After saying that, Xie Chen straightened up under Zhang Fang's stunned gaze and strode out of the ward.
Finally coming to her senses, his adoptive mother shouted at the top of her lungs,
"Come back! Explain yourself! What happened to Xie Yongan?!"
"Where's his money?! Did you swallow it all?!"
"You bitch, get back here!"
Xie Chen suddenly stopped. When he looked back, his expression turned ice-cold, and a chilling aura radiated from him. "Say that again?"
"I..." Zhang Fang froze. Her crazed look vanished as she merely muttered, "I'm a patient. I need treatment!"
Xie Chen curled his lip and turned to the director. "She's already developed persecutory delusions. Shouldn't the electroshock therapy be intensified?"
The director nodded solemnly. "We'll increase the voltage tonight."
The instant the ward door closed, Xie Chen caught sight of the locked-up figure from the corner of his eye. Terror flashed across her face, and her body shook uncontrollably...
He crossed the corridor and went down one floor.
Several patients in hospital gowns sat scattered around the lounge.
One figure among them looked particularly familiar.
The director was about to call out to him, but Xie Chen stopped him. One corner of his lips lifted. "I'd like to talk to him alone. He isn't aggressive, right?"
"Nothing of the sort has been observed so far, so he's allowed to move around freely," the director said.
Xie Chen said, "That's good."
With both hands in his pockets, he slowly walked over to Xie Ran and greeted him directly. "Long time no see, young master of the Xie Family."
Xie Ran had still been spacing out. At the sound of his voice, he whipped around and asked in disbelief, "Why are you here?"
"I came to see how you've been doing." As Xie Chen spoke, he