Chapter 3549

When Li Yalin's plane was about to land in Melbourne, Xiao Churan's cargo ship had already sailed out of the Bohai Sea and entered the East China Sea.

After boarding the ship for nearly twenty-four hours, Xiao Churan had hardly rested, constantly recalling the details of her years with Ye Chen in her mind.

Ma Lan and Xiao Changkun had been in a deep sleep, only just beginning to show signs of waking up.

Sun Mengmeng came to Xiao Churan's door, gently knocked, and respectfully said: "Ms. Xiao, your parents are about to wake up."

Xiao Churan came to her senses, wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes that were almost dry, hurriedly opened the door, and asked her: "Can I go see them?"

"Of course." Sun Mengmeng said: "After they wake up, they might have many questions, and later you'll need to patiently answer them for both of them."

Xiao Churan nodded and said: "That's natural, I will make everything clear to them."

Sun Mengmeng then respectfully said: "Ms. Xiao, please follow me."

In the medical room, Xiao Churan saw her parents still in a deep sleep state.

In the past twenty-four hours, Xiao Churan had also visited several times; each time, seeing her parents sleeping soundly through the window and the machines showing normal vital signs, she could relax a little.

This time, Sun Mengmeng directly brought her into the medical room, allowing her to sit right in the middle of Xiao Changkun and Ma Lan's hospital beds.

Only then did Xiao Churan notice that although her parents had not yet woken up, they had already begun to show some movements like turning over and scratching an itch, indicating they had likely left the deep sleep state.

As Ma Lan's consciousness gradually returned, she felt she had never slept so soundly in her life, so comfortable that it felt as if every cell in her body had completely relaxed, the more comfortable the better.

She couldn't help but stretch, and when she opened her eyes, she vaguely saw a figure sitting beside her bed.

She jumped in fright, opened her eyes wide to focus, and then realized it was actually her daughter Xiao Churan.

At this moment, Xiao Churan's eyes were big, red, and slightly swollen—clearly she had been crying—so she hurriedly asked: "Churan, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"

After saying that, she suddenly noticed her finger was still connected to an oxygen monitor, her arm still had a blood pressure cuff, and in panic she also saw Xiao Changkun still lying quietly beside her; this place was clearly not a bedroom, as if both of them were lying on hospital beds.

The nervous Ma Lan hurriedly asked: "Churan, I... what's wrong with me? Why am I in the hospital?! Didn't we get into a car accident?!"

Xiao Churan hurriedly wiped her tears, forced a smile, and said: "Mom, we didn't have a car accident; you and Dad just slept too long, so the ship's staff arranged special care for you."

Ma Lan then breathed a sigh of relief, and at that moment Xiao Changkun also woke up, equally startled by the scene before him.

Ma Lan, however, was much calmer, saying to him: "Look, this luxury cruise ship is just different; this ward isn't much different from the high-end wards of those upscale private hospitals, is it?"

After saying that, she suddenly thought of something and hurriedly asked Xiao Churan: "Churan, this... this place must cost a lot, right? I heard they said staying one night in those private hospitals costs five figures!"

Xiao Churan could only smile and say: "This... doesn't cost money."

Ma Lan's tension instantly vanished, and she said with a cheerful laugh: "No cost? That's great."

At this moment, Xiao Churan was somewhat dazed, thinking that once her parents woke up, she would explain everything to them, and had already devised multiple ways to speak in her mind, but she always felt that no matter how she said it, she didn't know where to begin.

At this moment, Xiao Changkun suddenly asked: "Churan, why do I have no memory of boarding the ship at all? Did we fall asleep as soon as we left home? When we boarded, did we two not wake up at all?"

Xiao Churan stammered: "It's... because you were sleeping so soundly, I didn't dare disturb you."

Xiao Changkun said in surprise: "This is too strange, with such a big commotion boarding the ship, we two didn't wake up?"

After saying that, he then asked another question: "By the way, Churan, how long have we been on the ship?"

Xiao Churan answered unnaturally: "About twenty-four hours, I suppose."

"Holy shit." Xiao Changkun rubbed his temples, face full of disbelief, saying: "We fell asleep as soon as we got in the car, slept until we boarded the ship, that's fine, but we slept another twenty-four hours after boarding—I've never slept this long in my life; could there be something wrong with my body..."

As he spoke, he instinctively reached for his phone, muttering: "I need to call my hospital friends to ask if this situation is abnormal, and if not, I'll go for a thorough check-up at the hospital when we get back."

Xiao Changkun felt that now was precisely the best time in his life, and he had become especially cherishing of life, valuing his physical health more than ever before.

While speaking, he couldn't find his phone anywhere, so he asked Xiao Churan: "Churan, have you seen my phone? Could it be lost?"

Upon hearing this, Ma Lan also began searching everywhere, similarly unable to find her phone, and blurted out: "My phone is missing too; could it have been stolen by the staff?"

