Kicked Back to a Rich Family by the Real Eldest Daughter - Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Tang Jinzhi’s attending doctor arrived quickly, but unexpectedly, Tang Jinzhi, who had been chatting so well with Jie Xiangyi just moments ago, now refused to communicate.
This situation left everyone in the room baffled.
Tang Jinzhi refused to cooperate with the examination, and after telling Jie Xiangyi that she wanted to rest, she hid under the covers without saying a word.
The person who had seemed so easygoing and well-behaved was now completely uncooperative.
Zhang Yueqi was at a loss for words in the face of this tricky situation. Tang Jinzhi had been fine before she left.
After leaving the ward, she realized that the “250” Tang Jinzhi had said was her way of teasing her. She wasn’t actually a fool, so her current state probably had nothing to do with her brain.
Zhang Yueqi couldn’t help but ask Jie Xiangyi, “What did you two talk about?”
Meeting the questioning gazes of her friend and colleague, Jie Xiangyi glanced at Tang Jinzhi, who was completely wrapped up in the blanket, and then helplessly looked away. Her voice carried a hint of uncertainty, “She probably wants to be alone.”
She recalled the way the other person had cried as if the sky had fallen. It was truly a pitiful sight.
Zhang Yueqi’s mouth twitched. She said dryly, “Okay, it’s just amnesia, no big deal. Let her be.”
The attending doctor, who had been standing there for a long time without making a sound, couldn’t help but roll her eyes and finally said, “What do you mean ‘just amnesia’? Any problem cannot be ignored before it is clearly checked. A brain problem is a very serious matter.”
After saying that, she turned to Jie Xiangyi: “Don’t you know this when they don’t?”
They all looked so nonchalant.
Jie Xiangyi nodded faintly: “But you are her attending doctor.”
What did it have to do with her if someone else’s patient didn’t cooperate with the examination?
Besides, she was a dermatologist. She didn’t treat brains.
In the face of Jie Xiangyi’s indifferent attitude, Dr. Qiu did not get angry. She just asked, “So what are you doing here?”
Jie Xiangyi blurted out, “I’m the fam…”
Before she finished speaking, Jie Xiangyi froze, finally remembering something. Her open mouth was about to close but didn’t.
She slowly turned her head to look at Tang Jinzhi on the bed.
She almost forgot. She was the family member.
Seeing that Jie Xiangyi finally reacted, Dr. Qiu showed a fake smile of relief: “So you still know you’re the family member.”
Jie Xiangyi met her gaze and instantly understood what she was going to say next.
Dr. Qiu: “I’ve never seen such an irresponsible family member.”
Jie Xiangyi: “…”
The complaints that were common in the doctor’s group chat were now being used on herself.
Jie Xiangyi stood there silently. She had nothing to say.
Tang Jinzhi, who was hiding under the covers, couldn’t block everything out. She knew the main problem was her. She sighed and reached out her hand from under the blanket, gesturing: “Please give me a few minutes to adjust my emotions. I will cooperate. Thank you.”
Her tired tone was too weak, which made the three people in the room look at each other, unable to find anything to say in rebuttal.
In the past few minutes, Tang Jinzhi had roughly scanned the character introduction that had appeared after she transmigrated.
Although she had not read this novel, she could probably deduce some of the plot. She just felt it was a little unfair.
Others transmigrated after reading the novel. What was this? Transmigrating first and then reading?
Not to mention, she wasn’t even reading the content…
She could roughly confirm that there was a system-like existence for the things that appeared in her mind, otherwise there was no way to explain why these things were in her mind. But she had been calling in her mind for a long time, and there was no response.
The moment she confirmed that she had transmigrated, there was no fear in her heart, but more of a sense of relief after surviving a disaster. She quickly accepted the fact that this was not a dream.
What made her break down was not suddenly arriving in a strange, new world.
It was that her million-word manuscript, which she had worked so hard on, was gone!
It had all gone down the drain just like that!
After her tears fell uncontrollably, she realized how broken she was. She didn’t want her extremely unstable state to be seen by others, so she hid under the covers.
When the problem of survival was temporarily resolved, her own situation and personal interests immediately came to her mind. Thinking of her manuscript and her identity as a fake daughter, Tang Jinzhi was on the verge of a breakdown.
The manuscript she lost was not just a matter of profit; it was her second life.
She clearly remembered the excitement she felt when she had just written one million words. At that time, she had made several copies on her computer and finally copied them onto her old USB drive before shutting down her computer.
She was so cautious and careful that she had even held on tightly to her USB drive during the earthquake. The USB drive contained all her hard work from the past few years.
But all of that had been reduced to nothing with her transmigration. She had lost everything.
Tang Jinzhi could not accept this fact at all.
Even in a new world that had nothing to do with her, the novel she wrote was still her life.
The more she thought about it, the more suffocated she felt. Tang Jinzhi took deep breaths over and over again. She, who had always been emotionally stable and good-tempered, couldn’t help but curse out loud: “Damn it!”
It would be better to just die!
Her exclamation caught Jie Xiangyi’s attention. She looked at the lump on the hospital bed, her eyes moved slightly, but she didn’t say anything to disturb her. She quickly looked away and continued to wait quietly for Tang Jinzhi to adjust her emotions.
Tang Jinzhi tried to process it alone for two minutes but found that it had no effect. She still felt suffocated. She silently pulled down the blanket and stared blankly at the ceiling for a few seconds.
She knew that the people in the ward were observing her at this moment. She really wanted to shout and ask: Do you know what losing a million-word manuscript means to a novelist?!
