Pretty Wife Insists I Live Off Her - Chapter 18

Chapter 18: Let Someone Else Take Care of Her.

Yue Lei ran to the hallway to answer the phone without stopping.

Mo Yingxue’s voice came through: “Sister, where are you?”

The smell of disinfectant in the hospital was a bit choking. Yue Lei glanced back at the ward.

She answered honestly, “I’m near North City Second High School. I might be a little late getting back today. I went back to school to visit a teacher and found a student who had fainted, so I’m with her at the hospital now.”

Mo Yingxue’s pupils dangerously constricted as she remembered the information she had once investigated.

Her tone became cold and sarcastic: “Doesn’t that student have parents or a teacher? Do you need to help?”

Yue Lei sensed something was wrong, and her heart sank. “What’s wrong, Xiao Xue?”

Mo Yingxue was silent for a moment. “The lighting is good now. I want to continue painting. Come back right away.”

They had agreed before that as long as Mo Yingxue needed her, she would come immediately.

Yue Lei scratched her hair, hesitated for a few moments, and then said, “Okay, I’ll call a taxi now.”

She hung up the phone and returned to the ward.

She glanced at Zhao Zicheng on the hospital bed, pursed her lips, and said nothing.

Seeing Yue Lei frantically packing her bag, Zhao Zicheng couldn’t help but cough twice and ask, “Didn’t you say you were going to take me home? Why are you leaving now?”

Her IV drip still had a while to go.

“Go back by yourself. My boss is calling me back to work.” Yue Lei didn’t say much to her and turned to leave.

Yue Lei was good-looking and seemed very kind-hearted, which had made Zhao Zicheng very interested in her.

Now that she realized she was completely insignificant in this woman’s heart and that her kindness was just a habitual kind of generosity that she showed to everyone, Zhao Zicheng even felt a little disgusted.

She called out to Yue Lei, laughing sarcastically, “I have money. You don’t have to sponsor me.”

“What did you say?” Yue Lei stopped and looked back at her.

Zhao Zicheng sneered twice, looking at Yue Lei darkly. “I have plenty of money. Not eating was just a ploy to gain sympathy. My grandpa is Zhao Ziyuan. His company has been doing well recently, so he hasn’t had time to be with me.

So I stopped eating on purpose and made myself sick to see if he would still dare to ignore me.”

Yue Lei was very familiar with the name Zhao Ziyuan.

He was the boss of a long-standing company that ranked in the top five of local businesses. He was very old but still worked hard and often appeared in local news.

It turned out that his son was in jail and his daughter-in-law had run away, which was why he had to work so hard with his old body.

Yue Lei remembered the official account with that company’s name on it in her previous life.

It would always suddenly enter her live stream and send a lot of gifts to Chengzixin.

Every time she praised Chengzixin by name, she would just curl her lips into a smile and not explain.

At the time, the other streamers in the company were all green with envy and would joke around in the group every day, hoping that a rich official account would notice them and send them more money.

But now, it seemed it was just a grandpa doting on his granddaughter.

What Zhao Zicheng said was true…

The thought that she had judged Zhao Zicheng’s family situation to be bad based on her skinny body and diagnosis of malnutrition, and that she had actually believed her when she said she ‘had no money to eat,’ made Yue Lei want to transmigrate again.

This time, if she could just go back two hours, she would definitely not have gone back to North City Second High School on a whim.

What was even more infuriating was that she had been a self-righteous good Samaritan, determined to sponsor her schooling. Yue Lei felt sick to her stomach.

It was true that some people were born evil. This person was such a good actress in her previous life.

Although she didn’t understand why Zhao Zicheng had been so good at acting before but was now tearing off her disguise and showing her evil side, Yue Lei quickly put away her ridiculous idea of eliminating this threat for the good of the people.

If the evil was created after birth, her plan would have worked.

But this person was so evil and cruel at such a young age. If Yue Lei didn’t run, she would end up in the same mire as she did in her previous life.

Her expression changed several times, and she finally forced a stiff smile. “That’s great. I don’t have to worry anymore. Let’s just pretend everything we said before was nonsense. I have to go.”

