"Honey, this time has really been tough on you!" In the hospital room, Wang Jiancheng, whose condition was now under control after medication, no longer displayed the frenzied look he'd had before, nor the fear that came with his paranoid delusions. Thanks to the hospital diet, his complexion was ruddy, and he even looked quite healthy. However, he deliberately feigned a weak appearance of someone just recovering from a severe illness, watching Zhu Yiting pack up.
Hearing Wang Jiancheng's feigned affectionate words, Zhu Yiting felt not even the slightest ripple in her heart. She just continued packing silently, placing her belongings into the travel bag she had brought.
Seeing Zhu Yiting not responding to him, Wang Jiancheng suddenly felt a bit embarrassed. Yet beneath that embarrassment, a well-concealed fury flashed in his eyes. But he didn't let his fury show; instead, he continued to speak to Zhu Yiting in a voice that seemed very weak yet profoundly affectionate, "Tingting, I really owe you for taking care of me while I've been sick. Otherwise, I really don't know if I could have made it! Tingting, you've been so good to me!"
For an unscrupulous businessman, sweet talk was just the most basic skill. Certainly, Wang Jiancheng won over Zhu Yiting with these sweet words in the beginning. Although Zhu Yiting thought she saw through Wang Jiancheng's lies, sometimes one can't help but be influenced by hearing so many sweet words.
In the past, Zhu Yiting never found these words to mean much, nor did she believe them to be true, but she had to admit that when she used to hear these sweet words from Wang Jiancheng, she did feel that he loved her, and her mood would somewhat improve.
However, Wang Jiancheng's illness this time allowed Zhu Yiting to see through the true face of this man, especially the expression he wore when he learned he had cancer and Chen Yu refused to operate on him. Zhu Yiting firmly believed that this man was very hypocritical and awoke from the sweet nothings he had once fed her.
Perhaps it was because of the influence of his sweet words that she chose this man over Chen Yu in the past?
Zhu Yiting didn't know if the truth was really as such, but humans are indeed highly emotional beings. When you like someone, everything they do appears pleasing and just right in your eyes.
But when you dislike someone, no matter how they try to please you or no matter what they do for you, you will continue to find them extremely repugnant.
Zhu Yiting no longer admired or felt affection for Wang Jiancheng as she did in the past. The only thing connecting her to Wang Jiancheng now was the bond of marriage, which was why she was so indifferent to him.
"Have you checked if there's anything left behind? We're being discharged today; make sure nothing is left here. I've bought plane tickets for tomorrow to return home. We'll be on the afternoon flight and reach home by evening." Zhu Yiting placed the last few items into the travel bag, zipped it up, then looked towards Wang Jiancheng indifferently, asking him.
Observing Zhu Yiting's cold demeanor towards himself, Wang Jiancheng could not help but feel a surge of anger. However, he dared not show any dissatisfaction towards Zhu Yiting because he knew very well that his illness was kept in check by Chen Yu's medicine, and his life was sustained by it as well.
But it wasn't Chen Yu's neighborly and schoolmate history with him that granted him the medicine; it was because Zhu Yiting used to sit at the same desk as Chen Yu and was a woman Chen Yu had once liked. It was for Zhu Yiting's sake that Chen Yu used a medicine to treat him that was impossible to find in China and even in Japan.
This feeling of receiving charity, of surviving only through the help of a woman, deeply humiliated Wang Jiancheng. Particularly, the fact that Chen Yu never intended to operate on him in the first place made Wang Jiancheng feel ignored and utterly trampled upon.
The feeling of having to rely on someone he looked down on just to stay alive made Wang Jiancheng wish he could kill Chen Yu.
In his view, Chen Yu was nothing more than his own "lackey" back then. If he hadn't taken Chen Yu under his wing for the sake of their neighborhood relations, Chen Yu would have been just a nobody at school, a pushover whom anyone could bully, with bad grades to boot—a true underachiever in the eyes of the teachers.
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Otherwise, the teacher wouldn't have placed Chen Yu next to Zhu Yiting, who was a good student, asking Zhu Yiting to help him.
But to Wang Jiancheng, Chen Yu didn't deserve the privilege, nor was he worthy of sitting beside Zhu Yiting—such a pretty girl with good grades should have been his own desk mate, not someone as incompetent as Chen Yu!
However, this wasn't something that could be influenced by Wang Jiancheng's will. From the fourth grade in elementary school, for nine full years through elementary, junior high, and senior high, Chen Yu and Zhu Yiting were desk mates, which deeply fanned the flames of envy and resentment in Wang Jiancheng, who always thought he was far superior to Chen Yu.
That's also why, during high school, when Chen Yu asked Wang Jiancheng to help him send love letters and breakfast, Wang Jiancheng claimed Chen Yu's actions as his own—because he looked down on Chen Yu, thinking he wasn't good enough for Zhu Yiting, and that only he was worthy of having such a girlfriend.
And now, it was none other than Chen Yu, the one he had looked down upon, who had saved his life, and with an attitude as if he were merely an experiment, seemingly out of consideration for Zhu Yiting's face. How could this not drive Wang Jiancheng mad with rage?
Yet, he dared not show this anger, as he now depended on Chen Yu's medicine to keep him alive; without it, he'd have nothing to do but wait for death or take his chances on the operating table.
Wang Jiancheng, who prided himself as a successful businessman and great man of action, wouldn't gamble with his life on an operating table. It wasn't about fearing for his life; it was about preserving a useful body, a way for a person with big aspirations to ignore petty details!
Wang Jiancheng convinced himself of this, after all, he still needed to rely on Zhu Yiting's goodwill to continue obtaining the life-saving medication from Chen Yu, so he dared not express any anger or dissatisfaction in front of her, and even had to feign gratitude towards Chen Yu to avoid the risk of Chen Yu actually denying him the medicine.
But for Wang Jiancheng, he wouldn't put all his hopes on the old friendship between Chen Yu and Zhu Yiting, as that wasn't secure enough.
He believed it best for Chen Yu and Zhu Yiting to rekindle their old flames; ideally, if there was actually something going on between them, that would be the safest course for him.
Though this might render him a cuckold, a real man doesn't fret over losing a wife; trading a woman for his life seemed a very worthwhile deal to Wang Jiancheng, especially considering he wasn't only involved with Zhu Yiting.
As a successful businessman running an investment company, how could Wang Jiancheng be short of women? This was merely something Zhu Yiting wasn't aware of.
Plotting how to create a situation where he could gain leverage over Chen Yu and Zhu Yiting, Wang Jiancheng pretended to be weak and allowed Zhu Yiting to support him as they left the hospital room.