Open a Clinic to Cultivate Myself Chapter 14 A Leopard Never Changes Its Spot

Ning Tao came to the back of the banquet hall and entered the staff passage. He quickly picked up the scent of Jiang Yilong and Jiang Hao from thousands of complex smells and walked in the direction of the scent.

Finally, he came to a VIP lounge, whose door was closed.

Ning Tao stopped by the door and heard Jiang Yilong and Jiang Hao talking.

"Hao, why don't you just quit and come to my company?" Jiang Yilong's voice said. "You're my only child. Come and help me manage the company now, and it will be yours in the future."

"Did you bring me here to tell me this? I'm telling you, I don't like your company at all, and I don't care about it!" Jiang Hao's voice spat.

"Why don't you understand me, Hao? I'm your father. Blood is thicker than water. Is it so hard for you to forgive me?"

"Why didn't you say that blood is thicker than water when you abandoned mom and me? Besides, you even transferred the property when you abandoned us. Do you know what a hard life mother has had in those years in order to pay for my education?"

"Hao... I was wrong. Didn't I give the money back to your mother?"

"She didn't want the money, she wanted your apology! You promised Doctor Ning that you would kneel in front of mom and apologize if he cured you! I ask you, when will you make good on this promise?" Jiang Hao demanded, sounding emotional.

"Shall we not speak of Doctor Ning today? He... He's not normal." Jiang Yilong grunted in a hesitating manner.

"No, it's you who aren't normal! Tell me, when will you make good on your promise?"

"Hao, give me some more time. I'll go to Beidu in a month and apologize to your mother, okay? But you have to promise me that you'll quit your job to help me manage the company. I don't trust Zou Yumei and Zou Yulin anymore. They've been trying to take my money. You are the only family I have now."

"All you care about is money, not your family. I don't want to talk to you anymore!" Jiang Hao snapped and strode toward the door of the VIP lounge.

Ning Tao quickly left the hallway and entered the banquet hall.

The banquet hall was full of guests, and Ning Tao, whose all clothes that he dressed at the moment were not worth 100 yuan, suddenly stood out.

"Who is that man? How did he get in?"

"He might be a decorator at the wrong door. Why didn't anyone tell him to go out?"

"The security guards here are so irresponsible! How did they let him in?"

Some guests whispered, and more looked at Ning Tao with disdain.

Just then Jiang Hao entered the hall from the entrance to the lounge. With little effort to find him, she spotted Ning Tao in the hall and hurried up to him. Without any warning, she hugged Ning Tao and buried her face on his shoulder.

Ning Tao knew how bad she was feeling. "Don't be sad." He comforted her in a low voice. "Everything will be fine."

"He, he hasn't changed a bit." Said Jiang Hao, and her voice broke. "All he thinks about is money. I shouldn't have come this time..."

Ning Tao hesitated and finally put his arm around her waist. It was a comforting gesture. No matter how strong she was, she was always a woman, who needed a man's comfort and care when she was hurt. And Ning Tao instinctively played the role of the man who placated Jiang Hao.

The other men in the banquet hall were stunned. Under the gaze of a group of society's elites from the upper class, the man who was thought to be a decorator and got the wrong way openly embraced the most beautiful and graceful woman in the banquet hall!

"Isn't that Jiang Yilong's daughter Jiang Hao? Are you kidding me? She's hugging that poor guy! I think the delivery guys are better than him!"

"Ah, that guy doesn't deserve such a pretty girl."

"What's so good about that guy? I really don't know what's wrong with the present-day women..."

The banquet hall was buzzing with malice from different mouths, filling the high-end, grand hall. Ning Tao didn't make any mistakes, and being poor was his biggest mistake.

"Let's go. Get out of here. I don't want to be here anymore." Jiang Hao lifted her head from Ning Tao's shoulder. She did not expect that her seeking comfort would bring so many taunts to Ning Tao. It made her feel guilty and uneasy.

