Chapter 378: Chapter Three-Hundred and Seventy-Eight: Struggles

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“Xi Cheng, I’m telling the truth! Lin Yu really isn’t as gentle or virtuous as you think! You’re too naive; that’s why you got deceived by her!” Gu Man twisted her sinuous body and clung to Xi Cheng’s neck as she spoke saccharinely.

Xi Cheng, who had just had some ‘vigorous bedroom activity,’ felt so extremely comfortable that he didn’t stop Gu Man like he usually did when she badmouthed Lin Yu again. He’d gotten used to it, in fact, and just detachedly said, “Stop badmouthing her. You know I don’t like hearing it.”

Gu Man pouted. “You men! You’re never convinced until you’re faced with the grim reality! You’ll only know who truly has your best interests at heart when you’ve suffered a great loss from her! Hmph!”

“I know. You’re the most sincere to me!” Xi Cheng drawled as he traced his fingers across Gu Man’s smooth back.

Gu Man didn’t appreciate his perfunctory reply. “You’re just saying that, but in your heart, you still treat that young madam of yours as the head of the family. Just you wait! You’ll regret it one day, sooner or later!”

Gu Man bit Xi Cheng’s chest lightly after she finished. Xi Cheng smiled, pressed Gu Man close by the back of her head, and kissed her hard.

He didn’t sense anything bad about Lin Yu, but he was slowly getting to know the good about Gu Man. The past between him and Fang Xi had become a wound in his heart that was difficult to think back on. However, Gu Man was gradually filling that hole. Moreover, the present him had a different state of mind than before; he didn’t need to treasure Gu Man and treat her with great care—she wasn’t as fragile as Fang Xi. He can completely release himself with Gu Man; this relaxed feeling is one that Lin Yu couldn’t give him.

It was already late at night when Xi Cheng arrived at the hospital. He gently pushed open the door to his mother’s ward. The machine beside his mother constantly emitted a faint light and a monotonous ticking sound. Xi Cheng looked around the room and realized Lin Yu wasn’t there. He then inexplicably relaxed and no longer took silent steps as he walked straight to his mother’s bed.

The readings on the machine flickered and jumped, indicating that the patient’s condition hadn’t changed at all—there was no improvement or deterioration. Xi Cheng was already numb to it, so he didn’t spend more time accompanying his mother at the hospital. Lin Yu treated the hospital as her home, anyway; she was much more dutiful to his mother than he was. It was also why he didn’t allow Gu Man to speak ill of Lin Yu.

Lin Yu had truly done her best to treat his mother well, so she at least deserved some credit for her efforts. It had nothing to do with whether she was a wife that he was satisfied with or not.

Xi Cheng thought, ‘It has been some time since Mom woke up, but there’s no improvement in her condition. When will she get better? Xi Cheng himself was starting to lose faith in that.

Suddenly, something tightly gripped his hand on the edge of the bed. Xi Cheng jumped in fright, and every single hair on his body stood on end. He looked down and saw that it was actually his mother’s hand that was holding his. When he looked up again, he noticed that his mother had opened her eyes and was gazing at him with teary eyes.

Xi Cheng jumped to his feet and looked at Han Yuan in surprise. “Mom? Mom, do you have something to say to me?”

Han Yuan’s tears streamed down her face, and she tried her best to open her mouth. The voice her throat emitted sounded like sandpaper scraping over gravel. “S-son…’

Xi Cheng held his mother’s hand. “Mom, I’m here! Mom, I’m right here. What is it that you’re trying to say, Mom?”

“Lie—ah, lie… son, lie—I‘ Han Yuan did her utmost to open her mouth and spit out a few relatively clear characters amidst the hissing sounds she couldn’t stop making.

“Mom, someone lied to you? You think that someone lied to you?” Xi Cheng guessed. Han Yuan nodded with all her might—so much so that the veins on her forehead bulged—but couldn’t express anything coherently.

“Mom?” came Lin Yu’s panicked voice from the doorway.

Xi Cheng turned around and saw Lin Yu. He hurriedly said, “Lin Yu, come quickly. Come help me guess what Mom is trying to say.”

Lin Yu rushed over and grabbed Han Yuan’s hand, her voice trembling as she asked, “Mom, what are you trying to say? What do you want to tell Xi Cheng?”

Han Yuan’s eyes were dry of tears as she glared at Lin Yu. She glanced at her son, who appeared anxious but didn’t come forward and only pushed his wife before her. Han Yuan slowly closed her mouth and pursed it tightly, unwilling to say another word.

Lin Yu’s palms were wet with sweat. “What did you say?” She looked up and scanned Xi Cheng’s face, not missing a simple expression as she asked carefully, ‘What did Mom say just now?

Completely oblivious, Xi Cheng shook his head. “I don’t know. She just called me ‘son’. I couldn’t make out the rest.” He looked at Han Yuan. “Mom, what were you trying to say? Could you repeat it? Lin Yu knows you the best.. She’ll definitely understand it, even if you can’t say it!”