Chapter 100
Shen Ron was not as cold-blooded as Cheng Lydia thought either, he knew every step of her treatment, he knew she was discharged today and he had been to her ward. It was just that Gu William was at her bedside at the time and he didn’t want to disturb them.
He knew Gu William would come to pick up Cheng Lydia from the hospital, but he came anyway, for no other reason than to get a clear idea of whether she had a place to stay and whether she had accepted Gu William’s feelings.
The Bentley was right behind her, and Cheng Lydia didn’t even know it.
It was Gu William who noticed, and without moving, he increased the accelerator and drove the car as fast as he could.
Shen Ron accelerated close behind until Gu William’s car pulled up to a subdivision barrier to take out the entry card and he braked the car to the side of the road with one foot.
This is Gu William’s bachelor pad and Gu William brings a woman home to live with him, so it seems he has really deep feelings for Cheng Lydia, a man worth letting go of.
There was something vaguely dull in his heart, Shen Ron took a light breath, wondering why he felt this way, was it because he didn’t want to let go? He obviously didn’t love Cheng Lydia, didn’t he?
He’d be doing his conscience a favor if he could watch her live a good life.
Cheng Lydia moved into a bachelor apartment that Gu William had arranged for her, and as she surveyed the lavishly decorated, brightly lit house, the guilt she felt for Chung Grace came rushing back to her.
Gu William placed the keys on the shoe cabinet and said, “This is where I usually stay for my occasional little stay, so you can stay here for now.”
Cheng Lydia was surprised, this was where he lived? No wonder there was a sign that someone had lived here.
Gu William thought she was worried about where she was going and smiled, “Don’t worry, I’m going home to stay and won’t come over to bother you.”
“Why do you need this apartment when your house is right around the corner? It’s not handy for a golden house, is it?” Cheng Lydia joked.
Isn’t that what rich people do? They don’t live in their mansions, they make their own little world outside, free to bring back whoever they want to spend the night with.
“No woman has ever arrived here.” Gu William said with a serious look on his face.
“Not even once?” Cheng Lydia was surprised.
“No.”
“Does that include Chung Grace?”
“Isn’t Chung Grace a woman?” He asked back with a raised eyebrow.
Cheng Lydia lowered her eyes and sighed helplessly, “When you say that, I feel even more sorry for Chung Grace inside.”
“You don’t have to feel sorry for anyone, I’m not going to change my feelings for her just because you live here, and if she knows me, she won’t think anything of it either.” Gu William patted her on the shoulder, “I’ll go with you tomorrow to get your aunt transferred.”
“No, I’ll be fine on my own.”
“Cheng Lydia, you listen to me carefully.” Gu William suddenly said, “I am still optimistic about your marriage with Shen Ron, I think you can still go on, if you really can’t go on, you don’t need to think of any other way out, I will definitely not let you go again. Even if there are a hundred Chung Grace, or a thousand Chung Grace, it won’t stop me from getting you.”
His boisterous and resolute denunciation rendered Cheng Lydia speechless.
This is going to drive her crazy!
“Don’t say such silly things and get back to your rest.” Cheng Lydia pushed him toward the door.
Gu William tried to express his attitude a little more firmly, but Cheng Lydia flung the door panel shut and unceremoniously separated him from the doorway.
Early the next morning, Cheng Lydia received a text back from her bank with a large entry of a million on her account.
She hadn’t expected Gu William to do what he said he would do, and to move so quickly.
She dialed Gu William’s number and immediately his energetic voice came through on the other end, “Awake?”
“Not yet, thank you for the million, I received it.”
“Roger that.” He hadn’t actually gotten up, he just couldn’t help but get up refreshed after seeing her number. The million had also come from him calling his assistant to call her early this morning after he’d gotten out of Cheng Lydia’s place last night.
“Then … I’ll get some more sleep.” Cheng Lydia said.
“Together.” Gu William smiled and hung up the phone.
Cheng Lydia sat up from her bed and looked at the time on the wall it was just after seven, a little early indeed.
