Chapter 13 - The Reason I Married You
The Luo Kang Hospital was not too far away from where Di Jiu was staying, so the car came to a halt after slightly more than 10 minutes.
Shen Ziyu’s room was on the top floor, as it was a private room. The moment he walked in, Di Jiu saw her lying on the hospital bed.
She was holding a book in her hands, looking as if she were in a daze.
When the woman who had taken Di Jiu to the hospital opened the door, the sound startled Shen Ziyu. She put down the book she had been holding and smiled at Di Jiu before she told the lady, “Thank you, Auntie Fang. Close the door while I have a word with Zimo.”
“Alright,” Auntie Fang replied before she left and closed the door behind her.
“Are you feeling unwell?” Di Jiu asked after scanning Shen Ziyu, who was lying in bed.
“It’s the same old problem. You know it’s not a big deal. I called you to tell you to leave Luo Jin…”
“Leave Luo Jin? Why?” Di Jiu interrupted her before she could finish.
Shen Ziyu sighed and looked at him as she asked, “I heard Liang Xi mention that you fell down recently?”
Shen Ziyu smiled bitterly as she went on, “I bet nobody in my family had ever expected that the news that you were not the rightful heir would come out right after we got married. It looks like while you were getting ready to go to North Luo University, your family had already been scheming for this to happen. Meanwhile, my family thought that everything was going according to our plan…”
Shen Ziyu paused slightly when she finished her sentence. Scheming? If Di Zimo had not been Di Wencheng’s son, then all they would have had to do was take a DNA test. Why would there be a need for scheming? Di Zimo did not have to be sent to Luo Jin, right?
Di Jiu laughed out loud. “Did your family want us to get a divorce so that you could marry Di Ziheng instead?”
Shen Ziyu’s face was as white as paper as she fell silent. In the end, she nodded. “Yes, even though I never fell for you and we never really became a couple, I never thought of marrying another person.”
“Did I think that, if I refused to divorce you, you would be caught in the middle? Is that why I went ahead and suggested it myself?” Di Jiu asked dully.
Shen Ziyu nodded her head and fell quiet. She knew very clearly that Di Zimo had liked her very much and loved her to his very core. Even though he had brought up the divorce at the time, she knew that he had only done so because he did not want to put her in a difficult position. It didn’t matter that her family had arranged the marriage. She really had no feelings for Di Zimo and knew for sure that she would never love him.
Therefore, she could only stay silent as Di Jiu laughed bitterly.
After remaining silent for a couple of minutes, Shen Ziyu raised her head to look at Di Jiu and said, “I am asking you to leave Luo Jin because, if you stay, I’m worried that Di Ziheng’s mother will seek you out. She might even try to harm you.”
Di Jiu chuckled. “That would be your future mother-in-law.”
He was secretly envious of Shen Ziyu’s deduction, as someone had already paid him a visit.
Shen Ziyu sighed yet again, but chose not to argue with him. Instead, she said, “If you got into North Luo University along with me, everything would be so easy to solve… Who could have expected that my illness would come back, though? I don’t think I’ll be able to enter university for the time being.”
Di Jiu realized that Shen Ziyu wanted to protect him by giving him that entry token, which would give him the right to register at North Luo University. It was basically a safeguard.
He sighed inwardly at the thought. Shen Ziyu did not have much of a bargaining power in this situation. Perhaps she could have helped him by threatening to die if her family were to force her to leave him, but she apparently did not love him enough to do that.
It was already remarkable enough that she would do this for him.
“Tell me about your illness. What happened?” Di Jiu no longer wanted to talk about this topic.