Thud! Qin Jinhuan plonked the bowl and chopsticks on the table, but he didn’t say anything or look up. Instead, he merely pressed his lips together and stared at the bowl in front of him. On the contrary, Mu Yu was so shocked that she lost her composure. As she couldn’t believe her ears, she straightened up and exclaimed, “Are you crazy? Xi is your daughter! She’s your biological daughter! How could you threaten someone else using your own daughter’s life?!”

“I’d rather not have such a daughter who only sides with outsiders instead of her own!” There was no trace of fatherliness in Qin Wentao’s eyes when he mentioned Qin Chengxi. Instead, they were bloodshot and filled with frenzy. “I’ll only ask you this, Qin Jinhuan—will you do what I said?”

Everyone’s gazes instantly gathered on Qin Jinhuan, but he didn’t even bat an eyelid. Instead, he looked completely unruffled as he held up his rice bowl, grabbed his chopsticks, picked up a piece of vegetable, and put it into his mouth.

“Hey…” Mu Yu began. However, when she suddenly realized that she would only cause Qin Wentao to act even more recklessly by expressing her concern for Qin Chengxi at this moment, she immediately pursed her lips and forcibly suppressed her anxiety and concern.

Qin Wentao waited for a few seconds, but he didn’t get the answer he wanted. He was furious for a moment before he suddenly raised his voice. “Qin Jinhuan! Don’t you want to save Qin Chengxi’s life?!”

Qin Jinhuan finished chewing the piece of vegetable before he replied unhurriedly, “You two were the ones who gave her life, so it’s your right to take it back.”

“You! Great!” Qin Wentao clenched his teeth. “In that case, I shall take her life now!”

“No!” Dong Yueyun hurriedly hugged Qin Wentao with all her might and wailed, “Xi is our daughter, so you can’t do this to her!”

Qin Wentao slapped Dong Yueyun across the face and spat fiercely at the same time. He then bellowed, “What a great daughter you’ve given me! What else can she do other than live off her parents while helping other people in secret? I’ll no longer carry the surname Qin if I don’t kill her today!”

Dong Yueyun’s hair was already disheveled, yet she ignored the pain in her face and begged tearfully in a loud voice, “No matter how awful she is, she’s still your daughter! The blood running in her veins is yours!”

“I don’t have such a daughter! Get out of my way!”

“No, I won’t! I can’t let you hurt Xi! She’s my life and my everything—I can’t live without her!”

“If you can’t live without her, just die as well! Let go of me!” Qin Wentao glared fiercely at her.

However, Dong Yueyun refused to let go of him no matter what. “I won’t let go of you even if you beat me to death!”

Qin Wentao was like a raging lion at this moment. He struggled vigorously a few times, only to be beside himself with rage for a moment when he failed to break free of Dong Yueyun’s grasp. He suddenly grabbed her hair and threatened in an angry voice, “Do you think I won’t dare to beat you to death?!”

“Ouch—” Dong Yueyun was in so much pain that she shed tears, yet she still didn’t dare to let go of Qin Wentao. Instead, she whimpered and begged, “Please let Xi off for the sake of our relationship as husband and wife, Wentao. I’m begging you now. I’ll kneel down before you, okay?” Dong Yueyun cried while kneeling down. Her hands were originally wrapped around his waist, but she clung to his feet instead. Since Qin Wentao was still pulling her hair, the kneeling movement brought her a lot of pain. Still, she didn’t hesitate at all as she kept begging for mercy on Qin Chengxi’s behalf.

Mu Yu wanted to turn a blind eye to this because she felt like they were acting, but she couldn’t restrain herself when she saw Dong Yueyun looking like this at this moment. She reprimanded Qin Wentao and told him to let go of the woman while struggling out of bed to help the latter.

“Yu!” Qin Jinhuan immediately put down his bowl and chopsticks before stepping forward to hold Mu Yu down.

As such, she merely pointed at Qin Wentao and glared furiously at him without forcibly stepping forward. “How could you treat your wife and child like this? Are you still a human being?”

Qin Wentao pulled Dong Yueyun’s hair even harder while smiling triumphantly at Mu Yu. “This is my own business, and it has nothing to do with you!”

