Chapter 24 In your eyes, my dad is just my dad, not your dad
Yuhu Bay
When Yi Jiu and He Jingxin arrived at the underground parking garage, Yi Jiu asked, "Sister, aren't we going to the hospital? Why are we going home now?"
He Jingxin made an excuse that she had to get something. Then her cell phone rang, and Yi Jiu glanced and saw it was Meng Li.
——You are here, and so am I. You are waiting at the door.
"In my sister's eyes, my father's serious illness and hospitalization are insignificant." Yi Jiu looked at He Jingxin, full of complaints, and the cold light in his eyes could not be hidden. He Jingxin hesitated for a while, she pinched her nose helplessly, and Yi Jiu avoided her touch.
"It's just on the way." He Jingxin suppressed the impetuousness in her heart, raised her right hand and said flatteringly: "Little friend, let's go up together. I will accompany you all day today. Sister swears, okay? Really!"
Yi Jiu got out of the car silently. He Jingxin held her wrist and said, "Ten minutes at most, okay? Your father is in the hospital, nothing will happen to him."
Yi Jiu felt annoyed for no reason. She hated what she said to herself the day before yesterday. Two fleeting sentences suddenly flashed through her mind.
——I want to go to the hospital to take care of my baby. Miss Yi, can you help me contact the doctor at the hospital to see if there are any vacancies? As for the expenses, I will pay for it myself.
——Liang Yun’s mother, she is the director of the hospital’s inpatient department.
And the last time she went to see an eye doctor, she seemed to see someone supporting my father near the inpatient department, and then she met Qin Rong by coincidence. The video my father sent her was in a rainy day, but it was sunny on her birthday and a few days before.
"My father has been ill for a long time..." Liang Yan must have told you.
Before I could finish my words, I heard a ding and the elevator door opened.
And He Jingxin was standing there. The light from the elevator room was bright and dazzling, falling on her, while she was standing in the dark underground parking garage. The two of them seemed to be separated by an invisible line.
He Jingxin was caught off guard by Yi Jiu's question. She knew that President Yi was ill a week ago. She frowned and said, "Little friend, please stop making trouble. If your father was seriously ill, how could he dance for you to celebrate your birthday?"
Seeking benefits and avoiding harm is the instinct of living things.
Yi Jiu was more sober than anyone else at this moment. She could even conclude that Qin Rong was hinting at her yesterday. Everyone in the He family knew that her father was ill, and they were hiding it from her. Her frail body was stubborn, like a clear spring, with a cold light, and her eyes were like a crescent moon reflected in the spring and broken by the wind.
Yi Jiu's voice was not loud, but every word of it fell into her ears. She found that the child seemed to be really angry, and his clear and cool eyes revealed a hint of danger and perverseness.
The next second, Yi Jiu ran directly into the elevator. He Jingxin wanted to say a few words of comfort, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say a word. This child is getting more and more arrogant, what kind of attitude is this?
I couldn't help but defend myself in my mind, your father is really seriously ill, how could he still dance for you?
During the ten seconds of ascending, Yi Jiu held the inner wall with one hand and kept staring at the changing numbers. Under the lavender contact lenses, it was difficult to notice that the whites of her eyes had been slightly cracked, like the most perfect jade stone having a flaw.
The elevator door opened quickly, and Yi Jiufeng walked out of the elevator. "Pah!" The electronic door opened, and Meng Li, who had been waiting outside the door, was rejected. Meng Li was speechless, and looked at He Jingxin in the elevator.
As the elevator door opened and closed, He Jingxin's face made it hard to tell what she was feeling. Yi Jiu returned to her room, took out a suitcase, threw in a few sets of clothes she often wore, and threw away the same windbreaker that He Jingxin was wearing. She changed into a pair of black Martin boots and chose her Panamera from the key box.
She looked at the butterfly she had picked up, its wings broken. This was a place that suffocated her, a place that made her want to leave quickly. Listening to the sound of the suitcase rolling over the mahogany floor, the floor reflected her lonely voice, and two parallel lines that would never intersect.
Because of the backlight, He Jingxin felt a little uneasy. She took a step back in fear. She reached out and grabbed Yi Jiu's wrist. "What are you going to do?"
Yi Jiu looked down at the woman's hand. She gently pried it apart with her other hand. The blood on her index finger stuck to the back of her hand, seductive and gorgeous. "I want to go to the hospital."
