Stepping out of the school gate, Xiao Bai suddenly stopped, his face serious as he said to Wan Chu’er, "Chuchu, there’s sothing I need to tell you. I hope you can stay calm after hearing it."
Upon hearing this, Wan Chu’er felt a jolt in her heart, and her face turned deathly pale. She stared at Xiao Bai intently and asked word by word, "Is it about my mom?"
Xiao Bai was sowhat surprised by Wan Chu’er’s quick reaction, and unable to bear her gaze for a mont, he looked away and said with heavy sorrow, "Your mom... she’s fallen ill..."
"Where is she?" Wan Chu’er scread. "Where is she?!"
She didn’t want to hear anything else; she just wanted to see Bai Zhixi at that very mont.
Xiao Bai was silent for a mont before saying, "At Renmin Hospital."
The next second, Wan Chu’er took off running. She broke away from Xiao Bai and, without thinking, sprinted towards the direction of Renmin Hospital.
Mom, Mom!
The only thought in Wan Chu’er’s mind was to see Bai Zhixi.
"Ah—" Xiao Bai, caught off guard, stumbled as Wan Chu’er pushed past him. He turned to see Wan Chu’er already running into the distance, and he quickly called out and then hurriedly hailed a taxi to follow her.
Ten minutes later, the taxi stopped at the entrance of Renmin Hospital, and as soon as the back door opened, Wan Chu’er burst out, nearly falling to the ground.
"Be careful." Xiao Bai said worriedly from behind.
Wan Chu’er didn’t respond to him and, after stumbling a few steps, continued to rush into the hospital.
Inside the ward, Bai Zhixi lay weakly on the bed, an IV drip inserted into her arm, while Dabai sat beside her.
"Chuchu is supposed to co back today, I need to go ho. If this child finds out that I am lying here, I am afraid she won’t be able to handle it." Said Bai Zhixi with difficulty to Dabai.
Dabai sighed and adjusted the blanket over her.
Yesterday morning, before he had gotten out of bed, Xiao Bai suddenly called him and asked him to co to Renmin Hospital of Wutong County imdiately.
He initially thought sothing had happened to Xiao Bai, so he skipped his al and went straight to the hospital, only to find it was Bai Zhixi who was unwell. Xiao Bai hurriedly explained in a few words and ran off. Only after Bai Zhixi woke up did he understand that Xiao Bai had gone to pick up Wan Chu’er in Wanzhou.
According to the doctor, Bai Zhixi had been aware of her illness for two months now—the two months leading up to Wan Chu’er’s college entrance examination. In order not to affect Wan Chu’er, Bai Zhixi had actually kept her condition a secret all this ti.
He was sowhat impressed by Bai Zhixi’s fortitude; the pain of the disease was not sothing that just anyone could endure.
In Wutong County, the closest people to Bai Zhixi and her daughter were probably his household; he heard that Wan Chu’er’s father was an orphan.
"Your condition does not allow you to leave the hospital again." He said somberly.
Bai Zhixi gave a bitter smile, no longer speaking, yet thinking on when she would regain so strength, so she could handle her discharge procedures.
When she went to ask Xiao Bai for help yesterday, she had just finished speaking when she couldn’t hold on any longer and fainted. When she ca to, she was lying here with Dabai at her side.
After receiving a call from Xiao Bai and knowing that Chuchu and Xiao Bai had indeed gone to Wanzhou, she breathed a sigh of relief and entrusted Xiao Bai to find a way to delay for a day, making sure to watch Chuchu fill out her college entrance application forms.
This ti it was probably impossible to keep it a secret any longer. Chuchu was bound to find out.
She pondered blankly, thinking about how to comfort the child, how to encourage her to stay strong and keep moving forward, and she thought about her own arrangents for the inevitable, and Chuchu’s future.
Just as she was reflecting, a burst of running footsteps ca from outside, and then the door was pushed open from the outside.
When Wan Chu’er saw Bai Zhixi lying on the hospital bed, she felt sothing collapse inside her heart.
Bai Zhixi’s face was pale and emaciated, and it seed that she might sink into the sickbed.
"Mom..." Wan Chu’er called out, only to realize that her throat was already hoarse. She slowly walked step by step towards Bai Zhixi.
Behind her, Xiao Bai caught up. Wan Chu’er ran so fast that he couldn’t keep up.
Dabai thought for a mont and then stood up, walked straight to the door, gave his brother a look to prevent him from entering and speaking, and then pulled the door closed from the outside, leaving with Xiao Bai.
Bai Zhixi and Wan Chu’er needed a space to talk.
Outside, Xiao Bai’s concerned questions faintly reached them: "How is Aunt Bai doing?"
...
Bai Zhixi forced a smile on her face, but that sorrowful smile only stung Wan Chu’er’s eyes. She rembered in her previous life how Bai Zhixi had suddenly collapsed at her shoe repair stall.
Given a chance to do it all over again, was Bai Zhixi still going to leave?
"Chuchu, you’re here? Have you settled everything in Wanzhou? Have you filled in your college entrance exam choices too?" Bai Zhixi’s voice was frail and struggling as she tried to get her daughter to relax.
Wan Chu’er walked up to the bedside in two steps, then with a "thud", she knelt down, burying her head into the bed sheets, not moving for a while, her fists clenched tightly.
Bai Zhixi saw her shoulders trembling slightly and felt an imnse heartache. She stretched out a hand, struggling to pet her daughter’s head.
"Good girl, mommy is alright..."
Hearing this, Wan Chu’er seed to find an outlet for her emotions. She suddenly raised her head, her face marked with tears, her eyes red but filled with defiance and indignation.
"Shut up!"
"What do you an, alright? I’ve already asked the doctor, how long are you planning to keep this from ?!"
"Do you want it to be like last ti, to just walk away suddenly, leaving not a single word, not even seeing for a last ti..."
She rembered Bai Zhixi’s sudden death in her previous life, how she was left alone and helpless, full of regret, and couldn’t help but shout out.
"I’m your daughter, it’s just the two of us in this world, why won’t you tell , why do you keep this from , how can you be so heartless..."
Seeing her daughter’s face bathed in tears, shaking all over, shouting at the top of her lungs, Bai Zhixi felt like her heart was being torn apart, the pain unbearable.
She struggled to sit up from the bed and pulled her daughter into an embrace.
"I’m not abandoning you, you are flesh of my flesh; seeing you sad and hurt pains even more. In this world, you are what your mother loves most, for you, your mother would..."
"Don’t say it!" Wan Chu’er interrupted Bai Zhixi, afraid that she would say sothing ominous, and then struggled out of Bai Zhixi’s embrace.
She wiped the tears off her face with her hand, stood straight, took a deep breath, and said calmly:
"If you love , then you must take care of your health, no matter what illness it is, it can be cured. If it can’t be cured here, we’ll go to Wanzhou, and if not there, we’ll go to Beijing. Your illness can be cured, you must get well, you have to stay by my side."
Just now, she had rushed into the hospital, turned around, and first went to the doctor’s office to inquire about Bai Zhixi’s condition, and also learned that Bai Zhixi was not cooperating with treatnt at all.
"I’m going to call the doctor now. You must listen to the doctor for the treatnt, you must be treated," she said and turned to leave.
"Chuchu!" Bai Zhixi grabbed her daughter’s clothes.
Wan Chu’er didn’t dare to pull back too hard, fearing that she might accidentally harm Bai Zhixi, only her eyes stared stubbornly at
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