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Ye Wenyu earnestly said to Yuanyuan, "Yuanyuan, I know what kind of relationship you have with Lin Tingfeng. Don't try to distance yourself anymore. Give him this money and tell him that I will pay him back the rest of the hospital fees as soon as possible. I don't want to see him, and he has no feelings for me, so go ahead—"
Yuan Yuan panicked, her heart pounding wildly, as if a mad rabbit was living in her chest. She wondered if Ye Wenyu had seen through her secret. But looking at her chubby belly and short stature, a young girl looking like a woman six months pregnant, she felt utterly hopeless.
Cosmetic surgery can change facial features, but how can one change a body that is so short it looks like it has been crushed by a machine?
She shook her head and said, "I won't go. He'll be angry. He'll blame me for not helping him and for being ungrateful."
However, there was no response. Yuan Yuan looked up and saw that Ye Wenyu had already walked away at some point.
Yuan Yuan had no choice but to call Lin Tingfeng and explain the situation. Lin Tingfeng was a little disappointed, but he quickly calmed himself down and said to Yuan Yuan, "Thank you, you can keep this money for spending money."
Yuan Yuan smiled. After the two hung up the phone, she still transferred the money to Lin Tingfeng. She wasn't short of money; what was she lacking? She knew best in her heart, but she never had the courage to say it in her entire life.
She was an extremely proud yet extremely insecure person.
Ye Wenyu was incredibly lucky, yet incredibly foolish! She was truly blind, unable to see Uncle Lin's good qualities, and instead fell for Cai Wenchuan, that pedantic and impoverished professor.
Time flies, and day after day passes. After recovering her health, Ye Wenyu resumed her life of working and studying non-stop.
The rainy season is truly dreadful. It's as if God is releasing a floodgate, with rain falling every single day. Before, her foot was injured by a thumbtack after a night of torrential rain and flooding the city the next day. Later, she got a second infection, also due to the constant rain, causing her foot injury to relapse. Now, she has recovered and been discharged from the hospital, and she has started working again. Every day when she goes out, she still encounters all kinds of rain: torrential rain, light drizzle, heavy rain, endless downpours, and so on, without end.
She was very worried about her foot getting a third infection, so she was extra careful when she went out. Fortunately, after half a month, her foot did not get infected again, and Ye Wenyu breathed a sigh of relief.
That day, it was another day of raging winds and torrential rain, with thunder and lightning. But Ye Wenyu had a tutoring job to do, so she had no choice but to hold up her umbrella and bravely go out.
The poor are not entitled to take a vacation.
She took a bus to the city center and got off. It was about 800 meters away from the neighborhood where she tutored. She had no choice but to walk into the heavy rain with her umbrella.
The wind was strong, making her body sway from side to side. If she hadn't been holding the umbrella handle tightly with both hands, she probably would have been blown away by the gale. Once, a strong gust of wind blew by, and the entire umbrella canopy was blown over in one direction, like a parachute. She held the umbrella tightly, just like her powerless self when she was a child, about to be lifted off the ground by the gale and the umbrella.
The only change is that when she was a child, she would cry loudly in the face of a strong wind, but now she not only doesn't cry, but also holds her umbrella tightly and calmly faces everything.
Fortunately, after the storm passed, she was still firmly on the ground, but her umbrella was still upside down. She had to turn the umbrella upside down and use her hands to straighten it back to its original shape. After doing this, she breathed a sigh of relief. She was soaked to the bone and looked like a drowned rat. She stretched out her arms to wipe the rain off her face and body and accidentally discovered that her mask had been blown away by the wind.
Ye Wenyu looked around nervously, but couldn't find her light blue medical mask anywhere. She became anxious, as she always wore a mask when going out, and now that she suddenly didn't have one, it was really inconvenient.
At that moment, another gust of wind blew. Because Ye Wenyu was so focused on finding the mask, the umbrella in her hand was blown away by the wind and landed directly on the overpass. There was no way she could walk over and retrieve the umbrella.
Seeing herself lose an umbrella, and knowing that buying a new one would cost another twenty or thirty yuan, Ye Wenyu stamped her foot in despair, heartbroken. Exposed to the raging storm, the rain seemed to intensify, pouring down on her face and body as if whipped, causing waves of pain. She could only endure it silently, raising her schoolbag above her head, hoping to shield herself from the wind and rain, before hurrying towards her employer's house.
Just then, she saw a large black RV drive up and stop in front of her. The headlights flashed blindingly in the rain, so bright that she couldn't open her eyes. She instinctively shielded her eyes with her hand, and through her fingers, she saw someone get out of the car, holding a large black umbrella, and walk quickly toward her.
At first, she didn't believe the person was looking for her, but when he got closer, she was stunned, as if she'd seen a ghost in broad daylight—it was Lin Tingfeng! Ye Wenyu, holding her schoolbag in both hands, stood frozen in place, like a wooden statue, too terrified to move. The torrential rain continued to pour down, lashing against her, but she felt no pain. All around her was the sound of the rain pattering. She watched Lin Tingfeng stride towards her, getting closer and closer.
The torrential rain poured down on her head and face, flowing silently down her face like a small river.
Ye Wenyu stared at Lin Tingfeng, her heart pounding in her chest. When she regained consciousness, she immediately turned away from Lin Tingfeng, hoping that he was just passing by and hadn't noticed her presence.
She was like an ostrich, thinking that if she couldn't see him, he couldn't see her either.
However, a few minutes later, the rain stopped overhead, and Lin Tingfeng's gentle voice sounded behind her: "Such heavy rain—"
Ye Wenyu kept her head down, afraid that Lin Tingfeng would see her true face. Before, she wore a mask and concealed her ugly birthmark with makeup, but now, the wind had blown her mask away, and the ugly birthmark she had applied that morning was probably almost washed away by the rain. Although all cosmetics nowadays claim to be waterproof, she didn't have much money and bought cheap products. For cheap products to be waterproof was a complete lie, so she couldn't acknowledge Lin Tingfeng as her father.
"Why aren't you saying anything?" Lin Tingfeng spoke gently behind her.
The rain was heavy five meters away, but where she was standing, there was no rain because there was someone behind her sheltering her from the wind and rain.
Ye Wenyu was shivering, experiencing extreme cold and heat. She felt like she had a high fever because the rain had been so heavy. Her long hair was soaked and matted, hanging down from her head. Some strands piled up at her neck, making it hard for her to breathe. She wanted to reach out and smooth them down, but she didn't dare to move.
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