Over the next few days, Sang Yun secretly wandered around the hospital, occasionally slipping into the staff duty rooms.
“Wang Mei… Ji Yao… Li Jianguo!”
Sang Yun’s eyes lit up as she picked up a medical record.
“So he’s in 312.”
After memorizing the room number, Sang Yun began lingering around the ward, looking for an opportunity to approach Li Jianguo.
Soon, she noticed that every afternoon at three and every evening at eight, a young male caregiver would push a medical cart into Room 312.
“My chance has come.”
A glint flashed in Sang Yun’s eyes.
She went to the staff changing area in the back of the hospital ahead of time. When no one was around, she knocked the caregiver unconscious with a stick.
A little after eight that evening, following the caregiver’s usual schedule, Sang Yun pushed the medical cart toward Room 312.
“Battalion Commander Li, it’s time to change your dressing.”
She pushed open the door, deliberately imitating the caregiver’s gentle tone.
Li Jianguo was leaning against the headboard reading a newspaper. He looked up when he heard her voice.
When he saw Sang Yun, his eyes visibly brightened.
“New here?”
He put down the newspaper, his gaze slowly traveling over her.
“Yes. I’m Sang Yun, the new caregiver assigned here.”
The moment Sang Yun saw his expression, she knew he liked what he saw.
She lowered her head slightly, deliberately exposing her fair neck, putting on a delicate, vulnerable expression.
“Then come change my dressing.”
Li Jianguo said this, but didn’t move an inch.
Sang Yun looked at the bandages wrapped around his chest and shyly reached out to help untie them. During the process, her fingers “accidentally” brushed across his chest.
“You don’t seem very experienced.”
Li Jianguo spoke with an amused smile, his eyes never leaving Sang Yun.
“It’s my first day, so I’m a little nervous.”
Sang Yun raised her head and gave him a shy smile.
“But it’s an honor to serve a war hero like you. I’ll definitely take good care of you.”
Li Jianguo clearly enjoyed being flirted with.
“Are you still studying?”
Sang Yun nodded.
“My parents died when I was very young. I live with my uncle now, but he’s an alcoholic who often abuses me, so I had no choice but to leave and make a living on my own.”
“What a strong girl.”
As Li Jianguo spoke, he gently placed his hand over Sang Yun’s.
Sang Yun didn’t pull away. Instead, she blushed slightly.
“You’re too kind, Battalion Commander Li. Compared with your bravery on the battlefield, what I’ve been through is nothing.”
Only a dim bedside lamp illuminated the room, creating an ambiguous atmosphere.
Li Jianguo leaned against the headboard, his gaze slightly hazy.
“Little Sang.”
He suddenly grabbed Sang Yun’s wrist.
“A girl as good as you shouldn’t just be a caregiver. Once I’m discharged, I can help arrange a better job for you…”
Sang Yun pretended to panic but didn’t pull away.
“Battalion Commander Li, please don’t…”
Li Jianguo didn’t release her hand despite her feigned resistance.
Just as Sang Yun thought the moment was right and was preparing to throw herself into his arms, the hospital door was suddenly slammed open.
“You good-for-nothing, Li Jianguo!”
A burly middle-aged woman stormed inside like an enraged lioness.
She wore work clothes stained with grease, her sleeves rolled up to reveal her thick arms.
“I knew something was wrong! You’ve been finding excuses to send me away these past few days. So this is what you’ve been hiding—a little slut!”
Li Jianguo had already been acting suspiciously with the previous caregiver. Now that he’d been caught red-handed, he didn’t dare try to defend himself.
Wang Caifeng grabbed Sang Yun by the hair, pulling so hard that it nearly tore her scalp.
Sang Yun screamed in pain.
“Let go of me!”
“Let you go?”
Wang Caifeng sneered and slapped Sang Yun hard across the face.
“I saw everything clearly from outside! You shameless little bitch, how dare you seduce my man!”
Li Jianguo’s face went pale with fright.
“Caifeng, listen to me. We were just…”
“Shut up!”
Wang Caifeng immediately slapped Li Jianguo across the face.
“I’ll deal with this little fox first, then I’ll settle things with you!”
She grabbed Sang Yun by the hair and dragged her forcefully onto the floor.
Sang Yun struggled desperately, tearing a large opening in her clothes.
“Help! Someone’s trying to kill me!”
Her screams immediately attracted the duty nurses and people from the other rooms.
Before long, the area outside Room 312 was packed with people.
“What happened?” someone asked.
Wang Caifeng continued fighting with Sang Yun while calling out to the crowd.
“Everyone, come judge this for yourselves! This shameless little bitch pretended to be a caregiver just to seduce my husband! If I hadn’t gotten off work early today, who knows how long they would’ve kept this from me!”
Everyone immediately began whispering among themselves.
“Tsk, tsk. She looks like such a respectable girl. Who would’ve thought she’d do something like this?”
“Girls these days will do anything to climb the social ladder.”
“Everyone knows Sister Wang is tough. The last woman who tried to seduce her husband was nearly beaten half to death. And this one still dared to try. This is going to be quite a show.”
“Hey, don’t just stand there watching. Go stop them before someone gets killed!”
“Why bother?”
The speaker clearly didn’t care.
“No one forced her to seduce a married man. That’s breaking up a military marriage. If it gets serious, she could go to prison!”
Being surrounded by so many people pointing fingers at her instantly reminded Sang Yun of her previous life, when Dündup and his brothers had rejected her and refused to marry her.
The villagers in the Tibetan region had looked at her exactly the same way.
Especially after hearing the words “go to prison,” she completely lost control.
“What nonsense are you talking about! Li Jianguo will still be single ten years from now! Where did he get a wife?!”
“Bah!”
Wang Caifeng took this as Sang Yun deliberately cursing her to die.
She went berserk, scratching several bloody marks across Sang Yun’s face.
“You little bitch, how dare you curse me!”
Wang Caifeng kicked her hard and continued gripping her hair.
“Today I’m going to teach you a lesson! Let’s see if you dare seduce my man again!”
Among the crowd were people who lived near Li Jianguo’s family. They felt Sang Yun’s words were particularly offensive.
“Little girl, even if you want to seduce someone else’s husband, you can’t curse his wife to die. Old Li has been married to his wife for almost ten years.”
“What?”
Sang Yun’s eyes widened in disbelief.
“Ten years ago, Li Jianguo was only twelve! How could he have been married?!”
The moment she said this, even Wang Caifeng stopped moving.
Then the crowd erupted into laughter.
“Hahahaha! Old Li is almost forty, but apparently he was only twelve ten years ago!”
“Old Li! You’ve aged pretty quickly over the years!”
Li Jianguo, who had retreated into the hospital room, finally understood.
Sang Yun had mistaken him for someone else.
He glared fiercely at Sang Yun before pulling Wang Caifeng back into the room.
As the sounds of pleading and appeasement came from inside, Sang Yun felt as though she had fallen into an icy abyss.
She had…
Gotten the wrong person?!