webnovelfull Chapter 196 Lifeline
Chapter 196 Lifeline
Oncology ward, Zhonghai First People's Hospital.
At five in the morning, before dawn, the only light in the corridor came from the nurses' station, along with the occasional beeping of the medical equipment.
Shen Yourong was curled up in a folding chair next to the hospital bed, covered only by a thin coat, and was sleeping very restlessly.
She had another nightmare.
In the dream, her mother, Zhou Xiulan, was losing clumps of hair, her face was as pale as paper, and no matter how she called out, her mother just smiled, but her body gradually became transparent.
"mom!"
Shen Yourong screamed and woke up suddenly from her dream, her forehead covered in a fine layer of cold sweat.
She quickly turned her head to look at the hospital bed and saw that her mother was still breathing steadily, her chest rising and falling rhythmically. Only then did her heart, which had been hanging in her throat, settle down a little.
But seeing her mother's haggard sleeping face due to chemotherapy, her eyes reddened once again.
Breast cancer.
These three words were like a mountain, pressing down on her and making it hard for her to breathe.
Her older brother died in a car accident years ago, and she raised Shen Youyou single-handedly. For Youyou's sake, she wasted the best years of her life and never considered personal matters.
I thought that once Youyou went to university, I could finally relax and spend more time with my mother.
But fate played such a cruel joke on them.
The doctor said that the subsequent treatment costs would be a bottomless pit, and the hope was slim.
She went live, showed her face in public, and endured all kinds of criticism, all for that tiny bit of hope.
Fortunately, I met Mr. at the crucial moment.
He was incredibly generous in rewarding himself, gifting him a luxury car worth millions, the Yangwang U8. The proceeds from his gifts were already enough to cover his mother's medical expenses, yet he would still transfer money to him every few days. He even signed him to Zhengyang Media, and this time he would strongly promote his ranking in the New Chinese Style Competition.
He would try his best to soothe his fatigue when he was most exhausted.
When I am most confused, I will use his warmth to warm my soul.
Sir... It's been so long, I've missed you terribly.
Shen Yourong rubbed her sore eyes wearily, picked up her phone, and wanted to check the time.
The moment the screen lit up, a preview of a WeChat message popped up.
[Ning Xiuyang]: You Rong, how is your mother's illness?
Upon seeing this name, Shen Yourong's heart skipped a beat, as if a warm current instantly flowed through her entire body.
gentlemen……
The message was sent around 3 a.m. last night.
Shen Yourong's eyes brightened slightly. She hadn't expected her husband to stay up so late and still care about her mother's condition.
She took a deep breath, suppressed the pounding in her heart, and opened the chat window.
But the next second, the news she received froze her in place, her pupils suddenly contracting!
[Ning Xiuyang]: I found a miracle doctor here, an old Chinese medicine doctor who specializes in treating breast cancer. He gave me a capsule and said that if I take it, I will be cured in less than three months. Do you want to try it?
hum!
Shen Yourong's mind went completely blank, as if a thunderbolt had struck.
She stared intently at the line of text, looking at each word over and over again, afraid that she was seeing things.
A miracle doctor?
capsule?
It will get better in three months?
If someone else had said this, she would have immediately considered them a scammer and blocked them.
How could such a miraculous drug exist in this world?
Scammers these days are really getting more and more unscrupulous; they even want to swindle money from terminally ill patients!
but……
The person who said this was Mr. Ning!
She is the man who can casually give away hundreds of thousands of yuan in live stream rewards, the domineering man who can hold her for two hours straight without letting go, and Mr. Ning who can solve all her problems with a few words!
Would he lie to himself?
Does he need to lie to himself?
In an instant, immense doubt and a sliver of desperate hope intertwined and collided wildly in her heart!
"You Rong... what's wrong?"
In her hospital bed, Zhou Xiulan was awakened by her daughter's suppressed, heavy breathing and weakly opened her eyes.
Seeing her daughter's bloodshot eyes, staring intently at her phone, and trembling slightly, she felt a pang of anxiety.
"Is...is the hospital pressing for payment again? It's okay, we...we're not going to get treatment anymore. This old woman has lived long enough, I can't be a burden to you anymore."
Zhou Xiulan's voice was hoarse and weak, but it was full of heartache for her daughter.
The person she felt most sorry for in her life was this daughter.
Shen Yourong sacrificed so much for the child her brother left behind, living like a man and carrying all the burdens on her own shoulders.
Now that Youyou has finally grown up, I've become a burden to her.
"No! Mom, no!"
Shen Yourong snapped back to her senses, her voice trembling violently with excitement, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.
She rushed to her mother's bedside, tightly grasped her mother's thin, dry hand, and said incoherently, "Mom! There's hope! There's hope! Your illness can be cured!"
"Silly child, what nonsense are you talking about?"
Zhou Xiulan thought her daughter was under too much pressure and was a little absent-minded, so she reached out to touch her face with heartache.
"It's true!"
Shen Yourong handed her phone screen to her mother, choking back tears, and said, "A friend of mine... he... he found us a miracle doctor! He has a miracle cure, and he says it can cure your illness!"
Zhou Xiulan strained to see the words on the screen with her cloudy eyes. After a long while, a knowing and relieved smile finally appeared on her face.
She gently patted her daughter's hand and said softly, "Is he... your boyfriend?"
How could she not see that ever since her daughter started making money through live streaming, she would smile foolishly at her phone after each live stream, and sometimes she would even secretly go outside to make phone calls behind her back? The last time she accidentally glimpsed her phone, it was this person named Ning Xiuyang who sent her a very ambiguous message. Every time she mentioned this "friend", her admiring yet shy expression clearly showed that she had fallen in love.
Yeah.
My silly daughter deserves to be loved by someone.
But... this child is thirty-six or thirty-seven years old, yet so naive, actually believing in such a thing as a miracle drug.
It seems I should take the opportunity to properly educate her on anti-fraud knowledge.
"mom!"
Shen Yourong's cheeks instantly flushed red, and she stomped her foot in embarrassment.
"Okay, okay, he's not your boyfriend." Zhou Xiulan smiled, but her tone became serious. "Youyou, Mom knows he cares about you and is doing it for your own good. But just listen to these words and don't believe them. And definitely don't let him waste money on this, understand?"
"But Mom, he's not an ordinary person! He's incredibly capable; if he says he has it, he definitely has it!"
Shen Youyou hurriedly defended herself, saying that in her heart, Ning Xiuyang was already an omnipotent being.
Or rather, her mother's illness has become a demon in her heart.
Now that there is finally a solution, and the man is so certain that she will be cured in three months, she is like a drowning person grasping at a straw, and she believes it without a doubt!