Chapter 196 The Liang Family Men Have Genetic Defects
Ji Ying was startled in Liang Yizhi's arms.
The man held her, his face instantly darkening.
"I'm going to kill him."
He was about to open the door when he said that.
Ji Ying quickly blocked the doorknob.
"Go hide in the restroom for a bit."
Liang Yizhi frowned. "You always make me hide in the bathroom. Am I a mouse?"
“Listen to me,” she gave him a push, “hurry up.”
He clicked his tongue reluctantly, but still went to the restroom.
Ji Ying took a deep breath, tidied her clothes haphazardly, and opened the door.
Liang Jian stood at the doorway, holding a stew pot.
Seeing her like this, he was stunned for a moment, "Are you really going to rest?"
Ji Ying looked exhausted. "Do you think I'm just giving you the runaround?"
A hint of embarrassment flashed across Liang Jian's eyes. "This is fish maw chicken that I specially asked the kitchen to make for you."
Ji Ying had a psychological aversion to the Liang family's stew pots, and her brows furrowed instantly.
Liang Jian saw through her thoughts and quickly said, "This was made by the family chef; nothing else was added."
"I don't have much of an appetite, can I just have the soup?" Ji Ying asked.
"Of course." Liang Jian was pleased with her current submissive demeanor.
Ji Ying picked up the stew pot, and without using a spoon, drank the soup in a few big gulps before putting the stew pot back.
Liang Jian smiled and used one hand to wipe her mouth with a tissue.
"Remember to use a spoon next time and drink it sip by sip."
In other words, he disliked her eating habits.
Ji Ying didn't mind, smiled, and closed the door.
She took a deep breath and sank into the sofa.
Liang Yizhi came out of the restroom with a hot towel in his hand. He sat down beside her, gently lifted her clothes, and placed the warm towel on her.
The soothing warmth touched my skin, and the throbbing pain instantly subsided.
Ji Ying's tense shoulders gradually relaxed.
Liang Yizhi chuckled softly in her ear, "Are you satisfied with the service?"
Ji Ying closed her eyes and nodded. "It's alright. If you ever lose your job, open a massage parlor. I'll call you every day."
"You're getting more and more mischievous!"
Liang Yizhi pinched the spot that tickled her, and Ji Ying quickly dodged away.
"So, does Miss Ji need any assistance with bathing?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Dream on!"
Ji Ying smiled and got up, quickly hiding in the bathroom, afraid that he would really follow her in.
She thought that if she lingered a little longer while washing, he would leave.
To his surprise, Liang Yizhi was still sitting in the room when he went out.
"Aren't you sleepy?" Ji Ying subtly asked him to leave.
"Looking at you, you look so energetic, I don't want to leave."
Ji Ying actually understood his teasing, and her face turned red uncontrollably.
Liang Yizhi took the towel from her hand, pressed her in front of the dressing mirror, and picked up the hair dryer.
His fingers gently ran through her hair, so comforting that she closed her eyes.
Looking at the woman in front of him, who was as languid as a cat, he gently touched her scalp with his fingertips and stroked her hair, but suddenly stopped when he touched an old scar on the back of her head.
It was a tiny, raised, old scab.
Liang Yizhi's fingertips involuntarily rubbed against it repeatedly.
"How did you get hurt here?" he asked.
Ji Ying casually replied, "I don't know. I had it after I woke up in the hospital. No one told me what happened. They just sent me to an orphanage."
Liang Yizhi's fingers slowly tightened.
"Then..." His throat tightened a little, "it must have hurt a lot back then, right?"
Ji Ying chuckled, took the hairdryer from his hand, and turned it off.
"It doesn't hurt, because it was already like this when I woke up."
She put the hairdryer away, then got up and went to the bedside.
She took a box of birth control pills from the bag on the bedside table, and the smile on her face gradually faded.
Liang Yizhi came up behind her.
Ji Ying whispered, "I bought it on my way to the company this morning, but I have difficulty getting pregnant, so I shouldn't need to take it. But I'm afraid of getting pregnant. What should I do? Should I take it or not?"
“I won’t take it,” Liang Yizhi took her medicine away. “You won’t get pregnant.”
"Why?" Ji Ying asked curiously.
Liang Yizhi tucked the stray hairs around her ears behind her ears.
