Xu Ruowei's smile was hideously twisted. "I'm here to tell you some good news."
An Nuan instinctively recoiled. She didn't want to hear it. She wanted even less to see this woman.
Xu Ruowei's lips curled into a sneer. Perhaps she hadn't noticed how hideous her face was at this moment. She said with manic glee, "An Nuan, do you want to know what happened when you fainted?"
"What happened?" An Nuan's eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at Xu Ruowei. Her appearance here at this moment was definitely not out of any kindness. There seemed to be much more hidden within her words.
"In the end, Huo Yunshen came." Xu Ruowei burst into a maniacal laugh, like a madwoman.
An Nuan quickly grabbed her hand. "Really? Are you telling the truth?"
If Huo Yunshen had come, then her mother would be saved.
Huo Yunshen had said he was always working on finding a matching kidney for her mother. His appearance must have been because he saw the call at the moment Shen Xizhou smashed her phone. Even though he hadn't received it, he must have guessed that something had happened to her. That's why he came.
He came to the hospital to save her mother.
Huo Yunshen, I hope everything is as I imagine.
She believed in Huo Yunshen's skills.
Thinking that her mother would finally be free from the torment of illness and no longer have to suffer so much, her face filled with a deep smile, the corners of her mouth turning upwards slightly.
A rare smile appeared on her face, but at this moment, Xu Ruowei, like a demon, said with sinister malice, "Huo Yunshen did come, and he brought the kidney you've been dreaming of."
"But Shen Xizhou had someone stop him. Huo Yunshen, holding the kidney you desperately wanted, stood outside your mother's hospital room and just watched. Watched your mother die in the torment of her illness."
"Xu Ruowei, what are you saying?" An Nuan felt as if the sky was falling. She clutched Xu Ruowei's hand tightly, her eyes bloodshot, and demanded, "My mother? You're saying my mother is dead?"
"Yes. Your mother was in excruciating pain as she died, but all she kept calling out was: Nuan Nuan, Nuan Nuan, my dear Nuan Nuan."
"She's dead. Your mother was killed by you."
"If you had obediently listened to me and divorced Shen Xizhou, I wouldn't have done anything."
Divorce Shen Xizhou. Was it her unwillingness?
She had been begging Shen Xizhou to let her go, she had agreed to the divorce, but Shen Xizhou refused.
How did it become that she was clinging to Shen Xizhou, that she couldn't let go of him, in Xu Ruowei's telling?
"I don't believe you. I don't believe a single word you say."
"I want to see Shen Xizhou. He said he would keep my mother alive, that he was keeping her alive to torment me. How could he go back on his word?" An Nuan's tears streamed down her face as she covered it, filled with pain.
Xu Ruowei pulled her hand away and directly grabbed An Nuan's neck, her face twisted in an evil smile. With venom in her voice, she said, "An Nuan, do you know why Shen Xizhou made Huo Yunshen watch your mother die? Do you know why Huo Yunshen had me tell you this?"
An Nuan remained silent. Why? Why? How could she possibly know the reasons for all this?
Xu Ruowei's face was filled with a smug smile as she said coldly, "Because... I said I could never have children again. I've always wanted a child of my own. I was very sad."
"I said to Shen Xizhou, 'Xizhou, please don't blame An Nuan. This was all my carelessness from beginning to end. If I hadn't appeared, if I had hidden myself away, then this would never have happened.'"
"'It's all my fault.'"
"I acted like a delicate flower in front of Shen Xizhou, crying like a weeping willow. Shen Xizhou was heartbroken. He said: An Nuan took away the most precious thing, the thing you care about most. So she must also suffer the same."
"That's why he did that to your mother. After all, your mother is the person you care about most, isn't she?"
Xu Ruowei burst into triumphant laughter.
But her hands, held at her sides, were clenched tightly. She was unwilling. She wished she could kill An Nuan with her bare hands.
Did she know? When An Nuan fainted, it was Shen Xizhou who brought her to the hospital. Shen Xizhou watched the doctors the entire time. Only when the doctors said she was fine and had just fainted from exhaustion did he finally relax. But the look in Shen Xizhou's eyes when he looked at An Nuan was filled with heartache and reluctance.
She was unwilling. Why, after doing so much, did she still not compare to An Nuan?
She had done so much. She had deliberately caused the car accident to hit herself, bribed doctors, and even sacrificed her own body to get the doctor to lie about her being unable to have children. This way, Shen Xizhou would feel guilty towards her.
But she was unwilling. Why, after doing so much, did she not receive even a glance of concern from Shen Xizhou? Why did he only treat her with a cold shoulder?
Hate festered in her heart, and Xu Ruowei's smile became even more sinister. "An Nuan, I also know that your body is failing. Do you know how many days you have left to live?"
"Three months."
"Oh, right. Remember, you can't have any more accidents in these three months, or there won't be three months anymore."
"An Nuan, the doctor said you could have lived for three years originally. Oh, and if you had taken good care of yourself, you might have lived even longer. But who told you that your emotions were never stable?"
"Right, from now on, there will be no such person as An Nuan in this world. From now on, no one will compete with me for Shen Xizhou. From now on, Shen Xizhou will belong only to me."
Three months?
Actually, how long it was had long since ceased to matter to her.
Because the people she cared about were all gone. What was the meaning of her living?
Seeing An Nuan's calm expression, and that she wasn't throwing a tantrum like a madwoman, Xu Ruowei was unwilling. Why? Why could she be so calm? So unbelievably calm? This wasn't what she wanted.
Her hands were clenched tightly. She glared fiercely at An Nuan. How could she be so calm? She wasn't suffering at all.
Xu Ruowei took a step towards An Nuan. Her hands landed on An Nuan's neck, squeezing with all her might. Watching An Nuan's face turn pale and struggle to breathe, she felt even happier. She whispered into An Nuan's ear, "By the way, when your mother died, she must have been more painful than you are now, right? After all, she was injected with medication just before she died, making her suffer even more."
"Does it hurt, An Nuan?"
"It should hurt, shouldn't it? But your pain is less than half of your mother's. Oh, right, I forgot to tell you, your mother was directly taken away, burned to ashes, and interred in the cemetery."
"There wasn't even a name on the tombstone."
"You say your mother suffered hardship and torment throughout her life, and even after death, no one came to pay respects. Was she very pitiful?"
"I've always been jealous of you, resented you. But now I don't hate you anymore."
"Because now you have nothing. Even your only relative is gone, destroyed by the man you loved with your own hands. An Nuan, does it hurt? Your heart?"