Ch. 11..15: Mr CEO Ex-wife Escapes Again Chapter 11-15
Chapter 11 She Saw Another Child “Here it comes…”
After a burst of shouting, Aunt Ke’s voice finally came from upstairs.
However, within a few seconds, there was a loud “bang!” from above that even startled Cen Bao, who was eating in the dining room.
“Is he smashing things again?”
“Huh?”
Yin Hehe, standing to the side, was quite puzzled by her son’s remark.
But Cen Bao didn’t comment further and, like a little adult, he simply shrugged and continued eating contentedly.
“Young Master Xi Bao, if you don’t want to go to school, then Nanny Ke will go down and tell your mom, you shouldn’t—”
“Clang!!”
She hadn’t finished her sentence.
An even more frightening crash came from upstairs.
Yin Hehe heard it, couldn’t resist, and immediately walked out of the dining room, looking up.
Oh my God!
She saw a large vase tumbling down the stairs, and at the top stood a little boy who looked like a demon.
“Clang—!”
The vase finally reached the bottom of the stairs.
In an instant, everyone in the living room was dumbfounded as they saw the valuable collectible shatter into pieces.
“Sheng Xi, if I don’t beat you to death today, I’m not your mother!”
Lin Shuang finally exploded.
Unable to contain her anger, she glared at the child upstairs and charged up with a baseball bat picked up from nearby.
Yin Hehe opened her mouth.
But in the end, considering her own situation, she chose silence.
However, upon seeing this, Aunt Ke upstairs immediately came down to protect the child at the stairway.
“Miss Lin, please calm down. Young Master Xi Bao didn’t mean to do it; he just doesn’t want to go to school.”
“He goes crazy every time he doesn’t want to go to school? I think he has a mental problem; we might as well send him to a psychiatric hospital!”
Never had she anticipated that this woman would spew out such ugly words as she charged upstairs.
Yin Hehe was incredulous.
Was she really planning to send her own child to a psychiatric hospital? Was this woman insane?
She could no longer stand by and watch.
At that moment, the woman had already reached the child.
In an instant, Yin Hehe watched speechlessly as she truly raised the bat in her hand and ruthlessly swung it down at the child!
“Miss Lin!”
“Ah—”
The cries of alarm in the living room, along with that scream, were almost simultaneous.
And Yin Hehe also rushed upstairs quickly.
Fortunately, when she reached the stairway, she saw that the bat had struck not the child, but Nanny Ke, who had been protecting him.
“Aunt Ke, are you alright?”
Yin Hehe breathed a sigh of relief.
Aunt Ke: “…”
Before she could say anything, Lin Shuang, frustrated at hitting the wrong person, lifted the bat again in a fit of anger.
“You old fool, do you like getting hit that much? Then I’ll oblige you!”
“You dare!”
Unexpectedly, just as the woman was about to strike, the child who had been hiding behind Aunt Ke suddenly stepped forward.
Yin Hehe froze.
And Lin Shuang’s expression changed as she immediately focused on the child.
Sheng Xi, her son.
Indeed, from the facial features, the child resembled Cen Bao; after all, they were both borne of the same father.
But his demeanor was completely different from Cen Bao’s; Cen Bao was sunny and cheerful, while he was always shrouded in a gloomy and oppressing aura.
A four-year-old child, his gaze was enough to make one’s skin crawl.
“You dare threaten me?”
Lin Shuang tightened her grip on the bat in her hand, her eyes fierce, as if she wanted to dominate the child with her fierce demeanor.
Unfortunately, the child’s eyes, which starkly resembled his father’s, were filled only with indifference.
Yin Hehe: “…”
Her heart suddenly ached, and she stood up.
“Miss Lin, otherwise, let me talk to him. I’ve worked as a caregiver abroad and have some experience in communicating with children,”
she pleaded in front of this woman.
Teaching her how to care for a child was not possible; the woman wouldn’t listen, and Yin Hehe didn’t want to be thrown out again either.
Fortunately, after seeing her humble plea, the woman agreed.
“If you can’t persuade him, you can leave the same way you came in!”
“…”
She had still thrown herself into the fire.
About ten minutes later, with Auntie Ke’s help, Yin Hehe entered the child’s room.
“Xi Bao, can Auntie see where you are hurt?”
Yin Hehe, holding a medicine box, stood in front of the child and called out gently.
However, the child didn’t even look at her.
