Chapter 298: Tang Can's Ambition

"I heard your mother secretly studied Chinese medicine. Madam Xu must have used quite a lot of it!"

Qi Yinghao knew very well that in the Ji Family, Ji Xiaoling's mother held a great deal of influence. Back then, to curry favor with his future mother-in-law, he had used his family's connections to look into many things.

This was just one of them!

"We're still friends, right?"

Ji Xiaoling, firmly in his grip, gritted her teeth. "Right!"

Qi Yinghao left with a cheerful laugh. He thought, since Ji Xiaoling cared so much about this leverage, perhaps it would still be useful in the future?

Ji Xiaoling's eyes reddened. Looking at Qi Yinghao's retreating back radiating an air of pleasure, she silently mouthed four words: "You brought this on yourself!"

……

Su Yu and Ji Yan spent the entire evening listening to Ji Tianlin's business experience. Ji Yan listened very attentively and even took notes.

Su Yu occasionally zoned out, asking Wulongcha to take notes for her so she could study them again later.

Before bed that night, Su Yu discussed it with Wulongcha.

【Wulongcha, I want to draw a card.】

【Why?】

They had just been discussing the things to note when operating those projects—why did she now want to spend money to draw a card?

【Ji Xiaoling and Qi Yinghao's matter has blown up on Hot Search. Strike while she's down, take her life! With this person alive, I feel uncomfortable all over! My mom is going to start working, so she can't stay home and in the neighborhood all the time!】

Whether Ji Yan liked going out or not, she had to help Mom eliminate the people and things that threatened Mom's safety! Ji Xiaoling was like a ticking time bomb—there was no telling when she would explode!

Ji Xiaoling and Qi Yinghao were bound to clash. While their two families were having minor friction, she could expand those frictions into a problem between the two families. Ideally, she'd make them attack each other until both sides suffered heavy losses!

Wulongcha calculated. 【That works. Your Maternal Grandparents also want to invest, so perhaps we can set aside a sum of money.】

What Wulongcha looked forward to even more was that Ji Tianlin and Xu Mingyue, seeing Su Yu about to empty out her entire savings, would chip in more support.

【Okay!】

Su Yu went to sleep happily and even had a sweet dream.

But early the next morning, right after Su Yu finished eating, she was dragged to the hospital!

"Can Can, how did you end up in the hospital?"

Su Yu looked at Tang Can very carefully. She didn't seem to have any injuries?

"Auntie, why won't Can Can talk to me?"

Tang Tang said helplessly, "Maybe she feels embarrassed?"

This time, Tang Tang genuinely felt Tang Can was a bit wronged.

"When Can Can got out of school, the person picking her up arrived later than usual."

Originally, Tang Can could have gone home with Liang Yan, but that day she had fought with Liang Yan and refused to get in Zhu Xueheng's car, insisting on waiting for Ren Tianshu to pick her up.

While waiting, a child next to her who was also waiting got picked up by their parent before she did. That little kid burst into tears, crying as they ran toward their parent.

Here came the key part: that parent comforted the child, saying, "Baby, don't drop your little pearls anymore. Daddy's heart aches!"

Tang Can, who was bored at the time, heard "pearls" and immediately looked around everywhere. Eager to help, she was ready to pick them up and return them to their owner.

But she didn't see a single pearl!

Full of curiosity, Tang Can went over and asked, "Excuse me, where are the pearls? How come I don't see any? I want to help you pick them up, but there aren't any on the ground?"

That little kid pointed at their own tears and the small puddles on the ground. "My little pearls, so many of them fell!"

Tang Can put on a stern face and corrected them. "Those are tears, not pearls!"

After saying that, she even pulled pearls out of her own bag and held them in front of that child, waving them. "See? These are pearls!"

The little kid didn't believe it. "Daddy said these are the little pearls. Yours are fake!"

Tang Can took her pearls and went to ask Ren Tianshu and another parent who had just walked in. "Are these pearls?"

Both said in unison, "Yes!"

Tang Can ran back to that child with a face full of confidence to educate them. "Did you hear that? Yours are tears, not pearls! Pearls look like this!"

Before that child's parent could explain things clearly to the kid, the little kid shoved Tang Can hard, causing her to fall to the ground, hit an acupoint, and pass out!

Tang Can was admitted to the hospital last night. By this morning, whether awake or asleep, she wouldn't talk to anyone except the psychologist. Tang Tang was already prepared to go find her brother and sister-in-law.

If Su Yu couldn't communicate normally with Tang Can either, she would take Tang Can on a flight abroad to find her brother and sister-in-law.

After Su Yu heard all this: "Auntie, are you sure Can Can isn't injured? Could she have some hidden injury? The brain is the most intricate structure in the human body!"

