“Sis, you know the truth, don’t you?” Ning Yichen asked with a bitter smile, his voice hoarse.
Ning Ruixin opened her mouth, but seeing his reddened eyes, she suddenly felt reluctant to hurt him.
“Yichen, at this point, there are some things that it’s better if you don’t pursue,” Ning Ruixin sighed as she spoke. “Despite Su Lianxi’s faults, she won’t cause more trouble with me watching. Even if you truly dislike her, waiting a year or half to divorce her isn’t out of the question. But not now!”
Ning Yichen stared at her, his voice incredibly strained, “So, I’ve always been mistaken, haven’t I?”
Seeing him , Ning Ruixin felt a deep sense of helplessness.
“Tell me!” he suddenly interrupted her with a piercing demand.
Ning Ruixin rubbed her brow and said, “If you behave as the groom you are supposed to be, I’ll tell you the truth. I just don’t know if you dare to face it.”
“I want to know the truth!” Ning Yichen persisted with just that one sentence, his face deathly pale.
“Just a moment.” After speaking, Ning Ruixin dialed a phone number. A short while later, one of her subordinates brought in a laptop.
Ning Ruixin opened the laptop, clicked on a folder, and placed it in front of Ning Yichen: “This is the truth you seek—take your time looking through it. There were no surveillance cameras on the section of road where your accident happened, but I’ve inquired with the medical staff who rescued you that day. They all confirmed that the person who took you to the hospital was Su Zixi, and she was the one who paid for your medical bills at the time.”
Ning Yichen shuddered slightly, took hold of the mouse, and began clicking open each photo and video.
Most of the content consisted of surveillance photos from the hospital corridor, and in each one was Su Zixi.
She rushed into the ward with her backpack on, she carried a basin of water from the washroom back to the ward, her conversations with the doctors… and there were pictures inside the ward where she held his hand, wiping it gently and attentively, she covered him with a blanket; sometimes her face wore a smile, sometimes it carried a look of worry.
She sat by his hospital bed, leaning against the narrow edge, working on her homework… Perhaps because she was so busy, most of the time her hair was a total mess, as if she didn’t even have a moment to brush it.
What followed were the hospital bills—each entry, each slip, recorded her every payment…
Ning Yichen closed his eyes in despair…
So the truth was… indeed so heavy that he couldn’t bear to accept it…
Ning Ruixin spoke faintly, “At the beginning, Su Zixi had a really tough time taking care of you. Her living expenses were limited, and she didn’t make much from part-time jobs, to say nothing of her studies… The Su family actually knew what she was doing, but rather than offering help, they almost cut off her living allowance; I don’t know how she managed to survive. I think it was around the start of this year when Mom found out you might be alive, so she sent someone to Yanzhou City. The Su family guessed your identity, so that Su Lianxi woman came up with this plan. The Su family has a bit of wealth where they are, and the hospital you were in was just an ordinary public hospital. The medical staff who knew the truth were either bribed or transferred. They even forged a set of payment slips… They never expected you to wake up; they just wanted to get some benefits from the Ning family. But you woke up right at that critical moment, and then everything that followed happened.”