Jennie was not aware of the major changes in City C. After Lisa came back, he only said that someone had committed the crime for their wealth.
Regarding this statement, Lisa was actually not convinced of it as well. However, Xia Tao had died, and in order to protect his colleague's reputation, Bureau Chief Liu had covered up for Xia Tao and reported to Lisa that the act was due to greed for money.
One could not beat someone on their own turf.
If Lisa were to utilize his connections within the boundary of City C, Bureau Chief Liu was the obstacle. After some thoughts, he decided to head back to Luo Hai before making any moves.
Anyway, that Brother Sheng need not think of coming out of prison in his lifetime!
Jennie and Chaeyoung were escorted back to Luo Hai and
were reported sick so that they were on leave and had to stay at home.
As for the article for the operation this time, Jennie had passed it to Eunwoo earlier on. Hence, during this break, she was totally good-for-nothing.
However, the information she had gotten in City C kept weighing on her mind. Jennie thought that since she was confined at home by Lisa, so long as that man did not cool down, there was no way she could go out.
She needed an opportunity to go to the hospital to see whether she could obtain any useful information from Yanni.
However, how could she avoid arousing Lisa's suspicion?
Jennie came up with an idea. Of course, she would go in the name of visiting Shin Hye!
Yanni's later stage of treatment was done at Sheng Yu Hospital, and it so happened that Shin Hye was also staying there.
...
Jennie arrived at Sheng Yu Hospital and went to see her mother first.
Although every time she came, her mother remained the same and was just lying peacefully there with her fair skin reflecting the weakness of having laid on the bed for a long time, and that she was unaware of the outside world and did not give any reaction; even though her mother was as such, her being alive itself gave Jennie lots of comfort and courage.
She cleaned Shin Hye's body and retrieved the perfume from her bag to spray some of it on her mother. "Mother, this is the daisy perfume that you liked the most."
Shin Hye used to be a graceful woman, and the reason Jennie did that was just to get some consolation.
Her brother was in exile, and his whereabouts were unknown. In Luo Hai, Shin Hye was Jennie's only family.
Coming out of the ward, Jennie went to the nurses' station and checked the ward number.
Shin Hye was on the seventh floor. Yanni and Shin Hye's wards were two floors apart.
Jennie was not sure if the Manoban Family had stationed someone to stand guard, hence she pretended to lost her way while making it to the ninth floor.
Most of the patients had been discharged, but Yanni's state was not that well, hence even after she was released from the hospital at the later period, she would still have to undergo the later stage of psychiatric rehabilitation.
On the day the Zong He case happened, she had consumed tons of hallucinogens, which was why she ran to the mountain at the back in the middle of the night.
It had been a month since the incident, and Yanni was gradually regaining her consciousness. However, her body was still very weak.
The Manoban Family did not mind the hospital cost, so while other people would go home to recuperate, Yanni was still staying in the VIP ward.
There was not anyone sent by the Manoban Family to stand guard at the corridor, and this delighted Jennie.
The VIP wards were all single rooms and had 360 degrees of no dead angle closed-circuit monitoring. Jennie had decided that if Lisa asked her why did she come to see Yanni, she would be truthful and come clean.
From Jennie's point of view, Lisa's attitude was somewhat
odd. He seemed to have chosen to overlook her action of going to City C secretly. Since the days of their return, he had not questioned her at all.
Jennie pushed open the unlatched door and saw that poor
woman on the bed staring at the ceiling in a daze. She looked vastly different from how she was during the Spring Festival a few months back as she seemed to have aged by a decade.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, a trace of vitality flashed through the woman's dim and lifeless eyes.
Seeing it was Jennie, Yanni was rather taken aback. Her
pale lips quivered, and that phrase "Miss Kim" was stuck in her throat...
Jennie sensed that the current Yanni was not the same
person who had feigned madness during the Spring Festival, but because of the poisoning, her reaction was now indeed slower than ordinary people.
"Aunty Yanni!" Jennie called out in a crisp voice and placed the fruits she had brought on the bedside cabinet. She moved a chair and sat close to the bed. "I came to visit my mother, so I dropped by to see you. Are you feeling any better?"
Jennie was sweet-looking, to begin with. Because of the beauty's approachability, coupled with the fact that she truly sympathized with Yanni, the emotions expressed in her eyes were a genuine heartfelt concern.
Yanni had mixed feelings. It had been long since someone last came to visit her. Every time Nancy came, she would only stand afar. When had she ever speak to her such gently and kindly?
"Miss Kim, I'm very happy that you came to see me..."
After thinking for a long moment, only then did Yanni utter a sentence that reflected her feelings at this moment.
Jennie smiled and took out an apple from the fruits bag. The crispy and sweet red apple rotated in Jennie's hand.
After peeling the skin, she gave it to Yanni and smilingly said, "Aunty, my mother has been in a coma for many years. Every time I come to the hospital, I'll be thinking of that day when she could eat the apple I've pared. I'd be thrilled to death then!"
Yanni trembled as she took the apple. The woman, who had not been treated kindly for years, was now revealing an exciting look.
Her former husband had left her, her second had abused her, while her daughter had used her...
It seemed that from the age of 30, the pleasure she had gotten behind Shu Heng's back was the beginning of the suffering of her life!
Thinking back to the sharp reversal of her life and the fall from a great height, the woman who had suffered half her lifetime now received love and care from someone at this time, all her psychological defenses collapsed completely, and she burst into tears...
Jennie did not console her but handed her tissues.
The woman took one tissue after another as her tears flowed wantonly.
After a long time, only then did Yanni calmed down, her eyes were swollen from the crying.
Jennie said softly, "Aunty Yanni, when we're feeling unhappy, we feel better after we've let it out, right?"
Yanni nodded, and she replied with a hoarse voice, "Thank you, Miss Kim."
Indeed, she had not felt this relieved for a long time. If it was not for Jennie's visitation, perhaps she would still be keeping all these pent-up grudges in her heart till death.
"Miss Kim, did you come to see me because of some matters?"
Although Yanni was sluggish, after such a long time of thinking, she had guessed that Jennie's appearance was not a coincidence.
The corner of Jennie's lips twitched as she smiled. She sat down and did not beat around the bush but went straight to the point. "Aunty Yanni, Somi's still alive, am I right?"
Yanni trembled, and she looked at Jennie with an unconceivable gaze. The corner of her lips quivered lightly as she was at a loss for words.
After a while, her gaze drifted about as she mumbled, "I don't know what are you talking about..."
Jennie could see that Yanni was having an intense inner
struggle in her mind.
She was not anxious, and she smilingly said.
"Although Somi and Nancy are twins and their features are extremely similar, as their. biological mother, you can clearly tell them apart, can't you?"
As Mu Jennie spoke, she was observing Yanni's reaction. This woman dared not even look at Jennie. Under Jennie's scrutinization, she became increasingly flustered. Her hands clenched the corner of the blanket tightly, and she was engaged in an even more intense struggle within.
"Somi did not grow up by your side. The sentiments you have for her must not be as strong as what you feel for Nancy. Nancy was brought up by you, and I'm sure that you don't wish for her to die tragically, right?
Jennie took out her trump card by playing the family card..
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