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Lin Tingfeng bent down and picked her up, placing her on the hospital bed and covering her with a blanket. He gently advised her, "You have to be hospitalized, otherwise your foot bones will be damaged. You're so beautiful, do you want to become a cripple?"
Ye Wenyu was stunned. She was already poor enough. If she became disabled, her life would be even more difficult!
But she really didn't want to have any entanglement with Lin Tingfeng.
Therefore, she coldly said, "Fine, I'll be hospitalized, but I don't need you to take care of me. Someone else will take care of me. You can leave now."
Faced with her terrible attitude, Lin Tingfeng remained calm and said gently, "I'm fine right now. Besides, last time I drove drunk, if it weren't for your help, I might never be able to drive again. So I owe you a favor, and it's only right that I take care of you for a few days."
He was so meticulous and persuasive that it was almost impossible for her to refuse. If it were anyone else, they might have agreed, but Ye Wenyu was different. She carried the painful memories of her past life and was determined not to follow the same path again.
Therefore, she immediately straightened her small face, widened her eyes, and said firmly, "If you take care of me, I will be discharged from the hospital immediately." Her voice was not loud, but it was as firm as metal.
Lin Tingfeng immediately reached out his hand, signaling her to stop talking. He gave in and took a step back, saying, "Alright, I'll leave right away."
Ye Wenyu breathed a sigh of relief, and the stern expression on his face softened considerably.
Lin Tingfeng turned around and walked towards the door. He was wearing a gray suit and a blue striped tie, clearly having just come from the company on business. However, when he reached the door, he turned back, gazed at Ye Wenyu, and slowly said to her, "Xiaoyu, there's something I've never understood. Can I ask you about it?"
Ye Wenyu was stunned for a moment before she said with a straight face, "Ask away." Her heart was pounding in her throat, wondering what he wanted to ask.
His leisurely demeanor, coupled with his tall and muscular physique, exuded a fatal sexiness in every gesture. Ye Wenyu dared not meet his eyes, her face flushed, and she lowered her head.
Lin Tingfeng looked at her with utmost seriousness and asked her slowly, "I have no grudge against you, so why do you hate me so much?"
He recalled their first meeting: she was a waitress at a bar, wearing a light blue medical mask and a black, figure-hugging bar uniform. Upon seeing him, she reacted like a startled rabbit, shattering the expensive drinks on her tray—
Actually, their first encounter was nothing romantic, not even worth mentioning. Every day, at least hundreds of men and women meet in bars. The only thing that impressed him was her inexplicable fear of him, a fear as deep as the ocean, accompanied by a profound hatred.
Even someone as intelligent as him couldn't figure it out after nearly a year.
He carefully examined Ye Wenyu's small face, not missing any fleeting traces of emotion.
Ye Wenyu's heart pounded like a drum. So this was the question. She lowered her head, pondering how to answer him. She couldn't tell the truth. If she told him that she had been reborn, that in her previous life they had loved each other deeply and hated each other intensely, that she had given her life for him, even sacrificing the futures and lives of all her relatives and friends, that she had lost friendship, love, and family, and that her life had completely collapsed, then she had been reborn and harbored deep hatred for him, could he believe it? Could he accept it?
He probably thought he'd run into a crazy woman.
Therefore, Ye Wenyu remained silent for a while, and then said softly, "There is no reason. There is no reason to love someone, so there is no reason to hate someone either."
Upon hearing this answer, Lin Tingfeng was stunned, almost dumbfounded. There is no reason to hate someone, just as there is no reason to love someone.
Yes, there is no reason to love someone. She has a huge, ugly birthmark on her face. She is a penniless female student. She has extreme fear and disgust for him. She has offended him countless times. She plays tricks and schemes in front of him. She ignores him. There are countless women younger, prettier, and gentler than her, lining up to wait for his favor.
But he only liked and loved her.
There is no reason to love someone.
Lin Tingfeng fell silent, recalling his own tangled and complicated emotions, sighed inwardly, and then turned and left.
The ward fell silent, so quiet that even Ye Wenyu could hear her own heartbeat.
Lin Tingfeng left, and Ye Wenyu lay blankly on the hospital bed. Time passed slowly, like a snail's pace. A nurse came to change her dressing, hung up an IV drip, and then left. This was a VIP ward, and she was alone. Realizing how expensive the hospital fees were, Ye Wenyu was almost in agony, wishing she could die. How could she possibly afford the hospital fees here?!
Lin Tingfeng, Lin Tingfeng, are you helping me or harming me?!
When the nurse came in again to check on her IV drip, she firmly told the nurse, "I want to be discharged."
The nurse gave her a serious look and said, "You can't be discharged now! We're all waiting for the test results. You still have a fever, so we need to rule out the possibility of tetanus. Also, we're waiting for the X-ray results. The muscles on the sole of your injured foot are severely rotten and festering. We're worried that the bacteria have already invaded your bones. If they really damage your foot bones, you might really become a cripple."
What? Like a bolt from the blue, Ye Wenyu's face turned as pale as a corpse. Was it really that serious? She had only walked barefoot in the puddle for a while and her foot had been punctured by a thumbtack. How could it have gotten this bad? Or was God just particularly harsh and cruel to the poor?
I feel like I'm being relentlessly tormented by the little hand of fate; it's utterly miserable.
After the nurse finished her examination and was about to leave, Ye Wenyu, worried about the astronomical hospital fees, had to call her back again, feeling extremely embarrassed. The nurse turned around and looked at her. Ye Wenyu, blushing, said, "I... I don't have any money to pay the hospital fees. The wards here are... very expensive, aren't they?" She thought to herself that the hospital kept her there because of her serious condition and assumed she could afford the fees. If the hospital knew she couldn't afford it, they definitely wouldn't have admitted her; after all, a hospital isn't a charity.
In her previous life, when she was sick, Lin Tingfeng arranged for her to stay in a VIP ward, so she knew exactly what the VIP ward's charges were.
The nurse smiled gently and said to her, "Don't worry, your boyfriend has already paid for your hospital stay."
What? Ye Wenyu was stunned. Her boyfriend? Her boyfriend was in Germany, and he was a poor professor. How could he afford to pay for a VIP hospital room? She thought to herself, if Brother Wen knew that her foot injury was so serious and might lead to disability, she wondered how heartbroken he would be.
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