Chapter 835 - 250: [Tribulation?] (Part 3)
Lu Xiuting screamed wildly: "I don’t regret it! No regrets!! I want to trade more!! I want to continue! Continue!!! Whatever you want, I’ll trade it for you!! I’ll trade it all for you!!!"
However, that voice coldly informed Lu Xiuting.
"You have nothing left to trade—you are of no value anymore."
"...I, I do!!"
In her dream, Lu Xiuting’s features twisted: "I..."
It was as if a light suddenly flashed in her heart: "Are you a Spirit Monster or an Immortal?! I, I still have a daughter! My daughter’s boyfriend is a Cultivator! He surely has lots of value! Maybe he has something you want! I can help you, help you get what you want! There’s also, I..."
The voice laughed coldly.
But then, it made no further response!
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That night, almost at the same time, Lu Xiuting didn’t know that Lu Sisi was also having a dream!
In Lu Sisi’s dream, she saw her own mother Lu Xiuting with her own eyes.
She watched Lu Xiuting scream, wildly yelling at the void.
Unwillingness, greed, anger, her features distorted.
"I want to continue trading!!"
"I have value!!"
"My daughter, my daughter’s boyfriend... I can help you..."
Word by word, even within the dream, Lu Sisi’s mind distorted with hidden pain.
Then, the scene disappeared, and Lu Sisi stood alone in a space of dream-like void.
After a moment of silence, Lu Sisi suddenly lifted her head, her expression complex and peculiar.
"Just now... it wasn’t a dream, was it?"
In the void, a cold voice responded.
"It wasn’t a dream, it is the ’trial’ you must undergo."
"A trial..." Lu Sisi whispered, her face streaked with tears, "What kind of trial is it?"
"To sever emotions, you must understand that all attachments, be they familial or romantic, are illusions. Only after experiencing all this can you realize your nature, and through the piercing pain, can you awaken."
Lu Sisi suddenly raised her head!
"I don’t know what you are... but what you said, I cannot sever! And I will not sever!! I will never sever my feelings for Chen Yan!"
After saying this, Lu Sisi awoke from her dream, her face full of tear stains.
In her ear, there seemed to be a faint voice.
"You will understand when you wake, and when the time comes, you naturally will understand."
This voice seemed to be heard, yet it was as if it had never appeared.
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The next morning, Lu Sisi went to knock on Lu Xiuting’s room door.
However, after knocking for a long time with no response, she took out a spare key and opened the guest room door, finding Lu Xiuting already unconscious.
Lu Sisi couldn’t wake Lu Xiuting and called for Gui Geng, who found himself powerless against Lu Xiuting’s coma as well.
Gui Geng saw that Lu Xiuting wasn’t ill but rather... her life was withering away.
To put it in medical terms, organ failure.
So, they sent her to the hospital.
She was her own mother and collapsed unconscious at her own home, so reasonably Lu Sisi couldn’t just leave her at the hospital unattended.
She arranged for hospitalization and called her father Yang Jiaming.
Yang Jiaming wasn’t entirely indifferent, as he came personally.
However, after speaking with the doctors, Yang Jiaming seemed considerably more relaxed.
"The cooling-off period hasn’t ended, and the divorce papers aren’t finalized yet, legally we’re still married, so I’ll cover the treatment costs."
Yang Jiaming told his daughter Lu Sisi, "But that’s as far as it goes. The doctor said, your mother... doesn’t have much time left, so consider this my final obligation to her."
Yang Jiaming deposited three hundred thousand in the hospital account and left without hesitation.
This money was sufficient for Lu Xiuting’s end-of-life care and to hire a caregiver from the hospital.
Lying unconscious in the hospital and near death, the divorce was certainly out of the question.
Yet... unable to get a divorce, becoming widowed was something Yang Jiaming could accept.
Moreover, with her passing, the four million in savings and the house would all be preserved, with no need to split them.
Yang Jiaming came quickly and left just as swiftly.
Lu Sisi arranged for several examinations for Lu Xiuting and talked to the doctor twice, but the results remained unchanged.
From the hospital’s findings, Lu Xiuting’s various organs were all failing—the failure rate wasn’t very fast, yet there was nothing that could stop it.
"At the fastest, a month. If intervention is used, with some damaging treatment methods like intubation... it might extend the time a bit.
However... that would cause the patient more pain before death, so... the specifics need to be decided by the family."
This was the doctor’s advice—a doctor with integrity who advised against over-treatment.
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"So, have you been at the hospital taking care of her these days?"
Chen Yan held Lu Sisi and sighed.
Lu Sisi’s expression appeared anxious, seemingly afraid of Chen Yan being angry.
But she still lifted her head to look into Chen Yan’s eyes: "Are you... angry?"
Chen Yan froze, shook his head, and said: "Why would I be angry? Even though I don’t like your mother... she’s still your mother. I can’t possibly expect you to watch your own mother severely ill and dying, yet forbid you from caring for her."
Lu Sisi breathed a sigh of relief.
"I don’t have much affection for her, but..." Lu Sisi murmured softly, "She did give birth to me, and I’m in this world because of her.
Even if she didn’t love me, or maybe... even used me.
But before meeting you, I lived to eighteen. After all, I ate for eighteen years, wore clothes for eighteen years, my school fees, my medical expenses when sick, all these... I want to do something for her before she dies, just to repay the debt of birth and raising."
Chen Yan nodded: "That’s the right thing to do!"
Saying this, he looked up at the hospital room: "Where’s Gui Geng?"
"Mr. Gui Geng saw that I hadn’t eaten and went out to buy some food for me."
Just as she finished speaking, the door of the hospital room opened, and Gui Geng entered wearing a traditional Chinese jacket, with a pleased smile and a hint of flattery: "Young Master, you’re back!"
"You’re becoming more and more like a butler." Chen Yan sighed, contemplating, then fished out a few Nourishing God Pills from the Storage Jade Pendant and threw them over.
Gui Geng caught them, smelled the aroma, his face full of joy: "Are these elixirs for restoring and nourishing the Primordial Spirit? Young Master, you actually have the skill for Alchemy now?"
"Don’t ask so many questions. I’ve given them to you, you just use them."
Chen Yan said this, pointing to Lu Sisi: "Take her home, let her have a good sleep, then bring her back tomorrow morning."
"Alright!" Gui Geng immediately replied.
Lu Sisi looked at Chen Yan in surprise: "You... you’re not coming home?"
"You go home and rest—look at yourself, you look awful, don’t you know how heavy your dark circles are? Go home, take a shower, get some sleep, put on new clothes, come back tomorrow.
I’ll stay here tonight, I told you, leave everything to me!"
Lu Sisi’s eyes reddened, and Chen Yan sighed, gently pushing Lu Sisi out of his embrace, then leading her to let Gui Geng take her home.
Lu Sisi was full of doubts, reluctant to part, but she never disobeyed anything from Chen Yan, so she left.
The room was left with Chen Yan alone. He first went to close the hospital room door, then walked over to Lu Xiuting’s bed.
"Trial..."
Chen Yan laughed coldly, curling his lips into a three-pointed, peculiar cold smile.
"This trial, I won’t let it happen!"
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