100. Just a Victim, After All (Second Update)

A single low bark from Old Master Mu was enough to make anyone want to retreat.

Now he had suddenly slammed the table hard as well, and that only made everyone more startled and fearful, too shocked to utter a word.

Anyone could see that his anger was no small matter.

Butler Ji’s eyes flickered. He stepped forward at once and raised his voice to order, “What are you all standing there for? When has the old master ever been this angry? Hurry up and clean this up. If anything happens to him, who’s going to bear the responsibility?”

“Yes, yes, we’ll clean it right away! Right away!”

The servants rushed forward in a flustered huddle, scrambling to tidy up.

As for Xu Maoyan, who had no one to attend to him, he was shoved aside. In the confusion, someone even knocked into him, sending him straight down onto the sofa with a heavy thud.

He was utterly stunned.

Across from him, Mu Qingcheng watched the busy servants beside her with a calm expression. Then she lifted her eyes and glanced at Dean Xu, who was seated opposite and had turned ashen with fright, before suddenly letting a faint smile curve her lips.

Yet that smile carried a chill of calculation, a coldness that seemed to seep into the bone, condensing into an inconspicuous icy arrow that shot straight into Xu Maoyan’s heart.

He flinched violently and stared in disbelief at the girl in the black-framed glasses across from him.

Then, unhurriedly, she pulled back the blanket, walked over to Old Master Mu, who was surrounded by people, and sat down beside him.

After that, her expression changed in an instant.

Obedient, soft, harmless.

Not a trace remained of the look she had just worn.

It was as though they were two utterly different people, with no connection whatsoever.

Xu Maoyan’s throat bobbed. He could not help swallowing hard, staring blankly at the scene beside him.

For a long while, he could not say a single word.

On this side, Mu Qingcheng sat gently beside Old Master Mu, smoothing his back while soothing him in a soft voice. “Grandpa, don’t be angry. Let’s talk things through calmly. Since it’s already happened, we can just think of a way to solve it.

“If your health is harmed because of this, what is the Mu family to do then?

“And who’s going to take responsibility for the consequences...?”

When she said the last sentence, Mu Qingcheng casually swept her eyes to the side, and someone thudded to the floor, sliding cleanly off the sofa.

Old Master Mu also followed the sound with a glance, his face full of contemptuous disgust, yet he still pressed on and demanded, “Dean Xu, it’s been long enough. You should have thought this through by now. What exactly happened with the surveillance in your hospital?”

At this point, Xu Maoyan was undoubtedly extremely nervous, so nervous that he was almost losing control.

And yet his mind remained fairly clear.

In truth, on the way here, he had already weighed every possible advantage and disadvantage.

The photos had indeed been leaked from the surveillance system, and only then were they taken out.

But none of it had been carried out by his own hand.

In other words, as long as he refused to admit it, then this matter had absolutely nothing to do with him.

From beginning to end, he was nothing more than an innocent victim.

A victim maliciously used and framed, then pressured and coerced by a wealthy family, left with no power to fight back... nothing more.

And so, after quickly sorting everything out in his mind, Mu Qingcheng saw the tense expression on his face gradually ease.

Her eyes narrowed slightly, and the corner of her mouth lifted almost imperceptibly.

At the same time, she heard Xu Maoyan speak again.

“Old Master Mu, I know you’re concerned for your granddaughter.

“But I’m only an ordinary doctor. You have always taken care of me, and I know how to be grateful.

“Besides, I’m the hospital’s director. From any angle, I truly have no reason to do something like this, don’t you think?”