Chapter 84 A Complete Break: Baochuan Fishing, Lanyan Falls for the Trap
A tear slid from the corner of her eye.
Wen Yize withdrew his hand, and a sound of something shattering echoed in his heart.
As if in an instant, it shattered into pieces and vanished into the air.
"I'm a little tired, Lanyan, you should go back first."
“Yize, if you’re angry because I accidentally slapped you before, I’m willing to apologize. Really, I didn’t mean to. I was just feeling irritable at the time and wanted to push you away so I could be alone. I didn’t really mean to embarrass you… So, Yize, if you’re angry, I’ll let you hit me back. As long as it makes you feel better, you can hit me. Yize, you can hit me, I won’t have any complaints.”
Xu Lanyan tried to grab Wen Yize's hand, but missed. So she rushed over and hugged Wen Yize through the blanket, crying and sobbing.
"I'm sorry, Yize, I really didn't mean to..."
"Xu Lanyan, haven't you had enough of your acting?"
When Wen Jinzhao returned after buying dinner, he happened to see Xu Lanyan throwing herself into Wen Yize's arms.
Enraged, his blood pressure spiked, and he grabbed Xu Lanyan and shoved her away.
"Don't you know my brother is a patient? If you crush him to death, can you afford the compensation?!"
"Today, don't..."
Wen Yize couldn't bear it after all and still wanted to save face for Xu Lanyan, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Wen Jinzhao yelled back at him.
"Shut up!"
As he spoke, Wen Jinzhao caught a glimpse of the gifts on the bedside table and threw the entire bag of things out.
"Take your things and get out of the ward gracefully. You're not welcome here!"
“Miss Wen, I have never offended you, why are you being so aggressive…” Xu Lanyan said, tears streaming down her face.
"Yes, yes, I'm being aggressive, you're just a kind, innocent girl, okay?"
Wen Jinzhao wasn't buying it at all, and was even getting a little annoyed.
"Miss Xu, I'm begging you, please find someone else to cause trouble. My brother really isn't thinking straight. Please, give him a break, okay?"
“Wen Jinzhao, I know you are a fan of Song Ying, so you are always hostile towards me. But this time I am really here to visit your brother. Why do you have to humiliate me like this?”
Xu Lanyan's eyes welled up with tears, and her nose turned red.
[I'm dying of laughter! Xu Lanyan's acting skills are so good, it's a real shame she's not an actress. Who is she trying to impress with this pitiful act? If I were Wen Yize, I would suffocate. Thank goodness Wen Jinzhao is here, he's practically the best at spotting manipulative women.]
[When Wen Yize asked her to talk about the east, she said the west; when Wen Jinzhao said the south, she said the north; and she even tried to drag others into it. I'm truly impressed by Xu Lanyan's ability to give irrelevant and unreasonable answers.]
[Besides feeling guilty, I can't think of any other reason. To be fair, Wen Yize has already been very lenient with her, but she clearly doesn't dare to answer and is treating him like a fool. She's just afraid of being proven wrong and embarrassed.]
[If we're talking about slapping someone in the face, Xu Lanyan's face has already been slapped so hard it's swollen, right? I think she's just taking advantage of Wen Yize's feelings for her, and acting like she can do whatever she wants to him.]
[The most innocent party in this whole mess is Song Ying. She's got a natural talent for attracting negativity. Even though she's gone, rumors about her still circulate everywhere. I suggest they settle her appearance fee first.]
[Song Ying: What the hell is this? What does your melodramatic relationship have to do with me? Don't mention me, thank you!]
Netizens expressed their sympathy for Song Ying.
Wen Jinzhao also felt that Xu Lanyan was simply a mad dog biting people indiscriminately.
"Xu Lanyan, please stop overthinking and stop turning everyone into an imaginary enemy, as if everyone is deliberately targeting you. My dislike for you has absolutely nothing to do with Yingbao. I was disgusted with you to the extreme long before I even knew Yingbao existed."
At this point, Wen Jinzhao looked at Wen Yize.
"Wen Baochuan, stop pretending to be dead. Tell me yourself, how do you plan to handle this?"
If Wen Yize still had some lingering hope for Xu Lanyan before falling into the water, then after drowning again, the obsession that had once clung to his heart seemed to suddenly loosen its grip.
At this moment, Xu Lanyan's stubbornness and unrepentance became the last gust of wind, throwing away all the last bit of face that Wen Yize was willing to give her.
