Chapter Thirteen

  Liu Fei walked in and saw Ji Xiaowan lying on the bed, so she went over to touch her forehead and asked, "Xiaowan, has your fever gone down?"

  After Liu Fei entered, Yi Ling and Ye Haiwei sat on the soft chair motionless and silent. Upon hearing Liu Fei's question, both of them nodded in agreement, thinking to themselves that after all, Liu Fei was Ji Xiaowan's mother, so it seemed she did have some feelings for her.

  Ji Xiaowan nodded slightly, her face showing no emotion. She said calmly, "It's over."

  "Can I be discharged from the hospital now?"

  The doctor said I still need to stay in the hospital for observation for one more day.

  Liu Fei frowned and said, "The fever has gone down, what's there to observe? Mom will help you with the discharge procedures now."

  Ji Xiaowan neither nodded nor shook her head.

  Liu Fei pulled out her own makeup bag, opened it, took out a gold chain and handed it to Ji Xiaowan, saying, "Silly girl, fortunately, President Xia didn't mind about yesterday's matter. He said as long as you go over there to have dinner with him today, that's fine. Later, Mom will help you handle the discharge procedures, you must be obedient and go accompany President Xia for a meal, understand? Look at how good President Xia is to you, not only did he not mind your broken promise, but also bought you a gold chain. You silly child are just silly, why don't you want to get close to someone as nice as President Xia?"

  Liu Fei said this, and Yi Ling's originally cheerful face suddenly turned dark.

  Ye Haiyi also sensed something was off about Liu Fei's words and narrowed his eyes, asking "Which Xia Zong?"

  Yi Ling muttered a sentence, "That damn Xia and Dong."

  Ye Hai only listened, and with a loud voice, said to Liu Fei, "You, as a mother, really think for your daughter, and gave her a beast?"

  Liu Fei pulled a face and turned back, glaring at them, saying, "What nonsense! I'm thinking about my daughter's future. You kids don't understand anything!"

  "That Xia and Dong, a few days ago, I heard they drove a 15-year-old girl to death." Ye Haiwei said coldly.

  Ji Xiaowan listened, her face still without any emotional fluctuations. Perhaps from the moment her mother first asked about her high fever when she entered the door, she had already guessed what her mother would say next.

  "That's just a rumor! If it were true, wouldn't Xia have been caught already? Xia is fine, which means nothing happened." Liu Fei had never heard any negative news about Xia and Dong because such rumors only circulated among the upper class. Xia and Dong had handled the matter quietly and didn't make a big deal out of it, so naturally, Liu Fei hadn't heard anything about it.

  As for Ye Haiyi and Yi Ling's slander, Liu Fei did not believe it. She thought, how can you trust the words of two naive kids?

  Yi Ling also sneered and said, "You sold your own daughter's body for a little bit of money? You'd better say it yourself, how much did Xia He Dong give you?"

  Liu Fei's face turned gloomy and she said, "What are you talking about? How could I possibly accept money from others? I just asked my daughter to have a meal with him."

  Have a meal?

  It's estimated that even a fool can guess that this meal will eventually be eaten in bed.

  "How dare you say you didn't sell your daughter for money?" Yī Líng's aggressive questioning.

  Liu Fei nodded her head and said, "Xia Zong is a good person, I think he's very suitable for my daughter, what's wrong with that!"

  Liu Fei said this, and Yi Ling suddenly burst out laughing loudly. "Great, then let your daughter marry him." As he spoke, he took out his phone and made a call, but it was unclear who he called. Then he heard him say, "Dad."

  "What's up?" Yi Ling pressed the hands-free button, letting everyone hear the other person's voice.

  "Do you know Xia and Dong?"

  "I don't know." The other party replied briefly and concisely.

  Yi Huang also said, "He is the sales director of Hema Supermarket in N province."

  "It's not that I remember every single employee's name in the company, son, do you think I'm God?" The other party expressed obvious displeasure.

  Yi Ling smiled and said, "Xia He Dong loves to play with underage girls. Last time he even played one to death, but the matter was settled for him."

  "Just drop it, why are you still calling me? Don't bother me with this kind of thing."

  "Dad, I don't like him!" Yi Ling said, her eyes fixed on Liu Fei, a mischievous smile still playing on the corners of her mouth.

  The phone rang again with an unpleasant voice, saying "What do you want then?"

  "Have his position withdrawn before nightfall."

  "Before nightfall? So urgent?" The other party paused for a moment and then asked, "What if I don't agree?"

  Yi Ling smiled and said, "The things Xia He Dong did will be exposed in all major media, and when that happens, it's our Yi Corporation's reputation that will get hurt. If the stock price drops, don't blame me, Dad!"

  "Damn it!" The voice on the phone shouted, "Can't you give me some time to check? I'll get back to you before tonight."

  "Alright."

  Yi Ling finished speaking, and then heard the other party hastily hang up the phone.

  Liu Fei was stunned, and for a moment she didn't react, like a wooden puppet. Then she asked Yi Ling in a low voice, "You... you... what kind of person are you?"

  Yi Ling burst out laughing, with a look of being owed an apology, "What's it to you!" Then he said another sentence, "Didn't you say your daughter and Xia He Dong are very suitable? You'd better go back and prepare her dowry early, remember the dowry should be generous, otherwise, if Xia He Dong loses his job, your daughter will have to follow him to drink the northwest wind."

  Liu Fei suddenly sat up from the edge of the bed, hastily pulled out her phone, walked out of the ward and made a call to Xia He Dong.

  On the other hand, Xia and Dong Zheng were on their way to the hotel room. Along the way, he took out Ji Xiaojuan's photo and indulged in it.

