Yun Zheng and Zhou Yu Shen were childhood sweethearts with an engagement since young. As the wedding day approached, Yun Zheng was revealed to be a fake young lady. The Zhou family wanted to replac...
Chapter 333 I fell in love with my wife at first sight!
Yun Zheng was sitting in the speeding car, her whole body shaking uncontrollably.
Her fingers were twisted together tightly, her knuckles turning white from excessive force, and her nails left several deep crescent-shaped marks on her palms.
The scenery outside the car window had turned into a blur of colors. She could not see anything clearly, and the only sound in her ears was her own violent heartbeat.
"Zheng Zheng, it's a good thing that Ling He woke up." Shen Lanshu held her hand tightly and comforted him.
Yun Zheng nodded, but found that she could not control her rapid breathing.
My mother-in-law's hands were warm and dry, but they couldn't warm her cold fingertips.
The car shot through the traffic like an arrow and headed towards the Mo Family Private Hospital.
At the same time, the SVIP ward where Fu Linghe was staying was in chaos.
A large group of doctors in white coats surrounded the bed, and various monitoring instruments made regular "beeping" sounds.
Jiang Chenyu, a doctor, stood in the team of doctors, frowning as he looked at the test results in his hand.
Mo Shian and Lu Shiqian stood aside with complicated expressions.
On the hospital bed not far away, Fu Linghe was half-sitting with gauze wrapped around his forehead. His handsome face looked a little pale due to illness, but his eyes were still sharp.
He was impatiently waving away a doctor's extended stethoscope.
"I said I'm fine!" His voice was hoarse but powerful. "Jiang Chenyu, what the hell is going on? Why are there so many doctors surrounding me?"
Jiang Chenyu stepped forward with a serious expression, "Boss, tell me who I am?"
Fu Linghe's face was cold, his eyes filled with confusion and anger. "Jiang Chenyu, you're fucking crazy! You're not studying hard, but you think you're a doctor just because you wear a white coat. I was in a car accident and hit my head, but I'm not stupid. I wouldn't be so stupid as to not recognize you!"
The ward suddenly became quiet.
Jiang Chenyu held his forehead and turned to look helplessly at Lu Shiqian and Bo Jinnian beside him.
"Boss, going to school? You've graduated for so many years and you already have a wife, and you're still going to school!" Jiang Chenyu tried to speak in a relaxed tone, but the nervousness in his voice betrayed him.
Fu Linghe frowned, his eyes swept over the various medical equipment in the ward, and finally fell on the hospitalization wristband on his hand, his expression becoming more and more confused.
"What wife? What nonsense are you talking about? I'm 17, underage, and it's illegal to get married!"
The test result sheet in Jiang Chenyu's hand fell to the ground with a "bang", and the entire ward fell into deathly silence.
"17" Lu Shiqian couldn't help but say, "Boss, your 27th birthday is coming soon!"
The air in the ward seemed to freeze.
When Jiang Chenyu bent down to pick up the dropped test results, his fingers trembled slightly, and the pen slipped from the pocket of his white coat, making a crisp "ding-dong" sound on the floor tiles.
"27 years old?" Fu Linghe sneered, reaching out to touch the stubble on his chin, frowning even more tightly, "Lu Shiqian, when did you learn to make such a boring joke?"
Bo Jinnian stepped forward, raised his phone, and pulled up the calendar. "Boss, it's 2025, not ten years ago."
Fu Linghe glanced at the phone screen and suddenly reached out to grab Bo Jinnian's wrist with such force that he gasped.
"The photo editing skills are quite good. They even changed the carrier signal bar?"
He let go of his hand and looked around at the three of them. "What the hell are you doing? I was in a physics competition yesterday, and today I woke up to this?"
Jiang Chenyu took a deep breath and opened the medical record. "Boss, you were in a plane crash and were in a coma for two weeks. The CT scan showed slight damage to the hippocampus, which may lead to retrograde amnesia..."
"Bullshit!" Fu Linghe ripped the IV needle off the back of his hand, and blood immediately spurted out. "I clearly had a car accident on the way to school, how could it be a plane crash? If it was a plane crash, I would still be alive!"
He was looking at the three of them as if they were fools!
Lu Shiqian and Bo Jinnian exchanged worried glances.
Jiang Chenyu gestured to the nurse to treat the wound on the back of Fu Linghe's hand and continued to explain patiently, "That happened ten years ago, Boss. You are now the president of the Fu Group and you are married. Last week, when you were flying home from Country F to attend your engagement party, your plane lost contact..."
"Married? Attending the engagement party?" Fu Linghe suddenly laughed, his laughter carrying the clearness unique to a teenager. "Me? Fu Linghe? Married?"
He laughed so hard he started coughing. "Can you guys please be more careful with your stories? I've never even been in a relationship!"
As the nurse approached to stop the bleeding, he gave her a look that pinned her to the spot.
