allonlinenovel Chapter 160: An Outsider from Beginning to End
Chapter 160: An Outsider from Beginning to End
As soon as she finished speaking, the girl suddenly curled up into a ball, letting out painful sobs, and clutched the blanket tightly with both hands as if she wanted to tear it to shreds.
She was like a fish about to suffocate, constantly thrashing, swimming, struggling, and rolling, trying to find a safe haven.
Seeing this, Ye Jingke felt as if his heart was being torn apart. Helpless, he crawled into the quilt and hugged Cheng Ai, hoping to make her feel better.
Suddenly, a brilliant idea struck him. He quickly took out the butterfly charm from his pocket, stuffed it into her hand, and then bit his finger to feed her blood.
Although Ye Jingke didn't know what kind of injury Cheng Ai had suffered, it was never wrong to transfer spiritual energy to her.
As it turned out, his approach was correct; Cheng Ai's condition stabilized slightly, and the water droplet marks returned to normal.
Her eyelashes fluttered, her eyes rolled, and she slowly opened them, weakly curving her lips. "I'm sorry, Ye Ye, I made you worry."
Ye Jingke leaned down and planted a kiss on his forehead, gently scolding, "Silly boy, why are you working so hard? If you ever try to be brave again, I'll tie you up at home with a rope and won't let you go anywhere!"
Cheng Ai's eyes were slightly red, and her beautiful almond-shaped eyes glistened with tiny specks of water.
She smiled faintly, reached out and wrapped her arms around his lean waist. After a long silence, she murmured, "For the next month, I won't be able to use mystical arts."
Ye Jingke was taken aback, then tenderly cupped her small face in his hands and smiled gently, "It's okay. I'll stay by your side every step of the way recently. Whoever you tell me to beat up, I'll beat up."
Cheng Ai raised an eyebrow, a mischievous smile playing on her lips, "A dignified movie star willingly becoming a bodyguard for an 18th-tier celebrity with a scandalous past, if this gets out, I'll probably be trending on social media for all the wrong reasons your fans want to beat me up, right?"
Ye Jingke was both amused and exasperated. He pinched her delicate nose and said indulgently, "If you're scared, I'll quit the entertainment industry."
Cheng Ai blinked and asked tentatively, "Even if you weren't a celebrity, the identity of the CEO of Shengding International is still quite flamboyant."
Ye Jingke hugged her tighter, a dark glint flashing in his deep eyes. "If you don't like it, I'll transfer the shares to Ye Jun, and then take you away from the hustle and bustle to be an ordinary couple. How about that?"
Cheng Ai paused, thinking of the man she had only met once, her heart filled with doubt. "Your relationship with your father seems to be strained. Although it may be abrupt, I still want to ask, what exactly happened between you two?"
Ye Jingke's expression darkened, and his thin lips curled into a cold smile. "That person can only be considered my father in name at best."
He paused for a moment, his tone slightly raised, and he chuckled self-deprecatingly, "That man didn't love my mother, but he had to marry her under pressure from my grandfather. If they had treated each other with respect for each other, it would have been fine for a lifetime. But that man actually tampered with my mother's pregnancy meals while she was pregnant with me."
A cold glint flashed in Ye Jingke's eyes, and his voice was clear and deep, "The result is self-evident. My mother died in childbirth, and I survived by chance. When my grandfather found out the truth, he transferred the company to me without hesitation and expelled that person from the Ye family."
"And then? And then?" Cheng Ai's heart clenched, and she pressed him impatiently for an answer.
Ye Jingke closed his eyes, concealing all his emotions, and said softly, "When I was about ten years old, I often went to play with Hanmo and Yunqing. Although their fathers treated me like their own son, we were not related by blood after all. I always felt that something was missing. So at my eighteenth birthday party, I hoped that person would appear, and my wish came true."
That man returned with Zhang Caifeng in a high-profile manner, even boasting that he wanted to take over the company. My grandfather was so angered that he was hospitalized on the spot, and passed away within two hours. Before he died, he revealed the real reason why he had that man marry my mother.
Ye Jingke buried his handsome face in Cheng Ai's neck, trying to inhale her unique sweet fragrance. "My maternal grandmother was my grandfather's first love. The two of them founded Shengding International together. But ironically, the once loving couple had a falling out over a lychee."
He gave a deep, sorrowful, and helpless laugh. "Grandpa said that there was only one lychee left in the fruit plate. He asked Grandma if she wanted to eat it, and when she said no, he ate it himself. Grandma was very sad and immediately broke up with him."
"Serves you right!" Cheng Ai scoffed, pouting her pink lips angrily. Her originally pale face flushed slightly. "Your grandfather should have peeled the lychee and offered it to your grandmother. If she still said she wouldn't eat it, then she probably really wouldn't eat it."
Realizing that her behavior was somewhat disrespectful to the deceased, she quickly apologized, "Ye Ye, don't be angry. I just automatically put myself in the shoes of Sister Cheng Xiaolin and Brother Lü, so I couldn't help but complain."
Ye Jingke rubbed the top of her head, found her lips and kissed them lightly a few times, and continued, "Grandma felt that Grandpa didn't care about her, so she resolutely left the board of directors and sought another way out. Both of them were business elites, with strong and stubborn personalities, and neither of them was willing to bow down first."
It wasn't until Grandpa received Grandma's wedding invitation that he suddenly realized his mistake and was filled with remorse. Two years later, Grandma became pregnant and gave birth to my mother. He then had the idea of getting married and having children, hoping to rekindle his past relationship with his younger generation.
The room fell silent, with only two even breaths, one deep and one shallow.
Ye Jingke didn't say what came next, but Cheng Ai could guess that Ye Jun had seized control of the company while he was holding his grandfather's funeral, and had consolidated all his power.
But people always get old, and Ye Jun's energy was limited. He had no other sons, so he could only focus on raising Ye Jingke.
Su Qi had been living a life of luxury by Zhang Caifeng's side, and even developed the illusion that he was the legal representative of the company.
Seeing Ye Jingke growing stronger, he became jealous and plotted to frame him, undergoing multiple plastic surgeries in an attempt to replace him.
Cheng Ai suddenly felt sorry for Ye Jingke. Not only was his birth not anticipated, but he was also almost killed by his own father.
For eighteen years, he had never enjoyed the love of his father or mother. Only his grandfather, his only relative, gave him the best care and protection. He finally got his father back, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be another shocking conspiracy.
He kept calling Ye Jun "that person," which clearly showed that he was completely disappointed in him.
He was an outsider from beginning to end, while the target of those people's schemes was precisely him.
Cheng Ai coughed twice, her brow furrowing slightly. "In the restroom of the mental hospital, you wanted to kill me, didn't you?"
In just over a month, her mindset changed drastically. At first, she thought Ye Jingke was just itching for a fight, but now, considering his situation and his eyes at the time, it's not hard to figure out his intentions.
Ye Jingke froze, cupped her small face in his hands, and apologized with remorse, "I'm sorry, are you mad at me?"
Cheng Ai pursed her lips and slowly shook her head. "If I were you, I would also act first without hesitation."
Ye Jingke's eyes shone brightly, his heart pounded rapidly, and he couldn't help but kiss her lips, lingering and caressing them again and again.
Cheng Ai let out a soft moan and pushed him away coquettishly, "Then why did you suddenly change your mind and let me go? Don't tell me you were bewitched by my beauty."