Meng Li always feels afraid of Yi Jiu because she was slapped by him last time.
She saw Yi Jiu's face, which was so dejected that she smiled triumphantly, wanting to dampen Yi Jiu's arrogance. She said politely, "Boss Yi, I have something to ask Jing Xin."
Yi Jiu raised his eyes, and his lavender pupils scanned the two of them, landing on He Jingxin. He Jingxin already had her own little feelings for Yi Jiu, and did not refuse at the moment, just wanting to see Yi Jiu's answer.
As long as Yi Jiu said "no", she would go with her immediately.
"Ms. Meng, you don't need to pretend. You don't have the talent to be an actor. Your performance is really disgusting. I will give in to you. My sister has repeatedly emphasized that you are a PTSD patient. How can I bother with a patient?"
"you--"
While the two were still in shock, Yi Jiu pulled the suitcase and left. When Yi Jiu entered the elevator, a pair of hands appeared in her sight. He Jingxin just stood there. She ignored the pain of her palms being pinched by the elevator door. She asked with a suppressed irritation in her voice, "What are you talking about again?"
The atmosphere suddenly became sharp.
Yi Jiu retorted: "I told you, you can do whatever you want. You are the owner of this house, you can do whatever you want."
He Jingxin pointed at her phone and said, "Yi Jiu, it was supposed to take five minutes, but you have been tormented for twenty minutes since you got off the car. You are still venting your anger on me. Do you have to complicate things?"
Yi Jiu's eyes were sore. She was dazzled by the bright light from her phone. She quickly closed her eyes. She was too lazy to talk nonsense to He Jingxin. "Okay, I'll make it complicated. It's my fault. I can look after my father myself. You and Meng Li, five minutes, or ten minutes, does it have anything to do with me? Don't waste my time."
"What are you making a fuss about? I've explained to you so many times that Meng Li has never been an obstacle between us. I'll just help her get her things for five minutes today."
"In your eyes, my dad is just my dad, not your dad." The suppressed anger was ignited at once, and the words buried in his heart were finally released. Yi Jiu's rationality, which he was proud of, turned to ashes in an instant. "So, you have been hiding it from me, hiding it from me. In your eyes, the doctors will take care of me in the hospital, and it doesn't matter whether I go early or late."
"He Jingxin, if it was your father lying on the hospital bed, what would you do?"
He Jingxin was deeply hurt by Yi Jiu's words. This was what she was thinking deep in her heart. The elevator door was slowly closed, and the two worlds were cut apart and split. The two worlds were really separated. Who could have thought that it would be several months before they met again.
He Jingxin walked into the house in a daze. There was a red mark on her fair palm, which looked like a medal pinned on her arm when she was a student. It was given to her by a child.
Meng Li said, "Jing Xin, you look so tired. I'll get the things myself."
He Jingxin nodded and went back to her room. She held the cold door handle and sweat broke out on her palm. She calculated the time. The child had a lot of things and it was impossible to sort them out in 20 minutes.
She pushed forward and took two steps. She felt something soft at her feet and looked down. These were the clothes she had chosen for her in the morning, but she had discarded them like old shoes, just like she had just now.
She came to the cloakroom and found that only a few pieces of clothing were missing from Yi Jiu's row. She calmed down a little, thinking that it was okay. And the box containing the famous watches and car keys was missing only a set of Panamera car keys.
Okay, all her stuff is there.
He Jingxin closed her eyes, and her hanging heart finally settled down.
He Jingxin didn't know when Meng Li left. He Jingxin returned to the study. She wanted to take her laptop to the hospital and work there. When she picked up the laptop, why was the bottom of the laptop hot?
She took away all the music OST resources for several TV series and movies that she found for Meng Li.
He Jingxin: Mr. Yi, what exactly is wrong with his illness?
Liang Yin: I heard from my mother that the life span of leukemia in the late stage is as short as three days or as long as a week. He is awake now, which means he is recovering from the disease.
......
Hospital VIP Ward
The ward was filled with disinfectant. President Yi was lying on the bed with a ventilator in his mouth. He took out his cell phone, opened the photo, and touched the photo. The person in the photo looked 70% like Yi Jiu, sunny and energetic.
Su He, I know your child likes He Jingxin very much. Just like you did back then, you liked that person so much that you were like a moth to a flame, and you liked her so much that you broke up with your family.
