Chapter 919: Chapter 150: Love That Eats Away at the Soul

Watching Rong Rui leave, Tang Yige finally took out her clothes to start changing.

Tang Yige feared the cold, so she wore thick thermal clothes and a loose egg-yellow sweater, which extended down to her hips. For her bottom half, Tang Yige wore tight black pants that were also thickened.

The reason she dressed so formally even at home was because she worried the police station might call her anytime, and she’d have to leave.

After changing her clothes, Tang Yige ran a hand through her hair, picked up the phone on the bedside table, and walked towards the door.

As she reached the door, Tang Yige was about to extend her hand to open it.

The phone in her hand rang.

Tang Yige’s first reaction was that it was the police station calling.

She quickly picked up the phone to check.

However.

The caller ID on the phone screen showed... Tang Yuwen!

Tang Yige’s breath that she held lightly started to sink, her lips pursed, and after hesitating for several seconds, she still answered the phone.

"Yige, Yige..."

As soon as Tang Yige answered the phone, Tang Yuwen’s sorrowful, hoarse voice immediately came through the phone.

Tang Yige held her breath unconsciously, "Dad, what’s wrong?"

"Yige, your mother, your mom is not going to make it, you must come quickly, or, you won’t see your mom for the last time." Tang Yuwen choked with emotion.

Can’t see... the last time...

Tang Yige’s face turned pale, her fingertips holding the phone stiffened, "Dad, tell me clearly, what’s wrong with mom? What do you mean she won’t make it?"

"Yige, you must come quickly, I can’t explain over the phone, don’t ask, just come quickly, it’ll be too late if you delay any longer!" Tang Yuwen urged anxiously.

"...Okay, okay, I’m coming right away."

"Your mom is at the hospital now, Linx Hospital. You must come quickly, hurry!"

Tang Yige hung up the phone, didn’t even have time to grab her coat, opened the door, and rushed out.

"Aunt Zhang, please watch Little Rui, I need to go out for a while."

Tang Yige was somewhat dazed as she spoke, striding briskly towards the door.

At this moment, Zhang Lan was in the kitchen, upon hearing this she hurried out.

Seeing Tang Yige didn’t even change her shoes and dashed out after opening the door, startled her greatly.

"Mom, I’m going to check on Sister Yi." Zhang Xu grabbed her bag and coat and hurriedly followed her.

Zhang Lan furrowed her brow anxiously, completely unaware of what had happened.

Rong Rui stood in the living room, looking bewildered as well.

...

When Tang Yige and Zhang Xu arrived at the hospital.

Zhou Xueran was lying on a gurney, covered in blood, Tang Yuwen grasped Zhou Xueran’s hand, crying for her for the first time.

Seeing Zhou Xueran in this state, Tang Yige’s legs went weak.

If Zhang Xu hadn’t held her up, she might have already collapsed on the floor.

"Mom, Mom..."

Tang Yige broke away from Zhang Xu, rushed over with a pale face, eyes burning, and looked at Zhou Xueran’s blood-covered, indistinguishable face from the other side of the gurney. Her hands trembled, wanting to hold her but not daring to lower them.

"Mom, Mom, what’s happened to you?"

Tang Yige couldn’t believe that the person before her was Zhou Xueran.

She had always felt disappointed in them, but seeing such a shocking scene, Tang Yige realized.

Deep down, they still meant a lot to her, very much.

So, Tang Yige couldn’t accept seeing Zhou Xueran appearing before her in this manner.

"Yige, you finally made it. Please try to persuade your mom. She won’t go into the emergency room; she’s insisting on waiting for you, saying she has something to tell you. She’s afraid she’ll die in the emergency room." Tang Yuwen spoke painfully and urgently.

"Mom, please go to the emergency room for treatment. Once you’ve stabilized, I’ll listen to you slowly, okay?" Tang Yige felt very anxious and scared.

"Yige, Yi..."

Zhou Xueran laboriously extended a hand towards Tang Yige, tears mixed with thick blood sliding down from the corner of her eye along her temple as she spoke.

Tang Yige almost burst into tears, quickly grabbing Zhou Xueran’s hand, "Mom, I beg you, please let the doctors treat you, I beg you."

"Sorry, sorry. Mom might not be able to, make amends with you." Zhou Xueran’s blood-smeared eye couldn’t open, and her other eye was flooded with tears, vision blurred, so she couldn’t see Yige’s face.

"Mom, please stop talking and let the doctors see you, I beg you." Tang Yige choked with emotion.

"Don’t, don’t cry. You should be happy for mom. Mom is relieved." Zhou Xueran’s lips quivered, suddenly gripping Yige’s hand tightly.

