Chapter 19: She Waited for Pei Shijin to Come Back Crying and Beg Her Part 2

Dr. Feng, on her way off duty, was called back. Upon entering the room, she smelled the overpowering alcohol. “How much did she drink?”

Seeing Lu Yixue passed out on the bed, Dr. Feng’s eyes widened. “What… what happened this time?”

“She drank a lot, and with emotional distress, she fainted,” Pei Shijin said, her eyes filled with undisguisable worry and heartache.

Dr. Feng took a deep breath. “Little Pei, maybe sign up for a class or something. At times like this, you gotta tuck in your tail and whisper sweet nothings.”

How had she pissed her off again?

She didn’t know the new issue between them, but her words rang true.

Complications had led to Lu Yixue’s severe misunderstanding of Pei Shijin, who responded with silence, enraging Lu Yixue to the point of collapse.

“There won’t be a next time,” Pei Shijin said with a smile tinged with bitterness.

“I’ll check on the Eldest Young Lady.” After examination, Dr. Feng confirmed no other issues and relaxed. “I’ll prescribe some meds.”

“Mm, thank you for the trouble.”

“Hey, wait—what happened to your leg?” Dr. Feng noticed the crusted blood on Pei Shijin’s pant leg.

“It’s nothing, just bumped it. I can handle it myself.” Pei Shijin glanced down; no glass shards remained, just minor cuts.

“I’ll get the first aid kit.” Dr. Feng suspected they had fought, observed closely, and only relaxed after confirming no other wounds or bruises. “You stay here with the Eldest Young Lady.”

The injury wasn’t severe, but Dr. Feng insisted on bandaging it. “Scars would be a shame.”

Lacking energy to argue, Pei Shijin complied.

Afterward, Dr. Feng went off duty, leaving Pei Shijin alone in the quiet ward.

She had someone brew sobering soup in the hospital pharmacy, but Lu Yixue showed no signs of waking up, so she couldn’t feed it to her.

The next day, Lu Yixue woke up with a pounding headache and a parched mouth.

She rubbed her forehead as she sat up, but when she saw no one around, anger flared up inside her.

How could Pei Shijin be so irresponsible? She hadn’t even held her accountable for her mistakes yet, and Pei Shijin dared to just drop everything and leave.

Finally, her gaze fell on the table beside the bed, where some medicine boxes and a bowl of soup sat.

Lu Yixue picked it up and took a sip, immediately recognizing it as the sobering soup she’d drunk many times before.

She gulped it down, and her whole body felt much more comfortable right away.

She had drunk this soup many times, but Pei Shijin had always been the one holding the bowl and feeding it to her.

Pei Shijin had done everything perfectly, always keeping a low profile. She never imagined that the seemingly gentle and harmless Pei Shijin was harboring such malice.

She needed to be put in her place, taught a lesson.

Once this phase of research was over and she had some free time, she would definitely give Pei Shijin a proper schooling, teach her how to be a good wife to the Lu family.

Lu Yixue had never considered replacing her.

The mother of her daughter could only be Pei Shijin.

People sometimes overestimated themselves and made mistakes, but as long as they corrected them in time, it was fine.

“Want to eat?” A moment later, Gao Ye’an walked into the ward carrying a lunchbox.

Her voice interrupted Lu Yixue’s fantasies, and Lu Yixue frowned. “Where’s Pei Shijin?”

“Your mom wanted to see her,” Gao Ye’an said. “Eat something first.”

Lu Yixue was indeed hungry, so she opened the lunchbox and started eating.

As she ate, she wondered why Lu Lingjiang wanted to see Pei Shijin, but she couldn’t figure it out.

Had the two of them had any interactions over the years?

Since Pei Shijin had decided to leave, she naturally had to say goodbye to the Lu family.

After communicating with Gao Ye’an, the person she needed to see was Lu Lingjiang. The channels she had for gathering information had been built up while helping Lu Lingjiang handle some work.

Moreover, she had some matters on hand that needed to be handed over to their people; she couldn’t just leave without a word.

At the top floor of a skyscraper in the city center, Lu Lingjiang sat in her office.

Pei Shijin stood before her nervously, always feeling a twinge of guilt in Lu Lingjiang’s presence.

It was like facing a professor when you’d been late to class because of a part-time job—and that professor was also your advisor.

After Pei Shijin conveyed her main point—that Lu Yixue was mostly recovered, but her aversion to Alphas was still severe, and it was time for her to leave—she stood there awaiting Lu Lingjiang’s judgment.

“How long have you been thinking about this?” Lu Lingjiang’s expression was neutral, but her aura was powerfully oppressive from head to toe.

Pei Shijin blurted out, “Every day.”

Ever since she learned she was marrying Lu Yixue, ever since she learned about Lu Yixue’s psychological trauma, she had been considering what to do after curing the genetic disease.

She had always thought about staying by Lu Yixue’s side forever, but recent events made her realize that leaving was the best choice.

Lu Yixue hated her—not just the Alpha pheromones before, but now her as a person.

