Chapter 1946: Shi Yucheng

She played her trump card, and Ji Yingjie shut her mouth.

Shi Youxuan said, "You all arguing like this is useless; my dad can't hear you anyway."

She knew her aunt's original personality; she had always loved drama and arguing, and she loved her father very much. Some people's love is just selfish and exclusive.

Ji Yingjie was exactly like that; she wanted Shi Yucheng to think that she was the best in the whole world and that everyone else was inadequate.

She would argue with Shi Yuke outside the intensive care unit, and this was the main reason.

As a result, she was awakened by a single sentence from her niece—that's right, with such thick glass in between, he couldn't hear them even if they argued.

Since he couldn't hear, they stopped arguing; there was no point in continuing.

Ji Yingjie took the initiative to shut up, so naturally, everyone else did too.

Shi Yucheng was transferred from the ICU to a regular Hospital Ward, and the issue of who would stay to care for him reignited Ji Yingjie's fighting spirit; she and Shi Yuke's couple started arguing again.

Shi Yuke: "I come every day; I'll take the day shift, and Zhihao will take the night shift."

She wanted to make up for her past shortcomings as much as possible.

But Ji Yingjie bristled again: "No, are you trying to show off? You two occupy the day and night shifts; do you even care about us at all?"

Gu Zhihao still had some pent-up anger that hadn't been released, and now was the perfect time to vent: "Didn't you say we spent too little time visiting Dad? Now that we want to help care for him, we're 'occupying' it? Are you even being reasonable?"

Ji Yingjie stood up and widened her eyes: "I am the reason! You poor kid, now that you've lived a life of luxury for a while, you dare to raise your voice at me? Do you believe I can make you go back to your original state right now? Make you not have a single cent?"

In the past, using words like this to scare Gu Zhihao had worked well.

Gu Zhihao used to lack confidence and wouldn't dare to talk back to her.

But today is different from the past; now he has plenty of confidence. His son and daughter are both successful, and his son-in-law, who is also like a son, is a famous criminal police officer, so he was no longer afraid of this claw-waving old woman.

"Go ahead, I'm not afraid of you! Even if I become a pauper again right now, I'm not afraid; I have a daughter and a son to support me!"

Ji Yingjie:...

She really hadn't expected that Gu Zhihao, who had always been timid and submissive in front of her, would actually dare to talk back.

And the words he said were so firm that she couldn't even refute them.

"Fine, you just wait."

"I'll wait, then."

Shi Yuke held her husband's hand tightly, and Gu Zhihao held her hand back.

Ji Yingjie hadn't gained the upper hand in the argument with Gu Zhihao, so naturally, she couldn't just let it go.

She glared fiercely at her niece again and vented her anger on her: "Are you dead? Just watching me get bullied like this?"

Shi Youxuan spread her hands helplessly: "I can't manage this; you all solve it yourselves, and tell me the result when you're done."

Since her niece wouldn't intervene, Ji Yingjie looked at Nianyin!

Nianyin didn't care about the family ties at all and immediately glared, stating: "Mother is right. Gu Zhihao, apologize to my mother immediately and rearrange the care schedule, or I will hit you!"

Simple, brutal, unreasonable, but effective!

Gu Zhihao apologized to Ji Yingjie reluctantly: "I'm sorry."

An apology should have been enough, but Ji Yingjie was unsatisfied; she said triumphantly: "What did you say? Speak louder, I can't hear you."

Shi Youxuan reminded her: "My dad is still lying in the hospital bed in a coma. If you have so much energy, you might as well take the night shift tonight, so you don't have to go around looking for trouble."

In the past, when Ji Yingjie was being unreasonable, only Shi Youxuan could handle her, and it was the same now.

After a brief period of discomfort, Shi Youxuan quickly found her old rhythm!

"Fine, I'll take the night shift tonight." Ji Yingjie agreed immediately.

She didn't just agree to the night shift; she also demanded that Shi Youxuan stay with her.

Shi Yuke wanted to object, as she also wanted to stay, but she was stopped by her sister: "Sis, you come tomorrow during the day to switch with us. Dad being hospitalized isn't a one-day affair; there's plenty of time ahead."

"Alright."

Although Shi Yuke was worried about her father, she knew that if she stayed, there would only be more conflict, so she went back with her husband.

Ji Yingjie told Nianyin: "You go back too; go with them. On the way, those two will definitely speak ill of me. Keep an eye on them and retort for me."

Nianyin agreed: "Yes." Then she followed them out.

After Nianyin left, Ji Yingjie sent her own son and daughter home, including Sheng Hanyu, leaving only her and Shi Youxuan to care for him in the Hospital Ward.

With only the two of them left, Shi Youxuan asked: "Aunt, your change in attitude is quite significant..."

Ji Yingjie glared at her: "Do you want to know why?"

"I do!"

"Fine, since you want to know, I'll tell you."

What Ji Yingjie told her niece shocked her greatly.

She loved to drop bombshells; the first sentence scared Shi Youxuan: Ji Yingjie said, "That old thing has always loved someone in his heart—your biological mother, my sister!"

"Stop talking nonsense. You're at such an age; aren't you afraid I'll laugh at you for talking nonsense?"

Seeing that she didn't believe her, Ji Yingjie added: "You don't believe me, right? I knew you wouldn't believe it. Actually, I didn't believe it either... No, I mean I never thought it would be like this, until one day I accidentally discovered your father's diary from many years ago..."

When Ji Yingjie first arrived in Jiangzhou with Nianyin to open the "Eagle Under Heaven" housekeeping company, she had the house renovated because she intended to stay in Jiangzhou for a long time.

After the renovation was finished, Shi Yucheng secretly hid a box in the house, and this secret was discovered by Ji Yingjie.

For some reason, despite her impatient temperament, she didn't get angry immediately; instead, she pretended not to know anything and went about her business.

But after her husband left, she immediately took the box out and saw that it was locked.

A locked box posed no difficulty at all for Ji Yingjie, and she opened it quickly.

When the box was opened, there was actually another box inside, also with a lock.

She opened it again, and there was another locked box!

Nested boxes?

Ji Yingjie was furious, secretly scolding her husband for being a blockhead; why go through so much trouble?

What kind of treasure requires so much trouble?

Wouldn't it be better to just get a sturdy safe and put it inside!

It was set up like a Russian nesting doll; after opening the eighth box, ranging from large to small, she finally discovered a yellowed diary inside!

She opened the diary to read it and discovered a secret that Shi Yucheng had kept sealed away for many years.

It turned out that he had always been secretly in love with his friend's wife, never able to forget her.

But at the time, he was already married with a daughter, so even if he liked her, he knew it was very immoral; no matter how deep the love, it could only be hidden in his heart, becoming a secret that he would never confide to anyone.

He had never told anyone, yet he had written it in his diary, only for it to be discovered by Ji Yingjie many years later.

Ji Yingjie was halfway through reading when Shi Yucheng returned; seeing the boxes scattered all over the floor and the diary held in his wife's hands, he understood everything at once.