He sat there indifferently, his little hands operating on the iPad screen in front of him, not even lifting an eyelid.
He was playing a game.
Yin Hehe realized this and immediately put down the medicine box tactfully.
“So Xi Bao likes to play this, huh? Auntie can play too. Shall we have a challenge?”
“?”
“Then, let’s start.”
Yin Hehe didn’t care that much; she took out her own phone and found the same game.
Luckily, Cen Bao also played this, she had seen a lot of it and knew a little bit.
Yin Hehe logged in successfully using her son’s account.
Diamond level?
The little guy who was playing saw this suddenly popping up account and finally, those indifferent little eyes flickered with a hint of surprise and slowly turned to look at the aunt beside him.
Yin Hehe didn’t realize what had happened, but seeing that this aloof little guy was finally willing to look at her,
she was quite flattered.
“Well, we’ll start playing then.”
She began to play, and the sweat in her palms came out more than when she was in a courtroom fighting a lawsuit.
Five minutes later.
“Firstblood!”
Yin Hehe was dumbfounded.
She looked up and saw the little guy beside her giving her a look as if she was a monster. She could only smile awkwardly.
“Heh, sorry, my bad.”
Then, she immediately respawned.
But the second round was even worse, she got finished in three minutes.
“duoblekill”
“…”
“triplekill”
“…”
Yin Hehe was sweating profusely, and just as she was about to respawn again, she suddenly felt two unbearable gazes at her side.
“Are you really boring?”
“Ah?”
“Get out!”
Without any hesitation, the little guy whose patience had run out, closed the tablet with a “snap” and directly told her to leave.
Yin Hehe froze there.
After a moment, she accepted reality and put her phone back in her pocket.
“Xi Bao, I’m very sorry, Auntie really can’t play this. I just want to tell you that if you don’t want to go to school, Auntie will help you. Auntie has a little secret to tell you, Auntie is actually a lawyer,”
Yin Hehe said, sitting beside the little guy, holding her head, revealing a secret of her own in hopes of gaining his trust.
The little guy’s tapping hands stopped.
After a while, he turned his head, his delicate and pretty eyes widening slightly.
Yin Hehe smiled.
“Everything Auntie said is true, but you can’t tell anyone, otherwise Auntie won’t be able to stay here and won’t be able to help you,”
she added seriously, earnestly cautioning the child.
Of course, she didn’t suspect he would betray her.
A child who could stand up to protect another in that situation, how could he be a bad kid?
Chapter 12: They All Want to Get Rid of Her Yin Hehe finally succeeded in taking the child out.
“Xiaohan, you’re amazing, this is the first time I’ve seen such an obedient young master. How did you do it?”
The Aunt Ke who had been waiting outside asked eagerly upon seeing this.
Yin Hehe smiled.
She looked down at the child she was holding by the hand.
“It’s nothing, I just played a game with him. Aunt Ke, actually, it’s just because nobody plays with him.”
“Ah?”
Aunt Ke was completely baffled.
At this moment, Lin Shuang also came up, and when she heard this, she looked equally puzzled.
However, she eventually didn’t say anything else.
“Alright, it’s getting late. Sheng Xi, come here, I’ll take you to school.”
Then she came over, grabbed the child’s small arm without waiting for his consent, and took him away.
Aunt Ke: “…”
Yin Hehe: “…”
It was a good while before she looked at the unwilling silhouette of the little guy and asked with a furrowed brow, “Aunt Ke, has Miss Lin always been like this?”
“Alas…”
With that one word, the aunt let out a long sigh.
“More or less, she has little patience for Young Master Xi. Young Master Xi is introverted and resists communicating with others. So she also has no desire to communicate with him. When the child acts up, she either scolds, shouts, or even resorts to physical discipline.”
“…”
Yin Hehe was stunned.
She even frequently resorted to hitting; this was a child of the Sheng Family. Could it be that Sheng Siyuan did not care?
And, how could a perfectly good child develop such a withdrawn and strange character? Her Cen Bao had been seriously ill, yet he hadn’t turned out like that.
Yin Hehe could hardly believe it.
“Aunt Ke, can you tell me about this child’s situation? I want to know why he has become like this. It can’t be that he was born this way, right?”
“Of course not,” Aunt Ke immediately denied.
“Young Master Xi’s condition today, to a large extent, is because he started speaking and walking very late.”
“Ah?” Yin Hehe was stunned, “What do you mean? Does he have health issues, too?”
