Chapter 302: Past Zi Yi
The Chinese Department Head of Department (HOD) called to inform her. “Student Zi, the reporting dates for the Chinese Department is from August 23rd to 25th and the military training will begin on the 28th. Please do not forget to report on time.”
It was already the 20th now and there were still a few days left before the reporting date.
Zi Yi replied. “Noted, I won’t forget. ”
The HOD breathed a sigh of relief and his tone subsequently contained a smile. “Give me a call when you arrive. I’ll bring you around to sign up. You’ll be able to save time this way.”
Zi Yi responded with an okay and they ended the call.
Unexpectedly, not long after the Chinese Department’s HOD called, the Mechanical Department’s HOD call arrived.
The HOD earnestly enticed her. “Student Zi, why don’t you reconsider? As long as you have yet to sign up, you can still come to our Mechanical Department. Think about it. You’re so talented in this field and your Second Uncle is also a professor here. You can study under him directly when the time comes and you don’t even need to complete the undergraduate degree.”
The name of Zi Yi’s had spread throughout the entire Mechanical Engineering Department in the M.Uni on the opening day. There were even teachers and professors who had specially made a trip there. They were simply in awe of all the kinds of robots inside.
Thus, they wished for Zi Yi to put the Mechanical Engineering Department as her first choice for M.Uni.
However, Zi Yi was very determined. “I’m going to enroll in the Chinese Department.”
The courses of the other Departments were too easy for her. Instead of wasting time on those easy courses, she would rather learn more about the ancient Earth’s culture.
She was particularly interested in the ancient Emperors and generals.
The Mechanical Department’s HOD tried to advise her more, but when he realized her determined attitude, he could only hang up the call in disappointment.
Unexpectedly, the HOD of several other departments had subsequently given her a call.
They were all rejected by Zi Yi.
A day’s time passed by very quickly.
On the 21st, Dou Jingning gave her a call and asked her to make a trip down to the hospital.
Zi Yi was currently eating breakfast with Lu Jingye when Dou Jingning’s call came.
After the call disconnected, Zi Yi subconsciously bit on her spoon and started thinking.
Lu Jingye asked, “Did something happen?”
“My Eldest Uncle called earlier and asked me to make a trip down to the hospital.”
Lu Jingye held her hand and said, “Then go.”
Zi Yi nodded and the two of them continued with their breakfast.
After breakfast, Zi Yi drove to the First Hospital.
Elder Dou woke up the next day after he was transferred to the VIP ward. He just had brain surgery and even if he had woken up, he could only remain conscious for a few hours a day.
When Zi Yi arrived, there were only Dou Jingning and Dou Xiaoyong inside the ward.
Dou Jingning deliberately called out to her when he saw her enter. “You’re here.”
Zi Yi nodded and asked, “Why did Eldest Uncle call me over?”
Dou Jingning and Dou Xiaoyong met gazes and their expressions became stern at the same time.
Dou Xiaoyong said, “Your grandfather woke up momentarily in the middle of the night and called for your name.”
Zi Yi was a little surprised.
Dou Jingning revealed a complicated expression and suddenly reminisced. “In our generation, your mother is the only girl and the whole family doted on her, especially your grandfather. He had simply treated her like a treasure.
None of us approved when she fell in love with Zi Xu back then. However, she insisted on marrying him and we were helpless to do anything about it.
Half a year after Little Rui gave birth to you, she fell ill. We had sought numerous authoritative doctors and they could not diagnose what she had been inflicted with.
In the end, we could only look on helplessly as her life came to an end.”
Zi Yi discovered that when Dou Jingning was explaining to her, his and Dou Xiaoyong’s eyes were reddish.
Zi Yi did not know what to say. After all, she was not the original owner and she could not empathize with them.
Dou Xiaoyong continued to speak. “In the early stages of the founding of his company, Zi Xu had taken plenty of shortcuts using the Dou Family’s name.
In fact, we could tolerate such behaviors. However, he suddenly married Li Peirong when you were five years old and had brought back a younger sister that was only two years younger than you.
We were extremely angry at his behavior, especially your grandfather. He had suffered a great blow when Yurui left and coupled with Zi Xu’s action, he was angered even more. But for your sake, he had only verbally warned him to be nice to you.
However, he only promised on the surface and had never taken care of you after that. He handed you to Li Peirong and the outside world all say that she’s a rare stepmother who was nice. But who knew that she just wanted you to go down a bad path.
As Zi Xu’s business grew, he became greedier and wanted to take on larger projects and used the excuse that you needed a better environment to get your grandfather to introduce him to his contacts.
After he was rejected by your grandfather, he made you come and ask for them…”
Dou Xiaoyong seemed as if he could not continue and stopped talking.
Zi Yi had accepted all the original owner’s memories. She was not particularly clear based on her original standpoint but Zi Xu had indeed asked the original owner to ask her grandfather and she had done what he asked.
Elder Dou became soft-hearted. He thought that the child was still young and so, he introduced the contacts to Zi Xu.
Never did they imagine that Zi Xu would dare to resort to tricks and provide unsatisfactory work, resulting in a huge problem in the project and it nearly caused the Dou Family’s reputation to go up in flames.
The Dou Family had expended a great deal of effort to settle this matter.
Unexpectedly, Zi Xu did not realize his mistakes at all. He continued to get the original owner to look for them.
The Dou Family realized something was wrong and had taken the original owner to the Dou Family to raise for half a year.
At that time, the original owner was already twelve years old and had long been brainwashed by Zi Xu and Li Peirong. Not only was she lazy in studying, she had also helped Zi Xu steal her grandfather’s seal when Zi Xu wanted to take up a project but could not find a guarantor.
Another huge incident happened that time and Elder Dou’s bad health had simply caused him to collapse.
Thinking of this, Zi Xu could not help but feel guilty.
“I was really an asshole in the past.”
Dou Jingning and Dou Xiaoyong did not expect Zi Yi to scold herself and were a little surprised.
Following that, they felt relieved.
“It’s good as long as you have changed now.” Dou Jingning patted her shoulders and said, “Let’s go, I’ll take you to see your grandfather.”
Zi Yi nodded and followed the both of them inside the ward.
There were numerous tubes stuck in Elder Dou’s body and he even required a respirator for breathing.
In just a few days’ time, he had become as emaciated as a fowl.
They stood by the bed and Dou Xiaoyong said, “Your grandfather has had difficulty sleeping the past few days, but also finds it difficult to stay awake. He has been in pain.”
Zi Yi thought of the backward medical skills of ancient earth and asked, “Did the doctor give him any medicine to stop the pain?”
“Yes, but he’s quite old and the doctor suggested he use less of it.”
Zi Yi glanced at Elder Dou for a while and suddenly said, “I know of a formula that can reduce pain and there are no side effects at all. Eldest Uncle, Second Uncle, wait here. I’ll go and discuss it with Dr. Qiao.”
Having said that, she turned around and headed for the door, leaving behind Dou Xiaoyong and Dou Jingning to look at each other.