Outside the window, the wind was howling, and thunder and lightning were blowing.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky in the distance showed a dark blue that was close to black.
The raindrops were pattering against the glass window, covering up the beeping of the treatment equipment, becoming the only sound in Xu Xinghe's ears.
There was only one small light turned on in the ward, and against the backdrop of the dim light and the dim sky outside, the originally white walls, roof, and sheets all showed a lifeless gray.
A quiet and depressing atmosphere.
The woman on the hospital bed was also pale, lying there motionless, as if she had fallen asleep.
Xu Xinghe stood blankly at the door for a while, and finally mustered up the courage to walk towards the hospital bed.
As light as a cat's footsteps.
The woman on the hospital bed closed her eyes tightly, her brows were slightly frowned, and she lay on the bed without moving for a long time, only her chest was still rising and falling slightly.
Xu Xinghe licked his dry lips, did not wake her up, just stood in front of the bed, quietly observing the patient on the bed.
The woman's body is full of various instruments and tubes. Although her face is haggard and her facial features are so thin that they are almost sunken, her bones are still beautiful and her charm still exists. It can be vaguely seen that she was a beauty when she was young.
Xu Xinghe stared at the woman's pale and haggard face silently, with mixed emotions in his heart.
At this moment, the woman suddenly opened her eyes.
Those eyes were out of focus at first, and they just stared blankly at the ceiling, and called out in a hoarse voice, "Lily?"
Xu Xinghe didn't answer.
The woman turned her head slowly, her pupils gradually regained focus.
When those beautiful black eyes looked at Xu Xinghe, both of them were shocked.
Xu Xinghe didn't think about how to face his biological mother along the way.
They have been separated for too long, so long that they are too strangers to each other.
But he thought, even if there was no such relationship, even if it was only in the face of a terminally ill patient, the innate sympathy and compassion made him try to give her some comfort in her last days.
However, when he tried to speak, he was caught off guard by those eyes that were seven to eight times similar to his own.
The brain suddenly went blank.
Something exploded silently in his heart, causing him to lose the ability to speak in an instant.
The woman on the hospital bed trembled slightly, even her lips were trembling.
The originally withered and lifeless eyes were instantly covered with a layer of water color, and they stared at Xu Xinghe without blinking.
Xu Xinghe suspected that she recognized him, as if he could recognize her at a glance.
They are very similar, especially the eyes.
The woman tremblingly stretched out a hand with an infusion tube inserted, wanting to touch the big boy in front of the hospital bed.
Xu Xinghe dodged subconsciously.
Immediately, he froze in place.
He didn't know why he was hiding.
He remembered that when he was a volunteer nurse at the community center in college, he had obviously held many people's hands many times.
However, at this moment, the mood is completely different.
Perhaps the irreparable twenty years between the two of them finally formed a horizontal gap that cannot be seen clearly and cannot be bridged.
So much so that he couldn't even treat her like an ordinary patient.
Thunder and lightning pierced the sky outside the window, making the faces of the two people in the room pale.
The woman on the hospital bed suddenly gave a bleak smile: "Am I dreaming?"
The woman is not stupid, since she was suddenly transferred to the VIP ward of the big hospital, she vaguely guessed something.
Xu Xinghe still didn't speak.
He also felt like he was dreaming after he was engaged in the development.
This was obviously the reunion he had hoped for countless times when he was young, but as time passed, people's moods had also changed.
At this moment, the two are looking at each other, and they can't even say a word of those words that were hidden in their hearts when they were young.
Xu Xinghe slightly lowered his eyes, and after a while he said, "It's not a dream."
After speaking, he sat down on the small bench beside the bed, and repeated again: "It's not a dream, I'll come and see you."
The torrential rain outside the window didn't stop, he seemed to hear the woman's slight sobs in a trance, but he didn't seem to have any.
He lowered his head and fiddled with his fingers, not daring to turn his head, for fear of meeting a pair of tearful eyes.
After an unknown amount of time, the woman spoke again, her voice was infinitely soft: "How have you been all these years?"
Xu Xinghe was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "It's okay."