“Yes, due to being premature, he only started speaking and walking when he was two years old.”
Aunt Ke nodded, confirming.
In a flash, Yin Hehe stood there, feeling a buzz in her head, and her memory instantly raced back to that night five years ago when she gave birth.
Yes, she had also been premature.
And the result for her was the death of one child, and the surviving Cen Bao had a congenital blood disorder.
But she never gave up on her own child.
Why did that woman turn her son into this? Didn’t she realize that compared to her two children, her son was much luckier?
In her anger, Yin Hehe also felt a bit of heartache.
“And then what happened?”
“After that, Miss Lin started to dislike the child a lot. She blamed his unhealthiness for the grandfather and grandmother’s disdain for her, preventing her from being accepted into the Sheng Family.”
“So, over the years, she has been very harsh on the child. It was slightly better when the master was around, but once it was just the two of them, she never showed any kindness to him. Over time, Young Master Xi spoke less and less, and always locked himself in his room.”
“!!!!!!”
Yin Hehe’s face turned pale with anger.
That woman, she simply wasn’t fit to be a mother.
No wonder she was so fierce and harmful when she hit the child before, not considering for a moment what would happen to the child with that blow.
Could she really not be the child’s biological mother?
A thought suddenly flashed through Yin Hehe’s mind…
—
Kindergarten.
After Lin Shuang finally dropped off the child, she got back into the car and received a call from her mother.
“Xiaoshuang, I heard you hit the child again this morning?”
“Yes, what about it?”
She closed the car door, and upon hearing these words, showed no hint of reflection, still sounding utterly indifferent.
Lin’s mother, upon hearing this, immediately became infuriated.
“What are you saying? I’ve reminded you before. Now in Shengfei Bay, it’s not just one child. You keep laying hands on Sheng Xi. What if you cripple him? Do you think you’ll still have a chance to become Mrs. Sheng?”
She reminded her daughter without a shred of mercy.
But no sooner had she finished than Lin Shuang sneered coldly, “Don’t worry, even if my son gets beaten again, he’s still tougher than that sickly weakling.”
“You—”
With just one sentence, Lin’s mother was left speechless.
In terms of health, the current Sheng Xi was indeed stronger than Cen Bao.
“Fine, even if what you say is reasonable, you still can’t be careless. I heard that the nanny has been with Yin Hehe for many years. If you keep beating the child, and the nanny discovers something, what then?”
“…What could she possibly discover?”
“Isn’t it obvious? Ask yourself, which real mother would beat her child to death like you do?”
It was like a sudden thunderclap on a clear day!
The woman was finally reminded of this, and in an instant, as she gripped the steering wheel, her entire face changed.
Lin’s mother said, “Lin Shuang, you’d better take this to heart. Although Yin Hehe is dead, many things won’t be buried just because of her death. Moreover, now that her other son has come over, that’s like a ticking time bomb!”
One had to admit, Lin’s mother was shrewder, her considerations more comprehensive.
Lin Shuang was rendered completely speechless.
She sat in the car, her mind suddenly racing with the terrifying consequences. She felt a fear so deep, it was as if she had plunged into an ice cavern that had existed for ten thousand years.
No, she would not let such things happen!
It seemed that the damned nanny had to go; she had to make her disappear from Shengfei Bay.
A sinister light flashed in the woman’s eyes…
—
Downtown.
The towering Shengshi Empire Building.
After concluding the meeting and returning to his office, Sheng Siyuan received the material he wanted.
“President, the information you requested has been obtained, but no problems were found,” Chen Xiaosen handed it over.
Sheng Siyuan raised an eyebrow.
For a moment, he stopped tapping on the keyboard, took the material, and began to scrutinize it.
Indeed, after a careful examination, he could not find any faults.
“The South Korean, did you confirm with the team over there?”
“Confirmed, it matches.”
Chen Xiaosen nodded in response.
Hearing this, the man finally fell silent, his gaze fixed on the few thin sheets of paper, his elegant features clouded with gloom.
“President?”
“Alright, I got it. You can go out now.”
With no leads, he could only let the secretary go out with a heavy heart.
But Chen Xiaosen hesitated for a moment, then took out another item from the folder.
“President, there’s also this. It was just received from the legal department this morning. They said, it’s a bit tricky.”
“?”
The man had no choice but to look at the desk again.
As he did, his gaze sharpened so intensely that even the black pupils behind his glasses seemed to contract.
