Chapter 24: Chapter 24: Back to the Past? No Going Back!
Ye Fan suddenly remembered that Yu Linglong had said she would invite Great Xia Medical Saint Lei Qianjue to treat him, but he didn't know when he would come!
Having Lei Qianjue deliver the prescription to Su Yixue, with Lei Qianjue's stature, should be enough.
At that time, he could have Lei Qianjue give the prescription to Su Yixue, which should be able to resolve the predicament faced by the Su Corporation.
Su Yixue had just left when Ye Fan's phone rang, and it turned out to be from Xuan Yufei.
"Brother Fan, I know I have wronged you, but can you help me with something?" Xuan Yufei's state over the phone seemed very bad, her voice even had a sobbing tone.
Although Xuan Zhengguo had announced the cancellation of the engagement with the Ye Family in front of so many people in such a high-profile manner, deep down, Ye Fan couldn't bring himself to hate her.
"Ex-wife, what happened to you? Did someone steal your lollipop? If someone stole your lollipop, I'll help you steal it back!" Ye Fan responded to the phone naively, as only such a tone would fit his current identity.
On the other end of the phone, Xuan Yufei felt a pang of heartache.
Perhaps among all the people around her, everyone was fixated on her identity, status, or beauty, only Ye Fan truly treated her with sincerity.
"No, it's much more serious than a stolen lollipop! Brother Fan, do you know? My second uncle has betrothed me to Li Yunyang, tonight is the engagement dinner, but I don't want to marry!" Xuan Yufei seemed to have found someone to confide in, and poured out her inner frustrations, "Forget it, Brother Fan, where are you now? I'll come to pick you up, let's talk in person."
Xuan Zhengguo has betrothed Xuan Yufei to another so quickly?
And to Li Yunyang?
Ye Fan let out a cold snort from his nostrils!
From the current information, the Li, Zhao, and Wang Families are all vassal families of the Liu Family in Provincial City, so the Li Family must have been involved in the extermination campaign against the Ye Family.
And Xuan Yufei is actually going to marry the enemy of the Ye Family?
This is something Ye Fan simply cannot accept!
Moreover, in Ye Fan's plans, after wiping out the Wang Family, the Li Family is also to be eliminated.
Since Li Yunyang intends to marry Xuan Yufei, even if she is a woman he no longer wants, that still won't do; he might as well just move up the plan to eliminate them.
"Yixue is injured, I'm at the People's Hospital!" Ye Fan tried to make his tone sound as naive as possible, not willing to reveal too much in front of others.
In the Xuan Family Courtyard, Xuan Yufei hung up the phone and sighed deeply.
Alas!
If only Brother Fan weren't a fool, how great would that be?
Back when Brother Fan was still a genius with extraordinary talent, he was so confident and assertive. If anyone dared to harbor thoughts on his wife, would Brother Fan have already jumped up to act by now?
Twenty minutes later, Xuan Yufei drove to the Cloud City People's Hospital.
"What? Xuan Yufei, you've already broken off the engagement with my big brother, and now you want to use him as a shield? Do you have no humanity?" The first to protest was someone hearing that Xuan Yufei wanted Ye Fan to accompany her to the engagement dinner.
"Are you not satisfied with humiliating my big brother enough, or what are you thinking?" Wang Fugui was very agitated, "Big brother, you mustn't go!"
Although Wang Fugui often seemed naive, his protectiveness of Ye Fan was no act and Ye Fan wouldn't have gone out of his way to fetch that Vitality Pill from the black market for Wang Fugui otherwise.
Now that Ye Fan was in a state of idiocy, it was natural for him to step forward and protect Ye Fan with all his might.
"Brother Fan… I know what I'm asking for is too much… but I really don't want to marry..." Xuan Yufei sounded desperate.
The engagement with the Li Family was an arrangement by the family, it was her destiny.
Now that the Li Family was at the height of its power in Cloud City, even if Xuan Yufei wanted to find another shield to act with her, there weren't many who would offend the Li Family for her sake.
The only support Xuan Yufei could think of now was Ye Fan.
Ye Fan had already agreed to Xuan Yufei in his heart when he told her the address, so he naturally wouldn't refuse, "Not marrying! Not marrying! I'll come help you drive him away..."
"Big brother!"
Wang Fugui became anxious when he saw Ye Fan actually agreed to Xuan Yufei, wanting to intervene and stop him.
