Chapter 10

"So disgusting!"

Shi Xi covered her nose and stepped back with a face full of disgust, and Liu Wanxin also took Shi Xi's arm and retreated to the back.

Shi Zhenyuan stood where he was, his thin lips pursed, his expression cold to the extreme, but he didn't move forward a single step.

Only Shi Heng ran over quickly, crouched down to pick up Shi Yi's body, and shouted anxiously:

"Shi Yi? Shi Yi!"

Shi Yi's body was as cold as an ice cube, covered in vomit with a pungent smell. The eldest young master of the Shi family, who had always been a clean freak, couldn't care less at this moment, holding her over and over again, calling her name.

Shi Yi had no reaction. The rise and fall of her chest was already very weak, her eyes tightly closed, her brows painfully knitted together, as if she were enduring immense pain even in her coma.

Only her pale lips were slightly open, murmuring in a low voice, sentence by sentence:

"I'm sorry..."

"It was me who did it..."

"I was wrong, please, forgive me..."

Hearing these words, the whole room went quiet in an instant!

Zhang Ma's eyes instantly turned red, and tears gushed out like a gate that couldn't be closed. She knelt in front of Shi Yi with a "plop," constantly shouting:

"Second young lady, second young lady! Wake up! Don't be afraid, Zhang Ma is here, Zhang Ma is here!"

No matter what others said, Zhang Ma had never believed from beginning to end that the incident back then was the second young lady's doing.

The second young lady had known how to love the third young lady since she was little, protecting her everywhere, coaxing her, and she was also a child with a sense of proportion, so how could she have done such a thing!

She must have been framed!

At this very moment, Shi Heng's heart also felt as if it had been stabbed by countless needles.

It had been nearly 20 years, and their family had been forcing Shi Yi to apologize for nearly 20 years—he hadn't expected the first time he heard Shi Yi apologize to be in such a situation.

Her pale lips trembled, unconsciously saying those apologies one after another, but they were like curses, shooting straight into his heart!

Shi Heng stood up abruptly, held Shi Yi horizontally in his arms, and turned to walk out.

"Where are you going?"

Liu Wanxin stretched out her arms and blocked the two of them.

"What else could I be doing, sending her to the hospital!"

"You can't send her to the hospital! If you send her to the hospital, Yi'er's identity will be exposed, and the matter of Xi'er will be dug up sooner or later! If that happens, Xi'er's reputation will be completely ruined!" Liu Wanxin pleaded while crying bitterly, "You can't go to the hospital!"

"It's come to this, and you're still concerned about Xi'er's reputation?!" Shi Heng's heart was burning with anger, "Mom, isn't Yi'er your own biological daughter too?!"

"Yi'er, of course she is my own biological daughter, both the palm and the back of the hand are flesh, how could I not feel heartache! But if the matter is exposed, what will be destroyed is the reputation of our entire Shi family!"

Liu Wanxin looked at Shi Zhenyuan with tears in her eyes, as if begging, "Master, say something!"

Shi Xi was also wiping her tears to the side, sobbing.

Shi Zhenyuan looked at Shi Yi, who had lost consciousness in Shi Heng's arms but was still repeating "I'm sorry" over and over again, and only felt a sense of suffocation in his heart.

For so many years, he and Liu Wanxin had been trying every possible way to force Shi Yi to apologize, but now that Shi Yi had truly apologized, he didn't know why, but he felt that his heart wasn't at ease at all.

He sighed, his voice low but unquestionable:

"Zhang Ma, go invite the family doctor over."

The family doctor was quickly invited over; he was an experienced old doctor of traditional Chinese medicine.

The old doctor came to Shi Yi's bedside, took her pulse for a while, and immediately judged that Shi Yi's symptoms were caused by fright.

"This young lady should have been frightened. In Western medicine, it is also known as PTSD, which is post-traumatic stress disorder. In traditional Chinese medicine, the main reason is timidity and fear caused by extreme mental tension. But don't worry, in a moment I will prescribe a few medicines to harmonize qi and blood and calm the spirit, and she should wake up."

Hearing the old doctor's words, the Shi family breathed a sigh of relief.

Just then, the old doctor's brows furrowed deeply again, and he shook his head, saying: "However..."

"However what?"

"I don't know why, but this young lady's foundation shouldn't be bad, yet now her internal organs are damaged, her vitality is weak, and her qi and blood are depleted... Alas, her foundation has basically been ruined... During this period, she needs to recuperate well in bed and shouldn't do any strenuous work."

As soon as the old doctor's words fell, Liu Wanxin's face turned from green to purple, as if she wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

The others' faces also darkened.

In fact, everyone present knew clearly why Shi Yi's body had fallen to its current state.

A frozen three-foot layer of ice is not formed in a single day. Everyone in the Shi family had more or less felt that Shi Yi's physical condition was not as good as before this time she came out of prison, and her complexion was also very bad. It was just that no one had taken it seriously.

"Thank you, we understand."

Shi Heng said in a low voice and politely saw the old doctor out.

When Shi Yi opened her eyes, she saw herself lying on a luxurious black bed, with a snow-white and bright ceiling above her head. The entire room was decorated simply but not without luxury, and even the walls were marble. She frowned, and if she remembered correctly, this was...

Shi Heng's room?

"You're awake."

"Why... am I here?" Shi Yi propped up her body and leaned against the head of the bed.

"Heh, why, you're still asking me?! Don't tell me you want to go back to that cold and damp broken basement of yours?"

Shi Yi only felt a splitting headache, vaguely remembering that she had been locked in a pitch-black and enclosed basement last night.

"Was it you... who saved me?"

"If it wasn't me, who else could it be? Do you still expect Mom and Dad, and Shi Xi to save you?" Shi Heng said coldly, bringing a bowl of medicine to Shi Yi's mouth.

"This was boiled by Zhang Ma for you, drink it quickly, I still have to go to work in a bit."

Shi Yi quickly took the medicine bowl and nodded carefully.

"Be careful, don't dirty my bedsheets! This is already the second bedsheet I've changed for you." Shi Heng said unpleasantly while putting on his coat.

Shi Yi pursed her lips in secret, thinking it must be because she vomited all over herself yesterday and dirtied Shi Heng's bedsheets. He had always been a clean freak, and she didn't know how he had endured it yesterday...

"Yeah, I know."

"If you want to eat anything, let Zhang Ma make it for you, I'm leaving."

Shi Heng put on his coat, straightened his cuffs and collar, combed his hair, and prepared to push the door open to go to the company to work.

Just then, a low voice came from behind:

"Yesterday... thank you."

Shi Heng's heart twisted suddenly. For more than 20 years, it was the first time he had heard Shi Yi say thank you to him, but those three words made him feel an indescribable strangeness and discomfort.

"I am your brother!"

Shi Heng turned his head to look at Shi Yi and said through gritted teeth.

"I know you are my brother... but... you also had no obligation to save me, did you..."

Shi Yi was speaking from the bottom of her heart. From childhood to adulthood, she had never enjoyed even a shred of brotherly love, so naturally, she felt that her brother was no different from anyone else.

Shi Heng's face turned white inch by inch.

He took a deep breath, clenched his fingers tightly, opened the door, and walked out.

Then with a "bang," he closed the door behind him forcefully.