Upon hearing her son's words, Shen Xiaoqin's face stiffened.

A moment later, she nodded, "All right, if it has to be a divorce, then so be it. Find a woman who knows how to cherish you. Mom supports you."

After speaking, she reached out to gently stroke Jiang Chen's forehead, smiling kindly.

Tears glimmered in Jiang Chen's eyes as he silently vowed to make sure his mother would have a good life from now on.

But just then, suddenly, "Ah——" a cry of alarm came from the room next door.

Shen Xiaoqin looked at Jiang Chen with some surprise and concern, "Chen'er, what happened?"

Jiang Chen shook his head, "Mom, I don't know either. Don't move, I'll go take a look."

"Be careful, don't get involved in every commotion," Shen Xiaoqin cautioned.

Jiang Chen agreed and walked out after opening the door.

No sooner had Jiang Chen exited than the door to the neighboring room burst open, and a completely nude woman clutching her clothes to cover her private parts ran out in a panic.

"It's not my fault, it's not my fault..."

Upon seeing Jiang Chen watching her, the woman hastily argued her case twice before turning and running toward the stairwell.

Jiang Chen watched the woman's retreating figure in puzzlement, then, thinking for a moment, he walked to the doorway of the next room and peered inside, only to be taken aback.

He saw a middle-aged man lying naked on the sofa in the next room. The man's brows were furrowed, his face deathly pale, and his breathing extremely weak. If not for the slight rise and fall of his chest, Jiang Chen might have mistaken him for dead.

But then, Jiang Chen saw it.

Instant wind disease.

Well, just how wild had this couple been to end up with this condition?

Jiang Chen shook his head in amusement and stepped into the room.

Human life was at stake, and he wasn't one to stand by and watch someone die.

Sitting down on the coffee table, Jiang Chen took Silver Needles out of his pocket and began to perform acupuncture treatment on the man.

"Ugh...Huff huff!"

In a short while, the man's body jerked, and his eyes shot open as he started to breathe heavily.

He was alive.

"Look, you're not young anymore, so stop sneaking out for affairs. If you're going to play, at least choose someone reliable. When you got sick, she just dumped you here. If there's a next time, you might not even know how you died."

Jiang Chen put away the Silver Needles and looked at the man teasingly, making a jesting remark.

The man came to his senses and, realizing what had happened, hurriedly got dressed. He grabbed Jiang Chen, who was about to leave, and kept thanking him, "Thank you, thank you, young man, for saving me. Here, please take this as a token of my appreciation, and I must also trouble you to keep this a secret."

As he spoke, the man took all the cash from his person and bag and stuffed it into Jiang Chen's hands, his eyes filled with a pleading look.

Jiang Chen looked at the stack of red bills in his hand, roughly thirty or forty thousand—likely what the man intended to pay the woman for the night.

With a slight smile, to reassure the man, Jiang Chen nodded and said, "Okay, I'll take the consultation fee. Doctors are supposed to keep their patients' medical information confidential. I know that, and I won't talk."

"Thank you, thank you, young man," the man sighed with relief, continuing to express his gratitude.

Jiang Chen chuckled, shook his head, and walked out of the room. After exchanging a few casual words with his mother to comfort her, he went to his own room to sleep.

…

By now, the night was deep, and the inpatient department of Jinhai Hospital lay in silence.

Gong Lin tiptoed out of the ward, holding a water bottle to fill up, all the while consumed by regret.

I really shouldn't have! That benefactor has saved my mother twice, and all I know is that his name is Jiang Chen; I don't even have a way to contact him.

Gong Lin sighed, shook her head, filled the water, and headed back to the ward.

But as soon as she got back to the ward and pushed open the door, Gong Lin's body stiffened, and then, with a "bang," the water bottle in her hand dropped to the ground and shattered, tears welling up in her eyes.

At this moment, three men were in the ward.

A middle-aged man in a suit was sitting beside the bed, holding Gong Lin's mother's hand and talking to her; upon seeing Gong Lin enter, he stood up from the chair, his eyes filled with regret and guilt.

To the left of the suited man was a refined man wearing glasses, who bowed to Gong Lin when he saw her.

Next to him stood a man with a cold demeanor and a burly figure, who also bowed to Gong Lin.

Gong Lin, looking at the suited man, finally couldn't hold back her tears and let them fall.

She, who should have been living the comfortable life of a pampered young lady, was now leading a life of displacement, and her mother had nearly died twice because of it. The injustices in Gong Lin's heart instantly turned into tears and flowed out uncontrollably.

Gong Lin was originally the beloved daughter of Gong Jian Qiang, the Family Head of the Gong Family, a First-Class Family in Jincheng. In order to escape an arranged marriage set by her family, with her mother's support, the two of them fled Jincheng and ran all the way to Jinhai.

Once Gong Jian Qiang found out, he was furious, ordering the Gong Family members not to go looking for the mother and daughter, letting them suffer on their own.

But what he did not expect was that his negligence almost cost his wife's life. After receiving the news, Gong Jian Qiang rushed over in the middle of the night.

"Lin'er, daddy knows he was wrong, I won't force you anymore. You and your mom should come back to Jincheng with daddy," Gong Jian Qiang said, his face full of guilt.

Gong Lin glanced at her mother, weak on the bed, hesitated for a moment, then a determined look flashed in her eyes, "Dad, take mom back. I want to stay. The lifesaver is still in Jinhai. If not for him, mom would have died twice. I have to repay this debt. I'll stay to see if I can meet the benefactor again."

Gong Jian Qiang frowned, "Lin'er, it's a given we repay the kindness of others, but you don't have to wait here for that. Just describe the man's features, and let Butler Liu send someone to find him. Reward him with some money, or offer him a position in our company—isn't that enough?"

"Dad, in your eyes, can everything be measured in money? Then tell me, the benefactor saved my mom's life twice. With two lives at stake, how much money do you plan to offer to repay this debt of life!"

Gong Lin stared intensely into Gong Jian Qiang's eyes, her face showing her anger.

The reason she was initially promised to the heir of another family was for financial benefits, to earn more money. Now, her mother's two life-saving benevolences were being regarded by Gong Jian Qiang as trivial matters that could be settled simply by giving some money.

This notion ignited the fury in Gong Lin's heart instantly.

"Fine, fine, fine, you decide how to repay the kindness. Can we leave it at that? But tonight, you and your mom have to come back with me. We can't delay your mother's condition any longer," Gong Jian Qiang, knowing he had misspoken, waved his hand wanting to end the previous topic of discussion.

Gong Lin shook her head firmly, "You take mom back. I'm staying in Jinhai to find the benefactor!"

Gong Jian Qiang became angry, "Why can't this small matter be left to Butler Liu to handle? Why must you insist on looking for him yourself!"

What's gotten into his daughter? Could she be bewitched by this so-called benefactor?

No, this cannot happen! I have to see for myself what kind of person this so-called benefactor is.

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