Meanwhile, Dong Yueyun burst into tears thanks to the pain in her scalp, but she refused to let go of Qin Wentao. Instead, she turned to wail sorrowfully at Mu Yu and said, “I’m fine, so you both don’t have to care about me. Please save Xi! Wentao has really gone crazy this time!”

“I am going crazy—in fact, I’m being driven insane!” Qin Wentao’s eyes widened in anger as he suddenly shook off Dong Yueyun’s head. He then pointed at Qin Jinhuan and Mu Yu before swearing, “I’m being driven to the brink of insanity because of disloyal, unfilial, heartless, shameless, and despicable people like you! I’ll teach you guys a lesson! Just you all wait and see!”

Dong Yueyun, who was kneeling on the ground, kept bumping her head against Qin Wentao’s knees while tearfully begging him to keep a clear head.

On the other hand, Mu Yu only felt her scalp tingling. Even if the two people before her were actually putting up an act, she couldn’t bear the sight of it. After all, this act was far too real and crazy. When she saw how Qin Jinhuan remained unmoved, she feared that this would provoke Qin Wentao even more and consequently hurt Qin Chengxi for real. Therefore, she could only grab Qin Jinhuan’s hand and begged softly, “Huan, you—”

Qin Jinhuan knew what she wanted to say, so he interrupted her at once and said, “This is somebody else’s business, and it has nothing to do with you.”

Dong Yueyun immediately wept in response, “Huan! Xi is your own younger sister! She isn’t someone else! She’ll definitely die if you don’t care about her!”

However, Qin Jinhuan corrected her with a sneer. “She’s only my half-sister at best. The person closest to her is not me, but the biological father who wants to kill her! He’s the one who gave her her life in the first place, so it’s not improper for her to give her life back to him now,” he said before turning to look at Mu Yu. “Just let them be and treat this as a joke. You don’t have to take this to heart.”

Qin Wentao instantly flew into a rage. “Qin Jinhuan, you’re the one who said such a frenzied remark! Great, good for you! I’ll take her life now!”

“No!” Dong Yueyun cried in anguish as she begged Qin Jinhuan and said, “Huan, you can’t leave Xi in the lurch! Xi is innocent, and she has never done anything unfair to you all. Just blame me if you want to blame someone. It’s all my fault, so please save Xi! Don’t think that Wentao is merely talking about it; he’ll really kill her!”

“Let go of me.”

“Be rational, Wentao! Money is a materialistic thing, whereas kinship is the most important thing that can’t be bought with money—”

“Let go of me!”

“Xi is your own flesh and blood! Not even a vicious beast will mistreat its children, so you can’t… Aaaaah…”

Dong Yueyun’s scream sent a chill down Mu Yu’s spine, and she anxiously shot Qin Jinhuan another glance to ask him for help. Meanwhile, Qin Wentao pinched Dong Yueyun fiercely on the arm. After she instinctively let go of him, he mercilessly kicked her away. “You asked for it, so don’t blame me for this!” he said. Then, he darted a fierce look at Qin Jinhuan and declared, “I’ll take that little girl’s life right now!” With that, he stomped out of the ward.

“Huan! Hurry up and save Xi!”

Mu Yu had a feeling that Qin Wentao wasn’t acting when he said that. Instead, he really meant what he said, and this frightened her a lot. The fact before her eyes compelled her to believe that there were exceptions to the saying whereby not even a vicious beast would mistreat its children.

Before Qin Jinhuan could make his position clear, Dong Yueyun crawled to his feet like crazy. Then, she kneeled, kowtowed, wailed, and begged him.

“Huan!” Mu Yu was also extremely anxious. She grabbed Qin Jinhuan’s sleeve tightly and hastily urged again, “Just say something!” She didn’t notice that Weng Yun and Cheng Xiang had followed Qin Wentao out of the ward.

Meanwhile, Qin Jinhuan looked at the food, which had already gone cold, and replied impassively, “Whatever he wants to do to Xi is his own business, so there’s nothing we can do about it.”

“Huan, you…” Mu Yu wanted to ask Qin Jinhuan how he had the heart to do this, but she stopped short on second thought. Instead, she merely looked at Dong Yueyun with a look of sympathy in her eyes.

