Chapter Fifty: Who Does Fei Truly Love After All?!

Chen, seeing his exhausted expression, kindly advised, “Trying to keep both boats afloat at once, wanting favor from both sides—won’t that just wear you out? Enough is enough. Lu Youyou staying in Jinggang is only trouble. It’s better to send her abroad sooner rather than later.”

“No one insults her!”

For the first time, Fei Jing snapped at his good brother to defend Lu Youyou.

The room fell silent after his words.

After a moment, Chen grew serious. “Have you truly fallen in love with Lu Youyou?”

“She understands me.”

“And what about Lu Tian? Don’t forget, she’s stood by you through storms and battles. Are you really going to betray her after all that?”

Lu Tian had invested the best years of her life—more than a decade—into Fei Jing, without complaint or regret.

Fei Jing pressed his fingers against the bridge of his nose irritably. “I love Tian Tian. She is my only wife. Youyou promised she wouldn’t interfere.”

“So, your heart is sincere, yet you’ve fallen for two women?”

There was no answer to that question.

As dawn approached, Lu Tian reluctantly left the exhibition hall and returned to her apartment.

Before getting out of the car, she suddenly turned back, as if mustering great courage, and asked, “May I see your daughter?”

That face, so uncannily like Nuannuan’s, held an irresistible allure for a mother who had lost her child.

Even though she knew she shouldn’t entangle herself too deeply with a married man…

“All right, I’ll make the arrangements.”

She watched the car leave.

Entering the elevator, she received a reply from the National Hospital of Finland.

—“Dear Mrs. Fei, we regret to inform you that, according to hospital policy, information about the donor cornea for your daughter cannot be disclosed.”

Early the next morning, as Lu Tian powered on her phone, she received a dozen messages from Lu Youyou.

The gist was clear:

Fei Jing had taken gentle and patient care of her all night.

He had solemnly promised to treat their relationship with the same seriousness he showed his wife.

—“Lu Tian, I never imagined your feelings for Fei Jing were so fragile. I only made a small move, and he’s already fallen for me.”

—“What to do? Hee hee, I’m already looking forward to the day when big sister is demoted from wife to concubine~”

“Miss Lu, Mr. Fei has repeatedly asked to meet with Rachel. What do you think…”

Having breakfast at the airport with Lawyer Wang, Lu Tian shook her head. “The time isn’t right. Let’s hold off for now.”

“Understood.”

After a moment’s thought, she instructed, “How’s the investigation on the project at 301 Nanyuan Street going?”

Since returning from Hawaii, that address was like a thorn lodged deep in her heart—impossible to remove.

Wang took out several documents. “Miss Lu, the applicant and chief executor of this project is you. Are you aware of this?”

“Me?”

At that time, she had resigned from the Fei Corporation to prepare for pregnancy and returned to family life.

Yet her name was clearly signed on each project copy.

“There was an accident during the project—someone died during forced demolition. Later, Mr. Fei compensated the victim’s family to quell public opinion.”

“But it was in your name.”

Leaving Starbucks and sitting at her desk in the control tower, Lu Tian’s mind was a fog; not a trace of clarity.

Yet faintly, a chill of being used early on crept over her…

After work that evening, she had just gotten into her car when she received a call from her master’s wife.

“Tian Tian, Teacher Zhao’s condition is very bad. He keeps mentioning you. Can you come to the hospital?”

“All right, send me the address. I’ll be there immediately.”

It was Jinggang Liver and Gallbladder Hospital.

Exiting the elevator, she pulled her collar up high and hugged the wall to avoid running into her attending physician.

At the ward door, an awkward atmosphere met her.

“So, Ah Jing, you divorced Tian Tian and remarried her?” Teacher Zhao, wearing reading glasses and looking displeased, spoke angrily from the bed.

Nearby, Mrs. Zhao, peeling an orange, snorted coldly. “Divorce? Old Zhao, you still hope the mistress will succeed in taking her place?”

“No, Teacher, Mrs. Zhao, I truly love Brother Fei. We just didn’t meet at the right time.”

Lu Youyou’s arm was not yet healed.

Tears welled on her face, and the medical gauze showed faint traces of blood.

Fei Jing held her protectively. “Teacher Zhao, both Tian Tian and Youyou are your prized disciples. Please do not be biased.”

He did not directly admit to cheating within the marriage.

But his words implied tacit acceptance.

Mrs. Zhao was furious; she rose from her chair and swung her arm wildly, striking at Fei Jing.

Lu Youyou screamed and lunged forward recklessly.

Whether by accident or design, her slap landed on the still-healing wound, tearing the stitches.

“Youyou!”

The man’s eyes reddened with distress.

Lu Tian stood calmly outside the door, watching everything.

Teacher Zhao clutched his chest and growled, “Fei Jing, Teacher Zhao and I have watched you and Tian Tian struggle step by step all this time.

“We advised reconciliation, not divorce. And now that you’ve succeeded in your career, you want to abandon the woman who stood by you?”

“Teacher Zhao, I love Lu Tian, but can a person only love one thing for a lifetime?”

Fei Jing held Lu Youyou close.

That familiar, forceful protection and the tenderness once reserved solely for Lu Tian—

At that moment, she truly witnessed this man giving everything to Lu Youyou…

“For example, hobbies.

“When I was a child, I loved Transformers. Maybe I’ll keep collecting them when I grow up.

“But I’m also interested in golf and rock climbing.”

Such a shameless, relentless excuse.

Fei Jing made it sound perfectly reasonable!

Mrs. Zhao had been an athlete in her youth, quick-tempered.

She grabbed the fruit basket from the table and smashed it wildly, forcing the pair to flee in disarray.

Lu Tian slipped into the bathroom next door.

After everyone left, she finally went to visit Teacher Zhao.

Not because she feared facing Fei Jing and Lu Youyou.

But because she wanted to endure the situation until this despicable cheating man was utterly disgraced and stripped of everything.

“Old Zhao, that brat Fei Jing even asked us to keep this secret from Tian Tian. How shameless!”

“Enough! But how did Youyou become like this? She used to be so kind and upright. Even toward Ah Hao…”

Suddenly, a nurse came in wheeling a cart to change dressings.

Lu Tian caught none of the last half sentence.

Mrs. Zhao, seeing her arrive, pretended nothing had happened and warmly welcomed her.

Lu Tian happily played dumb.

Before leaving, Teacher Zhao sighed meaningfully, “Tian Tian, even the man who loves you might not be reliable. The only person you can truly trust in this world is yourself!”

Once outside the ward, the emotions she had been suppressing burst forth.

Leaning against the stairwell wall, she wept silently.

She cried for Fei Jing’s despicable shamelessness, how he left her without even a shred of dignity.

Her phone showed over a dozen unread WeChat messages from him.

—“Tian Tian, come to Central Hospital. You owe Youyou an apology.”

—“Lu Tian, do you really think you can be arrogant just because I love you?”

—“Or did you treat me as a toy from the start, just amusing yourself?”

Ugh!

Just as she intended to leave by elevator, a mouthful of blood erupted from her mouth, her heart aflame with pain.

Half-conscious, she saw a familiar figure rush over.

“Miss Lu? Why is it you? You promised the transplant treatment. I thought you…”

“Transplant treatment? You know my wife? What happened to Tian Tian?”

Before losing consciousness, she seemed to hear Fei Jing’s hysterical shout!