“Who else do you think it could be?” Gu Anqi said. “Chu Youyou said it was her blood that was transfused to me, and since you never came to visit me, I thought you didn’t care about me at all,” Ji Li said cautiously. Gu Anqi was at a loss for words. Could Ji Li really believe someone else’s words so easily? Was there something wrong with his brain? Didn’t he even know Chu Youyou’s blood type? But that wasn’t the point. After dating for so long, didn’t he know her blood type? Seeing the speechless expression on Gu Anqi’s face, Ji Li knew exactly what she was thinking. He also thought he had been foolish, and it wasn’t anyone else’s fault. “So, because you found out about this, you feel guilty towards me, right?” Gu Anqi said irritably. She thought he had finally had a change of heart, but it was just because of this. She didn’t want to keep bringing this up because she didn’t want this favor to ruin their original relationship. However, she didn’t expect Ji Li to ruin their relationship first with something else. “Since you already know, can you, for the sake of saving me, let me go?” Gu Anqi took advantage of his guilt to set terms. Initially, Ji Li was willing to agree to any request she made, but he didn’t expect her to ask to leave him right off the bat, which was absolutely unacceptable. “No!” Ji Li outright rejected. “Why? I saved your life, can’t you even agree to this small request?” Gu Anqi sneered, thinking he had just feigned remorse, but he couldn’t even handle a small request. Ji Li frowned and explained, “It’s not about agreeing or not. You want to do something dangerous with that organization, how can I just stand by and watch?” “Stop pretending!” Gu Anqi couldn’t stand his face full of “I’m doing this for your own good.” She shouted, “When you conspired with Chu Youyou to kill me at the hospital, why didn’t you worry about my safety then? You’re so hypocritical!” Remembering that Gu Anqi had previously accused him of trying to kill her, Ji Li had to think deeply about why Gu Anqi had such a big misunderstanding of him. And why mention Chu Youyou? He suddenly remembered that when Gu Anqi was unconscious in the hospital room, Chu Youyou had visited her. At that time, he was too worried about Gu Anqi to think much about it, assuming they were good friends — after all, Chu Youyou had always been good to Gu Anqi in front of him. So he didn’t overthink it. But now, upon closer reflection, there were indeed many suspicious points. “I never wanted to kill you. I admit, I was blinded by hatred before and did many things to hurt you, but I never thought about killing you. When I heard you were dead, my heart died too. So I’ve been deceiving myself, thinking you were just tricking me. I had people guarding the prison entrance every day just to wait for you.” Ji Li spoke with difficulty, feeling that the things he had done to Gu Anqi couldn’t be glossed over with a few words. Gu Anqi then understood why she was caught by Ji Li right after visiting her father. Seeing his sincere expression, Gu Anqi began to waver. “Stop pretending. You said it yourself, you wished me dead.” Gu Anqi denied him, also trying to convince herself not to believe him. Ji Li gave a bitter smile; his momentary harsh words had now become swords piercing his own heart, truly a case of karma. “What will it take for you to believe me? I really love you. If I didn’t love you, would I care about your life or death?” Gu Anqi thought, if Ji Li didn’t care about her, he could have kept her locked up until she died. But another voice in her mind suggested that perhaps he was worried about her having leverage on him, pretending to care to extract information from her. Since Ji Li knew of her connection with the organization, he must know that the organization was all about selling information! Gu Anqi looked at him warily and said, “You’re afraid I’ll hand over your leverage to the organization, aren’t you? I’m telling you, if you don’t let me go, someone will expose all the dirty dealings in your company!” Ji Li was speechless. Even after all this, she still wouldn’t believe him, leaving him utterly helpless. In Chapter 36, Ji Li felt terrible, not just about the blood transfusion, but also about the photo incident. He didn’t listen to Gu Anqi’s explanation and just assumed the person in the photo was her. He was too easily influenced, especially when it came to Gu Anqi; he’d rather believe unrelated people than her. But in the end, he found out that all the bad things about Gu Anqi were misunderstandings. Suddenly, a lightbulb went off in Ji Li’s head. Maybe after being dull for so long, his intelligence had finally kicked in. He realized everything was related to Chu Youyou! Thinking back, Chu Youyou never explicitly said she gave the blood, but she displayed symptoms of excessive blood loss and kept saying her blood type was rare, which was nonsense! When did AB blood become rare? And he also started to suspect Chu Youyou in the photo incident. From an interest perspective, who would benefit most from him misunderstanding Gu Anqi? Definitely Chu Youyou! And who else besides him, her boyfriend, would know about such an intimate birthmark? It would be Chu Youyou, her best friend. The photo even zoomed in on that birthmark, as if afraid he might miss that detail. This woman was truly sinister! Realizing how he had been fooled by Chu Youyou, misunderstanding and hurting Gu Anqi, Ji Li felt like giving himself a few hard slaps.
Meanwhile, at the hospital, Chu Youyou woke up to find herself alone, immediately erupting in anger. Nurses and doctors, hearing the commotion, rushed over thinking she was unwell, only to find her in a temper. “Get out! Who told you to come in? Where did Ji Li go?” Unfortunately, this was a public hospital, not one under Ji Li’s corporate control, so the doctors and nurses, seeing her vigor, left her to her own devices. In her hospital room, Chu Youyou continued to scream like a madwoman, far from the gentle demeanor she had shown Ji Li. “How dare you ignore me! Do you believe I’ll have my fiancé fire you? I want to see Ji Li, did you hear me? Give me a phone! I want to make a call!”
