Outside the exclusive VIP ward of Moon City’s largest hospital.
A middle-aged noblewoman in luxurious clothes, with impeccably maintained skin, sat on a chair in the hallway.
She clutched an embroidered handkerchief, crying and wiping her tears as she sobbed, “Rourou, my Rourou… my most sensible child, nothing can happen to you…”
Beside the noblewoman sat a young girl who looked no more than twenty-something.
Her features resembled the noblewoman’s somewhat, and her facial features were so exquisite they seemed to have stepped out of a painting.
She gently held her mother’s shoulders and comforted her, “Mom, don’t cry. Little sister will definitely wake up.”
At the other end of the hallway, a middle-aged man paced back and forth.
His brows were tightly furrowed, and his expression was not good.
In the hallway, the sound of his leather shoes striking the ground was especially heavy.
He walked to an elevator door, noticed the upward indicator, and stopped pacing, standing in front of the elevator door.
Soon the elevator doors opened, and a man in a suit wearing a luxury brand watch stepped out.
He was outstanding in appearance and looked no more than twenty-five or twenty-six.
Anyone who saw him would involuntarily think of the domineering CEOs from novels.
The domineering CEO walked up to the middle-aged man and handed over a document: “Dad, the investigation is clear. It was the Liu family.”
This noon, the third young miss of one of Moon City’s four great families, the Bai family—Bai Yurou, the treasured pearl who had been cherished by the entire family since childhood—had been in a car accident.
Bai Yurou was seventeen this year and had just graduated from high school.
Today she had originally planned to report to university.
The Bai family never assigned bodyguards, so Bai Yurou had gone alone.
As a result, she encountered a truck that charged onto the sidewalk.
Fortunately, Bai Yurou had been saved by a young man and was not in life-threatening danger.
However, because she had been weak since childhood, after being pushed to the ground she had also fallen into a coma.
As for the young man who had saved her, because he had directly faced the accelerating truck head-on, he had died on the spot despite rescue efforts.
Afterwards, the Bai family’s eldest son, Bai Sihan, received the news and arrived at the scene first.
He contacted the rest of the family to wait at the hospital for their little sister.
He himself stayed behind alone to contact Lin Ye’s family members.
As the parents of the benefactor who had saved his little sister’s life, Bai Sihan solemnly expressed his apologies and gratitude, speaking with sincere words, and proactively proposed an extremely generous compensation plan.
Lin Ye’s adoptive parents were also reasonable people.
Knowing that Bai Sihan was also anxious to handle his little sister’s matters, they did not make things difficult for him.
Instead, they left their contact information, stating that the most important thing now was to handle their adoptive son’s funeral arrangements, and that compensation could be discussed later.
They also urged Bai Sihan to hurry to the hospital to see his little sister.
After being let go by Lin Ye’s adoptive parents, Bai Sihan did not go directly to the hospital.
Instead, he launched an investigation into the truck driver who had caused the accident.
He had felt something was off earlier—why would a perfectly fine truck driver suddenly crash onto the sidewalk, and specifically target a frail little girl?
Relying on the Bai family’s network of connections, Bai Sihan really did dig something up.
That truck driver had lost millions gambling on the World Cup, betting on Spain to beat Cape Verde.
He had originally been about to jump off a rooftop when someone contacted him, directly giving him a card to pay off his debts, and instructed him to hit a little girl.
They promised to take care of his family and give him a large sum of money for retirement after he got out of prison.
Bai Sihan followed the trail and tracked down the mastermind behind hiring the truck driver—one of Moon City’s four great families, the Liu family.
The Bai family and the Liu family were both among the four great families.
In business, they competed in many areas, and the two families were well-known mortal enemies within the circle of wealthy families.
“The Liu family?”
The middle-aged man—Bai Yuan, father of Bai Yurou and Bai Sihan—pondered.
“If it’s true, no matter what methods I have to use, I will definitely make the Liu family go bankrupt.”
Bai Yuan snorted coldly.
Previously, his responses to the Liu family’s attacks had all been relatively mild.
After all, everyone was in the same circle, and he had not wanted to go all the way.
He had not expected that after losing in business, the Liu family would start targeting his most beloved treasured daughter.
In that case, they could not blame him for being ruthless.
Just then, a young female nurse walked out of the ward.
She brought a piece of news that put everyone’s minds in the Bai family at ease.
“Everyone, the third young miss has woken up.”
Lin Ye… now he should be called Bai Yurou, opened his eyes.
Originally, Lin Ye should have been dead.
His physical body had been destroyed, with no possibility of surviving.
But earlier, Bai Yurou had chosen to actively accept him, fusing her soul with his.
This allowed Lin Ye to survive in another way.
It was not that Lin Ye had become Bai Yurou’s second personality.
The current Bai Yurou was neither the original Bai Yurou nor Lin Ye.
Instead, she was a brand-new Bai Yurou who had fused with Lin Ye’s soul, possessed his memories, and inherited his personality.
Bai Yurou slowly opened her eyes.
Her vision was still a bit blurry.
She subconsciously looked down at herself—she was wearing a pure white hospital gown.
