Chapter 56
But the figure was getting farther and farther away from her.
Yolanda tried in vain to catch him. She struggled, and when she snapped her eyes open and came to her senses, her face was covered with tears.
"She wakes up. She wakes up." Someone shouted from her side.
Yolanda looked blankly at the cold white room, but her thoughts still stuck in the dream.
How many years had it been since she had dreamt of Marc?
Her half-brother, the brother who had held her in the palm of his hand since she was a child.
When her parents divorced, Yolanda was awarded to her father, while her brother Marc was taken away by her mother and never heard from again.
At the age of six, Yolanda had already lost her family once.
Now, at twenty-two, she has lost it again.
The dream was tender and cruel. Yolanda did not want to think about it. She blinked and found that her body seemed to be immobilized.
When she turned her head to the side, she found herself lying in a hospital bed, surrounded by several people standing neatly.
Only then did memory sluggishly release itself from her brain, and Yolanda finally remembered the reason she was here.
Last night, not long after the fortune telling, she had been hit by a car.
How could I believe in that old man? Where was the promised blessing?
What a waste of her 70 bucks.
"How much compensation do you want?" A faint male voice suddenly fell on her ears.
Yolanda froze, only to find that apart from the doctor, there was also a man in a high-class suit with a beautiful figure.
When she saw that face again, Yolanda's heart thudded.
Was it him?
It was the big man who had been cheated, Aaron?
How could it be him? What was he doing here?
Yolanda subconsciously tried to sit up, but she felt a sharp pain just as she bent her leg.
The doctor stopped her, "Don't move, your calf is badly bruised and has a large hematoma. You must recuperate."
Yolanda was stunned and struggled to lift up her upper body. Before she could look at her leg, her eyes saw that she had thick gauze on her nose.
The doctor immediately added, "The nasal bone is also contused and must also be rested."
...?
Yolanda looked dumbfounded for a few moments and lied down helplessly.
Did she destroy the universe in her previous life? Korean dramas wouldn't dare to make people look so miserable.
Within 24 hours, she was broke, cheated on, and had a car accident, one after another.
A middle-aged man standing next to Aaron apologized uneasily, "Miss, the main responsibility for the traffic accident last night was that I didn't see the green light, I'm very sorry for causing you to get hurt."
Yolanda: "..."
Understood.
This man should be Aaron's driver, and that's why just now Aaron had opened the door and asked himself how much compensation he wanted.
He was a total businessman, crisp and no nonsense.
Yolanda suddenly remembered the old man's words again-- "After tonight, all the difficulties will be over."
If this sentence had to be interpreted, it would make sense.
She had been in a car accident, but she would get a settlement for it. The money would be enough to give her, now strapped for cash, a breather.
It cost a big price, but God had opened another small window for her.
Yolanda took stock of her current situation, raised her head and was about to say something to Aaron when the man said:
"Or you can ask for something else."
Yolanda just happened to meet his gaze.
Then she froze.
...... other requests?
Yolanda reacted suddenly--this man in front of her, Phoebe had said, was a super big man who could almost cover the sky in the entertainment industry.
What is the keyword?
Entertainment industry!
Super boss!
The company James wanted to sign with!
Something was slowly taking shape in Yolanda's mind.
She woke up suddenly.
What did she want with the money? What she wanted was to break James's bones and spread his dust, to show him the consequences of cheating on her, to pay the price for his disgusting trick!
She wanted to turn her life upside down!
She was so excited.
One talisman in hand, the world at my fingertips.
God, she didn't lose that talisman.
Isn't Aaron the greatest good luck God had ever given her? As long as she could seize the opportunity and use it wisely, will she be afraid of not being able to torture the scum?
Yolanda seemed to have taken a hundred shots of adrenaline, and her mind was spinning at a high speed.
If she wants to succeed, she has to have enough courage.
Sally even dared to use drugs, but she didn't want play with the dirty tricks. Now that she was the victim of a car accident, she had to find a way to use that to her advantage to tie them together.
Aaron saw Yolanda kept drifting off like she was lost in thought and frowned, "What's your name and where do you live? Or I'll have someone contact your family first."
Family?
With a ding in her brain, Yolanda found the key point.