"That's good..." After the woman finished speaking, she suddenly coughed violently, causing Xu Xinghe to worry that she might not be able to breathe.
After coughing for a long time, the woman stopped and gasped for breath: "It's good... I can see you again at the end... You are a good boy and deserve a better life... Don't stay here any longer, go back to Capital Star. You can come to see me, I am already very happy... "
A trace of surprise and confusion flashed across Xu Xinghe's eyes, he didn't understand how a woman would drive him away without saying anything.
Is she planning to just run out of oil and lamps, and then leave the two children behind to linger in this rainy place for the rest of their lives
Xu Xinghe licked his dry lips, knowingly asked: "Why didn't you start the treatment earlier? You obviously saved some money, if the treatment was done earlier, it probably wouldn't be delayed until today."
The woman smiled bitterly and said: "Cure is a bottomless pit, I always want to keep some money, let... Let them go on living."
Xu Xinghe turned his head to look at her, endured again and again, but suddenly his emotions burst at that moment: "Do you only have those two children?"
After Xu Xinghe asked this sentence, his nose turned sore, he simply turned his head away and stopped looking at her.
The woman's face suddenly turned pale.
After being dazed for a while, when he spoke again, his voice trembled a little: "I, I have three children..."
"Then—" Xu Xinghe lowered his head, looked blankly at the lines on his palm, and asked, "Your first child, why don't you want him?"
When the woman heard this, her body suddenly trembled violently.
Xu Xinghe turned his head, but saw Dou Da's teardrops rolling down the woman's eyes.
He trembled, as if scalded by those tears.
"Don't want you..." the woman asked with her eyes wide open, "Did your father tell you so?"
Xu Xinghe's heart skipped a beat, he stared at the woman on the hospital bed and asked, "What do you mean?"
The woman took a deep breath, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she was discouraged just before she could speak.
Her spirit, which was ignited briefly because of unwillingness and resentment, slumped again, and in the end she just smiled miserably: "You grew up with your father, you should have a good relationship, right? If that's the case, let's be like this..."
She thought, she is already a dying person, but that man will probably stay with him for a long time. If so, does it matter if the truth will only increase the troubles of the living? Why did she add another conflict between father and son at the last moment
Xu Xinghe looked at her, not knowing what to say for a while.
Did she actually think that she had lived with her father all these years
Xu Xinghe bit his inner lip, and said softly: "I have never met my father, I grew up in Capital Star's orphanage."
The woman turned her head abruptly, as if she hadn't heard his words clearly, she asked again tremblingly: "The orphanage?"
Xu Xinghe lowered his eyes and nodded.
The woman suddenly grabbed the hospital gown on her chest, panting violently.
She began to cough and even retch, as if she was in great pain and could hardly breathe.
Xu Xinghe suddenly panicked. He wanted to ring the bell to call the nurse, but the moment he stood up, he heard a woman crying.
The cry was suppressed at first, but suddenly broke out after a long period of suppression.
She obviously suppressed her emotions very well when they first met, but at this moment she couldn't control it at all, crying heartbreakingly: "How could this happen... He clearly said that he would treat you well... He promised me to treat you well... "
Xu Xinghe stood in front of the hospital bed, at a loss for what to do.
He wanted to appease the woman's emotions, but he didn't know how to do it.
His lips moved, and his voice was a little hoarse: "I have lived a good life these years, don't worry."
The woman shook her head, opened her mouth several times to say something, but couldn't stop her tears.
