Too Late to Regret, She’s Now With the Big Boss - Chapter 82

The family doctor fixed his sharp gaze on Song Yuntao. “Did your heart start acting up when you saw that pretty junior?”

Unable to voice the terror in his heart, Song Yuntao could only feign embarrassment and nod.

He had seen plenty of pretty juniors, why would his heart react this way?

The family doctor chuckled, then cleared his throat under Song Yuntao’s displeased glare. With an air of profound mystery, he said, “This illness of yours is truly hard to cure.”

Song Yuntao, recalling his younger self, asked urgently, “Is there a way to treat it?”

Because it wasn’t the pretty junior that made his heart race, it was an ugly duckling.

Back then, he thought he was seriously ill, refusing to believe he could fall for a girl so dark and plain.

He even went online anonymously to ask if anyone would abandon a fair, rich beauty for someone dark, skinny, and unattractive. Unfortunately, no one supported him.

Everyone commented that he was sick and needed treatment.

Of course, some said he wasn’t sick, he was a pervert!

Now, as he reminisced about the first time he saw Ye Qianqian, every word and action of hers remained vivid in his mind.

It was during a conflict between her and Ye Qingyan. The second young master of the Ye family openly sided with Ye Qingyan.

Ye Qianqian, her dark, thin face stubbornly set, angrily demanded, “I’m your biological sister, why do you only believe her?”

The second young master replied matter-of-factly, “I grew up with Yanyan. She’s gentle and needs my protection.

She’s not like you, dark and skinny, yet sharp-tongued and tough as a hedgehog, prickling everyone you meet…

You don’t need anyone’s protection. It’s a miracle if we don’t get hurt by you.”

As a bystander who arrived later, regardless of who was right or wrong in the situation, the weaker party had already garnered sympathy and bias.

Back then, he was just a teenager, not a saint, so naturally, he favored the familiar, beautiful, and adorable Ye Qingyan.

More importantly, Ye Qianqian was wild and unrestrained, daring to openly defy her second brother, nothing like his own sister, who sweetly called him “brother” all the time.

She never disobeyed him, unlike that hot-tempered, untamable biological daughter of the Ye family.

But when he saw Ye Qianqian standing tall and straight, her silhouette sharp as an unsheathed blade, his heart began to pound wildly.

His mind moved faster than his actions. He stepped in front of Ye Qianqian and, for the first time ever, spoke up for her.

Ye Qingyan stood meekly behind the second young master, her beautiful face tear-streaked like pear blossoms in the rain. “Since Brother Yuntao says you’re not at fault, I’ll apologize to you.”

Seeing this, he was overwhelmed with guilt and immediately rushed over to wipe her tears, turning to glare fiercely at Ye Qianqian. “Yanyan is a kind person. Don’t you dare bully her again.”

“Me, bully her? You just got here and didn’t see what happened. I won’t blame you.” She slowly turned her face, a chillingly cold smile curling at the corner of her lips.

Her gaze toward her second brother and Ye Qingyan was filled with disdain and disgust, sharper than the deadliest blade.

Fortunately, Lu Zhenting also chimed in to criticize her. “Don’t think just because you’re the Ye family’s biological daughter, you can bully Yanyan. With us here, don’t even think about it.”

She retorted arrogantly, word by word, “Who…the hell…are you?”

“Holy shit, is the world upside down? Do you even know who I am? I’m the eldest grandson of the Lu family!” Lu Zhenting roared in a fit of rage.

She sneered, “Is the eldest grandson of the Lu family all that impressive? And she’s the eldest daughter of the Ye family! I just showed her no respect, what can you do about it?”

“You… you’re nothing but a country bumpkin who doesn’t understand social etiquette.”

“Ye Qianqian, if you disrespect Yanyan, you’re disrespecting Second Brother. Apologize to Yanyan right now.”

With boundless self-mockery and resolve, Ye Qianqian replied, “In the eyes of the Ye family, I, the true daughter of the house, am nothing special. Why should I give you any face?”

“You-if you keep acting so arrogantly, I’ll go home and tell Dad to kick you out,” Second Young Master Ye threatened viciously.

She immediately backed down and apologized quickly, “I’m sorry, Sister. It’s all my fault.”

“That’s more like it. As long as you don’t take anything from Yanyan and behave yourself in front of Second Brother, you’ll still be my sister.”

“Sorry, Second Brother. I was being immature,” Ye Qianqian apologized smoothly.

Song Yuntao still remembered clearly, even though she apologized in a low voice, her face was filled with disdain.

That look of contempt struck him like a thunderbolt, making his heart tremble violently.

She was so dark and plain, while he was so outstanding and dazzling.

For the first time, he experienced what it meant to have one’s heart stirred,a faint ache accompanied by throbbing palpitations.

Back then, he truly couldn’t understand whether he liked Ye Qianqian or Ye Qingyan.

The netizens couldn’t be wrong, he must have fallen for the delicate and fragile Ye Qingyan.

So, he forcibly developed a prejudice against Ye Qianqian. He couldn’t admit that he was some kind of pervert who liked someone dark and skinny!

He couldn’t let his rival, Lu Zhenting, catch on, yet he couldn’t help but pay attention to Ye Qianqian, stealing glances at her whenever he could.

Rumors said Ye Qianqian insisted on tagging along with them as a third wheel, just to compete with Ye Qingyan for his attention.

At the time, he couldn’t comprehend the occasional disdain in her eyes when she looked at him. She was the one forcing her way into his life, what right did she have to look down on him?

Until a few days ago, she looked at him with that same contempt and resolve, enunciating each word clearly: “You… in my eyes… are nothing but… a piece of shit!”

“Brother, what are you laughing at? We’re almost there,” Song Yunqing asked cautiously.

“Laughing out of anger! How ironic it all is. Everyone says I’m a genius, ambitious, sharp-witted, with a head for business. After the car accident three years ago, I became calm and composed. But now it seems your brother is just a naive fool!”

It was the first time Song Yunqing had heard her brother speak such disheartening, cryptic words, but she instantly understood, he was filled with regret.

In her heart, she cursed Ye Qingyan relentlessly. It was all her fault for being so frivolous, cheating on her god-like brother just three days into their marriage.

She had turned her once-confident brother into a shadow of his former self!

After weighing her words, she advised, “Brother, Sister-in-law has lived abroad for three years and picked up some of the Westerners’ casual habits. If you really can’t accept it, just get a divorce. But whatever you do, don’t provoke Ye Qianqian. No matter how good she is, she’s not yours anymore. Third Master Lu is terrifying, if you anger him, he’ll gouge your eyes out.”

“Qingqing, it’s precisely because he is too terrifying that I want to rescue Qianqian from his side. Years ago, I heard from Old Madame Lu that he had a beloved, but no one knew who it was.”

Song Yuntao thought of Third Master Lu’s bone-chillingly cold eyes, and a shiver ran down his spine. How could stubborn Qianqian possibly endure him?