  Xia and Dong had already fallen for Ji Xiaowan after seeing her photos, but that night at the dinner party, he was even more smitten when he saw Ji Xiaowan in person. Moreover, that little girl looked very stubborn, but he liked to take on high-difficulty challenges, the more stubborn she was, the more motivated he became. So, for Ji Xiaowan, he must have been determined to win her over.

  Xia and Dong are now thinking in their hearts, waiting for what to do with her later. He is sitting in the back seat of the car, suddenly the mobile phone rings, he thinks it's Liu Fei calling, so he answers hastily, who knows it's a call from the company secretary.

  The secretary's voice was extremely anxious, saying, "Director Xia, the headquarters directly sent people over to take away all our documents. Even the computers were taken away."

  "What?" Xia and Dong were thunderstruck, as if a bolt of lightning had struck their entire forehead.

  As the head of a branch, it's impossible to say that there's not even a hint of corruption. Xia and Dong are not good people, they've embezzled a lot from the company, how could he not know? The company's accounts, although well done, are not without errors. Now the company has sent someone to investigate him, it's clear that they want to fire him. No matter how good or perfect his accounts are, if they find even a small flaw, he'll be in trouble. The company's goal is simply to fire him and not give him severance pay. It's even possible that the company will take him to court and make him spit out everything he's swallowed before.

  Xia and Dong didn't know what they had done wrong, how come such a big disaster happened to them, not even giving them a chance to defend themselves. It was said that this time it was someone sent by the headquarters, so the person they offended must not be some minor figure.

  Xia Dong was extremely nervous because there were still many materials on his computer. No, it should be said that there were many photos, which were taken when he forced underage girls to have sex with him, in order to coerce those girls not to talk nonsense everywhere, and also to bring some excitement and fun to his work.

  This time, not only will his company's accounts be exposed, but his privacy will also be exposed. Xia He Dongji's butt was like a needle, and he couldn't sit still anymore.

  The secretary had just hung up the phone when it rang again. Xia He Dong didn't even look and directly picked it up. It was Liu Fei calling.

  Liu Fei asked cautiously, "Director Xia, about today's dinner with Xiao Wan."

  Xia and Dong didn't have the mood to play with women at this time, he was almost burning his eyebrows. Xia Dong didn't think about it, directly roared a sentence, "Get out! Don't bother me! I'm busy!" After finishing, he slammed the phone heavily.

  Liu Fei was shocked when she heard Xia He Dong's words, then stunned for a while, her heart racing with an indescribable feeling. She knew that the young man in his early twenties who made that call wasn't acting.

  Something has happened between Xia and Dong.

  Xia He Dong is the sales manager of a large supermarket, Liu Fei doesn't know how many relationships she had to rely on to get connected with this manager, unexpectedly, the man in the house made a phone call and directly brought Xia He Dong down.

  It seems that her daughter has hooked up with a rich guy, no wonder she refused to go out for dinner with Xia He Dong several times.

  At this thought, Liu Fei's eyes suddenly lit up, and the corners of her mouth cracked into a brilliant smile. Then, she walked into the house, with a face full of spring breeze.

  Liu Fei walked up to Ji Xiaowan, patted her hand and said, "Daughter! Mom knows you're not feeling well, so I've cancelled today's dinner engagement. Don't worry, just rest well and you'll be fine. Your classmates are really nice, they took care of you all night when they saw you were sick. Mom is an open-minded person, she won't stop you from interacting with them just because your classmate is a boy. Mom knows that classmates should love and help each other, so in the future, you all must get along well, understand?"

  Liu Fei repeatedly told Ji Xiaoyan that she must grasp the opportunity with Yi Ling tightly.

  Ji Xiaowan's heart was thoroughly shattered, and it broke cleanly and neatly.

  But her expression was as usual.

  Ji Xiaowan faintly turned her head, neither looking at her nor at Yi Ling or Ye Haoyu, nor even giving her mother any response.

  Liu Fei saw that she didn't respond, and it was tiring to sing a solo there alone, so she reminded her of a few things before getting up and leaving. Before leaving, she followed the doctor to sign a few words, and the doctor reminded her of something, but she didn't listen to a single word and just left like that.

  After Liu Fei left, the ward was quiet.

  Ye Haiwu was the first to get up, sat in front of Ji Xiaowan's bed, didn't say a word, just quietly looked at her, like she did now, quietly choosing silence.

  Yi Ling also got up and sat on the edge of Ji Xiaowan's bed, hanging her head, not knowing whether she was looking at her own hands or her own feet.

  They are actually thinking, if the person lying in bed today was them. The person who received Liu Fei's treatment was them. If they were the ones their mother tried every means to sell, and they were the ones who felt powerless and helpless, unable to resist fate, what would be their state of mind?

  It's a feeling of helplessness where you want to cry but can't, and want to laugh but can't. Just like Ji Xiaoyan is now.

  Such a Ji Xiaowan is heart-wrenching, at least in their hearts, the image of that lively and innocent little girl cannot be superimposed on Ji Xiaowan.

  Ji Xiaowan really wanted to cry, but the person she wanted to cry in front of was not by her side, so she didn't have any tears. If today, the person sitting beside her bed was Dong Xiao, then she would definitely rush into his arms at the first moment and cry bitterly to him, telling him about the grievances in her heart and the complaints in her mind.

  But Dong Xiao is not here.

  Ji Xiaowan had no choice but to endure it, suppressing her tears in her heart.

  Ji Xiaowan is strong, that's how Yi Ling and Ye Haoyu see her, and she thinks so too. But at the same time, she is also fragile, even vulnerable to a single blow.