Chapter 19 Love’s Discipline

Chapter 19: A Lesson in Love

Jiang Ji had just returned to his room when he heard the doorbell ring.

He opened the door, and it was Shi Yu.

Shi Yu smiled when he saw him and said, "So you really did switch to the room next to mine."

Jiang Ji: "Wasn't it you, young master, who told me to switch?"

Shi Yu: "Are you planning to let me chat while standing at the door?"

Jiang Ji opened the door wider to let Shi Yu come in himself.

Shi Yu said irritably, "I'm sitting in a wheelchair, not a flying chair. It won't fly over the threshold by itself."

Jiang Ji paused for a moment, then bent down and lifted both Shi Yu and his wheelchair inside.

"What brings you here so late, young master?"

Shi Yu: "You were classmates with Sister Yuwei before, do you know her preferences?"

Jiang Ji: "What does the young master mean by this? Trying to muscle in on the eldest young master's match?"

Shi Yu: "Don't put it so harshly. I am also a son of the Shi family. Since Father wants a marriage alliance between the Fu and Shi families, why can't that person be me?"

He couldn't possibly let Shi Yan and Fu Yuwei get married; that would only give Shi Yan a huge advantage for nothing.

Jiang Ji thought for a moment: "I used to participate in the rock climbing club with Miss Fu. From my observation, Miss Fu seems to like extreme sports quite a bit. However, the young master's legs..."

Shi Yu: "You don't need to worry about that."

Coming out of Jiang Ji's room, Shi Yu unfortunately bumped into his brother Shi Yu coming out of Shi Yan's room.

Shi Yu curled the corner of his mouth. In the Shi family, every time you lift a brick, you find a juicy piece of gossip.

In the morning, while Fu Yuwei was putting on makeup in her room, she heard a noise at the door.

She warily opened the door and saw Shi Yu lying on the floor in front of her room.

She quickly helped him up from the ground: "Shi Yu, are you okay? Are you hurt?"

Shi Yu refused Fu Yuwei's help: "Don't help me! I want to stand up on my own. I don't want to be a useless person anymore."

As he said this, his eyes reddened.

Seeing this, Fu Yuwei crouched down and said to Shi Yu: "Shi Yu, sometimes help from others can make you recover faster. Besides, I don't think you're useless. Come on, let me help you."

Shi Yu placed his hand on Fu Yuwei's hand: "Thank you, Sister Yuwei."

Fu Yuwei: "Don't say that. Where do you want to go? I'll take you there."

Shi Yu: "I want to go to the small garden."

Fu Yuwei pushed Shi Yu to the small garden. Shi Yu took a deep breath: "Freedom smells so good. Indeed, people always yearn for what they don't have."

A gentle smile appeared on Fu Yuwei's face: "Once you get better, you can go wherever you want."

A lonely expression appeared on Shi Yu's face: "What's the use of getting better? Sister Yuwei, you probably don't know, even without this cast, I'm still disabled. I can't even take the driver's license test."

Fu Yuwei exclaimed in surprise: "How could that be..." Halfway through, she suddenly realized her tone was wrong, so she changed her words: "Can't you live without a driver's license? Cheer up. There are so many people in the world, do they all have one?"

Shi Yu laughed: "That's true. Sister Yuwei, I haven't been this happy in a long time. Thank you for comforting me." After saying that, he looked at Fu Yuwei's head: "Sister Yuwei, lower your head a little."

Fu Yuwei lowered her head, not understanding why.

Shi Yu slowly leaned in toward Fu Yuwei, then reached out and took a leaf from her hair.

"There's a leaf stuck in your hair. The wind has been strong lately, and dead leaves are flying all over the yard."

He handed the leaf he had taken to Fu Yuwei.

At that moment, the butler Uncle Wu walked over: "Young master, the reporters are all waiting in the lobby."

Shi Yu: "I'll be right there."

In the lobby, the reporters saw that Shi Yu had come in a wheelchair, and their eyes showed surprise.

After the formal interview began, the first question the reporter asked was about Shi Yu's injury: "...Mr. Shi, how was your leg injured?"

Shi Yu said: "Of course, it was a lesson in love."

The reporter didn't expect Shi Yu to be so straightforward: "Do you mean that your injuries were all caused by your father?"

Shi Yu: "I wouldn't dare say that. My father even gave me a villa as hush money."

The reporters laughed knowingly.

"Earlier in the live stream, you said that it was your brother who spread the rumor that you were a murderer. Is that true?"

Shi Yu lifted his injured leg: "In my condition, can I say it's true? Actually, I was also instigated by others when I said those things in the live stream."

His explanation was ambiguous, even giving people the feeling that he was forced to say so.

After the interview, it was supposed to be a whitewashing for Shi Yan, but it was more like a pity party for Shi Yu.

After seeing off the reporters, Shi Yu rubbed his face. After a day of fake smiles, his face was almost stiff.

Just then his phone rang. He looked at the caller ID and wondered: "Why is Jing Tingshen calling me?"

As soon as he answered the phone, it was Jing Tingshen's flippant voice: "I heard you were injured and hospitalized?"

Shi Yu: "If you had called any later, I would have already recovered."

Jing Tingshen: "Do you want me to come visit you..."

As he was speaking, a sweet voice came through the phone: "Young Master Jing, you're hurting me."

Shi Yu frowned in disgust: "You're not calling me while doing that kind of thing, are you?"

After saying that, he hung up without waiting for a reply.

In the hotel, Jing Tingshen looked at his phone, which had been hung up on, and laughed: "Quite fierce, huh."

The man beneath him heard Jing Tingshen's words and looked up: "No matter how fierce, they can't withstand Young Master Jing's surprise move."

Jing Tingshen's expression changed instantly. His hand on the boy's head suddenly pressed hard: "He's not like you guys. He's precious."

The boy begged fearfully: "Young Master Jing, I was wrong. I won't talk nonsense anymore."

Jing Tingshen stood up and pulled out his belt: "If you mess up, you take the punishment, got it?"

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The Shi residence.

Dr. Li came for a routine check-up and looked at Shi Yu's injuries: "I was just about to take you off your meds, and then you go and stir up all this trouble? The butler showed me the video of you jumping out the window. Are you having another relapse? You know you're sick, but you still drive like a maniac. Aren't you afraid of dying on the road?"

Shi Yu: "That old geezer could've locked me anywhere, but no, it had to be the storage room. The window is tiny, and he still had to cover it with a cloth."

Dr. Li: "You haven't been doing the desensitization training I told you to, have you?"

Shi Yu complained: "Dr. Li, don't you think that sleeping with the lights off makes ghosts climb into bed?"

Dr. Li rolled his eyes at Shi Yu: "I'm a man of science, not superstition."

Shi Yu: "..."

Dr. Li handed Shi Yu the new medication: "Here's your supply for this month."

Looking at the medicine in his hand, Shi Yu asked: "Dr. Li, last time you said my mom's medicine is almost finished. What about hers?"

Dr. Li: "Mrs. Shi's meds were delivered ages ago. Who told you to stay in the hospital that long?"

Shi Yu was about to ask something more when Wang Ma, who always looks after Jiang Meijiao, appeared: "Dr. Li, the missus wants you to go upstairs."

Watching the backs of the two as they went upstairs, Shi Yu felt that something had slipped his mind.

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