Xu Tingyu woke up with a start, filled with unwillingness.
First, she heard the "tick-tock" sound of the medical instruments. Then, pain swept through her whole body.
She frowned and finally opened her eyes.
Chen Chunyao, who had been guarding her by the side, immediately leaned over excitedly when she saw Xu Tingyu wake up.
"Tingyu, you're finally awake."
"You really scared me to death. Do you know that?"
As she spoke, her voice was tinged with sobs.
Xu Tingyu still felt pain. It took her a long time to finally come to her senses.
She didn't die. She was now in the hospital.
"You don't know. When I came to the hospital, I saw you covered in blood."
"Later, the doctor said not all of it was your blood."
"But I was so scared that I almost lost my soul. I was on the verge of taking a knife and going after someone."
While nagging, Chen Chunyao picked up the warm water on the table, inserted a straw, and held it to Xu Tingyu's lips.
She took a few sips of water and regained her voice.
Her first words were, "I'm going to call the police."
Liu Ning had harmed her under the pretext of exorcism.
She had told Liu Ning last time that if she came to provoke her again, she would make a big deal out of it.
Let's see who would be the one to lose face then.
Chen Chunyao paused in the action of putting down the cup, and her expression was a bit unnatural.
"Tingyu, you're still weak now. Don't think about these things."
It was obvious that she was changing the topic, and Xu Tingyu could tell.
Based on Xu Tingyu's understanding of her, if she was avoiding the topic so bluntly, there must be something going on behind the scenes.
She was silent for a moment, then suddenly let out a soft laugh. "The Qi family has already taken care of this, right?"
She was really too naive to even think about calling the police.
Since the Qi family had allowed her to be sent to the hospital, they must have already handled this matter cleanly.
She wouldn't have any witnesses or physical evidence.
Moreover, she had been in a coma for two days, missing too much.
"Tingyu, have you really not considered getting a divorce? I think if you don't divorce Qi Shifeng soon, you might not even be able to keep your life."
Seeing that she couldn't hide it from Xu Tingyu, Chen Chunyao simply sat down on the edge of the bed and lowered her voice.
At the same time, she was very vigilant, paying attention to the surroundings.
Obviously, although there were only the two of them in the ward, there might be someone monitoring them in places they couldn't see.
"I've already proposed a divorce."
Xu Tingyu pursed her pale lips.
This was the thing she couldn't understand the most. She had clearly admitted defeat and proposed a divorce on her own initiative.
Why couldn't they just let her go?
"When did this happen?"
"So when you moved out, it wasn't a tantrum and running away from home, but you really decided to get a divorce?"
Chen Chunyao's voice rose slightly.
She was very surprised, but her expression wasn't happy.
Xu Tingyu's mind was still very muddled, so she just nodded in response to her question.
"Liu Ning sent me the divorce agreement, and I've already signed it."
A woman who had trampled on her self - esteem and body didn't deserve for her to call her mom anymore.
Chen Chunyao was deep in thought. Just as she was about to say something else, the door of the ward was pushed open, and Qi Shifeng, dressed in a suit, walked in.
Chen Chunyao had always been afraid of him. No matter how fiercely she cursed him behind his back, she didn't even dare to look him in the eye face - to - face.
She immediately stood up. Taking advantage of the action of tucking the quilt in for Xu Tingyu, she whispered a few words in her ear.
"Don't mention calling the police, and don't go against him."
"I heard that his assistant met with a doctor from a mental hospital."
After she finished speaking, she gave Xu Tingyu a look, then turned around and nodded at Qi Shifeng.
"Mr. Qi, you two talk. But she just woke up. Please be kind and don't stimulate her."
These words made Qi Shifeng frown slightly - even her friend thought he would stimulate her?
In her heart, was he really that heinous?
However, he didn't lose his temper on the spot. He waited until Chen Chunyao went out and the ward door was closed again before sitting down on the edge of the bed.
Xu Tingyu had been stiff all over from the moment he appeared.
Not to mention Chen Chunyao's reminder, which made a thin layer of sweat break out on her back.
After marrying Qi Shifeng, she had occasionally attended gatherings of those ladies.
She once heard a typical gossip about a man going bad after getting rich from one of them.
It was about the Bai family, who were in the solid - wood business. In the early years, the husband and wife had started from scratch and supported each other. Their relationship was very good.
Later, as the business grew bigger and bigger, Mr. Bai had money. There were countless women throwing themselves at him, and gradually he started to have other ideas.
It was said that at the craziest time, he had even kept three or four girls in their early twenties.
As a result, things got out of control. One of them got pregnant and started to force him to marry her.
Mr. Bai was a bit patriarchal. The girl outside vowed that she was carrying a boy.
So Mr. Bai went back to discuss with Mrs. Bai whether they could let the girl give birth to the child and register it under her name.
As a result, Mrs. Bai immediately expressed her opposition. Because of this, she was completely disappointed in him and proposed a divorce.
When they started the business together, Mrs. Bai had 20% of the shares. In the divorce, she was also entitled to half of the property.
The two of them had been arguing for a long time. No matter how much Mr. Bai promised, Mrs. Bai refused to back down.
As a result, Mr. Bai pretended to be a good person for a while, pestering Mrs. Bai every day to get back together.
In fact, he secretly drugged Mrs. Bai. It wasn't a poison, but a drug that would disrupt her hormones and make her have hallucinations.
Finally, after Mrs. Bai had lost her composure in public a few times, Mr. Bai sent her to a mental hospital.
It didn't take long for Mrs. Bai to really go crazy in the mental hospital. She didn't even recognize her daughter.
Their daughter was also driven abroad by her step - mother to study.
"You tell me, why did Mrs. Bai have to make such a big deal out of it? In my opinion, it wouldn't matter if that son was registered under her name."
"The most important thing is to keep the position of the main wife. Men, after all, will always fool around outside when they have money."
"Now, she has lost everything."
Those ladies didn't blame Mr. Bai for being cruel, but instead blamed Mrs. Bai for not knowing when to stop.
After that, Xu Tingyu didn't meet with them very often.
At that time, she just thought they were very strange. When a marriage had reached that point, wasn't it normal to get a divorce?
Now, when she recalled this incident, she felt a chill all over her body.
She never thought that one day, such a thing would happen to her.
Liu Ning had arranged an exorcism ceremony for her, and Qi Shifeng's assistant had met with a doctor from a mental hospital.
They were going to put this label on her.
Then, when they divorced her, no one would say that they were heartless.
The more she thought about it, the more scared she became. Fear made her tightly grasp the quilt, and she didn't even dare to look Qi Shifeng in the eye.
So, this was the result the Qi family wanted.
The whip couldn't bend her back, but this kind of helpless fear would destroy a person's pride from the very core.
She thought of her father's tragic death, her mother's hysteria, and Xu Jia's bruised and purple face.
The unyielding pride that she had been nurtured with finally wavered at this moment.
"Qi Shifeng, please, let me go. I really won't bother you anymore."