CHAPTER 717: CHAPTER 587: MEDICAL MIRACLE! HAPPY TO BE A FATHER, BIG UNCLE

Tanaka Naoko certainly hadn’t remembered wrong.

When she left the room, there had indeed been more than half a cup of water in the cup, but her husband, Tanaka Noriaki, had secretly drunk it.

Yes, Tanaka Noriaki had awakened long ago!

Without a doubt, this was a medical miracle.

Six months ago, in March, Aoyama Xiu Xin returned to Tokyo to celebrate Yanchuan Shilang’s birthday and visited the hospital once.

It so happened that he ran into Tanaka Naoko in the elevator, and was captivated by her charming and elegant nurse’s uniform, using the pretext of visiting his old subordinate Tanaka Noriaki to enter the ward and rekindle old flames with her.

At that time, Tanaka Noriaki’s consciousness had actually already begun to recover. Although he couldn’t open his eyes, he could hear voices, hearing firsthand his wife sobbing and gasping for breath by his bedside, and even feel her breath on his face.

He could even hear Aoyama Xiu Xin’s foul language.

This took him back to that unbearable night when, behind a door, he was pinned to the ground by Aoyama Xiu Xin’s henchmen, was powerless as he listened to the melodious sounds of his wife from behind the door, his heart aching!

Humiliation, anger, resentment, a flood of emotions surged over him, accelerating the recovery of his consciousness that had just begun, and even prompted him to slightly move his finger. However, Tanaka Naoko and Aoyama Xiu Xin, immersed in their tryst, noticed nothing.

In the days that followed, Tanaka Noriaki’s consciousness fully returned, allowing him to open his eyes, speak, move his hands, get out of bed, and after three months of recovery, he was no different from a normal person.

But during these six months, he still pretended to be in a vegetative state, only getting out of bed when Tanaka Naoko wasn’t around — after all, lying in bed all the time is really uncomfortable for someone who is conscious.

Tanaka Noriaki’s ability to feign a coma for six months was already extremely tough.

The ward had a TV, and once he awoke, he secretly watched the news and knew that Aoyama Xiu Xin had become successful and was no longer the minor Patrol Chief.

The first time he heard this on the news, he was both shocked and angry — shocked at how quickly Aoyama Xiu Xin had climbed the ranks in just over a year, and angry out of jealousy.

Then came fear. He felt that if Aoyama Xiu Xin knew he was awake, he would be silenced, because it must have been Aoyama Xiu Xin who orchestrated his vegetative state. Hence, Tanaka Noriaki had no choice but to continue pretending.

Moreover, he wanted revenge. Awakening from a vegetative state was a sign from Amaterasu that she knew of his grievances and was giving him the chance to retaliate. He was determined to disgrace Aoyama Xiu Xin completely to assuage the hatred in his heart.

As for Tanaka Naoko...

His feelings for his wife were complex.

He both hated her liaison with Aoyama Xiu Xin but was also moved that she had stood by him despite his vegetative state.

Tanaka Noriaki understood that even though his wife had been unfaithful to him, she still loved him.

So he decided that once he had his revenge, he would act as if nothing had happened, forgive his wife’s infidelity, and take her abroad to start a stable life.

However, having been comatose for a year, combined with the discovery that his wife and Aoyama Xiu Xin had been maintaining an illicit relationship all along, this made him less confident in their relationship. He feared that if Tanaka Naoko learned of his recovery, she would tell Aoyama Xiu Xin.

That’s why he had kept it secret from her as well.

As for how to get revenge on Aoyama Xiu Xin.

He had been formulating a plan over the past six months.

Revenge was revenge, but having just regained consciousness, he didn’t want to die alongside his adversary.

If he couldn’t splatter blood within five steps, then he had to resort to outsmarting.

The safest and most convenient way was to record audio or video of Aoyama Xiu Xin during his next private meeting with Tanaka Naoko and give it to Aoyama Xiu Xin’s enemies.

The higher Aoyama Xiu Xin climbed, the stronger his enemies or, rather, his competitors became. If there were solid evidence of Aoyama Xiu Xin taking advantage of a subordinate’s incapacitation to violate his wife, together with his and his wife’s testimony, even if Aoyama Xiu Xin didn’t die from it, it would cost him dearly.

Although his wife and Aoyama Xiu Xin were having an affair, she clearly loved him more, as she had never left him. With evidence and backing, Tanaka Noriaki was confident he could persuade her to jointly testify against Aoyama Xiu Xin.

To accomplish this plan, he had already snuck out three months ago in the dead of night and rummaged through several desks until he found the recording pen he needed. But Aoyama Xiu Xin was yet to appear.

To vent the spite in his heart, he had stubbornly continued to play the part of a vegetative patient. The longer he played the part, the stronger his hatred for Aoyama Xiu Xin fermented over time, turning into an obsession.

Listening to his wife’s mutterings, Tanaka Noriaki’s heart tightened, and he silently noted that next time he had to be more careful with the details, or he would eventually expose the fact that he had awakened. Damn it, when would Aoyama Xiu Xin ever come?

"Sigh~"

Suddenly, he heard his wife sigh deeply.

Tanaka Noriaki wondered what was on her mind?

Tanaka Naoko often talked to him about recent events, and as far as he knew, his wife’s mood had been good lately, so why the sudden melancholy?

Unfortunately, he dared not ask aloud.

Suddenly, he felt his hand being grasped.

"Husband, Aoyama Xiu Xin has come again," Tanaka Naoko said with a complex expression as she looked at Tanaka Noriaki.

She knew her husband couldn’t hear her, and it was because he couldn’t hear her that she dared to speak.

But she couldn’t shake the feeling — she thought she felt her husband’s hand tremble. First surprised, she then laughed at herself in self-derision, "Having illusions again, how silly."