LIGHTNOVELONLINE
Chapter 58
When Yu Shu arrived at the hospital, it was already late at night. Yu Yang was asleep, and only Ye Ping and Yu Feng were keeping watch.
"Where is Zhang?"
Ye Ping looked up with bloodshot eyes full of anger: "I sent him away. Yu Shu, you think you're amazing just because you have money? Your own brother is lying here like this because of you, and you feel smug about it, don't you? It's all because of your money, because you show off instead of being low-key."
"Having money is amazing." Yu Shu said softly. "I broke Yu Hai and Yu Jiang's hands, and had them locked up. They won't be out for 10 or 8 years at least."
Ye Ping and Yu Feng looked at her in shock, as if she were a monster.
Yu Feng: "Are you crazy?! They are your uncles!"
"Yu Shu! No matter how much money you have, you can't humiliate people like this!" Ye Ping also could not believe it.
"Humiliate?" Yu Shu gave a cold laugh. "When I was 13, Yao Jinhua was going to sell me. Who's humiliating who?"
Yu Shu laughed. "Do you think it's because of money that Yu Yang is lying here like this? No, it's because they are bad people. When a mad dog bites you, you should beat it to death with a stick, not reflect on why you got bitten."
"Let me tell you, having money really is amazing. If I didn't have money, Yu Yang wouldn't be lying in the best hospital in the province today, wouldn't have the best orthopedic surgeon in the country operating on him. He would have suffered all kinds of misfortune like my dad did back then, and ended up disabled!"
"If I didn't have money, this matter would have been left unsettled today. Our whole family could only swallow our anger and bitterness. Yu Hai and Yu Jiang wouldn't have received any punishment at all! And you! What else could you do except complain and curse?!"
"You say I'm ungrateful? Why should I be grateful? Because you gave birth to me and raised me? I didn't ask to be brought into this world, I didn't!"
Life is too bitter. If we could choose, who would be willing to live through it all?
Ye Ping wept uncontrollably: "I shouldn't have given birth to you..."
"Yes, you shouldn't have. Do you know why I don't want to marry or have children? I'm afraid I'll become a complaining wife like you, a mother like you!"
"I know what you're thinking, what you have in mind. You want to take this chance with Yu Yang's accident to blame everything on me and my money, suppress me, invalidate me, make me beg your forgiveness, make me hand all my money to you."
"You've done this countless times since I was little. As long as I don't submit to your control, don't do as you say, you try every means to make me agree, even make me gratefully thank you for it."
"It's not that I don't know, it's that I was too lazy to resist before, and couldn't resist anyway! You are the best, most outstanding PUA master. You are always complaining, never satisfied. You've made a mess of yourself, and the closest people around you a wretched mess too."
"Yu Yang and I both hate going home, because you give us endless pressure and anxiety. The warmth you give us is pitifully little. You are always negating, always complaining. No matter what we do, we can never satisfy you."
"You've lived over 40 years, yet you still have nothing. You are a thorough, utter failure..."
Slap!
A clear slap rang out. Yu Shu turned her head to the side, hair disheveled, cheek red and swollen.
"Sis..." Yu Yang didn't know when he had woken up. He lay in bed weeping.
"Beauty, drinking alone? Let me buy you a drink."
The man who came over to hit on her left disappointed. As he left, he didn't forget to label Yu Shu as "no wonder no one wants her".
Yu Shu couldn't be bothered to respond. Her eyes were only on the wine bottles and glasses, drinking one after another to drown her sorrows.
The bar lighting was dim, men and women were gyrating madly on the dance floor. Groups of three or five were playing cards and dice games in the booths. Yu Shu sat alone at the bar, looking out of place. Unknown numbers of people were watching her secretly.
This was already the sixth man tonight who had come to hit on her. Yu Shu had become the hardest prey to catch in this hunting ground, arousing the competitive spirit of the males.
The bar lights suddenly turned bright. A handsome young man in a bright red hoodie walked over against the light and lazily asked: "Beauty, need some special services?"
Yu Shu looked up and smiled. "Yes, book a room for the night."
The people around: "..."
So their thinking had gone down the wrong path, taken the narrow road.
"What the f**k! What happened to your face?!" Seeing Yu Shu's injuries, Shen Youlin jumped angrily. "Who did this? I'll kill him!"
Yu Shu gently covered her swollen red cheek. "My mom."
"Then we definitely have to get even!" Shen Youlin was completely serious. "Moms are the worst! They give birth to you without asking if you're willing, then demand your gratitude!"
Yu Shu said softly: "You're terribly unfilial."
"Tsk, what are you pretending for? You clearly agree with my theory." Shen Youlin held her chin to inspect her injury. "Broke the skin too. The old hag is heavy-handed."
Shen Youlin asked the server for a first-aid kit, and brought Yu Shu into a private room to treat her wound.
"Bear with it for a bit, don't scar it, or you'll cry. The lights are bright so I can see clearly." Shen Youlin turned on all the lights in the room, and started dabbing her injury with a cotton swab.
Yu Shu was silent, looking down at the print pattern on his hoodie.
Shen Youlin was clumsy. Despite being careful, he would still accidentally touch her wound. Each time he would be frightened into cardiac arrest, but Yu Shu didn't make a peep, as if she had lost all sensation.
"If it hurts, yell a bit, or I'll think you're paralyzed and lost all sensation."
"If you can't spit out pearls, you can keep your mouth shut."
Shen Youlin grunted twice. "I had good intentions! I rushed over here while walking my dog Dou'e. I tied her to a lamppost and left her there. A friend as righteous as me is rare these days!"
"Won't someone steal your dog?"
"Focus on the key point, will you? The key point is I'm very righteous!" Shen Youlin was frustrated. "In a villa area, who would steal a silly dog? Don't worry, someone brought her home."
"Oh."
After a long silence, Yu Shu finally said: "Thank you."
"You're welcome. Rescuing a bereaved family's dog is the natural duty of any dog lover."
"...Just shut up."
Shen Youlin pressed the cotton swab down on her wound with some force.
"Ow!" Yu Shu jerked free of his hand, the pain bringing tears to her eyes.
"Now you know it hurts. If it hurts, cry. If you're upset, yell. If you're angry, hit. What are you holding it in for?" Shen Youlin held her chin, his tone firm but his actions much gentler. "You cry out, and I'll be obliged to comfort you a bit."
"It hurts."
Shen Youlin pursed his lips and blew a puff of immortal breath on her wound. "All better now."
"Really?"
"What do you expect? You want me to kiss-kiss, hug-hug, toss you in the air, nuzzle-nuzzle and pat-pat while calling you baby?"
"...Just shut up!"