Yu Yao, who had been brought up with the core values of socialism in her previous life, couldn't help but say, "It's not good to litter like that."
Even though stepping on the cigarette butt like that was extremely cool, Yu Yao still shot him a disapproving look.
Qiao Lian was both exasperated and amused at the same time. His heart was beating wildly after hearing her cute "meow", but she didn't notice it at all. Instead, she was concerned about the cigarette butt being thrown on the ground.
"I already told you earlier that I'm not a good person."
Qiao Lian's heavy gaze landed on Yu Yao. "Little kitten, you must think carefully. Are you sure you want to come with me?"
"Uh… I think I should…"
Meeting his gaze, Yu Yao's heart faltered and she immediately stuttered.
At this moment, she felt as if she really were a stray cat, and the fur on her body could stand on end crazily, sending dangerous signals to her brain and urging her to quickly escape from this man.
However, the commotion outside the mental hospital disrupted her thoughts.
"What do you mean by that? My sister was sent here, but you've lost her and you're pushing the blame on her?"
The vice director of the mental hospital defended himself. "Third Young Master Yu, this is really not a management issue of our hospital. Your sister is very sick. It's understandable that an accident can happen to a mental patient."
"You!" The irascible and angry Yu Jue grabbed the vice director by his collar. The vice director was shocked and looked to Yu Lang behind him for help.
"That's enough, Third Brother," said Yu Lang, who was dressed like an elite. His gold-rimmed glasses obscured his deep gaze.
Yu Lang said to the vice director, "Yu Yao's psychiatric diagnosis was fake. When we sent her here, our family instructed you not to use any violent methods on her."
"But…"
"Alright, I don't want to hear any more excuses," Yu Lang said coldly. "The Yu family will have to reevaluate its investments into the mental hospital soon."
Yu Yao couldn't help but sneer as she listened to their conversation.
"Ha, what touching kinship."
Qiao Lian looked at the girl, who was only wearing a thin hospital gown, and then looked at the other people with different expressions. He already understood their relationship.
However, even Qiao Lian, who was used to being cold-hearted, had not expected that someone would deliberately send their sane family member to a mental hospital. No matter what their reasoning was, such a trick was despicable.
His heart ached for the girl before him.
This was an unusual and slightly dangerous feeling.
"Do you want to go over and take a look?" Qiao Lian asked. "Of course, I could also take you away from here directly."
"I can't think of a reason to avoid them." Yu Yao sneered. "Besides, I'm not the one who should feel ashamed here."
With that, she walked towards the entrance of the mental hospital. Her arrogant posture made it seem like she was looking to pick a fight.
Qiao Lian looked at her thin, weak back and chuckled before following her.
Before he got close, Yu Wan's voice could be heard.
"Big Brother, Third Brother, the most important thing for us right now is not to pursue the mental hospital, but to find Elder Sister Yaoyao as soon as possible. Seriously, even if she has suffered some grievances, she can't just run away like this. Dad, Mom, and us siblings will be so worried…"
Yu Lang frowned slightly and rubbed his temples. He regretted not having left Yu Jue and Yu Wan at home.
Yu Jue was like a powder keg that had been lit on fire, and Yu Wan was by his side saying that she was worried about Yu Yao, but she was also subtly accusing her of being willful.
It was not that he could not understand the deeper meaning behind Yu Wan's words, but he felt that she had been pampered since she was young. Yu Yao might be a little unstable now, so he did not mind Yu Wan's occasional provocative words for the time being. He did not expect such things to continue happening in the future.
Yu Yao, on the other hand, was different from Yu Wan. She had grown up in a small village and had developed a rude and barbaric personality. After she returned to the Yu family, she had been irked by Yu Wan on many occasions and even developed the habit of attacking her.
It was when Yu Yao had almost pushed Yu Wan off the balcony that Yu Lang and his family had made up their minds to teach their sister a lesson.
That was why he had sent Yu Yao to a mental hospital which the Yu family had invested in. However, he had never expected that it would be this decision that would lead to tragedy in his sister's life…
"Thank you for your insincere concern." Yu Yao remembered that they hadn't come to the hospital for a visit in the original book, but it didn't stop her from provoking them.
The three siblings of the Yu family and the vice director looked over at the same time.
A slender figure slowly walked out of the darkness into the light of the dim street lamp. She was wearing a thin and loose hospital gown, but she did not look too bleak in the early autumn wind.
In her arms was a huge Maine Coon. The cat had the same arrogant expression as she did.