Ning Tao gave her a reassuring smile and said, "I don't care what they say. Whatever they say doesn't affect me. I'm worried about you. Are you feeling better? You must not get angry while your wound is not yet healed."

Jiang Hao was touched and a trace of a smile played across her lips. "I feel better now," she replied.

Just as they were talking Jiang Yilong came into the hall. He walked over to Ning Tao with a cold face.

Ning Tao looked at Jiang Yilong, looking calm, and his hands in his pants pocket.

Jiang Yilong stopped in front of Ning Tao, pulled out a check and handed it to him. "You cured me. You have a remarkable medical skill," he said. "But you're not gonna hit on my daughter. This is a hundred thousand yuan for the medical fee. Take the money and stay away from my daughter and don't come to me again."

Before Ning Tao could say anything, Jiang Hao denounced, "Jiang Yilong! You are insulting yourself!"

"Hao, I'm doing this for your own good," Jiang Yilong stated. "I've been there. I know what he wants."

Jiang Hao was about to argue back when Ning Tao said, "I just said you must not get mad. Why are you angry again? Let me have a word with your father."

Jiang Hao nodded.

"Oh, it's true that girls are partial to outsiders. See, you're her father, but your words don't work as well as the boy's," quipped Zou Yumei, who also came and was standing in the crowd. Obviously, she was just trying to add fuel to the fire.

"You shut up!" Jiang Yilong scolded Zou Yumei.

"That's the truth." Zou Yumei murmured. "How could you be mad at me?"

Jiang Yilong did not quarrel with Zou Yumei due to his pride, but transferred his anger to Ning Tao. "What are you still doing here? Take the money and get out of here!"

Ning Tao pulled his hands out of his pants pockets and leaned over Jiang Yilong's ear, whispering, "Jiang Yilong, your life is so cheap, only worth a hundred thousand yuan. I won't take your money, I only want you to fulfill the contract between us."

Jiang Yilong sneered and asked, "What contract did you say? How come I don't remember?"

"You'll remember," said Ning Tao. "When you remember, come to me in the village you forcibly demolished." Then he made a pause, reached over and patted Jiang Yilong on the shoulder. "Nice suit. You look better in this than you do in a hospital gown."

Jiang Yilong brushed Ning Tao's hand away and stuffed the check into Ning Tao's shirt pocket.

Ning Tao took the check out of his shirt pocket, and tore it into pieces. Then he threw the pieces in the air before he turned to leave.

"A poor boy acted as if he were a rich man. He should think about who he is."

"He must be thinking that he is underpaid, isn't he?"

"I didn't expect the poor boy was so cunning."

Harsh words came, but Ning Tao was unimpressed.

"Doctor Ning, wait. I'll go with you." Jiang Hao called as she turned to chase Ning Tao.

Suddenly, Jiang Yilong grabbed her wrist, and questioned, "Hao, why don't you understand? He came to me because he wanted to court you. You are so simple that you're cheated by him!"

"Let go of my hand!"

"I will never let you go today." Jiang Yilong reached out his left hand and grabbed Jiang Hao's wrist by two hands. But somehow he suddenly felt that his left hand was limp, and there seemed to be a sense of numbness in his veins.

Many guests crowded round.

"Miss Jiang, listen to your father. Your father did it for your own good."

"Yes, people like that guy are very scheming. He's lying to you."

"He must think there's too little money on the check. If your father had given him a million, he wouldn't have ripped the check."

A cacophony of persuasion filled Jiang Hao's ears.

She wanted to go out and leave with Ning Tao, but Jiang Yilong held onto her hand, and she couldn't push Jiang Yilong away in front of so many people. After all, he was her biological father. By the time she looked back in Ning Tao's direction, he was gone.

Walking out of the Hiding Dragon Club, Ning Tao took a glance back at the club and muttered, "A leopard never changes its spot. Now you drive me away, but before long you will be on your knees begging me. Then I will ask you to pay off all your debts!"

Chapter end