Chapter 88 88 Maybe we should stop here
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The corridor wasn't suitable for conversation, so the two went to the stairwell at the end. During the process, she remained silent, following behind the unfamiliar boy. As they got closer, she could tell that he wasn't as tall as Shen Yueze. Although their outlines were similar, their temperaments were noticeably different.
The nurse watched them leave, then whispered to her colleague, "His brother told me that if a girl comes looking for him, she has to call him beforehand and can't just let her in. But she's really pretty, she must be Shen Yueze's girlfriend, right?"
The colleague, confused about their relationship, asked, "Then who was the one who came during the day? She's still in his hospital room with him; that one seems more like his girlfriend."
"Who knows? When Mengmeng went in to give him the injection, she wanted to say a few more words to him, saying that he had a really good physique, both thin and muscular, the kind that looks amazing in bed..."
With a young master of this caliber moving in, they started gossiping from the very first day. Add to that the attention-grabbing family members visiting him—all handsome men and beautiful women—and it's hard not to notice them.
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Shen Qiyan rested his arm on the window railing, lit a cigarette, and looked at Wen Yining with a relaxed expression, thinking about what to say. He had no intention of ruining the relationship between the two, but today was just a coincidence.
What's the current situation between you and Chen Jiabai?
Wen Yining smoothed her messy long hair, her unease growing stronger. She told the truth, "We've already broken up. Actually, I broke up with Shen Yueze before I got together with him."
"He hit so hard, he must be holding a grudge. Are you guys hiding it from him?"
"Um."
She looked somewhat uneasy. Subconsciously, she was told that basic politeness meant looking the other person in the eye when speaking, but this person was too calm and too composed. He just looked at her calmly, and there was no harshness in his tone. He was just asking a simple question, but for some reason, he gave off a strong sense of pressure.
"What about the police report?"
She paused for a moment, unsure of where to begin, carefully choosing her words, "A few days ago, he took me to a villa in the mountains and wouldn't let me leave. The crew was looking for me but couldn't reach me. They were very worried and thought something had happened, so they called the police. I didn't intend to sue him."
Under Shen Qiyan's skeptical gaze, she added slowly and hesitantly, "You can check, or ask Shen Yueze, he knows too."
He nodded slowly, stared at her intently for a while, took a drag of his cigarette, and let the thin smoke rise and drift away. He remained silent for a long time, and after roughly understanding the situation, he commented, "You two aren't in a proper relationship, are you?"
Wen Yining felt a tightness in her chest and her breathing became shallow. She looked away from his face and gazed at the night outside the window. The calmer he was, the more at a loss she felt. But she was probably used to it. She wasn't his first girlfriend, nor was she the first materialistic girl who was after Shen Yueze's family background.
"I didn't mean to stop you from meeting, I'm just quite curious about the relationship between the three of you,"
“I asked him, but he wouldn’t say. I guessed that, given his personality, if he were in a relationship, he wouldn’t have gotten beaten up.”
He paused, continuing to observe her expression, and said casually, "The reason I didn't let you in is because Yingmeng sometimes goes inside. If you want to see him, you can."
"..."
Her expression changed repeatedly, her sense of helplessness growing stronger. She had never met Shi Yingmeng in person, but she was not unfamiliar to others.
She graduated from a prestigious university, was a top student, was 168cm tall, had a large bust, a slim waist, and long legs. She even sent him L-shaped photos and received many luxury brand gifts from him. By the way, her tuition and living expenses were paid by her father.
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Inside the villa, she knew this day would come sooner or later, but at least it had to be a face-to-face breakup, not a perfunctory, vague message left for others to guess. She would say it herself, and he would too.
Then part ways amicably and leave each other alone.
He led her through a painful relationship, but she found it enjoyable. She felt it was fine to stay where it was, so she wouldn't be unable to forget him or harbor any resentment.
There's no need to resent him; is it because he doesn't love you?
It's true that I'm interested, it's true that I want to sleep with her, it's true that I've had feelings for her, but it's also true that I won't marry her.
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Wen Yining's face was pale, and she showed no particular emotion. Her reaction was indifferent, as if she were pondering or hesitating. She replied in a flat voice, "Then I'll come to find Shi Yingmeng after he leaves. I still have a few words to say to him in person."
Shen Qiyan glanced at her indifferently, slightly surprised, and raised an eyebrow slightly, "Don't you plan to see his attitude? Isn't this the perfect opportunity?"
