Chapter 327: Made by Men, Ruined by Men

Lin Shutong suddenly opened her eyes wide, desperately trying to get off the hospital bed; Shen Xun stepped back a step, and she fell with a thump, her whole body in intense pain.

She heard the nurse, who had pressed the call button, patting the door at the doorway.

Although the patient in this bed had offended the hospital's major shareholder, the higher‑ups had also ordered that the patient not be allowed to have any mishap easily.

"What are you doing! I'm calling the police!" the nurse shouted again.

Gu Zhiyan returned carrying dinner, sensed something was wrong and quickly stepped forward; he saw Lin Shutong lying on the floor, and Shen Xun looked at her coldly.

Bang!

Gu Zhiyan kicked the ward door open with a foot.

Shen Xun turned around: "Lawyer Gu has arrived."

Those words were clearly meant for Lin Shutong to hear.

Lin Shutong was terrified, only wanting to stop the two from communicating, she cried continuously, calling Gu Zhiyan's name.

Gu Zhiyan glared at Shen Xun fiercely, quickly moved to lift Lin Shutong, placed her back on the bed, and as he was about to walk toward Shen Xun, Lin Shutong immediately clutched his waist, shouting fearfully, forcing Shen Xun to step back.

Lin Shutong's body trembled nonstop in Gu Zhiyan's arms, like a small beast overly frightened.

Gu Zhiyan soothed her, shouted a few words at a nearby nurse, and ordered the hospital to drive Shen Xun out.

Shen Xun looked at Lin Shutong's appearance; now deep in the situation, becoming a victim, they finally truly understood Jiang Lai's earlier discomfort.

The once blind and heartless one, they are much the same as the young master Gu in front of them.

Shen Xun was about to speak, but Lin Shutong immediately fainted in Gu Zhiyan's arms; Gu Zhiyan shouted loudly for doctors and nurses, and when they arrived, they naturally pushed Shen Xun aside.

Shen Xun was not angry.

Standing at the ward entrance, they called the police, the reason being that Lin Shutong had deliberately plotted to harm their ex‑wife, and last night's recording naturally ended up in the police's hands.

All the filthy acts Lin Shutong had committed before, they would definitely present to Gu Zhiyan, making Lin Shutong's final big tree topple.

However, Shen Xun did not see Gu Zhiyan again.

Gu Zhiyan stayed by Lin Shutong's side day and night; whenever Shen Xun appeared, Lin Shutong would cling tightly to Gu Zhiyan's waist, trembling as if in a stress reaction.

But that was not a long‑term solution.

Lin Shutong lived in constant fear all day; pretending to be in a stress reaction would eventually become a genuine one.

"Zhi Yan, can we transfer to another hospital?"

Gu Zhiyan had been here three days and had already figured out the current situation: Lin Shutong was being forcibly kept at Hexin Yiyuan until the police investigation yielded results, and in the past two days the police had been coming more and more frequently.

"Hexin won't let you transfer out, and other hospitals dare not take you."

"Then let's go home, okay? No more hospital." Lin Shutong grabbed Gu Zhiyan's arm, her eye sockets intensely red, crying red, her cheeks flushed.

Gu Zhiyan looked at the wounds on her body, his brows furrowing tighter, and finally asked the question he had been doubting: "Did you really intend to drive and crash into Jiang Lai?"

Lin Shutong's fingers that held his arm gradually loosened, seeming to compromise yet painfully saying: "Even you doubt me."

"I…" Gu Zhiyan's recent emotions were also very complicated and irritable; the law firm had already removed him from the partnership, and now he was just an ordinary lawyer, with repeated absences already warned by the firm.

He knew that Ji Lao's case was Jiang Lai's fault and should not be reported, but Shutong deliberately drove toward Jiang Lai; even if nothing occurred, it still constituted attempted murder.

As long as the evidence is solid, he cannot protect her.

"You're too impulsive." As soon as Gu Zhiyan finished speaking, the ward door was pushed open.

His mother and younger sister walked in.

Gu Zhiyan was shocked and stood up.

Lin Shutong saw Gu Yinxue and guessed who the lady beside her was, also showing a shocked expression.