“The Banking Regulatory Commission is serving me with a legal letter? Do they no longer wish to live?”
The suddenly frosty voice was enough to send shivers down one’s spine.
Indeed, Shengshi Group was not a company anyone could dare to provoke—the unrivaled leader ranked first in Asia.
Who would be so reckless with their life?
Yet Chen Sen was still sweating profusely.
“No, President, this time the Banking Regulatory Commission probably has evidence of our stock market manipulation, and moreover, they’ve hired a very formidable lawyer this time. It’s not to be underestimated.”
“Who?”
“The top-notch Landun Law Firm globally, and the person handling this case is their chief lawyer, Lan Yi.”
Chen Sen introduced cautiously.
Chapter 13 She is really capable! Lan Yi was indeed very famous.
He was the chief lawyer of Landun Law Firm, unbeaten in his career, and he was especially adept at taking the initiative to attack. In other words, when clients came to him, needing to corner their opponents, he always managed to successfully target their Achilles’ heel.
Subsequently, he annihilated them in one fell swoop!
Therefore, Lan Yi also earned the international title of “Madman Lan Yi.”
Sheng Siyuan had certainly heard of him.
He stared at the dossier, and when he saw the page belonging to this man named Lan Yi—lacking a photo but displaying his age as merely 26 yet sprawling across three pages documenting his impressive feats—he finally crumpled the papers into a ball with a steely-faced grimace and slammed them down on the table.
“Clang!”
“A bunch of incompetents!”
“Yes,” Chen Sen dared not deny.
“So… does the president plan to make a trip there? If so, legal affairs has said that you need to arrange your current matters first, such as the surgery for young master Cen Bao. Otherwise, you… might not have time to deal with these later.”
“Scram!”
As soon as the words fell, an ashtray came hurtling at him.
At that moment, the man’s patience had reached its limit, and his entire body exuded an aura so chilling and menacing, it was as if he were about to kill someone.
Too terrifying…
—
Yin Hehe was quite calm in Shengfei Bay at the moment.
She wasn’t paying attention to her son’s surgery; instead, after learning about Sheng Xi’s experiences, she began to consider how to help this child.
“Mommy, why do you want to help him? Isn’t he the child of that bad woman?”
In the room, Cen Bao was busy upgrading his game account on the tablet.
Seeing that Mommy was still trying to find ways to help that annoying guy, he pouted, feeling a bit aggrieved.
“Huh?”
Yin Hehe had just turned her attention to him.
“Sorry, baby, Mommy’s been neglecting you. Here’s the thing, even though Xi Bao is the child of a bad woman, he’s your brother. Adult affairs have nothing to do with children. Don’t you want to help him?”
Yin Hehe gently rubbed her son’s head as she spoke.
The little guy shook his head.
“It’s not that, it’s just that guy is kind of annoying. You don’t know, but last night I stayed opposite him, and he didn’t even speak a word to me.”
He was very disheartened…
Perhaps, for the first time, the little sun felt utterly rejected by someone.
Yin Hehe found it somewhat amusing.
She continued to explain, “I know, Mommy found out today, brother Xi Bao has been this way because he’s sick.”
“Sick?”
As soon as these words were spoken, the good-natured little one’s beautiful, curved eyes immediately widened.
“What illness does he have? Is it serious?”
“Quite serious. He’s ill for the same reason you were—he came into this world prematurely. But, you had Mommy’s meticulous care, and he didn’t. His mommy and the people around him never took good care of him, and that’s why he’s turned out this way.”
As Yin Hehe said this, the thought of that poor child once again stirred a pang of sympathy in her heart.
That child, if he had followed her, would certainly not have ended up like this.
Cen Bao was also stunned.
So it turned out that the annoying guy was so pitiful.
Alright then, from now on, he’d share Mommy with him half and half, considering he was a brother related by blood anyway.
The little guy then cheerfully stopped bothering Mommy any further.
Yin Hehe looked through the photo albums given by Aunt Ke again and then decided to go check out the storage room for the child’s things.
“Cen Bao, Mommy is going to find some things your brother used when he was little. Don’t run around, okay?”
“Got it, Mommy.”
Cen Bao nodded obediently.
Yin Hehe got up and walked toward the second floor.
According to Aunt Ke, ever since Lin Shuang moved in with the child five years ago, that woman took over the entire main building, so they put all the miscellaneous items, including the things Sheng Xi used as a child, into the secondary building behind it.
