Chapter 1623: Wiped out!

Ye Feng watched the back of the Volvo, feeling both angry and unable to help but feel a burst of secret joy.

He was angry because this guy Ye Chen really didn't give him any face at all.

"Not giving me face is secondary; the key is that this guy even touched my fiancée's delicate jade fingers!"

"It's simply outrageous!"

However, he was secretly happy because: "Ye Chen is showing off a bit too much this time. I don't even need to add fuel to the fire when I go back; I'll just explain the situation to Grandpa, and Grandpa will surely be furious."

"I was most afraid that the Old Master would be biased toward Ye Chen, but Ye Chen is not only being unreasonable this time, he doesn't even put the Old Master in his eyes. The Old Master shouldn't be able to favor him anymore, right?"

"Once the Old Master is dissatisfied with Ye Chen, wouldn't I have won directly?"

However, Ye Hao beside him hadn't seen through this layer and said irritably, "Brother Feng, this guy Ye Chen is too arrogant! He didn't even give you face!"

Ye Feng sneered and said, "A bumpkin from the countryside, hasn't read any books, and has no manners. Since he loves showing off so much, let him be."

After saying that, he waved his hand and said, "Let's go back, Grandpa is still waiting!"

Ye Hao nodded, couldn't help but spit, and cursed, "Damn, how did I end up with such a relative? It's really bad luck!"

Ye Feng turned to look at Helena, and seeing her expression was a bit distracted, asked gently, "Helena, are you okay?"

Helena had been feeling lost, and only came back to her senses after hearing Ye Feng's words. She hurriedly waved her hand and said, "I'm fine, just a bit tired. Please take me back to the hotel."

Ye Feng hurriedly asked, "It's almost noon, you have to eat when you get back to the hotel. Why don't you eat at home?"

"No," Helena said, "I'm sorry, I really don't feel well. I want to go back and rest for a while."

Seeing this, Ye Feng didn't insist anymore and said very gentlemanly, "Fine, then I'll take you to the hotel. Rest well. If you feel better in the afternoon, I'll take you out for a stroll."

"Good."

Helena responded and sat directly into the car she came in.

Ye Feng was a bit depressed, but couldn't say much, so he and Ye Hao climbed back into the stretch Rolls-Royce.

On the way out of the airport, Helena sat alone in the back of the Rolls-Royce, feeling completely lost.

At this moment, what came to her mind was her own bumpy life experience.

Although Helena was born into royalty, her fate was full of twists and turns.

Her grandmother was the Queen of the Nordic country, and her father was originally established as the crown prince from a young age. But because he had heart problems from birth, he passed away at only forty-something years old.

In Helena's family, congenital heart disease patients were relatively common, but the severity varied from person to person.

This was mainly because, in the past few hundred years, intermarriage among European royal families had been common.

Therefore, many genetic defects were produced, including the famous hemophilia and various other hereditary congenital diseases.

Helena's father knew he was in poor health from a young age and also knew that his mother was in her prime, so he might not live to inherit the throne. Thus, he had always placed his hopes on his children.

But what made him despair was that when Helena was born, the congenital heart defect she inherited was even more severe than his own.

Helena's disease was congenital Tetralogy of Fallot.

This disease meant that her heart system had four huge defects from birth.

The mortality rate for people with this disease within three years of age was about 50%, and 90% of patients did not live to adulthood.

When Helena was born, her father was 25, and her grandmother, the current Queen of the Nordic country, was 60.

Because her father was the crown prince and the first in line to the throne, she was naturally established as the second in line.

Later, Helena's father discovered Helena's congenital disease, but in order to allow Helena to inherit the throne one day in the future, he did not tell the royal family. Instead, he privately found the best doctors for Helena and used the best methods to treat her, striving to let Helena live as long as possible.

Helena's father believed that although his own chance of inheriting the throne was slim, as long as he hid Helena's congenital defects and tried every possible way to let Helena live to 25, then Helena would have a chance to inherit the throne before she died.

Because he was only thirty years younger than Helena's grandmother, but Helena was sixty years younger than her grandmother.

Under normal circumstances, the current Queen would live to be eighty-something, which was about it.

If Helena could live to twenty-five, her grandmother would be eighty-five.

As long as Helena could hold on until her grandmother passed away, she could successfully ascend the throne.

And as a member of the royal family, the only peak of life was to inherit the throne.

Therefore, in her father's view, as long as Helena could successfully ascend the throne, even if she were Queen for only one year, or even one month, life could be considered complete.

For the first ten-plus years, Helena's physical condition had been hidden very well, but when Helena's father passed away, Helena suddenly had a heart attack at the funeral due to excessive grief and was only saved after being sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.

Helena's grandmother, the current Queen of the Nordic country, realized she had been deceived, so she resolutely stripped Helena of her inheritance rights and turned to establish her uncle's daughter, Helena's cousin, as the first in line to the throne.

And Helena, having lost her father's protection and also losing her inheritance qualification, was immediately marginalized within the royal family.

Even though she suffered from a serious illness, Helena still couldn't escape the fate of being used by the royal family to trade for benefits, and was forced into a marriage of convenience with the Ye family.

Even if the royal doctors concluded that she had at most three to five years to live, the royal family was still unwilling to give her freedom.

In the eyes of the royal family, three to five years was enough. They planned to make good use of those three to five years to try to win some resources and financial support from the Ye family, which would surely be very beneficial.

And the reason Helena agreed to all this was because the royal family threatened her with her mother's future old age.

If she didn't agree, then after she died, her mother would be expelled from the royal family and lose all royal treatment, which meant that her mother wouldn't even have a pension in the future.

Helena couldn't bear for her mother to be left alone and helpless after she died, so she was forced to agree.

Recently, she had been walking on thin ice.

On one hand, she worried about being discovered by the Ye family regarding her physical condition, and on the other hand, she also worried that after marrying Ye Feng, a person with whom she had no emotional foundation, it would only accelerate her death.

In that case, she wouldn't even have the chance to accompany her mother well before she died.

Thinking of these, Helena couldn't help but shed two lines of clear tears.

Alone in a foreign land, this feeling of being controlled by fate, unable to resist, and being unable to act according to one's own will, was truly too painful.

At the same time, she couldn't help but think of Ye Chen.

Thus, she couldn't help but mutter in her heart: "Did that Ye Chen really see my illness?"

"I heard people say that Traditional Chinese Medicine has the saying of 'looking, listening, asking, and feeling the pulse.' It is said that just by looking, one can see a person's physical condition. Could he be some kind of TCM master?"

Thinking of this, Helena couldn't help but sigh deep in her heart, thinking: "What's the use of being a TCM master? Even if he can see my illness, he can't cure me."

"My illness was diagnosed when I was born. Twenty-plus years have passed, and doctors all over the world can see what disease I have, but none of them can cure it..."

"My heart, as well as my cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary vessels, have huge defects. Even a heart transplant couldn't cure it..." ===== CHAPTER 1624 =====