Chapter 33 As You Like It

"I'm talking to her, don't interrupt."

Shang Xingyuan was breathing heavily, as if he wanted to swallow Shang Wanwan.

"Dad, what happened three years ago—"

Shang Wanwan mustered up her courage, and Shang Xingyuan kicked the tea table beside her without waiting for her to finish.

"Shang Wanwan, you are my daughter. Your mission in this life is to live for Shang and for me. I just crawled out of hell. What's wrong? You can question me after paying for my medical expenses.

In your mind, I am that kind of person. Mr. Huo believes me, but you doubt this and that. If you really think there is something wrong with me, call the police and arrest me. Arrest me. "

Shang Xingyuan seemed to be crazy, throwing everything in his hands at Shang Wanwan. Chen Yao could only block it for her.

In the end, Shang Wanwan still couldn't avoid Shang Xingyuan's ashtray, which hit her on the forehead.

"Wanwan, go back. Your father has just been rescued, don't be angry with him."

Chen Yao used words to force Shang Wanwan out.

When I came out of the hospital, it started raining outside again.

When Shang Wanwan left, she could hear Shang Xingyuan inside the door yelling and scolding her at the top of his lungs.

This was the first time she had seen her father like this in all these years.

She felt a dull pain in her lower abdomen, and only after squatting down and holding it in her arms did she feel better.

The rain kept falling from above my head, but I didn't feel cold at all even when it hit my body.

"Wanwan, are you okay?"

Shang Wanwan tightened her arms and was slowly pulled up.

A black umbrella shielded her from the rain, and Liu Yanshu was looking at her tenderly.

Under the rain mist, his handsome face appeared in front of her with great tension.

For a moment, the face in front of her overlapped and intertwined with the image of Huo Dongming in her mind.

She almost thought it was Huo Dongming who came.

"I'm fine, why are you here?"

Shang Wanwan let him sit on the bench next to her.

At least I was in the hospital, so I didn't have to worry if anything happened. I smelled the medicine around me, and I felt an inexplicable sense of security.

"I came to see my uncle..."

He looked at her pale face and felt a pang of heartache.

"Didn't Huo Dongming come with you?"

In his impression, Shang Wanwan is a delicate young lady who has never suffered and is coaxed and pampered by others.

Although she has a round face now, there is always a hint of sadness between her brows.

She was no longer the smiling girl in his memory.

"He? Busy——"

Huo Dongming never took her to heart, let alone the people around her.

"It's so late and it's raining, let me take you home. Wanwan, being stubborn won't bring you any good."

Why did she just reject his kindness?

He had achieved some success three years ago, and he could help with her father's affairs.

After much deliberation, she had to choose Huo Dongming, the man who trampled on her self-esteem.

If she had chosen him back then, she would have both love and bread now.

"The man I'm marrying is Huo Dongming. Yanshu, you don't need to choose between your future and a woman. I'll take a taxi home by myself."

She refused his umbrella, saying that anyone who got too close to her would only get hurt.

A Maybach was parked in the rain.

Through the half-lowered car window, Huo Dongming's well-defined facial features were deep and cold. The weight of time accumulated at the age of twenty-five actually revealed the calmness and sexiness of a man without doubts in his thirtys.

Even if Huo Dongming sat quietly, he could not conceal the aggression and predatory nature emanating from him.

He stared through the car window at the man and woman not far away, his bony hands tightly gripping the steering wheel, as if the steering wheel would break if he exerted a little force.

He saw the girl reject the handsome boy with a hint of milk and rush into the rain mist.

It was not until a Didi car drove by late in the evening that he started the car.

Maybach drove slowly out of the hospital and followed the Didi car as it gradually converged into the main road in the center of the city.

Shang Wanwan didn't notice that someone was following her at all. They followed her until the Huo family villa was about to appear and then drove away in the opposite direction.

At night, Shang Wanwan slept very uneasily.

All she could hear in her dreams were the accusations made by Shang Xingyuan against her.

She seemed to have returned to three years ago, when the business was experiencing an unprecedented disaster.

When Huo Dongming came back, Shang Wanwan was haunted by nightmares.

At night, the room was bathed in a pale blue light. The rain outside had stopped long ago, and a few rays of moonlight actually streamed in through the window.

He had never stared at her sleeping face like this late at night.

In the quiet room, her face was unusually red.

Huo Dongming reached out to her forehead and found that she had a fever.

"Shang Wanwan?"

He frowned and patted her face, but she didn't react at all.

Huo Dongming turned on the bedside lamp. Shang Wanwan was breathing heavily, her brows were furrowed, and she looked very painful.

Could it be that he caught a cold in the rain when he came back at night?

"Mrs. Zhang, Mrs. Zhang——"

In the middle of the night, Mrs. Zhang was woken up by Huo Dongming's yelling.

Mother Zhang didn't even have time to put on her clothes. She climbed upstairs in her pajamas and slippers.

"Go get some cold water."

She didn't understand what Huo Dongming meant.

"What are you still standing here for? Go--"

Huo Dongming had never taken care of a patient before, but he knew how to take care of himself when he was unwell.

When he was studying abroad, he lived alone in the Huo family's overseas villa. When he was sick, he was too stubborn to ask anyone for help.

When I had a cold and a fever, I struggled to get out of bed and used cold water to cool down physically. After I felt a little better, I drank millet porridge for three days in a row.

Mrs. Zhang fetched some water and went into the room, only to find out that her wife was sick.

"I'll come, you go out."

Huo Dongming took the water handed to him by Aunt Zhang, and under her surprised gaze, he twisted the towel until it was half dry and applied it directly to Shang Wanwan's forehead.

Perhaps because his movements were too big, Shang Wanwan vaguely heard him calling his family doctor.

"Come over right away. My wife is sick and has a fever. I took her temperature and it's 38.9 degrees."

Shang Wanwan reached out and pulled off the towel on her forehead with difficulty, and said in a dry and hoarse voice.

"Huo Dongming, I don't want to see a doctor or get an injection."

She couldn't take any medicine or get any injections, and she couldn't let a doctor come.

"You are sick, you must call a doctor."

He walked to the bed and pushed her back onto it as she tried to struggle.

"I don't want to—"

Shang Wanwan gasped hard, her voice weak and powerless.

"If you call a doctor, we will be divorced."

Huo Dongming's originally soft facial lines suddenly tightened.

What an ungrateful woman! He was busy until midnight to take care of her when she was sick, but she was so ungrateful.

"Shang Wanwan, do you have the final say on our marriage?"

Who does she think she is?

Shang Wanwan grabbed the bed sheet and climbed up with difficulty.

Her eyes were bloodshot and her face was pale.

"If you hadn't told me that my father's stock cashing was true, I wouldn't have confronted him. If I hadn't confronted him, he wouldn't have had a second stroke and gone to the emergency room. I don't want to see you, get out of here."

Not long after she came back, Chen Yao called her to tell her the bad news. Shang Wanwan wanted to rush to the hospital, but Chen Yao stopped her, saying that her coming would only make things worse.

Shang Wanwan couldn't bear the blow for a while, and after being caught in the rain, she fell ill.

"I don't want a doctor, I don't want to take medicine, and I don't want you to care about my life or death. If you want to call a doctor, we will get divorced, get out, get out--"

Veins on Huo Dongming's forehead bulged. This woman's skill in throwing the pot has improved.

"As you wish."