"She isn't sick," her uncle said. "I returned from the imperial capital yesterday.
"I casually flipped through her medical records.
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"I discovered that the medication her attending physician prescribed was not at all for late-stage liver cancer."
"Then what kind of medication was it?"
Yu Wenli recalled, "I remember when I used to buy her meals during those days.
"The nurses would give her several bottles of clear and light brown liquid every day.
Her uncle mentioned some professional terms.
"In any case, it was some kind of medication that was meant to deceive, but it had nothing to do with liver cancer.
"Wu Shangrong has a good constitution; she should live to be a hundred."
"A hundred..." Yu Wenli's lips curled into a cold smile.
Sometimes, living a long life isn't necessarily a good thing.
"Xiao Wen," her uncle mused for a moment.
Then she can only taste it slowly!
Wen Zhongen expressionlessly brushed away Wu Shangrong's hand and softly asked:
"When you were faking your illness, did you ever consider that the money we gave to the hospital was also earned by us, bit by bit, through hard work?"
"I..."
In an instant, most emotions passed through Wu Shangrong's mind.
But she couldn't process these emotions.
So she could only stare at the two of them leaving with a blank expression, unable to speak.
Wu Shangrong probably never imagined that this would be the last time she saw her elder son.
She would have never imagined that after returning to Lucheng, she would become half-paralyzed due to excessive stimulation.
Wen Qing hated her for ruining her son, and she tormented her daily.
Her younger son was immersed in grief, gambling and drinking all day.
The family fortune, already meager, was quickly squandered.
Wen Qing, disgusted by his inability to earn money, quickly found another partner.
As for Wu Shangrong, who suffered from incontinence.
Her younger son, whom she had doted on for most of her life, directly placed her in a nursing home.
And the cheapest one at that.
For the rest of her life, she would reside in a narrow, dilapidated, and damp small room in the nursing home.
Eating leftovers, drinking foul water.
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Wen Tingxue's second interview and Yu Wenli's first interview were only two days apart.
And Valentine's Day was not far away.
The two of them decided to spend it in the imperial capital.
After all, they would be studying in the imperial capital in the future.
It was a chance to get used to it in advance.
Accompanying them to the imperial capital for Valentine's Day were Mu Chen and Qiao Xixi.
Mu Chen's trip to the imperial capital was for a reason, and also because his father had strictly requested it.
Mu Chen had not visited the Zhong family for the Lunar New Year, and his father had been holding a grudge about it.
Therefore, he instructed Mu Chen to go and apologize on Valentine's Day.
Mu Chen readily agreed, and then took Qiao Xixi with him.
Mu Chen's father, while seeing them off at the airport, almost spat blood on the spot.
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On the evening of February 12th, Wen Tingxue finished her second interview, and Yu Wenli was preparing for his initial test.
Neither of them planned to go out.
Qiao Xixi's toothache was a recurring issue; once it flared up, she didn't want to move.
"Where is Mu Chen? Have you seen him?"
She lay in bed, applying ice packs, and video chatting, her words slurred.
Wen Tingxue was drawing in Yu Wenli's room.
Upon hearing the question, she thought for a moment, "He probably went out to buy you medicine?
"I just saw him with a backpack."
Qiao Xixi immediately sat up. "How long has he been out?"
"Half an hour?"
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"Could he have gone to find Miss Zhong?!"
She spoke too quickly, and tears streamed down her face from the pain.
Wen Tingxue couldn't even offer her a tissue.
"Slow down, don't overthink things.
"If he said he wouldn't go, he won't go."
After ending the call, Qiao Xixi, covering the swollen side of her face, felt increasingly uneasy.
Finally, she couldn't help but go out.
There weren't many taxis at this hour, so Qiao Xixi called for a ride-hailing service.
She planned to go to the Zhong family's residence.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she got into the car, the driver started asking her all sorts of questions.
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Qiao Xixi was in a bad mood and responded perfunctorily.
It wasn't until she looked at the map and realized the route was wrong that she discovered she had gotten into a dodgy car.