Chapter 45

Chapter 45: A Bit Rebellious

Sure enough, as soon as Xi Jing Yue finished asking, everyone’s attention in the room shifted back to Ye Zhi Huan.

Ye Meng Zhen also reacted belatedly: “Brother, you usually hate drinking the most. Why did you drink yesterday? If Seventh Brother had not happened to go with you, would you have drunk and driven?”

At first, Father Ye and Mother Ye had not thought much of it. Now when they heard their daughter say this, they immediately felt it was not simple and pressed him too: “Zhen Zhen is right. We were worried about your injuries just now and did not have time to ask. Now tell us honestly, what exactly did you do yesterday? Why did you go drinking in the middle of the night?”

Ye Zhi Huan’s face went pale. He had never thought the topic would suddenly turn to him.

“I… I…”

“What do you mean ‘I’? Hurry up and talk.”

Ye Zhi Huan held it in for a long time and still could not squeeze out a complete sentence. In the end, he pulled the blanket over his head in despair and muttered: “Stop asking. I do not want to talk about it.”

But Ye Meng Zhen did not plan to give up like this. She was so angry she paced a circle beside her brother’s bed. Then she suddenly saw Du An Rao and had a flash of inspiration.

“Do you know what happened to my brother?”

“Zhen Zhen!”

Actually, Ye Meng Zhen really had asked the right person.

Du An Rao gave Ye Zhi Huan, whose face was flushed red, a sympathetic look. She could understand his complicated feelings right now.

[To put it bluntly, is it not just that he feels he got played as a backup and walking wallet, then dumped in the end, and now he thinks it is too embarrassing? I am not saying anything, but some people are just too thin skinned. The player who is juggling several boats at once does not feel ashamed even when she is caught, yet you, the victim, are the one too embarrassed to talk. No wonder she had you wrapped around her finger.]

Under Father Ye and Mother Ye’s curious looks, Du An Rao did a quick bit of finger-counting divination: “Uh, if nothing unexpected happened, it should be a relationship problem.”

“A relationship problem?” With her guess confirmed, Ye Meng Zhen’s anger flared even higher. She shouted: “It really is that bitch Li Qian Xi!”

Father Ye, Mother Ye, and even Ye Zhi Huan were startled by Ye Meng Zhen’s extreme reaction. Father Ye instinctively glanced at Li Zhao Yang and saw that he only looked a bit surprised and was not angry, which puzzled him.

Mother Ye blinked and asked strangely: “Zhen Zhen, did you not have a pretty good relationship with Qian Xi before? Why are you suddenly…”

Ye Meng Zhen pursed her lips and said awkwardly: “Before was before. Before I must have been blind to think she was kind and gentle. In truth, she is just a sweet faced, two faced little green tea bitch!”

It was not just the Ye family. Even Du Yu Xi did not quite understand Ye Meng Zhen’s hatred of evil attitude.

Back at the restaurant, she had only hinted vaguely that the girl might not be as perfect as she seemed, and had been scolded by Ye Meng Zhen for it.

But Du An Rao reacted quickly. The look she gave the Ye siblings was quite meaningful.

[Ye Meng Zhen has probably already found out the truth about her love letter being thrown away. Her filter for Li Qian Xi is broken, and she has gone from fan to anti.]

Thinking of this, Du An Rao also got a little excited.

[This is great. Ye Meng Zhen already has a grudge against Li Qian Xi. Once she learns that the girl played with her brother’s feelings, treated him like a backup, and by accident almost got him killed in a car crash, their friendship is doomed to end. The difference is that this time Ye Meng Zhen will be the one kicking her to the curb, hahaha…]

Hearing this, Du Yu Xi also found it hard to hold back a laugh, but when she thought of what Li Qian Xi had done, she could not really laugh.

Ye Meng Zhen did not care about all that. Once some words came out of her mouth, she realized these annoying things actually were not such a big deal.

She had just misjudged a person and been used as a tool. She would just treat it as getting bitten by a dog.

But her brother’s matter could not be brushed off so easily.

“Brother, tell me honestly what happened yesterday. What exactly did that bitch Li Qian Xi do to you?”

“…Zhen Zhen, do not talk about her like that.”

“It has already come to this and you are still speaking up for her. Did she put some spell on you? You are really going to make me die of anger!”

Because of Ye Zhi Huan’s non violent non cooperation, the matter seemed to reach a deadlock. Ye Meng Zhen paced in circles angrily at the side and still could not pry his mouth open.

Just when everyone thought this was as far as things could go, a voice full of hating iron for not becoming steel suddenly came from outside the ward.

“She already treated you like that and you still plan to keep covering for her? Since when did the Ye Zhi Huan I know become such a coward?”

Everyone turned their heads instinctively and saw a young man in a wheelchair at the door of the ward, with a bandage wrapped around his head just like Ye Zhi Huan’s and a cast on his right arm.

“Ran Qi, Cousin, why are you here? Is Ran Qi’s injury all right?” Mother Ye reacted first and hurried out to greet them.

The one pushing the wheelchair, Mother Zhang, looked helpless: “When this child woke up and heard that Zhi Huan was hurt worse than him, he insisted on coming to see for himself. I really could not stop him, so I had to let him come.”

Zhang Ran Qi did not feel guilty at all about being blamed. He snorted: “Good thing I came, or how else could I have seen my good brother rushing to be a turtle hiding in his shell.”

This sarcastic mockery successfully angered Ye Zhi Huan, who had been sulking: “Zhang! Ran! Qi!”

“Why are you shouting so loud? I can hear you just fine!” Zhang Ran Qi did not pamper him either. “If you used even half the energy you are using to yell at me to go fight it out with that woman’s fiancé and then kick that fickle woman away, I would actually respect you as a man.”

The more Zhang Ran Qi talked, the angrier he got. He slapped the handles of the wheelchair so hard they snapped and crackled: “Is it not just that you got played and dumped? You cried like you wanted to die, with snot and tears everywhere, and drank yourself stupid. I just told you a couple of truths and you pointed at my nose and cursed me. Do you really think I have no temper at all? Ye Zhi Huan, I am telling you, I have been putting up with you for a long time!”

Zhang Ran Qi’s sudden outburst shocked everyone. Even Mother Zhang, after a brief moment of surprise, could not help patting her son’s shoulder.

“You should say a little less.”

But for once, Ye Meng Zhen did not stand on her own brother’s side: “Seventh Brother, you went out with my brother yesterday. Did something happen?”

Before Zhang Ran Qi could reply, Ye Zhi Huan had already ordered: “You are not allowed to say anything!”

But the person he was yelling at also had a bit of a rebellious streak. He rolled his eyes right at him: “You tell me not to say it, so now I really want to say it.”

Ye Zhi Huan: “…” He was furious!

“Pfft…” Hiding behind Du Yu Xi, Du An Rao felt that this Mr. Zhang was really something. His whole vibe was, you talk, I will do what I want. He did not waste any energy on inner conflict, and his mental state was beautiful!

“Yesterday your brother suddenly got a call from that Li family’s little girl’s lackey, saying she was being bullied at school and could not get away. Your brother got so anxious he drove like his car was a plane.”

“He rushed over to that little girl’s school, but he did not see anyone bullying her. Instead, he saw that woman curled up in her fiancé’s arms, crying pitifully. Anyone with eyes could see the man and woman were into each other, but this fool still thought that man was bullying her…”