Su Ronggui went straight to the hospital.
Su Rongyu and Xin Wan were waiting at the entrance of the ergency room.
"What exactly happened?" he asked as soon as he arrived.
Su Rongyu appeared listless, his lips were pale, clearly not fully recovered, and he seed too drained to respond to him. Xin Wan explained the situation, "We don’t know either. He went out in the morning and ca back at noon without eating. He went straight to his room to sleep. In the evening, Auntie went to call him for dinner, knocked on the door with no response, and the fourth brother had to break in, only to find him unconscious on the bed with a pill bottle on the floor. We don’t know how many pills he took."
Su Ronggui sat down next to Su Rongyu and said to Xin Wan, "I’ll stay here. You should go ho first."
Xin Wan hesitated for a mont, but considering the family’s current chaotic state, she nodded, "Thanks to you two brothers, I’m leaving. Call if anything happens."
The entrance of the ergency room was very quiet, so quiet it felt like ti had stopped. Su Ronggui kept checking his watch, feeling that each interval seed prolonged, but whenever he looked, it had only been a few minutes.
Several hours later, the doctor ca out and told him that the amount of sleeping pills ingested was not too much. The patient should be fine and was being moved to a ward for observation.
He breathed a sigh of relief and looked back at Su Rongyu’s pallid face, trying to convince him to go ho, as he could manage alone here.
But Su Rongyu shook his head.
Seeing Su Rongyu’s exhausted appearance, he stopped trying to persuade him.
The night passed.
In the morning, Su Ronggui received a ssage from Tu Hengsha, asking if sothing had happened.
He left the ward to call her, and her gentle voice ca through, "Xiao Xu, what’s wrong?"
He didn’t hide anything from her, "Little Sha, my mom attempted suicide by taking sleeping pills. She’s been rescued at the hospital. I’m still here."
Tu Hengsha’s relationship with Shang Qingi and the Su family was truly complicated. The last thing the Su family wanted was to see her now, but Shang Qingi was Xiao Xu’s mother...
She could only say, "Take care of yourself, don’t work too hard, and rember to eat."
"Okay, you too, don’t overthink, call if there’s anything, and stay safe."
"Mm, don’t worry about ," she hung up the phone, prepared to go to work, but still sighed. What was fate planning? How had she and her future mother-in-law ended up like this?
Every girl begins with the most beautiful fantasies about love and marriage—being pampered by her beloved, a harmonious family—just like she initially had. However, not every dream becos reality. The knots between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have existed for a long ti, and the knot between her and Shang Qingi was a dead one.
She believed Su Ronggui would not disappoint her. She also believed that, in fact, Su Ronggui had distanced himself from Shang Qingi. Still, Shang Qingi was his mother. He could move away from her, go against her wishes, and even stand entirely against her and the whole Su family with her this ti. But the mother-son relationship could not be erased. He couldn’t ignore her life, illness, age, or death.
She didn’t know whether Shang Qingi still loved this son, but she loved him so much that she couldn’t bear to see him in distress and wouldn’t make things difficult for him.
So she still put her full trust in him.
In the afternoon, Shang Qingi woke up, still a bit groggy but aware she was in the hospital.
She gradually pieced together the events of the previous day in her mind.
In the morning, she went to visit an old lady friend, hoping to rely on a few people and hold on to a bit of hope, but instead, she overheard the won who usually greeted her with smiles mocking the Su family’s misfortune. They even said that Shang Qingi looked sharp and an, a woman like her wouldn’t bring prosperity to her family. They cited evidence that none of her husbands lasted, and now Su Zhen shared the sa fate. They even said she ddled too much, it was all her fault that the Su family had fallen to this point, lanting that Su Zhen was burdened by a woman.
She, being such a strong-willed person, couldn’t bear these rumors. She practically stumbled out of the eting venue and locked herself in her room to cry her heart out under the covers.
These past days, she had been physically and ntally exhausted. After a cathartic cry, she was in a daze, partly asleep and partly awake. In her dreams, she saw many people and things; she saw Su Zhen, Su Rongcheng, and Su Rongxing surrounding her, accusing her of being a jinx, saying she ruined the Su family. In her dream, she crouched down covering her head, unable to even defend herself, only hearing their buzzing criticism. She also dread of Xu Pingzhang, covered in blood, floating towards her, calling her na, wanting to take her away. She dread of Mrs. Xu rolling down a slope, becoming a bloody figure, then suddenly standing up, floating in front of her, her face and hair covered in blood, and her eyes bulging as she demanded her life.
In her dream, she scread, calling Su Zhen to save her. Suddenly Su Zhen appeared, but with a noose around his neck, tongue out, just like in a movie execution scene...
She woke up like this, her ears still seed filled with the ghostly calls for her life. She was frightened and utterly despaired, unable to think straight and took the pills...
She never expected to wake up but found herself awake again, hearing all sorts of eerie laughter and screams. As she closed her eyes, Su Zhen, Xu Pingzhang, the previous granny-in-law, all drifting before her, each demanding her life.
She quickly opened her eyes, clutching the blanket, trembling all over.
A face appeared before her, faintly resembling Xu Pingzhang. She scread and hit him, shouting, "Don’t co near! Don’t co near!"
"Mom! Mom! It’s !"
Hearing sothing was not right, she took a closer look and realized it wasn’t Xu Pingzhang; it was her son.
She imdiately flung herself into Su Ronggui’s arms, crying.
The commotion in the ward alerted the doctor. After checking on her, the doctor found no major issues but reminded Su Ronggui not to let the patient be subjected to any more stress.
After sleeping deeply again, Shang Qingi gradually cald down, though she still clung to the blanket, shivering; when asked, all she said was that she was cold.
Su Ronggui fed her so hot water. She stared at him with a peculiar expression.
After Su Ronggui put the cup away, she looked at him with tears in her eyes and said she no longer wanted to live.
Su Ronggui could only console her, "Mom, don’t put too much pressure on yourself. As for the company’s matter, face the necessary consequences. Regarding Dad, there’s no conclusion yet, please don’t overthink."
Shang Qingi shook her head, "It’s all gone, everything is gone, what reason do I have to continue living? Your dad is in there, the company is finished. I’ve been strong all my life, and now at this age, I end up with nothing, what’s the point of being alive? How can I face living?"
"How is it that you have nothing?" Su Ronggui said, "The company can start again, you still have the family and Rongyu, don’t you rember?" Rongyu carried the Su surna, he was her strongest reason to remain in the Su family.
But Shang Qingi just wouldn’t listen, shaking her head endlessly. Su Ronggui continued to console her, talking for several hours, losing count of how much he said, until Su Rongcheng and Xin Wan ca to visit her. Their manner was the sa as before, especially Su Rongcheng—not particularly warm, but not hostile either—and only then did she slightly co around.
Su Ronggui sighed in relief, "See, you’re not without anything, aren’t you still with everyone?" There was a chasm between him and his mother, but he didn’t wish for her to choose death just like that.
However, Shang Qingi looked at him with a deep expression, "And what about you?"
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