Hikigaya, the Son-in-law of Three Surnames

"I already said she was a secretary, not a slave," she corrected.

Lingzi smiled with some disdain, then dragged Sayoko away and said, "I haven't eaten your cooking for a long time. I'm going to be a little greedy tonight."

"Hey, but I'm living in a hotel and I don't have a kitchen," Sayoko asked.

As a result, it was proved that what the Shinomiya family wanted to do was rarely impossible, and money was the main factor paving the way. In the end, they borrowed a light food restaurant and cooked a Japanese home-cooked meal, which made the owner of the Nordic cuisine roll his eyes.

"I'm starting to eat." Lingzi picked up the chopsticks and clasped her hands together.

Yellowtail stewed with radish, stir-fried spinach, and rice with a little lotus leaf.

Although it was a bit rushed, Sayoko still prepared a table of delicious home-cooked meals for her sister.

"This yellowtail is delicious. I cooked it according to my mother's taste." Sayoko asked with some anticipation.

"Stop making so much noise, just eat your meal properly." Lingzi scolded directly, but judging from the frequency of her chopsticks, the food should taste good.

Sayoko looked at her and recalled the days when the girl first came to her home. She was also so unruly and covered with thorns no matter who she was.

So she has always admired her parents, and Lingzi can make her let down her guard.

Thinking of her deceased parents, Sayoko's heart ached.

Then she mustered up the courage to say again: "Reiko, come with me and leave the Shinomiya family. I will always take care of you."

Reiko raised her head, looked at her, and then said nothing.

Seeing that she didn't refuse immediately, Sayoko felt happy, and then said, "Please, Reiko, I really, really want to live with you, just like before, even if mom and dad are gone, we can still be like sisters."

Lingzi scraped the rice off the bowl, put it down, and said unhappily, "If I wasn't here, you would be bullied all the time."

Hearing this answer, Sayoko was a little surprised and immediately smiled: "Well, if you were not here, I would be bullied."

This useless look made Lingzi laugh out of anger.

A lot of happy things happened today, so dreamy that Sayoko felt like they were fake.

After the meal, Lingzi threw down a stack of cash with a somewhat satisfied expression.

The two walked slowly on the night road, and Sayoko said, "Reiko, wait a minute."

She then took out her handkerchief and wiped it around the girl's mouth, wiping away the sauce that was around her lips.

"Although I don't have much money, I still have some savings. I'm going to look for a house tomorrow. It's not a big deal to stay in a hotel all the time..."

"If I live with you, won't it hinder your relationship with that man?" Lingzi said with some malice.

"What a disgusting thing! We are not in that kind of relationship. I'm just a secretary." Sayoko said shyly.

Lingzi narrowed her eyes slightly, and there seemed to be some smile in her eyes, and then she said: "I'm thirsty, go buy me a bottle of drink."

"Then I'll take it as your agreement." Sayoko said quickly.

"Go quickly, do you want to kill me with thirst?" Lingzi shouted fiercely.

Sayoko walked briskly to the nearby vending machine.

Looking at that innocent figure, Reiko's face showed some sadness, and she whispered: "Don't blame me, Sayoko...sister."

Gently, she looked into the distance at the speeding truck, and a slow smile appeared on her face.

Fragments of images of the deceased couple over the years flashed through my mind.

For a girl whose last name was "Shigong", all of that was too luxurious, too luxurious to seem real, and so, all of that was taken away.

"Uncle, aunt, I have done my best to be filial to you."

With a bang, the truck hit the sidewalk.

There was a drink, which fell to the ground and Sayoko screamed like crazy.

Chapter 177: Malice

The red light flickered disturbingly.

From the ambulance, the blood-stained petite body was transferred to a stretcher.

"The patient's vital signs are low..."

"The right ankle joint is deformed, there is bleeding in the abdomen, and there is a suspected liver rupture..."

The emergency doctor in the ambulance quickly handed over the situation to the doctor preparing for the operation, and then the door of the operating room closed heavily. Only Sayoko was left standing outside the door, looking at the red neon light, as if she had not yet come to her senses.

Mingming, who was so happy half an hour ago, is getting a divorce. After her constant persuasion, Lingzi finally agrees to leave with her.

But why did that big truck rush onto the sidewalk? That's a sidewalk!

After knocking Reiko away, he quickly fled, leaving Sayoko alone there, holding Reiko's bleeding body and screaming at the top of her lungs. Even the ambulance was called by a kind-hearted passerby.

