Chapter 1117: Deep Maternal Love, Unable to Sway an Unreasonable Father

Qi Heng could not win against his mother, so he had to let the servant fetch the medical kit.

But he did not want his mother to do it; he let the servant help him apply the medicine!

Although he did not have to do it himself, Lady Qi watched from the side without even blinking.

She felt heartache for her son and complained to her husband: "Your heart is truly cruel; how could you bring yourself to do it? A Heng is already such an obedient child. Look at the children around us; is there one more sensible or less troublesome than our A Heng?"

"Just because he disobeyed you once, you laid such a heavy hand on him; it's breaking my heart..." She shed tears as she complained, the tears falling in a steady stream.

He had been in a fit of rage just now and had indeed been ruthless.

Now, being complained at by his wife, he also felt regret.

However, for the sake of the dignity of the head of the household, even if he regretted it, he could not admit it!

"If you hadn't thrown yourself over, nothing would have happened," he said stubbornly.

His wife complained: "If I hadn't thrown myself over, you would have beaten our son to death. You went through all that trouble to bring the child back, just to kill him with your own hands? That would save you the trouble, and our whole family could be buried with him. Anyway, this marriage alliance won't work out, and none of us will have a good end..."

Qi Heng caught the subtext: "Mom, what is going on?"

His mother said indignantly: "Ask your father. He needs the support of Commander Liu. His daughter, Miss Liu, likes you. The banquet the day after tomorrow is your matchmaking banquet. If you don't attend, they will lose face, and none of us in this family will have it good."

Qi Heng was a hundred percent unwilling in his heart.

He had Shi Ran in his heart and would absolutely not agree to get engaged to another girl.

Qi Heng: "If I have to be threatened by others, then this miserable position is not worth holding."

His father: "You are still young and don't understand the complex relationships here. Although I am the boss on the surface, without anyone's support, I am just a lonely man."

"Miss Liu likes you; you are a match made in heaven."

Qi Heng: "But I don't like her. Now you tell me to marry a woman I don't like at all; have you considered my feelings?"

He had met Miss Liu; she wasn't exactly untalented, but she was willful and arrogant, and their temperaments were completely incompatible.

The more he spoke, the louder his voice became; he was very agitated.

His father said in a deep voice: "Feelings can be cultivated. You are a child of the Qi Family, so you must shoulder the responsibilities of the Qi Family. Romantic entanglements are not for you."

Qi Heng: "Stop lecturing me with your grand principles. You were the one who supported me and Shi Ran at the beginning, and now you are the one telling me to marry someone else. In your heart, an official position is bigger than the heavens. I don't deserve to have a heart, and I shouldn't have emotions, right? What is the meaning of living like this? How is it any different from a walking corpse..."

"Slap!"

He received a heavy slap on his face.

His father was very angry: "I worked so hard to raise you, and this is all you've learned—romantic entanglements? All that knowledge you studied has gone to the dogs! You must marry Liu Min, and from now on, don't mention the name Shi Ran again."

"Impossible. If you force me to marry a woman I don't like, I will die to show you."

"You—you think only you will die? If you die, the whole family will be buried with you."

"Fine, that's perfect. We'll be a complete family again in heaven. By then, I'll play chess with you every day..."

Qi Xiansheng was so angry he grabbed the desk lamp nearby to smash it at his son, but his wife pulled out the IV needle and shielded her son in her arms.

In the end, the lamp did not come down. The Vice President said, frustrated by his son's lack of progress: "Just keep shielding him. Sooner or later, you will drag the lives and future of our whole family down with you."

The conversation between father and son broke up in discord again, falling into a stalemate.

The reason Qi Heng would defy his father was that he did not believe a word his father said.

It was just a ruse.

Just because he didn't marry Liu Min, the whole family would be killed?

Then this presidency was too miserable. If it were that miserable, then whether he held it or not, what did it matter?

Jiangzhou.

After talking to Wang Yong, Shi Ran knew that Qi Heng had indeed been brought back to the country, exactly as she had thought.

Moreover, Wang Yong had also told her the specific situation in L Country.

She said to Yun Qitian: "You pretend to be Qi Heng's classmate, call his house, and tell him not to go against his family. I will find a way to help him get out."

Yun Qitian: "What way do you have? Tell me first; I can't watch you take risks."

Shi Ran: "Less nonsense. Are you going to call or not? If you don't, I'll find someone else to call."

"I'll call, I'll call."

He agreed.

The two of them agreed on the script, and Yun Qitian dialed the Qi Family's number.

"Madam, your phone," the servant said, walking in with the mobile phone: "It's your nephew calling."

She did not want to answer; those relatives from her maiden family had nothing important to say—other than crying poor or asking for favors.

But if she didn't answer, they would show up at the door, and she wouldn't be able to avoid them.

She might as well answer.

"Hello, Madam. I am a good friend of A Heng in Jiangzhou. I am looking for A Heng." It was a very short sentence, without pleasantries; in any case, the meaning she wanted to express had been expressed.

"He doesn't have time." Lady Qi refused subconsciously and hung up the phone.

When he called again, she didn't answer.

She didn't answer any numbers calling in from Jiangzhou.

Shi Ran's first plan had not even begun before it was declared a failure.

Qi Heng: "It is useless for you to coerce me. I will absolutely not go to that whatever-banquet."

He kept his word; not only did he refuse to attend, but he also began a hunger strike, not consuming a drop of water or a grain of rice.

For a full day and night.

Qi Heng did not eat, drink, or sleep, torturing himself like a hawk-tamer.

In just one day, he was haggard beyond measure, his lips cracked and peeling, his eyes bloodshot from exhaustion.

His wife pleaded with her husband: "Let our son out. Can't we just stop this? Don't you know your son's temper? If he keeps being this stubborn, he will starve himself to death."

Qi Xiansheng sighed: "Do you think I don't feel bad? It's just that I have no other choice right now; if I hadn't been so stubborn back then and had just released the news about the blind date, it would have been fine."

Back then, he felt that Shi Ran's personality was too strong and she wasn't fit to be their daughter-in-law, but he hadn't expected his son to be so resolute, wanting no one but Shi Ran, and refusing to listen no matter how he tried to persuade him!

Now he was riding a tiger and could not get off.

His son was at a stalemate with him; how could he attend the banquet in this state?

Clearly, it was impossible.

And even if he forcibly dragged him there, if he started spouting nonsense, it wouldn't be forming an alliance through marriage, but rather forming an enemy.

Lady Qi felt sorry for her son and wanted to go persuade him to eat.

"No need to persuade him, his current state is just right; I will just say A Heng has suddenly fallen gravely ill and cannot attend the banquet." In fact, he still held back a part of his plan.

If it really came to it, he would have no choice but to lie to Commander Liu that his son had contracted a terminal illness.

If that were the case, he wouldn't even have to wait for him to go back on his word; the other party would take the initiative to find a reason to call off the engagement.

He certainly wouldn't let his precious daughter become a widow before she had even married into the family, and this marriage proposal would naturally come to nothing.

"Good idea, let's say it like that."

Qi Xiansheng made the phone call, and in less than an hour, Commander Liu arrived with his daughter.