After My Flash Marriage with the Sick Beauty, I Reached the Pinnacle of My Life - Chapter 101

Wei Xixue lowered her eyes.

Her fingers twitched, and she wanted to smoke again, but since the restaurant was a non-smoking area, she had to restrain herself: “That’s part of the reason, but not entirely.”

“I’ve never hidden the fact that I like women, not since I was a student.” Wei Xixue placed her hands on the table. “You’ve told me so much, so let me tell you about my past, too.”

“The passing of the same-sex marriage law was ten years ago, but I discovered I only liked women twenty years ago.”

Wei Xixue graduated many years ago, and studying medicine itself takes a long time.

She is now in her thirties.

That is to say, Wei Xixue discovered she liked women when she was in her teens. It started when she saw a little girl being bullied, and a protective instinct arose in her. After she stepped in to help, she realized that this protection was different from ordinary acts of chivalry.

She loved the side of women that needed to be protected; this feeling fascinated her.

When she told the little girl she helped about this, the other girl, however, called her disgusting.

Even now that the same-sex marriage law has passed, many people still feel this way, but they just won’t say anything to your face.

Wei Xixue never regretted it. She made sure she had the ability to protect the people she wanted to protect.

“But I haven’t encountered an object of affection that I could call ‘like’ again.” Occasionally, she would have the urge to help someone for free, but without that feeling of being instantly smitten.

Wei Xixue looked at the blend of confusion and timidity hidden in Ye Murou’s eyes and smiled quietly: “It’s alright, you can take your time to think.”

Forcing someone to make a choice is something she is not accustomed to doing.

“I like you very much. If you also find it disgusting, you don’t have to contact me again. I will continue to help with the medical expenses; you just need to transfer the money to my card.”

This is truly strange.

Ye Murou watched Wei Xixue get up and leave. Over the past two days, various choices had been piling up, all telling her she could take her time to think and not rush, but the choices were right in front of her. How could she not be anxious?

Ye Murou slowly closed her eyes.

It would soon be December, and the Lunar New Year would follow the New Year’s Day holiday.

She could drag it out and make a choice after the New Year, but she knew very well that it was impossible.

Ye Murou found a place to stay in a small hotel nearby. Since birth, she had never seen the capital with her own eyes.

The last time she came, she was preoccupied and simply wasn’t in the mood to look around. This time, she could take a good look.

The capital was huge, and she still hadn’t finished exploring it after a few days.

She would carefully observe the passersby around her. Whenever she noticed something striking about them, Ye Murou would lower her head, refusing to make eye contact.

A few days later, the phone call Ye Murou had anticipated came in.

“What’s the matter, going to the big city and forgetting your home, is that it? You haven’t sent money home for months. Spending a few years studying outside really made you forget who you are, didn’t it?”

Ye Murou walked into a corner.

She really couldn’t escape. Even though she had moved out of her university accommodation and that man couldn’t find where she lived, he could still use the household registration to ask the police to investigate her phone number. That’s because she was that man’s daughter, and it was an era of real-name registration.

After she graduated from university, Xia Shishi’s sponsorship stopped, and of course, she wouldn’t send money to that man either.

It was only a matter of time before the man, having lost the income he used to get just by lying at home, got angry and found her.

Sure enough, the man’s voice rang out again in the next second: “Since you’re not sending money home anymore, then come back and get married. I’ve arranged a match for you; you’ll get a ten-thousand-yuan bride price. Hurry up and get lost, you little b*tch.”

Ye Murou took a deep breath: “You have the wrong number. I don’t know you.”

The man was furious: “How dare you pretend you don’t know me?”

Ye Murou: “I genuinely don’t know you. If you know me, please say my name.”

The man: “You b*stard!”

Ye Murou quickly hung up the phone. She wasn’t a b*stard; her name was Ye Murou.

This couldn’t go on.

Xia Shishi could help her, and Wei Xixue also wanted to help her, but this wasn’t right. Time and time again, she had accepted help from too many people.

This time, Ye Murou decided to find a way herself.

If she could, she truly wanted to sever ties with that man.

But that was impossible. She had looked into it while in university: the blood-related parent-child relationship could not be terminated artificially through legal means.

Even if her father genuinely tried to sell her off for the bride price, people would intervene because of this relationship.

The one who forgave was her; the one who lived happily was that man.

Ye Murou wondered why her mother, after being rescued, never thought of her.

