Villainous Sick Beauty Chapter 60

Tl: Hua

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Ye Rongxu stared blankly at the man until the other spoke again: “What? It’s been too long since we’ve seen each other, so you don’t recognize me anymore?” His tone was gentle with some teasing.

Ye Rongxu came back to his senses and said in a pleasant tone, “Brother Qingyu?”

The man in front of him was called Ji Qingyu, a student sponsored by Ye Rongxu’s mother, Lin Xue.

Because Ye Rongxu was in poor health after he was born, during the process of seeking medical treatment for her son, Lin Xue inevitably placed her hopes on other aspects, such as doing good deeds and accumulating blessings for her son.

It’s not superstition; it’s just psychological sustenance.

At first, she devoted herself to public welfare for her son. But later on, after seeing more and more unfortunate people due to poverty and illness, she really wanted to help those people.

She has sponsored many people, most of them anonymously, without asking for anything in return.

Ji Qingyu is a special one among them. He has been sponsored by Lin Xue since elementary school, and he is also very hardworking. After graduating from junior high school, he was admitted to the key high school in his city.

But that year, his father, who depended on him for survival, became seriously ill. The family spent all their meager savings, but he still couldn’t be cured. He had to be taken home from the town hospital and waited for death with saline drips for pain relief every day.

In the poor village of that era, this was not uncommon. The villagers could not help much except lamenting, “It’s all fate.”

Under such circumstances, Ji Qingyu could only drop out of school and go home to do farm work and take care of his father, who was lying in bed waiting for death.

That was probably the darkest time in his life. In order not to drag him down, his father even secretly hid pesticides and prepared to commit suicide. After he discovered it, the father and son had a big argument and then shed tears in a place where they couldn’t see each other.

Later, Lin Xue learned about this and discussed it with Ye Boxuan. Not only did she increase the financial support, but she also helped him send his father to the best hospital in Jiangcheng for treatment so that he could continue to study with peace of mind.

In order to make it easier for him to visit his father, the Ye family helped him transfer to a key high school in Jiangcheng.

It was during that time that Ji Qingyu often went to the First Hospital of Jiangcheng City to take care of his father. Occasionally, he was taken to live in Ye’s house by Ye Boxuan and Lin Xue and met the son of the two benefactors, Ye Rongxu.

It happened that Ye Rongxu was also hospitalized in the First Hospital of the City at that time. Knowing that he was the son of his benefactor, Ji Qingyu couldn’t help but visit him while taking care of his father at the hospital.

At that time, Ji Qingyu had just entered high school and was already sixteen or seventeen years old. Ye Rongxu was still a six- or seven-year-old, a little cute ball.

The most common thing Ji Qingyu did was to play with the little ball and coax the little ball to take the bitter medicine that he was unwilling to take. The means included, but were not limited to, putting the medicine in a milk carton and deceiving the little ball that it was milk and the little ball foolishly drinking it.

In Ye Rongxu’s childhood memory, this big brother Ji was once synonymous with a liar.

However, because of this past and the kindness of the Ye family, Ji Qingyu always regarded Ye Rongxu as his younger brother, and Ye Rongxu always regarded him as his elder brother.

Ji Qingyu’s father was suffering from cancer, which was already in the late stage when it was diagnosed. Although he received good treatment later, he only lived for three or four more years.

When Ji Qingyu was admitted to college, he passed away with a smile on his face. He has been a farmer all his life, simple and honest, with kindness engraved in his bones. Before his death, he tightly held his son’s hand and repeatedly mentioned that the Ye family is their great benefactor. In the future, when he has the ability, he must repay them.

In fact, without his father saying it, Ji Qingyu had always engraved this idea in his heart.

After graduating from university, he entered the Ye Group with his own ability and climbed up step by step. After showing his ability, he was specially trained by Ye Boxuan, who valued talents. He worked as Ye Boxuan’s secretary and was transferred to overseas branches for training in recent years.

Counting up, except for the annual group meeting where the other party would return to China to attend, Ye Rongxu hadn’t seen him for a long time.

Last time for Ye Rongxu’s birthday and engagement, the other party wanted to come back and even bought the plane ticket, but because something unexpected happened in the overseas branch, he was unable to come back.

But the gifts were just as many, and all of them were brought back home to Ye Rongxu.

“Brother Qingyu, when did you return? Why didn’t you tell me?” Seeing Brother Ji was rare, so Ye Rongxu couldn’t help but ask happily.

“I came here half a day earlier than you.” Ji Qingyu smiled lightly, half rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, and affectionately touched Ye Rongxu’s head.

Ye Rongxu didn’t hide but happily asked him about other things.

Grandpa Ye and Grandma Ye also looked at Ji Qingyu and said, “You’ve lost weight. Are you having a hard time living abroad?”

