Because I Cannot Hurt You

Caihong rushed to his side and saw Zhiyuan sinking.

"Zh-Zhiyuan, what happened?"

But he was in no position to respond. He was coughing and gasping hard. His forehead was covered in sweat, and his eyes were rolling back.

"Shit! Doctor!"

Caihong ran outside for help.

"Is anybody here? Doctor!!"

The whole corridor was alerted by Caihong's distress call.

The doctor hurried to her side and asked, "Mrs. Zhu? What's wrong? Why are you so panicked?"

"Check Zhiyuan quickly! He is gasping hard. He is suddenly sick."

"What?"

When the doctor and nurses rushed in, they were shocked to see Zhiyuan's unstable condition.

"Nurse! He is sinking. Put the oxygen mask on him right now!"

They got to their work, and the nurse politely asked Caihong to step out of the ward as they treated him.

Caihong slowly sat on the seat, still unsure and dazed of what just happened. 

What the hell is happening!?

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Outside, the woman wearing the mask in a nurse's disguise walked out of the hospital. She looked pale, and her face seemed as if somebody had drained all the vigor.

She huffed and puffed as she entered an alley. She removed her mask, and inhaled a deep breath. As she leaned on the wall for some support, she felt her body shivering. But she didn't know if it was because of the cold or because she saw someone familiar to her.

She looked so much like...me.

Was she really…? She cannot be...

Her phone buzzed. She saw the same private, untraceable number flashing in her phone. She took a few deep breaths and steadied herself.

"Hello?"

"Is it done?"

"Yes."

"Did anybody see you?"

Caihong's face flashed in her mind for a moment.

"Nobody."

"Good. So with this, Han Zhiyuan should die."

"Yes."

There was a pause.

"Why does your 'yes' seem so doubtful? Are you sure you did your job properly?" The tone turned cold and ferocious.

"It's not about the job. The last time I hit my car with his…"

"What about it? Did somebody trace you?"

"No. You didn't tell me there was a child in it."

Silence.

"So? Does that matter?" The voice was languid and carefree. "You made me worry there for a moment. I thought the Hans caught you."

The woman widened her eyes. "There was a child in it. I don't understand why he had to be a part of this. How can a kid be your enemy?"

The voice chuckled. "It's got nothing to do with you. Just remember your place and my orders. You will do as I say. Or what? If you knew if the a kid would have been in the car, you would have defied my orders?"

Silence.

"No, right? So don't bother with the unnecessary stuff. Han Zhiyuan is just the beginning. We have the whole family to take down."

The call hung up.

The woman stared at the number and stood in silence. She turned and looked back at the hospital once, thinking about Caihong. She heard the siren of a police car ringing from the distance. Stepping into the darkness, she quietly walked away.

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Xinyi was pacing back and forth outside the ward as she cried continuously. No matter how much the others tried to calm her down, she couldn't.

Caihong stopped her in between and held her shoulders. "Xinyi, you are making me dizzy! Stop right now. The more you will cry, the more negative you will think. Nothing will happen to Zhiyuan."

She tiredly looked at her. "I…don't know what to do, Caihong...Who is targeting us? What do they want from us!? Just when Zhiyuan was about to get better, this happened! How can I stay calm?"

Just then the doctor stepper out and everybody gathered around him.

Xia Liqin anxiously asked, "How is Zhiyuan now? What happened to him? Wasn't he alright just an hour ago?"

The doctor's expression was grim. "Mr. Han's condition is serious. He was poisoned."

Silence.

Yunru was speechless. "How could he be poisoned!?"

"It's true. It was his saline bottle. Somebody added poison into it, and Mr. Han started sinking."

Xinyi stared at him blankly. "S-So how us Zhiyuan now? He is alright, right?"

"We have to shift him to ICU, Mrs. Han. I have removed the poison, but it was quite deadly. It doesn't need much time to take effect, and by the time we started the procedure, some of the poison had spread in his blood."

She felt her heart stop beating. "I don't want to hear that! I just want to know if he would be fine! That's all I want to know!" Her chest heaved up and down as tears poured down her cheeks.

"Sis…" Yunru gently pulled her back. He signaled Zizi, and she nodded. Her own condition wasn't any better. Her eyes were red and wet too.

The doctor said, "We have to observe his condition for now. He was very fortunate that Mrs. Zhu quickly noticed his condition, or we would have been too late…"

Han Tian's complexion was pale. But digging deeper into his matter was important too.

"You have to give me answers, doctor. I don't want to just hear that my son was poisoned. I want to know who did it! He was attacked in a hospital, for God's sake! What were you and the other nurses doing?"

"Mr. Han. A woman disguised as Nurse Ji had made the round to check on Mr. Zhiyuan. Our nurse Ji was found unconscious in the storage room. She poisoned him by adding the poison in the saline bottle."

Yunru asked, "Where is nurse Ji? I want to take her statement."

"She is resting in the other ward."

"About the poison…"

"It was extremely poisonous and fast reacting. As I mentioned before, if Mrs. Zhu hadn't arrived in time…"

Xinyi clenched her fists. "This was another murder attempt…once again…"

Yunru grimly said, "She didn't count on bumping into Caihong, or for her, brother-in-law should have died."

Huang Rong is in custody. It cannot be her. But could it be someone else working with her?

Or was it....Mrs. An?