Tang Tang was certain. "We checked the surveillance footage, and the Doctor examined her several times. She simply doesn't want to talk."

Ren Tianshu felt he was in the wrong. If he hadn't gone so late, Tang Can might not have encountered this incident. He had stayed by Tang Can's side all night, and this morning went down to get breakfast and brought it back, but even now he didn't dare appear in front of Tang Can.

"The person who pushed Can Can needs to apologize to her! She was just telling the truth!"

"They apologized and got punished!"

The culprit had been punished for it, but her baby had injured her head! And had become a bit withdrawn because of it!

When a child makes a mistake, the adults bear the responsibility. Tang Tang magnanimously forgave that child, then turned around and complained to her parents and parents-in-law.

Both families shared the same view: it was no big deal for a child to make a mistake—it must be because the adults didn't teach them well! As the saying goes, if a child is not taught properly, it's the father's fault. Since the child wasn't taught well, they would help remind that family.

The Tang Family and the Ren Family originally wanted to give that family a big "gift." But after looking into that person's identity, they decided it would be better to coordinate with Ji Yan and Xu Mingyue first!

Tang Tang took the materials to discuss with Ji Yan, while Su Yu stayed in the room to coax Tang Can.

"Can Can, don't be unhappy! We'll just win against her next time!"

Tang Can said aggrievedly, "Why? I've clearly been practicing martial arts?"

Tang Can couldn't accept this outcome! She had studied for so long together with Su Yu—why was she still pushed over by a child younger than her, and even passed out!

Just thinking about how this news would spread throughout the entire school gave her the urge to change schools!

It was just too embarrassing!

"Maybe it's because you haven't been practicing lately!"

Su Yu said, nodding affirmatively, "Every time after a break, when I start practicing martial arts again, I always feel really tired! But my teacher said this is normal!"

Moreover, Su Yu looked at Tang Can's small frame, "Can Can, you really are so skinny! Even though being thin looks nice, you're thin and don't have much strength, so getting pushed over is perfectly normal!"

Tang Can raised her slender arm, "Skinny?"

"Mm-hmm!"

Su Yu reached her hand over to compare it with Tang Can's.

Tang Can looked back and forth; her hand was indeed thinner than Ruan Huhu's. Ruan Huhu's hand was chubby with flesh, and when she put both her hands together, they were only a tiny bit bigger than Ruan Huhu's hand!

Tang Can started to wonder if she really was too skinny, which was why she fell over with just one push from that little girl?

Su Yu didn't know what Tang Can was thinking; after comparing with Tang Can, she quickly pulled her hand back.

In just that short moment, she felt that putting her hand next to Tang Can's was like putting a pig's trotter next to a bamboo pole—the difference was too huge!

"But I can't gain weight, it's been like this since I was little!"

Su Yu tilted her head, "Auntie says your body is very healthy!"

Tang Can nodded, indicating that was correct, "I have a checkup every year, Doctor Auntie and Doctor Grandma both say I'm a healthy good kid!"

"Then why can't you gain weight?"

Su Yu remembered that people who can't gain weight have something wrong with their bodies. For a normal person, as long as they eat and drink, gaining weight is a perfectly normal thing. At a certain age, under normal living conditions, a person's weight will maintain at an equilibrium point—they won't suddenly become emaciated, nor will they suddenly gain weight.

But Tang Can was still a child! Isn't it perfectly normal for her to gain weight from eating and drinking?

Su Yu didn't know how to explain Tang Can's situation, so she pressed the bell to call the Doctor.

The Doctor soon arrived at the ward, "Little ones, where are you uncomfortable?"

At a private hospital, the pediatrician served the two children with the brightest smile and the most obsequious attitude! The children here were all the precious darlings of their families—the kind where if you accidentally made them cry, the parents might not let it go!

"My heart feels uncomfortable!"

The Doctor maintained his smile, "Alright, I'll have a psychologist come over to keep you company, okay?"

The Doctor respected Tang Can's wishes very much. But Tang Can didn't want to see a psychologist for the time being.

"Not okay!"

The Doctor's smile stiffened a little. Su Yu spoke up at this moment, "Uncle, why can't Can Can gain weight?"

"Gain weight? Why do you want to gain weight?"

The Doctor had read the report; Tang Can's body data were all within normal range. He wasn't clear about Tang Can's status in her family, but most girls in the entertainment circle didn't like being too fat. Some families' elders even controlled their children's diet from the moment they were born—absolute obsessives who gave doctors like them endless headaches!

Those kinds of children got sick very easily!

Every time the doctors tactfully reminded the parents to feed their children more, the parents did give the children more—but what they gave more of was medicine!

