Chapter 524: I Am Prettier Than You

She said in a leisurely manner, "Go ahead and cry. The doctor warned that if a woman cries during her postpartum recovery period, she will become increasingly ugly. If you don't care, then cry, cry as hard as you can."

The crying stopped immediately.

Shi Yuke came to an abrupt halt and stopped making noise at once.

Furthermore, there wasn't a single tear on her face!

She had been faking it all along, just to make things difficult for Shi Youxuan.

But one cannot do things that are detrimental to oneself; one should stop when it's time to stop!

Not much time had passed since Shi Yuke woke up, but she had already pulled quite a few tricks.

Although she hadn't gained any advantage, it is impolite not to reciprocate.

Shi Youxuan took the initiative to make a move.

She went in front of Shi Yuke and smiled sweetly: "Sister, have you noticed any differences between the two of us now?"

The difference was obvious.

Shi Youxuan had been exercising for two months after giving birth, and her figure was now even better than it was before she gave birth to Xiao Erbao.

Yet Shi Yuke, who had once mocked her, was now fatter than she was back then.

Shi Yuke closed her eyes and lied: "There is no difference; we are about the same now."

"Oh—"

Shi Youxuan drew out the sound: "About—the same!"

"I guess you must be around 150 jin now? Tomorrow, when the doctor lets you get out of bed to walk around, I'll bring a scale and weigh you."

"Don't bring it!"

Shi Yuke covered her ears with both hands: "I won't listen to your nonsense. Leave, don't stay here and irritate me."

Shi Youxuan: "You tell me to leave, so I leave? Why should I?"

She pulled up a chair and sat down opposite Shi Yuke, sitting elegantly and crossing her legs.

She began to irritate her in an all-encompassing, three-dimensional, and full-blown manner: "Shi Yuke, you never thought you'd have a day like this, did you? The face you were most proud of is disfigured, and it was ruined by the rich husband you tried every possible way to marry, and in the end, the money is gone too."

"You didn't get anything you cared about most from childhood to adulthood. After all that scheming, it all ended in a bamboo basket drawing water..."

Shi Yuke shouted: "Shut up, I'm not listening, I'm not listening! Shi Youxuan, you bad woman, you're just here to see me make a fool of myself. Now that I've fallen to this state and you've flown up to the branch to become a phoenix, you've come to mock me to your heart's content, you bad woman!"

Shi Youxuan crossed her arms and suddenly said: "Isn't it tiring to pretend to be a patient in a mental hospital?"

Shi Yuke:...

She was greatly shocked.

She wondered how she knew.

In fact, Shi Yuke's illness had long been cured.

She had been hiding in the mental hospital and dared not come out because she was afraid of facing even more violent retaliation after leaving!

At first, she was afraid of Sheng Hanyu retaliating against her again, then she was afraid of Jian Yixin, and later, Shi Youxuan actually came back alive!

So she became even more fearful.

She could only live a wretched life in that kind of place.

Although the mental hospital didn't have a good reputation on the outside, the environment inside was actually quite good.

And there were many men inside and few women.

Among them, there was no lack of people like her—those who were cured or were never ill to begin with—just passing the time inside.

Shi Yuke spent every day with those men, enjoying the feeling of being the center of attention, and her life was actually quite good.

Because she wasn't miserable, she just kept on pretending.

Until this accidental pregnancy, she had to come out!

Shi Yuke was exposed and decided not to admit it: "No, I am ill!"

Shi Youxuan said: "Don't worry, as long as you don't provoke me in the future, no one will retaliate against you for past matters."

So many years have passed since those things.

And after going through so many things, Shi Youxuan's vision and breadth of mind were much higher than before.

Shi Yuke had already been punished for what happened back then, so now everyone could consider it even.

Shi Yuke did not believe Shi Youxuan's words; she thought Shi Youxuan was bluffing her.

As long as she knew she wasn't really mentally ill, she would immediately kill her.

So she decided to die rather than let go, insisting that she was indeed ill!

