Chapter 108: I Want to Be with My Mother
In the hospital.
Because the ambulance had arrived in time, the wounds on Qin Muxuan’s calves weren’t infected when she was sent to hospital. However, she had been hit so hard and her leg had fractured. Therefore, she had to stay in hospital before a full recovery.From NôvelDrama.Org.
After the doctor dealt with the wound, Gu Zijin arranged Qin Muxuan in a VIP ward for her to have a good rest.
Qin Muxuan wasn’t in a comma for too long. When she woke up after lying on the bed for a short while, she glanced around and asked right away, “Where’s Xiaobai?”
Gu Zijin pressed her shoulders to stop her from standing up and said in a low voice, “I ask mother to take Xiaobai home.”
“Was I badly injured?”
“You were diagnosed with a closed fracture by the doctor, but it’s not serious.” Gu Zijin continued, “But it will still take you a long time to recover, you still have to stay in hospital for two or three months.”
There was only one thing Qin Muxuan was concerned about right now, “Was Xiaobai injured when you found him? I felt a great pain at that time and haven’t looked at him closely.”
“He’s fine. Don’t worry.”
Hearing that, Qin Muxuan finally got relieved. Then she covered her eyes with her hands and muttered, “That’s great. It’s so great that he’s fine.”
“But you are not fine.” Gu Zijin said.
Qin Muxuan shook her head. This was not the first time that she got a fracture. She had already realized how it felt when she was in college, so she didn’t care about her own injury, “It’s not a big deal.”
Before she could finish her words, her lips was covered by a large hand. As she raised her head, she saw Gu Zijin’s clear eyes.
“It is a big deal, for me, it is.”
Qin Muxuan was a bit touched. Before she could say anything, Gu Zijin continued, “You should sleep now, I’ll stay with you.”
Qin Muxuan answered yes in a low voice. It was perhaps because she finally relaxed or she was too tired that she got drowsy very quickly while feeling her eyelids drooping.
The next day.
Qin Xiaobai, accompanied by Mrs. Gu, arrived at the hospital early with a bunch of flowers in his arms. When he stood in front of the ward, he was bit nervous, afraid that his mother would hate him because he had acted rashly.
Seeing the nervous look on Qin Xiaobai’s face, Mrs. Gu smiled and pushed his back gently, “It’s fine, just get in.”
Qin Xiaobai nodded and pushed the door open. Before he said anything, he heard Qin Muxuan’s tender voice,
“Xiaobai, you come to see me.”
Qin Muxuan was sitting on the bed right now. The moment she saw Qin Xiaobai’s face, she beamed with joy right away.
As the boy saw her mother, he, with tears in his eyes, walked over and apologized in a hoarse voice, “Sorry, mom, I acted so selfishly last night.”
Qin Muxuan reached out her arms to him, “Xiaobai, I couldn’t get off the bed right now, can you give me a hug?”
Hearing that, Qin Xiaobai slipped off his shoes right away and hugged Qin Muxuan at once.
“Mommy, I’m so sorry! Boohoo! None of this would have happened if I hadn’t run away from home!”
“It’s fine.”
Qin Muxuan rubbed Qin Xiaobai’s head and said in a low voice, “Tell me, did you act like that last night because someone has told you anything?”
Hearing her words, Qin Xiaobai sobbed and was about to say something. However, Elderly Lady Gu who entered the room said ahead of him,
“Qin Muxuan, since you have asked, I’ll make it clear to you today!”
Elderly Lady Gu gestured with her hand to stop Mrs. Gu from saying anything and stared at Qin Muxuan with an indifferent look, saying, “Although you are Xiaobai’s mother, others only regard you as an outsider of the Gu’s family.”
“Mother!”
Mrs. Gu was flustered. She didn’t know what Elderly Lady Gu was thinking right now by making a scene at a moment like this when Gu Zijin was out for something else.
“Ye Han, don’t talk.”
Elderly Lady Gu took a glance at Mrs. Gu with a sharp look in her eyes like what she used to do when she was young. Seeing that, Mrs. Gu held her tongue at once.
“Let me put it this way, the thing Gu Zijin needs most is a right and legal marriage. You are nothing right now. If others ask me about you, I don’t know how to explain to them.”
With her arms crossed before her chest, Elderly Lady Gu said leisurely, “By the way, I’ve already picked a wife for Zijin. A few days later, I’ll announce the engagement between Zijin and her. I suggest you move your things out of the Gu’s house these days.”
Qin Muxuan didn’t say anything. After hearing that, she finally understood all this and assumed that Qin Xiaobai got mad last night because of this.
As Elderly Lady Gu glanced at Qin Xiaobai, she got softhearted and said to Qin Xiaobai, “Don’t worry, Xiaobai, you would definitely like that girl. She’s very gentle, unlike your mother who only regards you as a cash cow and doesn’t know how to take care of you.”
Elderly Lady Gu’s words were like thorns stabbing Qin Muxuan’s heart.
It hurt.
Qin Xiaobai looked at Qin Muxuan who fell into silence and grabbed his clothes tightly with his little hand. Then he looked right into Elderly Lady Gu’s eyes and said firmly,
“Great grandma, if you drive Dabai away, I’ll leave with her.”
“My boy, what are talking about? If you stay with me, you can go to the best school and enjoy the best life.”
Qin Xiaobai shook his head.
“I’ll never leave my mother and live a wealthy life here without her! I would rather have nothing than leave my mom!”
Elderly Lady Gu was a bit irritated and couldn’t figure out why Qin Xiaobai who was quite tame last night suddenly turned rebellious.
“Xiaobai, think it over, your mother only treats you as her cash cow! She’s not a good mother at all. Think about how tired you are every day when you come back home! If we don’t have a nanny in the house, you wouldn’t even have anything to eat!”
After the old lady paused, she added, “She also made you run away from home with rage. Do you still want to protect her now?”
Qin Xiaobai shook his head resolutely, “This is all my fault! I insist on acting in the films because I want to earn as much money as I could. I want to earn a lot of money to support Dabai! Last night, it was not my mother’s fault! It’s my fault! I only acted like that because I was misled by others’ lie!”
After saying this, Qin Xiaobai put his arms around Qin Muxuan’s neck and shouted, “If Dabai leaves, I’ll follow her. I’ll go wherever she goes!”
Qin Muxuan, hands shivering, hugged Xiaobai’s little body tightly. The feelings she had held back finally found a vent after she heard Qin Xiaobai’s words.
Mrs. Gu watched the mother and son crying on each other’s shoulders. Perhaps because Mrs. Gu was also a mother, she somehow related to them, with her eyes filled with tears.
Elderly Lady Gu didn’t feel the same way. Seeing Qin Xiaobai being so stubborn, she got displeased at once. Then she opened her mouth and tried to say something but was stopped by Mrs. Gu.
Mrs. Gu winked at the old lady and said in a low voice, “Mother, you shouldn’t have said those things now. Xiaobai finally turned soft to you last night. What you have said today has put all the efforts you made in vain.”
“Xiaobai and Muxuan are really attached to each other. If you really like Xiaobai, you shouldn’t have said those words.”
After Mrs. Gu had lived with Qin Muxuan for a period of time, she already realized what kind of person the latter was as well as how much Qin Muxuan had devoted to Qin Xiaobai.
No one could love a child more than the child’s mother.