Hidden Assassin 219

## Volume 3: Cohabitation Era, Chapter 219: Secrecy

2013-02-08

…Every single time, it’s always you, always you…From the time Jia Ming was ten, you three brats have caused trouble every year! Either fighting with others or being kidnapped. Now look at you, you’ve even attracted international terrorists! Instead of running away, you foolishly charged headfirst into the fray. Do you even realize that Chi Hua Xun almost died?!” In the morning, with a clear hint of exhaustion, Duan Jingxian abandoned her usual gentle and graceful demeanor and yelled loudly from the balcony, attracting the attention of doctors and nurses passing by. Some covered their mouths and smiled, gossiping amongst themselves.

In front of her, Jia Ming and Ling Jing stood like elementary school students. Ling Jing mumbled, “Mom, it wasn’t our fault…”

“Yeah, they came looking for trouble themselves…”

“No back talk!” Duan Jingxian waved her hand. “Once could be an accident, twice could be bad luck, but three, four times? There’s definitely something wrong with you guys. Are you Detective Conan or something?!”

That might not be far off…Jia Ming thought to himself, but he dared not retort to the woman in front of him. Lying on the bed inside, Sha Sha, considering Jia Ming’s gunshot wound, mustered her courage and tried to speak: “Leaf Mom…”

“If you’re hurt, just lie there quietly! Don’t speak!”

“Oh…” Sha Sha shrank her neck in fear. Last night when she was brought in, Leaf Mom hadn’t said anything. So she was waiting to bombard all three of them together…

“Humph, Ye Ling Jing, don’t think you can escape by being out of school. If any one of you gets hurt from now on, I’ll hold all three of you accountable! Gu Jia Ming, you’re still smiling, huh? Smile! Smile!” Her slender fingers tapped his forehead forcefully. “People might not experience a serious injury even once in their lifetime, but you guys are constantly being sent to the hospital. Think you’re some great martial arts masters with your fancy kicks and punches? I don’t care if it’s your fault this time or not, just reflect on yourselves! If you get hurt again and sent here, I won’t let you off!”

Having slept little during her night shift and then berating Jia Ming and the others after they woke up, she finally felt tired. “Now go eat breakfast. After breakfast, follow Doctor Li around the hospital and help her. Let her show you many cases of trauma patients. Maybe then you’ll be a little more careful!”

“But…Mom…” Thinking of Jia Ming’s gunshot wound, Ling Jing frowned, wanting to speak. Seeing Duan Jingxian’s brow furrow, Jia Ming quickly covered her mouth: “Hehe, yes, yes, Leaf Mom, we’ll go eat breakfast now…hehe…”

“Mm, mm…” Seeing Ling Jing struggling as she was pulled out of the ward, Duan Jingxian couldn’t help but shake her head, feeling both angry and annoyed.

“What are you doing? It’s fine for me, but you have a wound, how can you stay in the hospital and help?” Pulled out of the ward, Ling Jing frowned and complained. Jia Ming smiled, taking her hand. “Don’t worry, since you told Auntie I want to be a surgeon, this isn’t the first time I’ve been called here to help. We won’t be doing any heavy work, at most we’ll just observe. What’s the big deal…I got shot, all my energy’s gone. My stomach’s growling like crazy. Let’s go eat breakfast, you see I’m swaying as I walk…”

Nurses and patients came and went in the corridor. The two of them walked hand in hand towards the hospital entrance…

Heavy work indeed, there was none. However, after following around the hospital for half a day, almost time for lunch, Ling Jing was pale. Arriving at a small stir-fry shop outside the hospital, Jia Ming told the owner, “Make us some braised pork ribs…” Ling Jing covered her mouth and turned away, pretending to vomit.

“What’s wrong?” Jia Ming walked over smiling. “Didn’t you just get pregnant this time?” Ling Jing punched him hard.

“You’re still talking? We just spent the whole morning looking at those wounds…braised pork ribs? No, we’re eating all vegetarian today, Sha Sha can’t eat meat!” Leaf Mom was the head of surgery at the hospital, under her arrangement, the doctors had shown them bloody scenes for a whole morning. Jia Ming found it fascinating, but Ling Jing couldn’t take it anymore. Even though her mother was in this field, this was the first time she had been subjected to such sights for so long.

“Sha Sha can have porridge, I want to eat…”

“No you may not, we eat what Sha Sha eats…um, similar things, it’s called collective punishment.”

Under Ling Jing’s pressure, Jia Ming could only smile and order some dishes he could stomach. Sitting down at the table, they chatted for a while, waiting for the food to arrive. Ling Jing frowned, “By the way, Jia Ming, I’ve been thinking since yesterday, now that Dongfang Lu and Xia Meng know your identity, will it be a lot of trouble? Xia Meng is fine, but Dongfang Lu…you could have just denied it, right?”

“Hehe, don’t worry, it’ll be fine.”

“You know something again?”

