Chapter 58
Doctor Huang, who was examining Yang June, returned and said to Shen Ron with a respectful face, “Ron, the poison was started over a month ago, not that long ago.”
When she said that, Cheng Lydia’s heart sank even lower. Wasn’t that the day she entered Shen Mansion? The moment they started poisoning, they had already designed everything and prepared a way back for themselves.
And she, the pathetic scapegoat, is the most suspicious of all, from every angle. As Shen Ron’s new wife, she had every incentive to poison Yang June, and as a doctor, she definitely knew and had the ability to get these poisons that she couldn’t get at home.
Shen Ron kicked the couch in front of him in a rage and yelled, “You just tell me if June is going to be okay!”
This anger of his was directed at Doctor Huang, and all the people in the room could not help but wince, Doctor Huang touched a cold sweat that was scared out of the corner of his forehead, and said busily, “With good treatment and good conditioning … Ms. Yang will recover. ”
“Doctor Huang, why do you have to say that and be conservative?” Cheng Lydia smiled coldly, her cold gaze swept towards Yang June on the bed, “This poison can cause organ failure in the human body, as long as it is two months later, Ms. Yang will die from heart failure …”
“You …!” Shen Ron abruptly took a step forward, his slender palm strangling Cheng Lydia’s neck, his eyes bloodshot and cruel: “I will never let you go when June is dead!”
His force increased once and Cheng Lydia instantly felt breathless, she remained stubborn and arrogant, stubbornly looking at him, “Shen Ron, I just want to say one thing to you, this is all Ho Gina’s own misdeeds, her evil deeds were discovered by me, as it is, she is the one who ran to the evil one… …”
“Young master, I didn’t!” Ho Gina was busy saying, “I have no grudge against Ms. Yang, how could I possibly hurt her? It’s young madam who often comes over, and she has Jenny waiting outside the door every time she comes over, ask Jenny if you don’t believe me, and I’m not a pharmacist or a doctor, so I don’t know anything about pharmacology.”
Ho Gina said pulling Jenny in who was standing by the door with a regretful look on her face and shoving her towards Shen Ron, “Jenny’s here, she knows best.”
“I … I’m not sure, I don’t know anything and I haven’t seen anything.” Jenny, who had been named, cringed.
Yang June was poisoned, and as a personal caregiver, she can hardly escape responsibility, right?
“Then tell the youngest master, does the young lady stay alone in the house every time she comes over?” Ho Gina glared at her.
“Yes … yes.” Jenny replied cautiously.
“Is that still all you have to say?” Shen Ron’s gaze on Cheng Lydia went colder and colder.
“It’s …” Cheng Lydia’s breathing was already starting to get worse.
Shen Ron was furious and lost his smile, sweeping a glance at the old lady and Mrs. Shen and Shen Belle who had already rushed over at the door, finally turning his gaze to the old lady, “This is the good wife you picked for me.”
“You let go of Lydia first,” Old Mrs. Shen said busily, “Lydia said she didn’t do it, maybe there’s some misunderstanding in between?”
Shen Ron did not let go of Cheng Lydia, and his tone was much lower, but even colder and seeping: “Just now, I was still treating you to a candlelight dinner to please you, still pulling you back from the middle of the road at the risk of my life for you, still promising you that I would try to make myself fall in love with you, still thinking that you were as generous and kind as June. I didn’t think it would take less than a night for your true colors to be revealed. Why do you treat June so cruelly when I have done so much to tolerate her? Is your heart really as cold as your surface?”
Cheng Lydia tightened her grip on his palm, trying to make her breathing could be smoother, the bitterness that flooded the corners of her lips was not less than Shen Ron’s, and even more sad: “Everything you did to me is just to save your June, your heart is the one that is cold as ice. But even so, I still say that I never wanted to hurt your June, the poison was given by Ho Gina, this test report in your hand was retrieved by me from the hospital today, and the robbery tonight was also designed by Ho Gina, in order to take the test report from my hand to carry out the evil deed in front of you.”
“Young Madam …” Hearing that her daughter was being treated as a poisoner, Sister Liu carefully interjected, “Gina is simple-minded and socially awkward, she’s not that capable of doing this ah, you must have misunderstood her.”
“Young Madam, you are saying that for Mian is too waterless to comment.” Ho Gina sneered, “If you really bumped into me poisoning Ms. Yang, why didn’t you just tell the Young Master? Instead, you gave me the opportunity to tell the evil one?”
“Because I didn’t even expect you to be so shameless.” Cheng Lydia sneered.
“That’s enough! Get out of here, all of you!” Shen Ron roared.
“Ron, let go of Lydia for now,” Old Mrs. Shen winked at the group and motioned for everyone to get out.
Shen Ron did let go, unexpectedly.
Cheng Lydia gently stroked her neck, which was raw from his choking, and wanted to say something more, but was pulled away by Shen Belle.
Shen Belle patted her arm soothingly, “Sister-in-law, don’t blame my brother, my brother was just scared of the ring. When Ms. Yang’s body is cleared of the poison and everything returns to normal, he will be fine.”
“Hmm.” Cheng Lydia responded haphazardly and walked into the bedroom, closing the door behind her.
