BXBX NOVEL Chapter 241 - 232: Eloping with Someone
Even if you tied me up in a sack, filled it with cement, and threw me into the sea to be eaten by sharks, it would still be a fact.”
‘Go get a sack! If she can’t explain herself, just bag her up!” Tang Daye angrily ordered his bodyguards.
“What causes anorexia? Do you think taking her to a Chinese doctor, giving her an appetite-stimulating medicine or using Western medicine to treat her nausea will make her better? Let me tell you, the person who made her sick isn’t someone else, it’s you.” Xiao Qian pointed at the man in front of her, who was worth billions, with a very professional attitude.
If you want to hear it, I’ll give you a good explanation. Anorexia almost exclusively affects women. Nowadays, society’s aesthetic demands that girls be slender and delicate. People have a herd mentality, and some women constantly put pressure on themselves to lose weight in order to be recognized. This disrupts their eating patterns, and when they encounter setbacks, they feel unwelcome and inferior. If there is also parent-child conflict, the probability of developing anorexia or bulimia skyrockets.”
Xiao Qian’s professional explanation made Tang Daye sneer.
“Nonsense! How could my daughter possibly feel inferior? What does she lack? She has the best of everything when it comes to food, clothing, and accommodation. Even the school she attends costs more than a hundred thousand yuan a year – a prestigious school. How can she be inferior?”
Xiao Qian scoffed, “Do you think you’ve given her the best? The root of her inferiority might be the parent-child conflict. In her heart, she doesn’t understand why she’s a child without her parents by her side. Can all the material things you provide for her satisfy a child’s desire for a family? When other little friends have their parents with them, where are you?”
Anorexia nervosa partly occurs in patients due to family conflicts, social pressure, and the confusion of adolescence, which leads to emotional conflicts and eventually develops into anorexia.
“She has always known that her father is a businessman and has to work every day to make money. Without a job, what would I give her to provide her with a luxurious life?”
“Shuixian is an introverted child with an excessive dependence on family and is very sensitive. Her mother is no longer around, so you’re the only one she can rely on. If you could take a little time off from making money and eat with her every day, would she end up like this?”
Although anorexia may be pathologically related to genetics or hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction, family systems theory in psychology believes that the root of anorexia nervosa lies in a poor family environment. “It’s all nonsense, absurd, and unreasonable.” Tang Daye felt as if Xiao Qian’s words were like a sharp sword piercing his heart. It was so absurd that his most cherished daughter was sick because of him.
I’ve heard from my eldest brother about your achievements. You started from scratch, and that’s very impressive. You are an upright and outstanding entrepreneur with courage and boldness. But when it comes to being a father, you don’t make the grade. Why do you think your daughter was able to eat those awful chive dumplings?”
“She’ll eat anything when she’s hungry!”
Hiding the condition from the doctor is the most foolish behavior. You must feel it’s indefensible, right? She hasn’t been able to eat more than a few bites of food in a week, and anorexia has rendered her nearly incapable of feeling hunger. While I don’t know about your past together, I guess that perhaps when you weren’t so busy, you might have made her such a meal, and she subconsciously remembers the taste.”
Xiao Qian’s words made Tang Daye pause. It seemed as if some long-forgotten scene appeared in his mind, but it was vague due to the passage of time.
You may think it’s unpalatable, but to her, food accompanied by her father might be the most delicious.”
Xiao Qian turned to leave, took two steps, then stopped.
“You can have someone bag me up anytime. You know where my house is, but as a doctor, I have to do what I should. You need to think about whether you’ve done everything you’re supposed to do as a father.”
The two bodyguards instinctively blocked Xiao Qian’s way.
“Do you treat every patient like this, or is it because Shuixian is my daughter that you think there’s something to gain?” There was a hint of barely perceptible fatigue in Tang Daye’s voice.
An experienced and cunning man had his deepest and most painful spot touched by a teenage girl. It was both exhausting and heartbreaking.
“There are two kinds of people who can be my patients: one is those who are so rich that I can cut them a fat slice and still have plenty, and the other is those who I have a good affinity with and wouldn’t mind treating without getting paid. Although Shuixian’s identity is technically the former, I can tell you that I have a good affinity with her. Even if she were not the daughter of Tang Daye, Director Tang, but the daughter of a roadside fried dough fritter vendor, I would still save her–”
Xiao Qian paused and calmly scanned Tang Daye, “Maybe, if she were the daughter of a fritter vendor, she wouldn’t be sick.”
Then she turned, looking calm but unstoppable, and spoke to the two bodyguards.
“Get out of my way.”
The bodyguards were shocked by her aura and couldn’t help but let her pass, as Xiao Qian held her head high and walked away.
When she was out the door, the two bodyguards regained their senses. Why did they let her go?
They quickly asked Tang Daye.
“Boss, do you want us to catch her?”
Tang Daye waved his hand weakly. That stab Xiao Qian gave him at his heart was too painful.
Upon leaving, Xiao Qian saw Shuixian standing expressionlessly at the door, unsure how much she had heard.
Tang Daye saw her too and panicked.
“Shuixian, how did you get here?”
Did his daughter hear everything?
Shuixian acted as if she hadn’t seen him and turned to Xiao Qian.
“I want to go with you.”
Your legs are your own. You’re free to do whatever you want.” Xiao Qian shrugged.
“Where are you going?” Tang Daye took a step forward.
Shuixian looked back at him, “Don’t follow me, or I’ll run to a place where you can’t find me!”
Then she turned to Xiao Qian and said, “Take me with you!”
Tang Daye could only watch helplessly as his daughter ran away from home with a defiant little girl under his watch.
“Boss, should we secretly protect them?” the bodyguard asked.
Tang Daye waved his hand, “Keep your distance and follow them, but don’t let them find out.”
Xiao Qian led Shuixian out the door, and the two of them hailed a taxi. Xiao Qian took her back to her own house.
Jia Xiufang saw her daughter come home hand in hand with a skinny little girl.
“Qian’er, who is this?”
“Mom, this is my friend. You can call her Shuixian.”
“Hello, Auntie.” Shuixian curiously looked around Xiao Qian’s house, and Xiao Qian took her to her room.
Xiao Qian’s room was a small loft with very limited space. She invited Shuixian to sit down, and Shuixian looked around.
“Shocked by the impoverished lifestyle? Your home’s bathroom is bigger than my room, right?” Xiao Qian joked.
Shuixian nodded, “Yes, but I lived in a house like this a long time ago as well..”