It didn't take long before she calmed down and said intermittently: "I grew up on Planet Pelpa, and when I was an adult, I smuggled to Capital Planet... After arriving on Capital Planet, because I have never had a legal identity, I I could only work in the dungeon, until by chance, I met your father. He is a rich businessman, and we got along for a while... But later, he found a new love... "
The woman paused, skipping the past and continuing: "After I parted with him, it took more than a month before I found out that I was pregnant and my belly was getting bigger and bigger, so I couldn't work in the dungeon anymore... I was desperate Next, I found your father again, hoping he can pay a little maintenance... He was shocked, you know, the chances of non-matching couples getting pregnant are very, very low... He took me for a fetal paternity test, and then suddenly changed He changed his attitude and said that he would marry me and let me stay. I believed it and lived in his villa until you were born, but after that—”
Tears flashed in the woman's eyes: "less than a month after you were born, he said he would give me a sum of money and let me leave, and he would raise you well... I disagreed, so he threatened me, saying, I am a black household without financial means. If I don’t hand over the child to him, he will go to court to sue me and deprive me of custody once the breastfeeding period is over. At that time, the child will still be awarded to him, and I will Being deported back to Planet Pelpa... I still didn't agree. I thought it would be good to stay with you for one more day. As for the matter after the breastfeeding period, let's wait until after the breastfeeding period... But later, he changed his words again, Said that if the child develops a relationship with me, then he... don't want this child anymore, he will report me directly, and the child and I will be sent back to Pelpa... You know, when I was born Somewhere, it is normal for people to not have enough food and clothing, and sometimes, breastfeeding mothers are so hungry that they don’t even have milk... I can’t let you follow me back to that kind of place... I dare not bet... "
When the woman said this, she sobbed again: "But he said that he would treat you well and raise you well... He clearly promised me like this..."
Xu Xinghe looked at her, suddenly sad.
He really wanted to tell his biological mother that the Capital Planet is not Pelpa Planet. Now that the birth rate of the Alliance is so low, according to the emphasis on the protection of newborns on the Capital Planet, even if a woman who has smuggled into the country is found to be pregnant, she can still be pregnant. Take your children and live in Capital Star.
In other words, she could have stayed at the beginning, and even enjoyed a series of benefits from the government, living a good life.
His father lied to her, and the environment in which she grew up and the education she received also made her take it for granted.
She might have thought about giving it a go, but in the end, as she said, she didn't dare to gamble.
Even judging from the results, she still lost the bet.
She was sent to an orphanage, and she was sent back to Pelpa.
Xu Xinghe vaguely felt a tingling pain in his palm, and when he lowered his head, he realized that his nails were almost embedded in his flesh.
He let go of his hand weakly, thinking to himself, it's already such a time, what's the point of saying these things to her
Her whole life was full of lies and deceit. Should she be told at the last moment that she was cheated again
Xu Xinghe took a deep breath, slowed down his voice as much as possible, and comforted her: "Don't worry, everything will be fine."
She looked at him and held out her hand again.
This time Xu Xinghe didn't hide, but gently held her hand back.
The woman knew that he was lying to herself, but she still nodded with a smile: "Okay."
There was a knock on the door, and several doctors and nurses came into the room to conduct routine examinations and change medicines.
The woman's mood fluctuated too much just now, and she seemed to have exhausted all her strength. Before the examination was completed, she couldn't hold back and fell into a coma again.
Xu Xinghe worked beside her bed for a long time, seeing off wave after wave of doctors and nurses, finally got up, and walked lightly towards the door.
Ling Changfeng was already a little irritable outside the door of the ward.
He looked down at his watch, his little mate had been in for almost an hour.
He started pacing back and forth outside the ward like a restless lion, the low air pressure made the surrounding guards afraid to breathe.
For some reason, the fact that his little spouse disappeared from his sight for nearly an hour suddenly seemed a little unacceptable to him.
Finally, the door was pushed open again.
Xu Xinghe walked out.
Ling Changfeng quickly stepped forward to meet him, lowered his head and looked at the other party: "Are you okay?"
Xu Xinghe's heart was filled with panic.
He shook his head, raised his head and asked Ling Changfeng: "Really, is there nothing we can do?"
Ling Changfeng was silent.
Although Qin Yuan often teased that he was omnipotent, the omnipotent alliance marshal was helpless in the face of life, old age, sickness and death.
Xu Xinghe got the answer in his silence.
There was a sudden sense of complete powerlessness in my heart.
Ling Changfeng looked at his little spouse with some concern.
The latter probably didn't know how bad his face was at the moment.
Like a kitten whose fur has been soaked in heavy rain, he is helpless, making people want to rub him into his arms to comfort him.
Marshal Ling has always been an activist, he thought so, so he did the same.
He opened his arms and hugged Xu Xinghe into his arms.