Ji Qingyu deeply appreciates the Ye family’s kindness towards him over the years. He considers the elderly members of the Ye family as his own grandparents and views Ye Rongxu as a true brother. He frequently shows his gratitude by sending gifts and thoughtful presents to the Ye family whenever he finds something suitable.

At work, he is even more of a workaholic than Ye Boxuan. Ye Boxuan transferred him to the overseas branch with the intention of training him, but he doubled his performance in two years and even put himself in the hospital. This alarmed Ye Boxuan, a workaholic, who called him to take a break from his work and pay more attention to his health.

But it’s really difficult to make a workaholic put down his work, even if the person who persuaded him was Ye Boxuan.

However, in the dream, Ye Rongxu knew the reason why Ji Qingyu worked so hard. The other party wanted to grow up as soon as possible to help the Ye family, or rather wanted to help him, to hold onto the Ye Group.

Because of physical reasons, Ye Rongxu could not do hard work, and it was almost impossible for him to accept the Ye Group. But Ye Boxuan will get old one day, and he will definitely leave most of the shares and all the wealth to Ye Rongxu.

Ji Qingyu wanted to keep these for Ye Rongxu so he could repay Lin Xue and Ye Boxuan for their past kindness.

In the book that Ye Rongxu dreamed of, he did so.

Ye Rongxu remembered that four years later in the dream, when he was without his father and grandparents, it was Ji Qingyu who was struggling to support the Ye Group.

Later, he was taken away by Qin Chaoyan, and the other party even tried to rescue him several times, but it failed. Oh, yes, he was talking about the big devil Qin Chaoyan in his dream, not his boyfriend Qin Chaoyan in reality.

Ye Rongxu curled his lips and decided to separate the Qin Chaoyan in his dream from the real one.

Then he continued to ask Ji Qingyu about his life abroad.

The four of them exchanged pleasantries as they walked into the villa.

Cao Yuxuan followed behind and was also surprised: What’s going on? Rongxu came on vacation without Qin Chaoyan, but Ji Qingyu came?

It should be mentioned that Ji Qingyu is an existence that even Qin Jingxu is jealous of. He’s the real childhood sweetheart who watched Ye Rongxu grow up. Qin Jingxu, who only visits the Ye family and hospital sporadically, cannot be considered a true childhood sweetheart.

And compared with Qin Jingxu, Ye Rongxu obviously has a better relationship with Ji Qingyu.

Just when Ye Rongxu heard Ji Qingyu say that he only planned to stay on the island for one day, he hurriedly begged the other party to stay on the island for a few more days.

“We haven’t seen each other for a long time. Just think of it as spending time with me, Grandma, and Grandpa. He pleaded.

Given Ji Qingyu’s dedication to work, he’s likely dived back into work immediately upon returning to Jiangcheng. Therefore, it would be better for him to extend his stay on the island and enjoy a proper vacation.

And if you bluntly advised him to put his work aside, he definitely wouldn’t listen.

When Cao Yuxuan saw this scene and thought about the scene of their meeting just now, his heart skipped a beat, and he thought to himself: The person Rongxu said he shouldn’t love before…could it be…

He was full of wild imagination and random guesses.

After lunch and an afternoon nap, Ji Qingyu took Ye Rongxu and Cao Yuxuan to take a walk outside the villa to appreciate the scenery on the island.

After they left, Grandma Ye also called Ye Boxuan and asked, “Boxuan, Xiao Ji said that you asked him to return to China this time; is that true?”

Ye Boxuan nodded on the other end of the phone and said, “I want to transfer him to the head office for training.”

Grandma Ye didn’t get involved in the company’s affairs much, but after hearing this, she was also stunned and seemed to realize something.

Grandpa Ye, who was nearby, quickly realized and asked over the phone, “Do you plan to let Xiao Ji take your position?”

Ye Boxuan smiled helplessly: “Dad, it’s too early to say for sure. I’m still at least 20 to 30 years away from retirement, right?”

After a pause, his smile faded a little, and he said in a serious tone, “But I did want to transfer him back to the headquarters to help me share some of the burden, especially after what happened to Xuxu recently. If it weren’t for my last-minute meeting and not accompanying him to the hospital…”

He didn’t say the rest, but sighed and then continued, “Mom, Dad, I plan to put my work aside in the future and spend more time with you and Xuxu.”

Old Master Ye and Old Lady Ye nodded in understanding.

Grandma Ye couldn’t help but sigh: “It would be great if Xiao Qin wasn’t a member of the Qin family.”

That child also has the ability. If he is trained well, wouldn’t there be one more person to help Ye Boxuan share the burden? Unfortunately… they can’t compete with the Qin family for an heir.

Although the Qin family still has Qin Jingxu, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Qin Jingxu doesn’t have the quality, and he will probably have to rely on Qin Chaoyan in the future.

“What a pity, what a pity.” Until Ye Rongxu and the others came back, Old Lady Ye couldn’t help but sigh.