She certainly wouldn’t go back to sleep and would say so to get to the hospital to help her mother get discharged before Gu William came over.
Of course she can’t let Gu William accompany her to pick up her mother from the hospital, after all, there are a lot of people and everyone in the hospital knows that she and Shen Ron are a couple, if a man suddenly comes today, it is bound to be talked about again.
On the other hand, it remains Chung Grace’s reason, in case any paparazzi take a picture and upload it online, and it floats across the ocean to Chung Grace’s eyes, after all, Gu William is still reported very frequently.
Cheng Lydia contacted the ambulance for the transfer and went to her mother’s primary care doctor’s office to learn about the procedures and precautions for the transfer.
Doctor Zhang was unaware of the feud between Cheng Lydia and Shen Ron, let alone why she had suddenly decided to transfer to another hospital. When confronted with his questions, Cheng Lydia responded with a simple statement, “Yarn’s medical expenses are too expensive to treat any longer. ”
Doctor Zhang sighed slyly and hesitated for a moment before saying in a serious manner, “Doctor Cheng, a colleague, let me be honest with you …”
Cheng Lydia’s heart sank and she stared at him with a stony face.
Doctor Zhang said, “Your mother’s situation looks ideal on the surface, but in fact it is very bleak and needs to be treated with surgery as soon as possible, otherwise there is a high risk of raw brain death in the shortest possible time. I didn’t tell you the truth before because the surgery date was approaching and I didn’t want you to worry.”
Cheng Lydia opened her mouth and stared at Doctor Zhang in a daze, only half finding her voice: “You mean that my mother will … be operated on if not in the shortest possible time.”
She couldn’t say any more, couldn’t really say the word that horrified her.
“Yes.” Doctor Zhang nodded, “I don’t understand why you want to transfer, the hospital research team has already finalized your mother’s surgery plan and is waiting for the surgery to be performed next week. If you transfer to another hospital at this moment, not to mention that you are wasting the research results of the research team and missing the best chance of surgery. Even if you transfer to a world class hospital, due to the complexity of your mother’s condition, it will take at least a month to research the treatment plan, you simply can’t afford to wait!”
Cheng Lydia broke down and dropped into a chair with her legs going limp.
How did this happen?
She had always assumed that her mother’s condition was stable and would not be life-threatening for at least this decade or eight years.
When she got the million this morning, she was still hopeful about her mother’s future; in her mind, money would make the world go round, and with a million dollars, what hospital would refuse her mother admission?
Doctor Zhang stole a glance at her, and to hide his weakness, looked down as if studying the medical log.
He didn’t know who had told him to make up such nonsense about Cheng Lydia, but anyway, he had received a notice from above early this morning telling him that Cheng Lydia would be coming over to do her discharge today, telling him to stop her from coming down no matter what, and teaching him such a nose-to-nose lie.
He decided at the time that the hospital was trying to earn money for Cheng Lydia’s treatment; after all, researching this surgical project cost the hospital a lot of financial resources.
That’s all he could think of, because he had no idea that the real mooch behind the manipulation was Shen Ron, much less the relationship between Shen Ron and Cheng Lydia.
After leaving Yarn Hospital, Cheng Lydia stood expressionlessly on the cold, windy roadside like a Muppet with no soul.
She never understood why God had to be so cruel to her, why he always liked to play jokes on her that she didn’t find funny.
There are so many people in the world, why her?
Is God trying to force all the world’s misery on her? Because she had sinned too much in her last life?
Eventually, she got into a cab and headed to The Shen Family mansion.
It’s only 8:00 a. m., the time Shen Ron is getting ready to leave for work.
When she entered the main house, Shen Ron and Shen Belle were having tea with the old lady. Shen Belle, the happy girl, didn’t know what funny things she said, making the old lady laugh while even Shen Ron, who was always unsmiling, curled his eyebrows in laughter.
When she saw Cheng Lydia enter, Shen Belle called out cheerfully, “Ah, sister-in-law is back.” She greeted him and took Cheng Lydia’s arm and said with a smile, “I was just urging Big Brother to tell him it’s time to bring his sister-in-law back, what’s the big deal? Right?”
