Chapter 575 Not Necessarily A Bad Thing
After making sure that everything was taken care of, Nan Chen motioned for Qiao Zhan to leave. Soon, Nan Chen and Nan Xing were the only ones remaining in the ward.
“Now, care to tell me what happened?” Nan Chen asked coldly. Nan Xing simply flashed him a glance and kept his head low without saying a word. “You went to have dinner with Ouyang Qing, didn’t you? How did you get hurt like this?” Nan Chen pressed on.
Instead of answering the question, Nan Xing looked up at him and said, “Chen, what happened to Erbao had nothing to do with me. I’m not a heartless monster!”
The look in Nan Chen’s eyes grew cold instantly. “What makes you say that?”
“I mean exactly what I said. I didn’t do anything to harm Erbao. She’s my niece, and I love her very much. How could I ever bring myself to hurt her?” Nan Xing lowered his head again as he said that.
“I know you wouldn’t hurt her, but why are you saying such weird things to me now?” Nan Chen asked.
“No reason. I just wanted to make it known that I had nothing to do with Erbao’s matter, that’s all,” Nan Xing replied.
“Look at me, Nan Xing,” Nan Chen’s voice grew increasingly colder, but Nan Xing still kept his head low.
“Do you not trust me?” Nan Chen’s question hit the nail on the head.
“Of course I do! I’ve always trusted you the most!”
“Oh? So, you think I don’t trust you, then? Is that why you said all that weird stuff?” Nan Chen pressed on.
Nan Xing kept quiet.
“Lift your head!” Nan Chen shouted all of a sudden.
Nan Xing looked up in fear, but still avoided making eye contact with him.
“Look at me!” Nan Chen ordered coldly.
Nan Xing had no choice but to do as told and shifted his gaze to meet Nan Chen’s.
“Did someone say something to you? Is that why you think I don’t trust you?” Nan Chen asked.
“No.”
“That’s impossible. All right, fine, let’s put that aside for now. Do you trust me?”
“Yes, I do.” Nan Xing nodded.
“Okay, then tell me what exactly happened to you tonight. How did you get hurt, and why were you brought to this hospital by the police?” Nan Chen asked.
I do trust Nan Chen, but what if he really is suspecting me? What if he had something to do with those people? No, I don’t want to think about that any further. It’s way too scary! This man in front of me is my twin brother who cares about me the most!
Nan Xing was still a little hesitant, but decided to take a chance and asked, “Chen, you won’t hurt me, right?”
“Of course I won’t! You’re my brother, so why would I hurt you? I need you to tell me what you went through tonight. I trust you, so you need to trust me too. The day we stop trusting each other will be the day we fall into someone else’s trap.”
In order to reduce the tension in the air, Nan Chen eased up his tone to sound gentler.
“I was having dinner with Ouyang Qing at Xiang Jiang Restaurant tonight. However, we got ambushed by some men before we even started eating. They caught us off guard and had us outnumbered, so I couldn’t fight them off. Look, I even got cut on my arm. They were accusing me of harming my own niece and wanted to kill me,” Nan Xing explained.
The look in Nan Chen’s eyes grew cold all of a sudden. “What happened next?”
“They threw me out the window. Luckily for me, there was a river beneath it, or I would’ve been dead right then and there. I then encountered a pair of siblings who mistook me for a thief and tied me up. They wouldn’t believe me no matter what I said. Eventually, the police came over, confirmed my identity, and brought me to this hospital. That’s pretty much everything that happened tonight,” Nan Xing continued.
“I see. So, you thought I sent those men to the restaurant. That’s why you said those strange things, right? That’s why you kept telling me you had nothing to do with Erbao’s poisoning?” Nan Chen asked coldly.
Nan Xing kept quiet.
“You claim to trust me, and yet this is how you think of me?” Nan Chen was starting to get angry.
“It’s not that I don’t trust you, Chen. I just thought—”
“That I’d lose all sense of reason and be stupid enough to suspect you? We’re twin brothers, Nan Xing! We literally grew up together! You should know me well enough by now! Did you really think I’d suspect you and send assassins after you? Do you even see me as your brother?”
Nan Xing felt bad for suspecting Nan Chen when he heard how angry he sounded.
“I’m sorry, Chen. I never should have thought of it like that. I just got so scared that I let my fear consume me…” Nan Xing mumbled apologetically in regret.
“How did those men get into the room?” Nan Chen asked.
“They disguised themselves as waiters and brought the food in. I couldn’t recognize them because they all had masks on.”
“Was Ouyang Qing there as well?”
“Yes, she got hit too. I don’t know what happened next because I got thrown out the window.”
“Who else knows about you two dining there?”
“I didn’t tell anyone else on my side, but I don’t know about her.”
“Those must’ve been Ouyang Duo’s men.”
“Huh? Why would Ouyang Duo want to kill a nobody like me? What would he stand to gain from killing me?” Nan Xing exclaimed in shock.
“How could you call yourself a nobody? You’re my brother and a member of the Nan family! Besides, it wasn’t sheer luck that saved you from being thrown out the window. They threw you out precisely because they knew there was a river beneath it. If they really wanted to kill you, they could’ve done so in the restaurant. There was no need for them to throw you out the window at all. Also, the fact that they were disguised as waiters indicates they were prepared beforehand. The whole dinner date was a trap all along, and you walked right into it. I told you to be careful, didn’t I? Why did you go alone?”
Nan Xing’s mind was in a mess, but hearing Nan Chen’s analysis cleared everything up instantly.
“Oh, you’re right! Ouyang Qing must’ve told them I would be dining there! She even pretended to try and help me during the attack! D*mn it, what is that cunning b*stard Ouyang Duo planning? I’ll go confront him right away!” he shouted angrily as he leaped to his feet.
“Are you stupid or what? Do you even have evidence to prove his involvement? Besides, you might not be able to find him at all. Even if you do manage to find him, what are you going to tell him? He might end up blaming you for not protecting his daughter well enough instead!” Nan Chen reprimanded him.
“What am I supposed to do, then? Just let that old fox play me like a fool? Can’t we do anything to get back at him?”
“Right now, we need evidence before we can do anything. I know you’ve had it rough, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You see, Ouyang Duo got so impatient that he made a huge mistake!” Nan Chen replied coldly.
“How is it not a bad thing?” Nan Xing exclaimed anxiously.
“I wasn’t able to confirm if Ouyang Duo had anything to do with Erbao’s food poisoning, but his actions tonight have made that connection clear. I mean, how else would he have known what happened to Erbao? When they accused you of trying to harm your niece, what did you say in response?”
“I didn’t say anything.”
“Good. Ouyang Duo did this in order to turn us against each other and to find out if Erbao has indeed been poisoned. However, his impatience got the better of him, and he ended up exposing himself as the culprit instead.”