Yin Hehe arrived there.
Yet upon pushing the door open, she found the decoration style and furniture arrangement eerily familiar. What baffled her was that the building seemed exceptionally clean, even the large wall clock in the lobby was ticking away.
Shouldn’t it have been abandoned?
After all, this was a place where Yin Hehe had once lived.
Unable to make sense of it, she stepped inside, surveying the surroundings as she made her way to the storeroom Ke Ayi had mentioned, as if she’d been there many times before.
But at that moment…
“Click-clack, click-clack—”
In the tranquil corridor, suddenly there came the sound of footsteps, steady and brisk—distinctly a man’s.
Yin Hehe: “…”
“Why are you here?”
It was as if a thunderclap had exploded out of thin air.
The moment Yin Hehe turned around, she saw a tall and upright figure appearing in the hallway.
Dressed in a fitted black suit with a white shirt, he emerged like the Grim Reaper out of the darkness, and although an air of natural elegance and clarity emanated from him, Yin Hehe still felt a chilling terror.
How had he returned?
Wasn’t he supposed to be at the company? And why would he come to this floor? She remembered that he never set foot here before.
“I… I came to look for Xi Bao’s belongings, Mr. Sheng, why did you suddenly come back? Is something the matter?” she quickly steadied her mind and asked.
Xi Bao?
However, upon hearing this nickname, the man in the hallway, behind his rimless glasses, his handsome face darkened further in the dim light.
“Who allowed you to call him that? What are you scheming?”
“??”
Now Yin Hehe was truly bewildered.
Assigning an affectionate nickname to the child, and this bastard man still questioned her intentions?
Sick!
“Mr. Sheng, are you aware that your child is sick?”
“What did you say?”
“Sheng Xi.” Yin Hehe took a deep breath and began to explain.
“Today, he didn’t want to go to school. He destroyed many things at home and wouldn’t listen to anyone. If I’m not wrong, he might be showing signs of autism.”
She looked quietly at the man, reminding him of the severity of the matter.
She was truly puzzled.
This man is the child’s father, yet he seemed to be unaware that the child was sick, allowing that woman to beat and scold the child.
What in the world was he doing?
Sheng Siyuan, indeed, was taken aback for a moment.
“Autism? What nonsense are you spouting? He’s only four years old. His volatile temperament is due to excessive medication at the age of two, which stimulated his pituitary gland. He’ll grow out of it gradually.”
Surprisingly, the man snapped out of it and immediately retaliated, his voice quite harsh.
This left Yin Hehe stunned.
Is that so?
She felt a little embarrassed but then quickly thought of Lin Shuang.
If he knew the child’s issues were medication-related, why did that woman repeatedly say she wanted to send the child to a psychiatric hospital?
And why was she so cruel in hitting him?
“Mr. Sheng, that Lin…”
“Enough, I came back to tell you that I will go to the hospital for a compatibility test tomorrow. Remember to prepare the child,” the man with the cold eyes and handsome brows interrupted her, speaking indifferently in the dimly lit corridor.
And his gaze, unnoticed by anyone, was fixed like a hawk’s on the hallway behind the woman.
That was the most secluded part of the building.
If one didn’t know the place well, they would never find it, and ever since that damned woman ran away, this building had become a restricted area in Shengfei Bay. Without Sheng Siyuan’s permission, no one dared approach it.
So, how did this woman find it?
Moreover, when she passed the large pendulum clock in the lobby downstairs, she showed no surprise, but a distracted gaze instead.
The already profound eyes of the man grew alarmingly darker…
Chapter 14 Is She Seducing Him? “That’s great, Mr. Sheng, I promise to bring Cen Bao over on time tomorrow!”
Yin Hehe didn’t notice the look in this man’s eyes and was overjoyed to hear that he was willing to get the child tested so soon.
She was thrilled.
Sheng Siyuan nodded, displaying a look of satisfaction.
After a moment, Yin Hehe left, and the man stood expressionlessly in the corridor, watching her retreating figure until another shadow appeared behind him.
“Young master, I have called Dr. Shen about the matching test, but why would you let this nanny take the child there?”
It turned out to be the butler of Shengfei Bay.
Only then did Sheng Siyuan retract his gaze and gave the butler a cold glance, “Hasn’t the child always been with her?”
Butler: “…”
That was true, but the child was already four years old. He couldn’t possibly be unable to go to the hospital without his nanny, right?
