My Lovely Wife is a Forensic Doctor - Chapter 257
Chapter 257 Excuses
“What is it?” Mu Yu eyed Qin Jinhuan anxiously.
“Feng Rubing fell and got hurt.”
“Huh? How could that hap—”
Rong Jian had already pushed Mu Yu aside before she could finish speaking, and he pressed Qin Jinhuan with utter shock. “Where is Rubing? How could she have fallen and got hurt?”
“What’s with the pushing? Can’t you ask nicely?” Qin Jinhuan flew over to help the fallen Mu Yu while he rebuked Rong Jian in displeasure. “Can you even bear the weight of the responsibility if your push killed my child?”
It was only then did Rong Jian realize his callousness, and he hastily apologized to Mu Yu by saying, “I’m sorry, Mu Yu. I…”
Naturally, Mu Yu understood his feelings. She waved at him as she asked Qin Jinhuan on Rong Jian’s behalf, “Where is Madam Feng now? How is she?”
Seeing that Mu Yu was all right, Qin Jinhuan finally looked at Rong Jian. “She’s already been sent to the clinic nearby—Yu’An Hills Clinic.”
“Get them to clear the way!” Rong Jian yelled as he charged toward his car. Right now, he couldn’t care less about the reason why Feng Rubing was all the way at Yu’An Hills—it was over 30 miles to the south of An City. He just wanted to know that she was all right, and all he wanted to do was to see her as soon as he could.
At that moment, Mu Yu recalled how Rong Jian did not have a driving license. Furthermore, she was worried that he’d break several traffic laws due to his hastiness. Hence, she quickly called for Liu Xiaofan to take the wheel.
Liu Xiaofan acquiesced. He quickly rushed over and blocked the way to the door of Rong Jian’s car so that he could ask the latter for his keys. Rong Jian initially refused, but then he noticed that none of Qin Jinhuan’s subordinates were backing away. It was only then that he resentfully tossed his keys to Liu Xiaofan and slid into the passenger seat. Right then, Qin Jinhuan signaled to his subordinates to move their cars away and clear a path for Rong Jian.
After Bian Zijun saw that Rong Jian’s car had driven off, he immediately called for Cheng Xiang and Weng Yun—they were redirecting traffic with some of his men right then.
“We’re going home now.” Qin Jinhuan led Mu Yu into the car.
“Huan, I was thinking…” Mu Yu initially wanted to follow them to Yu’An Hills and see Feng Rubing. However, at the sudden thought of Qin Jinhuan’s business trip the next morning, Mu Yu swallowed her words.
Meanwhile, Qin Jinhuan guessed her thoughts. He then grabbed her hand and said, “Feng Rubing is fine. She just broke her leg.”
“How is breaking a leg not considered serious?!”
He shrugged. “Isn’t it a good thing? It’ll stop her from running around and making Rong Jian unable to find her.”
Her face fell. “Pfft! Is there anyone else who’d say that?”
“Am I not stating the truth? I don’t like searching for someone in the middle of the night.”
“In that case, I’ll deliberately run away from home in the middle of the night next time.”
“Why do you want to run away when I treat you so well?” He grabbed her. Once Qin Jinhuan caught Mu Yu giving him the side-eye, he smiled and explained, “Feng Rubing’s broken leg could be God’s way of giving Rong Jian a chance. I’m going to have to give him pointers on how to snag this pretty lady’s heart later.”
She immediately twisted his ear, and her eyes were wide open as she glared at him. “You know how to snag a lady’s heart, huh? Are your lady-killer skills that amazing?”
“I don’t need to pursue women; women voluntarily throw themselves into my arms.”
“So you’re saying that you have no shortage of women outside of home?”
“I do not lack women indeed…”
“Qin Jinhuan!”
He managed to catch her arm just in time before she could pinch him. As he winked at her, he sang softly, “There’s no other love in my mind—you’re the only girl that my mind and soul is thinking of.”
