Chapter 289: I Must See Him Today

Liu Xin'ai's prolonged silence caused the expression on Liu Tengnian's face to gradually turn somewhat displeased.

"Xin'ai, have you still not thought it through? I have already told you many times, marrying Yiyan will not have any downsides for you, you..."

"Dad! In your eyes, is my marriage just something to be measured by those benefits and downsides?"

Liu Xin'ai finally could not help but interrupt Liu Tengnian's words, looking at him with a wounded expression.

Immediately, without waiting for Liu Tengnian to speak, she continued, "Dad, I don't want to marry someone I don't understand at all. Are you so certain that I will be happy after marrying over there? Why can't I choose someone I like myself? I..."

"Just because you are my, Liu Tengnian's, daughter!"

Liu Tengnian's tone suddenly became stern, and he looked at Liu Xin'ai with a look of wanting to say something but holding back.

Liu Xin'ai's gaze flickered for a moment, and she simply closed her mouth obediently, saying nothing more, using silence to resist.

The study suddenly fell into a deathly silence, just like every time the two of them had mentioned this topic before.

After a long while, Liu Tengnian suddenly let out a long sigh, stood up, and walked toward the desk.

Liu Xin'ai paused slightly and subconsciously raised her eyes to look over.

Immediately after, she saw Liu Tengnian pull open the drawer beside the desk, take out a document bag from inside, and walk back toward her.

A trace of confusion flashed in the depths of Liu Xin'ai's eyes, and a foreboding premonition suddenly arose in her heart.

The next second, Liu Tengnian placed the document in front of her.

"I originally wanted to tell you about this later, but since you insist on not changing your mind..."

Liu Tengnian said, shaking his head helplessly, and stopped speaking.

Liu Xin'ai hurriedly reached out and grabbed the document in front of her, pulling out a sheet that looked like a report from inside.

After scanning it for just a few glances, her expression suddenly tightened.

"Dad, you..."

Liu Xin'ai's tone was somewhat trembling, her face full of disbelief, and she suddenly grabbed Liu Tengnian's hand.

"Who did this examination for you? Perhaps it was checked incorrectly. Why don't you come to my place, and I will personally give you..."

"No need." Liu Tengnian slowly shook his head, took the report from Liu Xin'ai's hand, and placed it on the table.

"It was your teacher, Professor Shen, who personally performed the examination on me. Do you think there could be a mistake?"

Liu Xin'ai's expression tightened, and she bit her lip hard.

When she spoke again, her voice could not help but be tinged with a crying tone.

"When... were you diagnosed? Why didn't you tell me sooner..."

"Telling you... would only add to your worry in vain."

Liu Tengnian shook his head calmly, seemingly having already calmly accepted his own illness.

Liu Xin'ai hung her head and did not speak.

Only then did Liu Tengnian continue, "Professor Shen said that the time of discovery was a bit late, and it is a surgery that requires opening the skull; the success rate is really too low. If I don't have it done, I might still be able to live for a few more years..."

"Dad..." Liu Xin'ai's tears could not help but fall.

Liu Tengnian, however, shook his head, still wearing that somewhat serious expression.

"Xin'ai, do you know why I am so anxious to have you and Qin Yiyan get engaged?"

Liu Xin'ai was stunned upon hearing this, subconsciously looking at Liu Tengnian with teary eyes.

Liu Tengnian sighed.

"Your Uncle Qin and I have known each other since we were children. If you marry over there, I am very at ease; they will not treat you poorly..."

"You and Rumeng, one studies medicine and the other studies art; neither of you is good at managing the company. Qing Ze... is not yet at the age to take over the Liu Family. After you and Yiyan get married, he will help manage a portion of the Liu Family's industries, but one day, it will be handed back to Qing Ze. If we don't do this, those old guys on the board of directors will definitely try every possible way to make things difficult for you. Do you understand the painstaking efforts your father is making? I want to arrange everything for you all so that I can leave with peace of mind..."

Liu Tengnian spoke slowly, his expression becoming uncharacteristically gentle, and he gently patted Liu Xin'ai's hand.

"Xin'ai, I know you want freedom, but Dad just wants you all to have no worries behind you... Of the three of you siblings, you are the older sister. Now, as long as you nod, everything Dad has arranged for you can be realized..."

"Dad, please don't say anymore..."

Liu Xin'ai suddenly pulled back her hand and asked with a serious expression, "If I... if I want to perform this surgery on you myself?"

"You?"

Liu Tengnian was stunned for a moment, then asked back with a steady expression, "Do you really have the confidence to perform the surgery on me yourself?"

Liu Xin'ai's gaze flickered for a moment, and a trace of hesitation flashed in the depths of her eyes.

She had no way to guarantee it.

For a doctor, the most important thing on the operating table is calmness.

But if the person lying on the operating table is one's own father...

Liu Xin'ai already had the answer to that question in her heart.

She lowered her head and did not speak for a long time, but a bitter smile could not help but appear on her face.

She... seemed to have no choice.

"Dad... give me one day, okay? I want to think about this matter properly, and by then... I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer."

Liu Xin'ai spoke in a low voice, her tone somewhat deep and hoarse.

"Mm, go ahead..."

Liu Tengnian nodded wearily, the heavy stone in his heart finally feeling slightly lighter.

Liu Xin'ai left the study and returned to her room as if she had lost her soul.

She stood in front of the window alone for a long time before she suddenly thought of something, grabbed her phone like a madwoman, and quickly found Jiang Baobao's number and called it.

Jiang Baobao had just arrived at the Base, and seeing it was Liu Xin'ai's call, she hurriedly answered and asked straight to the point, "Xinaijie? Has the drug test report come out? How is the result?"

Her tone was nervous, faintly carrying a trace of anticipation.

Liu Xin'ai opened her mouth, but suddenly found she could not make a sound.

"Xinaijie?"

Jiang Baobao asked again, somewhat puzzled.

"I..." Liu Xin'ai struggled to spit out a single word, and only after saying it did she realize how hoarse her voice was.

Jiang Baobao was immediately startled by the sound of her voice.

"Xinaijie, what happened to you? Did you run into some trouble? Where are you right now?"

She asked with an anxious expression, her heart instantly leaping into her throat.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long while again.

It was so long that just as Jiang Baobao couldn't help but wonder if her receiver was broken, she finally heard Liu Xin'ai's voice again.

"Baobao... can I see Cheng Hao..."

Liu Xin'ai asked in a soft voice, her tone trembling slightly.

Jiang Baobao did not know what she had encountered, but she hurriedly agreed without a second thought: "Of course you can, I will find a way to bring Uncle out in these next two days!"

No sooner had her voice fallen than she heard Liu Xin'ai say intermittently on the other end of the phone: "Today... I want to see him today... is that possible..."

"Today?" Jiang Baobao was stunned for a moment, feeling somewhat troubled for a time.

Immediately following that, she heard Liu Xin'ai pleading on the other end of the phone: "Baobao, I beg you... I beg you to let me... see Cheng Hao today..."