Besides, wasn’t Miss Lin there at the hospital?
In the end, the butler didn’t dare to ask any more questions.
The next day.
Yin Hehe got up very early.
She planned to wake up her son, Cen Bao, in the main building so she could accompany him to the hospital on time with his daddy.
However, as she came over from the back yard, she instantly spotted a woman in a silk pajama in the dimly lit villa garden, as venomous as a snake crawling out from a dark corner,
blocking the way with a fierce look on her face.
“Miss Lin, you’re up early?”
She calmed herself and casually greeted her.
But as soon as she spoke, the woman started cursing: “Han Lina, you’re quite capable, aren’t you? You promised me just yesterday to behave, and yet today you dare seduce my husband behind my back?”
“??”
Yin Hehe felt a vein on her forehead throb.
Was this woman insane?
She was clearly taking the child to the hospital for testing, and yet she accused her of seducing that bastard? Did she think all women were like her? Obsessed with that man to the exclusion of all other males?
Yin Hehe’s eyes finally turned cold as well.
“Miss Lin, taking the child to the hospital was Mr. Sheng’s instruction. Besides, as the child’s nanny, what’s wrong with accompanying him to the hospital?”
“It’s definitely wrong!”
The woman immediately snarled back, biting her teeth in rage.
“Han Lina, do you know who I am? I am the director of Jiangbei Hospital. Why should I be there at the hospital and still need you to bring the child over? Are you more familiar with the hospital than I am? Is your role in caring for the child more legitimate than mine?”
“…”
For a few seconds, Yin Hehe was so stunned by her words she didn’t know how to respond.
Yes, why did they have to have her go along?
Wasn’t this woman more suitable?
Yin Hehe fell into deep thought.
But just then, perhaps alerted by the sound of their argument, a man walked out onto the balcony of the villa next door.
“What are you arguing about? Can’t you find something pleasant early in the morning?”
It was Sheng Siyuan.
Dressed in light gray homewear, with his hands leisurely in his pockets, he emanated a sense of laziness and ease without his usual suit and leather shoes, combined with a natural elegance and nobility.
But now…
Yin Hehe felt an overwhelming chill and immediately shut her mouth.
Lin Shuang, however, panicked upon being caught in her disgraceful act.
“Ayuan, I… it’s nothing, I was just asking her something…”
She hurried to explain to the man.
Half an hour later, Yin Hehe and her child were in the car, following a black Bentley, slowly leaving the estate.
Her child was finally going to be saved.
Yin Hehe couldn’t hide her happiness the entire way.
Jiangbei Hospital.
The morning sun shone down from the top of the outpatient building. As Yin Hehe got out of the car and saw the people in white coats coming and going in the lobby, with the air filled with the scent of disinfectant,
She couldn’t help but feel a sense of disorientation.
Five years ago, she was a frequent visitor here.
“Miss Han, the young master said that I should take you for a blood test first, and then he will talk to the doctor.”
“Okay.”
Yin Hehe came back to her senses and quickly agreed.
Twenty minutes later, after Cen Bao’s blood had been drawn, Yin Hehe took him out of the blood-drawing room and, just then, she saw Sheng Siyuan.
“Mr. Sheng, have you finished talking with the doctor? How is the situation?”
She was so concerned about this matter that as soon as she saw the man, she didn’t even think to consider whether or not it was appropriate.
She rushed up to him and couldn’t wait to ask.
Sheng Siyuan raised an eyebrow.
He indeed had just come out from the doctor’s office after inquiring about a potential match, but he saw how anxious the woman looked.
“Uncertain, need to check first,” he said, his gaze deep and slightly cool, showing no discernible emotion.
Yin Hehe, hearing this, didn’t even think before urging, “Then Mr. Sheng, please hurry, Cen Bao’s blood has already been drawn.”
“…”
The corridor fell silent.
And Yin Hehe, under this man’s scrutinizing and tranquil gaze, realized her rashness belatedly.
She wished she could slap herself.
“Mr. Sheng, I…”
“I will go for the test first. You take care of the child, and when I come back, we’ll see the doctor together,” he finally spoke.
Unexpectedly, he did not get angry but instead left these words in a very indifferent tone and walked away.
Yin Hehe: “…”
This was rather strange; wasn’t this man the one who detested her lack of manners the most? Now she was being so presumptuous, and he wasn’t angry?
She stared at the man’s retreating figure for a long time.
“Mommy, I… I feel a bit dizzy,” said Cen Bao.
