Mr.CEO’s Ex-wife Escapes Again
Chapter 363: Thrilling

Chapter 363: Chapter 363: Thrilling

"You don’t need to look at me like that, even if you keep staring, you can’t kill me."

Yin Hehe advised kindly.

Xiahou Jingmu cracked his knuckles again, and after a moment, he heard himself ask, "Why didn’t you continue to expose me just now?"

"Oh?"

This question surprised Yin Hehe.

"Junior General, by saying that, do you admit that the person was sent by you?" she asked with a smile that was not quite a smile.

In an instant, sitting in the wheelchair, Xiahou Jingmu felt a wave of humiliation rising from the bottom of his heart. He stared at the woman, his eyes filled with unprecedented hatred.

"Yin Hehe, you’d better pray that I win the war against Sheng Siyuan this time, otherwise, if you fall into my hands, I certainly won’t let you off easily!"

"Hehe~~" Yin Hehe laughed aloud upon hearing this.

"You can’t beat him, do you know the biggest difference between you and him right now?"

"Where?"

"You only know how to control people with people, while he likes to plan. It’s like we’re playing chess; you aim to eliminate a specific piece of the opponent, whereas he aims to swallow up your entire territory."

Yin Hehe patiently explained to this man.

Xiahou Jingmu froze, then, as realization dawned, his expression changed several shades in the dim light of the corridor.

He indeed was a manipulator of people.

For instance, taking Xiahou Yi, he controlled all his former subordinates in the imperial capital to serve him, Xiahou Jingmu.

And now, he was controlling Sheng Siyuan, locking him in a mental hospital, thinking that by doing so he would gain control of Shengshi Group and eliminate all possible threats that this man could bring.

But now it seemed that he couldn’t.

"How so? Do you think that with his capabilities, he could still control the entire imperial capital’s situation?"

"Why don’t you try?" Yin Hehe replied indifferently.

"Your current plan is undoubtedly to ensure Xiahou Yi lies in bed forever while you become the new master of this imperial capital. But Xiahou Jingmu, haven’t you noticed that the forces you’ve been nurturing have already been discovered by someone?"

Suddenly, she came out with such a statement.

Xiahou Jingmu’s breathing changed, and staring at the woman, he opened his mouth to ask in shock and fury, "Who discovered it?"

"Of course, my husband!" Yin Hehe generously informed him.

"Think about it, he regained his normalcy long ago, yet he has maintained the façade of being mentally unsound before everyone. Why? Is he afraid of Xiahou Yi or the Shen Family?"

"..."

"Impossible, right? Xiahou Yi wouldn’t harm him. Even if he didn’t want to stay in the imperial capital, he wouldn’t pretend to be mad to avoid him. And the Shen Family is even less worthy of mention in his presence; he could effortlessly take over Shen Weihuai’s ancestral home, so what is the Shen Family to him?"

Yin Hehe analyzed point by point for this man to hear.

It was unknown whether these were her own guesses or if the man locked up in the mental hospital had told her these during her visit.

Xiahou Jingmu’s eyes began to redden, and his hands, gripping tightly on the wheelchair armrests, bulged with veins.

"So, the act he’s been putting on, has been for you to see. He’s long known about your wolfish ambitions. He’s aware that you’ve been secretly nurturing your power and knows... that the failure of his initial surgery was deliberately caused by you, wasn’t it?"

As she released that final sentence, the sharpness in Yin Hehe’s gaze, suddenly directed at the man, was as cutting as a blade’s edge.

Xiahou Jingmu saw it and, at last, burst out shouting, "He deserved to die!"

"What do you mean ’deserved to die’? He had done you no wrong; how did he become someone who deserved to die?" Yin Hehe immediately fired back fiercely.

"He was living well in Jiangbei, and your Xiahou Family’s people wouldn’t let him be, one after another. I really want to ask, who exactly deserves to die?"

Her eyes full of cold frost, when she asked that last question, she almost wished she could step forward and stab this beast once more!

She had never imagined that Sheng Siyuan’s brain issues were a gift from this man.

What if he hadn’t recovered?

Would she have to spend the rest of her days with an idiot like that?

"Hahahaha..." Seeing her expression, this man’s true face had been revealed as he laughed uproariously in the corridor with no inhibitions.

"Yes, you’re not wrong. I have indeed been secretly cultivating my own power, and now what are you going to do that you know? Do you think just the two of you can take me down?"

"..."

"Or are you hoping that old man wakes up to bestow upon you a golden robe? Let me tell you, the current capital, even without that gold robe, they will all listen to me!"

He was indeed brazen.

Yin Hehe, seeing this, finally had a stern look on her face as well.

The current situation in the capital was indeed not optimistic, as she had heard the news just last night that Chu Fengcheng had already been taken over.

That meant, aside from the military, other places had begun to fall into this man’s grasp as well, akin to ancient times when someone amassed troops to rebel. Except for the deserted Xiahou Royal Mansion, it seemed everything else had already been claimed by him.

When exactly had he developed such a massive force? Judging by his appearance, he was but a brash military man. How did he manage all this?

Xiahou Jingmu eventually left.

He didn’t harm Yin Hehe, probably wanting her to witness how he was going to turn the capital upside down.

That night, signs of awakening were seen in Xiahou Yi after being medicated.

And when Yin Hehe walked in, she found the ward truly unguarded.

"Old General, are you awake?"

Yin Hehe approached the old man’s bed and called out gently.

After calling out probably two or three times, at last, the old master on the bed slowly opened his eyes, looking at the world he had finally returned to.

"Old General." Yin Hehe, overwhelmed with mixed emotions, couldn’t help but feel a catch in her throat.

Xiahou Yi turned his head, his gaze slowly falling on her face.

"Where is he?"

Unexpectedly, the first thing he asked upon waking was in a hoarse voice about the man’s condition.

Yin Hehe wiped away the redness at the corners of her eyes.

"Don’t worry, he’s doing well," she said with a smile to comfort him.

The old master then nodded, closed his eyes, and rested for a while before he spoke again, "What’s the situation outside now? Has that scourge turned the capital upside down yet?"

"..."

Yin Hehe paused for a moment.

She had figured the old man had sensed something about the people around him, but to hear him speak so directly upon waking still surprised her.

"Pretty much." In the end, she chose to lay it all out.

"Cough cough cough cough..."

Xiahou Yi coughed violently, and in that moment, the onslaught of shock nearly made him pass out again.