"Mom..."

"Yige, listen, listen to mom for a few words, just a few words..."

"Mom."

Tang Yige knelt beside Zhou Xueran, crying as she looked at her.

Zhou Xueran turned her head with difficulty, "You must be happy, happy."

"I know, I know, Mom, I’ll be happy. As long as you’re okay, I’ll be happy, really happy." Tang Yige pressed Zhou Xueran’s bloodstained, slightly cold hand to her face, crying childishly.

"Yige, Mom has to tell you something... That press conference years ago, no, it wasn’t Si Nan’s coercion."

Zhou Xueran tightly grasped Yige’s thumb, speaking tearfully.

"I know, I know it wasn’t him." Tang Yige gritted her teeth, trying to stop the tears from flowing.

But the more she tried to stop them, the more fiercely the tears fell.

"No, don’t mind anyone else. Happy, Yige, you have to, you must be happy." Zhou Xueran suddenly trembled all over, blood gushing from her mouth like a fountain.

"Mom! Ah..."

Tang Yige screamed in pain, hurriedly covering Zhou Xueran’s mouth with her hand, trying to stop the blood from gushing out.

"Mom, Mom... doctor, doctor, please save my mom, I’m begging you."

Tang Yige cried heavily, looking at the doctor standing nearby.

The doctor hurried over.

If it weren’t for the patient threatening suicide earlier, they would have sent her to the emergency room long ago.

As the doctor and nurses pushed Zhou Xueran into the emergency room, Zhou Xueran’s hand tightly gripped Yige’s, not letting go, her eyes bloodshot, staring at her, muttering something.

Yige knew what she wanted to say.

She wanted her to be happy, happy!

"Mom, I’ll wait for you to come out, I’ll wait for you to come out safely!"

Tang Yige cruelly pushed down Zhou Xueran’s hand, her voice hoarse to the extreme.

Until Zhou Xueran was pushed into the emergency room, her eyes never left Yige.

There was intense guilt and expectation in them.

But no reluctance...

She seemed to have already despaired of this world.

She was ready to leave this world!

Tang Yige bowed her head, looking at her trembling hands.

They were stained with Zhou Xueran’s blood.

Why did it come to this?

Why...

"It’s my fault, I blame myself, I blame myself!"

Tang Yuwen clenched his fists, walking to the wall of the corridor, hitting the wall hard.

Tang Yige held back until her face turned red, blue veins popping out on her temples.

She slowly raised her head, looking at Tang Yuwen, "What did you do to my mom? What exactly did you do to her?"

Tang Yuwen cried out in pain, "I blame myself, I blame myself!"

"What did you do?"

Tang Yige clenched her fists, her voice hoarse.

Tang Yuwen turned his head, looking at Yige with sad eyes, and suddenly, he also began to shed tears uncontrollably, "Yesterday, after the police took you and your sister away, I said a few words to your mom. Later, in a fit of rage, I left your mom outside alone and changed the password lock code..."

What?

Tang Yige looked at Tang Yuwen in disbelief, "How could you do such a thing?"

"I didn’t know. How was I supposed to know your mom would attempt suicide? We’ve gone through so many years, I didn’t expect it." Tang Yuwen pressed his fists against his eyes, also crying in regret.

"Are you even human? Tang Yuwen, are you human? My mom has been married to you for thirty years, and this is how you treat her? Do you have a conscience? How could you leave my mom outside alone, ignoring her!"

Tang Yige rushed up, her eyes bloodshot, grabbing Tang Yuwen by the collar.

Tang Yuwen seemed surprised by Tang Yige’s fierceness, looking somewhat dazed.

Zhang Xu stood nearby, her eyes red, looking at Tang Yuwen with a hint of cold disdain in her eyes.

Because she seemed to see the shadow of her biological father in Tang Yuwen.

She was still young back then.

Her father was an alcoholic, fond of gambling, idle and lazy.

The household expenses were entirely dependent on Zhang Lan’s meager wages.

Even though Zhang Lan was hardworking and diligent, she couldn’t withstand her father’s gambling addiction.

When he lost money gambling, he’d come home asking Zhang Lan for money; if she couldn’t give it, she’d be verbally abused at best, and beaten at worst.

During those years, Zhang Lan always carried either minor or serious injuries.

Zhang Lan’s personality was gentle, her father was fierce; even though she was disheartened by him, she didn’t dare to propose divorce, fearing her father’s retaliation.

So she kept enduring, kept enduring.

Until her father incurred a massive debt from high-interest loans, during the designated repayment time, he couldn’t produce the money and was beaten to death by loan sharks.

Only then did Zhang Lan find relief.