Chapter 40

Ye Heng stopped him.

Though the young man said nothing, his actions were forceful. He picked out several vegetable dishes Tang Mingxi liked with his chopsticks, drained off the oil, and arranged them neatly on a plate.

Then he pushed it in front of Tang Mingxi.

After the Qixi Festival, Ye Heng's eighteenth birthday was drawing near.

When Tang Mingxi visited Ye Yue in early September, he had promised to take her out to buy a gift, so he went to the swimming pool that morning and cleared his entire afternoon.

The closer Ye Heng's coming-of-age day got, the more frequently Tang Mingxi visited the private swimming pool.

At the same time, he began seriously considering what he would do after running away.

Although Tang Mingxi felt that his relationship with Ye Heng was no longer as terrible as before,

he could not guarantee that everything Ye Heng was doing was not merely biding his time.

In the original novel, the male lead had two especially obvious traits: holding grudges, and always taking revenge.

In short, the male lead would definitely never let him go qvq.

Tang Mingxi had saved up all the pocket money Tang Yun gave him. He had Wang Min find a reliable venture capital firm to manage part of it, so that after he ran away, he could transfer the profits overseas as assets.

After Ye Heng inherited the Ye Family, his influence would be impossible to ignore. Tang Mingxi certainly would not be able to remain in the country and could only flee abroad.

He was just a little reluctant to leave his current wonderful, comfortable life TT.

After skillfully completing several high-platform dives and explaining for the hundred-and-first time to Coach that he had no intention of joining the Olympics, Tang Mingxi drove to City First Hospital.

Ye Yue had been waiting in the ward for this outing early on. She had even changed into a white cotton dress, looking especially beautiful.

Ye Yue was clearly delighted by Tang Mingxi's arrival.

Tang Mingxi could tell that Ye Yue liked him quite a bit. She kept finding topics to chat with him, cautiously afraid of upsetting him.

He also learned that Ye Yue had chronic leukemia. She was currently undergoing targeted therapy while waiting for a suitable bone marrow transplant.

Her blood type was the extremely rare Rh-negative type. Perhaps only three out of a thousand people had it, making a bone marrow match incredibly difficult—something like a one-in-ten-million chance.

Staying in the hospital would only delay things by a few years. If no match could be found, all that awaited her was death.

Tang Mingxi sighed and patted Ye Yue's head.

This unlucky kid—how was she as unlucky as he was?

Ye Yue's obedience and pitiful background thoroughly stirred Tang Mingxi's paternal instincts. He took her straight to Huating Shopping Plaza, owned by Mingheng, and went on a shopping spree.

Ye Yue's budget was actually only one thousand yuan. She had secretly saved it bit by bit by living frugally whenever Ye Heng transferred her living expenses.

"I know my brother doesn't have much pocket money either, so I didn't dare ask him for too much."

"Five hundred yuan a month is enough for me."

When Tang Mingxi heard Ye Yue state her budget and allowance with a blush, he felt an unprecedented pang of guilt.

Clutching his chest, he took out his phone, found Ye Heng on WeChat, and transferred two hundred thousand yuan to him.

In Mingheng's Conference Room Nineteen, President Ye, young as he was, felt his phone vibrate slightly.

At the same time, the large projection screen linked to his phone displayed a WeChat message before every member of Mingheng's board.

Tang Mingxi: [Transferred yuan to you.]

Tang Mingxi: [Cat head secretly watching.jpg]

Tang Mingxi: [Giving you a little more pocket money.]

For a moment, the meeting room was so quiet that a pin dropping to the floor could have been heard.

Ye Heng's gaze fell on the projection screen, and he calmly exited the chat history.

He cleared his throat. "Continue."

Bullied

In Conference Room Nineteen, He Wenfang, who was standing before the projector and presiding over the meeting, decisively cut off the connection between Ye Heng's phone and the projector.

He then imported the report into his own phone and connected it to the projector.

Around the long table, Mingheng's senior executives all lowered their eyes, silently flipping through the documents in their hands.

No one dared mention what had just happened.

The meeting continued, but Ye Heng could no longer focus as completely as before.

His phone lay directly in front of him. The young man's distinct-knuckled fingers tapped the table unhurriedly.

Then he picked up his phone and replied.

[?]

Tang Mingxi was holding Ye Yue's hand in a women's clothing store on Huating's fourth floor, hesitating over whether to buy her children's clothes or adult clothes.

After glancing at Ye Yue and estimating that the little girl was only about one and a half meters tall, he decisively led her into the children's clothing store next door.

The sales assistant cautiously took Ye Yue to choose some clothes when Tang Mingxi's phone vibrated.

He discovered that Ye Heng had sent two messages.

[?]

[Image]

The second image was a bank deduction notification from Ye Heng's card.

Ever since the second round of funds from the Azure Luo Bay project had been returned, Ye Heng had quite a bit of spare money on hand.

Tang Mingxi had Ye Heng's bank card linked to his account and never held back when using it, so he often used the wrong card.

When he transferred Ye Heng pocket money just now, he had accidentally used Ye Heng's own card.

He had achieved the ultimate embarrassment of using Ye Heng's money to give Ye Heng pocket money :)

Tang Mingxi could read heavy mockery in that question mark from Ye Heng.

So he immediately struck back without hesitation, opening the WeChat camera and taking a photo of the children's clothing store.

Tang Mingxi: [Any clothes you like? I'll buy you one as a coming-of-age gift :)]

Ye Heng: [If you think you can give birth, I don't mind if you buy children's clothes a few years early.]

Dog of a man!! TvT!!

Was being good at talking back supposed to be impressive?!

Grinding his teeth, Tang Mingxi swept his gaze over the luxury brand storefronts in Huating Shopping Plaza.

Then, while Ye Yue was trying on clothes, he pointed wildly at the bags in the Hermès store across the way.

"This one, this one, and this one."

The Hermès sales associate was startled by his extravagance and hurriedly asked, "Sir, do you want these three?"

"No." Tang Mingxi spoke expressionlessly. "I want all the rest except those three."

Dog of a man, just wait to go bankrupt today :)

"Boss Ye."

"...Boss Ye?"

He Wenfang called him twice.

Ye Heng raised his head, glanced indifferently at the report, and closed the laptop in front of him.

"Let's end today's meeting here."

Mingheng's senior executives all breathed a collective sigh of relief, getting up and fleeing Conference Room Nineteen one after another.

The marketing department manager had been left behind because there were some minor issues with the development of several new products, and he was preparing to ask Ye Heng for instructions.

He had only just walked around the long table to Ye Heng's side when he saw Ye Heng's phone on the table begin to vibrate.

One text message after another came in. Before one alert had even finished sounding, it was interrupted by the next:

[xx Bank: Transaction completed on September 18 for account ending in 0917. RMB balance...]

[xx Bank: Transaction completed on September 18 for account ending in 0917. RMB balance...]

[xx Bank: Transaction completed on September 18 for account ending in 0917. RMB balance...]

[xx Bank: Transaction completed on September 18 for account ending in 0917. RMB balance...]

More than twenty messages popped up in a row, with several million yuan spent like water.