Seeing both of them anxious, Xiao Churan could only say with a stiff tone: "Dad, Mom, your phones have been temporarily confiscated."

"Confiscated?" Ma Lan immediately flared up, angry: "How novel is that—taking my phone on a cruise ship? What does he think he is? Doesn't he know the customer is God?"

Xiao Churan explained bit by bit: "Dad, Mom, we... we didn't actually take a cruise ship this time."

"Not a cruise ship?" Xiao Changkun said puzzled: "Churan, Dad's all confused by you—you said you were taking a cruise ship to the Maldives? If it's not a cruise ship, then what is it?"

Xiao Churan said: "We took a cargo ship this time; although it's indeed heading toward the Maldives, we're not going to Maldives Island, but to one of the islands in that archipelago."

Ma Lan said somewhat impatiently: "No matter which island we're going to, taking our phones is totally inappropriate—what kind of service is this?"

Xiao Churan pursed her lips, looking at the two, one hand nervously picking at the other's fingernails, and said softly: "Dad, Mom, this time we've come out, we're not going back."

"Not going back?" The couple became even more puzzled.

Ma Lan sat up from the bed, urgently asking: "Churan, what's wrong with you? Why are you speaking so vaguely and confusingly today? If you weren't my daughter, I'd think you'd kidnapped us."

Xiao Churan made up her mind and said frankly: "Dad, Mom, this time we're going to the South Pacific, and from now on we won't return to Jin Ling, nor even to China; you also can't have any contact with your relatives and friends in China; in other words, we want to vanish from human society in China so that no one can find us."

"Why?" Ma Lan became anxious, blurting out: "We haven't committed any crime or broken any law—why do we need to vanish from human society?"

After saying that, she suddenly widened her eyes: "Oh no, Churan! Is it because Ye Chen outside was doing feng shui readings for people and saw something wrong? Could it be... could it be that we've offended a big shot?"

Xiao Churan's expression became somewhat startled; she hadn't expected her mother to leap to such a conclusion.

Meanwhile, Xiao Changkun, seemingly influenced by Ma Lan, immediately said: "Oh no! I've long said Ye Chen isn't cut out for this—when he first married into our family, he couldn't even cook a decent meal, and then one day he suddenly became a feng shui master; I asked him where he learned it, and he gave vague answers, saying it was from TV or from buying books at some roadside stall—this... this could work or it could be ghostly! Isn't it just using smooth talk to cheat money? Cheating a little might let him get away with it, but cheating a lot will surely blow up sooner or later!"

Ma Lan also sighed with concern: "Yeah! The key is he cheats for money, and his appetite is astonishingly large—you say he really dares to take that Wang family villa worth over a hundred million? Every time he does a feng shui reading, it's several million or even tens of millions; even if he shows no effect, it's still a small matter, but if he messes up and makes someone's feng shui worse, causing their business to suffer and family to be ruined, won't they come after him with a vengeance?"

Saying this, Ma Lan became even more worked up, slapping her hand on her wrist and saying: "And there's that Hong Wu—he's a big figure in society, a lifelong brawler, what good could he be? Don't see him always fawning over Ye Chen; that's just because Ye Chen has some use value to him!"

"He's always finding Ye Chen to read feng shui for his friends—I see it as him skimming the middle, using Ye Chen as a beast of burden!"

"Just take the last time he went west to read feng shui for a mine boss—maybe Ye Chen went once, and Hong Wu then asked them for ten or twenty million, then took a few million to pay off Ye Chen; although Ye Chen only got the small share, if something happens, the responsibility is entirely his; if something happens at the mine, they'll definitely come to Ye Chen to settle the score!"

Xiao Changkun

Ma Lan said, her emotions growing more agitated, she said to Xiao Changkun: "Look, your daughter's eyes are red and swollen; while we were asleep, we don't know how many times she cried—it must be exactly as I said!"

After saying that, she turned to Xiao Churan, nervously asking: "Churan, tell Mom the truth—has Ye Chen really blown up?"

Xiao Churan originally wanted to confess to her parents Ye Chen's identity and his current situation.

But she also worried in her heart: Mom is money-obsessed, Dad is power-hungry; if they knew Ye Chen's true identity—that he's the young master of the Ye family or the external grandson of the An family—how could they possibly bear to leave this golden son-in-law?

Even if she told them, Ye Chen faces enemies who want to kill his father, and with their personalities, they simply wouldn't care.

After all, danger is only potential, while money and power are real.

If my parents are unwilling to accept my decision to leave Ye Chen, they might try every possible way to contact him and compete with him in an attempt to get him to reconcile with me.

But what if they think Ye Chen has truly gone bankrupt?

Then, given their personalities, they would probably avoid Ye Chen at all costs.

Not to mention them secretly trying to find Ye Chen—even if Ye Chen finds them, they would likely flee at the sight of him.

Thinking of this, she instantly changed her mind and said: "Mom, you guessed everything correctly..."

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