I snagged a bargain in a melodramatic novel and became incredibly wealthy!

"Sister Baihua, is this your friend?" Bai Yue got off the hospital bed and walked to Xiao Baihua, her face showing a delicate expression. "I've never seen him before."

Xiao Baihua tilted her head, looking at Cai Yi. She didn't recognize her, but she... wanted to be friends with her.

Therefore, she said, "Yes, my friend."

Caiyi was completely bewildered. When did she make a friend who was mentally unstable?

How come she doesn't know.

Xiao Baihua clutched her chest and coughed lightly, "Cough, cough, I thought Sister Baihua only had me as a friend..."

As she finished speaking, tears welled up in her eyes, threatening to fall but not quite.

When Zong Chai arrived, this was the scene he saw. Before he even reached the bedside, his angry voice rang out: "Xiao Baihua, don't go too far!"

Zong Chai strode over and grabbed Xiao Baihua by the neck: "Yue'er has always been tolerant of you because she is kind-hearted, not because she wants you to take advantage of her!"

Xiao Baihua's face was flushed, her vision blurred, she couldn't breathe, and a feeling of suffocation washed over her like a tidal wave; she was sinking into the sea.

Bai Yue placed her hand on Zong Chai's arm and gently pulled him: "Brother Zong Chai, Sister Bai Hua... it wasn't intentional, please don't fight because of me."

Zong Chai sneered and threw her hard onto the bed: "Hmph, if it weren't for Yue'er pleading for you, I wouldn't have let you go."

Xiao Baihua lay on the bed, coughing violently. She looked at him and asked for the first time, "Zong Chai, didn't you say... you liked me?"

"Yes, I love you." Zong Chai leaned down and pinched her face. "But that's no reason for you to hurt Yue'er!"

"Think of your parents before you make a move next time." Zong Chai released her hand, stood up, and looked down at her. "Consider this a lesson for you. I'm cutting off your mother's medical expenses."

Xiao Baihua's face turned deathly pale. She suddenly stood up and grabbed Zong Chai's arm, her lips trembling as she said, "Zong Chai, you...you can't do this!"

"This is the price you pay for hurting Yue'er." After saying this, Zong Chai made a phone call to his assistant, "Cut off Xiao Baihua's mother's medical expenses, and temporarily stop her father's heart matching."

Xiao Baihua stared at him in disbelief: "Zongchai, how could you... how could you do this!"

"This is a lesson for you, so you'll remember it!" Zong Chai ruthlessly pulled her hand away.

Xiao Baihua slid weakly to the ground.

Cai Yi shook her head. She was really just a background figure; you couldn't even see her, such a big living person.

However, this madman is truly disgusting!

The melodramatic novels I used to read described Xiao Baihua as being born into a well-off family, and although her parents were sick, they had the money for treatment.

Zong Chai made Xiao Baihua a substitute for his lover, Bai Yue.

Xiao Baihua refused, so he began to secretly suppress her parents' shop. How could a small shop compete with the Zong Group?

In less than a day, her parents went bankrupt and were heavily in debt, which Zongchai used to make a deal with her.

Xiao Baihua wanted her parents to live, so she humiliatingly agreed to his request and became his lover.

During that time, Zongchai treated her very well, helping her with her parents' debts and exorbitant medical expenses.

He was really good to her, and she... fell in love with him, but everything changed after Bai Yue returned to China.

Thinking of this, Cai Yi looked at Xiao Baihua with pity, wondering if she would still be so love-struck if she knew that her parents' bankruptcy and debts were caused by Zong Chai.

Even the exorbitant medical bills were caused by him.

Xiao Baihua's mother was just overly worried and exhausted; she would have been fine if she had just rested and worried less, but instead she developed some kind of cough and had to be hospitalized every day.

Her father does indeed have heart disease, and there is a shortage of heart donors. However, the cost of a heart transplant is generally between 20 and 50 yuan, except in special circumstances.

Her father, however, was in normal condition, yet his medical expenses reached over ten million.

In the story, Xiao Baihua never knew until her death that the deaths of her parents were caused by Zongchai.

"Who are you?" Zongchai's words interrupted Caiyi's wandering thoughts.

Cai Yi lied without batting an eye, saying, "I'm a nurse."

"Then you must take good care of Yue'er for me," Zong Chai ordered.

Cai Yi forced a smile and said, "Honey, we recommend you take care of Miss Yue'er yourself."

She's fallen ill from missing you; she needs your company, not me.

Bai Yue was a little surprised that Xiao Baihua's friend would help her. She seized the opportunity, her cheeks slightly flushed, and shyly looked up at him: "Brother Zongchai~ Yue'er wants to stay with you."

Zongchai playfully flicked her nose: "I'm going to the office, it'll be boring, do you want to come too?"

Bai Yue nodded: "As long as Brother Zongchai is by my side, Yue'er will not feel bored."

