After the Fake Heiress Died, She Was Filled with Regret - Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Don’t Go to the Hospital

Tang Yin carried the tray up and handed the pink cocktail to Xia Shinan, “I made this specially for you.”

“Wow, it’s beautiful!” Xia Shinan immediately took a few photos with her phone, “I was wondering why you were gone for so long. It turns out you were mixing a drink for me personally.”

“Mhm, try it. Do you like it?” Tang Yin smiled.

“If you made it, I’m sure I’ll like it,” Xia Shinan said, immediately taking a sip. The sweet, soft drink had only a little alcohol, and the surface had a thick layer of milk foam. The texture was rich, and it was unlike anything she had drunk before.

“It’s very sweet!” Xia Shinan looked up and smiled, making Tang Yin feel that her smile was much sweeter than the mixed drink.

“What’s the name of this drink? I want to have it again next time.”

Tang Yin shook her head and said, “I improvised just now… Let’s call it Shinan.”

“Using my name?” Xia Shinan’s eyes curved into crescent shapes, “Tang Yin, I’m so happy.”

Tang Yin paused for a few seconds, her smile a little unnatural, “Good that you’re happy. Next time… I’ll make it for you again.”

“Mhm!”

Xia Shinan lowered her eyes to look at the two decorative cherries, silently making a resolution in her heart.

They sat for a while. Ming Jing came up and even gave Xia Shinan a small cake, then mentioned that business had recently surged and hoped Tang Yin could help out during this time.

“I know you’re busy dating, but I really can’t find anyone. Sister Yin, please save me.”

Tang Yin smiled helplessly. She remembered the last time she was worried about Xia Shinan, skipped work to look for her, and lost her job at the barbecue restaurant. Working here as a part-timer was an option, but it meant she couldn’t accompany Xia Shinan.

“You don’t have to worry about me. If you want to go, then go,” Xia Shinan felt Tang Yin’s gaze and immediately said, “You don’t have to feel apologetic. Your work is important too.”

Tang Yin: “But I promised you I’d spend at least these few days of vacation with you.”

Xia Shinan: “It’s fine. I can go to the library to study or the music room to practice the piano. I have things to do too! It’s good that we can both be busy.”

With that, Tang Yin agreed, “I’ll start helping out tomorrow. Remember to give me a little extra pay.”

Ming Jing excitedly hugged Xia Shinan, “That’s great, that’s great!”

Tang Yin frowned in displeasure and pulled Ming Jing away, “I’m the one who agreed. Why are you hugging her?”

Ming Jing laughed heartily: “Jealous? I’m thanking the junior for being so understanding and persuading you… Let’s eat together later. There’s a decent restaurant nearby. My treat.”

Tang Yin rolled her eyes at her: “Aren’t you busy? No need to treat us. My girlfriend and I will go eat ourselves.”

“Tsk, worried I’d be a third wheel, huh?” Ming Jing grumbled and went downstairs. However, the three still ate dinner together, chatting about various random topics, and then parted ways after the meal.

“I’ll be working part-time at Ming Jing’s place tomorrow. If you get bored, come and find me, and message me if anything happens,” Tang Yin said as she walked Xia Shinan back to the hotel.

“Okay.” Xia Shinan held her hand, but her mind was preoccupied with the idea of ending the engagement with Lin Yu.

She had hesitated about whether to tell Tang Yin, but knowing Tang Yin’s nature, she definitely wouldn’t go to work at the bar tomorrow if she knew, so she held back.

Once this matter was over, she could also prove to Tang Yin that she really could protect her!

“I’m not a child anymore. Don’t worry,” Xia Shinan smiled.

The next day.

Xia Shinan wore simple clothes and left the hotel without even putting on makeup. She took a taxi to the mall where she had agreed to meet Lin Yu and sat quietly in a coffee shop on the first floor to wait.

She was actually surprised that Lin Yu had called her, but since the matter concerned the marriage alliance between the two families, she had to come. Recalling Lin Yu’s gaze the last time at the Lin family, which made her uncomfortable, she lowered her guard when she saw that Lin Yu had chosen a public venue.

Not long after she sat down, a staff member came over and said that the coffee shop had an event today: order a coffee and get a free cake.

“Thank you…” Looking at the exquisite Tiramisu, Xia Shinan thought this might be a good omen.

She took two bites and found the cake quite delicious. Remembering that Qian Yu loved Tiramisu, she took a photo and sent it to Qian Yu, suggesting they come together next time.