"My family?" She looked at Aaron as if she was coming back to her senses and finally said her first words since waking up, "Brother, you are here."
Aaron: "?"
Yolanda carefully tugged on his sleeve, and her voice was like a mosquito, "I don't know how much compensation to ask him for. Brother, I want to go home. I don't like to stay in the hospital. You know it."
Aaron: "..."
The people in front of the hospital bed looked at each other. A few moments later, the doctor examined Yolanda once again. The CT of the whole body had been taken last night, which showed that except for the soft tissue contusion of the calf and the injury of the nose bone, all other parts were uninjured.
Eventually, in the office, the doctors concluded after the consultation that:
"The injury to this girl's nasal bone indicates that she also suffered a severe trauma to her brain when she landed. Although it looks fine on the film now, there is a stress syndrome that cannot be ignored, which is similar to what is happening now, where there is confusion in cognition and memory, such as forgetting who she is, thinking that you, Mr. Jensen, are her family and her brother."
Aaron frowned, "How do you cure it?"
"There is not good treatment for this for the time being. The main focus is to reat and wait for the body to recover and revive itself."
"..."
Aaron wasn't so patient to help a woman he didn't know find her memory, and was much less interested in carrying a brother's identity.
Coming out of the doctor's office, he was about to call his driver Happer to tell him that he would leave first, but Happer was already pushing Yolanda and waiting at the entrance of the office.
They were standing there like ghosts.
Aaron said in heart, "Shit."
He had been scared.
"Brother, where are you going?" Yolanda asked gently and softly.
"..."
Aaron coldly looked at Happer, who had a pleading look of [I can't help it].
Aaron had a meeting at ten o'clock. He didn't know why he took a detour to come to the hospital to check on this woman who had been hit, and never expected that he would get in trouble.
Seeing that she was a woman and was injured, Aaron gave the last bit of patience, "I'm going out."
Yolanda hmphed and nodded, "Brother, just go to work. Don't worry about me."
Surprisingly, she did not pester.
Aaron paused and turned to leave without a word.
The quiet voice sounded behind him again, "Brother, do you not want me anymore if you leave?"
Aaron paused for two seconds on his feet, but still did not turn back.
After he left, Happer coaxed Yolanda with difficulty, "So Miss, where's your phone? Where's your ID card? Can I contact other family members for you?"
As soon as he reminded her, Yolanda realized that she had lost her mobile phone.
Yesterday, when she crossed the road, she had her phone in her hand, and it must have been thrown away after being hit, and it was dark, so they didn't notice.
As for the ID card, it was still in the hotel bag.
Yolanda now had to play the affection card to gain sympathy, so pretending to have amnesia was a must, if she let him know her name and address, there would be no reason to stay.
Although now it seemed that she was not sure she could stay either.
Those few words just now gave herself goose bumps, yet Aaron was in the end a capitalist with little emotion, still saying he would leave without the slightest sympathy.
"I don't remember anything," Yolanda shook her head helplessly, "I'm sorry for causing you trouble."
Happer had already been infinitely apologetic to Yolanda for bumping into her, and now he saw that the little girl had been bumped into so much that she had lost her memory and forgotten everything, not even knowing what her name was.
It was so sinful.
Happer had a daughter of about the same age and was really unable to see such a scene.
"Why don't you come back with me, I have a daughter who can be your companion, and you can leave when you recover, okay?"
Although she had bruised herself, the driver was a good person, Yolanda could see that.
But her target was Aaron.
The driver couldn't help her.
Yolanda could only say sorry in her heart and play herself as a little pathetic with all her might: "I only remember my brother now, and I only trust him."
Happer: "......"
Happer had no choice but to do his best to stay by Yolanda's side at the bedside. During the infusion, Yolanda borrowed Happer's mobile phone under the pretense of being bored. When he went to the toilet, she called the hotel receptionist, saying that she had to leave Capital in an emergency and that her luggage was temporarily stored in the hotel, and she would come to get it as soon as possible.
After calling, he deleted the call record.
Happer bought Yolanda a lot of food and took care of her as if she was his own daughter. At six o'clock in the evening, he received a phone call.
"Boss." Although Aaron wasn't there, Happer's figure couldn't help but bow slightly, full of respect.
