Looking at Leo lying motionless on the ground in front of her, Maniwa’s gaze narrowed slightly. “Yonamine, will he die?” she asked.
“If he’s not an Onmyoji, then yes; if he is an Onmyoji, then no,” Yonamine replied with certainty.
Maniwa nodded and walked over to Leo. She knelt down beside him and spoke in her melodious voice, “Leo, I won’t kill you today. Think carefully about what we talked about earlier.”
Leo’s pupils dilated and his eyes became lifeless as his breathing grew weaker. He looked like a dead man.
Maniwa showed no mercy on her face as she stood up and said to Yonamine, “Let’s go, Yonamine. When he wakes up, we’ll ask him what choice he made.”
Half an hour later, Bob and Chasel led their gang into the underground parking lot where they found Leo lying unconscious on the ground. Bob yelled out, “Call an ambulance…!”
Twenty minutes later, Leo was rushed into surgery at Langstel First Affiliated Hospital of MediTech University.
“Bob, Leo will be okay right?” Chasel asked cautiously.
“Of course! He’ll be fine,” Bob replied confidently before taking out his phone to call Sophia.
In the office of Sophia Cosmetics’ General Manager, when Sophia received a call from Bob and learned that Leo had been seriously injured and taken to the hospital, the whole world seemed to spin for her.
After hanging up the phone, without hesitation, Sophia rushed out of the office…
She hailed a taxi outside and instructed the driver to go to the hospital as quickly as possible.
Sitting in the back seat, tears welled up in Sophia’s eyes. Leo’s accident was like a bolt from the blue for her.
All she could do now was pray incessantly in her heart, praying that Leo wasn’t in mortal danger.
If anything happened to Leo, she didn’t know how she could go on living.
By the time Sophia arrived at the hospital, Leo had already been pushed out of the operating room by the doctors and taken into the intensive care unit.
When Sophia saw Leo lying unconscious on the hospital bed, relying on a ventilator to sustain his vital signs, her vision went black, and she almost fainted.
Her tears finally burst out uncontrollably as she lunged to the bedside, grabbing Leo’s hand, unable to speak through her sobs.
Chasel stepped forward to comfort her, saying, “Leo will be fine. Don’t be too sad…”
Just as Chasel finished speaking, a doctor walked in. Seeing so many people in the intensive care unit, he frowned and immediately asked, “Who is the patient’s family?”
“I am…” Sophia stood up, looking at the doctor with a pleading tone, “Doctor, please, you must save my husband…”
“Madam, please calm down,” the doctor, accustomed to such scenes, appeared calm, “Your husband has suffered severe internal injuries. Not only are five of his ribs broken, but his internal organs are also damaged.”
The doctor’s words made Sophia lose her balance. If it weren’t for Chasel’s quick reaction in supporting her, she would have collapsed to the ground.
The doctor sighed and continued truthfully, “Our doctors have done their utmost to save the patient’s life, but whether he will wake up or not is beyond our control.”
“Doctor, I don’t understand what you mean,” Sophia said, although she already understood the doctor’s meaning, she still clung to hope.
“What I mean is, unless a miracle happens, your husband will become a vegetable,” the doctor had to be more direct with his words.
“A vegetable?” Sophia’s mind exploded, “No! Doctor, please don’t let my husband become a vegetable. Nowadays, medicine is so advanced, you must have a way to wake him up, right?”
“As I mentioned earlier, our doctors have done their best. Whether your husband wakes up or not depends on his fate,” the doctor replied.
After the doctor finished speaking, he turned and left the ward.
Sophia slowly turned around and walked slowly to the bedside, sitting down and quietly watching Leo lying on the hospital bed with closed eyes, as if he were asleep.
“Madam..” Bob was afraid that Sophia might do something foolish.
“Bob, could you all please step outside for a moment? I want to talk to Leo alone,” Sophia’s tone was calm, and as she spoke, her gaze remained fixed on Leo’s face.
Bob exchanged glances with Bevis and Chasel, then quietly exited the intensive care unit.
As the door to the ward closed, a sense of sorrow filled the entire room.
…
Cloud Dream Mountain villa area, Number Nine Villa.
Jessica had just returned from playing mahjong outside and was comfortably lounging on the sofa for a nap.
At that moment, the doorbell suddenly rang.
Jessica furrowed her brow, wondering if it was someone from the property management.
Feeling tired, she didn’t feel like getting up to open the door and casually called out Nora’s name.
With no response, Jessica remembered that Nora should be at the supermarket at this time.
Helpless, Jessica reluctantly got up from the sofa and headed toward the front door.
Through the peephole on the door, Jessica saw a well-dressed unfamiliar woman outside.
Who was this woman?
The woman pressed the doorbell again.
Jessica hesitated for a moment but decided to open the door.
“Who are you? Who are you looking for?” Jessica glanced at the woman disdainfully.
“Our young miss wants to talk to you,” the woman said calmly.
“Who is your young miss?” Jessica gave the woman a once-over and snorted, “I’m the owner of Cloud Dream Mountain villa area. I can’t meet anyone who wants to see me, you know?”
The woman smiled coldly, “It’s your honor to meet our young miss. Our young miss wants to talk to you about divorcing Leo and your daughter Sophia.”
Upon hearing this, Jessica’s eyes lit up, but she still asked cautiously, “Does your young miss have a way to get my daughter to divorce that waste?”
“Of course,” the woman nodded.
Seeing that the woman didn’t seem to be lying, Jessica pondered for a moment and nodded, “Alright, where is your young miss? Take me to see her.”
“Follow me.”
In fact, Jessica had been thinking about how to get Leo and Sophia to divorce recently. The appearance of this woman was like a gift falling from the sky, perfectly aligning with Jessica’s intentions.
Blue Moon Grand Hotel, top floor, presidential suite.
Yuriko had already brought Jessica to Maniwa.
“Maniwa, this is Leo’s mother-in-law, Jessica,” Yuriko said to Maniwa.
Jessica glanced at Maniwa, her face filled with arrogance, and asked, “Who exactly are you people?”