78: Chapter 78 Ye Shuangshuang's Heartfelt Words

Upon arriving at the hospital, Lin Yi registered for the emergency department.

The doctor briefly examined the wound and said it needed to be stitched up immediately.

After saying this, he had Lin Yi lie face down on the bed and took out the sterilized needle and thread.

The wound wasn't particularly deep, but it was quite long.

Lin Yi winced and grimaced in pain while it was being stitched.

"It would be great if the system could release a feature that makes me pain-free at some point..." Lin Yi thought to himself.

"Ding! Host's desire detected. You can consume 2 points to redeem a ten-minute pain-free experience."

Lin Yi wiped the beads of cold sweat from his forehead and rolled his eyes in frustration.

Although this system is indeed very intelligent... its speed is a bit lagging...

It only gave the prompt when the stitching was almost finished.

"Forget it, I'll deal with it next time I get hurt."

Seeing Lin Yi sweating profusely from the pain during the stitching, Xu Dongqing gently grabbed his wrist with her cool, smooth hand.

"Does it hurt?" Xu Dongqing's eyes were full of concern.

Lin Yi sighed.

He thought to himself, of course it hurts; would I be breaking out in so much cold sweat if it didn't?

Can't you see my hand is shaking...

However, a man cannot show his weakness in front of a woman.

So, Lin Yi stubbornly replied.

"It doesn't hurt, this is just a minor matter."

But Xu Dongqing saw through Lin Yi's bravado, and she gripped his hand even tighter.

An inexplicable emotion began to spread in Xu Dongqing's heart.

After the stitching was done and the wound was simply bandaged, the two left the hospital.

"Senior, let me drive."

With the wound treated, Lin Yi felt he was good to go again.

The main reason was that Xu Dongqing's driving skills were average; on the way to the hospital, she had even almost hit the guardrail on the side of the road.

Xu Dongqing was self-aware, so she obediently sat in the passenger seat.

As soon as the car drove out of the hospital gate, Lin Yi saw a girl crouching by the roadside through the rearview mirror.

Her hair was draped down, and she was sitting by the side of the road with a dejected look on her face.

Lin Yi didn't pay much attention at first.

But after the car had driven a distance, he suddenly realized.

That girl's profile just now... why did she look a bit like Ye Shuangshuang?

What is she doing at the hospital entrance so late?

Furthermore, Lin Yi remembered that Ye Shuangshuang had messaged him on WeChat last night, but she seemed hesitant to speak.

It was indeed quite unusual.

However, the car had already driven a long way, so Lin Yi had to press harder on the gas pedal, intending to drop Xu Dongqing back at the university first before coming back to find Ye Shuangshuang.

Suddenly, Lin Yi remembered that the system could redeem an opportunity to listen to the inner voice of a bound target.

Ye Shuangshuang must have encountered something.

If he just asked rashly, in case she wasn't willing to talk, he wouldn't be able to get any answers anyway.

"System, I want to redeem an opportunity to listen to Ye Shuangshuang's inner voice!"

"Ding! Host's desire detected, redeeming..."

"Ding! Redemption successful, 15 points consumed."

As the system's prompt sound played, scenes of Ye Shuangshuang's recent life appeared in Lin Yi's mind.

A few days ago, Ye Shuangshuang received a call from home, saying that her younger brother had caused an accident while driving.

He had hit a middle-aged woman, who was hospitalized.

After examination, the other party's leg was broken, requiring a large sum for medical expenses.

Besides that, the other party also demanded a large sum for nutrition and lost wages from Ye Shuangshuang's family.

At the time of the accident, the other party immediately called the police.

When the police arrived at the scene, the situation was very clear and indisputable; it was entirely Ye Shuangshuang's brother, Ye Fei's, fault.

But Ye Fei was idle and lazy; after dropping out of vocational school, he spent his days idling away.

He couldn't come up with that much money at all.

Ye Shuangshuang's parents did have some savings, but they were counting on that money to be saved for Ye Fei to marry a wife.

Therefore, these parents, who favored sons over daughters, set their sights on their daughter, Ye Shuangshuang.

