[R18] These men are poisonous – “These Men Are Poisonous” Chapter 72 [English]

Chapter 72 Past events

However, on this day, Gao Xia, who Yu Haonan thought was fake illness and sneaked to the hospital to secretly see Zuo Ning, was indeed ill.

Long-term fatigue coupled with a high fever and severe cold kept him in the hotel suite all day without taking a step.

When Bai Jin came in, Gao Xia was sitting up straight against the bedside, looking at the sky outside through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Glancing at the pinhole left by the intravenous drip on he’s left hand, Bai Jin asked, “Is the fever gone?”

Gao Xia nodded. His lips were chapped due to high fever, and he looked extremely haggard.

“Why bother? If you hadn’t proposed to rush the shooting by yourself, neither Qiu Yimo nor Xiao Bai would have thought of doing this. With Xingchen’s strength, it is not impossible to solve the problem if you have to change people.”

“But this is the simplest way. I am also a shareholder of Xingchen. Of course I want to best protect the interests of the company.”

“Do you care about that little profit?” Bai Jin sneered, “You insist on replacing the heroines one by one. Is that person’s acting skills really bad?”

Gao Xia paused for a moment before chuckling and said: “Half and half, her performance is indeed much worse than during the audition, and the person was brought in by investors, so it can’t be entirely Xiaobai’s responsibility. As for the other half… he and she should all be doing it for Zuo Ning. The bracelet is a relic of her mother. Jiang Chunxin’s actions are too much for anyone who sees it.”

Bai Jin raised his eyebrows: “Speaking of her mother, what you asked me to investigate is basically clear. Do you want to hear it?”

Gao Xia glanced at the chair beside him and motioned for him to sit down and speak slowly.

Bai Jin pulled up a chair and sat beside the bed, crossed his legs leisurely, and said slowly: “Old Xu and the others asked someone to check Zuo Ning’s medical records and found that when she was a freshman, she went to Fang’s private hospital many times, the one in the university town.”

Gao Xia frowned: “Are you telling me this specifically because her medical records are unusual?”

Bai Jin nodded: “The first record was suicide.”

Gao Xia was shocked: “Suicide?”

“Well, I took sleeping pills and was sent to the hospital for rescue in the middle of the night. The records of multiple medical visits later showed that I saw a psychiatrist and was diagnosed with depression. Of course, one of them was an ankle sprain.”

Gao Xia’s face was even paler than before. After a long silence, he said, “Do you know the reason why she committed suicide? Is it related to her shady life experience?”

Bai Jin shook his head: “I can’t be sure about this, but I guess it doesn’t matter much. Remember when I gave you the information last time, I said she went to an aristocratic school in middle school?”

Gao Xia nodded.

“I also said at the time that her corrupt official father had managed to save a lot of money for her and her mother before going in, but I was wrong. Before that bastard was sacked, Zuo Ning and her mother lived in a village in the city, and their life must have been difficult.”

“What happened next?”

“What happened later was discovered by Lao Xu and others when they went to Zuo Ning’s middle school to find out. At that time, Zuo Ning’s guardian was still her mother, but every time she went to the school to go through the formalities, it was a family that had no blood relationship with her.”

“She was adopted?”

“I’m not sure about this. Anyway, there is no legal adoption relationship, but Zuo Ning’s six years of middle school should have been very good. The family has good conditions and is willing to pay for her to go to an aristocratic school. I think they will treat her very well, but…”

Bai Jin paused for a moment before adding, “That family member died in a car accident seven years ago, one month after Zuo Ning’s college entrance examination. No one survived. Her suicide and depression should be related to this.”

“All… dead?”

“Yes, all four of them are dead.”

“Four?” Gao Xia suddenly thought of something, “Are they parents and two sons?”

Bai Jin was a little surprised: “Can you guess this?”

Gao Xia shook his head: “I’m not guessing. The drama we are filming now is called “Home”. The protagonists are a family of five, parents, two sons, and a daughter. I think Zuo Ning wrote about his former home. Those four people are the real family in her heart.”

“Maybe. But one thing you definitely wouldn’t expect is that the eldest son of that family once had a girlfriend, and you still know his girlfriend.”

“Hu Yueting?”

Bai Jin was stunned for a moment: “How did you know?”

A few wry smiles appeared on Gao Xia’s face: “Because Zuo Ning is not the first person to see someone else through me. When I was working with Hu Yueting four years ago, I noticed something strange about her. It was because of the way she looked at me that she and I were rumored to be having an affair. So when Zuo Ning met her a few days ago, I guessed that they are not just book fans and movie fans.”

After a pause, he looked at Bai Jin again: “Do you have a photo? That person and I…really look alike?”

Bai Jin took out his mobile phone and opened the photo album and handed it to he: “They are really similar, especially the eyes and eyebrows, but you are obviously more handsome than he.”

Looking at the handsome man on the phone, Gao Xia smiled self-deprecatingly. Is this the person Zuo Ning looks at every time through he?So she expressed her hope that he would play that role?

Bai Jin continued: “He is the same age as Hu Yueting, ten years older than you. His family used to be in the clothing trade and the economy was considerable, but he was a genius. He opened a company not long after graduating from college. It got bigger and bigger, and it seemed that he was ready to go public. However, he encountered the financial crisis in 2008 and almost went bankrupt. Later, the company transformed and the situation became clearer. But three years later, there was another big crisis. Before the crisis was resolved, there was a car accident, so after he passed away, he still owed a large debt.”

Gao Xia murmured: “These are all written in the novel, but the ending of the novel only reaches the company’s transformation, the whole family welcomes a new beginning together, and the whole family is happy. This should be the ending that Zuo Ning wants.”

Bai Jin also sighed, and after a long time he said: “You should still have memories of that car accident. Eight cars collided and everyone died on the spot. It was the most tragic car accident in recent years. Didn’t you pass that highway intersection at that time? If you hadn’t argued with that person in front of your mother’s grave and delayed your trip, you might have been one of the people involved in the accident.”

“Is it the highway intersection outside the West Ring Road entering the city?” Gao Xia frowned deeply, “Is it also that day?”

“Yes, the death anniversary of her family is also the death anniversary of your mother.”

“It’s also Zuo Ning’s birthday.” After saying this in a low voice, Gao Xia fell into silence for a long time.

he thought again of the day he first met Zuo Ning.

It was her birthday and the death anniversary of her family.

But because of his own pain, he got drunk and accidentally hurt a person who was probably in more pain than he at the time.

She had committed suicide before and suffered from depression. Gao Xia couldn’t even imagine that if her depression had not been cured at that time, would the harm he had caused her make her commit suicide a second time?

A chill suddenly rushed into his heart, and Gao Xia felt that his whole body was cold.

“Old Bai, I feel that the mistakes I made can never be redeemed in this life.”

Bai Jin looked at he quietly. He had grown up together with him. He knew the person in front of him very well, so he didn’t say any words of comfort and persuasion. He just sat with him like this.

After a long time, he said, “There is one more thing I want to mention to you by the way.”

“What?”

“Two days ago, Qiu Yimo asked me to check Fang Jinglun, the son of the chairman of Fang’s Medical Institution. Coincidentally, this person is a classmate of Zuo Ning’s university. Zuo Ning’s many visits to Fang’s hospital should be related to him. Moreover, when Zuo Ning committed suicide, the person who signed the operation was he.”