“Silly girl, think about it. If I hadn’t admitted it, I would only have had to kill them later. Otherwise, they’d keep investigating and things would just get worse. Now…Xia Meng won’t dare say anything, as for Dongfang Lu, hehe…he won’t talk.”

Ling Jing pouted, rolling her eyes. “Fine, I’m the silly girl, you can’t touch me anymore…you can’t take off my clothes anymore…”

“….Heroine…” Jia Ming quickly pleaded with a smile. When Ling Jing showed a slight sign of relenting, he said, “Actually, that Dongfang Lu, well…how should I put it…If you follow the descriptions in novels, he’s somewhere between a hero and a tyrant. Though he’s still young, he’s actually not simple. He saved you that time, so I couldn’t possibly move against him. If I didn’t admit things to him, then later, if he used other means to investigate, it would be even more troublesome…”

“So he won’t say anything?”

“He won’t talk.” Jia Ming shook his head. “Firstly, I’m alive and well, and I warned him. Secondly…he has big ambitions. If this secret were to be revealed, he wouldn’t really gain anything, he’d only be praised for doing well. But if it’s not revealed, it becomes a bargaining chip for him later. He keeps my secret, I owe him one. If he makes any demands later, I have to agree.”

Ling Jing nodded, then worriedly said, “Will he make unreasonable demands?”

“Hehe, he’s not a fool.”

“So you’re saying I’m the fool? Hmph, don’t you touch me anymore…”

“Heroine…”

Ling Jing pretended to be angry, and Jia Ming coaxed her for a while, naturally turning her anger into joy. Just then, the food finally arrived. While eating, another figure popped up in Jia Ming’s mind.

Li Yunxiu.

Despite being a very rare type of ability user, both in his previous life and this one, this woman was insignificant in Yan Huang Jue Xing. Therefore, he didn’t know much about her, and couldn’t accurately judge her personality or weaknesses. Even though he had promised to keep it a secret, those words were not trustworthy. In the first couple of days after being rescued, she should have hesitated a bit, but soon, she would definitely report everything to Yan Huang Jue Xing…Should he kill her?

Actually, in the current situation, even if Yan Huang Jue Xing knew his identity, there wouldn’t be much trouble. If he killed someone over such a trivial matter, it would cause more trouble later. No need. So…hehe, let Dongfang Lu handle it, he should be good at this.

Thinking this, his mood gradually drifted towards another direction, a problem that came with Li Yunxiu.

Ya Han…

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Zhang Family Villa.

As the precious daughter of the Jiang Hai Zhang Family, Ya Han naturally wasn’t coincidentally staying in the same hospital as Sha Sha and the others. To treat her kidney disease, the Zhang family had already prepared a medical team for her, and invested in famous treatment teams in several countries, hoping that one day they could cure her. Even if her condition worsened, they could hopefully find a suitable donor for a kidney transplant.

At this time, this usually elegant and dignified, strong and independent girl, was lying in a treatment room full of medical equipment with a slightly swollen and haggard face. Her eyes were closed, and her skin was already swollen, making it easy to see that even in her sleep, she was frowning in pain.

Outside the room with large glass windows, doctors and nurses walked back and forth. Zhang Jingan stood by the window talking to the attending physician. Ya Han’s stepmother was beside him, listening nervously. After a while, the doctor nodded and left, while a maid walked over. “Master, Madam, someone outside wants to see Ya Han Miss. He says he’s Ya Han Miss’s student…”

“Tell him that Teacher Zhang can’t see him at this time.” Zhang Jingan frowned, the maid continued with the second half of her sentence.

“He said his name is Gu Jia Ming…oh, okay, I’ll go tell him no.”

“Wait, Gu Jia Ming?” Ya Han’s stepmother waved her hand, then looked at Zhang Jingan. Zhang Jingan said, “What’s wrong?”

“I remember this name, on that Xingmeng Hao cruise ship that year, Ya Han introduced him to us, that little boy.” The stepmother said. “Ya Han’s close to him, I heard he’s her junior brother in the martial arts school, a very polite one. Then he disappeared, Ya Han wouldn’t stop crying and begging us to spend money to find him at sea…”

“Oh, it’s that one.” Zhang Jingan now remembered, nodding. “I heard he’s a direct descendant of the Huang family, just that his parents died and he has no status. At the time I remember you said that Ya Han probably wasn’t this good to her own brother…”

“Then…let him come up and see Ya Han?”

“What’s there to see in this state.” Zhang Jingan sighed. “Whatever, go tell him. Ya Han doesn’t have many friends, there are so many cousins at home, she doesn’t have a single one she’s close to. I’ll go talk to the doctor, and also contact other countries to see if there are any good treatment methods…”

“Okay.” The stepmother nodded, then wiped away the tears that had made her eyes red from the previous night’s crying. She said to the maid, “Bring him up here, don’t be rude to him.”

Soon, under the maid’s guidance, Jia Ming, holding a bouquet of white carnations, appeared outside the treatment room. Through the seemingly transparent but real barrier, he saw the woman still sleeping…

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