She tossed her long hair again, feeling breathless. She took a deep breath and saw that it was drizzling outside. The cold air from the hospital corridor was seeping out through the cracks in the door. She had sweated a lot during the day, so she changed into her long dress and came out looking disheveled and rushed.
He simply said, "Some other time."
She knew what Shen Yueze wanted to hear at that moment: nothing more than compromise, humility, and confession.
Moreover, it wasn't appropriate to have outsiders around, so I didn't dress up much before coming.
Seeing that she was about to leave, Shen Qiyan stubbed out his cigarette and said, "Chen Jiabai is also on this floor, aren't you going to go see him?"
"How badly is he injured?"
"They're about the same."
She gripped the bag's chain, her palms sweating. Dealing with this man gave her a strange sense of unease. If it weren't for Shen Yueze, she probably would never have had any contact with his family in her life.
Shen Qiyan: "No matter how you look at it, it all started because of you."
"What if his mother is here and doesn't want to see me?"
He didn't try to persuade him.
After exiting the stairwell and returning to the corridor, you have to cross over to the other side to take the elevator down.
A familiar figure stood in the nurses' duty station, wearing an inner hospital gown.
Chen Jiabai was talking to the nurse, saying, "I'm fine being discharged tomorrow. I won't do any strenuous exercise at home. I can't rest well here; it's not as comfortable as home. It's not that I'm in a rush to work; I can still type on the keyboard while lying in bed."
The other person advised him, "Your mother doesn't want you to be discharged from the hospital. She specifically told you to. You should rest for a few more days."
He didn't listen to the end. He turned his head to look at them, his eyes cold. They stared at each other in silence for a moment, neither of them speaking.
Wen Yining pressed her hand on her bag, paused, tensed up, and looked back at him expressionlessly, a fleeting hint of embarrassment in her eyes.
Shen Qiyan glanced at the two of them with interest as he passed by her, stirring up a slight cold breeze. He didn't watch the show and went straight into the ward, closing the door behind him.
Wen Yining lowered her eyes, said nothing, and prepared to walk past Chen Jiabai.
The corridor was so small. She looked down and turned right, about half a meter away from him, but they couldn't touch. He also turned right. She didn't look up or at him, and started walking to the left. He continued to block her way, deliberately preventing her from leaving smoothly.
She looked at him speechlessly, and had no choice but to speak: "Chen Jiabai..." Chen Jiabai took the opportunity to grasp her arm, his skin was cool and incredibly delicate, "We were in a relationship after all, and he beat me up like this, and you came to the hospital and didn't even glance at me. I'm really curious, how did you become such a good actor before? Why did I believe you and believe whatever you said?"
"sorry,"
She conceded, saying, "I never intended to lie to you. Everything we did together was genuine. When I said I wanted to have a serious talk with you, I truly meant it, but..."
She didn't know how to explain what happened next. She felt embarrassed and helpless, her heart pounding. She looked at him with a sense of despair.
Chen Jiabai closed his eyes, not wanting to embarrass her in public, grabbed her arm and went back to the ward, closed the door, and locked it.
The air conditioning was on inside. It was a private ward. After she came in, she looked around at the facilities: there was a bathroom, a balcony, an IV stand, and the liquid food he had drunk was on the table.
There were no outsiders around, so it seems the injuries haven't affected his life to the point of being in serious condition.
Perhaps Shen Yueze held back a bit; if they really fought, they would both be severely injured.
Curious, I asked, "How are you? How much longer do you need to stay?"
Have you gone to see Shen Yueze?
"not yet."
"You two, whoever hooked up with whom first."
She paused, then said, "Him."
I sat down on the chair next to the hospital bed, feeling a bit weak in my limbs. I hadn't slept much for a day and a night, and after arriving at the hospital, I had faced two confrontations, both of which were enough to leave me exhausted.
"Then why didn't you tell me? If you were even slightly unwilling, you could have told me."
Wen Yining remained silent, her back stiffening slightly. Since things had come to this point, it didn't matter what she thought.
Many things that Chen Jiabai thought were not a problem at the time, he now realizes are incredibly stupid when he thinks about them.
"When your director first called the police, I genuinely thought you were a victim, that Shen Yueze had forced you, threatened you, or drugged you. He can get his hands on sex drugs anytime; he has no moral bottom line, so drugging is a possibility."
"Even on my way to pick you up, I still had hope for you."
He sat on the hospital bed, frowning at her with a look of incomprehension and resentment. He ran his fingers through his hair, as if feeling helpless. "You can talk to anyone, and he can sleep with anyone. You have so many choices, and you don't have to be each other."
