Chapter 219 Ji Ying stood there, listening for an unknown amount of time.
Ji Ying looked at him.
His eyes first showed shock, then turned into a cold mockery.
"Is this why you let me move into your house?"
Liang Jian closed his eyes briefly. "Don't try to find some righteous reasons. Right now, my mother needs you to take the lead in this matter. You are my fiancée, and we are a community of shared interests. In this community, her value is the greatest, and you should know how to choose."
Ji Ying raised an eyebrow. "Sorry, I don't know."
Liang Jian was angered by her heartless words.
"Having been dumped by Gu Yanchen once, hasn't that taught you to bow your head in a wealthy family? Or have you already gotten used to being kicked out?"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a crisp slap landed hard on his face.
Liang Jian's face was slapped to one side, and the burning pain instantly ignited all his rationality, causing an unprecedented surge of rage to rush to his head.
No one has ever dared to treat him like this since he was a child!
His eyes flashed with malice, and he suddenly lunged forward, grabbing Ji Ying by the neck!
With a dull thud, Ji Ying's head hit the door.
The voice was like a bucket of cold water, bringing Liang Jian back to his senses.
Seeing Ji Ying's furrowed brows from suffocation and the fleeting pain in her eyes, Liang Jian felt a sharp pain in his chest and quickly released his grip.
"Yingying, why are you so stubborn?"
Ji Ying coughed several times before she could regulate her breathing.
However, his eyes were very red.
"Talking to me about interests? Fine. I need the lab to approve Xiao Xia's heart transplant application. Can you get your good buddy to help you get it done?"
“This…” A troubled look crossed Liang Jian’s face. “You know, Xiao Xia’s problem is stuck with Shen Ruofu.”
Ji Ying laughed, "Because Shen Ruofu doesn't like me, Xiao Xia's life is her last trump card, and you... are afraid of offending her?"
"Yingying, we must align our interests with those of the Shen family."
"Just for the sake of carrying on the family line?" Ji Ying chuckled. "Then you'd better persuade your good mother to do more good deeds. After all, if she does too many immoral things, even if she clings to the Shen family, she may still be unable to escape the fate of having no descendants."
She shrugged off Liang Jian, went inside, and closed the door.
With a click, the door was locked from the inside.
Liang Yizhi reached out and put his arm around her waist, pulling her into his embrace.
Ji Ying felt a little sore, so she pressed her nose against his shoulder and inhaled his scent to calm herself down.
"Are you alright?"
Liang Yizhi's knuckles ran through her soft hair, and his warm palm gently covered the hidden scab on the back of her head.
Ji Ying mumbled in his arms, "My head hurts."
Liang Yizhi frowned, picked her up, put her on the bed, and then picked up his phone. "I'll have Meng Qian come and take a look."
Ji Ying pressed his hand down, "No, that would expose our relationship."
Liang Yizhi frowned.
Ji Ying said, "It's just one step away. I'll be fine after a short break."
Liang Yizhi put down his phone and hugged her even more tenderly.
Ji Ying calmed down in his arms for a while, and after she recovered, she realized that there was something wrong with what he had just said.
"Why should I look for Meng Qian when I have a headache?"
Liang Yizhi's eyes flashed, "He knows a little about treating headaches."
Ji Ying bit her lip and poked his forehead, "You're just kidding me."
Liang Yizhi laughed at her teasing and massaged her temples with his fingers.
"You can't remember anything from the past?"
Ji Ying closed her eyes, frowned, and said calmly, "Are things from the past really that important?"
Liang Yizhi didn't know how to answer.
Ji Ying nestled in his arms, shifting into a more comfortable position.
"Thinking back to the past, it all boils down to knowing what my parents look like and then finding them. But so many years have passed, and I've tried everything. If they're looking for me too, they must have found me by now..."
At this point, Ji Ying deliberately paused for a moment.
"The time when I most wanted to find them has passed. I've been alone through thick and thin all these years. Now, whether they are here or not makes no difference to me."
So when she said she wouldn't look for him anymore that day, she really had let go.
“Liang Yizhi…” Ji Ying suddenly opened her eyes and looked at him. “I don’t have much time left, and I don’t want to waste it on pointless things. Saving Xiao Xia and finding the person who wants me dead are the two things I want to do most.”
"You don't have much time left, anything can change, you will live to be a hundred."
Liang Yizhi embraced her as if she were a precious treasure he never wanted to lose again.
...
Xie Lingfang had been detained for several days, and Liang Weiyue showed no intention of releasing her.
Ji Ying left early and returned late every day, ignoring Liang Jian.
After being discharged from the hospital, Shen Ruofu returned to the Liang residence and found that the entire residence was filled with a sense of oppression.
Aside from the day she regained consciousness, Liang Yizhi never appeared before her again.
This extreme sense of alienation made her feel unreal.
Unable to contain herself any longer, Shen Ruofu finally intercepted Liang Yizhi, who had returned early, at the corner of the corridor one evening before the Liang family had returned.
"Brother-in-law, are you going to distance yourself from me because of this?"
Shen Ruofu's voice was filled with grievance.
Liang Yizhi carried the medicine for Ji Ying in his hand, his eyes filled with a cold indifference that kept people at arm's length.
"I have always believed in the principle that birds of a feather flock together. We have different paths, so we cannot work together."
He was about to leave after saying that.
Shen Ruofu immediately stepped aside to block his path, her tone urgent yet tinged with confusion.
"So what if Chairman Liang misunderstood Xie Lingfang? Is this how you treat me? You grew up in the Shen family, and they never cared about you in the slightest. You and the Shen family are family. Are you going to sever ties with the Shen family for an outsider?"
Liang Yizhi's lips curled into a cold sneer, "To be an enemy of the Shen family? You alone, do you even deserve to represent the entire Shen family? If every member of the Shen family were to turn around and blame others when they failed to frame someone, then I would also reconsider my relationship with the entire Shen family."
His words made Shen Ruofu turn pale.
A surge of embarrassment at being seen through welled up inside her, so she decided to stop pretending.
"Yes, I don't want Ji Ying to have an easy time, but I don't want to see you getting too close to her! Yizhi, I hope you'll wake up. Even if the real Shen family heiress in the marriage contract is dead, if you want to remarry, the only person you can marry can have the surname Shen!"
A chill ran down Liang Yizhi's spine. "Who told you that?"
Shen Ruofu's heart skipped a beat.
She realized that in her haste, she had revealed the old man's most secret plan.
But since things have come to this point, there's no point in hiding anything.
"Does anyone need to tell me this? With your current status, who wouldn't want to hold on tight? Grandpa is a shrewd man. The Shen family needs a protective umbrella like you. How could he let go?"
"Protective umbrella?"
Liang Yizhi's gaze fell on a distant, intangible point, and he let out a soft, cold laugh.
"I, Liang Yizhi, am grateful to Professor Shen and his wife. Have others misunderstood?"
Shen Ruofu froze on the spot, her lips moving but she couldn't utter a single word.
Liang Yizhi brushed her aside, took a few steps, then turned back and said, "If you don't dare to confess to Liang Weiyue that you released the snake, then keep your shameful thoughts and secrets tightly under wraps. Don't bring them out to disgust people."
"you……"
Shen Ruofu trembled with suffocation at his words, overwhelmed by a sense of humiliation.
Liang Yizhi continued walking away, but as soon as he turned the corner, his figure froze in place.
Ji Ying stood there, listening for an unknown amount of time.
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