They could have as much food as they wanted, and it was euphemistically called a customized diet plan, something that made people feel green from head to toe just looking at it!

"Can Can's strength is too small, she'll get bullied by others!"

The Doctor looked at Tang Can's pitiful little face, then at her frail small frame, "I understand your request, but you'd need a customized diet plan, and you'd have to cook according to the plan's contents every day—it might be things you don't like to eat, and your parents won't agree to it!"

The Doctor thought he had seen all kinds of parents. Most parents spoiled their children. The few who didn't would still let their children eat what they liked after they had eaten their required food.

Those who made a customized diet plan and followed its rules were an extreme minority!

"Our parents will agree!"

Su Yu believed their parents would agree, but Tang Can might not.

"Thank you, Uncle, we don't have any more questions!"

The Doctor was very accommodating, "Okay, okay, you little ones can call me anytime if you have questions!"

The Doctor was just about to step away when he thought of a good idea, "If you're worried about not having enough fighting ability, you could go learn Chinese medicine acupressure points. If you learn those things well, it's truly a case of one ounce of skill defeating ten ounces of technique!"

Tang Can was very interested, "Acupressure points?"

"Yes, right here, here, and so on. There are many acupressure points on our bodies. As long as you master them well, no matter how small your strength is, you can still hurt people."

After the Doctor finished speaking, he strolled off.

Su Yu rested her chin on her hand, looking at Tang Can somewhat lazily, "Can Can, this was just an accident, don't be too nervous!"

"As I slowly grow up, there will definitely be many accidents like this. My aunt said I'll become a hot commodity later—the kind that anyone can come take a bite of. If I'm not strong, I'll definitely get bullied!"

Tang Can didn't understand why she would become a hot commodity. But she knew that things at home that smelled good and tasted delicious were things everyone liked. Her family wouldn't fight over food, but other families would. She didn't want to be the one getting snatched! She wanted to be the one capable of snatching from others!

Su Yu admired Tang Tang for thinking far ahead, and it made a lot of sense too.

"But, you'd have to eat things you don't like according to a diet plan—would you be happy living like that? Next time you can bring a bodyguard. If Uncle doesn't pick you up in time, the bodyguard can stay with you inside and stop other kids from bullying you!"

Tang Can realized what she meant and asked in some surprise, "Ruan Huhu, isn't gaining weight just about eating meat?"

Su Yu shook her head, "No! Gaining weight requires eating according to a diet plan to be healthy, and you also have to exercise regularly in fixed amounts, only then will you have greater strength!"

"Then I'd rather become a doctor!"

Tang Can really hated certain foods, and she didn't want to be forced to eat them!

"But being a doctor is also very tiring. Let's walk over together and ask Doctor Uncle how long he studied?"

Su Yu extended her chubby little hand, and Tang Can hesitantly placed hers on top. After Su Yu left a note, the two little ones walked hand in hand into the Doctor's office.

"Do you little ones want to go downstairs to play, or can you not find your parents?"

The Doctor was super gentle, looking at the two children who had interrupted his work with an encouraging expression. He hoped they would speak quickly—he still had to go on ward rounds soon!

"Uncle, we want to ask, how long did you study medicine, and how many books did you read?"

"Eight years, and as for books, I can't count how many! If you want to learn for self-defense, you don't have to study as long as I did—just learning some basics is enough!"

Tang Can wasn't very willing; if she learned, of course she wanted to learn well.

However, eight years was a bit long—even longer than the time she would spend in elementary school!

After Tang Can finished asking, she looked again at the Doctor's foundational books and made her decision—when she grew up, she would study medicine!

Su Yu:...

She thought it was unlikely! They would have to inherit the family business in the future, so how could they study medicine?

When Su Yu and Tang Can walked hand in hand back, Ji Yan and Tang Tang were already waiting in the ward.

"Sweetie, shall we go home?"

Tang Tang didn't want Tang Can to stay here any longer. There are many minor patients in the hospital, and Tang Tang feared Tang Can would get infected.

"Alright!"

Tang Can agreed, and Tang Tang immediately arranged for a bodyguard to handle the discharge paperwork.

Su Yu told Tang Tang everything they had discussed today.

【Clearly Tang Can was the one who made the final decision, so why do I keep feeling that I was the one who led Tang Can astray? Such a weird guilty feeling!】

Tang Can didn't have that feeling at all; she looked at Tang Tang with clear eyes, and Tang Tang, who knows Tang Can well, could see that Tang Can was serious!

She really wants to choose this major.

After Su Yu explained everything clearly, the ward remained quiet for a while.

Tang Can couldn't help but ask Tang Tang, "Auntie, don't you support me choosing this major?"

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