“What’s a pity, Grandma?” Ye Rongxu couldn’t help asking.

“Nothing, you came back just in time for dinner.” Grandma Ye hurriedly greeted them, smiling kindly, and asked, “How is the island? Is it fun?”

“Fun! the scenery is great, the air is fresh, and we plan to go to the beach tomorrow.” Ye Rongxu said.

Cao Yuxuan was holding his mobile phone. While editing pictures and posting to Moments, he agreed, “The scenery is really good; I took a lot of photos, and I plan to get up early tomorrow to watch the sunrise…”

Halfway through, his hand suddenly froze, staring at the Moments he had just sent out and fell into deep thought—oh no, the photos he posted included Ji Qingyu and Ye Rongxu.

Of course, in addition to the photo of Ye Rongxu and Ji Qingyu, there are also photos of him, Ye Rongxu, and Ji Qingyu in the nine-square grid, which is nothing.

But the problem is, when checking the Qinyuan surveillance before, he added Qin Chaoyan as a friend. What if Qin Chaoyan saw these Moments and misinterpreted them?

But deleting this post and editing this Moments without Ji Qingyu’s photo doesn’t seem to be a good idea either. What if Ji Qingyu saw it and felt that he was being excluded….hiss, sigh.

Cao · Overthinking · Yuxuan barely thought through his brain and chose to edit the permissions—not letting Qin Chaoyan see this post.

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Jiangcheng, Qin’s house.

Qin Chaoyan appeared in this villa again after many years.

It’s not that he wanted to come, but Qin Qijiang asked him to come back to Qin’s house for dinner using Old Lady Qin’s name.

Although he hated the Qin family very much, he was grateful to Grandma Qin in his heart. At least he and Ye Rongxu were able to get engaged smoothly at the beginning, which was more or less due to her help.

In the living room, Qin Chaoyan had a blank expression on his face until Old​ Lady Qin came downstairs, and only then did his face look slightly better.

Qin Qijiang came down with the old lady. When he saw Qin Chaoyan, he wanted to act like a father and scold him, but before he could open his mouth, the old lady spoke first, “Qijiang, since you invited me back for a family dinner, don’t say anything unnecessary. Let’s eat in harmony and don’t quarrel as soon as we see each other.”

Qin Qijiang was silenced before he could put on airs, and his expression became very unpleasant.

The old lady knew what kind of character her son was, so she didn’t care about him. She turned around and took Qin Chaoyan’s hand, saying kindly, “Chaoyan, today consider it as giving grandma some face and come with grandma later. I’ve heard that you’ve been doing well in the company lately. Why don’t you tell me about it on the way?”

Qin Chaoyan nodded lightly.

It was called a family dinner, but no one was there. Besides Qin Jingxu, who was far away in E country, Qin Jingrong, the son of Qin’s second child[mfn]The author didn’t even bother to call Qin Qijiang’s brother by name, so this address sounds a little weird in English.[/mfn], was not there.

Qin Qijiang was somewhat angry, thinking that, recently, no one in this family had taken his words seriously.

But just when he was about to go off, he remembered what the old lady had just said and held back.

Seeing this, Qin’s second child and his wife didn’t say much, just trying to please the old lady.

The meal was depressing and tasteless. Qin Chaoyan was the first to get up. Because he had to wait for the old lady, he first went to the front yard to get some fresh air.

Qin Jingrong happened to come back at this time, and when he saw him appear in the Qin family, he was obviously stunned for a moment and then surprised, “Why are you here?”

Qin Chaoyan frowned, thinking that the other party would say something like, “You don’t deserve to be in the Qin family,” like when he was a child.

But unexpectedly, Qin Jingrong looked at him in surprise for a while and suddenly gloated, saying, “So you’re still in Jiangcheng, huh? It seems that Ye Rongxu didn’t take you with him on vacation this time.”

Qin Chaoyan frowned slightly. He was too lazy to spare this person a single word.

Seeing this, Qin Jingrong thought he had guessed right and continued: “It seems that Ye Rongxu doesn’t treat you well either. By the way, you don’t know yet, do you?”

“Ye Rongxu invited his friends to vacation on the super beautiful island bought by his grandfather. Cao Yuxuan and Ji Qingyu went. Guess who wasn’t invited? It was you, the fiancé.”

He had a gloating look on his face, his movements and expressions resembling “American bullies[mfn]美式霸凌 is actual meme on Chinese internet XD[/mfn].” Seeing that Qin Chaoyan still ignored him, he simply took out his mobile phone, flipped through Moments and said, “Look, Cao Yuxuan has posted on Moments.”

Qin Chaoyan didn’t want to see it, but his eyes accidentally swept across the photo of Ye Rongxu and Ji Qingyu. He suddenly paused and asked, “Who is he?”

Of the three people in the photo, only this one was unknown to him.

 

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