Chapter 1945: Ji Yingjie's Temper Has Changed Back

Sheng Family.

Shi Youxuan was restless all morning, unable to settle her mind on anything.

Her right eyelid was twitching incessantly; she hadn't been looking at a computer lately, nor had she overused her eyes, so what was going on?

She had a servant find some red paper, tore off a small piece, and stuck it onto her eyelid.

Sheng Hanyu teased his wife: "You, you're getting more and more superstitious. Don't scare yourself for no reason; nothing will happen."

He had just finished speaking when the phone rang.

Nianyin called Shi Youxuan, telling her to go to the hospital immediately; her father had suddenly collapsed and lost consciousness and had already been sent to the hospital.

"Okay, I'll go right now."

Shi Youxuan hung up the phone and immediately walked out, not even grabbing her coat.

"Wait, I'll go with you."

Her husband had a servant bring their coats, ordered the driver to bring the car around, and took the initiative to call Jian Yixin to ask which emergency room Shi Yucheng had been taken to.

After doing all this, he gently put his arm around his wife's shoulder to comfort her: "Don't worry, Dad will be fine. Good people are blessed with a lifetime of peace."

"Mm."

Shi Youxuan nodded.

Her husband was right; good people are blessed with a lifetime of peace, and her father had been a thoroughly good person his whole life... but whether he would make it through this time was hard to say.

Her father had suffered from high blood pressure years ago and had lingering effects; that he had been fine for so many years was already a blessing.

Now that he had fallen ill, would he still be able to pull through?

Hospital.

Outside the emergency room.

When Shi Youxuan and her husband arrived, it was still early, and only Nianyin and Ji Yingjie were waiting outside.

"Why are you so slow?"

Ji Yingjie glared at her with dissatisfaction.

She immediately began to complain about Shi Yuke: "You daughters are really something else. You don't even keep your father's hospitalization in your hearts. You really are women who look outward; once you have husbands, you don't care about your own father anymore."

"You're not bad, you're better than that Shi Yuke. At least you're only an adopted daughter, while Shi Yuke is his own biological daughter, and she still hasn't come yet..."

The couple realized that the original Ji Yingjie had returned.

After she had lost consciousness last time, her temperament had changed drastically, becoming reasonable and understanding.

Just when everyone had gotten used to the current Ji Yingjie, she had changed back?

However, now was not the time to dwell on this.

Shi Youxuan: "My sister's family lives far away; can she fly here?"

"How is Dad?"

Ji Yingjie glared at her hard again: "I think you've really gone stupid, always favoring outsiders. Aren't you afraid of breaking your arm? Look at what time it is; your father is lying inside in critical condition, and instead of asking about your father's safety first, you're defending that woman."

Shi Youxuan was in no mood to bicker with her, so she ignored her entirely and turned to ask Nianyin: "How is Dad's condition?"

Nianyin wanted to speak, but upon receiving a look from her foster mother, she shut her mouth.

Shi Youxuan:...

So she was being forced to only talk to her aunt, right?

Fortunately, at this moment, Jian Yixin arrived.

Shi Youxuan asked Jian Yixin: "Yixin, how is my father's condition?"

Jian Yixin: "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie? I can comfort you."

Shi Youxuan: "I want to hear the truth. It's okay, tell me; I can handle it."

"Alright, come with me to the office."

She was being kind, wanting to speak with Shi Youxuan alone, fearing that Ji Yingjie wouldn't be able to accept it.

But her path was blocked by Ji Yingjie: "No need to speak separately; just say it here. What kind of storms haven't I seen? I can handle it."

"Alright."

So Jian Yixin relayed the doctor's opinion, telling everyone: "I'm afraid Uncle won't be able to pull through this time. The best-case scenario is that he becomes a vegetable. It's already a miracle that his old illness held off for so many years before flaring up."

As they spoke, the light in the emergency room went out.

Shi Yucheng was sent directly to the ICU through another door, and Jian Yixin asked everyone to decide what should be done.

Ji Yingjie was very domineering: "Keep him alive. Even if he's a vegetable, he must live. I feel better just being able to see this person every day."

She was his spouse, so she had the final say.

When Shi Yuke arrived, Shi Yucheng was already lying in the ICU, and everyone was waiting outside; before long, he would be moved to a specialized Hospital Ward, where he could only rely on intravenous nutrients to sustain his life.

Shi Yuke was streaming with tears, pestering the doctor to ask if there was any way to make her father wake up.

Ji Yingjie stood by, watching coldly, and retorted: "Unfilial while alive, wailing when dead. Your father isn't dead yet, so who are you putting on this crying show for? Bad luck."

Shi Yuke:...

These words were harsh.

And her stepmother hadn't said such harsh things for a long time; in fact, they had been getting along quite well in recent years.

Now that her stepmother was suddenly saying such things, she couldn't help but argue back: "How can you speak like that? The person lying inside is my father. Isn't it natural for me to be anxious and want him to get better?"

"How am I being hypocritical?"

"You are being hypocritical. You don't even like it when I say a couple of things to you. Let me ask you, you are your father's only biological daughter, right? But how many times a month do you come to see your father? Not even as often as your sister comes. Am I wronging you by saying you're unfilial?"

This was truly wronging her.

Originally, she went to see her father at least twice a week, but her father said her home was far away, and a round trip took over three hours, so he didn't let her come too often, only allowing her to come once a week.

Clearly, her stepmother was there when that was said, yet now she was brazenly bringing this up to criticize her, calling her unfilial?

Yuke was naturally unconvinced, but with her father still lying in the intensive care unit in a coma, she was in no mood to bicker with her stepmother.

Yuke pressed her face against the glass, watching her father inside, hooked up to various tubes and wearing an oxygen mask, and felt as if her heart were being cut by a knife.

Scenes from the past surfaced before her eyes.

Back then, she had been bullied, kicked out of the wealthy family, and sent to a mental hospital; she had broken her father's heart time and time again, and almost every one of his hospitalizations was because of her.

If it weren't for worrying too much about her, Dad should have lived safely and soundly to the age of one hundred without any illness or disaster!

She was heartbroken beyond measure.

Ji Yingjie, however, had no intention of letting her off, standing to the side, constantly making snide remarks and stabbing at her heart.

"Oh! So you know how to regret it now? What were you doing earlier? If you had been obedient sooner, your dad wouldn't have gotten this illness. You did all sorts of bad things in the past and bullied my Xuanxuan since you were little. Why isn't it you lying in there?"

Yuke: "If it were possible, I would also want to lie in there and trade places with my father."

"You only know how to say what sounds good, right? You only say it's possible because you know it's impossible. If there were really such a possibility, you wouldn't do it at all."

Gu Zhihao had been holding back on the side, but he really couldn't take it anymore and spoke up to defend his wife: "Don't go too far. I have already tolerated you for a long time. Our Yuke is already pitiful enough; can you stop constantly stabbing her in the heart?"

"I'm stabbing her, so what are you going to do about it? Why are you glaring with your eyes so wide? Are you trying to bite me..."

Shi Youxuan could now be certain that the original Ji Yingjie had returned.

One simply cannot pay attention to her temper; the more people there are, the more energized she becomes.