After Switching Bodies, the Mad Overbearing CEO Takes Over the Entertainment Industry-Chapter 263 - 258: Past Life: Betrayal

In a moment of stunned silence, a bullet rapidly headed towards his forehead.

Ji Tian quickly pulled him away, and the bullet aimed at him embedded itself into the wall.

"Are you crazy? Do you want to die? Run now, Mo Jiu’s men are catching up."

Ji Tian dragged Qin Jiangsheng into the mortuary. Knowing Mo Jiu’s temperament, he wouldn’t allow Qin Jiangsheng to leave the hospital alive.

She took out the nurse’s attire she had prepared in advance and got dressed, opened his clothes, and used gauze to stop the bleeding from his gunshot wound.

"Quick, lie down and play dead, I’ll take you out of here."

Qin Jiangsheng was forcefully pressed onto the bed by Ji Tian.

His eyes were somewhat lifeless. Mo Jiu had saved him when he was fifteen, seriously taught him, made him no longer endure hardship, no longer wander, no longer be hungry one meal and full the next, giving him a place called "home."

For seven years, he had trusted him to the bone.

But nothing hurt more than this temporary betrayal.

Ji Tian pushed him out of the hospital’s back door. Because the body was covered with a white cloth, and there was even a hearse parked behind, nobody suspected anything for the time being, and she was able to successfully get on the vehicle before letting out a sigh of relief.

The driver, seeing Ji Tian open the white cloth to reveal a young man’s face, spoke in a dialect sympathetically, "Big sister, your husband died so young, eh? Don’t be sad, the next one will be better."

Ji Tian: "..."

She was really naive. freeωebnovēl.c૦m

Qin Jiangsheng sat up straight from the single-person medical bed, his face deathly pale, almost scaring the driver into crashing into the flowerbed: "Damn, it’s a walking corpse."

In the end, it took Ji Tian’s explanation and some money before they were allowed to get off the vehicle.

She looked at his bloody wound and felt the pain for him: "Do you believe now? We need to find a place to treat your injuries first, don’t worry, I’m a bomb disposal expert, I’ll make sure you’re healed."

Ji Tian found a small hotel to stay in, then went out to buy medicine for treating gunshot wounds, as well as a scalpel and medical tweezers. Now, with Mo Jiu’s people in all the surrounding hospitals, it’s no wonder he ended up with an amputated hand, with no timely medical treatment, his wound got infected and festered—who else but him would amputate?

The environment was somewhat crude, but Ji Tian could only do her best to prevent his wound from getting too badly infected.

As the bloody bullet was removed, Ji Tian blinked her sore eyes: "You’re lucky to have met me."

She gave him anti-inflammatory treatment and bandaged him, then touched his forehead—sure enough, he had a fever.

Ji Tian fed him fever-reducing medicine, and when it couldn’t be reduced, she had to cool him down physically; otherwise, he would die of fever right there.

Because she still needed Qin Jiangsheng’s help, she resigned herself to undress him completely, covering his private parts with a cloth, mumbling: "Forgive me, forgive me, detachment is void, void is detachment, my apologies."

She wiped his whole body with alcohol, and his temperature came down.

Ji Tian tended to him with all her heart and soul, like a mother.

Sitting next to him while resting, she suddenly heard him muttering something, so she leaned in closer.

"Pain..."

This faint cry caused Ji Tian to pause for a moment.

Looking up, she saw a tear seem to slide down the corner of his eye, quickly drowning in his black hair.

She pursed her lips and then remembered, Qin Jiangsheng, he was about the same age as her.

She had been raised in a sheltered environment, unaware of the sufferings of the world. When she was seventeen, during those few days when she fell into the artificial lake filled with nightmares, she gradually realized that those dreams were actually premonitions of the future, even allowing her to understand that the world she lived in was not real.

In order to change her destiny, from that day on, she studied hard, practiced martial arts for self-defense, and learned medical skills from her elder brother. She thought she could always stop it, always change it.

But the reality was, no matter how she tried to stop it, her second brother would still earnestly teach Shen Zhiyi, and her third brother would choose to break with the family because of Shen Zhiyi.

Just like the five years during which the Ji Family declined from prosperity to decline.

Just like the cancer research project that was stolen, and in the end, her second brother was left with a disability in both legs due to the betrayal.

Just like Ji Weinan, who wholeheartedly wanted the best for Shen Zhiyi, fearing she might be cold, hungry, or short on money, used everything he had just to warm Shen Zhiyi’s heart.

Even the Ji Family was now about to be acquired by the Bai Family, and after the bankruptcy, her parents would sink to the bottom of the sea.

Ji Tian gave a bitter smile, Qin Jiangsheng wasn’t fortunate, growing up displaced and abandoned by his parents, betrayed by a trusted uncle, it must have hurt.

The pain went deep into his bones.

She lowered her head and blew gently on his wound, "I’ll blow on it and the pain will go away, Qin Jiangsheng, tomorrow is another new day, we won’t be defeated."

Even though the pain he spoke of wasn’t physical.

But it seemed this was all she could do to comfort his deeply wounded heart.

We, the ones not favored by fate, can only change our own destiny.

Qin Jiangsheng was awakened by sunlight, as he opened his eyes, it felt like a whole century had passed.

His memory was still fixed on Mo Jiu’s smile, and when he turned his head, he saw the well-bandaged wound, and Ji Tian was sleeping soundly at the side of the bed.

He turned his head to look out the window, where the rising sun slowly dispelled the gloom of the night.

"Are you awake? How do you feel? Does it still hurt?"

Ji Tian heard movement and immediately woke up, with dark circles under her eyes, clearly not having slept well.

Qin Jiangsheng shook his head in silence, and seeing his low spirits, Ji Tian stood up, "Don’t think too much, we’ve survived another day, that’s great!"

"I’ll go buy you breakfast, take good care of yourself."

Ji Tian left and quickly returned, there was a breakfast shop right beneath the inn.

She bought him plain congee, while for herself, she bought several glossy, tender braised pig’s trotters, along with a few buns.

Ji Tian didn’t care about appearance, she ate a pig’s trotter with satisfaction and sighed contentedly, "Delicious, really delicious."

Seeing Qin Jiangsheng staring at her, thinking he also craved a pig’s trotter, Ji Tian swallowed the meat in her mouth and smacked her lips, "Well, you can’t eat these yet, once you’re better, I’ll buy some for you."

Qin Jiangsheng looked away without a word.

Ji Tian didn’t mind, this kid was really tough to handle.

After a while, she heard him slowly say, "Thank you..."

"Hm?" Ji Tian lifted her head.

"Thank you for saving me," he repeated.

Ji Tian smiled with her eyes squinted, "Don’t mention it, what do you think about what I first proposed? Shall we strike back at Capital City? You can’t stay in Central Continent for now."

Qin Jiangsheng looked out the window, his eyes cast in shadow, and his uninjured hand clenched into a tight fist, and only after a long moment did he slowly relax it, "Yeah, I agree to cooperate with you."

Ji Tian breathed a sigh of relief, her trip hadn’t been in vain.

Because she knew Qin Jiangsheng had the power of a private organization, which was the fundamental reason for his successful seizure of the Bai Family’s assets.

He finished his congee in a few gulps, and as he prepared to get out of bed, he discovered he was wearing nothing, and even his movements caused the blanket that covered him to slide to his waist, he was silent for a moment, looking at Ji Tian.

Ji Tian blushed, her mouth dry as she stammered, "I didn’t look..."