He brought Mu Yu’s hand up to his lips and kissed it as soon as he finished his song, and a serious expression appeared on his face afterward. “Darling, I have no shortage of women who would throw themselves at me, but those women disgust me. I love my wife, and I only like it when it’s my wife throwing herself into my arms.”
“Jerk!” She pulled back her hand in a dainty manner. Then, she reached up to gently wrap her hands around his neck and grumbled, “I’d better be the only one you love. If you dare to fancy another woman in your mind, I’ll most definitely strangle you!”
He caressed her hands and grinned. “Darling, killing is against the law.”
“Don’t worry, I won’t chop you up with a machete. I’m a forensics scientist; there’s at least a hundred ways for me to kill you without anyone suspecting it.” She grinned eerily. “For example, I could feed you some undercooked soy milk, or I could feed you calabash gourds. I could deliberately pass off some devil’s snare as okra and feed it to you. I could also make you eat some tangerines before making you wash it down with some seafood.”
Undercooked soy milk would produce saponin; eating tangerines with seafood would result in chronic poisoning; calabash gourds produced a poisonous substance known as glycoalkaloids; and the devil’s snare—also known as the flower of death—greatly resembled okra. It was a poisonous plant, and its seeds were the most poisonous part. If one were to eat it by mistake, the victim would go into shock, fall unconscious, and have their respiratory system paralyzed.
Since Qin Jinhuan knew all of that, his smile was somewhat strained.
Mu Yu could see his discomfort, but she wasn’t surprised by it. “These aren’t part of the one hundred methods I mentioned. I just brought up several dangerous examples that you can understand; it’s just my way of making you take me seriously.”
Qin Jinhuan played along with her ‘cold war’, so he immediately pressed his hands together and begged for mercy. “My dear wife, please do not lay a cruel hand on me. I assure you that I will love you and only you for the rest of my life, and I will live my days out with you. I guarantee you that I won’t so much as spare an extra glance at any other woman.”
“All right.” Amused, she grinned and flicked his forehead.
“Darling.” After he laughed his heart out, Qin Jinhuan hugged her. His voice became serious again as he said, “I’m going to be away for a few days. Can you be a good girl and stay at home without going anywhere?”
“I have to go to work!”
He was exasperated and quickly corrected himself. “In that case, you can’t go anywhere else apart from the station and the house, okay? You have to get Huang Bo to drive you to and fro from work!”
“A trip to the supermarket is fine, right?”
“No, I don’t feel safe letting you do that. If you need to buy anything, get Huang Bo to buy it for you. If you don’t want Huang Bo to do it, give Secretary Zhi a call. She’ll buy it and have it delivered to the house.”
She laughed. “The world’s a peaceful place now. Why are you so tense? Besides, aren’t you just going on a business trip for a few days? It’s not like you’re going to be away for half a year. Those few days will go by in a blink, and I assure you that I won’t even have a single hair missing from my head by the time you get back. In fact, I’ll be hopping around the airport like a bunny to welcome you back.”
“At any rate, be careful! I won’t allow you to get into any accidents.”
“Come on, relax. I swear I won’t get into any trouble. I’m not a kid anyway; I’m a true blue forensics scientist, so I know how to protect myself. Besides, don’t you always have someone watching over me in the shadows? Do you not trust your subordinates’ capabilities?”
The last sentence left Qin Jinhuan speechless, and he didn’t say anything else after that.
When the pair returned home, they realized that Aunty Lan had already helped Qin Jinhuan to pack his things. Seeing how it was already late and that Qin Jinhuan would need to leave early for his flight, Mu Yu hastily urged him to wash up.
Right then, Qin Jinhuan put down his phone and informed Mu Yu that Feng Rubing had been sent to the nearest hospital; they confirmed that she only suffered a minor fracture to her shin, and she was fine otherwise. He even told Mu Yu that Rong Jian had already gone to see her in her ward.
She expressed her worries and said, “Madam Feng won’t chase him out, right?”