"Dad, why are you crying?" Yi Jiu picked up a tissue and wiped the tears from President Yi's face. President Yi smiled bitterly and held Yi Jiu's hand, "I thought of your mother."
Yi Jiu looked up at the bottle of IV drip, her eyes reddened, she sniffed, and said stubbornly: "Mom will bless Dad to live a long life in heaven."
"Um."
"Dad, who is Mom?"
Mr. Yi looked at Yi Jiu carefully. Yi Jiu's face looked like Su He. Her long eyelashes made her more vivid. Her clear starry eyes showed her sunshine and kindness. Her face seemed to be carved by God, exquisite and flawless.
他将一份文件夾交給易玖，“小玖，你媽媽是一個很好的人。她聰明絕頂，她美豔高貴，她性子很好。你媽媽在一個地方留了東西給你，你去給爸爸拿過來。這個文件袋裏是你媽媽的東西。”
聽到媽媽有東西給自己，易玖有些興奮，可她問道：“爸爸，如果我把媽媽的東西拿過來，你就要讓我去做配型。”
——易總被确診白血病晚期，易小姐，配型只能延緩病情。
易總蒼白的臉，對她笑了笑，“好，都聽我家寶貝的話。”
易玖回到停車場，剛打開門，手裏的文件夾一哆嗦，一張全家福從裏面掉出來。易玖撿起那張全家福，背後寫着：2000年全家福，歡迎我妹妹家迎來一位小公主。
她記得她曾經看到過這樣的照片。
——小玖，這是我剛出生那年，我們家的全家福。左邊是我們家四口人，右邊那個女人，是我的大姨。不是我吹，全海城的omega有一半都想嫁給我這個溫潤如玉的alpha大姨。
——你大姨叫什麽
——她叫程蘇荷，山有扶蘇，隰有荷華
......
住院部護士站
“護士長，你跟我們說說醫院，為什麽叫做蘇荷醫院？”年輕的小護士纏着護士長問道，護士長放下手裏的工作，“這座醫院是隸屬澄江集團的，這座醫院為了紀念董事長的女兒。”
“董事長的女兒，程總不是這個名字。”小護士說道。
“是董事長另一個女兒，程蘇荷醫生，是遺傳領域，心外領域的雙碩士，頗有建樹。可惜，英年早逝。”護士長憑着自己的記憶力，讓一衆小護士感到驚訝，“住院部的梁主任，之前是心外一把刀知道嗎？”
“知道。”
“梁主任和程醫生是同學，這梁主任的成績在班上還倒數。這事情就不要被梁主任知道了。”
一旁聽完八卦的賀景歆，眯着眼看着梁韞，“啧啧啧！你媽媽成績倒數，都能成就醫院心外一把刀，這是不是謠言？”
梁韞一臉幽怨地瞪了她一眼，她辟謠道：“當年我媽的專業六個人，我媽成績第四。”
之後，梁韞看着易總的病房，她說道：“你要不然去和易總和解，你倆這樣僵着。只會對易玖傷害最大，一個是她親爸，一個是你，她的最愛。”
賀景歆的細高跟踩到一張白紙，賀景歆撿起來，她瞬間瞪大了雙眼。
這是一張親子鑒定。
賀景歆拿着這張親子鑒定，直接朝着易總的病房走去。而易總穿着病號服，他站在窗戶前，眺望着外面的景色。他正在留戀凡塵，多看一眼是一眼。他聽到身後的敲門聲，他将視線轉移到後方。
原來是賀景歆。
易總爬上床，猛吸了一口呼吸機的氣體，嗆得他猛烈咳嗽一口。他蒼白的臉恢複了一下紅潤，只是那病态的紅色，以及頹敗的眼珠子，無不再預示他的生命已經進入倒計時。