Jiang Chenyu sighed, took the gauze and stepped forward personally, "Boss, calm down..."
"I'm very calm." Fu Linghe suddenly stopped smiling, his eyes sharp as a knife. "But you three, you've aged more than 10 years in just a few days, and you're playing a group prank on me?"
You can say anything else, but these three guys collectively cannot accept this point about them being old!
"We are old." Lu Shiqian was also amused. "If we talk about old, you are older than the three of us. At least the three of us are still single! Don't you have any idea how long you have been married?"
Bo Jinnian rubbed his red wrist helplessly. "You're really 27 now. If you don't believe me, look in the mirror and see your mature and handsome face."
Fu Linghe sneered, but still subconsciously touched his face.
The touch is indeed rougher than I remember, and the jawline is more distinct.
A trace of uneasiness passed through his heart, but he quickly suppressed the emotion.
"Okay, your acting is pretty good." He crossed his arms, a dangerous glint in his eyes. "So, tell me, who is my 'wife'? What does she look like? When did you get married?"
Before the three of them could answer, the door of the ward was suddenly pushed open, and the sound of hurried high heels came from far away.
Fu Linghe turned his head and looked, and in an instant, the world seemed to be muted.
The woman standing at the door was wearing a light blue dress, her chest rising and falling slightly due to her rapid breathing.
Her long, smooth, black hair now hung slightly messily on her shoulders, her porcelain-white cheeks were flushed, and her almond-shaped eyes were filled with worry.
Fu Linghe felt a current running up his spine to the back of his head.
He had never felt this way in his 17 years of life. His heart was beating so fast that it seemed like it was going to burst out of his chest, his throat was tight, and his palms were sweating.
Her eyes swept across the ward and finally landed on him. At that moment he almost forgot to breathe.
"Fu Linghe!" Yun Zheng trotted in, but stopped abruptly two meters away from the bed.
She keenly noticed the strangeness in Fu Linghe's eyes, and her fingers unconsciously clenched her handbag. "How...how do you feel?"
Fu Linghe opened his mouth, but no sound came out. He had never seen such a beautiful girl, and she was also so caring!
No, to be precise, those women are not worthy of being compared with her.
The girl in front of me has a special temperament, like a jasmine flower covered with dew in the early morning, fresh and fragile, and somewhat familiar, as if I have seen her somewhere.
No, he was sure she had seen this face before, but he couldn't remember where for a moment.
"Sister-in-law, you're here." Jiang Chenyu greeted her with a sense of relief.
"Sister-in-law." Lu Shiqian and Bo Jinnian said in unison.
Fu Linghe was struck by lightning!
He mechanically turned his head to look at the three people, then turned back to stare at the girl, his mind blank.
The three words "sister-in-law" exploded in his ears, turning into a sharp tinnitus.
She got married!
This is the first time he feels attracted to someone. Does this mean he’s heartbroken before it even begins?
Fu Linghe reached out and tugged at Jiang Chenyu's sleeve, lowering his voice and asking, "Why do you all call her 'little sister-in-law'? Then who is your 'big brother'?"
His desire to steal someone else's girlfriend reached its peak at this moment!
Jiang Chenyu held his forehead and said, "Isn't it you?"
Yun Zheng bit her lower lip and took a tentative step forward. "Fu Linghe, don't you recognize me?"
Fu Linghe's Adam's apple rolled.
The girl's voice was softer than he had imagined, with a hint of the gentle accent unique to the Jiangnan water towns.
He should have immediately shaken his head in denial, but some instinct made him hesitate.
"I..." he began, then realized his voice was terribly hoarse and quickly cleared his throat. "You are?"
Yun Zheng’s face turned pale instantly.
She looked at Jiang Chenyu for help, and he nodded gravely. "It's retrograde amnesia. His memory is stuck at 17."
A tear slipped from the corner of Yun Zheng's eye without warning.
Fu Linghe's heart suddenly tightened, and he had a strong urge to reach out and wipe away the tear, but he suppressed this inexplicable thought.
"I'm Yun Zheng," she said, forcing a smile, her voice so soft it was barely audible. "Your...wife."
Fu Linghe felt dizzy.
He stared at the diamond ring on the girl's slender ring finger, then looked down at his empty left hand, and a sense of loss inexplicably surged in his heart.
This is ridiculous!
He was only 17, how could he be married? But the girl in front of him, Yun Zheng, really made his heart beat faster to an abnormal level.
"Impossible," he heard himself say dryly, "I don't even know you."
Yun Zheng's shoulders trembled slightly, but she quickly straightened her back.
For some reason, this subtle gesture softened his heart.
"It's okay," Yun Zheng said softly, her voice filled with complex emotions that Fu Linghe couldn't understand. "We can get to know each other again. As long as you wake up, it's good."
Shen Lanshu also walked into the ward at this time. Seeing her son wake up, her eyes immediately turned red, "Ling He!"
