Chapter 65: Jiang Yang Feigns Illness (Part Two)

Jiang Yang was startled. "How did you know I went to the hospital?"

Ruolan pointed at his shoes and said, "You're still wearing your coat and haven't taken off your shoes yet. You must have gone out, right? Where else would you go if you were sick? It has to be the hospital."

Hearing her words, Jiang Yang breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she didn't know he had been with Xia Bingbing at the hospital.

He admitted, "Yes, I just went to the hospital across the street to get checked out. The doctor said it's nothing major, and I'll be fine after some rest. You're busy at the company, President Wang, why don't you head back first?"

Ruolan tossed her handbag onto the bed, reached out to feel his forehead, and then pressed her own.

Her brows furrowed slightly. "You don't have a fever."

"I told you it's nothing serious, you don't need to be so nervous," Jiang Yang said with a relaxed expression.

"No, you're definitely hiding something from me. If you don't even have a fever, why would you go to the hospital? Last time you had a concussion, you were able to get out of bed and jump around saying you were fine. Now, without even a fever, and looking completely healthy, why would you go to the hospital?" Ruolan locked eyes with him, leaning in to examine him closely.

Jiang Yang found it a bit difficult to meet her gaze. "I was just feeling a little under the weather, so I went to see a doctor just in case. Is there something wrong with that?"

"If it were just a preventive visit, of course there wouldn't be a problem. But why did you try to hide it from me just now? Is something wrong with your health?" Suddenly stepping closer, Ruolan grabbed both of his arms tightly and asked with extreme anxiety.

Jiang Yang was stunned. He quickly explained, "I wasn't hiding it from you. Didn't I just tell you I went to the hospital?"

"Fine, then since you went to the hospital, where is the medical examination report? Where is the medicine prescribed by the hospital? Where is the medical record?" Ruolan fired off questions like a machine gun.

At a loss for words, Jiang Yang could only say, "Ah, right, right! I remember now, I left my medical record at the hospital and forgot to bring it back."

Ruolan's face instantly turned pale. "You forgot even your medical record at the hospital? And then you just came back by yourself?"

"Uh... I just remembered it now. I'll go back and get it in a bit." Jiang Yang had no choice but to keep the lie going.

Unexpectedly, as soon as these words left his mouth, Ruolan covered her mouth, her eyes turning red as two streams of tears rolled down. With a cry in her voice, she demanded, "Jiang Yang, is there something seriously wrong with your brain? Were you deliberately hiding it from me just to see a doctor?"

Jiang Yang had no idea how she had managed to brainstorm such a dramatic plotline. "My brain is really fine. The amnesia from last time has mostly healed by now, and today I really was just feeling a bit unwell."

Ruolan retorted, "How long has it been since you came back from the hospital? And you're only just now remembering you left your record there? If your brain isn't fried, what is?"

"I... I probably aren't as serious as you're making it sound, am I?"

"You call this not serious? Let's go! Hurry up and come with me to the hospital to get the medical record back." She grabbed Jiang Yang, preparing to drag him out the door immediately.

Jiang Yang felt his head buzz. If they ran into Xia Bingbing halfway there, it would be all over.

However, leaving no room for argument, Ruolan grabbed him and pulled him toward the door. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow along, hoping against hope that they would somehow cross paths with Xia Bingbing without incident.

Whether it was good luck or bad, by the time they reached the entrance of the hospital, they genuinely didn't run into Xia Bingbing along the way.

Yet Jiang Yang knew that she had most likely already collected the reports and might be on her way back to the apartment. When she got back and found him missing, she would definitely call.

Thus, he secretly reached into his pocket and turned off his phone.

"Which department? Is it neurology?" Ruolan asked anxiously.

"It's just general practice." Jiang Yang hoped that when they saw the doctor later, the physician could explain to Ruolan that he really didn't have any major problems.

Dragging him along, Ruolan hurried to the entrance of the general practice office. As luck would have it, the doctor happened to be stepping out to use the restroom. Spotting Jiang Yang, the doctor casually asked, "Did you finish getting your brain CT scan?"

"Finished..."

"Oh, then bring the film over and let me take another look." With that, the doctor turned and walked back into the consultation room.

Hearing this exchange, Ruolan was so shocked that she stood frozen in place. "Darling, is your brain really messed up?"

"I... I'm really fine, it might just be the flu." Jiang Yang now found himself utterly unable to clear his name.

"The flu at most requires a blood test! Why on earth would you need a brain CT scan?" Ruolan's tears began to fall uncontrollably once more; she was truly weeping.

Suddenly, Jiang Yang recalled the scene when he first woke up in the hospital, when the nurse told him that while he had been unconscious, Ruolan had cried her eyes out over him.

Now he understood: she truly cared about him. Leaving aside the fact that he was only a fake husband, even a real husband might not care about her as deeply as she cared for him.

At that moment, his heart softened again. Perhaps he really should sit down and have an honest conversation with her.

As long as she told him the whole truth about everything, even if she had some severe stalking tendencies, it wasn't out of the question for them to make up.

"Ruolan, actually I'm really fine, I—"

"Senior Brother! Why did you come back to the hospital?" Xia Bingbing rushed into the waiting hall, clutching the bag containing the CT scan films.

The moment she laid eyes on Ruolan standing beside Jiang Yang, she froze as well. "Senior Brother, didn't you go back to rest? Who is this?"

The two women stared at each other. Both being intelligent women, after just a brief moment of stunned silence, they instantly understood what was really going on.

*Crack!* A resounding slap landed sharply on Jiang Yang's face. It was Ruolan who struck.

Just moments ago, she had been weeping because she feared Jiang Yang had suffered some severe medical emergency, never dreaming that he had merely used it as an excuse to sneak away and tryst with Xia Bingbing in secret.

It wasn't that she couldn't tolerate him seeing other women—after all, she had already stated their relationship was merely that of ordinary superiors and subordinates, and even before Jiang Yang's car accident, she had long watched him flirt with other girls for a long time.

What she could least forgive, however, was his deliberate fabrication of lies to conceal his meetings with other women behind her back.

Without a single word, she wiped away her tears, turned her back on the two of them, and strode angrily out of the hospital entrance.

Xia Bingbing pouted her lips, tossed the bag of CT films onto a chair, and raised her hand, intending to follow Ruolan's example and slap Jiang Yang as well.

Yet her hand stopped mid-air, unable to come down. This was the man she had loved for so many years, from university until now; she simply couldn't bring herself to strike him, not even to cause him the slightest pain.

Tears welled up in her eyes. This wasn't the first time she had witnessed Jiang Yang in the company of another woman.

In the past, Liang Xiaoying had stood in her way, and today it was this woman who had seemingly materialized out of thin air.

In the end, she merely uttered in a heavy, disappointed tone, "Senior Brother, you've gone too far."

With that, she too turned around and walked briskly out of the hospital.