Chapter 1527: Chapter 1527: Eternal Maternal Love
Zhou Ran ultimately softened, because of maternal love.
“Where will you go after leaving here?” Zhou Ran asked quietly.
Xu ngxi’s mood had recovered a lot, but her gaze remained as hollow and powerless as ever: “I’ll go to a distant place, where no one can find , and wait for death.”
Zhou Ran’s heart trembled slightly, but she was helpless.
“Don’t give up on yourself. When you get there, find a hospital; you still need to deal with your illness.” Zhou Ran took out her wallet from her bag. “I didn’t bring much cash, but here, take all of this.”
Xu ngxi shook her head. “I don’t want it. I have nothing else to ask for; all I want is for Chaomu to be well.”
“Take it. You’ll need money for transportation and dication.” Zhou Ran couldn’t bear to watch her refuse.
Ah, this profound, eternal maternal love…
In the end, Xu ngxi accepted Zhou Ran’s money. She knew that, in the mont of being abandoned by everyone, this once-close friend still cared about her.
Perhaps, she should be grateful.
If not for those tangled, unresolvable emotional entanglents, she and Zhou Ran might still have been very good friends!
But ten years had passed; ti had transford everything. Zhou Ran was still beautiful, while she had changed.
What hadn’t changed, though, was her love for her daughter.
“ngxi, who is your daughter’s father?” Zhou Ran asked.
She could tell that Xu ngxi deeply loved her daughter.
“After arriving here, I had her with soone from the countryside. Aran, please don’t ask anymore,” Xu ngxi lowered her head.
Seeing that she was unwilling to say more, Zhou Ran refrained from questioning further. She knew that the child could not possibly belong to Shen Cexian; after all these years, Shen Cexian hadn’t been able to find Xu ngxi.
But she never imagined the child might belong to Bai Xuan.
“Aran, this secret is sothing only the two of us know…” Xu ngxi raised her eyes to Zhou Ran. “Please, never tell anyone.”
“I won’t tell anyone. I keep my promises, always,” Zhou Ran responded calmly.
Because they were good friends, she valued their promises very deeply.
Xu ngxi nodded and held Zhou Ran’s hand. “Aran, thank you—truly, thank you… I can be at peace now.”
Zhou Ran didn’t say anything further. For a woman with a terminal illness, life was already unbearably cruel.
She couldn’t bear to rub salt into Xu ngxi’s wounds, so she did what she could to fulfill her requests.
However, later… Too many things happened, things beyond her control.
“Aran, you must never tell Chaomu the truth. She would be heartbroken. If she knew that her mother abandoned her, she would cry.” Xu ngxi choked on her words.
Xu Chaomu had a great relationship with her and deeply loved her.
If she knew her mother had abandoned her, how would she feel…
“I promise you,” Zhou Ran said.
Only then did Xu ngxi feel assured. She talked to Zhou Ran for a long ti.
That ti, they stayed together for quite a while.
Later, afraid that Xu Chaomu might return ho or that they might be discovered, they packed up under the cover of night and left through the back door together.
Zhou Ran had driven there, and when the car pulled away and went far enough, Xu ngxi saw her ho explode in a gas explosion, followed by roaring flas that engulfed everything…
They both saw this scene but chose silence.
…
Scenes from the past replayed in Zhou Ran’s mind for a long, long ti, like watching a film. Her heart no longer stirred the way it had back then.
Later, as promised, she brought Xu Chaomu to the Shen Family. However, Xu Chaomu wasn’t as obedient as Zhou Ran had imagined, and events didn’t unfold as she had hoped.
Until Xu Chaomu turned eighteen, she realized everything had beco uncontrollable.
Xu Chaomu secretly liked Shen Chi. This was sothing she could not allow.
What followed was the scene where she drove Xu Chaomu away at eighteen.
She wasn’t entirely without compassion, but since the Shen Family had raised her for eight years, that was already more than enough. They had fulfilled their duty.
Xu ngxi, based on their agreent, never reappeared. At that ti, Zhou Ran didn’t know whether she was alive or dead, but judging by her illness, she assud she had died.
Later, she accidentally discovered that her precious son, Shen Chi, had feelings for Xu Chaomu—but because Xu Chaomu was young, he didn’t express them and kept his love buried inwardly.
This was sothing Zhou Ran could not tolerate. She refused to watch her son’s future be destroyed by this kind of love.
Shen Chi’s perfect match was Bai Man—a union of strength and prestige, the kind of marriage befitting a wealthy family.
It made her question whether her choices and monts of compassion back then were mistaken!
In front of Shen Cexian, she played the role of a vicious wife; in front of her son and the world, she played the role of an executioner. She bore all of this so her son could grow stronger and not be muddled by fleeting emotions of love.
Over the years, she invested her all in tearing Shen Chi and Xu Chaomu apart.
But she overlooked one thing: Shen Chi was not like her. Shen Chi was calr, wiser, and better at weighing matters.
In the end, he still married Xu Chaomu — and through all these years, it hadn’t been bad.
…
At this mont, Miao Xiu had just finished speaking, laying out all the truths clearly for Shen Chi in an objective, rational manner, devoid of any personal emotion.
During Miao Xiu’s narration, Shen Chi remained almost entirely silent.
When he finished listening, Shen Chi seed less furious about Xu ngxi abandoning Xu Chaomu.
As a mother, Xu ngxi was extraordinary. She sacrificed herself for Xu Chaomu.
“This is the story of the past. As for what happened in later years, Mr. Shen, do you want to hear it directly, or should I continue speaking?” Miao Xiu asked.
“Just give the quick version,” Shen Chi said flatly.
He had never t Xu ngxi, but he had heard her na countless tis from Xu Chaomu.
In Xu Chaomu’s heart, Xu ngxi was the best mother—bar none!
“Based on the recordings in the device, Xu ngxi eventually went to Qing City, changed her identity, and quietly sought treatnt. She missed her daughter terribly. In the recordings, the person she ntioned most was Mrs. Zhou,” Miao Xiu said. “However, she kept her promise and never returned.”
“Did she know about the things that happened to Chaomu afterward?” Shen Chi asked with a frown.
“She was mostly unaware, only finding out about major events that made it on TV or online. For example, during the expo, when you publicly confessed to Mrs. Shen. Xu ngxi said in the recordings that she was so emotional she stayed up all night watching that video over and over. She said her daughter was truly beautiful—more beautiful than when she was little.”
“Of course, she also expressed gratitude toward Mrs. Zhou in the recordings. She was truly thankful—without a hint of pretense,” Miao Xiu added.
Zhou Ran fell into silence; Xu ngxi almost certainly didn’t know about her forcing Xu Chaomu to leave or her interference between Shen Chi and Xu Chaomu.
In Xu ngxi’s heart, she might even have believed she had enabled Shen Chi and Xu Chaomu to be together.
“She said she hadn’t expected to live for so many years…” Miao Xiu sighed.
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