Fu Linghe reflexively called out "Mom", which made Shen Lanshu feel relieved, but the next words froze her smile again, "Mom, what's going on? They said I'm 27 years old and still married?"
Shen Lanshu trembled as she held her son's hand. "Son, you are indeed 27 years old, and you and Zheng Zheng have been married for half a year."
Fu Linghe pulled his hand back abruptly. "You must be joking! I was preparing for the physics competition yesterday!"
He scratched his hair irritably, then suddenly realized that this action might appear childish in front of Yun Zheng. He immediately put his hand down and adjusted the collar of his hospital gown uncomfortably.
Yun Zheng gently held her mother-in-law's arm. "Mom, the doctor said this condition will take time to recover."
She turned to Fu Linghe, her eyes gentle but firm. "Fu Linghe, I know this is hard for you to accept, but please believe that what we say is true."
Fu Linghe stared at her for a few seconds and suddenly turned away.
Damn it, why did this girl call his name.
He would feel a strange sense of familiarity? Like he had heard it a million times.
"I want evidence," he said stiffly.
Jiang Chenyu immediately handed over his phone, "Your marriage certificate is in the album."
Fu Linghe took it suspiciously and swiped the screen. His wallpaper was actually the back of the girl in front of him.
There are many photos of them together in the album. The most terrible thing is that the look in his eyes when he looks at Yun Zheng in the photos is unspeakably gentle.
Fu Linghe never thought she would have such an expression, as if she was the only one left in the world.
"This...this is impossible..." he muttered to himself, but he couldn't look away, because every picture was so beautiful that it made his heart tremble.
"Boss," Bo Jinnian leaned over and whispered, "Do you believe it now?"
Fu Linghe suddenly locked the screen of his phone, and his ears felt hot.
He suddenly realized a problem.
If these photos are real, it means Yun Zheng is indeed his wife.
But now he only has the memory of being 17 years old. He has no impression of this "wife", but he is inexplicably attracted to her.
This contradiction made him very irritated.
What's worse, he noticed that Yun Zheng's eyes were slightly red, and she was obviously trying hard not to cry.
For some reason, this hurt him more than any words could.
"I need to be alone for a while." He said suddenly, throwing the phone back to Jiang Chenyu.
Yun Zheng nodded and gently pulled Shen Lanshu's sleeve, "Mom, let's go out first and let him have a good rest."
Jiang Chenyu and the other two wisely prepared to leave.
Fu Linghe looked at the curve of Yun Zheng's skirt when she turned around, and suddenly blurted out, "Wait!"
Everyone stopped and turned to look at him.
Fu Linghe opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
He didn't want Yun Zheng to leave, but he had no reason to keep her.
"Will you...will you come back?" He finally managed to say this, and was immediately shocked by the expectation in his tone.
Yun Zheng's eyes lit up, like stars suddenly lit up in the night sky. "Of course, I'm outside."
After everyone left, Fu Linghe collapsed on the hospital bed, covering his eyes with his arms.
This is ridiculous!
Ten minutes ago he firmly believed that he was 17 years old, but now he felt lost because of the departure of a strange girl.
And this girl turned out to be his wife!
He turned over irritably, but smelled a faint fragrance lingering on the pillow, which was the scent of Yun Zheng's perfume.
The smell made him feel strangely at ease.
There was a faint sound of conversation outside the door.
Fu Linghe pricked up his ears for some unknown reason.
"Can his memory be restored?" It was Yun Zheng's voice, with unconcealable worry.
"Hippocampal damage can be recovered," Jiang Chenyu's medical explanation was halting. "But it may take a few weeks..."
After a moment of silence, Yun Zheng said softly, "It doesn't matter. Even if he never remembers it...it doesn't matter."
Fu Linghe's heart felt like it was hit hard by something, and it suddenly hurt.
He got out of bed, tiptoed to the door, and secretly looked at what was happening outside through the glass window.
Yun Zheng was fiddling with her cell phone with her head down, and her profile looked particularly soft and beautiful under the light in the corridor.
Fu Linghe noticed that she bit her lower lip from time to time. This unconscious little action was so cute that it made his chest tighten.
"What are you looking at?" Jiang Chenyu's voice suddenly sounded in his ears, scaring Fu Linghe so much that he almost jumped up.
"Fuck! How can you walk without making any sound?" Fu Linghe cursed in a low voice and quickly dragged Jiang Chenyu into the ward. "Let me ask you, how did she... Yun Zheng... and I meet?"
Jiang Chenyu raised his eyebrows, "Finally admitted that you are your wife?"
"Stop talking nonsense!" Fu Linghe's ears burned. "I'm just curious... She doesn't look like the type to like someone like me."
Who would have thought that the arrogant Mr. Fu would actually be so unconfident at times!
Jiang Chenyu gave a meaningful smile, "How dare you ask? I've been secretly in love with her for eight years, and only after fighting, scrambling, and even coaxing her into my heart did I finally win her over."