The Domineering Chief Dotes on His Wife

Chapter 686 What’s so pretentious?

He wiped away her tears with a distressed look on his face. Lin Jiaran lifted her hands and put them around Lu Jingshen's waist.

"It's not your problem."

"What's the problem?" Lu Jingshen's brows furrowed again.

"Is he really sick? Or is he just pretending to be sick to deceive me? I want to hear the truth."

"I just found out about this yesterday."

"How did you know?" Lin Jiaran raised her head and looked at Lu Jingshen.

"He had his medicine bottle with him and couldn't drink alcohol."

"So you were with him yesterday and you drank all the wine?"

"Ah."

"What disease?"

"Polyps have grown on the surface of the gastric mucosa." Lu Jingshen replied with a frown. He only learned that Shen Boren had some health problems yesterday when he was socializing.

"This doesn't seem serious. My uncle had the same disease a few years ago and recovered after a minor operation."

"It's not a serious illness. What are you going to act in front of me?"

"He said the test results showed a risk of cancer and asked me not to tell you about his illness. If I were too close to him, you would become suspicious. He didn't want you to know about his illness because he was afraid that you would think he was trying to gain sympathy." Lu Jingshen answered truthfully without hesitation. He knew that Mrs. Lu already knew about this and he couldn't hide it.

Shen Boren was at home. When he heard that Lin Jiaran had arrived, he hurried to the door to see.

"Jia Jia, why are you here?" Seeing Lin Jiaran coming, Shen Boren looked surprised.

"Can't I come?"

"Dad doesn't mean what you think."

After entering the house, Shen Boren instructed Mrs. Wu to quickly arrange dinner.

"You came alone?"

"Lu Jingshen has to go back to Ancheng for something, and I don't want to live there alone."

"If you don't want to live there, you can come back. Don't worry, Dad won't disturb you."

During the meal, Shen Boren enthusiastically added a lot of delicious food to Lin Jiaran's bowl and asked her to eat more.

"What's wrong? Are these not to your taste? What do you want to eat? I'll ask Sister Wu to make it for you again." Seeing that Lin Jiaran didn't move her chopsticks, Shen Boren asked with concern.

"No need." Lin Jiaran picked up the chopsticks.

Seeing Lin Jiaran start to eat, Shen Boren smiled with satisfaction and started eating too.

After dinner, Lin Jiaran took the initiative to suggest having a chat with Shen Boren, and the father and daughter sat face to face in the living room.

"Jia Jia, do you have anything to say, or do you want to go back?"

Lin Jiaran shook her head.

"My uncle and his family have all gone to Ancheng. Let's find a date next year to move Mom back to Ancheng. My uncle said next year's date is suitable."

"If you don't agree with this, forget it."

"I'm still in Jincheng. Just agree with me. Your mother cares about you the most. She won't object to your opinion."

"Do you want to stay in Jincheng alone?"

"Let's not talk about the past. I'd better stay in Jincheng."

"If you insist on doing this, I have nothing to say. Just don't think too much about it and don't say that our family is isolating you."

"Anyway, I'm used to it." Shen Boren said with an embarrassed look and a sigh.

"You are already this old, why are you still being so pretentious? I didn't stop you from going to Ancheng. You clearly want to go, but you have to pretend to be so profound."

"I don't want to see you and Lin Yehua's family having fun together."

"I just want us to get along more normally in the future. If you don't go, I will call you uncle from now on. Don't pretend you didn't hear it." Lin Jiaran stood up and looked at Shen Boren.

After saying that, Lin Jiaran walked away, and Shen Boren stood up eagerly, "I didn't say I wouldn't go!"

Lin Jiaran stopped and turned around.

"I'd rather you didn't say anything. I will never admit that I am your uncle." Shen Boren said again.

"Then go and have the surgery tomorrow."

"What kind of surgery?"

"I know everything you said to Lu Jingshen today, and I answered the phone call last night."

Shen Boren was silent for a while before speaking, "You know everything?"

Suddenly, Shen Boren smiled faintly, "Jia Jia, are you worried about me?"

"Don't think too much. I'm just worried that you haven't divided your property clearly."

Lin Jiaran denied it hypocritically, but the smile on Shen Boren's face did not disappear. Although he was sick, he at least knew that his daughter still cared about him, and he was satisfied with that.

"It's not a serious illness, there's no need to rush for surgery."

"If you delay it, it will become serious. It's just a minor surgery and you will recover in a few days. It won't affect your time to attend the wedding. Why delay it?"

"I'm not afraid of what would happen if the surgery got worse. I missed it last time, and I can't miss it this time!"

Shen Boren's tone was very certain. It was not a serious problem. He just needed an operation. No one could be 100% sure of the outcome. This time he had to attend the wedding as a father. He must not let Lin Yehua take over his identity.

"My uncle raised me. It's not too much to ask him to attend as a father. He won't compete with you for the status this time."

"Either you go for surgery tomorrow, or I'll call you uncle and never call you dad for the rest of my life. It's your choice!"

How can we let his daughter call Lin Yehua dad for the rest of her life and never call him dad?

Shen Boren tried his best to give him only two choices: either to have the surgery first and attend the wedding as a father, or not to have the surgery and not be able to attend the wedding as a father.

He had to choose the first one!

Shen Boren was admitted to the hospital overnight. The doctor had explained his condition to him clearly earlier, including how to treat it. However, he was worried that there would be accidents during the operation which would delay his ability to attend the wedding, so he chose to delay the operation.

"Didn't you go back to Ancheng?" Shen Boren asked as he sat on the hospital bed and looked at Lu Jingshen who walked in.

"I just said it casually." Lin Jiaran said. She went back to Shen's house in the afternoon because she wanted Shen Boren to come to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible. Lu Jingshen didn't go because he personally discussed in detail with the doctor in the hospital and arranged how Shen Boren should be treated so that he could recover as soon as possible.

As soon as Lin Jiaran opened her mouth, Shen Boren was speechless.

When Lin Jiaran walked out of the ward and Lu Jingshen didn't follow, Shen Boren began to lecture Lu Jingshen, "Did you leak it?"

Only Lu Jingshen knew about this matter. He was not the one who leaked the secret, and he couldn't think of a second person. And Lin Jiaran said that she overheard it, and Shen Boren didn't quite believe it. He thought she was trying to greet Lu Jingshen.

"I couldn't lie to her."

Shen Boren narrowed his eyes, "I can't lie, why are you pretending to be innocent?"

After all, Lu Jingshen has been involved in the underworld, and his style of doing things is definitely not the kind of indecisive person. There is no way he would not tell a white lie.

Standing by, Lu Jingshen chose to remain silent and let Shen Boren talk to him. When Mrs. Lu asked him to tell the truth and wondered if Shen Boren was cheating, he began to doubt.

Thinking that there was an old man in his family who liked to use illness to deceive his young wife, he suspected that Shen Boren wanted to use his illness to restore his relationship with Mrs. Lu, or had some other intention, so he exaggerated the story and made Mrs. Lu mistakenly believe that the illness was serious.