I Became the Eye Candy: Four Bigshots Claimed to be My Dad?-Chapter 79: This Grievance Must Be Vented

The high fever didn’t begin to subside until morning. If Ye Qianning hadn’t added the Two Qi Fruit and spring water from her space to his medicine, the fever would have nearly killed him.

When a person’s emotions are suppressed for too long, the eventual outburst can be deadly.

It wasn’t until morning that Ye Qianning woke Fourth Granny and Liu Shi. Liu Shi immediately sent someone to fetch a doctor.

Although the fever had broken, Xiang Minghou remained drowsy and disoriented.

"Doctor, how is he?" Liu Shi asked, her eyes red and swollen from crying.

After checking his pulse, the doctor stood up. "I’ll prescribe some medicine for now. Have him take it for two days. If there’s no improvement by then, his condition could become quite serious."

"Yes, yes, please hurry and write the prescription, Doctor," Liu Shi urged.

The doctor wrote out a prescription, and a maidservant took it and left the room.

Ye Qianning sat by the bedside. The fever had just broken, and his body had yet to recover. The doctor’s diagnosis was accurate enough.

"Sigh... I’m so used to seeing Pangtuan’s dad so full of life. I never imagined he’d become this ill," Fourth Granny said, standing by the bed and holding a basin of fresh water.

Liu Shi dipped a handkerchief in the water and gently wiped Xiang Minghou’s face.

The eight concubines sat at a nearby table, their eyes all fixed on the bed. It was obvious they had all been crying.

"The Old Madam is truly shameless, pushing our General to this state." Peony wiped away a tear. "If I’d known yesterday he’d get this sick from anger, I never would have run away. Right now, I just want to strangle that old woman."

Fourth Granny had also heard what happened yesterday. She sighed. "I’ve never seen parents like that. They’re all their own children, how can they be so biased?"

"The Old Madam thinks our General has no heir, so she’s always speaking to us with barbs in her words, mocking the General," Sansan said, her young face filled with resentment.

Hearing this, Fourth Granny glanced at Ye Qianning. The Xiang family’s matron favored sons over daughters. If it weren’t for the fact that Liu Shi, the concubines, and Pangtuan’s dad all adored Pangtuan, she would never have felt comfortable leaving the child in such a household. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Ye Qianning didn’t like to drag things out; she preferred to shut people up permanently. But she really wasn’t good at handling these petty family squabbles.

A soft approach wouldn’t work, but a hard one—beating the person to death—was out of the question.

"So, Xiang Minghou, you dare to wound your own mother? You ungrateful bastard! Get your ass out here!"

"Second Master, the General is ill! You should go back," a maidservant’s panicked voice cried out.

Inside the room, everyone exchanged glances, their anger flaring.

"Sick? That bastard could have one foot in the grave and still come back. How could he possibly be sick? Get out here! Stop playing mute!"

"Second Master, the General really is sick—"

"Get lost! He dared to hurt his own mother! Even if he were dead, I’d dig up his corpse and flog it!"

The moment Xiang Mingli’s words were out, all the concubines in the room shot to their feet. They stared toward the door, their expressions grim and their eyes blazing with fire.

Ye Qianning’s eyes narrowed dangerously. She hopped off the bed and said in a cold voice, "Aunties, please stay seated. I’ll go take a look."

’That brainless idiot. He’s constantly testing my limits.’

"Pangtuan..."

Ye Qianning held up a hand to stop them from speaking. If she didn’t let off some steam, she felt like she would suffocate.

Xiang Mingli kicked the maidservant aside and stormed into the courtyard. Fuming, he was just about to enter the room when he ran headfirst into Ye Qianning on her way out.

"It’s all your fault, you little bastard—"

Ye Qianning advanced on him, one deliberate step at a time.

Xiang Mingli opened his mouth to curse again, but when his eyes met Ye Qianning’s, the words caught in his throat. An involuntary shiver ran through him, and the hair on his arms stood on end.

’He was actually afraid of a little toddler?’

Ye Qianning’s eyes were piercing, and an intangible chill radiated from her entire being. Her face, which should have been childish and cute, was instead etched with a sinister, murderous intent.

Her features were soft and cherubic, but to look upon them now was to feel a bone-deep chill.