"The men of the Liang family have a genetic defect that makes it extremely difficult for them to conceive. Unless they are lucky enough to meet a partner with a perfect genetic match, they may not be able to get pregnant naturally. In ten generations of their ancestors, only one generation had such luck and had multiple children. The rest almost all relied on medical technology to barely pass on their lineage, and some branches even died out."
This was the first time Ji Ying had heard about the Liang family's secret, and she was very surprised.
"Then your father..."
"Thanks to an unexpectedly successful experiment by my teacher's father, I became a backup plan. If something happened to my eldest brother, I would be the one to take over the Liang family. This arrangement inevitably created a rift between the brothers. Therefore, I was raised in the capital from a young age and wasn't close to him. Now that Liang Jian is an adult, I am no longer of any use to the Liang family."
Ji Ying never imagined that Liang Yizhi, who seemed so glamorous to outsiders, was always regarded as a disposable backup.
This also explains why he preferred to stay at the Cloud Top Hotel in Kunshan rather than return to the Liang family home.
She suddenly understood why the Liang family respected the Shen family so much; with their lifeline in the hands of the other family, they naturally had to bow down.
She turned and hugged Liang Yizhi's neck. "But you live your life very well. You are the protagonist of your own life, never a substitute for anyone else."
Liang Yizhi put his arm around her waist and smiled faintly: "Liang Yanchuan was conceived naturally. His mother and my eldest brother were a perfect match genetically, but unfortunately, their fate was too shallow. So you don't need to worry, stop taking the medicine. If you want to have children in the future..."
"Who's about to give birth!" Ji Ying let go of him, turned around and crawled into the quilt. "It's late, I'm going to sleep."
I could hear his footsteps as he left behind me.
Ji Ying quietly smiled. She was truly exhausted after a long day and could finally get a good night's sleep.
Just as she was about to drift off to sleep, a cool breeze suddenly swept into the quilt.
The man, smelling fresh after his shower, pulled her into his arms.
"How did you end up in the hospital this morning? Forgot? Still not behaving yourself..."
Liang Yizhi interrupted her with a low laugh, "If you don't want to do it, just sleep in my arms."
Ji Ying was completely speechless.
In the middle of the night, Ji Ying was suddenly awakened by a stomachache. As she frowned and endured it, Liang Yizhi's warm hand covered her.
"Is it uncomfortable here?"
The man's voice sounded like he had just woken up as well.
Ji Ying nodded.
He gently rubbed her for a while, and suddenly a slight noise came from under the covers.
Ji Ying froze, instantly too embarrassed to move.
Liang Yizhi chuckled softly, but his hands didn't stop moving.
"I'm rubbing and coaxing you, and you're just venting your anger from both ends, huh?"
Ji Ying blushed instantly, grabbed the blanket to change the air in the bed, and then snuggled into Liang Yizhi's arms, her whole body shaking with laughter.
As dawn broke, she woke up to the sound of her alarm clock; the bed next to her was empty.
There was no trace of him in the room.
Ji Ying rubbed her slightly warm face.
She began to think about what she should do proactively to find out the relationship between the assassin and the Liang family as soon as possible, and then leave this place and go back to her apartment.
She washed up and went downstairs, where she met Liang Jian on the stairs.
"So early today?" Liang Jian asked.
"I slept in a little longer yesterday because of a cold. The work in the lab is very important right now, so I can't slack off."
Liang Jian's eyes softened considerably, "I was planning to play golf with you later."
"Let's do it this weekend," Ji Ying said.
Liang Jian did not respond.
The two have arrived at the restaurant.
Liang Weiyue hadn't come downstairs yet, but Xie Lingfang had gotten up quite early and was already eating.
The Liang family's breakfast was fairly flexible; they didn't have to wait for someone else to start eating.
Ji Ying had just sat down and taken a sip of porridge when she quickly spat it out.
The porridge was full of fine sand.
She gave Xie Lingfang a cold look.
The old woman said arrogantly, "Now that you've entered the Liang family, you have to follow the rules. Starting today, you must be home before eight o'clock every night. You need to report your daily attire and itinerary one day in advance. You also need to write down a report on who you've been in contact with each day and their contact information, and submit it to me every night..."
As she spoke, she glanced meaningfully at Ji Ying's abdomen.
"...All your sanitary products will be kept by Aunt Ding, and you can take them as needed and register them daily. This way, we can know whether you are pregnant as soon as possible."
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