Ye Wutian raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course, I'll give you a deadline, um... let's say one month would be good, by then I should also have finished treating your mother."
"One month? You don't mean to say you'll marry me within this month?" Su Mengli looked at Ye Wutian with a skeptical expression.
"Why? Do you really want me to marry you?" Ye Wutian asked with a smile.
"Don't flatter yourself, I'm just worried that you'll regret it after a month." Su Mengli said disdainfully, although she was actually desperate to escape from Ye Wutian's clutches as soon as possible.
"You don't need to worry about that, I, Ye Wutian, never regret what I do," Ye Wutian said, patting his chest, but inside he was thinking: If I can't win your heart within a month, I might as well bash my head with a tofu block and be done with it.
In fact, with Ye Wutian's skills at courting, if he really focused on one girl, no matter how difficult, it would take him just one week. However, he liked to pursue multiple girls at once as it was more thrilling.
"Since you've put it that way, let's agree on that, but don't play the scoundrel then," Su Mengli didn't quite trust Ye Wutian, the slick operator.
"Tell me, how could a man of my charm and good looks possibly play the scoundrel?" Ye Wutian said with a face full of grievance.
Su Mengli rolled her eyes at Ye Wutian, then turned and walked into the ward.
Seeing Su Mengli and Ye Wutian enter, Jiang Senhui hurriedly greeted Ye Wutian respectfully and said with a smile, "Divine Doctor Ye, with your superb medical skills, you shouldn't bury your talents among the common folk. If you wouldn't mind, why not join our hospital as a distinguished expert? We'll definitely make the terms satisfactory for you."
"If you were the hospital director, I might even consider it." Just imagine, if I became the director myself, I could hire some pretty young nurses and have them take turns looking after me every day.
Hearing Ye Wutian's words, Jiang Senhui's face naturally didn't look too pleased. As the director of the City Central Hospital, he was usually treated with the utmost respect. However, as he was so humbly inviting Ye Wutian, and the latter was so ungracious, it naturally annoyed him.
However, no matter how unpleasant Jiang Senhui felt, he dared not show it. Having lived for quite a few decades, he was quite cunning himself. He knew some were arrogantly boastful without reason, while others, like this young man, had the skills to back up their arrogance. Now that this young man's medical skills were proven, his mentor must indeed be a hidden master of this world, certainly not someone he could afford to offend.
Thus, faced with Ye Wutian's rudeness, he just gave a dry laugh and then shut up, no longer inviting humiliation upon himself.
When Ye Wutian returned to the bedside, Su Zhiyuan chuckled and said, "Mr. Ye, now that you have cured my wife, the agreement between my daughter and you must be honored. Why don't you pick a date, and we'll settle the marriage then."
Although Su Zhiyuan's words seemed willing, Ye Wutian could tell from his tone and expression that there was absolutely no sincerity, which left him somewhat puzzled.
Similarly, Su Mengli looked at her father with a doubtful expression. Could it be that her father was impressed by Ye Wutian's medical skills? That seemed unlikely. Right now, her father most valued his company, and no matter how skilled Ye Wutian was, he couldn't save his company. Her father was probably more eager for her to marry the banker's son.
Ye Wutian didn't have much affection for his would-be father-in-law and merely responded nonchalantly to his proposal, "We can talk about marriage later—I don't have any plans for it right now."
Upon hearing Ye Wutian's response, a sly look flashed across Su Zhiyuan's face, "Since Mr. Ye doesn't envision marriage, why not stick with your earlier suggestion—I'll pay you one million RMB, as compensation for treating my wife."
With these words from Su Zhiyuan, the confusion for both Ye Wutian and Su Mengli was naturally resolved.
"So the old fox had already guessed I didn't want to marry yet, which is why he deliberately brought up the subject," Ye Wutian thought to himself.
"About the proposal from my dear father-in-law, I don't have any objections. If my beloved wife agrees, then let's proceed as discussed," Ye Wutian said, looking at Su Mengli with a mischievous smile.
Ye Wutian saying this naturally pleased Su Zhiyuan, who beamed at his daughter and said, "Mengli, why don't we decide on this then?"
Su Mengli glared fiercely at Ye Wutian. Clearly, Ye Wutian wasn't actually willing to accept the proposal but had cleverly pushed the difficult decision onto Su Mengli.
Su Mengli knew her father's proposal was not well-intentioned. If she and Ye Wutian broke off their marriage agreement, her father would definitely try every means to marry her off to Zheng Jian.