"Mom…"

Before Gu Zhiyan could finish shouting, a solid slap landed on his face.

Song Shiwei looked at her son with anger.

Gu Zhiyan, beaten into silence, could only step aside under his mother's stern gaze, watching helplessly as his mother walked toward the bedridden Lin Shutong.

Lin Shutong instantly became panicked and uneasy.

"After the New Year's Eve, my son will be engaged to the second miss of the Qu Family. You once helped my son abroad; my son gave his entire savings to you, disregarding his future to fly to A City to take care of you, which is already the utmost of benevolence."

"Mom!" Gu Zhiyan stepped forward, "When did I agree to be engaged to Qu Mei?"

"Your consent isn't needed." Song Shiwei coldly looked at her son, "This is a decision between your father and me; it doesn't involve you."

Her scrutinizing gaze fell again on Lin Shutong, as if looking at a commodity, and she was not satisfied with this commodity.

"If you keep deciding for yourself, you'll only push yourself into a fire pit."

"Why have I never been able to make any decisions from childhood to now?" Gu Zhiyan retorted to his mother, "When I was a kid I wanted candied hawthorn, you said it was unsanitary; I wanted to attend an international high school with friends I grew up with, dad said no; I said I wanted to study sculpture, you directly chose law for me; in my thirty years of life, which part was truly my own choice?"

Like a fit of spite, Gu Zhiyan walked to Lin Shutong's side, tightly holding her hand: "I only love one her, and I only want one her; I could never marry Qu Mei."

Lin Shutong, faced with such a resolute choice, felt no joy, only a deep sense of powerlessness and fear.

Especially when Gu Zhiyan's mother cast a cold glance at her, that intangible pressure from the privileged class made her feel suffocated.

"Gu Zhiyan, isn't everything we do for your sake? Isn't it paving the way for you?" Song Shiwei, seeing her son who had always been obedient and sensible now defying a disgraceful woman, felt her anger flare, and she stared sharply at Lin Shutong, "Your great ability can ruin a man's marriage and future, yet you still want to ruin my son?"

"Aunt, that's not it, you've misunderstood…" Lin Shutong hurriedly looked at Gu Zhiyan and Gu Yinxue while explaining.

"Mom, it has nothing to do with Shutong, it's my own choice; if you want to blame someone, blame me." Gu Zhiyan used his own body to block his mother's scrutiny of Lin Shutong.

Gu Yinxue was powerless.

Lin Shutong, as a pawn in her hands, had already become scrap metal.

A fellow who accomplishes little but causes much.

Gu Yinxue sensed movement outside the ward and went out, it was Shen Xun.

Shen Xun held a yellow kraft paper document bag.

"President Shen." Gu Yinxue politely called him.

Shen Xun hadn't heard that title in a long time; facing Gu Yinxue, he showed a bit more patience: "Hello, Miss Gu."

"President Shen came to visit the sick?"

"Come to find Gu's eldest son, didn't expect Gu's madam and Gu's miss are also here." Shen Xun glanced inside, the three were in a standoff.

Gu Yinxue's gaze turned wary, a smile on her face: "Looking for my brother? What does President Shen want with my brother? My mother is talking with my brother, so it might not be convenient."

Shen Xun realized that.

"President Shen, if you have anything to say, I'll pass it to my brother." Gu Yinxue continued, "If it's about sending something, I can help with that."

A fierce argument broke out in the ward; Shen Xun frowned, and in his inattention, Gu Yinxue had already reached out and taken the document bag from his hand.

"President Shen, don't worry, I will definitely hand it over to my brother."

Shen Xun's gaze fixed on Gu Yinxue.

Gu Yinxue showed a proper, kind smile.

Xie Yongsi said the Gu siblings get along very well, handing the documents to Gu Yinxue should be fine.

Having received the documents, Gu Yinxue politely issued an eviction order: "President Shen, we need to handle family matters here, so I won't see you out."

After Shen Xun walked away, Gu Yinxue turned around and opened the documents inside the bag.

As expected, it was still that pile of things that could ruin Lin Shutong's reputation.

Lin Shutong truly succeeds because of a man and fails because of a man.