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Yang Na saw what Li Huowang was doing and nervously took half a step back. "What are you doing? If we talk here, the Nurse Station can hear us."

Before she had even finished speaking, the nurses' snickering came from the speaker by the bed. "Ho ho ho, it's fine, we can't hear anything. Little Li, you've got this~"

"Big sisters, could you stop being so nosy? Focus that excess attention on the Intensive Care Unit."

After shouting at the head of the bed, Li Huowang took Yang Na by the hand and pulled her into another corner of the room.

He took the Jade Pendant from his pocket and stuffed it into her palm, then leaned close to whisper instructions into her ear. As he spoke, Yang Na's eyes widened wider and wider.

"How could this be? This—" Before she could finish, Li Huowang clapped a hand over her mouth.

Their eyes met. Li Huowang stared at Yang Na with intense longing in his eyes.

"Help me. Everything I said is true. No one outside trusts me, not even my parents. They all think I'm crazy. You're the only one I can turn to. You're the only person in the world I trust. I really am not crazy!"

Yang Na looked at Li Huowang for several seconds before finally biting her lip and nodding. When she left, her eyes were red, and she kept looking back every few steps, as though she were deeply worried about Li Huowang's mental state.

Li Huowang watched her departing figure with mixed feelings. He no longer cared what anyone else thought, but Yang Na was different.

"Na Na, trust me once. Just once!"

Waiting was always agonizingly long. Li Huowang paced back and forth through the room in restless unease.

During that time, hallucinations appeared before him again, but Li Huowang returned as quickly as he could. According to the doctors, that was not a good thing, but he was afraid of missing Yang Na.

One day, two days, three days. As time passed day by day, Li Huowang grew more and more anxious about gains and losses.

"Little Li, your little girlfriend is here to see you~" At the nurse's announcement, Li Huowang sprang from the bed with a Carp Roll and rushed toward the hospital entrance.

In the hospital garden, Li Huowang met Yang Na, who had arrived as well. They excitedly threw their arms around each other.

Yang Na suppressed her voice as she shouted into his ear, "Huowang, it's real! The Jade Pendant is real!"

"I'm not sick!! Hahaha!! I'm not sick!!" Li Huowang excitedly wrapped his arms around the girl's slender waist and spun her around and around in the air.

After being excited for a long while, the two finally calmed down.

"Did helping me affect your life or your studies?" Li Huowang asked with concern, looking at Yang Na, who was sitting sideways on the edge of the flowerbed.

Yang Na did not answer directly, instead changing the subject. She held out four pale, slender fingers toward Li Huowang. "Do you know how much that Jade Pendant is worth? This much!"

"Forty thousand?"

"Four hundred thousand! And I think he definitely quoted it low. If we ask around at a few more places, it'll surely be worth even more."

"Four hundred thousand, four hundred thousand..." Li Huowang grinned foolishly. Not only could it cover all his treatment expenses from these past years, there would even be some left over. More importantly, this was only the beginning.

"Yang Na, ready to become a little rich lady?"

Li Huowang's teasing made Yang Na's cheeks redden slightly. "Stop running your mouth. This is way too strange. Are you sure it won't harm your body?"

"It's fine. What could possibly happen to me? I'm doing great. If that's the case, then my treatment might need to slow down for a while. This is treasure—I can't get cured so quickly."

At those words, Yang Na's expression turned tense. She said worriedly to Li Huowang, "Huowang, those are two different matters. I don't want the money. Your treatment absolutely cannot stop, and neither can your medication. Promise me, or I'll never help you again."

Li Huowang thought of countless reasons to argue with her, but when he saw the concern and worry in her eyes, a warm current surged through his heart. "All right. I promise you."

Yang Na smiled and gently patted his head. "That's more like it, you stinky little brother."

Just as the two were discussing how to turn the Jade Pendant into cash, several burly middle-aged men hurried past with Riot Forks in hand.

"Master Zhao, what happened? Did something happen?" Li Huowang asked one of the familiar men in confusion.

"Don't ask so many questions. Little Li, hurry back to your room. And if you run into Old Liu, report it immediately. That guy must've secretly spit out his medication again." After hurriedly saying that, the man turned and rushed toward the stairs.

"Isn't the intensive care section surrounded by two layers of iron fencing? With Old Liu's scrawny build, he could still escape?" Li Huowang looked in that direction in confusion.

Back when he could not distinguish hallucinations from reality, he had stayed there for a time. It was not a pleasant memory.

Seeing the nurses escort the other patients back to their rooms, Li Huowang turned to Yang Na. "Things are a little chaotic here. You should head back first. Call the hospital tonight, and we'll keep in touch by phone."

"Mm. Take care of yourself here, and remember what you just promised me." Yang Na turned and walked toward the distant hospital gate.

"Four hundred thousand..." Li Huowang remarked as he turned toward his room. Now that it had been confirmed the Jade Pendant was really worth that much money, countless new thoughts began to emerge in his mind.

What did it matter whether it was a hallucination or reality? The things over there were worth so much money—who cared if it was an illusion or reality?

He had only taken a few steps when a familiar scream rang out behind him. Li Huowang spun around and saw a bald, skinny old man tackle Yang Na to the ground.

At the sight, Li Huowang's blood surged to his head. Teeth clenched and face twisted savagely, he charged toward them. "Old Liu! That's my girlfriend! Let her go!!"

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~" A sudden whistling tore through the air as an overturned hexagonal paving stone came spinning toward him and smashed directly into Li Huowang's head.

The world spun around him. Li Huowang crashed heavily to the ground, his vision gradually flooding with red. His head had split open.

Through the red haze, Li Huowang saw a pair of bloated feet bound in a Patient Uniform pass before his eyes, stepping toward Yang Na as she struggled and screamed.

As he listened to those heavy footsteps draw closer and closer to Yang Na, something buzzed in Li Huowang's head. Only one thought remained: he could not let them hurt Yang Na!!

Trembling, he pulled a Pill his master had given him from his pocket and shoved it into his mouth along with the blood flowing from his wound.

In an instant, an incomparably scorching warm current surged from his stomach and flooded into Li Huowang's limbs. Strength instantly filled his body, and his muddled head became incomparably clear.

Bang!! He swung a fist hard into the fat man's jaw. In an instant, a mouthful of yellow teeth loosened and flew out, and before long, only a few remained.

Covered in blood, Li Huowang ignored the fat man sprawled on the ground and strode up to Old Liu, kicking him squarely in his scrawny chest.

Crack, crack. The sound of bones breaking rang out without end as Old Liu's blood-spitting body flew away limp as a noodle.

Seeing Yang Na on the ground, tearful as she clutched her torn sweater, Li Huowang clenched his teeth so hard that blood seeped from his gums.

His bloodshot eyes glared fixedly at the two men lying nearby. He stamped one foot heavily against the concrete and pounced at them like a cheetah.

"Huowang!! Stop!! What are you doing!"