“Yeah, what’s the big deal.” Cheng Lydia smiled weakly and slowly made her way to the couch.
She walked extremely slowly, still struggling to walk because her legs weren’t fully healed.
“Sister-in-law, you and big brother communicate well, I’ll leave now.” Shen Belle smiled and turned to go to work.
Old Mrs. Shen gave Cheng Lydia a sidelong glance with a cup of tea in her hand, the smile on her face having faded long ago.
Shen Ron, who was sitting across from the old lady, also just looked at her faintly and didn’t say a word.
“What? Are you here to beg me?” The old lady lightly pulled her lips together and smiled as cold as ice.
Cheng Lydia smiled softly, placed the silver and card containing a million dollars in her hand on the glass table, and said, “There’s a million dollars in here, which I think should be enough to pay for my mother’s medical bills and surgery.”
The old woman swept the card on the table with another equally cold and dismissive gaze and snorted, “A million?”
“Yeah, a million.” To Cheng Lydia, a million dollars was huge money, something it would take her two lifetimes to earn.
“Is that from Gu William?” Shen Ron spat out mockingly, his deep gaze looking askance at her face.
“Or what?” Cheng Lydia asked quietly and rhetorically.
“Heh, no wonder the look of an arrogant bone, it turns out that he is leaning on a big tree, he is really able to bend and stretch.”
“Shen Ron, insult me all you want, but I’m sorry to tell you that I don’t care at all.” Cheng Lydia smiled, “When I first married you, I had already buried my dignity under the ground, a person without dignity, naturally, she will lean into the arms of whichever man has money, what’s wrong with that? Thanks to Ms. Yang’s face, I was able to get around so many rich men with ease.”
Shen Ron’s face, which had gradually turned iron blue.C0pyright © 2024 Nôv)(elDrama.Org.
Cheng Lydia looked at his face with an instant rush of post-revenge pleasure.
However, she was still too happy too soon.
The old woman let out a sneer, and instantly her heart sank downward.
The old woman leaned over and picked up the bank card on the table and handed it back to her with a cold smile, “Go and ask Gu William for another twenty million over.”
Cheng Lydia’s face paled slightly as the old lady continued, “You don’t know yet, do you? For your mother’s illness, I invited a total of ten top brain doctors from the United States to work together on the surgical plan, at a fee of one million each, and of course, the cost of the surgical research is extremely expensive, plus the medical expenses over this period of time. Also, one thing you may not realize clearly is that Yarn is a private hospital under the Shen Group, not a state-controlled group, and I have a hundred percent right to refuse you the twenty million dollars and refuse to operate on your mother.”
“You …” Cheng Lydia was annoyed.
“I told you, fighting with me will not end well.” The old lady smiled vaguely again, “You’re a tiny doctor, how dare you play dirty with me? Do you think you can outplay me?”
“I’m not playing dirty with you.” Cheng Lydia’s tone had begun to soften, to get anxious.
“I treat you with all my heart and you return me with such an attitude, I tell you, this operation Yarn is determined not to carry out, you are dead in the water.”
“Don’t …” Cheng Lydia, in desperation, knelt down by the old woman’s legs and begged, “I was wrong, please don’t cancel the operation, I’ll find a way to get you whatever money is left.”
“Do you think we at The Shen Family are short of money?”
There is no shortage, indeed there is no shortage, The Shen Family is short on people, not money!
Cheng Lydia turned to Shen Ron again and begged, “Ron, please help me, I shouldn’t have irritated you with the attitude I just had, in fact, there was nothing going on with Gu William and I was just too sad and chilled to say that kind of thing on purpose.”
Shen Ron coldly brushed her hand away from his knee and said indifferently, “What do you want to beg me for? Go beg Gu William, aren’t you going to be in his arms instead? Haven’t you already moved in with him?”
“I …” Cheng Lydia stalled in her speech.
The old lady said impatiently, “Stop flapping your feelings here and hurry up and take your mother to find another high place!”
What a cold sentence.