Chapter 288: Because She Loves Him
Yan Nuo’s face dominated Fang Yusheng’s phone screen.
Qiao Jiusheng turned to take a look. Her gaze landed on Yan Nuo’s tough, domineering, serious, and cold face. In her heart, she admired Ji Yinbing.
Only she would dare to fall in love with this man! Qiao Jiusheng respected Ji Yinbing as a real woman!
Yan Nuo looked a little tired. Judging from the decorations in the room behind him, Fang Yusheng thought that it didn’t seem like Yan Nuo was in India but America.
Fang Yusheng thought: Did he go to America to look for Yinbing?
Seeing that Fang Yusheng had accepted the video call, Yan Nuo rubbed his tired eyes and went straight to the point. “Did Yinbing look for you?”
When he heard this, Fang Yusheng’s face naturally revealed a look of surprise. He asked back, “Why would Yinbing look for me?” His surprise turned into confusion, and Fang Yusheng muttered to himself, “Ah Sheng hasn’t given birth yet, so it’s a little early to send a gift.”
As usual, he loved to talk nonsense, and every word he said was about money. Fang Yusheng’s reaction was flawless, and Yan Nuo believed his words without a doubt.
Most importantly, Yan Nuo would never think that Fang Yusheng, who was a true brother, would help Ji Yinbing hide her tracks.
Yan Nuo sighed and said, “Recently, I’ve been very troubled.” He frowned, and his eyes became filled with frustration. “Women are so troublesome.” He didn’t know what Ji Yinbing had gone through. He thought that she was angry at him for letting Weila stay there. He still blamed Ji Yinbing. “She’s quite angry this time and even went into hiding.”
Hearing Yan Nuo’s accusatory tone, Fang Yusheng felt indignant for Ji Yinbing.
He coldly asked Yan Nuo, “Did you two have a conflict?” Fang Yusheng acted like he didn’t know about the relations.h.i.+p between Yan Nuo and Ji Yinbing.
Yan Nuo nodded and said, “Weila is back. She doesn’t have a family now, so I asked her to stay and help me with my work. When Yinbing saw her, she ran away in a rage.”
From what Yan Nuo said, it seemed like he really didn’t know what Weila had done or Ji Yinbing’s situation.
Fang Yusheng felt sympathetic for Yan Nuo, but he did not intend to tell him Ji Yinbing’s whereabouts so easily.
Someone like Yan Nuo, who was high and mighty, would think that the whole world belonged to him if he wasn’t taught a lesson. Fang Yusheng snorted and reminded him, “Simple! There are two solutions. First, chase Weila away! Second, chase Yinbing away!”
Yan Nuo’s face darkened.
Fang Yusheng was secretly pleased when he saw Yan Nuo’s sullen expression. However, he still mercilessly mocked him. “Why? Do you still want to marry two women at once? In the future, there will be two girls serving you. One will sleep with you for half a month, and the other will sleep with you for the other half?”
Yan Nuo was speechless.
Fang Yusheng continued to berate him, “You’re so capable! If you don’t have the ability to be an emperor, don’t even think about having a harem of three thousand beauties.”
Fang Yusheng’s mouth was poisonous!
When he started scolding people, there was nothing anyone could do about it. Yan Nuo kept listening. After Fang Yusheng finished scolding him, Yan Nuo ended his silence. He sternly looked at Fang Yusheng and suddenly said, “She went to look for you.” Yan Nuo’s tone was firm.
Fang Yusheng suddenly stopped talking.
He neither admitted nor denied it.
Yan Nuo narrowed his eyes, and his gaze deepened. He spoke in a low voice beside Fang Yusheng’s ear. “She’s at your house.” His tone was resolute and decisive, which meant that Yan Nuo had confirmed that Ji Yinbing was at Fang Yusheng’s house.
Fang Yusheng said, “No comment.”
He ended the video call.
Yan Nuo was very smart. Although Fang Yusheng had a sharp tongue, he rarely treated Yan Nuo so harshly. His words today were too vicious and abnormal. It was hard for Yan Nuo not to suspect him.
Fang Yusheng didn’t sleep anymore. He lifted the blanket and got off the bed. He went next door and knocked on Ji Yinbing’s door.
Ji Yinbing quickly opened the door. She was also wearing her pajamas and had a calm expression on her face as if she hadn’t slept at all.
“Yinbing…” Fang Yusheng felt apologetic. “He knows you’re here.”
