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Chapter 1321 Yun Rui Juanchen: He knows everything

When Yang Xiaotang stood at the door of the ward, her fingertips were still trembling.

The burning pain in her neck was like a poisonous snake, occasionally darting out and gnawing at her nerves, reminding her of the suffocating moment she had experienced on the rooftop a few minutes ago.

She took a deep breath and pushed open the half-open door. The smell of disinfectant hit her in the face, mixed with the usual white tea scent of Gu Yunxi, creating a strange sense of separation.

Gu Yunxi was leaning against the headboard flipping through a magazine. When he heard the noise and raised his eyes, his eyelashes trembled noticeably.

The sunlight filtered through the blinds and fell on her face, casting alternating stripes of light and dark on her pale skin, making her eyes appear particularly clear.

"Why are you here?" She closed the magazine and placed it on her knees, unable to hide the surprise in her tone. "I didn't tell you the ward number."

Yang Xiaotang didn't answer, but just closed the door behind her, and the canvas bag slammed heavily on the bedside table, making a dull sound.

The infusion tube swayed slightly with the vibration, and the transparent liquid medicine created tiny ripples in the tube.

She walked to the bedside and looked down at Gu Yunxi. The lavender finger marks on her neck looked like a hideous necklace against her snow-white skin.

Gu Yunxi's eyes fell on the scar, and her pupils suddenly contracted. She opened her mouth to say something, but in the end she just pursed her lips, her fingertips unconsciously clenching the corner of the quilt.

The air in the ward froze instantly, and even the ticking sound of the electronic clock on the wall became particularly harsh.

"Did you sleep comfortably with Qi Ruixiang?"

Yang Xiaotang spoke first, his voice hoarse as if it had been rubbed by sandpaper, and every word was filled with lingering fear and anger.

"You used me to investigate Lin Xu's case, and then you turned around and showed up in the ward with him..." She deliberately paused for a moment, then suddenly raised her hand, her knuckles turning white from the force. "Gu Yunxi, are you taking me for a fool?"

Gu Yunxi's face turned even paler.

She knew what Yang Xiaotang was referring to, and she also knew that whatever she said at this moment would sound like quibbling.

But looking at the shocking mark on the other person's neck, my heart still felt like it was being gripped by something, and the dull pain was unbearable.

"Things are not what you think..."

"What's that?" Yang Xiaotang suddenly laughed, a laugh thick with self-mockery. "You were so upset about Lin Xu's death, while you indulged yourself with Qi Ruixiang to the point of being hospitalized?"

She leaned closer to Gu Yunxi, her breath carrying the cool breeze from the rooftop. "You clearly love each other, but you can't bring yourself to get back together, so you planned this. And the next plot point is to get rid of me, the villain?"

Gu Yunxi turned his head away, looking at the bare branches outside the window, and whispered in a low voice: "Human life is at stake, how could I joke with you about such a thing."

"Human life is at stake?" Yang Xiaotang acted as if she had just heard a ridiculous joke. She grabbed Gu Yunxi's wrist with such force that she almost crushed his bones. "You were the one who asked me for help! You were the one who said that Lin Xu might have been killed by Qi Ruixiang!"

Yang Xiaotang didn't understand what Gu Yunxi was thinking. Why would she be so entangled with the person who killed the person she cared about?

The infusion tube shook violently, and the medicine seeped out through the needle hole, leaving a small wet mark on the pale back of the hand.

Gu Yunxi gasped in pain and tried to shake off her hand. As they were struggling, the glass on the bedside table fell to the ground with a clang, and fragments splattered everywhere.

"Calm down and listen to my explanation!"

"Give Qi Ruixiang to me!"

These words exploded in the ward like a thunderbolt.

Yang Xiaotang's voice was distorted by excitement, but it reached Gu Yunxi's ears with extraordinary clarity. She was stunned, the struggle and anger on her face instantly solidified. She stared at Yang Xiaotang blankly, as if she hadn't heard clearly.

The sunlight just happened to leak in through the gap in the blinds, shining into Yang Xiaotang's red eyes, flashing with an almost crazy stubbornness.

Her hand was still tightly grasping Gu Yunxi's wrist, her fingertips turned white due to the force, and the finger marks on her neck became clearer in the light - that was the mark left by Qi Ruixiang, but now it became her sharpest weapon.

Gu Yunxi opened his mouth, but his throat seemed to be blocked by something. It took him a while to find his voice: "What did you say?"

"I said, give Qi Ruixiang to me." Yang Xiaotang repeated word by word, the madness in his eyes becoming even more intense. "Since you are still thinking about Lin Xu, don't keep him hanging. And don't use me anymore!"

Gu Yunxi finally reacted. She shook off Yang Xiaotang's hand with force. Because she moved too quickly, the needle on the back of her hand was pulled off and blood gushed out instantly.

"Are you a child?" She covered the back of her bleeding hand, her voice full of disbelief, "Qi Ruixiang is a human being, not an object. How can you ask me to give in?"

"Why not?" Yang Xiaotang looked at the blood on the back of her hand, his eyes not wavering at all, but filled with a kind of resolute abandon. "You cling to him and enjoy his care, while at the same time suspecting him of murdering Lin Xu and collecting evidence against him everywhere. Gu Yunxi, what are you trying to do?"

Her voice suddenly rose, and she questioned hysterically: "Are you hoping that he will reveal everything to you because of his love for you? Or is it because of the value he has created for your Gu family? If you really care about Lin Xu that much, you should stay away from Qi Ruixiang! If you want to be with Qi Ruixiang, stop using Lin Xu's death as an excuse!"

Yang Xiaotang completely exposed Gu Yunxi's bad behavior, which was also a disguised emotional catharsis.

Qi Ruixiang almost strangled himself to death just now. How could the instigator of all this just lie here leisurely and peacefully with a clear conscience?

"Of course I won't help you again!" Yang Xiaotang's words were very cold. "Oh, by the way, aren't you curious why I know your ward number? Guess who strangled me?"

Gu Yunxi's gaze was like being attracted by a magnet, fixed on the pale purple finger marks on Yang Xiaotang's neck.

The color was dark, with an unhealthy red tint around the edges, clearly the marks of being pinched hard.

It felt like there was a fire burning in her chest, making her breathing heavy. The sneer that escaped from her throat just as it reached her mouth was shattered by Yang Xiaotang's next words.

"Before I came to see you, I took Qi Ruixiang to the rooftop." Yang Xiaotang's voice was as flat as a pool of stagnant water, but his eyes were frighteningly bright, like a poisoned dagger. "Just like every time you asked me out before, he already knew everything."

Gu Yunxi's fingers clenched the corner of the quilt tightly, her knuckles turning white and almost digging into her palms. The liquid in the IV tube was still dripping slowly, but she felt as if all the blood in her body had frozen at this moment.

The rooftop? Qi Ruixiang knew? All those calculations she carefully hid behind the mask of gentleness, all those evidences she secretly searched for under the pretext of checking on her, all those traps she set using her body as bait... He knew everything?

"What did you say?" She heard her voice trembling, like a dead leaf in the autumn wind. "What did he know?"

"I know you asked me to investigate the Nightingale Project. I know you suspect he's involved in Lin Xu's death. I know you're trying so hard to curry favor with me just to find evidence."

Yang Xiaotang counted off the items on her fingers, like she was reading a shopping list. "What on earth are you trying to achieve by changing so many positions and putting yourself in the hospital?"

With every word, Gu Yunxi's face paled. In the end, her lips had lost all color, and she had to bite them hard to prevent herself from collapsing.