He even humbled himself to try and win her back. The two previous breakups were when he dumped the other women, and they were the ones who fawned over him and humbled themselves to be with him.
His attempt to persuade me to stay was a joke.
He could understand her cheating on him, and he could also understand her lingering ties with boys at school.
Anyone is fine, except Shen Yueze, except his most trusted brother.
She nodded in agreement, undeniably, feeling as if she were being pushed along by fate. "I don't know how to tell you, but some things, even knowing they're wrong, you just can't control yourself, just like... drug addiction?"
Chen Jiabai sneered, "You mean to say that you love him uncontrollably, right?"
That's not what I meant either.
She hurriedly explained that she really didn't think she loved him hopelessly; at most, she just liked him.
But as long as he came to her, she didn't have to say or do anything; she would willingly go to bed with him.
He dared not tell Chen Jiabai this, even if he didn't hit the girl, he couldn't help but want to slap her in his heart.
Chen Jiabai nodded, still feeling frustrated. The thought of how many times these two had slept with him behind his back made him feel like he had wasted his time.
"I've given you so many things. If other girls have something, and you say you like it, I'll buy it for you right away. I thought that after we broke up, you would come back to beg for reconciliation. I thought you would never meet someone more generous than me, and you would never meet someone who really wanted to marry you."
He felt he had done enough. Isn't this how dating works? Eat, watch movies, go to bed, and give gifts. Even if you're rich, you're still human. There aren't that many tricks. It's just that the restaurants are a bit expensive and the gifts are luxury items.
Xia Wei is beautiful, but he has never thought about marrying her.
Wen Yining is different. He genuinely intends to settle down after graduation, not just on a whim, and he doesn't treat people like playthings.
Wen Yining stood up and said urgently, "I'll return the money to you, please stop fighting, okay? But I don't have that much cash on hand right now, even if I sell it, it won't be enough."
The explanation was: "The full payment will be received in a few months. It's like this: a small portion is paid before filming starts, another portion is paid in the middle, and the final payment is paid at the end."
"I'm not saying this to ask you for money."
He sneered and mocked, "It seems Shen Yueze doesn't care much about you either; you can't even come up with this little bit of money."
She didn't reply. She did give the money, but a lot of it was spent, and some was used to bribe officials.
Chen Jiabai: "He is actually a very generous person to his girlfriends. When he broke up with Shi Yingmeng, he gave her a large apartment as a breakup gift."
"..."
Wen Yining's nose tingled, and all sorts of pent-up emotions welled up inside her. Suppressing the urge to cry, she took a deep breath. She had just felt that she should cry and act pitiful in front of Chen Jiabai, as he was most susceptible to that. However, she was emotionally numb and couldn't cry no matter what she did. But she couldn't stand the thought of Chen Yueze.
She turned her head away from his bedside, paced back and forth anxiously, raised her hand to brush her hair aside, and said, "I did regret it at first, but it's no use regretting it now. I can't possibly come back to you and get back together."
Chen Jiabai doesn't smoke, but he's so annoyed he wants to drink, though the doctor won't let him. However, he's already passed the worst of his anger and just wants to save face.
"You've only known each other for a few days, and he slept with you without spending a penny, right? You're really easy. You even lied to me and said you were a virgin. You slept with people in high school, didn't you?"
"..."
She didn't want to discuss this issue anymore. Some boys cared. She was young at the time, only a teenager, and felt that most people around her were virgins. Chen Jiabai had asked her, so she told the truth, though of course, she also wanted to raise her own value.
But after entering the entertainment industry and meeting more people, I found that very few people cared about this. They were all over twenty, popular with the opposite sex, and pursued by countless people. In an environment with abundant sexual resources, it was perfectly normal for something to happen.
Chen Jiabai looked at her for a while and said seriously, "If Shen Yueze has had his fill of you, he will be much more ruthless than me. He only enjoys the pleasure of possessing other people's things, not the person themselves."
She gripped her arm with her right hand and replied calmly, "I know."
Chen Jiabai noticed that she was lost in her emotions and not paying attention to this. He picked up his phone from the table and dialed Shen Yueze's number. The room was unusually quiet, and the TV had been turned off long ago.
After a couple of rings, the call connected, and he spoke first.
Chen Jiabai said in a normal tone, "I need to change my clothes. They're in that bag by the sofa. Just grab anything."
Wen Yining snapped out of her daze and subconsciously went over to help him get his short-sleeved shirt, thinking that the matter was over or that she wasn't so bothered by it anymore.
