Villainous Sick Beauty Chapter 86

TL: Hua

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Three years later, Jiangcheng International Airport.

Lin Jiaojiao, with her hair tied in a bun and wearing a short beige coat, was looking anxiously at the airport entrance while holding a sign.

Then she saw Chen Jiang pushing a person in a wheelchair from a distance, followed by several bodyguards. She was so excited that she waved her hands desperately: “Over here, over here!”

The person in the wheelchair was wearing a black down jacket with soft fabric.

The down jacket was slightly fluffy, but it didn’t look bloated on him. The exposed neck was particularly slender in contrast. With the wide sunglasses on his face, only his white and pointed chin was revealed and his whole person had a thin and frail feeling.

As the wheelchair was brought closer, the person sitting on it raised his hand to press down the edge of the sunglasses, revealing a pair of glass-like eyes.

“Didn’t I tell you not to come pick me up?” Ye Rongxu’s voice was clear.

He has been abroad for the past three years to learn about health care from Mr. Du. Despite his young age, he spoke very slowly and gently.

Paired with his pretty face that looked almost unchanged from three years ago, still resembling that of a young boy, he exuded a sense of maturity.

Six months had passed since Lin Jiaojiao’s last visit to M country. Seeing him again, she was overjoyed and couldn’t help bending down to hug him tightly.

After the hug, she took the wheelchair from Chen Jiang and pushed him while saying, “I can’t help it. By the way, does Brother Ji know that you’re back this time?”

Ye Rongxu’s expression slightly stiffened, his gaze could not help but drift away, and unintentionally, his eyes swept to the distant TV advertisement screen.

The screen has just finished broadcasting commercials and suddenly jumped to financial news. The elegant and beautiful female host was solemnly reporting. In the news photo behind her, a familiar yet unfamiliar figure appeared.

There was no sound on the advertising screen, but the scrolling subtitles below were clearly visible: Qin Chaoyan, President of Zhaoyu Group Asia, returned to China recently…

Next to them, a couple of young men who had also seen the news discussed in whispers–

“This president looks so young.”

“You don’t know him? He is Zhaoyu’s young president Qin. He just became Zhaoyu Asia’s president at the beginning of this year. He is only 23 years old.”

“So young? Did he get promoted by connections?”

“Nonsense, he’s very powerful, okay? Xie Group withdrew from Country C before, and later established Zhaoyu Branch to enter neighboring countries. After restructuring, it returned to Country C this year. This young president Qin, has made an indelible contribution to its current scale.”

“I heard that he’s also a top student from Jiangcheng. He was the top scorer in the science subject of Jiangcheng’s college entrance examination. He went to Country E to study at the top university there and, at the same time, entered Xie Group for further studies.”

“Really powerful!”

Ye Rongxu curled up his fingers and thought to himself: he’s really powerful.

He is so powerful that he can occasionally see him on TV and the Internet in Country M.

He couldn’t help but look up again at the photos taken by reporters on the screen.

The other party has lost a lot of weight, and his facial contour became sharp, which makes him look a little fierce. He always presses the corners of his lips into a tight line as if he doesn’t know how to smile. His clothes are also unchanged: black suits and trench coats…

Suddenly, his vision was blocked, and the soft, light yellow knitted scarf almost hit his face.

Ye Rongxu turned his head and looked at Lin Jiaojiao in doubt.

Lin Jiaojiao was putting the scarf around his neck, deliberately blocking his vision during the process. She laughed dryly and said, “Winter in Jiangcheng is always damp and cold, and today is no exception. The drizzle is making it feel even colder. I’m afraid you’ll be cold when we go out later.”

When she did this, she felt a little guilty.

Although she didn’t witness the breakup three years ago and didn’t know the details, she saw with her own eyes how sad Ye Rongxu was at the time. It took half a year to recuperate before his body could undergo surgery.

Now in the Ye family, the three words “Qin Chaoyan” are taboos and cannot be mentioned, especially in front of Ye Rongxu. If they have to mention it, they must use “that person” instead.

But despite all her precautions, she still couldn’t prevent Ye Rongxu from seeing the news about that person as soon as he returned to China. Lin Jiaojiao was so anxious that she wanted to cover his eyes with a scarf.

Seeing her cautious look, Ye Rongxu found it a little funny. After a pause, his smile faded a little, and his tone became calm: “Don’t be so nervous; I don’t… like him anymore.”

After that, he put on his sunglasses again to cover his expression and said to Lin Jiaojiao, “Let’s go.”

Lin Jiaojiao was relieved and hurriedly pushed him away.

Right where they left, Qin Chaoyan, who was dressed in a black trench coat, had just turned the corner and walked out from the passageway. When he heard those words, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

He looked at the group of people who were gradually walking away from a distance, and his figure seemed to be frozen.

Beside him, Xie Yunming’s butler, Anton, saw that he suddenly didn’t move and went up to remind him in a low voice, “Young Master?”

Instantly, as if returning to the human world from the icy land, Qin Chaoyan’s figure moved, he turned his head and looked at him without saying a word, and continued to walk out.

The pace seemed much faster than before.

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When Lin Jiaojiao opened the car door, Chen Jiang stepped forward and wanted to pick up Ye Rongxu, but Ye Rongxu shook his head and said, “No need.”

Then, he grabbed Chen Jiang’s arm, supported himself with his legs, slowly stood up, took a deep breath, and took two steps to get into the car.

Lin Jiaojiao sat in the back seat with him. Thinking of the scene when he stood up just now, she couldn’t hide her excitement and sneak a glance at his legs.

Ye Rongxu’s calf was still trembling slightly. Seeing this, he coughed lightly: “I’m only able to stand up as I’m still recovering.”

