Chapter 34: The Patient Refuses to Wake Up

Wulongcha interjects, "She can't possibly die. Even if she did, it wasn't our card effect that killed her. It's definitely the hospital's fault!"

Su Xi quickly replies, "No, after the hospital check she was transferred to a regular ward. When she learned her beloved grandchildren were captured and the police uncovered her murder case, she got so angry she was sent to the ICU."

"See? I told you she didn't die!"

Wulongcha has confidence in his own cards!

Their official system will never kill anyone! Otherwise they'd just let the Host purchase death‑type cards and kill everyone, right?

The whole world would belong to the Host!

"Alright, you're amazing!"

"Of course!"

After Su Xi finished speaking, he heard his phone ring, took it out, and sneered.

"The Mu Family really knows how to seize the moment."

Yang Zhichun opened his phone and saw tags like #Mu Clan press conference#, #Su Family and Yang Family#, #Grandma Yang murder#, #Police report# trending on Hot Search, while the Chu Family tag was pushed to the bottom.

Su Yu clutched Ji Yan's hand, looked at the phone, and saw only a netizen's hot comment; Ji Yan swiped to another page.

【Ate this world: incest yesterday, random killing today, you rich families really play flamboyantly!】

Ji Yan closed that page, switched to a secondary account, and clicked into the Mu Clan press conference.

"Zheng Dongping is the child of my wife's ex, and has no blood relation to the Mu Family."

Su Yu heard that and was speechless inside.

"The script says that when Zheng Dongping got married, it was exactly as you said: the Mu Family raised Zheng Dongping from childhood, the whole family's affection was as strong as blood. Back then they even threw away their faces to link the Mu and Su families through marriage!"

Ji Yan turned off the live stream and opened another tag.

The #Su Family and Yang Family# tag explains the relationship between the Su and Yang families.

Ji Yan saw a familiar ID that had already organized a timeline and pictures of the Su–Yang entanglements, including Yang Zhichun's old wedding invitation. It listed the Su Family's betrothal gifts and Yang Zhichun's dowry. Comparing them makes it clear that Yang Zhichun's dowry was entirely the Su Family's betrothal gifts.

Su Yu leaned over to look, "Grandma's dowry is so small!"

The dowry consisted of only two quilts, thirty cash, a thermos, six boxes, and two sets of new clothes.

The betrothal gifts, however, included a dressing table, a set of tables and chairs, a radio, two thermoses, three hundred cash, six quilts, six boxes, six new outfits, and eighteen chickens.

Netizens felt the same. At first the dowry didn't seem scant, but when compared with the betrothal gifts it looked pitifully small.

The #Grandma Yang murder# tag is clickbait. A huge crowd below berated the editor who created the tag, making them think Yang Zhichun killed someone.

Editors like that should be kicked off the internet!

The #Police report# tag more objectively described what happened that day and reported that Xiao Jing (Yang Zhichun's sister‑in‑law) had intended to murder Yang Zhichun but failed.

After Ji Yan skimmed the tag's main points, she switched back to the Mu Family's live stream. Lord Mu was speaking grandly and even dragged the Su Family into it.

"Actually, Zheng Dongping was a well‑behaved child before; she was very obedient in our Mu Family, filial and sensible. I can't understand this news either."

"Maybe it's because she studied too much under Su Zeyan, perhaps."

"Mu Jiguang's behavior is wrong, but he can blame others! He has many options. Zheng Dongping also has many choices, but whether she was influenced by Su Zeyan, I don't know…"

"Rubbish! What nonsense! Smearing the dead, huh? System, sleep‑card, arrange it for him, all of them!"

Ji Yan almost couldn't control her expression; she stared at her daughter's nape with a shocked look.

Su Xi and Yang Zhichun saw Ji Yan's expression, and combined with Su Yu's inner voice, guessed that Su Yu had used a sleep‑card on Ji Yan. But it's just a sleep‑card, right? The last one only lasted a minute; why is Ji Yan reacting so strongly?

Yet within a second, the live room erupted with shouts, "Lord Mu!" "Dad!" "Grandpa!" "Call an ambulance!"

Su Yu snapped back, "Damn, trash! Sigh, I can't multitask; otherwise I'd have seen that old man collapse."