Hearing this, Ji Yinbing didn’t even move her brows. She only said, “I understand.”
She closed the door.
Fang Yusheng’s nose almost touched the door.
He took a step back and stared at the door. After a moment of silence, he softly said to the person behind the door, “Yinbing, talk to him. Whether it’s a misunderstanding or the truth, you have to make yourself at ease. You didn’t even give him a chance and sentenced him to death just like that. It’s unfair to him.”
It was quiet inside, but Fang Yusheng knew that Ji Yinbing was listening to him.
After a while, he heard Ji Yinbing say, “If I give him a chance, who will give my child a chance?”
Fang Yusheng was speechless, and his eyes became complicated.
Yes, regardless of whether it was a misunderstanding, that child won’t come back.
Qiao Jiusheng watched as Fang Yusheng returned to his room with a gloomy expression. She got up from the bed and found a pillow to lean on. Looking at him, Qiao Jiusheng did not speak, but she stretched out a hand. Fang Yusheng got onto the bed and held her hand. As he played with her hand, he said, “I didn’t tell you about Yinbing, right?”
Qiao Jiusheng nodded. “You didn’t.”
“What kind of person do you think she is?”
Without thinking, Qiao Jiusheng said, “Strong and calm. Cold on the outside but warm on the inside.”
She was right about everything.
Fang Yusheng said, “Yinbing was a student at Harvard Medical School. Zhuang Long and I are both from MIT. However, I majored in mechanical engineering, and he majored in biomedical engineering. Yan Nuo was a student at the West Point Military School. Zhuang Long and I entered the school in the same year. He was a year older than me, and he was only 15 when he went to school. Yinbing had gotten into Harvard Medical School when she was 17. When she came to Harvard, I had already dropped out of MIT. Yan Nuo had already graduated from West Point and returned to India to take over the family business.”
They were indeed a bunch of awesome people.
Among them, Ji Yinbing and Suzanne were the youngest. Ji Yinbing was 27 this year, and Suzanne was the same age. Fang Yusheng was already 30, and Zhuang Long was a year older than him; he was 31. Yan Nuo was the oldest at 34.
They were all of different ages, which meant that they didn’t know each other when they were studying.
Qiao Jiusheng asked, “So you don’t know each other from school?”
“No.” Fang Yusheng shook his head and explained further. “I’m a member of the Mensa Club. I met Yan Nuo, Zhuang Long, Yinbing, and Suzanne at the Mensa Club’s gathering. When we met, I was only 10 years old. Even the oldest Yan Nuo was only 14.” Fang Yusheng’s tone was very calm when he said this, but Qiao Jiusheng’s mouth was wide open.
She exclaimed, “You entered the Mensa Club at the age of ten?” Of course, she knew about the Mensa Club. It was known as the top high IQ club in the world. Currently, China did not have more than 35 members in the club, and the club didn’t even have a branch in China.
Many people were proud of being a member of the Mensa Club. Qiao Jiusheng had applied for the Mensa Club’s test before. The result was obvious. Her IQ was not up to standard, and she was still far from the lowest cut-off point of 130.
Qiao Jiuyin was right about one thing. Qiao Jiusheng was a silly and sweet girl.
Qiao Jiusheng thought about how the person beside her was extremely intelligent and even the aloof Ji Yinbing next door was the same. When Qiao Jiusheng looked at herself again, only a fat creature appeared in her mind.
Pig!
Qiao Jiusheng looked at Fang Yusheng with starry eyes.
Fang Yusheng’s vanity was fulfilled by Qiao Jiusheng’s gaze.
He tapped her nose and said, “A person with a high IQ can only say that he’s smarter than others in certain aspects. He can’t achieve perfection in everything.” Just like him! He was especially proficient in the field of mechanical design and was very talented, but when it came to business, he was just a dabbler.
Zhuang Long was especially good at medicine, especially in the field of viruses. But when it came to dealing with people, he was especially lacking.
After hearing him say so much, Qiao Jiusheng still did not hear anything about Ji Yinbing. She urged him, “What’s wrong with Yinbing? You haven’t said anything yet.”
