Zhu Yu and Shen Jingmo sat in their chairs without saying a word.
Zhu Yu scratched his hand. They couldn't just keep sitting in silence like this. As a subordinate, he needed to learn to take the initiative and break the ice.
"Um—" Zhu Yu had just been about to start a conversation when the door suddenly burst open with a bang.
Before Zhu Yu could react, a man in a black suit charged straight toward the hospital bed as if he had wheels under his feet.
Thinking the man was the girl's family, Zhu Yu breathed a sigh of relief. At last, he could leave this place.
But before Zhu Yu could step forward to explain the situation, the man suddenly grabbed the woman on the bed by the arm and dragged her outside.
That didn't look like the behavior of a family at all. Even the nurses in the hallway had been alarmed.
"Mu Yuqing, stop putting on an act! Who let you sneak out? Just wait and see how I deal with you when we get back!" The man's voice was full of irritation and rage.
"Let's talk this out, let's—! Who?" Zhu Yu had just wanted to ease the tension, but upon hearing the woman's name, he immediately pulled his hand back.
[Mu Yuqing? That crazy bitch 2.0?]
[Good heavens, were my days going too smoothly? You had to make things difficult for me, didn't you?]
Shen Jingmo, standing nearby, frowned again. This was already the second time he had heard the phrase "crazy bitch."
Zhu Yu composed himself. He had no desire to get involved in the affairs of this crazy couple. His left foot had barely retreated a step when someone suddenly gripped his left hand tightly.
Startled, Zhu Yu hurriedly looked at his wrist and discovered that it was Mu Yuqing, who was lying on the bed with her eyes closed.
No, ma'am, are you really going to repay kindness with hostility?
"Big brother, I'm scared." Mu Yuqing tightly gripped Zhu Yu's hand without letting go, hiding behind him as she spoke.
Shen Jingmo yanked Zhu Yu toward himself. "Sorry, miss, but we don't know you."
Only then did Li Yichen notice Shen Jingmo, who had been standing nearby all along.
"Brother Shen! What are you doing here?" The moment Li Yichen saw Shen Jingmo, his imposing manner instantly weakened, like a mouse seeing a cat.
Feeling the wrist in her grasp slip away, Mu Yuqing trembled as she threw back the blanket and fumbled her way off the bed. After taking two steps, she fell to the floor. Her hands searched ahead until she found the windowsill, and she hurriedly climbed onto it.
"Li Yichen, don't even think about imprisoning me again. If you try to imprison me again, I'll jump from here." Tears filled Mu Yuqing's vacant eyes as she bit her lip tightly, looking both resolute and heartbreakingly pitiful.
Li Yichen had initially wanted to talk properly with Mu Yuqing, but her ungrateful attitude provoked him, and he became irritable again. He angrily strode to the windowsill, climbed onto it too, gripped Mu Yuqing's hand tightly, and roared, "Jump! I'll jump with you! Go on, jump!!"
Zhu Yu stared at the scene in utter disbelief. What kind of miraculous brain did someone need to pull something like this off?
[So you people have really figured out forced love—forcing each other to jump out a window together. Why do all these youngsters seem like their brains never fully developed?]
Shen Jingmo nodded in agreement from the side. His good friend's younger brother and his own younger brother really were cut from the same cloth—both equally pathetic.
The doctors and nurses in the hospital all gathered outside the ward.
"Ahhh! Someone's jumping! Call the police!" One nurse after another screamed as they ran out of the room.
Zhu Yu rubbed his ears, which were about to suffer permanent damage, then slowly clenched his fists at his sides.
"I don't love you anymore. Let me go, okay?" Mu Yuqing's eyes were vacant, yet she accurately reached up to touch Li Yichen's face.
"I love you! I love you!!!" Li Yichen roared, his eyes red.
"No, you don't love me."
"I love you!"
"You don't love me."
"I love you!"
Zhu Yu was about to get calluses in his ears.
[Are you two really just going to repeat these same two lines over and over? Also, are you jumping out the window or not?]
Hearing Zhu Yu's thoughts, Shen Jingmo nodded in agreement.
"The police are here, and they've set up an air cushion downstairs!"
A nurse rushed into the room in a panic.
Zhu Yu looked at the two people sitting on the windowsill professing their love, then casually picked up a stool and weighed it in his hands.
"Sir, what are you doing?" Seeing Zhu Yu's stance, the nurse cried out in alarm.
Shen Jingmo looked over curiously but did not stop him.
"I'll teach you two to waste time and resources! If you don't want to live, then get down there already!" Zhu Yu roared as he used the flat side of the stool to shove the two of them straight out the window.
Neither of them had expected Zhu Yu to do that, and they landed directly on the rescue air cushion below, completely unharmed.
"Sir, you're far too bold." Seeing that the situation had finally ended, the young nurse breathed a sigh of relief, though she still could not help saying so.
"It's fine. I calculated it. We're on the second floor, and there's a rescue air cushion below. They'd only land safely on it, and we could all get off work safely too." Zhu Yu's face was full of smiles.
"Besides, if we had rashly tried to pull them down, they might have gotten emotional and struggled, which would have been even more dangerous. It was better to find the right angle and catch them off guard so they could land safely on the air cushion." Zhu Yu stepped forward and firmly shut and locked the window.
"Sir, that makes so much sense." The young nurse was left completely stunned by his reasoning.
Li Yichen and Mu Yuqing were then brought back upstairs by the police, both looking bewildered.