It just so happened that the medical conditions in their hometown were average, so the injured middle-aged woman was transferred to Nanling City for hospitalization.

Consequently, Ye Shuangshuang's parents told the middle-aged woman's family that they had a daughter studying at Nanling University of the Arts, and she would find a way to earn money to pay them back slowly.

Upon hearing this, that family found the university that very day and blocked the entrance to Ye Shuangshuang's dormitory building.

Ye Shuangshuang had never seen such a scene before and was terrified.

She told them to go find Ye Fei, saying that every debt has a debtor and she hadn't been in contact with her family for a long time.

But that family seemed determined to target her, refusing to let go.

They knew that Ye Fei was thick-skinned and wouldn't care, so pestering him wouldn't get them any money.

But Ye Shuangshuang was different.

She was pretty and a college student; such girls cared most about what others thought.

As long as they came to school every day to block Ye Shuangshuang, she would definitely be afraid of classmates gossiping.

Sure enough, after that family had come to the university to block her for two days, Ye Shuangshuang compromised.

That day, when she returned to the dormitory, Ye Shuangshuang called her mother, crying and asking why they were so heartless toward her.

Ye Fei was their child, but wasn't she their child too?

From childhood to adulthood, all the good things were left for Ye Fei; she was even scolded for stealing Ye Fei's nutrition if she ate an extra piece of meat during a meal.

Now that Ye Fei had caused trouble, they actually wanted her to bear the burden.

Medical expenses, lost wages, and nutrition fees added up to over a million.

She was just a college student; where would she get so much money!

Wasn't this trying to ruin her!

But the words Ye Shuangshuang's mother said on the other end of the phone truly made Ye Shuangshuang feel chilled and desperate.

"Shuangshuang, we know your wings are stiff now and you don't want to come back to this home."

"But do you think it was easy for your parents to raise you from a child?"

"Do you know how much money we spent raising you from childhood to now?"

"Since you really have so many complaints about this family, then let's do this: consider this money as you paying us back. As long as you pay this money for your brother, we will be even from now on."

After hanging up the phone, these words echoed in Ye Shuangshuang's ears repeatedly.

Ye Shuangshuang smiled self-deprecatingly, holding back the tears.

She made up her mind; this would be the last time she compromised for her family.

From now on, they would each go their separate ways.

Ye Shuangshuang had originally wanted to borrow money from Lin Yi.

But after thinking about it, she was always too embarrassed to ask.

Lin Yi had already spent quite a lot on her.

They were not related, and they weren't dating; asking Lin Yi for money at a time like this was clearly inappropriate.

Later, through a friend's introduction, Ye Shuangshuang found a high-paying part-time job.

There was a very luxurious hotel in Nanling City called Ziyun Building.

The hotel's biggest feature was that guests could enjoy highly aesthetic dances while dining.

Therefore, Ziyun Building was always recruiting girls who could dance.

Ye Shuangshuang was a dance major, and with her outstanding appearance, she passed the interview as soon as she went in the afternoon.

Tonight was her first shift, and because she danced well, she was even tipped two thousand by a guest.

As soon as she got off work, Ye Shuangshuang brought the few thousand yuan she had to the hospital and told that family that she would pay the money back, asking them not to pester her at the university anymore.

She even signed a guarantee with that family, promising to pay the money back in installments.

Only then did that family agree not to continue disturbing Ye Shuangshuang at the university.

After walking out of the hospital, Ye Shuangshuang sat dejectedly at the hospital entrance.

She had already become a joke at the university these past few days, with so many classmates pointing at her when they saw her.

Ye Shuangshuang really didn't want to return to the university.

But where could she go...

In such a big city, there wasn't a single place for her to stay...

Ye Shuangshuang felt a stifling sensation in her heart.

After watching what had happened to Ye Shuangshuang recently, Lin Yi felt inexplicably heartbroken.

After dropping Xu Dongqing back at the university, Lin Yi stepped on the gas and rushed back to the hospital as fast as he could.

Ye Shuangshuang was still sitting there at this moment.

Lin Yi parked the car, opened the door, and walked toward Ye Shuangshuang.