Lin Jiaojiao said, “Oh,” and her eyes were red with joy.

Being able to stand up means there is hope for recovery, right?

However, both of them were afraid that talking too much would spoil the mood, so they stopped here tacitly.

Chen Jiang, who was driving, glanced back through the rearview mirror and then asked Ye Rongxu, “Young Master, are you going home or…”

Ye Rongxu rubbed his brows and said, “Let’s go to the company. Is Brother Qingyu in a meeting? I want to ask him about Dad’s situation.”

Upon hearing this, Lin Jiaojiao quickly gave him a careful look and spoke with a tone of comfort, saying, “Brother, don’t worry too much. No news is good news. Uncle… he will definitely be fine.”

Ye Rongxu shook his head and said nothing.

In the kidnapping case that year, Xie Yunming was completely washed clean. Besides, he was abroad and could not be investigated and questioned. In the end, only the boss behind Bohai was involved.

So Ye Boxuan has been targeting Xie Yunming for the past three years. In addition to tit-for-tat in the business field, he’s also privately looking for evidence related to the kidnapping case and the car accident case.

Half a month ago, Ye Boxuan traveled to Africa. By chance, a war suddenly broke out in a small country over there. Ye Boxuan was caught up in the war zone, and his current whereabouts are unknown.

Although Ji Qingyu has contacted the embassy and used various connections to find him, there is still no news.

Ye Rongxu’s grandfather suffered a sudden heart attack recently. He underwent surgery yesterday and cannot be stimulated. Grandma Ye is accompanying him in Country M.

Ji Qingyu was worried that this matter would affect the two elderly people, so he kept it a secret. Even Ye Rongxu didn’t know about this. He felt something was amiss when he didn’t receive a call from his father for two or three days and only found out after “interrogating” Ji Qingyu.

However, Ji Qingyu still asked him not to return to China, saying that the Xie Group’s hands had recently reached back to China and might threaten his safety when he returned.

But after this happened, Ye Rongxu couldn’t stay abroad to recuperate, so he returned to China quietly without telling Ji Qingyu.

In particular, he heard from Lin Jiaojiao that many people in the group’s senior management knew about Ye Boxuan’s accident, and their minds began to waver. Several shareholders even united to oppose Ji Qingyu’s various decisions, believing that he was not qualified.

Ye Rongxu closed his eyes and thought of the plot of the book in his dream again – this is his circumstance in the book, without his father, grandparents, and even less… Qin Chaoyan.

Only Ji Qingyu was helping him and supporting the Ye Group.

He suddenly remembered again that when they had just broken up, the breakup message might not have been sent by Qin Chaoyan.

But he had already dropped his phone, so Ye Boxuan bought him a new one and replaced the SIM card together, saying that the servant accidentally lost the old card when cleaning up the debris of the phone.

Without contact information, he tried to contact Xie Yu through Cao Yuxuan, hoping that Xie Yu would give a message to Qin Chaoyan, but he never received a reply.

Later, he went into the operating room and could not touch his phone for several months.

It wasn’t until Cao Yuxuan’s visit to Country M that he told him with embarrassment, “Qin Chaoyan completely ignored Xie Yu.”

In fact, when Xie Yu called Cao Yuxuan, his description was even more exaggerated: “F*ck, I’m chasing after him to talk to him about Xiao Xuxu, but he turned around and told me coldly that it was none of his business. F*ck, f*ck, I feel like he has become a different person now, cold and without any humanity.

“I suspect he was brainwashed by my uncle. Yes, perhaps that’s the case. I remember, didn’t he run back to the country once before? Later, my uncle asked people to bring him back and told him that if he couldn’t let go or forget, he could hire a psychologist to hypnotize him so he wouldn’t feel uncomfortable. Cao Yuxuan, do you think he has been brainwashed and completely forgotten Xiao Xuxu?”

At that time, Ye Rongxu had just undergone surgery and was weak. Cao Yuxuan dared not tell him this directly but said, “Qin Chaoyan doesn’t seem to be too keen on listening to what Xie Yu was trying to explain. Xie Yu suspected he was hypnotized and brainwashed.”

Later, Ye Rongxu began painful rehabilitation, spending a lot of energy on standing up every day. After a tiring day, he would lie down to sleep and finally had no time to think about Qin Chaoyan.

This went on day after day, and gradually, it seemed that he had really let go of the other party.

Ye Rongxu raised his hand to cover his eyes and vaguely felt that the dream he had was the reality and the real life with Qin Chaoyan for a year was a dream.

So everything was developing in the direction of the dream? Qin Chaoyan had indeed forgotten him and even hated him? Just like in the dream?

Otherwise, why didn’t he contact him?

The car finally arrived at the entrance of the Ye Group building. Ye Rongxu opened his eyes, inhaled deeply, and then reached out to open the car door, carefully maneuvering himself out and into the wheelchair that Chen Jiang had brought for him.

After entering the building and pressing the elevator door, Chen Jiang and Lin Jiaojiao accompanied him into the elevator.

Lin Jiaojiao directly pressed the 23rd floor; just then, the elevator door was suddenly pressed open again.

Between the metal doors, a handsome and slender figure stood outside the elevator. The metal doors creaked open slowly, revealing a wider field of vision and bringing the figure fully into sight.

Familiar, but with a hint of strangeness.

Less than a meter away, when the pair of dark and deep eyes looked straight at him, the surging thoughts in his heart suddenly burst out, like a long-suppressed tide.

Ye Rongxu blinked his eyes, making his vision clear again after being blocked by the fog.

He finally realized that he had never let go.

 

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