Xia Hao, who was nearby and aware of Ye Fan's capabilities, knew that since Ye Fan had spoken, he must still want to help Xuan Yufei.
"Young Master Wang, after all, Young Master Ye and Miss Xuan were together for such a long time. If Young Master Ye wants to go, let's just accompany him!" Xia Hao said to Wang Fugui with a smile, "Besides, isn't it that we'll be with him? Nothing will happen to Young Master Ye!"
"This…" Wang Fugui glanced at Xia Hao with some doubt. He felt that something was odd but couldn't quite put his finger on it at the moment and simply couldn't be bothered to think more about it.
A few minutes later, Ye Fan was pulled into her car by Xuan Yufei.
While driving, Xuan Yufei looked at the handsome Ye Fan beside her. He still had that good-looking face; he still had that familiar scent. It's just...
"Brother Fan, can we go back to how it was before?" Xuan Yufei's heart trembled, and she blurted out such a sentence as if possessed.
Ye Fan was startled by what he heard next to him. Go back to before?
It was no longer possible!
In the past, Ye Fan doted on Xuan Yufei almost to the point of laying his heart bare for her, showering her with all sorts of affection.
But the way the Xuan Family had publicly called off the engagement had hurt him deeply. How could shattered glass ever be whole again?
"Go back where? Go back to the hospital? But didn't we just leave the hospital? Why would we go back?" Ye Fan didn't know how to respond and simply blurted out whatever came to mind.
Xuan Yufei observed Ye Fan intensely, hoping to discern something from his demeanor.
Ye Fan hid it very well; although Xuan Yufei's sixth sense told her that Ye Fan had changed, she still couldn't find any flaws.
"Brother Fan! I really don't know if you are actually naive or just pretending to be, but I need to tell you that I've always liked you, always loved you. The day the engagement was called off, it wasn't my intention. My second uncle forced me… You know about my father… If there hadn't been money for his medical treatment, he might have died at any moment… I had no choice…"
Toward the end, Xuan Yufei was close to crying!
Five years ago, around the time Ye Fan was in a car accident, Xuan Yufei's father had also been in a car crash and became a vegetative. He needed expensive medical treatment.
Later, although Xuan Yufei took over Xuan Corporation, with her second uncle and a group of elders around, she didn't have much actual power. That day when the engagement was canceled, her second uncle had said that if Xuan Yufei didn't agree, they would stop providing medical funds for her father.
As Ye Fan listened, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. He had learned some things about the Xuan Family these past two days.
However, the silence Xuan Yufei kept that day, the damage it caused to Ye Fan, would take time to heal!
...
In Cloud City's Paradise Hotel, this was where the engagement party between the Xuan Family and the Li Family was being held.
At the hotel entrance, Li Yunyang stood in a dashing suit, holding a bouquet of flowers, with several brothers surrounding him.
"Congratulations, Young Master Li! Finally, your dream has come true!"
"Indeed! The Xuan Family has finally come to its senses. Breaking off with the Ye Family and choosing Young Master Li is obviously the better choice!"
"I heard that Young Master Li is about to be taken in as a godson by the head of the Liu Family in Provincial City. That will surely skyrocket his status; Young Master Li, don't forget about us by then!"
Amidst everyone's flattery, Li Yunyang almost felt like he was floating.
These idiots only saw the surface power of the Xuan Family, not realizing the unimaginable hidden power behind Xuan Yufei's mother! That was the real reason Li Yunyang had gone to great lengths to win over Xuan Yufei.
"They're here!"
Someone in the crowd shouted, and everyone turned toward the street in unison.
Xuan Yufei's car slowly stopped, and in Li Yunyang's eager gaze, a slender, fair leg stepped out from the car.
Slim and shapely, straight and sleek!
Thinking that the owner of those beautiful legs would soon be his woman made Li Yunyang's heart quiver.
But the scene that followed made the smile on Li Yunyang's face freeze instantly.
Xuan Yufei wasn't alone?
Instead, she was intimately arm-in-arm with a man, stepping out of the car looking lovingly paired up, heading straight for Li Yunyang!
What did this mean?
Today was the engagement party between him and Xuan Yufei, and Xuan Yufei brought a man with her, who happened to be Ye Fan?
Was this delivering a green hat right to his doorstep?