall giving you a lot,” Qin Jue tilted her head, observing Tang Yun.

“It’s enough. It’s already a lot,” Tang Yun quickly said.

She lowered her eyes, not daring to look directly at Qin Jue. Standing outside Tang Xin’s ward, Tang Yun felt particularly ashamed. When she received Aunt Wang’s call, Tang Yun had panicked, desperate for a cure. Qin Jue was the only straw she could grasp at that moment. But now that she was calm, Tang Yun felt she had made a terrible mistake. Under no circumstances did she want Qin Jue and Tang Xin to connect.

If Qin Jue were just a kind benefactor, Tang Yun certainly wouldn’t be this nervous, but both she and Qin Jue knew very well that Qin Jue was not.

This ward door was the boundary line between the light and dark of her world. She was fiercely guarding it, refusing to yield an inch.

“Then, can I go in and see her? Do you agree?” Qin Jue asked.

“No.” Tang Yun suddenly looked up.

Tang Yun’s attitude was resolute. Qin Jue raised an eyebrow in surprise. She didn’t recall Tang Yun ever using such a sharp tone.

Immediately, Tang Yun realized her tone was too aggressive and tried to find a gentle way to express it: “No… No need. It’s not very convenient.”

“Kidney disease, as I recall, is not contagious. There’s nothing inconvenient about it,” Qin Jue insisted, even taking a tentative half-step forward.

Tang Yun visibly tensed up.

“CEO Qin… I… I haven’t told my sister about our relationship.”

“She doesn’t know you exist.”

“I don’t want… I don’t want her to think her sister…” Tang Yun bit her lower lip, finding it extremely difficult to tell Qin Jue the truth.

She had various concerns, but ultimately, it boiled down to the word dignity.

“CEO Qin, I know this is inappropriate for me to ask, but as long as you don’t see my sister, just pretend she doesn’t exist. We can be any way you want,” Tang Yun pleaded softly.

“Any way I want?” Qin Jue smiled. “Do you know what you’re saying?”

Tang Yun shifted her gaze, staring at the seams of the hospital floor tiles, trying to ignore the hidden meaning in that sentence. Her heart raced, and her face flushed. She was an adult. She understood some unspoken adult understandings.

She had heard of scenarios similar to: Miss Tang, you don’t want your sister to know you’re selling yourself, do you?

Tang Yun shook her head slightly, trying to shake the overly broad scope of her past reading material out of her mind.

“CEO Qin, can we talk a little farther away? Not by the ward door,” Tang Yun was truly afraid that Tang Xin would overhear her conversation with Qin Jue.

“Sure. How about the restroom then?” Qin Jue readily agreed.

The re… restroom? Tang Yun thought of some more vulgar scenarios.

Tang Yun’s throat tightened. She mechanically followed Qin Jue to the end of the corridor. The restroom was fine. At least it was farther from Xinxin.

Tang Yun comforted herself this way.

The restroom was empty. The doors of the stalls were all open. Tang Yun walked straight to the innermost stall. Passing Qin Jue, she heard her tease:

“Are you really going to use the restroom?”

Qin Jue stood in front of the sink, turning on the faucet to carefully wash her hands.

Tang Yun was puzzled. What kind of plot twist is this?

Qin Jue suddenly seemed to have developed mysophobia. She meticulously washed her hands from fingertips to wrist, following the seven-step handwashing chart posted on the wall. Tang Yun waited beside her, and suddenly, she understood.

Washing so thoroughly. CEO Qin is a meticulous person.

The sound of water was gurgling.

“You don’t dare let me see her because you’re afraid I’ll say something?” Qin Jue asked.

“If I mention the agreement, would your sister not want to use your money anymore?”

“She’s just a child. Our adult transaction, would it be inappropriate to tell her?” Qin Jue turned her head and asked.

“Inappropriate,” Tang Yun answered without hesitation.

Qin Jue finally finished washing her hands. She shook off the water droplets, turned around, and leaned against the sink, smiling at Tang Yun: “Then why do you think I must say it?”

“Miss Tang, everyone takes care of their own sister. I have no interest in her,” Qin Jue said.

Tang Yun was stunned. She hadn’t expected Qin Jue’s promise to come so easily. She had been prepared to sacrifice for it.

“Aren’t you planning to take the opportunity to exploit me?” Tang Yun couldn’t help but ask.

“What do you mean?” Qin Jue didn’t quite follow Tang Yun’s line of thinking.