Sayoko pressed her body against the cold operating room door and cried in a hoarse voice: "Reiko, Reiko, Reiko, Reiko..."

She began to doubt the justice of this world. Why was everything she cherished taken away every time when she was happiest? Didn't she deserve happiness?

Do I have to live in hatred?

However, the person who could help her answer this question was already lying in the operating room, and his life or death was unknown.

This is her only relative.

Sayoko lay like this in front of the door of the operating room. Her originally beautiful face seemed to be covered with a layer of dust. Her eyes were empty, and the power of life continued to dissipate from her body. She became a walking corpse.

I don’t know how long it took, but the endless and long time finally passed. The lights outside the operating room door went out. After the door opened, the nurse pushed out the mobile bed.

The doctor who came out said with a serious look, "Who is the patient's family member?"

"I, I am Reiko's sister." Sayoko said.

Only at this time, she had to thank the surname Shinomiya, which allowed the people in the hospital to mistakenly believe that she was Reiko's blood relative.

"Please stand up first. I need to tell you something." The doctor felt helpless when he saw Sayoko like this.

Sayoko quickly stood up and said, "How is my sister?"

The doctor said, "The operation itself has been completed, and the patient's bleeding has stopped. However, the patient is currently experiencing symptoms of multiple organ failure and needs to be admitted to the intensive care unit. There will be a critical illness notice for you to sign later. If, if the patient's condition improves within two days, then at least her life can be saved. But you have to be mentally prepared. Even if the patient recovers successfully, her right leg will have sequelae that cannot be cured."

.............

Sayoko stood outside the window of the intensive care unit, looking at the sleeping girl. She did not notify Shinomiya Yunying because Sayoko felt that Reiko would not want her father to see her at this time.

"Reiko, what should I do..." she asked in a hoarse voice, because the ups and downs had tortured her to the point that she had no courage left.

Suddenly, looking at Lingzi's appearance, she remembered what the girl had said to her two days ago.

"If anything happens to me, you contact the person on the card."

She felt a little surprised at the time, but she didn't think about it too much. After all, Lingzi had been a little weird since her parents died.

But now Reiko really got into a car accident. At this time, Sayoko thought of...

Why did Reiko think something would happen to her?

Did she have a premonition of something?

She pulled out the hard card Lingzi gave her from her wallet.

There was only one contact number on it. Sayoko hesitated for a moment, as if her world would change drastically if she dialed this number.

However, recalling what the doctor had just said, Lingzi knew that even if she survived this, she would be left with a lifelong disability. Her heart felt as if it were dead. What else in this world could scare her?

After a while of waiting, a middle-aged man's voice sounded: "Hello, Lingzi?"

That voice was so familiar, it used to make her hate it so much, Sayoko asked, "Uncle Takashi?"

The voice on the other end was obviously stunned for a moment, and after a breath, it said: "Are you Sayoko? How is Reiko?"

The person on the other end of the phone was her father's younger brother, the jackal uncle who embezzled her parents' assets after their accident and forced her to marry a Singaporean businessman.

But why did Reiko get involved with them? After they failed to eat up their father's assets and force themselves, they were afraid of the revenge of the Shinomiya family and disappeared overnight.

"Where are you now?" Seeing that Sayoko didn't speak, Takashi on the other end asked directly.

Then Sayoko told him the name of the hospital, and Takashi said, "I'll be there in twenty minutes."

Then she hung up the phone. While waiting, Sayoko was not without thoughts.

Why did the brother who had such a good relationship with her and the uncle who loved her so much suddenly become so hideous overnight?

Is the human heart really so unpredictable? Or is there some other hidden secret?

She realized that the question was vaguely pointing in a certain direction.

Twenty minutes later, Uncle Takashi arrived as promised. Seeing Reiko sleeping in the ICU, he murmured in fear, "Is it still not working?"

Sayoko took his hand and asked loudly, "Uncle, what do you know? Why did Lingzi get into an accident? Did someone want to kill her on purpose?"

Takashi looked at his niece with a guilty look in his eyes and said, "It's been years since we last met, Sayoko."

"That's not the kind of nonsense I want to hear." Her eyes were slightly red as she spoke in a tougher tone than ever before.