“Don’t be anxious.” Fang Yusheng lay down with her in his arms and covered her with the blanket before saying, “You know, the caste system in India is especially strict. Although it was abolished decades ago, the caste system is deeply rooted in the hearts of people. Even if it was abolished, it was still difficult to eradicate it. Yinbing’s mother is from China but her father is from India. In India, she’s a fourth-cla.s.s civilian. Although it isn’t forbidden for lower-level and higher-level aristocrats to marry each other, it’s harder for civilians to marry aristocrats.”
According to the history books Qiao Jiusheng had learned in the past, the hierarchy in India was especially strict. Although there were no slaves now, the poor people in that country still existed.
“Yan Nuo is a n.o.ble?”
“Of course.”
Qiao Jiusheng’s heart sank and she asked again, “What about that woman called Weila?”
Fang Yusheng said, “She’s also a n.o.ble.”
Therefore, in terms of status, Ji Yinbing was inferior to Weila.
Qiao Jiusheng felt angry for Ji Yinbing. “Yinbing is so powerful. Not only is she intelligent, but she also conquered the curse of AIDS that even Zhuang Long couldn’t. She has contributed to humanity! Such a powerful person is thousands of times better than Weila!”
“That’s now.” Fang Yusheng’s tone was very calm. His voice was gentle, but it calmed Qiao Jiusheng’s anger.
Qiao Jiusheng remained silent with a sullen expression when she heard Fang Yusheng say, “That country’s gender discrimination is very serious. There are three children in Yinbing’s family, two boys and one girl. Her brothers were the hope of the entire family. Her entire family had opposed her wish to study.
“Yinbing wanted to study, but was beaten by her father. Not only that, but her father also betrothed her when she was only eight years old to a man who had forgotten his wife. Yinbing was unwilling to be mediocre for the rest of her life. She knew that if she accepted reality like other girls and waited for her future, she would be married to a mediocre husband and suffer endless hards.h.i.+p. If she gave birth to a daughter in the future, her daughter would also be like her, unable to study or have the right to choose life.
“Thus, when Yinbing was eight years old, she went to the entrance of the n.o.ble academy and stopped Yan Nuo.” That year, Ji Yinbing was eight years old and Yan Nuo was fifteen.
Yan Nuo had looked at the skinny little bean sprout, who was standing in front of him with her arms wide open. Her eyes were cold. He thought that this girl would be afraid of him. In the end, not only was the little bean sprout not afraid, she had even walked up to him and pretended to be calm as she begged him to save her.
She said that she wanted to get his help and study. She would make a name for herself and would never let Yan Nuo down.
Somehow, Yan Nuo had agreed to her request.
Maybe it was Ji Yinbing’s unyielding gaze that had moved him, or maybe it was just that he was bored and a small toy had come to find him.
Yan Nuo personally went to Ji Yinbing’s house and asked Ji Yinbing to be a maid. In that country, it was normal for children to work. When Ji Yinbing’s father thought that his daughter could work in a n.o.ble family to earn money, he agreed to it without any hesitation.
Ji Yinbing was Yan Nuo’s helper in name, but in reality, Yan Nuo didn’t ask her to do what a servant should do. He even asked her to study. Ji Yinbing was indeed hardworking and smart. She was born to be a doctor. The day she received the notice from Harvard, Yan Nuo realized for the first time that investing in Ji Yinbing was probably the best thing he had done in his life.
Fang Yusheng said, “To Yinbing, Ah Nuo is her salvation. He pulled her from the bottom of the abyss and helped her enter a free world. Yinbing always felt that everything she has now was given to her by Ah Nuo. Therefore, she trusts Ah Nuo, respects Ah Nuo, and loves Ah Nuo. Even if Ah Nuo gave her a.r.s.enic, she would eat it like candy.”
Upon hearing this, Qiao Jiusheng was both shocked and dumbfounded.
It was hard for her to imagine that there was a family like Ji Yinbing’s in this world. At the same time, she was shocked by Ji Yinbing’s actions.
How daring must she be to stop Yan Nuo at such a young age and ask for his help?
Everyone’s fate depended on themselves.
Ji Yinbing’s actions made Qiao Jiusheng, who was also a woman, admire her.
Upon hearing Fang Yusheng’s words, Qiao Jiusheng thought of Ji Yinbing’s suffering and could not help but sigh. “To Yinbing, not only is Fang Nuo someone who gave her salvation, but he is also the man she deeply loves. Fang Nuo’s cup of water was a sword that cut off some of the love Yinbing has for him. I think Yinbing will still treat Fang Nuo well because she respects him. However, she will also hate him because she loves him.”