"Okay, I'll take you." Zong Chai picked her up and walked out of the ward, ignoring Wei Yan standing at the door.

Wei Yan: "..."

So young, yet so nearsighted.

His gaze fell on the ward, filled with anger.

"Why...why did you help her?" Xiao Baihua looked at Cai Yi with a wronged expression, tears streaming down her face.

Caiyi looked down at her tear-streaked face, but felt no pity. He replied irrelevantly, "Tsk tsk, you cry so beautifully. Too bad, I don't know how to be gentle with a woman."

Xiao Baihua bit her lip, trying to hold back her tears. Her eyes were red, and her voice trembled as she said, "Clearly, clearly you just gave me nuts and melon seeds."

She didn't know why the person who had just been on her side was now helping Bai Yue.

"I think you should just die of stupidity. Is this what you're focusing on? Your parents aren't important."

Xiao Baihua suddenly woke up, quickly got up, and ran towards the door of the ward.

Cai Yi walked out of the ward unhurriedly, his gaze falling on Wei Yan. His cold, handsome face now showed obvious anger.

As the story unfolds, he is repeatedly angered by the behavior of the clansmen. He is a civil servant, and the clansmen are challenging the national law right in front of him.

What's infuriating is that he can't move, which makes him very angry.

Caiyi patted him on the shoulder: "You'll be angry later, keep up."

Wei Yan frowned and followed silently behind her.

Zongjia Hospital, third floor.

Xiao Baihua knelt on the ground, gripping the operating table tightly, and pleaded with the nurses, "Please, my mother is unwell and cannot be discharged!"

The nurse said with difficulty, "Miss Xiao, please don't make things difficult for us. This is a notice from the hospital director."

Xiao Baihua cried helplessly. She couldn't lose her mother, she couldn't!

"Tsk tsk, look at you!" Cai Yi walked closer to her, half-squatting down. "How did you, a graduate of a top university, end up like this? Tell me."

Xiao Baihua shook her head in despair: "I didn't want to, I didn't want to, I looked for a job! But—no one hired me."

"The medical expenses are too high, 300,000 yuan a month! I simply can't afford it!"

Caiyi whispered in her ear, "Didn't you ever have any doubts? After all, you graduated from a 985 university."

Xiao Baihua froze.

"So you knew? Well, serves you right!" Cai Yi laughed. She had only suspected it, but Xiao Baihua's physical reaction clearly told her that she knew!

As soon as she finished speaking, Caiyi got up and was about to leave when she suddenly grabbed his trouser leg.

Cai Yi was startled and grabbed her waistband. Luckily, it wasn't an elastic waistband, but a rope, otherwise she would have suspected that she had just been pulled down.

Xiao Baihua's eyes were pleading: "Please, help me!"

"Why should I?" Cai Yi didn't squat down, but looked down at her.

Xiao Baihua clutched the hem of her trousers tightly, as if it were her last straw: "You've already helped me once, haven't you?"

Caiyi clapped his hands: "Look! He's so smart, how come he's just a hopeless romantic?"

Xiao Baihua remained silent.

Caiyi wanted to know exactly how much she knew before he could make a decision.

She lifted Xiao Baihua's chin, looked her straight in the eyes, then suddenly let go, turned to the side, and said to Wei Yan, who was watching silently, "You come here, stare into her eyes and see if she's lying."

Wei Yan: "..."

He didn't pinch her chin. He walked up to her, lowered his head, and stared coldly into her eyes.

Caiyi began by asking, "You know you can't find a job because of your clansmen?"

Xiao Baihua: "...Yes."

Caiyi: "Do you know that your parents went bankrupt because of their relatives?"

Xiao Baihua's eyes widened, her voice trembling: "What...what did you say?"

Cai Yi raised an eyebrow in surprise and glanced at Wei Yan.

Wei Yan nodded, then asked, "Do you know about your parents' debts and medical expenses?"

Xiao Baihua stood up, her whole body trembling, and she laughed out loud: "Hahaha—"

How ridiculous! It turns out all of this was because of—Zongchai!

Or rather, my face, which bears a striking resemblance to Bai Yue!

Towards the end, her voice even carried a frenzied hatred as she rubbed her face hard with her fingers, leaving clear finger marks.

One face almost caused her family to be destroyed!

Caiyi couldn't help but take a few steps back. Had he gone mad?

But: "Your face isn't the reason you're in such a bad state; it's your love-struck mind that is."

Cai Yi recalled the ending of Xiao Baihua's parents in the plot and said, "If you are stubborn and do not see the truth, you will kill your parents."

“…No more.” Xiao Baihua wiped away her tears and went to the front desk on the first floor to process her parents’ discharge procedures.

Now that she knew Zongchai was behind it, she naturally couldn't leave her parents at the Zong family hospital any longer.

She won't be stupid anymore!

"Hello, here is the bill for payment, totaling 37.8 yuan."

The receptionist handed Xiao Baihua a payment slip.

Xiao Baihua: "..."