Twenty minutes later, the cake was almost finished when Lin Yu slowly walked in.

He glanced at Xia Shinan, a flash of surprise in his eyes, then sat down in front of her.

“You look quite different today,” was the first thing he said after sitting down, commenting on Xia Shinan. “Usually, you’re dressed like a rich young lady, but today you look quite innocent.”

Xia Shinan looked at him unhappily, “How I dress is none of your business.”

“Heh…” Lin Yu leaned against the sofa, with a hint of mockery: “Xia Shinan, does your mother know that we’re here today to discuss the engagement?”

Xia Shinan clenched her hands. How could she dare let Xie Wan know?

“If you want to cancel the engagement now and regret it later, begging me will be useless,” Lin Yu still had interest in Xia Shinan in his eyes, “So… I can give you one more chance.”

“I certainly won’t regret it!” Xia Shinan immediately said, “Lin Yu, I don’t like you. You should find someone who likes you to marry.”

“Like? Xia Shinan, how much ‘like’ is there in a wealthy family?” Lin Yu’s tone was arrogant, as if he were God: “Do you know how much sponsorship the Lin family has given to your Xia family? If we cancel the engagement, all those things will be withdrawn. Who knows what the Xia family will become then.”

“Can you bear to see the Xia family fall because of you?”

Xia Shinan was stunned. Of course, she didn’t want to see the Xia family decline! Her parents gave birth to her and raised her. Although the love they gave her was faint and little, they never let her go hungry. She still knew how to repay them.

But… was sacrificing her own happiness and marrying someone she didn’t like the only way to repay them? She was unwilling!

Seeing Xia Shinan’s troubled expression, Lin Yu smiled and lit a cigarette, “Actually, marrying me isn’t so bad. We can each live our own lives and it won’t affect the family.”

“What does… ‘living our own lives’ mean?” Xia Shinan didn’t quite understand.

Lin Yu tsk-ed, “Don’t think I don’t know. I didn’t expect a good girl like you to be quite the player, dating a girl at school.”

Xia Shinan was shocked, “How did you… know?”

“You stood me up at the airport, so I sent people to investigate. You’re something, Xia Shinan. Leaving me at the airport for a girl, making me lose face completely!”

As he mentioned this, Lin Yu’s expression turned cold, “Auntie Xie came to our Lin family yesterday to apologize, saying you were busy with a competition and practicing the piano behind closed doors, but I turned around and found out you were secretly meeting your girlfriend in the suburbs.”

“Xia Shinan, what do you think would happen if I told Auntie Xie all this?”

Xia Shinan felt a chill all over, “Are you threatening me?”

Lin Yu stood up and sat down next to Xia Shinan, “How is this a threat? Aren’t we just… having a nice chat?”

Xia Shinan tried to stand up but suddenly felt dizzy, her limbs weak, “You… what did you do to me?”

Lin Yu raised an eyebrow, smiling as he reached for her hand: “What did I do? Are you feeling unwell? Should I take you to see a doctor…”

“Don’t touch me!” Xia Shinan bit her lip hard, but her heart was beating fast. She didn’t know what the problem was, but she clearly knew it had something to do with Lin Yu!

She was already weak, and now with her body feeling unwell, she couldn’t exert any strength to push Lin Yu away.

Lin Yu leaned close to her, revealing his original greedy face, exactly like the time at the Lin family when he scrutinized her figure.

“Xia Shinan, you want to cancel the engagement? How can it be that easy?”

“Is dating a woman fun? You’d rather be with a woman than marry me. Do you know how much of a humiliation this is to me?”

Xia Shinan’s eyes were full of horror, “You said you wanted to cancel the engagement to trick me!”

“How can you call it a trick?” Lin Yu smiled, “Let me sleep with you once, and I’ll lose interest in you. The engagement will naturally be canceled.”

“This is a public place. There are cameras all around. I’ll have the staff call the police!” Xia Shinan felt her body gradually heating up and was extremely uncomfortable, forcing herself to speak.

“Naive!” Lin Yu sneered: “This mall belongs to my family, and the coffee shop is also something I opened for fun. Cameras? They’ve been turned off long ago. The staff… they’re all my people.”

After saying that, he pulled Xia Shinan up, “Even if others see it, I’ll just say my girlfriend isn’t feeling well, and I’m taking her to the hospital. What’s the problem?”

Xia Shinan tried hard to push Lin Yu away, but she couldn’t muster any strength. In the end, she was weakly pulled by Lin Yu away from the seat, towards the back door.