When she got into the car to go home, Yue Lei was incredibly relieved.

She was especially relieved that Xiao Xue’s call had come in time and that she hadn’t told Teacher Bai that she would sponsor Zhao Zicheng.

She now strongly suspected that this person had also hidden her identity at school, for example, by describing her CEO grandpa as a country old man.

Otherwise, Teacher Bai wouldn’t have been so concerned about her and would have actually believed she was alone and paid for her medical expenses.

When a student who doesn’t need help pretends to be miserable, they naturally get more attention from teachers, taking away the benefits that should have gone to other truly poor students.

After thinking about it, Yue Lei ordered two luxurious fruit baskets and a banner online to be sent to North City Second High School, with the delivery time set for Monday morning during the flag-raising ceremony.

She sent the gifts in the name of Zhao Ziyuan, publicly and ostentatiously thanking the teachers for taking care of his granddaughter.

To make this action seem logical, Yue Lei found the public relations department of this company online, contacted them with a fake phone number, and told them that the boss’s granddaughter was seriously ill and hospitalized.

She pretended to be Zhao Zicheng’s classmate and added fuel to the fire: “I heard Zhao Zicheng say that her family doesn’t care about her and doesn’t care if she gets sick.

So she’s deliberately not eating and deliberately making herself sick to get revenge on everyone. Is this true? You guys should care more about Zhao Zicheng.”

In the chairman’s office, the secretary looked at the message and, half-believing, called Zhao Zicheng’s homeroom teacher at North City Second High School.

After getting confirmation that she had indeed fainted and was hospitalized, the secretary immediately told the boss the entire story.

After hearing the whole thing, Zhao Ziyuan’s old face turned red and then pale, and he looked even more weathered.

What kind of karma was this?

His son was a good-for-nothing who only knew how to indulge in wine and women and even dared to do a hit-and-run while drunk.

All of his efforts to pull some strings were useless, and his son ended up in jail.

The wife his son chose was also a snob who would curry favor with the powerful.

As soon as his son went to jail, she made a big fuss about getting a divorce.

After the divorce, she disappeared completely, not even remembering that she had a daughter.

What did he, an old man, have in common with a young girl?

He didn’t dare to discipline her, didn’t dare to scold her. If she wanted the stars, he couldn’t give her the moon, spoiling her to no end.

A while ago, Zhao Zicheng had been making a fuss about becoming an internet celebrity and had registered an account.

But minors needed their family’s consent, and how could he, a CEO, let his granddaughter show her face and “sell smiles”?

He firmly disagreed, and she immediately started self-sabotaging.

In this day and age, she would actually starve herself until she ended up in the hospital…

“Xiao Guo, go see Zicheng,” Zhao Ziyuan said, wiping his face. “Please take care of her recently. Once her stomach is a little better, please make arrangements to send her to Germany to study. It would be best to get a bachelor’s and master’s degree in one go.”

Xiao Guo thought he was hearing things for a moment: “Germany? It’s notoriously difficult to graduate from there. It’s common for a university student to not graduate even after seven years.”

Zhao Ziyuan sighed deeply, as if all his spirit had been exhaled.

“It’s good that it’s difficult. This child has always liked a challenging life. I can’t discipline her. Let someone else take care of her.”

When Zhao Zicheng got the news that she was going to study in Germany, her world came crashing down.

But this time, the old man was determined. No matter how much she cried or made a fuss, or even threatened to slit her wrists, it was no use.

However, after the flag-raising ceremony on Monday, Zhao Zicheng immediately agreed to study abroad.

This was only because the principal was on stage presenting a banner to the teachers, which instantly revealed that her grandfather was Zhao Ziyuan.

Countless curious and suspicious looks were cast her way.

A classmate from her class even came over and asked, “How can you apply for poverty assistance when your family is so rich?”

Zhao Zicheng’s pitiful and innocent persona that she had created for all these years was completely shattered. She had lost face and dignity. She couldn’t stay at this school for a minute longer!

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