Standing inside the door, Cheng Lydia used her dumb digging brain to filter through the bits and pieces of the past two months, thinking she had a quiet, easy life, not realizing that there were traps and landmines everywhere.
Some people smarter than her had already paved a dead-end road for her, just waiting for her to take one step forward.
And who could this person … be? It must not be Ho Gina, that much she could be sure of.
It was a night that Cheng Lydia wondered how and where Shen Ron had spent it.
She just sat dryly on the couch, her mind muddled, unsure of where she should go next.
What made her feel strange was that she actually had a safe and peaceful night, and Shen Ron hadn’t bothered her again, much less dealt with her.
Could this all be the calm before the storm? With Shen Ron’s personality, surely she won’t be let off that easily when something like this happens.
Sitting up quietly from the sofa, Cheng Lydia rubbed her sore neck while scanning the surroundings, the large bedroom, without Shen Ron’s presence, even the air seemed extraordinarily cold.
She didn’t know what time she fell asleep, and it was actually light when she woke up from her sleep.
After casually cleaning and dressing up, Cheng Lydia pulled open the door to her room and walked out.
It was quiet downstairs, and as usual, the old lady would have been waiting to sit on the sofa for her morning tea, except for Shen Belle who sat yawning on the sofa reading a fashion magazine.
“Belle, is everything okay at the mansion?” Cheng Lydia walked across to her and sat down.
Shen Belle looked up and poured her a cup of clear tea, her face slightly strained, “Jenny was dismissed, Gina is Mrs. Zhang’s daughter, so naturally she must remain in the mansion, my brother was in Ms. Yang’s room for the night and did not leave, Grandma is angry and sick, resting in her room.”
“Is Ms. Yang doing okay?”
“The doctor said it was fortunate that it was caught in time, and that it will slowly recover.” Shen Belle reached out and patted her palm on the back of her hand, “Sister-in-law, I believe in you, one day the truth will come out.”
“Thanks.” Cheng Lydia finished gratefully at her and got up from the couch, “I’m going to go check on Grandma.”
“Okay, I’m off to work.” Shen Belle put down the magazine.
Cheng Lydia went to the old lady’s bedroom, knocked on the door and walked in, who was indeed still lying in bed with her eyes closed, opening them sulkily at the sound of the door opening, only to re-close them after giving her a sidelong glance.
Cheng Lydia paused briefly in her steps, stepped to her bedside and sat down with a concerned look on her face, “How are you feeling, Grandma?”Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.
“I’m perfectly well, what can happen to me?” The old woman’s eyes remained closed.
“Then you …”
“Heartache.”
“Does Grandma think she’s misjudged the person, and like the gang thinks I used my position to poison Ms. Yang in order to lord it over Ron, and in the end she’s dead set against it?”
“How come?” The old lady took her hand and stared at her with a sigh, “In fact, even if you really did it, I wouldn’t blame you one bit, Yang June is a damned person for dragging Ron into this half-dead situation. I’ve seen a lot of women’s fights in the luxury family, I know better than anyone how Belle’s mother forced Ron’s mother away and how she killed Ms. Tong, but for the sake of The Shen Family’s well-being, I had to turn a blind eye.”
“But I …”
“Just hear me out.” The old lady interrupted her and smiled coldly, “Compared to Ho Gina, I am more willing to believe you. Ho Gina has been secretly in love with Ron since she was a child, dreaming of marrying Ron one day, and certainly hates Yang June with a passion. She is poisoning Yang June, if it were you, I would not spare her.”
“Thank you, Grandma.” Cheng Lydia was so moved that her eyes were moist.
How important it was for her to be believed at this point!
The old lady smiled sorrowfully, “Silly child, grandma has been fighting in the mall all her life, if she didn’t even have this skill of reading people, would Shen still be alive today?”
“And what are you aching for, Grandma?”
“What hurts me is why Yang June didn’t die.”
“Hiss …” Cheng Lydia drew a backward breath and looked at the old woman with instant trepidation.
Seeing that she was frightened by herself, the old lady laughed bitterly again, “Life is like a battlefield, be kind when you should be kind, be ruthless when you should be ruthless, that’s the way for us gorgeous women to survive. I won’t harm anyone, but I also can’t allow anything to happen to my family, my children and grandchildren, Yang June is the biggest calamity in Ron’s life, if she doesn’t die, Ron will not be well.”
“Gina was prepared, every word of truth, the evidence is overwhelming, you can’t even fight her, let this go and forget about it.”
“How do you just let it pass?” Cheng Lydia shook her head, “I can’t take the blame.”
She knew that the old lady still had a personal interest in Ho Gina, after all, she had grown up watching her, but she couldn’t let her take the blame for that.
She couldn’t let Shen Ron mistake her for that vicious a woman, couldn’t stand that look of contempt and hatred from him.
“If you can afford it, you go and find evidence to clear yourself, it’s your right, I won’t stop you.”
“I’ll definitely be there.”
“On Ron’s side, let him have a few days of peace and quiet to himself.”
“I know, I won’t bother him.” Cheng Lydia got up from the bed and said to the old lady, “Grandma get up and have some breakfast first, it’s better not to starve yourself.”