“Ah?”
His words brought Yin Hehe back to reality.
She had forgotten that her son had just had blood drawn, and for someone with congenital hematopoietic dysfunction, failing to replenish nutrients on time was fatal.
Yin Hehe took her son to the hospital’s dietary area.
About ten minutes later, Cen Bao drank some milk and chocolate in the dining area, and finally, his pale little face improved a lot.
“Sorry, baby, Mommy was negligent just now. In my rush to ask about the matching, I forgot you hadn’t eaten yet.”
“It’s okay, Mommy,” Cen Bao reassured her, his little hand gripping a large milk bottle magnanimously.
Yin Hehe rubbed his little head.
While the mother and son were eating, two patients started discussing something nearby.
“Was the old lady in Room 801 calling out all night again?”
“Yes, it’s sad. With her illness, and no one to care for her, she would have developed bedsores if not for the nurses turning her over.”
Upon mentioning this, the older patient couldn’t help but shake her head.
Develop bedsores?
As Yin Hehe was peeling the chocolate wrapper for her son, she overheard this conversation and couldn’t help but glance at the two people.
“Alas, that’s why I find it strange. Isn’t it said that the old lady is quite wealthy? Why hasn’t she hired a caretaker?”
“Hire one? Didn’t you see how fierce her daughter-in-law was when she visited? I heard Mrs. Yin is famously ruthless in Jiangbei. It’s already good enough she sent the old lady to be hospitalized.”
Suddenly, the elder patient mentioned the surname of the patient suffering from bedsores.
Surname Yin?
When Yin Hehe heard this, she instantly stopped in her tracks, as she was about to leave with her child.
In Jiangbei, it seemed that her family was the only one with the surname Yin.
Her hand peeling the chocolate wrapper paused.
Chapter 15 I’m Waiting for Her Ghost “Auntie, I want to ask, this old lady you’re talking about, is her last name really Yin?”
Yin Hehe finally walked over and asked the two patients.
As soon as her words fell, the older woman immediately nodded with certainty.
“Yes, her last name is Yin, she’s the mother-in-law of that Mrs. Yin. Do you know her?”
“…”
Yin Hehe didn’t speak.
Instead, she clenched her fingers tightly. In just a few seconds, she almost drew blood from her palms.
Of course, she knew her; she was her grandmother.
After her birth mother had died, it was her grandmother who had raised her. Otherwise, she might have been tormented to death by that woman He Wanqiu long ago.
How could grandmother have become like this?
Five years ago, when she left, wasn’t her grandmother still in good health?
Yin Hehe was completely disoriented by what she’d learned, her heart filled with guilt and rage simmering rapidly, she didn’t return to the pediatric department.
Instead, she took her child and headed straight to the internal medicine inpatient department.
“Mommy, are we going to see Great-grandma? Don’t be sad, we will see her very soon,” Cen Bao comforted her smartly on the way, seeing his mother so grief-stricken and self-reproaching.
He also knew about Great-grandma; Mommy often mentioned her when they were abroad.
“Mhm!”
Reminded by her son, Yin Hehe managed to regain a bit of calm.
But the calm didn’t last long. As soon as she reached the internal medicine inpatient department and found the hospital room, she trembled so much upon seeing the disfigured old woman inside that she nearly tore off the doorframe.
“What are you doing here?”
At the critical moment, a man’s clear and cool voice sounded from behind her.
Yin Hehe stopped in her tracks!
Sheng Siyuan?
Before she could sort out her emotions, she mechanically turned around and immediately saw a tall and straight male figure already striding toward her.
“Do you know her?”
Sheng Siyuan now stood at the entrance to the hospital room too.
Dressed in a suit, his hands casually slipped into his trouser pockets, he looked even more dashing and unrestrained. However, his eyes, dim and unfocused as they swept over the old lady in the room, emanated a dangerous air.
Yin Hehe’s head was no longer able to function.
She hadn’t expected this man to appear at the time when her emotions were the most uncontrollable.
“I…”
“Daddy, it was me who asked auntie to come here. I just heard downstairs that Great-grandma was here.”
Unexpectedly, just as Yin Hehe was about to give herself away, the clever Cen Bao suddenly stepped forward.
Yin Hehe’s complexion immediately changed.
“Cen Bao!”
“You?”
After calling out only one word, the man in front, with his dark and fierce eyes, was already fixated on the little one behind the glasses.
