Xu Tingyu had a nightmare.
She always dreamt repeatedly about the day of Xu Jia's surgery. The nurse suddenly rushed out shouting.
Then a group of people hurriedly entered the operating room.
In the chaos, Zhang Qiu fainted.
She couldn't even remember what happened later. All she remembered was Lin Shen coming out, announcing with an apologetic look on his face that the surgery had failed.
She didn't even hear the second sentence of explanation before Lin Shen left with his assistant.
She couldn't believe that such a large group of people couldn't save her younger brother.
So she pounced on a person like a madwoman, grabbing the person's white coat.
There was still blood on the white coat.
It was all Jia Jia's blood.
She had never lost her composure like that before, tearing and hitting the person.
Finally, she forgot who pulled her away.
She only knew that she fainted.
When she woke up again, she received two pieces of news.
One was that Jia Jia's surgery had failed and he had passed away.
The other was that she was pregnant, two months along.
She simply couldn't believe that Jia Jia had died. She struggled to get out of the hospital bed and wanted to go and see.
But they told her that Xu Jia had already been cremated.
She didn't believe it. "How dare you? Without the permission of the relatives, how dare you?"
Chen Chunyao came and hugged her. Her eyes were also red and swollen. "Tingyu, if you want to cry, just cry it out."
She couldn't cry. She felt dazed all over.
The sudden death of a loved one was like a slow - acting poison with a strong after - effect. It started to take effect slowly after the incubation period.
From the time Xu Jia had the accident to his death, it had been less than a month.
Now, she just felt confused and at a loss.
She couldn't cry. She just insisted on going to see Zhang Qiu in the next - door ward.
Zhang Qiu had woken up earlier than her. She had just finished a bout of crying and making a fuss. Tired, she was now lying there expressionlessly with tears streaming down her face.
As soon as Xu Tingyu appeared at the door, Zhang Qiu suddenly seemed to be injected with a shot of兴奋剂.
She suddenly jumped out of bed and, before anyone could react, rushed straight in front of Xu Tingyu and slapped her hard.
"You killed your younger brother. Why don't you just die?"
Zhang Qiu's face was full of ferocity.
Someone around immediately grabbed her and advised, "Auntie, this isn't Tingyu's fault."
But Zhang Qiu's eyes were blood - red. "It's her fault. If it weren't for her insisting on the surgery, how could my son have died?"
"She's not good enough either. She couldn't hold her husband's heart and couldn't invite the best doctors, which killed my son."
Someone must have accidentally let something slip in front of her, and she had also seen the news that day.
So she firmly believed that Xu Jia hadn't survived the surgery because Qi Shifeng hadn't come, which made the doctors look down on them.
Although the hospital repeatedly emphasized that the doctors wouldn't treat patients differently just because a certain family member didn't come.
Moreover, Professor Lin Shen was a visiting surgeon they had invited. He definitely wouldn't.
But Zhang Qiu wouldn't listen.
Or rather, she was eager to find an outlet for her grief over Xu Jia's death.
If she wasn't allowed to vent, she would die immediately.
Xu Tingyu understood this, so she didn't say a word and just endured many of Zhang Qiu's blows.
Finally, Zhang Qiu was too tired to hit anymore and didn't even look at her.
"Get out. I never want to see you again."
"It's meaningless for me to live. Let's just end our mother - daughter relationship here."
She got back into bed and got under the covers, silent.
Xu Tingyu stood there for a long time and finally left.
When she returned to her ward, Qi Shifeng, who had been missing for two days, appeared at the door.
He walked towards Xu Tingyu, but she suddenly took a big step back.
She repeated what Zhang Qiu had just said.
"I don't want to see you now. Get out."
Qi Shifeng looked at her pale face. His expression was complicated, and there were many emotions brewing in his eyes.
But in the end, he said nothing and turned to leave the ward first.
Jiang Li followed behind him, not daring to even breathe loudly.
"Give the order. We must ensure her and the baby in her belly's safety."
When he learned about the existence of this child, he was trapped in the old mansion.
The old master was sitting opposite him, his tone very casual. "Now the Xu family has no use value for us at all. It's time for you two to end it."
There was a divorce agreement in front of him. The old master motioned for him to sign it as soon as possible.
But Qi Shifeng didn't look at the agreement. He just looked at the old master.
"So you came back just for this?"
The old master's walking stick hit the ground hard. "Of course. Shifeng, you're my most outstanding grandson. Don't be indecisive."
"Also, get rid of that little sparrow around you earlier. I'll help you find a more suitable wife."
He didn't care at all who Qi Shifeng liked.
He just needed Qi Shifeng's marriage to maximize the family's interests.
"Back then, I swallowed my pride and went to the Xu family to beg for this marriage because I saw that Xu Tingyu's fate was extremely lucky for you."
"But now, the feng shui and fortune of her family have been broken. She'll only drag you down."
"I've also asked a master. Everyone around her will have accidents because of her. Her father and younger brother are the best examples."
The old master had believed in gossip and feng shui since he got old.
Back then, he took a fancy to Xu Tingyu, even put aside his dignity and took Qi Shifeng to propose marriage, and later caught the runaway Qi Shifeng back.
It was all because Xu Tingyu was extremely lucky for him.
Not only for him, but for the entire Qi Group.
But after Xu Jianmin's death, things were different.
The old master found a feng shui master overnight. The master said that now Xu Tingyu's fate no longer brought good luck to her husband.
Moreover, there was an omen of great misfortune.
Between the Xu family and the Qi family, one had to die and the other had to live.
"Your elder brother is also in the hospital now. If it weren't for Xu Jia's death this time, it would be your elder brother who died."
"I don't expect you to be grateful, but you shouldn't disobey me on this matter."
The old master was so angry that he started coughing.
Liu Ning beside him quickly said, "Hurry up and apologize to your grandfather. She's just a useless woman. You two never had feelings for each other anyway. What are you hesitating about now?"
Qi Shifeng looked at his relatives in front of him and just felt they were strange.
From the very beginning, it had been a huge scam.
It wasn't that Xu Tingyu insisted on marrying him. It was the Qi family that had schemed to marry her.
All for that absurd theory about the eight characters of one's birth date.
He didn't believe in these things at all and thought the words about one dying and the other living were extremely ridiculous.
He suddenly remembered some fragments that he hadn't cared about before, and his face turned gray little by little.
"So, back then when I went to the airport, the people I was chasing weren't from the Xu family?"
His words seemed a bit abrupt amidst the old master and Liu Ning's repeated persuasion.
The old master's face changed slightly, and he didn't answer directly.
"It's meaningless to talk about those things now. Divorce as soon as possible. I'll help her pay off her debts. Then you'll be even."
Without a definite answer, the answer was self - evident.
Qi Shifeng just felt it was absurd and ridiculous, and his heart also started to ache.
It turned out that for three years, he had hated the wrong person.