I bought a secret manual of the Hehuan Sect for ten yuan.

"Brother-in-law, I'm going straight back. Could you please tell my sister for me?"

Qin Ge had just finished speaking when his phone rang.

He glanced at it, his brows furrowing quickly. It was Yang Xiaomeng calling.

Yang Xiaomeng and Qin Ge are from the same village and keep in touch, but they rarely call each other unless it's an emergency.

"Brother Gua, Uncle Qin is in trouble!"

"I...I really have no other choice..."

Hearing Yang Xiaomeng's anxious voice coming from the phone, Qin Ge's expression changed drastically.

"Do you need any help?"

Shen Tingzhi guessed from Qin Ge's words that something must have happened at Qin Ge's home, and immediately asked with concern after he hung up the phone.

"No need for now, I'll be going now!"

Before Qin Ge could finish speaking, he had already disappeared from Shen Tingzhi's sight.

More than three hours later, Qin Ge drove the Xia family's Jeep Wrangler off the highway.

"Is it her?"

A Land Rover had been following Qin Ge. He noticed it shortly after leaving the Shen family's house, but he was in a hurry and didn't pay any attention to it.

More than half an hour later, Qin Ge arrived at Nancheng County Hospital.

"Mom, Xiaomeng!"

"How is my dad?"

On a bench outside an intensive care unit, Qin Ge's mother, Jiang Xue, and Yang Xiaomeng, from the same village, leaned against each other with their heads down.

"Little melon?!"

"Gua Ge!"

Upon hearing Qin Ge's voice, the two of them looked up at the same time.

"Xiao Gua, why are you back?" A flash of joy crossed Jiang Xue's eyes, and she subconsciously glanced at Yang Xiaomeng beside her.

Little melon?

At the corner at the end of the corridor, Su Wenxi listened to Qin Ge and the others' conversation, a hint of doubt in her brows, before the corners of her mouth involuntarily turned up slightly.

"We can talk about other things later. How is my dad doing?"

Qin Ge glanced at the ICU ward door, extremely worried about her father's safety.

"It's the same as always." Yang Xiaomeng looked guilty, with tear stains on her pretty face.

During the phone call, she told Qin Ge about the general situation of his father, Qin An, who was seriously injured and admitted to the ICU, with daily expenses of 8,000 yuan. They were currently out of money.

The hospital has informed us that if Qin An cannot pay the outstanding fees by tomorrow morning, he will be transferred to a regular ward.

Qin Ge had previously transferred 50,000 yuan home, but it wouldn't last more than a few days.

Since Qin An's incident, Jiang Xue has been borrowing money everywhere, asking everyone she could, but now she can't borrow a single penny.

Yang Xiaomeng was a great help. She used all her savings and the money she borrowed to help pay the bills, totaling more than 40,000 yuan.

If Qin An were transferred to a regular ward, it would be tantamount to giving up treatment. She pleaded with the hospital many times to no avail. With no other option, she could only secretly call Qin Ge to inform him without telling Jiang Xue.

Yang Xiaomeng also knew why Jiang Xue wanted to keep it from Qin Ge. Qin Ge was just a college student, what could he do?

But she felt that if there was really no other way, at least Qin Ge should be allowed to come back to see her father one last time.

"Thank you for your hard work. I'll handle the rest!"

Qin Ge regretted her hesitation and not telling her parents about her situation sooner.

If anything were to happen to his father, this guilt would follow him for the rest of his life, and this knot in his heart would probably never be untied!

Jiang Xue and Yang Xiaomeng exchanged bewildered glances. Who could solve this?

How did he solve it?

They all knew that Qin Ge wasn't one to make empty boasts, especially when it came to something so serious.

Qin Ge walked towards the ward and glanced into the ward through the observation window.

Besides the father lying in the hospital bed, there was also a nurse on duty in the ward.

Qin Ge pondered for a moment, then turned to look at the end of the corridor. "Since you're here, don't hide!"

"Come and help!"

Jiang Xue and Yang Xiaomeng were both stunned. Just as they were wondering who Qin Ge was talking to, a slender figure appeared at the end of the corridor.

Qin Ge knocked on the ward door. The nurse on duty inside the ward heard the noise, glanced up, and ignored it.

The knocking continued, and the nurse on duty, finally losing her patience, stormed out and yelled, "What are you knocking for?!"

"Don't you know this is the intensive care unit and we can't disturb you?"

"Stand guard outside the ward for me, and don't let anyone in!" After instructing Su Wenxi, Qin Ge suddenly made a move and pulled the nurse out of the ward.

He then went into the ward himself, closed the door and locked it in one smooth motion, and also closed the observation window.

The nurses and Yang Xiaomeng were all dumbfounded.

"Who is this person? How dare they act so recklessly!"

"Who will be responsible if something goes wrong?"

The nurse, realizing what had happened, was furious. She patted herself down, wanting to call security, but found that her phone had been handed in during shift change.

"He is my son, and the patient in the ward is his father," Jiang Xue explained, still somewhat dazed and unaware of Qin Ge's intentions.

"No one can do this kind of thing. Entering the intensive care unit without permission is absolutely forbidden!" The nurse's anger had not subsided in the slightest.

"Trust him, Qin Ge is saving lives!" Su Wenxi saw the nurse trying to leave, reached out and grabbed her shoulder, immobilizing her, and then nodded solemnly to Jiang Xue.

The nurse felt weak all over and was horrified.

What's wrong with this woman? How come she can't move just because she casually put a hand on her shoulder?!

Jiang Xue and Yang Xiaomeng were also extremely surprised, staring wide-eyed at Su Wenxi.

"How did you get so badly injured?"

Inside the ward, Qin Ge quickly checked her father's condition, her brows furrowed, her eyes filled with heartache.

Immediately, he circulated the spiritual energy within his dantian and began to heal his father's injuries.

A dozen minutes later, Jiang Xue and Yang Xiaomeng held hands, waiting anxiously.

They had many questions they wanted to ask Su Wenxi, but seeing her aloof demeanor, they didn't dare to speak. They decided to wait for Qin Ge to come out and ask him instead.

Su Wenxi stood guard at the ward door, one hand still resting on the shoulder of the nurse on duty.

"What's going on here?"

Two security guards suddenly appeared. The security guard in the monitoring room saw the situation at the ward entrance and felt that something was wrong, so he notified two people to come and check the situation.

"Someone forced their way into the ward..." The nurse saw the security guard arrive and grasped at a straw.

However, before she could finish speaking, she felt the hand on her shoulder tighten, which frightened her so much that she could no longer say anything.

"Why are you so stubborn, nurse?" Su Wenxi said helplessly. "The family hasn't said anything, would a son harm his own father?"

She glared at the two security guards. "You two, mind your own business. Just pretend you didn't see anything, and it'll be fine in a bit!"

The two security guards exchanged glances, and one of them pointed at the nurse, "Were you being held hostage by her?"

The nurse was both amused and exasperated. Wasn't this obvious enough?