Chapter 234 The day I no longer need to rely on you...
Liang Yizhi walked to the bedside, but his expression was no different from usual.
He placed the food box on the bedside table and asked gently, "You just said...who were you going to send away?"
His gaze fell calmly on her face, so naturally that there was not a trace of inquiry.
Ji Ying tilted her head and thought for a moment, "If I didn't rely on you, how capable do you think I am of getting rid of people I don't like?"
Liang Yizhi smiled slightly at her words, his fingertips stroking her hair.
"So, my wife, please don't hide anything from me."
Ji Ying curled her lips, "I want to become strong on my own, until the day I don't need to rely on you anymore..."
She stopped mid-sentence.
Liang Yizhi, who had been listening attentively, saw her stop and reached out to pull her into his arms, gently lifting her chin with his fingertips.
"I'm curious, what will you do the day you don't need me anymore?"
Ji Ying's eyes flashed with a hint of cunning.
"It'll probably be like this now, except I'm the one pinching your chin."
Liang Yizhi chuckled softly and placed a kiss on her lips.
"You can switch whenever you want. Every time I give you the initiative, you can't even last ten minutes. Is it because I'm not letting you be strong?"
Ji Ying blushed at his double entendre and tentatively asked, half-jokingly, "What will you do if I change one day?"
Liang Yizhi's smile froze almost imperceptibly for a moment, then the corners of his eyes curved even deeper.
He tapped the tip of her nose.
"I've already married her. Whether it's good or bad, it's my fate, Liang Yizhi's fate."
Ji Ying raised an eyebrow, "You'd like someone like Xie Lingfang?"
"Your soul will not make you become her."
Liang Yizhi’s tone was calm yet firm, then tinged with a hint of indulgence.
"If I were to really become like her, I would only have one word for it—spoil her."
He shut down all of Ji Ying's probing questions.
That night, Liang Yizhi stayed to keep him company.
Ji Ying had just been transferred to a regular ward and was very tired, so she fell asleep quickly.
In her dream, she felt dizzy and disoriented.
The metal screeched as it scraped against the glass, and the scenery outside the car window tumbled wildly.
It was still that same memory.
Her body was trapped in the back seat, and screams of a woman echoed through the car.
The next second, the back of her head slammed against the window frame, and excruciating pain and darkness instantly engulfed her.
Then, the icy river water surged in from all directions...
"Liang Yizhi, save me!"
Ji Ying called out the same voice she had heard in her dream.
However, unlike in her dream, she couldn't grasp anything in her dream before losing consciousness.
Here, her hand was actually grasping a mass of strong muscles.
“Yingying…”
Liang Yizhi brushed aside her sweat-dampened hair.
Ji Ying was pulled back to reality from her dream. She looked at the man in front of her for a long time, panting, before realizing that 14 years had passed. Her eyes instantly reddened.
"Did you have a nightmare?"
Liang Yizhi held her in his arms and patted her gently.
Ji Ying pressed her breath against his chest, remaining silent.
She really wanted to ask him, since he was so good to her, why did he choose to give her up back then?
Is it always more important for a man to protect someone of "value" than to protect someone he "loves"?
Ji Ying's nose felt sore.
Just then, Liang Yizhi's soft voice came from above, "Don't be afraid, I'm here, I'll never let you go again."
He wasn't sure if she had regained her memory, but his words contained a guilt he hadn't spoken for years.
At this moment, Ji Ying's carefully constructed defenses quietly crumbled.
She closed her eyes, letting herself sink into this warm embrace.
Perhaps the future will be different, but the warmth in his arms at this moment is real.
Meanwhile, at Minghe Hospital.
Lin Meizhen is still in her son's hospital room.
"Mom, you're a patient too, go back to your ward. I'm fine," Liang Yanchuan said.
Lin Meizhen put away the medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
"It's okay, Mom will be discharged tomorrow. I'll make you some bone broth then. The doctor said your ribs need another month to heal before you can fly, so let's book tickets to leave in a month."