Forget about having the moon solely for herself or true love; even family harmony and mutual respect seemed out of reach.

Moreover, her physical condition was unstable, posing a great potential danger to Lu Yixue.

If it erupted, they might never even be able to sit at the same table for tea again.

In summary, aside from their daughter, Pei Shijin couldn’t find a single reason to justify staying.

“Alright, since you’ve thought it through, Ye’an and I won’t object. I’ve seen all you’ve done for Yixue as her mother. This card has your reward.” Lu Lingjiang pushed a card toward Pei Shijin. “I know you can’t let go of Mingzhu. No matter what happens in the future, the Lu family will always welcome you back.”

Seeing Pei Shijin hesitate, Lu Lingjiang curved her lips. “Take it. Consider it startup funds. You don’t want Mingzhu to have a destitute mother in the future, do you?”

“Thank you.” Pei Shijin took the bank card and gripped it tightly. She thought to herself that if she were Lu Yixue, she’d think she had married into the Lu family just to fly up the branch and become a phoenix.

She had truly enjoyed the wealth and luxury she could never have dreamed of in her lifetime.

Pei Shijin bid farewell to Lu Lingjiang and walked a few steps out before she couldn’t hold back anymore.

She stopped, turned around, and asked Lu Lingjiang, “What will happen to the people involved in the Sea Island Incident?”

Lu Lingjiang curved her lips and countered, “You mean Bai Mingsong?”

Pei Shijin hesitated for two seconds before nodding.

“She’s still a friend Yixue grew up with,” Lu Lingjiang said, her tone laced with amusement.

“I understand. Sorry to bother you.” Pei Shijin’s heart felt clogged, but she had no outlet for it.

A friend—Lu Yixue had always been good to her friends.

She had once been a beneficiary, and now she was jealous of her leniency and kindness toward them.

Once she stepped out from under the shadow of the skyscraper, Pei Shijin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The bank card was in her name, arranged by Lu Lingjiang, with the initial PIN of six zeros. She needed to change the password at the bank first.

Pei Shijin had already decided that she wouldn’t use the money unless she had to, and when Little Mingzhu grew up, she’d give it to her.

Even knowing the Lu family was Yancheng’s most powerful dynasty, Pei Shijin couldn’t help gasping when she saw the string of zeros.

Eight zeros—Lu Lingjiang had given her a hundred million.

Pei Shijin had never had a concrete sense of the Lu family’s wealth and status.

In high school, she had been a top student hired by the aristocratic school based on her grades. Her classmates flaunted their wealth, but it was in the tens to hundreds of thousands—still normal.

Lu Yixue never acted that way; she even loved the green bean cakes Pei Shijin made, without any air of superiority.

When she graduated university, the Lu family casually shelled out hundreds of thousands for her mother’s surgery fees, which was still within Pei Shijin’s scope of understanding.

As for the clothes, jewelry, and bags Lu Yixue had bought her over the years of marriage, she only knew the price of the clothes.

They were people from two different worlds, and Pei Shijin realized it more vividly now.

Declining the bank manager’s enthusiastic offers, Pei Shijin had no intention of changing how the money was stored. She trusted Lu Lingjiang’s professional team more than herself.

The daily interest alone was over ten thousand.

After leaving the bank, Pei Shijin sat on the curb for a long time before recovering her composure.

Next, she needed to discuss it with Little Mingzhu.

As she had told Lu Lingjiang, though she had always wanted to stay and thought she could, the unease and inferiority deep in her heart still made her ponder leaving in the dead of night.

Aside from Lu Yixue, the one she couldn’t let go of was Little Mingzhu.

Pei Shijin had already talked it over with Gao Ye’an; today, she would pick up Little Mingzhu from school.

She wandered the streets of Yancheng until school let out, then waited at the kindergarten gate, watching the teacher lead the children out.

“Mommy!” Lu Mingzhu’s eyes widened in delight when she saw Pei Shijin. “What’s up with Little Grandma? Why are you picking me up today?”

“Because Mommy missed Mingzhu so much, Little Grandma gave me this precious chance.” Pei Shijin picked up Little Mingzhu and pressed their cheeks together.

Lu Mingzhu enthusiastically pressed back, her chubby little hands wrapping around Pei Shijin’s neck. “Mingzhu missed Mommy too~ Last night without Mommy, Mingzhu dreamed of Mommy~”

A mute Pei Shijin and a blind Lu Yixue had given birth to a sweet little cutie.

Without such an adorable, affectionate daughter who spouted sweet words every day, Pei Shijin thought she and Lu Yixue’s life would have fallen apart long ago—at best, a distant respect.

After saying goodbye to the other parents, Pei Shijin carried Lu Mingzhu to the car and listened to her chatter about the day’s fun events as they drove.

“Want Mommy to take you out to play?” Pei Shijin smiled brightly at Lu Mingzhu in the child seat.

“Yay! Where are we going?” Lu Mingzhu clapped excitedly. She had never gone out just the two of them before.

This city held many memories for Pei Shijin. Her childhood had actually been pretty good.