Tang Jinzhi closed her eyes. She let out a light breath and slowly turned her head to look at Jie Xiangyi. She needed to stay rational and not neglect her own body.
Her gaze fell on Jie Xiangyi’s pleasing face. Tang Jinzhi’s dim eyes lit up. She couldn’t help but look at her a few more times.
However, after less than two seconds, she returned to her ashen-faced state.
It was obvious that even this beautiful face couldn’t make the suffocating feeling in her heart go away.
Unless Jie Xiangyi could make her lost million-word manuscript fly back to her.
Clearly, this idea was very impossible and unreasonable.
Jie Xiangyi tilted her head slightly. She felt that Tang Jinzhi’s gaze was strange, but she couldn’t pinpoint what was strange about it.
Seeing that Tang Jinzhi had come out from under the covers, Zhang Yueqi put down her phone and leaned in. “Are you feeling better?”
Tang Jinzhi: …She wasn’t feeling better at all.
She said against her will, “I’m fine.”
Seeing that Tang Jinzhi was willing to cooperate with the examination, Zhang Yueqi went and called her attending doctor back.
Tang Jinzhi obediently cooperated with the examination. She also answered the doctor’s questions obediently. Her emotions were so stable that it was hard to believe she was the same uncooperative patient who had hidden under the covers earlier.
The results of the examination wouldn’t be out so soon. She needed to stay in the hospital for a few days for observation. Her arm wasn’t a big problem, but it wouldn’t heal quickly.
While Tang Jinzhi was being examined, Zhang Yueqi went downstairs to buy food. Only Jie Xiangyi was with her during the examination. Now that they were back in the ward, with only the two of them left, Jie Xiangyi finally had a chance to ask her question.
“You really don’t remember how you fell?”
Tang Jinzhi’s performance wasn’t like a patient with complete amnesia. She must have remembered something, which was why she had an emotional breakdown.
But Tang Jinzhi had indeed forgotten her.
Aside from the thick-headed Zhang Yueqi who didn’t find it strange, she and Dr. Qiu both felt that something was wrong. The doctor hinted that she should ask her privately.
At this moment, Tang Jinzhi finally came out of her heartbroken state. She looked up and met Jie Xiangyi’s probing gaze.
Tang Jinzhi was silent. She felt ashamed. She also knew that her behavior was abnormal, but she couldn’t control it at all.
Jie Xiangyi didn’t rush Tang Jinzhi to answer, but the doubt on her face was unconcealed.
Tang Jinzhi sighed softly. She didn’t really want to hide anything. Even if she told the truth, Jie Xiangyi might not believe her.
She seriously recalled the scene during the earthquake. After a moment, she said in a gentle voice, “I only remember that my arm seemed to have hit something because I was running too fast, and then I was tripped. I don’t remember anything else.”
After leaving the memory, Tang Jinzhi always felt that she had missed something very important, but she couldn’t think of what she had overlooked no matter how hard she tried.
Jie Xiangyi nodded slightly. As expected, Tang Jinzhi still had some memories.
She could probably guess what Jie Xiangyi was thinking. Tang Jinzhi thought for a moment, looked into Jie Xiangyi’s eyes, and added, “As for you, I really don’t know any of you.”
Jie Xiangyi’s eyes flickered slightly, with no special emotions, “Then what do you remember?”
Tang Jinzhi’s eyebrows trembled slightly. She was mentally exhausted now and had lost all motivation, “I can only tell you that I don’t know anyone, and I don’t know anything about the past.”
She didn’t care at all if her words would reveal something. She wasn’t in the mood to make up lies. Her attitude was completely “whatever happens.”
It was already good enough that she was able to hold back from going crazy.
It didn’t matter…
Jie Xiangyi stared at Tang Jinzhi without blinking. Judging by her tone, she wasn’t lying.
But Jie Xiangyi just felt that something was not right. Tang Jinzhi said she didn’t know anything, but she acted like she remembered something. This was very contradictory.
She felt that Tang Jinzhi was very strange.
But Tang Jinzhi was just sitting there obediently. Her lifeless face made it so that Jie Xiangyi couldn’t bring herself to ask any more questions.
Tang Jinzhi’s expression of accepting everything, along with the striped hospital gown and her slightly messy long hair resting on her chest, gave her an indescribable sense of broken beauty.
Jie Xiangyi couldn’t help but look at her a few more times, but she felt it was inappropriate and quickly looked away.
If Tang Jinzhi knew that Jie Xiangyi was evaluating her like this, she would definitely argue. It wasn’t some kind of “broken beauty.” It was clearly a strong sense of death…
Her current state was fluctuating between “it’s great to be alive” and “I’d rather be dead.” If her resentment had a physical form, it would probably condense into frost.
There was no other sound in the ward for a moment. Even Jie Xiangyi, who always liked peace and quiet, began to feel that the atmosphere was too dull and awkward.
Jie Xiangyi thought for a moment, took the kettle from the table, and poured a glass of water for Tang Jinzhi. Her slightly tense nerves relaxed when the other person took the glass. She softened her tone and asked gently, “Are you very sad?”
This time, the question was purely because Jie Xiangyi was curious.
Despite repeatedly telling herself in her heart not to mind the other person’s private matters, Jie Xiangyi still couldn’t suppress her curiosity. She really wanted to know why Tang Jinzhi was like this.
Tang Jinzhi’s mouth twitched. The “no” that was about to come out was swallowed back when she noticed the curiosity in Jie Xiangyi’s eyes.
Under the gaze of those eyes, a strong desire to confide suddenly rose in her heart.