No, she can’t be taken away by Lin Yu. Xia Shinan bit her lip hard. As she left her seat, she reached out and blindly grabbed the small cake fork, using all her might to stab Lin Yu’s arm…

“Hiss!” Lin Yu felt a sharp pain. He looked down at his scratched hand, his eyes growing more vicious, “I originally wanted to be gentle with you, but it seems you like a bit of excitement?”

But before he could finish, two or three people rushed up behind him. One of them kicked Lin Yu hard in the back, and Lin Yu’s body, without warning, stumbled forward into a pile of gift displays. The exquisite gifts and Lin Yu crashed to the ground.

Without support, Xia Shinan’s legs gave way, and she was about to fall, but someone caught her.

She forced herself to open her eyes and looked: “Am I having hallucinations? Tang Yin…”

Tang Yin’s face was dark. She wanted to scold Xia Shinan fiercely but couldn’t bear to when she saw her flushed face.

Lin Yu screamed in pain. The people in front of him were Qian Yu and the girlfriend Xia Shinan was privately dating!

“Damn it! Trespassing on my turf?” Lin Yu swore as he stood up, about to say something to Tang Yin, when Tang Yin handed Xia Shinan to Ming Jing, who had come along, and then kicked Lin Yu again, this time in the stomach.

Seeing this, Qian Yu angrily threw her bag at his face.

Lin Yu had always been at odds with Qian Yu, and he said fiercely, “Qian Yu, don’t get involved in the Lin family’s affairs!”

Qian Yu: “I’m getting involved? Lin Yu, I know you’re a rotten player, but I never thought you were this rotten! I’m telling you, I’m not done with you over this today!”

Tang Yin, however, felt she had been too light on him. Her eyes were red. She picked up a nearby chair and was about to smash it at Lin Yu!

“Something’s wrong, Tang Yin! She doesn’t look drunk!” Ming Jing, holding Xia Shinan, felt something was wrong and called out to Tang Yin, “Xia Shinan seems to have been… drugged!”

Tang Yin was stunned. She turned back in disbelief. She put down the chair and quickly examined Xia Shinan’s state. She indeed didn’t look drunk.

Qian Yu was also shocked, “How could this happen to Shinan? Lin Yu, you actually drugged her? You despicable, low-life man!”

Ming Jing’s expression became serious: “No, we must take her to the hospital.”

Qian Yu quickly nodded, but after glancing at Lin Yu, she immediately decided, “You two take her to the hospital first. I’ll stay and deal with things here.”

“Can you manage alone?” Ming Jing thought for a moment, “Tang Yin, you take Shinan to the hospital first. I’ll stay with her and wait for the police, so she’s not alone here in case anything else happens.”

“Mhm.” Tang Yin bit her lip hard, suppressing the anger in her heart, nodded, and carried Xia Shinan out on her back to hail a taxi.

Once in the taxi, Tang Yin told the driver to head to the nearest hospital, holding Xia Shinan tightly in her arms, her heart anxious and tormented.

If Qian Yu hadn’t suddenly called her, she wouldn’t have known that Xia Shinan had gone to a coffee shop alone.

This fool who didn’t know the dangers of the world made her both angry and heartbroken.

How could she act alone without telling her or Qian Yu?! Did she not know that if something really happened, everyone would go crazy!

She couldn’t bear to recall the look in that lustful man’s eyes as he looked at Xia Shinan. The thought that Xia Shinan had been drugged made her want to commit murder even more!

“No…”

Tang Yin felt movement in her arms and quickly looked.

Xia Shinan’s eyes were closed, mumbling. Her cheeks were unnaturally flushed, and her breathing was rapid.

“Shinan, it’s me,” Tang Yin said soothingly, “I’m taking you to the hospital. You’ll be fine soon.”

Xia Shinan lifted her heavy eyelids but shook her head, “Don’t go to the hospital, Tang Yin… I don’t want to go to the hospital.”

If they went to the hospital, the Xia family would find out, and her mother would know everything.

She would know about Tang Yin, she would know about their relationship, and then she would have harmed Tang Yin…

“I’m begging you, I don’t want to go to the hospital.”

“How can we not go to the hospital?” Tang Yin frowned, “You’ll get better at the hospital. Be a good girl and listen to me.”

Xia Shinan still shook her head, pulling Tang Yin closer, her voice trembling with emotion, “You can help me, Tang Yin.”

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