The cotton fabric was soft and loose, yet it fitted surprisingly well against her petite and slender body.
The collar was slightly open, revealing a section of thin collarbone.
Looking at the back of her fair hand, a thin strip of medical tape was stuck on it, and a transparent soft tube extended from under the tape, the other end connected to the bag of IV fluid hanging by the bed.
I’m in the hospital, Bai Yurou instantly concluded.
She then looked around the ward.
The familiar pure white color scheme, a painting of Sunflowers hanging above the hospital bed, and a small teddy bear placed beside the bed.
She recognized this place.
In her memories, she had been weak since childhood, with congenital heart disease, and had fainted from time to time since she was little.
So the family had found a VIP ward in the hospital to serve as her exclusive ward.
Whenever Bai Yurou fell ill and was hospitalized, she would return here.
Bai Yurou had hated being hospitalized since she was little.
She had also wanted to have a healthy body like her older brother and sister.
“Rourou!”
At this moment, a beautiful woman ran in from outside the ward, speaking with a somewhat agitated, tearful voice as she ran.
“Mom…”
The voice squeezed out from her throat, light and soft, as if afraid of startling something, and carrying a trace of barely noticeable trembling.
Upon waking and seeing her current family for the first time, she was still a bit timid and afraid.
After all, she was no longer the original Bai Yurou now.
She could already be considered a completely new person.
If my family discovers this, will they drive me out of the house?
The Bai Yurou who had fused with part of Lin Ye’s inferiority complex thought fearfully.
Meanwhile, Zhou Wanting had no idea what her daughter was thinking.
She only hugged her daughter, patting her back while speaking with a tearful voice:
“It’s good that you’re fine, it’s good that you’re fine.”
Zhou Wanting, a former Best Actress.
At eighteen, she had skyrocketed to fame with a supporting female role in her debut work, quickly rising to the ranks of popular young actresses.
At twenty-five, she had claimed the Best Actress crown.
At the peak of her career, she had chosen to marry into the wealthy Bai family and immediately announced her retirement, fading from the entertainment industry ever since.
The former Lin Ye had watched many of her works and was an actor he liked extremely much.
And now she had become his mother.
“Rourou, as long as you’re fine, that’s enough.”
A middle-aged businessman with a large belly walked in.
Although his expression was normal, his tearful voice gave him away.
Bai Yurou combined the two sets of memories and looked at this man—her father.
Bai Yuan, founder of the Bai commercial empire, who had long ranked steadily in the top five of the rich list.
In his youth, he had started from scratch, beginning with a small shop.
Relying on extraordinary courage and ruthless methods, he had step by step swallowed up competitors and expanded his territory, ultimately creating the Bai empire that spanned the three major fields of real estate, finance, and technology.
With his own strength alone, he had successfully elevated the Bai family into the ranks of Moon City’s four great families.
“Dad…”
Bai Yurou’s voice was light and timid again, yet carried a trace of unconscious dependence.
That was the instinctive reaction of her body.
Behind Bai Yuan followed a man and a woman.
The girl was her older sister, four years her senior—Bai Mo, a popular singer.
At sixteen, she had defied her parents’ opposition, dropped out of school, and debuted by participating in a hugely popular singing competition at the time.
Because Zhou Wanting was a senior in the entertainment industry and knew how difficult that path was, she had even issued a harsh statement that if Bai Mo wanted to take that path, she should not expect any help from the family.
As a result, the rebellious Bai Mo had relied on her own part-time jobs to make ends meet during that period, won the championship of that season, and even sung an original song in the finals that became popular nationwide, proving herself in front of her parents.
After that, Zhou Wanting and Bai Yuan had also regretted it, turned to support their daughter’s dream, apologized to her, and ultimately the family reconciled and brought her back home.
Relying on Bai Mo’s talent and the Bai family’s support, Bai Mo had also become one of the most famous young singers in the entertainment industry.
The man was her older brother, ten years her senior—Bai Sihan.
Bai Sihan was the typical domineering CEO setting from novels.
From a young age, he had been given high expectations by his parents and received the strictest wealthy family education, in the hope that he would inherit the Bai family business in the future.
And Bai Sihan had not disappointed his parents’ expectations.
At eighteen, he had taken over a company under the family that was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Not only had he brought the company back from the dead, he had even made it leap to become the industry leader.
Now Bai Yuan was also gradually delegating power, letting this eldest son of his slowly take over the family’s companies.
Bai Sihan’s personality was also that of a domineering CEO.
Toward work and outsiders he was cold and domineering, but he was uniquely a sister-con.
As long as it was a request from his own little sister, as long as it did not break the law or violate moral values, no matter how outrageous, he would agree.
Her family members, no matter who, were all leaders and geniuses in their respective industries.
Yet at this moment they had all gathered in this ward, expressing meticulous care toward her.
Lin Ye had been an orphan before and had always longed for familial affection.
Although his adoptive parents had treated him very well, he was ultimately not their biological child and lacked the bond of blood.
And now, able to live on as Bai Yurou, he finally felt the familial affection he had always longed for, and tears unconsciously flowed down.