Seeing how Mu Yu and Qin Jinhuan had no intention of helping her, Dong Yueyun slumped to the ground. Unwilling to resign herself to this fate, she then hugged Qin Jinhuan’s feet and implored him again in a sorrowful voice.

However, Qin Jinhuan looked down at her without retracting his feet. “It’s useless for you to beg me. Just beg your husband instead. Isn’t he very obedient to you?”

Dong Yueyun’s eyes were filled with horror. “You’ve seen it as well—he’s already gone crazy! He is totally out of his mind, so he can’t possibly listen to me at this moment!”

Qin Jinhuan withdrew his gaze. “Well, he won’t listen to me if he doesn’t even listen to you.”

Dong Yueyun blurted out, “He definitely won’t hurt Xi if you can let him get what he wants!” When she realized that there was something wrong with such a remark, she hastily explained, “I really don’t mean anything else, Huan. I just want to save Xi, and I have no other alternatives! Xi is just a poor child, Huan. Please save her since you’re her brother. Please! As long as you can save her, I won’t mind slaving for you for the rest of my life!”

“All right.”

The simple answer from Qin Jinhuan surprised Mu Yu, and it gave Dong Yueyun a pleasant surprise. She asked tremblingly in a tone of disbelief, “Have you agreed to help me save Xi, Huan?”

“Yes.”

“Really? That’s great!” Dong Yueyun was instantly beside herself with joy. She wanted to get up at first, but she recalled one thing and immediately knelt back obediently. Then, she said in sniffles and sobs, “I heard from Wentao that he hid Xi in a well-hidden place and put a lot of explosives in it, Huan. If you don’t agree to his demands and want to save Xi by meeting force with force, she will definitely die without a doubt!”

“Xi is my only younger sister, so how could I possibly let her die? Just go home and wait for the good news.”

“In that case, hurry up and call your dad to tell him about the situation. Tell him not to hurt Xi!”

“I’ll have someone contact him.”

Dong Yueyun was still worried, though. She asked, “Are you going to reach out to the attorney right now?”

“It’s useless for me to find an attorney. I must meet Grandpa first and ask him to tell the attorney to change the will.”

“Both Wentao and Xi are Old Master’s pets. If you tell him this directly, I’m afraid he’ll suffer a great shock! It’ll be bad if something bad happens to him after he is upset!”

Qin Jinhuan looked at her. “In that case, do you have a good idea that will bring about this outcome without upsetting Grandpa?”

A hint of slyness flashed across the depths of Dong Yueyun’s eyes. She suggested carefully, “You know as well that your Grandpa has always been concerned about your relationship with your dad, and his greatest wish is for you two to shake hands and make up. If you tell him that you and your dad have reconciled and that you want to transfer your properties to his name to show your filial piety and respect for him, your Grandpa will definitely agree to your request with great pleasure. Not only will Xi be saved, your Grandpa might also recover from his illness. Wouldn’t everybody be satisfied this way?”

“Yeah, everyone will be satisfied.” Qin Jinhuan slowly got up. “This idea is great, and I’ll do as you suggested. I’ll go back and talk to Grandpa right away.”

“I’ll go with you.”

Qin Jinhuan turned down Dong Yueyun’s request to go with him, though. “You’d better go home and change your clothes. Just wait at home for the good news.”

Dong Yueyun had wanted to persist a little longer, but she saw the look of displeasure on Qin Jinhuan’s face. Since she feared that he would change his mind, she immediately nodded her head, wiped her tears, and quickly left.

“Huan—”

“Just sleep like a good girl.” Qin Jinhuan put his index finger on Mu Yu’s lips, signaling her not to ask more questions. “I’ll talk to you in detail once I rescue Xi.”

She then anxiously shoved him out of the ward at once. “Well, hurry up and save Xi! Don’t let Qin Wentao hurt her at all!”

“That’s a given.” Qin Jinhuan helped her to lie down before carefully covering the woman with a blanket. After giving her some instructions, he got up and hurriedly walked outside.

As soon as he left the ward, Cheng Xiang hastily went up to him. “Boss…”

“Take good care of the Young Mistress.”

“Yes.”

Qin Jinhuan glanced back at the ward before he quickly turned around and walked toward the elevator. When he turned around, his face suddenly darkened.