“Great-grandma? You know her?”
“I know, Mommy used to talk about her a lot to me, saying that she raised her and even showed me photos,” Cen Bao answered, looking up fearlessly.
That was indeed true.
Over those years, Yin Hehe, while living abroad with the siblings, had mentioned everyone except this despicable man from time to time.
So, it was normal for the little one to remember Great-grandma.
Yin Hehe finally took a deep breath of relief.
However, the man did not seem to believe her and his gaze, sharp as a knife, continued to stare at the little one.
“You mean to say, your mom often talks to you about the Yin family members?”
“Yeah.”
Cen Bao didn’t notice the danger and acknowledged it readily.
All of a sudden, standing beside him, Yin Hehe felt a chilling coldness that made her scalp tingle rising around her as she stared at the man, noticing that even his look had changed.
“Mr. Sheng!!”
At the critical moment, Yin Hehe immediately scooped up her four-year-old son.
“It’s not like that, Miss Yin didn’t mention him often, only the great-grandmother brought it up a few times. You know, she’s avoiding you, so how could she reveal these things to the child?”
She was so anxious to explain to this man, afraid that in the next second he might tear them, mother and son, apart.
Yes, this damn man, he must be angry again.
As the father of the child, she had never mentioned him in front of the child for the past five years, whereas the Yin Family often did.
It would be strange if he weren’t furious.
Fortunately, after his explanation, seeing that others had also gathered around, the man did not lose his temper in the end.
Yin Hehe finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She had been too careless today, how could she be so inattentive? Even if she was concerned about her grandmother, she could have taken her time to plan.
She left the hospital with her heart still pounding.
Sheng Siyuan hadn’t left yet.
He was standing expressionless in the pediatrician’s office, looking down from the window to see the woman below had already left with the child.
He coldly withdrew his gaze and pulled out a cigarette.
“So, what exactly are you suspicious of now? You brought her to the hospital on purpose, then deliberately let her hear the news about the old Mrs. Yin. You wouldn’t be…”
Shen Fang saw him and took a lighter out of the drawer, walking in front of him.
However, the man did not make a sound.
He lit the cigarette in his hand with the flame, took a deep inhale, and then forcefully snuffed it out in the ashtray.
He prepared to leave, lifting his foot.
Shen Fang: “…”
What’s wrong with this guy?
Asking for help with something, yet unwilling to speak even a word.
“What exactly is going on with the Yin Family? Wasn’t that woman raised by Yin Rong?”
All of a sudden, the man who had already walked to the door, carrying his suit jacket, turned back.
Shen Fang spread his hands: “Young Master, she’s your ex-wife. You were married to her for two years. Are you really asking me these questions?”
“…”
A few seconds of silence.
Made the man at the office door, though still expressionless, show a hint of irritation in his eyes.
Back then, he had indeed never inquired about her affairs, not even a little bit.
Including her family.
“Alright, alright, I’ll tell you, your ex-wife actually had a hard time in the Yin Family. Her birth mother died early, and after her mother’s death, her father quickly found her a stepmother. Rumor has it that the stepmother is particularly vicious, often mistreating her. If it weren’t for her grandmother, she probably wouldn’t have lived to marry you.”
Shen Fang couldn’t stand this guy and finally spilled out all these troublesome matters of the Yin Family.
Sheng Siyuan paused after hearing it.
Perhaps, he hadn’t expected Yin Hehe’s status in the Yin Family to be so low.
However, very quickly, he thought of something else.
So, because of an unhappy family, she found a man and eloped? Too bad the elopement didn’t succeed. Instead, that man named Chu Yan had an accident, and in a roundabout way, his heart ended up being donated to him, Sheng Siyuan, and then later, that damned woman, to get that heart, married him.
As his thoughts spun, in an instant, his handsome face turned stormy.
“Eldest Young Master, you…”
“Since that’s the case, let the old lady go down and accompany her. That would be fulfilling her filial duty, wouldn’t it?”
“!!!!!”
Shen Fang was stunned.
Had this guy lost his mind? Did he realize what he was doing?
“Sheng Siyuan, do you hate your ex-wife that much? Aren’t you afraid of such actions bringing your deceased ex-wife from beneath the ground to find you?”
“Coincidentally, I’m afraid she won’t come!”
He retorted as if he were looking forward to the ghost of his ex-wife crawling up from the ground, which was exactly what he wanted to see.
Shen Fang felt a chill run down his spine…