If she wanted to be ill, then let her be ill.

Shi Youxuan stood up and left the Hospital Ward.

She had originally wanted to give Shi Yuke a chance to turn over a new leaf, but since she gave it up herself, she couldn't blame anyone else.

Shi Youxuan wasn't doing it for herself; Shi Yuke was no longer on the same level as her, and no matter how much that woman tried to cause trouble, it was impossible for her to move her in the slightest.

She was doing it for her father, and also for the child still in the incubator!

Her father was already old and in poor health; if he knew his biological daughter was not truly crazy but just playing the fool, perhaps his heart-related illness could also improve significantly.

Although he didn't say it, he still cared about Shi Yuke in his heart and hoped she would get better.

And there was that newborn child; Shi Yuke was still as cold and selfish as ever, thinking only of herself.

What the future of her own child would be, whether the child would have psychological trauma after growing up, or whether the child would be discriminated against—Shi Yuke didn't think about these things, nor did she care.

In her heart, there was no one else but herself.

Shi Youxuan exposing Shi Yuke was actually just to put her father's mind at ease.

If she didn't care about the child, it would all be up to Shi Yucheng to worry about.

And Shi Yucheng could only worry, feel anxious, and sigh.

After all, what about it?

I am getting old, and my heart is willing, but my strength is lacking.

Otherwise, whether she is truly insane or just faking an illness, what does that have to do with Shi Youxuan in the slightest?

But Shi Yuke missed this one and only opportunity to reconcile with Shi Youxuan.

She was very panicked, panicked to the extreme.

Every day she lived in fear that Shi Youxuan would harm her, so on the seventh day after the surgery, she ran away as soon as the stitches were removed!

Shi Yuke ran away with premeditation.

When she left, she took all of Shi Yucheng's assets with her.

Shi Yucheng was so anxious he almost had another episode, not because the money was gone, but because he was afraid his daughter would not fare well out there and would be harmed by others.

Shi Youxuan told her father: "I'm sorry, Dad, she was scared away by me."

She recounted to her father the conversation the two sisters had a week ago.

And she showed him the medical examination reports from the mental hospital over the years—at the beginning of her hospitalization, Shi Yuke did indeed have some issues.

But she recovered very quickly.

After she recovered, she bribed a male doctor at the mental hospital to issue fake certificates for her, refusing to be discharged.

Shi Yucheng flipped through them one by one; although he was very heartbroken to see these, he was also relieved at the same time.

It is good that she is not sick.

Shi Yuke was still that heartless and ungrateful eldest daughter, not changed in the slightest.

Originally, Shi Youxuan showed her father these reports to put his mind at ease, but it instead made Shi Yucheng give up his plan to look for Shi Yuke.

Let her be.

Shi Yuke had run away, and Shi Youxuan had originally intended to take the child she gave birth to and raise it.

Her father did not have the ability to take care of it, and since Xiao Erbao was not very old anyway, she would just raise them together; her mother-in-law had also agreed.

Just on the day she was prepared to take the child back, Jian Yixin arrived.

Upon seeing Shi Youxuan, she got straight to the point: "Let me raise Shi Yuke's child, is that alright?"

Shi Youxuan:...

She had thought about letting Jian Yixin raise the child, but there were a bit too many troublesome matters here, so she just thought about it and then gave up.

Now that she had proactively brought it up, Shi Youxuan decided to state the necessary terms upfront: "Shi Moli must always keep the surname Shi, it cannot be changed, and he must know that his grandfather is Shi Yucheng."

This was a source of anxiety for Shi Yucheng.

It seems that elderly people all feel that they must have a grandson with their own surname to continue the family line, as if there were a throne at home waiting to be inherited!

Jian Yixin readily agreed: "That is fine."

However, the two of them could not decide this matter alone; they still had to ask Shi Yucheng.

Shi Yucheng agreed even more readily: "Fine, let Yixin take him; I am at ease leaving Moli with her."