If her mother had been willing to take her away, she wouldn’t have had to struggle so much.

She could also have earned her own money to study, survived on two steamed buns, and not even dared to get sick. At least she wouldn’t be forcibly called back now that she had finally graduated from university and had her own income.

Dwelling on those thoughts was useless.

Especially now that Ye Murou knew her mother’s parents were also long gone, and she was only surviving thanks to the help of former friends. Even if she remembered the child she was forced to bear, there was nothing she could do.

Ye Murou recalled her last meeting with her mother.

The woman was skin and bones, her eyes staring intently at Ye Murou, as if judging whether Ye Murou resembled her or that man.

Ye Murou wasn’t sure who she resembled. She had heard from Wei Xixue and Wei Xixue’s mother, in private conversation, that the woman used to be confident and cheerful.

After being rescued, she became neurotic like this, always wary of her surroundings.

She, who had voluntarily taught in remote areas, didn’t trust anyone except the friends she had known before.

Ye Murou shouldn’t resemble her; she had never been confident, preferring to hide herself from people’s sight.

She probably didn’t resemble that man either. If she had such pure evil, she wouldn’t be caught in a state of confusion because she adhered to the law.

Ye Murou sent a text message to Xia Shishi, telling her she planned to go home, and then bought a ticket back.

She felt somewhat unfamiliar on the way back. Since going to university, she had not been home, and the man hadn’t asked about her, as long as the two thousand yuan arrived in his hands every month.

The long-distance bus would stop every few hours.

After arriving at a rest stop, Ye Murou received a text message from Wei Xixue, containing a picture of the medical bill.

The thirty-seven thousand yuan on it made Ye Murou’s breathing cautious. This was only for one month. If she were just an ordinary university graduate, where would she earn so much money?

Ye Murou felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

This sense of helplessness made her consider giving up resistance when she saw the bus driver getting back on and preparing to leave.

Compared to thirty thousand, that man’s demands were only two thousand a month.

Did she really have to do that?

Ye Murou frowned, watching the people inside the bus being counted. After much hesitation, she got on.

That man had probably already accepted the one hundred thousand, and even if he hadn’t received it yet, it was impossible to make him give it up.

Unless Ye Murou could offer him a benefit greater than one hundred thousand, but if she gave it this time, who knew if the man would become greedy again next time?

After several transfers, Ye Murou finally arrived at the small county town she knew so well.

She walked with her head down, her hat and mask still on, terrified of being recognized. She first sought out the teacher who had taken care of her so much in the past. The teacher should be home at this time.

Ye Murou felt a little uneasy as she knocked on the door.

Only when the teacher opened the door did that feeling of anxiety subside. Ye Murou took off her mask: “Teacher, it’s me.”

This teacher had always been the most caring towards her. Since middle school, whenever she saw Ye Murou crouching on the stairwell eating steamed buns, she would invite her to eat together.

This teacher even chose Ye Murou’s high school and made a special trip to the school to ask the high school teacher to take extra care of Ye Murou.

And Ye Murou was very determined, managing to achieve good scores even in this small county town.

Ye Murou still remembered how happy the teacher was when she was admitted to university.

When the teacher saw Ye Murou, her expression changed immediately, and she quickly pulled Ye Murou inside: “Why did you come back? Do you know that… he’s looking for you everywhere.”

Ye Murou sat down: “I know, he called me.”

She looked at the furnishings in the room. Her living environment used to be even tougher than this, but in that city, she lived in the apartment arranged by Xia Shishi, so blissfully that she felt somewhat unfamiliar with this place.

“Teacher, did he come looking for you here?” Ye Murou understood.

That man didn’t care who her teacher was. It seemed that while frantically trying to find her, he specifically tracked down this teacher and came here. Ye Murou felt very guilty.

The teacher sighed: “He asked me which university you were at; he wanted to go and find you. This happened a long time ago.”

Ye Murou’s eyes widened.

The teacher continued: “I kept it a secret until I calculated that you should have graduated, and then I told him the location. I don’t know if he went there, but he probably did…”

That was why he investigated Ye Murou’s phone number when he couldn’t find her.

All for a hundred-thousand-yuan bride price, he was particularly anxious to find her.

Ye Murou had been very low-key at that university, and few people knew her, which was why she enjoyed a few months of peace.

No, judging from the teacher’s words, her peaceful days were harder to come by than she imagined.