Where are you going?
Before anyone knew it, Liang Weiyue was already standing at the door of the ward.
Liang Yanchuan instinctively tried to get up, but Lin Meizhen held him down.
"He's an insignificant person, you should worry about yourself first."
After Lin Meizhen finished speaking, she pushed aside Liang Weiyue, who was blocking the door of the ward, and went back to her own ward.
Liang Weiyue did not go forward to check on his son, but immediately took off his coat and draped it over Lin Meizhen.
"It's okay to be angry, but don't take it hard on your body. You just had a miscarriage, so don't neglect your health."
In fact, Lin Meizhen's ward was right next door; he did this simply to express his concern.
As Lin Meizhen walked into her ward, she tossed her coat back to him.
"Go with your wife, I don't need your fake concern."
After saying that, she lay down on the hospital bed. At that moment, she noticed a thermos on the bedside table.
Liang Weiyue walked to the bedside and opened the thermos to serve her soup.
"This is pigeon soup that I asked the kitchen to make especially for you."
When the spoon was brought to her mouth, Lin Meizhen turned her head away.
"I'm afraid your wife might have poisoned it, so I dare not eat it."
Liang Weiyue sighed and put the bowl down.
“Zhenzhen, don’t be angry. It’s not easy for the Liang family to have offspring, and we can’t afford any mistakes with me. Besides, for the sake of our child’s future, this paternity test is necessary.”
"snort!"
Lin Meizhen wiped away her tears.
“The child is gone, he has no future. In the past, you were just playing around with me, you never believed in my character; now in your eyes, I am still a promiscuous woman. We have nothing left to say to each other... Go away, and never see each other again.”
“Zhenzhen…”
Liang Weiyue looked pained and sat down by the hospital bed, holding her hand.
"...When I first found you, I really wanted to spend my life with you, but who could have imagined that my father's company would go bankrupt and I would only be able to pay off my debts by marrying Xie Lingfang. I didn't abandon you."
Lin Meizhen pulled her hand away, her face full of indignation.
"You were someone else's husband and expectant father while hiding everything from me, even getting me pregnant. And then, you dared to say the child wasn't yours! Liang Weiyue, how could you be so shameless!"
"At the time, I only knew that men in the Liang family couldn't conceive naturally, and I didn't realize that there were still small-probability exceptions in specific cases where genes were highly compatible. And... you have to understand my situation at the time."
Liang Weiyue's tone revealed a hint of helplessness.
Lin Meizhen, however, said coldly, "Sorry, I couldn't understand it back then, and I still can't understand it now. I won't stay with a coward. Go back and fawn over your wife who brings you honor."
After saying that, Lin Meizhen resolutely turned her head away and refused to look at him again.
Liang Weiyue's jaw tightened, and he spoke in a deep voice, "I can't defend the past. But this time, I will prove to you that the person I've always wanted to marry is you!"
Having said that, he didn't linger and turned to leave in a hurry.
Seeing that he was not coming back, Lin Meizhen patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he took the bowl of pigeon soup to the toilet and poured it out.
Scumbags only deserve to be clowns!
Three days later, Ji Ying was discharged from the hospital.
Liang Yizhi personally picked her up and took her back to the apartment.
During her hospital stay, the man put aside all his other commitments and stayed by her side the whole time. He even diligently learned from the nurses how to change her dressings.
Liang Yizhi embodied the true meaning of a husband's thoughtfulness and responsibility.
His kindness made Ji Ying fall in love, but the old wounds of being abandoned in her memory still burned painfully.
Meanwhile, at the Liang residence, Liang Weiyue hadn't returned for three days, and Xie Lingfang couldn't sit still any longer. She grabbed Xie Mingxuan and started to plot against him.
"It's Ji Ying, it must be Ji Ying who stirred things up, preventing Wei Yue from coming back to reunite with me. Is she really the person you want? Is she?"
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