Lin Wanyi felt completely baffled.
She hadn't done anything, and yet Nanny Wu had collapsed like that.
She tried to wake her up, tried to help her up.
But Nanny Wu was as still as death, not moving at all.
Having no other choice, she immediately dialed 120 and then called Liu Renzhi.
But Liu Renzhi was in a meeting and hadn't looked at his phone.
In the end, Lin Wanyi followed the ambulance to the hospital.
The doctor said Nanny Wu had suffered from a surge of pent-up anger, agitated by a sudden shock, and needed to be kept in the hospital for observation.
Lin Wanyi waited in the hallway for Liu Renzhi.
But instead of Liu Renzhi, she was met first by Zhou Chenyu.
Zhou Chenyu rushed at her furiously:
"Lin Wanyi, you bitch, what did you do to my mother?
"Why did you drive her to the hospital? Tell me, what exactly did you do?"
Lin Wanyi explained:
"I really didn't do anything. Your mother just collapsed on her own.
"It really has nothing to do with me."
"Nothing to do with you?"
Zhou Chenyu raised her hand to strike Lin Wanyi:
"If it had nothing to do with you, why did she faint in front of you?
"If it had nothing to do with you, why would you bring her to the hospital?
"Lin Wanyi, you bitch, just tell me the truth.
"If anything happens to my mother, I'll make your life miserable."
Lin Wanyi thought both mother and daughter were insane.
She grabbed Zhou Chenyu's wrist and pushed her away:
"I already told you, it has nothing to do with me. On the contrary, your mother came out of nowhere and slapped me.
"Zhou Chenyu, I haven't even come after you yet, but you're coming after me first.
"Can you please be reasonable?"
Zhou Chenyu slammed against the wall.
She looked a mess, and then she noticed that Lin Wanyi was still wearing Liu Renzhi's pajamas.
She became even angrier, pointing at Lin Wanyi's face and cursing:
"Bitch, slut, Lin Wanyi, you cheap whore who's been ridden by a thousand men.
"What the hell gave you the nerve to crawl into Renzhi's bed, you..."
Before she could finish, Lin Wanyi had already slapped her across the face.
"Zhou Chenyu, you've gone too far.
"What right do you have to say these things to me?"
Zhou Chenyu never imagined that she had come to demand justice, only to be slapped first by Lin Wanyi.
She immediately called Liu Renzhi:
"Brother, you have to stand up for me. You absolutely have to stand up for me."
By the time Liu Renzhi arrived, Nanny Wu still hadn't woken up.
Zhou Chenyu saw him and immediately threw herself into his arms:
"Brother, look at me. Look at my face.
"That bitch Lin Wanyi hit me! How dare she hit me?
"What gives her the right to hit me? I grew up with you! Who does she think she is to hit me?"
Liu Renzhi promptly pushed Zhou Chenyu away. He said coldly:
"Stop it, Zhou Chenyu. I've told you many times.
"We're grown up now. We're adults. We need to keep our distance. Don't you understand?"
Zhou Chenyu was deeply hurt:
"What kind of talk is that? Si Yue is also your sister, so why doesn't she ever have to keep her distance from you?
"Brother, you just look down on me, don't you? You look down on me because I'm the daughter of a maid, right?
"At the end of the day, you still despise me, you despise my mother, don't you?"
Liu Renzhi couldn't be bothered with her. He walked past her and went to Lin Wanyi.
Seeing that she was still wearing his pajamas at the hospital, he already knew something serious had happened.
He reached out and pulled Lin Wanyi into his arms:
"What exactly happened?"
Lin Wanyi told him everything:
"I really didn't do anything. Just as I was about to change clothes and leave, she slapped me.
"And then because she cursed me, I talked back, and she collapsed.
"I..."
She felt a bit wronged and didn't want to say more.
But Liu Renzhi had already cupped her face in his hands. Seeing the faint marks of five fingers on her cheek, he was heartbroken:
"It's okay. I'll handle it."
"How will you handle it?"
Zhou Chenyu was still defiant. She pointed at her own face:
"She hit me too! Brother, look at my face.
"She just hit me! Why aren't you dealing with her?"
Liu Renzhi turned and looked coldly at Zhou Chenyu:
"Shut up. I've said it before: she is your sister-in-law, and you need to show her respect.
"So what if she hit you?
"You just needed a lesson."
Zhou Chenyu never expected Liu Renzhi to be so blatantly biased.
Tears streamed down her face:
"You've changed, Brother. You've changed.
"You let that bitch Lin Wanyi bully me and my mother.
"My mother is old. She has so many health problems.
"Especially high blood pressure. Do you really want to anger her to death?
"I think you've forgotten who took care of you when no one else wanted you."
Liu Renzhi's expression darkened even further.
He knew that Nanny Wu had taken care of him back then.
He had never forgotten that.
And he had never intended to forget it.
But Zhou Chenyu brought it up again and again, and it only made him more and more disgusted.
Just as he was about to lose his temper, Nanny Wu woke up.
She weakly beckoned to Liu Renzhi:
"Renzhi, come here."
When Liu Renzhi moved to come over with Lin Wanyi in his arms, she said again:
"I only want you to come over.
"I don't want to see anyone else."
Just as Liu Renzhi was about to say something, Lin Wanyi removed his hand first:
"You two talk. I'll go back now."
She turned to leave but then suddenly remembered:
"Oh, my clothes are still at your place. I don't have the key."
Liu Renzhi sent her the passcode directly to her phone:
"This is the passcode. Wait for me downstairs. I'll take you back in a while."
Lin Wanyi turned and left. Liu Renzhi watched her retreating figure and felt a pang in his heart.
He wanted to go after her, but Nanny Wu clutched her chest again:
"Renzhi, come here."
In the end, Liu Renzhi sat down by Nanny Wu's bedside.
He said, "Nanny Wu, you shouldn't have hit Wanyi.
"She's my girlfriend now. Soon she will be my wife."
Nanny Wu coughed once:
"Renzhi, I've said it before: I don't agree.
"Although I'm just a maid, a servant, I know my words don't carry much weight.
"But I've taken care of you since the day you were born, all the way until now.
"Thirty-five years, Renzhi. I don't care what you think of me in your heart.
"I only know that I have long considered you my own son.
"And I believe that any mother in the world would not want her son to marry a divorced, older woman with a child.
"Can you understand my good intentions?"
Liu Renzhi's body tensed:
"My mother agrees. She has never objected.
"And she genuinely likes Wanyi."
"Genuinely?"
Nanny Wu dismissed it with contempt:
"You're still too young. You can't see clearly.
"Su Jing is not your real mother. She doesn't have much true affection for you, so how could she have any for Lin Wanyi?
"The so-called non-opposition, the so-called support—all of it comes down to the fact that she's not your real mother.
"She doesn't care who you end up with. She has no true feelings for you, so she can't be disappointed.
"I'm different.
"Renzhi, I raised you with my own hands, through thick and thin.
"Aside from not giving birth to you, what difference is there between me and your real mother?
"My expectations for a daughter-in-law may not be that she comes from a prestigious family, but at least she should be pure and spotless.
"She absolutely cannot be a divorced bitch like Lin Wanyi."
