"He's not even gone yet, and you're just going to discard the gift in front of him? What kind of behavior is that?"
Jiang Nan Fang hadn't expected Zhan Bei Jue to be so childish. She hurried over and picked up the box again.
"Zhan Bei Jue, are you being ridiculous?"
Zhan Bei Jue sneered, "Am I ridiculous? Isn't he?"
"Just some garbage from the black market, and he thinks he can fool you, fool my son, Zhan Bei Jue's son? Does he think he's so noble?"
"You..."
"To confess on behalf of Ke Teng, and ask you to be his daughter-in-law? It's laughable. Is his son that simple-minded? He needs his father to propose for him?"
"If people know you're going to be the young madam of the Ke family, those who don't know would think you're going to be the wife!"
"If you dare to agree to something so embarrassing, Jiang Nan Fang, you're a pig!"
Jiang Nan Fang had already argued enough for the day. She had just finished arguing with his mother, and now she had to argue with him too?
Sorry, she didn't have the energy.
He could say whatever he wanted, think whatever he wanted. She was tired and just wanted some peace.
After speaking, Zhan Bei Jue gave her a cold look for two seconds. Jiang Nan Fang, holding the toy, turned to leave.
Zhan Bei Jue suddenly reached out and grabbed her.
"Speak up! What do you think? Answer me!"
"You're not actually moved by what he said, are you, Jiang Nan Fang? Let me tell you, it's absolutely impossible!"
"You want me to watch you remarry, to let my son, Zhan Bei Jue's child, call someone else 'father'? Only after I'm dead, otherwise, don't even think about it!"
After speaking so passionately, Jiang Nan Fang heard no words of affection in his speech, only a string of misunderstandings.
So, what exactly was he angry about?
Did he look down on Ke Teng? Or was he ashamed of his ex-wife marrying someone else? Or was it possessiveness, unable to bear his child calling another man "father"?
Jiang Nan Fang turned back, looking at him with a mixture of helplessness and disappointment.
"Zhan Bei Jue, you're truly selfish. At a time like this, can't you put aside your personal emotions and just think of the child?"
"You'd rather watch your child die than endure him calling someone else 'father'? Is that your twisted fatherly love?"
"..."
Zhan Bei Jue was speechless at her comprehension.
What I'm trying to say is, I want to tell you:
You want to take the child and leave me, Zhan Bei Jue, to be someone else's woman? Don't even think about it!
Are you a pig, Jiang Nan Fang? How did you get that idea?
He gritted his teeth in anger.
"I'm a man, and I have the ability to give our child a life no less than anyone else's. Do I need you to sell yourself, Jiang Nan Fang?"
His words were always so harsh.
He had admired her talent and thus taken an interest in her as a person. It was a fair exchange.
How did it become selling herself when it came to him?
Jiang Nan Fang flung his hand away.
"Aren't you the one who said that suitable hearts for Jing Yu are simply unavailable through legitimate channels in the market?"
"Tian Tian is already like this, and I don't want Jing Yu to wait any longer. We can't afford to take that risk."
So, according to her, she was prepared to accept Ke Jing Yu's suggestion?
Just for such a small favor, she was really going to go with Ke Teng?!
"What kind of goddamn logic is that? You're willing to try something from illegitimate channels, knowing it's wrong, just in case it works? What if..."
Jiang Nan Fang interrupted him.
"So, it's not that there's no way, but that you're unwilling to take the risk, right?"
"You're afraid of breaking the law, of being exposed and investigated later, of affecting Zhan Corporation's reputation, and you're simply unwilling to try?"
"Heh, so, can I understand it this way? At a critical moment, the child's life versus your reputation as Zhan Bei Jue, you always prioritize yourself?"
Zhan Bei Jue was truly exasperated by her "divine logic."
Why was she being so unreasonable now?
To save her child's life, she was actually encouraging him to break the law?
"Jiang Nan Fang, your child's life is a life, but so are others'. I'm not afraid to do anything for him, as long as it doesn't harm others."
"If it means harming someone else for him to live, then I truly can't do it."
"How can you be so sure that Ke Teng definitely harmed someone to obtain this heart?"
Jiang Nan Fang sighed.
"Don't try to paint yourself as so noble, Zhan Bei Jue. Even if he did harm someone, you can't, but I can."
"Don't talk about losing morals for the sake of a child. Even if I have to die, I can."
"See, we are ultimately not people of the same path. This is our biggest difference."
"..."
"I'll say it again, the child is mine. You don't need to concern yourself with him. From now on, whether we live or die has nothing to do with you."
"Let me cross this narrow bridge alone. Stay far away, so you don't accidentally get caught in a scandal and implicate the great president Zhan."
After speaking, she deliberately took out her phone and called Ke Jing Yu back as if to provoke him.
"Mr. Ke, you haven't left yet, have you? I've made up my mind. It's at this very hospital."
"As long as a doctor and surgery can be arranged before midnight tonight, once the child is better, I am willing to do everything I can for the Ke family."
Ke Jing Yu knew this would be the outcome.
There was no mother who didn't love her child. Ke Teng had played his hand perfectly this time.
"Good. I'll arrange it right away. I'm very happy that we'll be family soon, Nan Fang."
Looking at Jiang Nan Fang's provocative behavior and listening to her warped views, Zhan Bei Jue was completely speechless.
For the first time, he realized how incompatible his beliefs were with Jiang Nan Fang's, and how little they saw eye to eye.
To win, she was willing to break any boundary.
"Jiang Nan Fang, the child is also mine. I don't agree with anyone touching him casually, not even you! You're too quick to agree to someone else!"
Jiang Nan Fang was so weary that she didn't want to say another word.
"Zhan Bei Jue, I beg you, please leave. You have time to argue with me, why don't you go back and try to appease your mother?"
"I'm not asking you to take responsibility. Why don't you go back, be filial to your mother, and find another beautiful woman to have another child? We mothers and children really don't need your concern."
Yes, she didn't need his concern.
She was about to become Ke Jing Yu's daughter-in-law, so of course, she didn't need any other man.
To drive him away? To have children with another woman?
Had his conscience been eaten by dogs?
His mother had told her more than once that apart from her, he hadn't touched any other woman, nor did he want to. Didn't she understand what that meant?
Zhan Bei Jue's heart bled from her heartless words, but he couldn't show it.
If he showed it, he would lose.
Not only would he lose to Jiang Nan Fang, but he would also lose to the insignificant Ke Teng. He couldn't accept that!
"This is my territory, the money was spent by me, the people were hired by me, and your daughter's life was saved by people I called."
"Please understand the situation, Miss Jiang. If anyone should leave, it seems it should be you."
"..."
Just then, Jing Yu borrowed some paper and a pen and returned obediently.
As Zhan Bei Jue finished speaking, Jiang Nan Fang, fueled by anger, grabbed Jing Yu.
"If I'm leaving, I'm leaving! When Tian Tian gets better, I won't even come back to your territory if you beg me! Let's never see each other again!"
With that, she turned aggressively to go back to the entrance of the emergency room.
However, after taking just one step, her carotid artery felt a sharp stab, like being pricked by a needle, and the next second, she lost consciousness.