UD | Chapter 17 – A False, Pretentious Visit

Rong Mingda and Zhang Yan arrived at the hospital ward with several bodyguards.

Inside the room, aside from two patients, there was only the caregiver assigned to take care of the old man.

Aunt Wu looked at them curiously.

Bodyguards in tow, dressed luxuriously—clearly wealthy people.

Who were they here to see?

The moment the old man saw them, his expression immediately darkened.

“What are you doing here?”

Rong Mingda put on a hypocritical smile.

“Dad, I heard you were hospitalized, so I came to visit you. Where is Xiaoyi? Why isn’t she here taking care of you?”

Aunt Wu and the caregiver exchanged gossip-filled looks, instantly imagining a dramatic story of a rich son abandoning his poor elderly father.

“Director Rong, how could a useless old man like me trouble you to visit?” the old man said coldly.

“Dad, how can you say that?” Zhang Yan quickly added. “Mingda and I rushed here as soon as we heard you were in trouble.”

“It’s also Xiaoyi’s fault. She didn’t even inform us you were hospitalized.”

“If we hadn’t called her asking why she hadn’t gone home, we wouldn’t have known you were sick at all.”

The old man instantly exposed her lie.

“So you already called Xiaoyi—then why are you asking where she is?”

Rong Mingda and Zhang Yan’s expressions froze instantly.

Damn old man.

No wonder he raised that ill-mannered little brat.

Zhang Yan cursed inwardly and shot Rong Mingda a look.

He stepped forward with an angry expression.

“Dad, you really need to talk to Xiaoyi. She’s completely lost her manners now—she even dared to insult me and Yan Yan.”

“Even if we didn’t handle her emotions properly, she could have talked to us. We’re her elders. And Yan Yan is already exhausted managing the household alone.”

“She even came to complain about us. You raised her—don’t you know what kind of temper she has?”

The old man’s face grew darker with every word.

Rong Mingda continued shamelessly.

“She didn’t appreciate anything we did. Instead, she insulted us and said all sorts of nonsense. It’s really too much.”

“Get out!” the old man roared, grabbing a cup from the table and throwing it directly at him.

“Ah!” Zhang Yan screamed and hid behind the bodyguards.

One of the bodyguards stepped forward in time and blocked the cup.

Rong Mingda was not hit, but he still flinched in shock.

The onlookers in the ward widened their eyes, and more curious patients and family members gathered at the doorway.

“You—you’ve gone crazy, Rong Hongye!” Rong Mingda shouted.

“Yes! I am crazy!” the old man roared back. “I must have been crazy to take you in and raise you—an ungrateful white-eyed wolf!”

“I know exactly what kind of person my granddaughter is!”

“You abandoned her for more than ten years and didn’t raise her at all—what right do you have to stand here and say she has no manners?!”

The crowd immediately understood the situation.

Oh.

So it’s an abandoned child case.

Zhang Yan quickly realized the situation was turning against them and forced a distressed expression.

“Dad, you really misunderstood Mingda. He’s been working so hard all these years for the family…”

“Now that he’s successful, he just wants to make it up to you and the child. You can’t hurt his feelings like this.”

Rong Mingda felt warmth in his heart.

Yan Yan still understands me best.

“Dad, don’t get upset,” he continued. “I understand you’re still resentful. It’s okay.”

“I’ll arrange caregivers for you. Let Xiaoyi come home tonight too—she must be exhausted after all this time.”

They spoke as if they were deeply affectionate and reasonable.

Aunt Wu couldn’t help but speak up.

“Old man, young people are working hard too. As elders, we should be more understanding.”

The old man sneered.

“This ungrateful wolf hasn’t given me or my granddaughter a single cent. I don’t need to understand them!”

“Get out! I don’t need your arranged caregivers. My granddaughter will take care of me!”

“Get out! I don’t want to see you—cough, cough cough…”

The caregiver hurriedly stepped in, worried he might get too angry.

“Sir, the old man’s health isn’t good. Maybe you should talk things through with the young lady first…”

Zhang Yan suppressed her anger, forced a polite smile, and said:

“Then we’ll leave him in your care. We’ll visit again next time.”

Rong Mingda and Zhang Yan left the hospital in frustration.

Once inside the car, Zhang Yan immediately exploded.

“What do they mean?! What did we ever do wrong?!”

“If it weren’t for the crowded hospital, I would’ve taught that old man a lesson!”

Rong Mingda hugged her shoulder to comfort her.

“That old man has always been like this. That’s exactly why I didn’t want to go back home.”

“I’m sorry, Yan Yan. You’ve suffered.”

“Just saying sorry does nothing!” she thought angrily, though she quickly forced a pitiful expression.

“As long as your father is okay…”

“We’ll come back another day.”

“Don’t worry about him. Let’s go buy those bags you liked.”

“Thank you, husband. You’re so good to me.”

She smiled and leaned against him—then suddenly felt a chill on her head again.

Her expression shifted slightly.

She quietly straightened and moved a little away.

Rong Mingda: “?”

“Roll down the window. I feel carsick.”

……

At Tongzhou West Station, the high-speed train arrived.

Guan Qiyu woke Rong Leyi, and the two got off.

“We arranged for someone to pick us up,” he said. “We’ll go straight to Chenjia Village.”

“That’s great,” she replied.

Saved money. No transfers.

She was very satisfied.

The person who picked them up was Wu Yan, a former criminal police officer from Dongning City Bureau and Tang Chengyun’s senior apprentice. Due to certain circumstances, he transferred back to his hometown in Tongzhou.

Although nearly forty, Wu Yan had a baby face and looked like a man in his twenties—tall and thin.

“Brother Wu Yan, long time no see. Still looking young as ever,” Guan Qiyu joked.

Wu Yan touched his face confidently.

“Natural beauty. Nothing I can do about it.”

“Hahaha, still as narcissistic as ever.”

Wu Yan laughed, then looked at Rong Leyi.

“So this is the courier helping your grandfather deliver the letter?”

This girl still looked like a student.

Yet she somehow knew about Old Master Guan’s first love.

Truly unexpected.