Lin Ying recounted almost everything that happened at the hospital to Xu Xinning in such a vivid and lifelike manner that Xu Xinning thought it was a real shame that Lin Ying wasn't a crosstalk performer.
Lin Ying blushed with excitement and asked Xu Xinning with bright eyes, "Teacher Xu, do you think our dean will divorce Ye Jiang? Our hospital is divided into two camps. One camp says the divorce is inevitable because Ye Jiang cheated on him. The other camp says it won't happen because our dean is a second-time bride. Although Ye Jiang was wrong, she was a beautiful young woman when she married him."
Xu Xinning picked up a piece of braised pork ribs that Lin Ying liked, and glanced at the children who had almost finished eating but were listening intently to gossip.
Xu Xinning picked up some food for Xu Laosan with her chopsticks. After exchanging glances, Xu Laosan quickly finished his food and put down his chopsticks. He then said to Chen Jianguo and Mu Jingshu, "Hurry, hurry, I heard someone in the compound got a new gadget. Let's go take a look."
Mu Leyu's attention was immediately drawn to it, and he asked right away, "Uncle, what is it?"
Xu Laosan: "How would I know? It's precisely because I've never seen this before that it's considered a new gadget!"
Mu Leyu: "Then let's go take a look quickly, and then I'll ask my dad to get some for us too."
The younger children perked up immediately upon hearing this, quickly clearing away their own dishes and chopsticks and taking them to the kitchen. Then, they pulled Xu Laosan, Chen Jianguo, and Mu Jingshu outside.
That speed was impressive; befitting someone from a military family, they disappeared in just a few minutes.
The aunt laughed and said, "Only the third brother can handle them so well."
After thinking for a moment, the aunt asked, "This Ye-something-ginger isn't the same person who used to be Doctor Ouyang's girlfriend, is she?"
Xu Xinning smiled, "Auntie, you still remember this?"
Aunt: "How could I not remember? She caused you trouble several times."
Xu Xinning felt a warmth in her heart. After so many years of getting along with her aunt, they were already like family.
Lin Ying: "It's her."
Auntie: "People are so insatiable."
Lin Ying: "She thinks too highly of herself. She was like that when she was with Ouyang, and she's still like that now that she's married to our dean. She's too calculating. In the end, she might end up with nothing."
Hsu Hsin-ning: "Didn't you ask me if they would get divorced? My answer is definitely yes."
Lin Ying: "Why?"
Xu Xinning: "I have met Mu Chenggong and have some understanding of him. In the beginning, he should have been a passionate young man, full of ambition and hope for life and work."
His first turning point came when he was pushed out to be a scapegoat, at which point he already felt helpless.
Then came his wife's unintentional death, which made him realize that skills and abilities alone were not enough; only power could guarantee his and his family's safety. So from that point on, he was no longer so pure.
He learned to climb up by stepping on others, he seized every opportunity that was in his favor, and gradually rose from an ordinary doctor to the position of vice president in just a few years.
However, after medical exchanges at home and abroad, his thinking changed again. He gained a broader perspective and found his right place. He then worked hard to improve his medical skills and passed on his techniques and experience to the younger generation. These past few years have been fulfilling and meaningful for him.
It was precisely because of his vision that he naturally obtained a status and reputation that would have been difficult to achieve through underhanded means in the past.
Mu Chenggong is now very clear-headed, and he understands very well how to make choices.
Moreover, his and Ye Jiang's philosophies of life have diverged, so it's impossible for them to live together anymore.
Lin Ying: "What if Ye Jiang refuses to get a divorce? Isn't the dean afraid that she'll ruin his reputation?"
Xu Xinning: "Your dean has been in the officialdom for so many years, he's not someone to be trifled with. He has plenty of ways to make Ye Jiang obediently divorce him."
The aunt sighed and said, "It really harms both others and oneself!"
Lin Ying: "Teacher Xu, who do you think Ye Jiang borrowed her seed from?"
Xu Xinning rolled her eyes at her and said, "How would I know? I'm not a fortune teller."
Lin Ying laughed heartily, and said in a cheeky tone, "I had forgotten that you are also just a human being."
Hsu Hsin-ning: "If you want to know who she borrowed her child from, just ask her family."
Lin Ying gasped in shock, "No way, no way? You mean her family found that adulterer for her?"
Xu Xinning: "I didn't say that."
Two days passed peacefully.
Lin Ying then brought the latest news from the hospital.
Ye Jiang refused to divorce him and insisted that she was not pregnant, claiming that the pregnancy was just something she imagined because she wanted to be pregnant too much.
Lin Ying: "Teacher Xu, you didn't see her face, it was ashen, like a ghost. You could tell at a glance that she lost the baby. I don't know how she did it, she just didn't look well."
Xu Xinning: "The divorce didn't go through?"
Lin Ying: "They're divorced, and she's already moved out of the hospital director's house. She left with nothing; they didn't give her anything. She's living in the hospital's dormitory now, and I heard she looks pretty miserable."
Xu Xinning: "Didn't you go back to your parents' home?"
Lin Ying: "Her mother is really something else. Her daughter is already like this, and she's adding fuel to the fire by coming to the hospital to pledge her loyalty to the director and then belittling Ye Jiang to nothing."
Xu Xinning: "Now you know why Ye Jiang has this kind of personality, right? A child raised in such a family will have a distorted sense of right and wrong."
Meanwhile, Ye Jiang, the central figure in Xu Xinning and her friends' gossip, was in dire straits.
Mu Chenggong knew that this divorce wouldn't be so easy, so he went directly to Ye Jiang's mother and explained his reasons for wanting a divorce in a logical and reasonable way. Of course, Ye Jiang's mother wasn't so easy to deal with.
Mu Chenggong didn't waste any words with her and went straight to the point about Ye Jiang's father's dereliction of duty at his workplace.
It wasn't a big deal, just a matter of trying to get something for nothing.
But Ye Jiang's mother was timid, and Ye Jiang's father was also quite old, having worked at his company for over twenty years. She wouldn't risk ruining the future of the family's pillar for Ye Jiang's sake.
Besides, her daughter is still young, and maybe the next one won't be too bad either. After all, the two men Ye Jiang has been with were not ordinary people.
Therefore, Ye Jiang's mother readily agreed to let Ye Jiang divorce Mu Chenggong.
Ye Jiang couldn't go against her mother's wishes, nor could she withstand the condemnation from other family members, so the marriage ended in divorce.
The child was killed by Ye Jiang deliberately falling down the stairs.
These past two days, Ye Jiang seems to have taken a trip through hell.
While Mu Chenggong was pressuring her for a divorce, the biological father of the child in her womb kept extorting money from her.
Actually, even if Ye Jiang hadn't deliberately fallen down the stairs, given her mental state, the child would probably have been difficult to save.
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