風燭殘年，大概就是這個意思。
“易總，你和小朋友根本不是親父女。這才是你一直拖延病情的原因吧。”賀景歆将報告放在易總跟前，“你怕小朋友知道，一旦做了配型，你們之間的關系就此破裂。”
易總沉默了，他過了好一會兒，他顫抖着唇畔，緩緩地說道：“賀總，你不要告訴小玖這個真相好不好？”
“那小玖的父母是誰？”
父母？
易總捏住被子，他被白血病折磨的身體愈發瘦弱，甚至可以看到皮膚下緩緩流淌的血液。他的鼻息開始流淌着鼻血，一滴又一滴滴落在被子上，血淋淋，萦繞着淡淡的血腥氣息。
易總顫抖着手，拿過一旁的紙巾捂住鼻息。
“賀總，看在我為青木集團盡力的份上，看在我支持你的份上，你就高擡貴手。”易總向賀景歆屈服着，可女人并不想同意，想起三年前威脅自己的事情，她譏嘲一聲，“三年前，你逼迫我的時候，你就沒想過今日嗎？”
三年前？
易總浮現出之前的事情，當時兩人的位置對調。所以，三年前他承認了，他是錯了錯得太離譜了，那麽現在就讓他把一切板正。
疼痛貫徹大腦，抓着他的意識帶去了另一個平行時空。如果，他當時沒有遵循蘇荷的請求，将小玖送回程家。
——小玖，你以後跟爺爺奶奶一起生活。這是你小姨，小姨媽，還有你哥哥，姐姐。
那是不是一切又是另一種走向。
“咳咳咳！”易總咳出一大口血，“我如果能......能讓你穩坐......穩坐賀總寶座。讓賀景湘徹底滾出......賀家怎麽樣？”
讓賀景湘徹底出局。
這讓女人喜出望外，易總将一份證據交給她。他顫抖着雙手，手指枯槁。而賀景歆觸到那張紙的時候，易總眼神瞬間銳利，他使出所有的力氣，不想将最後的底牌交給賀景歆。賀景歆皺眉，“易總，請你放手。”
易總手指彎曲，紙出現了褶皺，堅定地說：“将親子鑒定給我。”
易總打開打火機，白紙被火燒毀，這一份關于易玖身世的事情徹底沒了。易總捂住胸口，猛烈地咳嗽着，他倒在病床上，他最後的意識開始模糊，神思飄蕩，賀景歆心有不忍。
——賀景歆，換成躺在病床上的是你爸爸，你會怎麽樣？
“我幫你叫醫生。”賀景歆說着，便将呼吸機蓋在他的口鼻上，她就坐在床邊。而易總瞪着她，沙啞而難聽的嗓音，“賀景歆，你得到了自己想要的，還留着做......做什麽.....滾啊！”
賀景歆見他不識好歹，幫他按了按醫生的按鈕。醫生很快過來，給他打了藥。賀景歆問道：“醫生，他這樣還有多少時間？”
醫生很是抱歉地說道：“就這幾天，我們盡力了。”
“用最好的藥，無論如何都要他活下去。”賀景歆說着，她落寞地離開了病房。
而易總嘴角微揚，蘇荷身上發生的悲劇，他阻止了。賀景歆與那個人一樣，愛慕權勢，壓根就不是小玖的良配。只有他死了，他會将秘密都帶走。
所謂彌留之際，都會看到想要看的一切......
2000年夏末
程蘇荷和那個人漫步在大學的校園，程蘇荷是全校風雲人物的alpha，而那個人是才藝雙絕的女學霸omega，這兩人本碩連讀，蘇荷的愛意比盛夏的陽光還要熱烈，步入青春期的alpha，omega相互傾慕。校園各處都流傳着她們的熱戀。
她們是最配的，也是最耀眼的。
蘇荷就如小玖那般，癡情癡心，恨不得将心剖給那個人。
蘇荷每天都會送那個人一束玫瑰花，她會毫不吝啬地花費自己的時間幫她做實驗，兩人共同探讨未來。蘇荷還會在每個節日，送上精美的禮物。
那些幸福溫暖的時刻慢慢清晰，又慢慢模糊。
2001年春天某個山村
“程醫生，你是我們村子的恩人。你給這個孩子起個名字吧。”一個老奶奶拉着一個小姑娘走過來，程蘇荷看了看小姑娘，看到門外的一棵桃樹，桃花盛開，“桃之夭夭，灼灼其華。你叫秦之華，好不好？”
“丫頭，你快謝謝程醫生。”
“謝謝程醫生。”小秦之華高興地說道，“秦蓉，我有名字了。”
“小程總，這是我們的攝像頭拍到的。”年輕的易總還是易秘書，他将視頻遞給程蘇荷。
畫面是......