The teacher looked at Ye Murou reproachfully: “Why did you come back? You should have just stayed hidden in the big city. Even if he wanted to find you, it wouldn’t be easy.”

Ye Murou gently explained: “Teacher, I’m getting married.”

“What?” The teacher was even more surprised this time. Seeing Ye Murou’s calm attitude, she also calmed down. “Not to someone from this place, right?”

Ye Murou shook her head: “No, but marriage requires a change of household registration, otherwise it won’t be possible. So, I came back this time to get my household registration.”

The teacher instantly understood the reason for Ye Murou’s return: “The difficulty of you getting your household registration…”

“It’s very difficult.” Ye Murou knew. But this was the plan she had come up with, and she had to see it through.

Ye Murou looked at the teacher: “I came back to ask you for the contact information for Zhao Dahai.”

Zhao Dahai was a particularly mischievous male student in middle school.

The teacher had spent a lot of effort on him. After graduating from middle school, Zhao Dahai stopped studying and hung out with a group of hooligans.

Ye Murou had always kept her distance from such people, but one time, in high school, that man came to town to drink and specifically went out of his way to make trouble for her at her high school.

Zhao Dahai and his group, who happened to be passing by, helped her out of the predicament. Zhao Dahai said it was because of Teacher Liu.

Zhao Dahai was also a person Teacher Liu had helped.

He just didn’t take the path of academics.

Not everyone could have the same perseverance as Ye Murou, and besides, Zhao Dahai didn’t need to struggle to escape this place. Ye Murou stated her idea: “It definitely won’t work if I go back alone. I need Zhao Dahai to go with me to get the household registration, and I need to let everyone in the village know that I’m getting married.”

Teacher Liu nodded, understanding Ye Murou’s approach. Having someone to protect her would always be much safer.

However, Teacher Liu was very curious: “What kind of person is your fiancé?”

Ye Murou opened her mouth. She had only come up with a plan to prevent that man from selling her off for the bride price; as for a fiancé, there was absolutely none.

She could find another person to have a fake marriage with, but Ye Murou felt that would be very unsafe.

Facing the teacher who cared about her, Ye Murou couldn’t tell the truth, or the teacher wouldn’t agree and would only advise Ye Murou to hide in the big city and wait until she truly met a marriage partner.

“It’s a woman.” On an impulse, Ye Murou thought of Wei Xixue.

As expected, the teacher reacted strongly to this statement, and words of persuasion were already on the tip of her tongue. Ye Murou was annoyed; she didn’t know what she had been thinking just now.

She had heard some gossip about Xia Shishi and Wen Jiao’s marriage, but it didn’t affect those two.

In this place, the opposition would only be stronger. How could she have said that?

Since she had said it, Ye Murou could only tough it out and continue: “She’s a doctor who has saved many people. She will take meticulous care of me and will also protect me…”

Teacher Liu: “She’s just a woman. How is she going to protect you?”

Ye Murou: “…”

Even though they were just words she fabricated, Ye Murou suddenly felt a surge of defiance.

“So, I have to marry a man? What are the men in this place like? Will men in the big city be any better? She can protect me well, and I also need to protect myself.”

If Ye Murou agreed to Wei Xixue’s proposal, Wei Xixue would truly fulfill the duties of a partner, as she had said.

This time, she wouldn’t be returning alone.

Ye Murou emphasized the phrase, “I also need to protect myself.”

Xia Shishi boasted about how good Wen Jiao was to her, but Xia Shishi also did many things herself.

People shouldn’t completely rely on another person, and besides, Wei Xixue’s feelings for her… were not as deep as Wen Jiao’s for Xia Shishi.

Ye Murou gave a bitter smile: “Just because she is a woman means it won’t work… but who else can I trust?”

Teacher Liu, who had remained unmarried her whole life, couldn’t say that Ye Murou absolutely had to marry a man.

“I’ll call Zhao Dahai.” Teacher Liu conceded. “But I need to meet her. There are some things I want to say to her face-to-face.”

Ye Murou started to feel awkward. This matter was completely fabricated by her; how could she bring Wei Xixue over for Teacher Liu to meet?

Teacher Liu looked at her, her tone showing deep distrust: “Is she unwilling?”

“No, she’s very busy…”

“I can wait, Xiao Ye. It hasn’t been easy for you to get this far; you can’t have any more accidents.”