Otherwise, there's really no way to make amends. Emotionally, they're even, but the gifts he gave her add up to more than 500,000 yuan. What if she becomes famous and posts negative things about her online...?
Ten years ago, it seemed natural for boys to spend money on girls, but recently the concept of splitting the bill (AA) has become popular.
She couldn't even imagine how that kind of relationship would work, or even if it was necessary. Wouldn't it be the same as just going out to eat or shop with a friend?
However, on the other hand, not all boys are from wealthy families.
Lost in thought, he randomly picked a white short-sleeved shirt from among the few that his family had brought and walked over.
Chen Jiabai didn't answer. Seeing that she was absent-minded, he put the phone, which was on speakerphone, aside and locked the screen. The environment on Shen Yueze's side was quite quiet. She seemed to understand his intention and was quite patient, listening to him slowly speak.
Speaking in a volume that the other end could hear, "I twisted my arm, and the doctor told me not to move too much. Damn it, that bastard Shen Yueze is like a madman. If I don't dodge or fight back, he's thinking of making sure I can't get out of bed."
She watched silently as Chen Jiabai unbuttoned his hospital gown and took it off, revealing bruises on his body. "I heard you fractured your ribs?"
"Yes, but ribs are different from other bones; they heal easily and can recover on their own."
Wen Yining tossed him the T-shirt, saying, "It's alright as long as you're okay."
He added, "Please put it on me, my arm hurts whenever I move it."
She sighed, glanced at him helplessly, and deftly helped him put on the socks as instructed.
After looking at the deep and shallow scars, I suddenly realized that Shen Yueze had also been enduring and waiting for this day. At the same time, he had been relatively lenient with me, and even when I was angry and spoke recklessly, he had not laid a hand on me.
Chen Jiabai straightened his shirt and deliberately said, "I need to change my pants too."
Wen Yining had no intention of flirting with him and said coldly, "Change it yourself, I'm leaving."
She changed her clothes purely out of guilt and unease. She didn't have enough money to pay back, and she could accept luxury goods without feeling guilty. If she angered Chen Jiabai, he might smear her online.
He didn't make things difficult for her and handed her an unopened bottle of mineral water.
With a serious tone: "Since you know you'll have to break up with him sooner or later, you might as well do it sooner rather than later. He's too much of a match for you."
"Besides, I've seen girls like you who always think he's special to them, always think they can make a rich guy change his mind and settle down. He's not that kind of person. He likes freedom. It's not that he's a womanizer or promiscuous, but he doesn't like being controlled. Isn't marriage a kind of constraint?"
"You don't need to say anything. I understand the reasoning. Just focus on recovering. Deceiving you was really not my intention."
She felt that Chen Jiabai's attitude changed a bit too quickly. He was saying angry things when he first came in, but now he seemed to be doing it for her own good. However, her mind was in a mess and she didn't have time to think about it. The most difficult problem hadn't been solved yet, and she was restless.
When are you two going to break up?
“I mentioned it to him, it might be in the next day or two.”
Shen Yueze didn't take it seriously while he was in the villa; he probably thought it was just something he said in anger.
“I told you last month that you could come to me if you needed money. We had already broken up by then, and I still stand by what I said.”
The next second she said, "After you break up with him, come find me and get back together."
She wasn't too surprised and asked, "Is it also because of your desire to conquer?"
"Whatever you think it is, then it is."
He then hung up the call, deciding to call it quits while he was ahead, and made sure the person on the other end heard everything, which made him feel better.
"I probably won't contact you again in the future."
She didn't want to see Shen Yueze again.
And everyone in their circle.
They appear relaxed and polite, but once they lose interest, they can turn on you faster than anyone else.
Even someone like Chen Jiabai, who has always had good family upbringing, isn't the type to swallow his anger when he's really upset.
She knew her family's social class and privileges from a young age, and most of the people she encountered were eager to please her and go along with her wishes. She really didn't believe that such people could have a healthy romantic relationship. Money was fine, but feelings were not.
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A note from the author:
[It's true I'm interested, it's true I wanted to kill her, it's true I've had feelings for her, but it's also true I won't marry her.]
This chapter made my heart ache...
To focus on writing, I won't be checking the comments section right now; I'll send out the red envelopes later.
There are 30 red envelopes in this chapter!
Responding to some of the previous comments, no one understands the personalities, psychology, choices, weaknesses, and strengths of all the characters in this book better than I do.
Everything happened because of their personalities.
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