Chapter 421: The game is just starting
Chapter 421: The game is just starting
After one threatening glare and order, the media reporters were forced to retreat and leave the Liu villa premises as the guards pushed them away.
Liu Hai said, “Let’s go back. We need to treat your wound.”
Jing nodded. “Yes, bro. You are bleeding.”
But Jinhai disagreed. “Dad, Jing, it’s okay. It’s just a light scratch. I am fine. I will get it treated in the company. Right now, we have to go to Liu Corps to handle the situation there.”
“I will talk to the board of the directors,” Liu Hai waved his hand.
“No, Dad. That would just give them a reason to think that I ran away.”
“Bro, come on-“
“Jinhai!”
They turned and saw Nana rushing towards him. She looked at him in horror as she saw him bleeding from the head, and her face paled.
She heard and saw the commotion from afar and immediately came out to check what was going on.
“T-this…what happened!” She panicked and stepped on her toes. She held his face and brought it closer, lowering it to her level to look at his wound.
Jinhai looked at her in a daze as she was worriedly checking on his wound. His heart thudded faster to know that Nana took the initiative to come close.
She is worried about me. She cares about me.
“Who hit you? Was it a big rock? You are bleeding so badly! Why didn’t you come back already! We need to treat it! Look, it’s not stopping at all.”
The bleeding was only a thin line of blood trickling down his temple, but Nana’s concern was magnifying it to the level of flow of a river.
Jinhai furrowed his brows, his gaze dimmed, and he slowly nodded. “En. It is a little painful too.”
Liu Jinhai and Jing stared at him with their jaws wide open in disbelief.
Who was saying just now that it’s just a light scratch? Now it’s painful?
Nana bit her lower lip, and her heart ached. Seeing Jinhai hurt and bleeding made her forget all about her anger.
“Of course, it would be painful. Let’s go back. I will disinfect it and put a bandaid on it. It won’t hurt anymore.”
“En.”
Liu Hai and Jing exchanged shocked glances.
“Bro…but the office…”
Nana frowned at him. “Jinhai is hurt! How can he go to the office in this condition? What if he gets dizzy and faints? He needs to rest.”
“Ugh…”
Jinhai said, “En.” He looked at his younger brother, disapprovingly. “Jing, how can you ask me to go to Liu Corps now? I am bleeding so badly.”
He was dumbfounded. “But the board of directors…”
“Dad can talk to them.”
Liu Hai widened his eyes. “Didn’t you say that you don’t want them to feel that you are running away?”
“Dad, how is resting at home when you are hurt counts to running away?”
Nana nodded. “Of course! They must have seen what happened in the news. If they think that Jinhai is running away, then let them talk to me,” she narrowed her eyes.
Jinhai’s heart fluttered with her defense, and a small smile traced his lips up.
“And Dad, Jing,” she looked at them in disappointment, “how can you insist Jinhai go in this condition? You should have told him to come back.”
Jinhai quickly nodded. “En. Nana, I told them that I was feeling a little dizzy and painful, but they said my presence is really important today in the meeting.”
Liu Hai and Jing’s jaws dropped once again in utter shock.
Excuse me? Who insisted on going? Isn’t it the opposite?
Nana shook her head. “I didn’t expect this from you two.”
They gritted their teeth but maintained their smile.
There is no love left in this world! Bro! How can you sacrifice us to make yourself look pitiful?
Jinhai, you bastard, it was you who didn’t listen to us and wanted to go, and now you are shamelessly blaming us! My adorable daughter-in-law…ah…the disappointment in her eyes…ouch, that hurts!
Nana said, “Now, quickly come inside!”
Jinhai nodded with a warm smile. “En.”
He looked at Liu Hai and Jing. “Dad, Jing. You will handle it in the meeting, right?”
They glared back at him with a menacing expression, but Jinhai ignored it. He couldn’t care less about them if it meant that he would get Nana’s attention.
He pursed his lips. “I can come if it’s difficult-“
“No!” Nana exclaimed. “Of course, Dad and Jing can do it. Right?”
They slowly nodded, feeling completely wronged for being misunderstood by Nana.
She nodded, feeling satisfied. “Good.”
Nana held Jinhai’s hand and pulled him towards the villa.
As their backs got farther away, Jing said, “Bro is unfair! He made us look like the culprits in front of sister-in-law boohoo,” he whined.
Liu Hai shook his head. “Ah, love can make anybody so shameless.”
“It’s not love. It’s your genes, Dad. Shamelessness runs in our family.”
“Hey!” Liu Hai hit the back of his head. “I am not that shameless.”
Jing rolled his eyes. “No, you are not that shameless. You are the epitome of shamelessness.”
“You really need a good beating from me, idiot son!”
“Jokes apart, we should leave now. The oldies directors will already be getting restless by now.”
Liu Hai turned grim and nodded. “Hm.”
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Pei Yuan had watched the entire news stream as it had recorded live when the media questioned Jinhai. He raised his brows at Jinhai’s guts.
“I didn’t know that you will have the courage to declare that you do not feel guilty at all.”
He thought that he would surely face a lot of backlash for it, but his speech when he talked to that woman reporter rendered everybody unable to oppose him.
Surely, the backlash wouldn’t entirely die down, but he minimized that effect to a great extent.
Pei Yuan smiled. “Well, the game is just starting, Liu Jinhai. You are a worthy opponent. We will have lots of fun. Now, you have lost your image and reputation. Next on the line is your CEO’s position.”