As an outsider, re-examining the girl he once cherished, Wen Yize felt that he had lived a ridiculous life all these years.
He wove a beautiful dream with his own hands, willingly entered into it, and made what he thought were earth-shattering sacrifices.
But they mistake fish eyes for pearls.
While Xu Lanyan was partly to blame for being deceived.
Ultimately, he was the one who blinded himself to the bigger picture.
Wen Yize propped himself up on his arms, but a sudden cramp in his arm almost caused him to fall back onto the bed.
Wen Jinchao reacted quickly and caught him.
"Jin Chao, please go out for a moment. I'd like to speak with Miss Xu alone for a few minutes."
"...?"
Wen Jinzhao: Is it too late to throw that dog's brain back in now?
Seeing Wen Jinzhao's distrust and disappointment, Wen Yize gave a wry smile, "Trust me this once, okay?"
Wen Jinzhao glared at Wen Yize for a moment, and seeing that he did not look away, he walked out of the ward.
Wen Jinzhao also called out the program crew members, giving Wen Yize plenty of space.
But as he closed the door, he added:
"Brother, you'd better not let me and Mom and Dad down."
The ward door was closed, cutting off all sight and sound.
Xu Lanyan rushed forward and tearfully recounted her grievances.
"Yize, you've seen it too. It's not that I don't want to be your girlfriend, it's just that the entire Wen family dislikes me. The way they treated me today, even Uncle Wen announced in the industry that no one is allowed to do business with the Xu family. In the half-day you were unconscious, the Xu Group's stock has already dropped ten percent. They're really leaving me no way out..."
Wen Yize gazed quietly at the porcelain beauty before him.
In the past, he would feel heartbroken if Xu Lanyan even got a minor scratch.
But at this moment, it just feels exaggerated and pretentious.
Heartache?
He seems to have lost all feeling.
Xu Lanyan cried for a while, but Wen Yize remained unmoved, his eyes still fixed on her, yet seemingly not looking at her at all.
"Yize, are you... are you even listening to me...?"
Wen Yize, however, gave an irrelevant answer.
The sound was somewhat hollow.
"Miss Xu, do you remember the question I asked you earlier?"
"Which question?"
So Wen Yize repeated it again.
"In all these years, have you ever lied to me?"
Xu Lanyan's eyes flashed, "Yize, I thought what I said before was clear enough, could it be that you..."
“You just need to answer me,” Wen Yize looked into Xu Lanyan’s eyes, “yes, or no.”
Xu Lanyan's heart clenched.
The Wen Yize before her was someone she had never met before.
He was no longer the boy who wore his emotions on his sleeve, nor was he the naive young man who would unconditionally believe whatever she said.
For the first time, she couldn't understand the person in front of her.
Even a faint sense of fear arose.
"Yi Ze..." Xu Lanyan's voice trembled with tears.
Yes, or no.
The air in the ward seemed to have fallen silent.
Xu Lanyan finally took a deep breath.
"No."
"I have never lied to you."
"Never."
A long silence followed.
Dead silence.
After a long while, Wen Yize chuckled softly and nodded slowly, "Okay, I understand."
"The matter concerning the Xu family..."
"I'll handle the Xu family's matter." Wen Yize closed his eyes and leaned against the headboard. "I'm a little tired. You should go back now."
Seeing that Yi Ze had agreed, Xu Lanyan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Have you not had dinner yet? If you're tired, I'll feed you, okay?"
"No need, you still have to record the show, don't let me delay you. Just call Jinzhao in for me."
Xu Lanyan's question was originally just a polite gesture, after all, Xu's Enterprises' stock had plummeted, and her family was waiting for her to give them a definite answer and reassure them.
Now that he heard what Yize said, he no longer insisted.
"Okay, then I won't disturb your rest any longer. I'll go and call Jinzhao over for you. I'll come visit you again tomorrow."
Xu Lanyan left satisfied.
Wen Jinzhao rushed in; Wen Yize was making a phone call.
Recalling Xu Lanyan's smug look as she left, and her haughty manner as she beckoned the production crew to follow her, Wen Jinzhao's heart skipped a beat again.
"Brother, did you agree to something with her again?"
"Um."
Wen Yize responded lightly, and Wen Jinzhao was so angry that his lungs felt like they were about to explode.
However, before she could utter a curse, she heard Yi Ze speak first into the phone.
"Secretary Wang, all the false accounts of the Xu Group over the past few years have been compiled and will be published online in two hours. You don't need to ask why; just remember, not a single receipt is allowed to be missed."
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