Yang Zhichun laughed heartily, "Hahaha, I'm thrilled! That old wretch is scared! He still wants to climb up using the petty squabbles between the Su and Yang families to whitewash the Mu Family. Now he's stealing chickens and losing the rice!"

Su Yu grew more curious. What happened to that old guy before he fainted?

She was about to let the system check, when Ji Yan was searching the Mu Family's live replay, and Su Yu's gaze instantly glued to the phone.

A reporter asked, "Lord Mu, were the rumors about mother‑daughter sharing just rumors, or were you taking the fall for Mu Jiguang back then?"

Lord Mu collapsed on the spot when he heard "mother‑daughter sharing".

The next question the reporter asked got more and more excited!

It was clear they already had an answer!

Lord Mu wasn't clean either!

Perhaps he really entertained that idea back then!

All the reporters went crazy!

Ji Yan scrolled down and could see from a bystander's perspective that those reporters were either pulling out phones or laptops, typing articles on the spot.

A bystander stepped forward, tapped the screen, and one of them wrote "#Su Zeyan becomes the biggest green‑hat king#".

That tag also trended on Hot Search. The Mu Family scandal flooded the entire Hot Search list. Lord Mu, by himself, mobilized billions of gossip‑loving netizens, making them love digging for information.

They kept digging into the Mu Family's affairs, from the old man to Mu Jiguang's two sons, then from those sons to the Mu side branches.

As long as it's related, netizens are willing to dig.

Private hospital

Lord Mu was taken to the emergency room.

Inside, the doctors were baffled. After multiple tests they concluded that Lord Mu was simply asleep.

But how could a person fall asleep in a second when emotions are this intense?

Even if he was asleep, why can't their vigorous stimulation wake him?

This top‑tier medical team ran every instrument, and the reports showed the patient's vital signs were all normal.

Yet Lord Mu just wouldn't wake up!

How then will they explain this to the family?

Forget the family—no doctor would believe the excuse "he's asleep"! Even a pig, under their instruments, would be full of spirit!

A group of doctors, faces grim, pushed Old Master Mu out of the emergency room and into the ICU special care ward. They prescribed him a large amount of nutritional supplements, then all went to the conference room to avoid the family.

"What should we do? How do we write this medical record?"

"He's really just asleep!"

"Professor, the family will never believe this excuse!"

The professor himself collapsed in his chair, "I don't believe it either—how could he not wake up? How could he not wake up!"

After a long discussion, they kicked out the youngest, most promising doctor to explain things to the family.

The young doctor left with a grim face; as soon as he reached the ICU door to find the patient's family, he saw reporters beside them.

If they stuck to the agreed story, he couldn't bring himself to say it. If it got into the news, and later the true cause of Old Master Mu's condition was discovered, he, as the scapegoat, could never hold an administrative position in the hospital, nor could he practice medicine again. So what should he do?

"This is a restricted area of the hospital; unrelated personnel, please leave."

"Doctor, we just want to ask about Old Master Mu's condition."

"Yeah, aren't you Mu family members daring to say it to others' faces?"

Mu Jiguang hoped to bury his own affairs under Old Master Mu's incident, and besides deal a heavy blow to his stepmother and brother, so he volunteered, "Doctor, you speak; we family can accept it."

The doctor was speechless; you may accept it, but I don't want to.

"Yeah, doctor, please speak; we're all very concerned about Old Master Mu's health."

"Doctor, why hasn't Old Master Mu woken up yet?"

The doctor frowned, looking at the person asking.

We absolutely cannot say it's our hospital's fault, that we failed to detect it. Otherwise, no wealthy person would come to our hospital. If this reason gets out, the director will surely demand his life.

The previously agreed excuse would also make it impossible for him to get by. But this question seems not to have touched on the cause?

So he chose to answer tactfully, "The patient is unwilling to wake up."

Today's update~

First round done! Thanks, cuties! (ω)

The new notice says we need two rounds before going live to get a push, so today we go live; tomorrow you should see the v chapters.

This is also the promised free 2,000-word bonus chapter; tonight's upload will be an inverted V, so hurry up and take a look~

This chapter doesn't cut corners— I deliberately wrote it to 2,500 words, cuties, enjoy~

The betrothal gift is roughly written~ If there are mistakes I can fix them~

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