“You said before, CEO Qin, that you are a businesswoman and don’t do business that loses money,” Tang Yun reminded her.

Seeing that Qin Jue was still confused, Tang Yun gritted her teeth and further clarified her understanding of a rich bastard: “At a time like this, aren’t you planning to use Xinxin to threaten me to do this and that?”

“Something like…” Tang Yun cleared her throat, awkwardly stating: “Miss Tang, you don’t want your sister to know how you earn money, do you?”

After Tang Yun finished, she pressed her lips together, staring at Qin Jue’s reaction.

Qin Jue: “…”

One second, two seconds. Qin Jue went from expressionless to suddenly bursting into hysterical laughter, as if having a seizure.

“Your imagination is quite something, truly,” CEO Qin couldn’t help but compliment.

Tang Yun: “…”

Qin Jue was still laughing, even having to hold onto the sink to keep her balance.

“Miss Tang, you don’t want… hahahaha…” Qin Jue tried to recite the line, but failed.

It was too shameful. Who could say such a thing with a straight face?

Amidst Qin Jue’s loud laughter, Tang Yun went from initial embarrassment to confusion, and finally, to anger.

“Stop laughing! Is it that funny!” Tang Yun flared up.

“It really is funny,” Qin Jue wondered, “So you think about this kind of stuff all the time? When do you read this kind of thing?”

Is this the spiritual world of contemporary female college students? Qin Jue was greatly shocked.

“Don’t worry, I’m not interested in this kind of scenario. I don’t like anything flashy,” CEO Qin said seriously.

“Ah, oh, okay,” Tang Yun was extremely embarrassed.

“You go back. You snuck out using an excuse, didn’t you? Go back and accompany your sister. I’ll wander around here. Call me when you’re ready to leave,” Qin Jue said.

Tang Yun didn’t know what was good to wander around in a hospital, but she was eager to escape Qin Jue’s side right now. And Qin Jue was right. She had indeed snuck out using an excuse when she saw Qin Jue’s shadow. She needed to quickly go see the doctor, and then return to the ward to accompany Xinxin.

“Then… then I’ll go back, CEO Qin,” Tang Yun said.

Qin Jue waved her hand, signaling her to disappear quickly.

Tang Yun left. The restroom immediately became too quiet. The false commotion vanished. Qin Jue stared blankly at the water droplets clinging to her fingertips until a person who genuinely came to use the restroom entered and looked at Qin Jue as if she were mentally ill.

Qin Jue returned the gaze with righteous indignation, then turned and walked out unhurriedly.

A hospital was indeed not a place for strolling and sightseeing. Qin Jue had said that just to send Tang Yun away. She wanted to be alone.

Since learning that Tang Yun had a seriously ill sister in the hospital, Qin Jue’s emotions had been maintained at a dangerous critical point. Tonight, upon hearing that Tang Xin’s condition had suddenly worsened, she had completely lost her composure.

Speeding and running a red light. Did her license even have enough points left to deduct?

Qin Jue knew she was acting strangely. Why was she so worked up about someone else’s sister? It was because what she wanted to save with all her might was already unsalvageable.

She, too, once had a younger sister, much younger than her, who chattered non-stop every day with energy from who knows where. It was annoying.

She was not short of money. Even at her lowest point, she could afford hospital bills. But unfortunately, not all diseases in the world could be beaten back with money. Reality told her that human medicine had its limits.

This was her sister’s fate, her fate. It had nothing to do with Tang Yun and Tang Yun’s little sister. She couldn’t project her feelings onto other people. She finally pulled herself back from the brink when she chased Tang Yun to the ward door.

She had been so close to breaking the most fundamental boundary between people. That was a disrespect to everyone, including her deceased little sister.

Qin Jue gave a bitter laugh and shook her head. She walked out of the restroom. The stark white light in the hospital corridor was glaring. The shiny tiled walls reflected Qin Jue’s dejected and unsightly appearance. After Tang Yun’s inexplicably absurd behavior, her emotions were interrupted, and she could finally step back to scrutinize herself.

Qin Jue belatedly remembered that she had seemed overly cold-hearted in front of Tang Yun, saying nonsense like “I have no interest in your sister,” but recalling it, Tang Yun seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief instead.

She didn’t know why this child’s mind was filled with so much rubbish. Any conversation with her always ended with CEO Qin’s lack of knowledge.

It’s good, though. Tang Yun’s personality was more open-minded. Better than hers.