"Wuwuwu—!" Ou Minghan wailed louder, desperately beating the bed.
Ou Tiantian snapped back to reality. She got up and walked to the bedside.
"Do you want to speak?" Ou Tiantian asked.
"Wuwuwu!" Ou Minghan nodded frantically.
Ou Tiantian pulled the towel out.
"Cough cough…" Ou Minghan coughed uncomfortably and said urgently, "Tiantian, it was just a dream! Dreams are fake, not real! You're taking a dream seriously and don't trust me because of a dream, isn't that ridiculous?! Think about it, the Ye family is still standing! Cen Ya and I don't have a son, and you haven't raised that child! You are my only family, how could I possibly send you to a mental hospital?"
Ou Tiantian's expression was unreadable.
Indeed, the events in the dream differed greatly from reality. However, the biggest difference was that Ye Zhi was absent from her dream.
She had this dream because she was truly frightened by Ye Zhi during their encounter. That very night, she had this long dream.
At first, she hadn't taken the dream seriously. But later, many events occurred that made her increasingly convinced that the dream must have happened in the past.
"Then let me ask you," Ou Tiantian looked at him calmly, "if everything in the dream were true, if you had taken over the Ye Corporation, had a child with Cen Ya, and she returned with a fortune of hundreds of billions, would you have done what you did in the dream?"
Ou Minghan froze for a moment, then quickly replied, "Of course not!"
"Tch—" Ou Tiantian let out a sarcastic laugh. "Brother, do you believe that yourself?"
"Of course, I believe it!" Ou Minghan's voice rose a few decibels, as if this would give Ou Tiantian confidence.
"My dream isn't finished yet. Let me finish first," Ou Tiantian suddenly said.
Ou Minghan wanted to persuade her further, but he glanced at the towel in Ou Tiantian's hand and finally decided to humor her.
"Where was I? Ah, the mental hospital. I was locked up there, and that mental hospital secretly conducted all sorts of human experiments on patients. I suffered immensely…"
As she spoke, Ou Tiantian seemed to recall something terrible, her body trembling slightly.
Soon, she took a deep breath and calmed down.
"That place was hell, but I endured it. The only thing that kept me going was you. I finally found an opportunity, stole a doctor's phone, and called you.
I cried and apologized, promising that I would never target Cen Ya again, nor would I bother your family of three. I hoped that you would take me out of the mental hospital, considering I had raised your child. But you said…
'You're useless to me now. Just go and die.'"
"I…" Ou Minghan tried to argue, but Ou Tiantian placed a finger on his lips.
"Shh! Brother, don't interrupt me. I'll get angry."
Her eyes were still innocent, and her words carried a hint of childish sweetness, yet Ou Minghan inexplicably felt that the current Ou Tiantian was terrifying. He must not anger her, or the consequences would be severe.
"To make me give up, you also told me many truths," Ou Tiantian withdrew her finger and looked at him, saying softly, "You said that the mango cake I ate back then was actually arranged by you. It was because my parents had just adopted you, but I didn't like you and didn't accept you. So you used this method to save my life, making me accept you as my brother.
You also said that my heart condition was never that serious. But in order to make our parents dote on me more and focus on nurturing you, you secretly added many heart-damaging medications to my diet. That's why my condition fluctuated and never fully healed.
You said that Dad was killed by you. Because Dad always wanted to divide the Ou family's assets in half, with me and you each getting a share. You were furious, thinking that you should just give me a respectable dowry and marry me off. I was just a girl, but you were a boy, how could I compete with you for the family fortune?
So, you tampered with Dad's car, and Dad had a car accident. You then took over the family company.
However, Dad didn't die in the car accident. He was severely injured and remained in the intensive care unit. He must have suspected something, so on his deathbed, he met Mom and discussed changing the will.
Later, Mom's health deteriorated, and she often fainted at home. You told us that Mom was overcome with grief and that we should spend more time with her.
But Mom's condition worsened. One day, she fainted and fell down the stairs. By the time she was rushed to the hospital, it was too late to save her.
At that time, you were the only one present. You told everyone that you saw Mom fall down the stairs and didn't have time to help her. But you later told me that Mom had discovered you were poisoning her, so she confronted you. Seeing that no one was around, you directly pushed Mom down the stairs…"
Ou Tiantian's eyes welled up with tears, her voice choked with emotion, and she couldn't continue.
Ou Minghan's expression was incredibly complex. If this were truly just a dream, it was far too detailed and… real!
These events were all true, and he had always carried them out discreetly. Only he knew about them, yet why was Ou Tiantian so aware?
Ou Tiantian took a deep breath and continued, "My parents are both dead. You thought you could seize all their inheritance, but you didn't expect them to have left a will long ago.
They left most of their fortune to me. However, it wasn't given all at once, but rather a certain amount each year. If anything happened to me, the remaining money would be donated to charity.
I could withdraw that money in advance, but I had to reach a certain age and have sufficient reason.
On the phone, you told me how much you hated them. If they hadn't set up this will, you wouldn't have let me live this long, nor would you have gone to such lengths to help me get a heart transplant…
Oh, right, you also said that my heart condition never reached the point where a transplant was absolutely necessary. My heart was a bit fragile, but it could have lasted for another twenty to thirty years with proper care.
However, in order to make me trust and depend on you completely, you deliberately exaggerated the situation and went to great lengths to arrange a heart transplant for me.
You also told me that you had already found a suitable heart. Cen Ya's heart wasn't the most suitable, but you chose Cen Ya's heart to let me witness how good you were to me and to turn my familial affection into possessiveness.
However, even that heart transplant surgery was a fraud. You never actually replaced my heart with Cen Ya's."