一個醫生拿着注射器，他說：“一號實驗體秦蓉，給她注射一號實驗藥水。”，曾經那個才藝雙絕的女學霸omega也在視頻之中，她舉着注射器，看着那注射器頂端露出的一滴藥水，張揚又篤定，毫無憐憫，“蘇荷愛我，一定會理解我的。這只是實驗需要。”
之後就是一場程蘇荷帶上小秦蓉，小秦之華，還有她剛出生的孩子小玖逃離山村的事情。高校可以過濾學渣，卻不能過濾人渣。
蘇荷愛上了一個事業瘋批omega
最後，那個人瘋批omega害得蘇荷因愧疚，割腕自盡。
......
賀景歆從病房裏出來，正好遇見了梁韞。賀景歆将東西交給梁韞，“馬上去查賀景湘在哪裏？”
“怎麽回事？”
“賀景湘涉嫌酒駕撞死人，涉嫌掩蓋屍體等等。”賀景歆輕松地說着，炫耀着她即将到來的權勢，“這些罪名足夠讓賀景湘身敗名裂，把牢底坐穿。我終于可以把集團握在手裏。當然确定秦蓉在不在她身邊，她是無辜的。”
說完賀景歆就要走，梁韞拉住她，連忙阻止道：“你走幹嘛呀！你不是答應易玖會好好陪着她，陪着她爸爸的嗎？”
易總又不是小朋友的親生父親。
這是她心裏最真實的想法。
But she had promised Mr. Yi not to reveal the child's background, so she changed the subject and said, "I have to go back now to take charge of the group. I have to root out He Jingxiang's power. I will come back after I'm done. Besides, I'm not a medical student, so I can't help much here."
Liang Yan was stunned. This is what a daughter-in-law should say. It's true. But you must not emphasize filial piety. If you are dissatisfied with Mr. Yi, you should pretend to be nice and improve your reputation. "That's Yi Jiu's father, your father-in-law."
"Time waits for no one, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" He Jingxin's words were full of power. At this moment, no one and nothing could stop her. She had to drive the mother and daughter out. How did her mother die that year?
He was killed by this mother and daughter!
She thought of her mother lying on the hospital bed, no one came to save her, and her calls were useless. She must make the mother and daughter pay back a hundredfold for the harm she had suffered.
"Jing Xin, wait until He Jingxiang is in the police station." Liang Yin asked curiously, "Meng Li, she's divorced. She's doing this just for you. Last time, Yi Jiu slapped her in the face. These two are like water and fire."
"Don't worry about this. She is planning to start a career recently. I gave her a few music contracts because of our friendship. She won't appear in front of me and the kid." When she said this, He Jingxin rubbed her forehead, looking depressed and tired, and complained to her, "Kid, you have been in a bad mood recently."
"She wants your love." Liang Yin saw through Yi Jiu's needs at a glance, and she advised earnestly: "At first, President Yi knew about your pheromone disorder and threatened you to marry Yi Jiu. Later, you found that Yi Jiu's pheromones could just cure your illness. Don't turn your back on her now that your illness is cured."
"You think too much. I like her, but she is too emotional...she has given me the cold shoulder so many times this month. Whenever I don't coax her in a nice way, she takes advantage of me and becomes arrogant. I don't really ask for much. What I want from my partner is that she has a sense of boundaries, not too clingy, but also not too clingy."
Liang Yun took a while to understand these shocking words after hearing them. "... Can I understand that you found Yi Jiu too clingy and beyond your tolerance? So you use Meng Li to stimulate her. Similarly, if Meng Li is too much to you, you use Yi Jiu as a shield."
He Jingxin remained silent so that she would not be hurt by love.
"Please stop being such a jerk, you are simply..."
“Bang!”
The trash can was overturned, and Liang Yin's expression was a little horrified. "Do you think it could be your Yi Jiu? Is it such a coincidence that she heard everything?"
"Shut up!" He Jingxin shouted in panic.
"But I..." I'm so scared
"It should... not be her!" He Jing's face was filled with uncertainty, fear, and panic. She was really afraid that it was a child. She comforted herself in her heart, "She can't stand this anger, after all..." It was really heartbreaking.
"Wait, why is there blood here?" Liang Yun was horrified to find a bloody fingerprint on the wall. The two followed the bloodstain, which spread from the stairs down, "Someone, someone... is injured."
Liang Yin forced a smile, looked at the dazed person beside him, and forced an explanation, "Jing Xin, how could it be Yi Jiu? She is not injured? I'll give her a call."
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