Not knowing what Aaron had said, Happer glanced at Yolanda, "Boss, but ......"
The other party should not have given him the chance to continue.
Happer hung up the phone and looked at Yolanda with difficulty, "Miss, I'll go and do the discharge procedures for you."
Yolanda guessed what was going on, but still pretended to be confused: "Is it brother coming to pick me up?"
Happer fell silent and hung his head without saying anything.
In fact, Yolanda's chances of winning were not very good, she was only betting on the only 1% of kindness outside the 99% indifference of a capitalist like Aaron.
Judging from the look on Happer's face just now, she should have lost this game.
If Yolanda was right, Aaron had already arranged a place for himself to go.
Sure enough, half an hour after Happer's car drove out from the hospital, it stopped at the entrance of a sanatorium.
The decoration was warm, and the environment was nice, and at first glance it was a place suitable for people to recuperate from illness.
"Miss." Happer carefully carried Yolanda out of the car and placed her on the wheelchair, "You can stay here at ease, there will be someone here to take care of you."
Unexpectedly, it was reasonable.
Aaron was a businessman, not a philanthropist, let alone a fool who would be moved to take her in based on a little drama of his own.
Yolanda sighed softly, disappointed but still not giving up and putting on a full set of bitter drama: "Thank you Uncle Happer, tell your brother that I will always be here for him."
Yolanda knew that only a ghost would come.
No, it was the ghosts that wouldn't come.
Happer had a heart, but in the end, he could only ruthlessly hand Yolanda over to the nurse and drive away himself.
On the way back, Happer received a call from Aaron again.
"Have you made all the arrangements."
Happer's heart was still clenched, and his voice was sibilant: "It's arranged."
Aaron sensed the low tone in his voice: "You're still not satisfied with the arrangements?"
Happer didn't want to say anything, but in the end he couldn't hold back.
"Boss, that girl is really pitiful, she's all alone, she doesn't remember her name, she doesn't know where her family is, the only thing she recognizes is you as her brother, and she's particularly stubborn. It's all my fault, I didn't watch the road, I made a big sin ......"
Aaron: "......"
Happer had been driving in Jensen's family for decades, and although he was a master and servant, he had a love for Aaron growing up, otherwise he wouldn't have helped Aaron wipe his ass after he crashed into someone.
Now Happer is feeling guilty and blaming himself, and Aaron seems to have been labeled as unconscionable and cold-blooded.
In the end, it was his car that hit the man, and if Happer is primarily responsible, he, the boss sitting on top, is also secondarily responsible.
Hanging up the phone, Aaron was inexplicably a little upset, especially as the image of the girl waking up with a tear-stained face kept replaying in his mind.
At that time, she kept calling for her brother.
Perhaps brother was really the person she trusted the most.
I don't know which nerve was wrong, but at the junction where he should have turned right, Aaron did not stop and drove straight ahead.
That was the road to the sanatorium.
A quarter of an hour later, Aaron's private car stopped at the entrance of the sanatorium in the suburbs.
Until the brakes pulled over and stopped, Jensen Yu Hyuk did not understand the significance of his diversion.
To do what, was he really going to be a good guy and take in a woman he didn't know at all?
Aaron dropped the window halfway down and looked out. The sanatorium was in a quiet setting, but at nine o'clock at night, there was hardly any foot traffic walking around the entrance.
What did Happer say -
"The girl refused to go back and insisted on waiting for you to pick her up."
But there was no one at the door now.
She hadn't compromised and gone in.
So Happer's worries were simply overblown. People are higher animals who adapt to the situation, so how could they be waiting at the door at this late hour?
Aaron felt inexplicably relieved as he withdrew his eyes and fished a cigarette out of his pocket, just as he lit it, he heard someone knocking on his car window.
When he turned around, he almost didn't bite down on the cigarette in his mouth.
Yolanda was sitting in her wheelchair, smiling and waving her hand.
"Brother, you're here?"
The most obvious benefit of this change of status for Yolanda was that her room had been moved to the first floor next to Aaron's.
When she was told by Ms. Twelve that she was moving upstairs, Yolanda couldn't believe her ears.
At that moment, she finally understood what it was like to be locked up in a cold palace for years and suddenly returned to the luxury of a palace.