“As of now, no.” While he said that, Qin Jinhuan pondered things carefully before calling up Rong Ying. Then, he told her to take Feng Qiqi and visit Feng Rubing in the hospital.
Although she understood his reasoning, Mu Yu was still worried. “Wouldn’t that put a lot of stress on Madam Feng? Are you sure it won’t trigger her?”
Qin Jinhuan’s nonchalant voice filtered through the bathroom door. “You and Rong Jian care too much about Feng Rubing’s feelings; that’s how you guys ended up with the situation today. You two should have let her face reality earlier on and let her realize that running away from her problems will do nothing but harm herself and the people around her.”
“But…”
“Don’t worry about them anymore; Feng Rubing’s condition is an affliction of the mind, and it’s something that can only be cured through treatment for her mental health. You’re not a remedy for her, and it’s no use even if you’re worried about her.”
“In that case, who can cure her?”
“Rong Jian and Qiqi are the key to resolving this. I’ve already sent them over; whether or not they can help her with her condition will depend on how everything unfolds. It’s best if you don’t involve yourself with this anymore, and the best thing for you is to pretend that you don’t know anything. Feng Rubing would rather bear the crime of being a murderer instead of telling anyone about her ties with Li Jianyun because she’s afraid of others knowing about her past.”
“I’m not just shoving myself blindly into this—I just want to act as a mediator.”
“Feng Rubing already has feelings for Rong Jian, and he’s even voluntarily seeing her. With Qiqi helping him out now, do you still need to act as a go-between? Also, don’t forget that Qiqi has been hoping Rong Jian would marry Feng Rubing.”
Mu Yu felt that his words were reasonable, so she instinctively said, “You’ve got a point there.”
“Okay, stop right there. Come on and brush your teeth; I’ve already helped you fill your cup with water.”
“Okay, I’m coming.”
She decided to temporarily put a stop to the questions about Rong Jian and Feng Rubing, and she was going to give them space for their relationship to develop. When Mu Yu entered the bathroom, Qin Jinhuan got out and winked at her. “I’ll warm your blankets up and wait for you.”
“Such lack of propriety,” she said, feigning disgruntlement before she lowered her head and chuckled her way into the bathroom.
Soon, Mu Yu finished brushing her teeth and washing her face. By the time she walked over to the bed, Qin Jinhuan had already closed his eyes. Mu Yu knew that he had already fallen asleep, so she gently got into bed. To her surprise, he abruptly pinned her down the moment she plopped down, and it scared her out of her wits. When she realized that he was pulling at the strap of her nightgown, she quickly reminded him, “You have to leave early tomorrow, and it’s already late. You should rest well. Don’t tire yourself out and affect tomorrow’s talks.”
He grinned evilly. “Thank you for your concern, my dear wife. As the man of the house, how can I not tire myself out?” He deliberately drew those syllables out.
Mu Yu shot him a stink-eye when she heard the teasing tone in his voice.
“Let’s just sleep.” Upon seeing the tiredness in Mu Yu’s eyes, he stopped teasing her. Then, Qin Jinhuan gently pressed a kiss to her forehead before holding her in a warm hug to sleep.
He loved it when he could spoon her to sleep; he loved the close contact, and he liked it when she was the last thing he saw before falling asleep and the first thing he saw when waking up. He loved being able to truly sense her heartbeat, her breaths, and the love she had for him.
At 5.00AM, Qin Jinhuan roused from his slumber due to a phone call from Bian Zijun. Seeing how Mu Yu was still asleep, he didn’t wake her. He gently got up, pulled the covers up for her and kissed Mu Yu on the forehead before leaving.
Hours later, Mu Yu was woken up rudely by the sound of her phone ringing. She shot right up; upon seeing that the sun was already out and Qin Jinhuan was no longer next to her, she thought that the phone call was from him. Mu Yu quickly answered the call, but she only realized that it was from a stranger once she had accepted it. She was still in the midst of her shock when the caller spoke up first.
“I have a shocking video of Young Master Qin cheating on you with Yin Anran. Would you be interested in it?”