Chapter 2019: Witness

The answer to him was the sound of a door being slammed shut.

Fuck!

Yaen Chi simply gave up. No one was paying him any mind, and even if he screamed himself hoarse, no one would come to help him. He quietly lowered the chair, not daring to lie flat, curling up on his side like a quail.

These past two days, all he did was eat and sleep. In any case, not one person was there to change his bandages. Every time Li Jian brought food, he used only one hand as if the other was paralyzed, plopping the tray onto the small table in front of Yaen Chi.

The posture was no different from feeding a dog.

Yaen Chi got so angry that he passed out from the pain. When he woke up again, he was already in the hospital, with a nurse asking about his injuries. He felt like he was seeing an angel.

After the doctor left, he turned over, reached for his phone on the bed, and called the old man to complain.

In his mouth, Li Jian was no less than a heinous criminal, and that still wasn’t enough. He knew too well how the old man operated and wouldn’t care about him, “Grandpa, has Grandma been missing me lately?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the door was kicked open.

Chief of Staff Li stood at the door, his face dark, holding a phone in his hand. Yaen Chi glanced at him, then looked down at the still-active call on his phone. When he looked up again, the old man suddenly teleported in front of him and smacked him on the back of his head.

“Getting bolder after a trip out, threatening me now, are you? You try gossiping about me in front of your grandma, and I’ll make sure you stay in the hospital for another two years!”

Yaen Chi shivered, feeling very wronged, “I just miss Grandma. I asked you a simple question, and if you won’t let me see her, you won’t let me see her. Why are you threatening your grandson? Old man, you’re getting more and more unreasonable!”

“Still so righteous, you little brat. Openly trying to ruin someone’s marriage. Can’t you do something decent?!”

Is it even possible to follow up cursing with an idiom so seamlessly?

The old man loved to act cultured, but he never really understood much of it. Always trying to show off what little he knew, never quite getting it right, his warrior essence deeply ingrained.

Not satisfied with just words, he raised his hand for another smack.

Yaen Chi didn’t block it, he didn’t have the strength right now, “Old man, if you dare hit me again, I’ll risk everything to make sure Grandma hears about it. Just wait and see, you stinky old man!”

Chief of Staff Li’s hand trembled slightly, then veered off mid-air to grab a chair and pull it over. He sat down; even in casual clothes, he couldn’t shake off the imposing air of an undercover cop.

Putting on a flamboyant fake smile, “We’re family, why make things so tense when we talk? Why would I stop you from seeing your grandma? You’re injured now, looking like this, if she sees you, she’ll cry again, and you care about her, don’t you?”

Yaen Chi lifted his head and gave him a thumbs up, “Nice use of ‘tense’.”

Not satisfied, he added sarcastically, “A wife’s slave for life!”

The old man wasn’t angry; he raised his eyebrows, surprisingly showing a bit of pride, “So what? Your grandpa’s first love is still my wife today, better than you having no wife at all, you single dog.”

Not enough flaunting!

Yaen Chi lazily argued back, “Where’s the woman I brought back?”

“What for!”

Elder Li quickly glanced at Yaen Chi’s back, “You’re in this state, no different from being paralyzed, and you still want to find a woman at a time like this!”

Yaen Chi cursed to himself, if he wasn’t two generations shorter, he’d have cursed out loud.

“Find my ass! I risked my life to bring back a witness!”