God had mercy on her, and Yolanda, a third-class citizen, had finally waited for this day.
Ms. Twelve said, "People come straight with me, you don't need to take everything in this room, the young master has replaced it all with new ones for you."
Yolanda's feet were joyfully stepping out of the room, calmed down, and then retracted.
Later, there was something that she had to take with her.
When she went to the second-hand luxury shop that day, Yolanda wanted to sell the bag and the cufflinks together, but she didn't expect that the bag would sell well, but she couldn't sell the cufflinks.
The reason was that the letter "J" was engraved on the back.
The cufflinks cost her nearly $100,000, so she took a picture of them and put them up on a second-hand website, hoping that someone who liked the letter "j" would buy them one day.
It was the only secret she had left in this room, and evidence of guilt that had to be kept.
Quietly retrieving the cufflinks from the depths of the drawer, Yolanda went to the first floor only with peace of mind.
The new room was just as Ms. Twelve had said, with brand-new high-end bedding, a wardrobe full of new seasonal items with tags still on, and even the bath products had been changed to Hermes perfumed bath gels.
The former Miss Winnie became Miss Winnie again in her brother's house :)
Probably because of the joy of the occasion, Yolanda's legs recovered miraculously fast during those two days and by the end of the week, she was able to walk around unassisted.
Being out of a wheelchair was a step closer to being normal, and although she was slow to recover from the nasal cartilage fracture and still had gauze on her nose, Yolanda was content.
She also knew that she had gotten all this because of Aaron, so she was always respectful and docile to this man and did what a sister should do.
It was only occasionally when she was in a trance with him that Yolanda would think of her own brother, Marc.
Since their separation at the age of six, the two siblings have had no contact with each other, and I wonder how he is doing now.
Today was Saturday, and it was a rare day when Aaron was home for the day and did not go to work.
Because of her elevated status, Yolanda was now able to move freely throughout the Jensen family villa, acting like the Third Miss Jensen.
She came to Aaron's bedroom door, "Brother, are you awake?"
She continued with two thuds - "Brother, come downstairs for dinner!"
There was no response, so Yolanda pressed her ear to the door to listen to the movement inside, but the door suddenly opened.
Yolanda was caught off guard and lunged forward, naturally bumping into Aaron's arms.
Since the last time she slept on the sofa, Yolanda knew very well that Aaron didn't like women touching him, and even though she was now temporarily accepted by him, she definitely understood Aaron's untouchable bottom line.
Therefore, when she bumped into him, Yolanda immediately stood up straight and took three steps back, without looking away, "Sorry brother, I didn't know you opened the door suddenly."
Aaron was wrapped in a bathrobe, his hair was wet, he must have just finished taking a shower, his body was still hot.
"Got it." He didn't seem to care about the contact he had just made.
"Um okay." Yolanda turned around and left after saying that, afraid that this man would misunderstand that he was trying to take advantage of him and that something else would happen to the brother-sister relationship that had been so easily eased.
Ten minutes later, Aaron changed his clothes and came downstairs, while tying the buttons of his coat, he said to Yolanda, "After lunch, I'll take you somewhere."
"Where to?"
"We'll know when we arrive."
"......"
Yolanda looked out the window.
It was the weekend, and the sun was shining nicely.
It was indeed a good day to go out and nurture a relationship.
With all sorts of harmonious images of brother-sister love in her head, Yolanda smilingly responded, "Okay."
After lunch, the two of them got into the car together.
Since it was a private trip, Aaron didn't ask Happer to come and drove the car himself.
In the car, light music was playing on the radio, the sun was shining warmly on her body, and Yolanda was sitting next to Aaron in a very beautiful mood.
At this rate, it wouldn't take long for her relationship with Aaron to stabilize, and then she could slowly infiltrate his circle and find an opportunity to solve James.
Everything was within her grasp.
Half a month ago, I was under a heavy cloud of gloom, but after a car accident, I'm now as sunny as the weather outside.
All of this was thanks to this man beside her.
Thinking of this, Yolanda couldn't help but feel a lot of emotions and poetry, turning to look at Aaron.
"Brother." She blinked and said slowly and deeply, "If you are well, it's a sunny day."