Takashi took a deep breath: "Reiko said that if she had an accident, she would tell you all the facts... In fact, your parents were killed by Shinomiya Huangguang and his son, causing them to die in a car accident. As for the reason, our Isoyama family has always been a real estate developer affiliated with the Shinomiya family, but to put it bluntly, we are the white gloves of the Shinomiya family. We know that the Shinomiya family has too many secrets that cannot be told to others. Brother also thinks that because of Reiko, the relationship with the Shinomiya family is very good, so don't worry..."

"Originally, that father and son wanted to wipe out your family of three, but Shigong Zhengzong fell in love with you, so he threatened me with my life and asked me to cooperate with him in a play after my brother and his wife died, and let you marry him. Even my brother's assets were all swallowed up by the father and son. I saw that the situation was not good, so I hurriedly took my wife and children away and fled until one day, Lingzi found me and said that she could take revenge on Shigong Huangguang and his son..."

Takashi glanced at Lingzi and said, "Sure enough, it still doesn't work. The people of the Shinomiya family are too cruel. They can even kill their own relatives."

A huge amount of information suddenly flooded into Sayoko's mind, the truth behind her parents' death, Shinomiya Masamune's "justice" actions, and...

Sayoko questioned: "You said Reiko's car accident was also true..."

She asked as if she was a little surprised.

Takashi looked at his niece with some pity: "Reiko just found me and was about to expose this matter, and then the truck crashed into the sidewalk and the driver disappeared. What do you think is the possibility of such a coincidence? Don't be naive, Sayoko, this world has never been as kind as you think, otherwise you wouldn't marry the murderer of your father and still be grateful to him."

"Stop talking!" The memories of the past few years came flooding back to her mind.

Sayoko just felt like something was about to come out of her stomach, and waves of intense nausea invaded her.

Chapter 178: On the Thorny and Gray Road

"I'm leaving, Sayoko." Uncle Takashi said with his head down.

Sayoko looked at him quietly without saying anything.

"At the beginning, Lingzi repeatedly assured me that there would be no safety problems, but the people of the Shinomiya family dared to attack even their own blood relatives. They are powerful and cannot be defeated. It's not that I don't want to avenge my brother... It's really... Your cousin is still young. I hope you can understand me, Sayoko..."

Takashi didn't even dare to look into Sayoko's eyes, but the behemoth of the Shinomiya family was too suffocating for ordinary people.

"What? It turns out that Lingzi has done so many things. Really, who is their daughter?"

Sayoko said as she looked at the sleeping girl. Takashi wanted to say something, but in the end he could only sigh and leave the hospital, or Tokyo, with his neck hunched.

Sitting outside the ICU ward, Sayoko, who had suffered a series of blows, sat there at a loss. Suddenly, she thought of Hikigaya Hachiman.

However, he should be accompanying Miss Yukino in Chiba tonight, so would it disturb her if he called her?

Even at this time, her personality still cares about such trivial matters.

In the end, Sayoko still chose to make the call.

"Hey, Sayoko, what's wrong?" The voice on the other end was very calm, but sounded a little tired.

Hearing that familiar voice, Sayoko's defenses collapsed instantly. She cried and said, "President, Reiko was hit by a car and is now in the hospital."

After a few seconds of silence, Hachiman said, "Give me the location of the hospital. I'll be there in an hour."

"Thank you so much, thank you so much..." Sayoko didn't know what to say, she just kept repeating thank you, and felt a sense of relief in her heart.

After hanging up the phone, Sayoko stood up, looked at Reiko, pursed her lips, and said, "Sorry, Reiko, I think I disappointed you again."

In the end, she still chose to rely on men, and even now, even though she felt hatred for the father and son in her heart, she still didn't know how to take revenge, or rather, she didn't believe that she had the ability to take revenge.

About an hour later, Hachiman, looking exhausted, came with a short, bald man with a Mediterranean look.

"Doctor Ansheng, I'm counting on you." Hachiman said to the middle-aged man.

"I went to contact the director of this hospital, but I haven't contacted him in more than ten years. I don't know if he will still acknowledge the matter."

Then the middle-aged man nodded to Sayoko and walked to the nurse's station.

Sayoko looked at Hachiman with some confusion, and heard him say, "Dr. Ansheng is the personal medical consultant of the Yukinoshita family. He is experienced and has a wide network of contacts. Even if he can't help, at least he can make the hospital pay more attention to Reiko."

Sayoko didn't understand all this, but since Hachiman said such nice things, she didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Then Hachiman asked, "What happened?"

Hachiman glanced at the sleeping girl, the mysterious and rather annoying girl.

But he never thought that she would become like this.