Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Only two people were allowed inside the intensive care unit at the same time.
He was not allowed in since Shen Liangchuan and Qiao Lian were there.
He lost track of the time that he had been standing outside, until Mei Feng appeared holding a container of hot food right before him.
“Zihao, it’s important to eat. Eat first, and you can continue to wait afterwards. If your health gets ruined, your mum will be heartbroken when she wakes up.” Shen Zihao paused when he heard Mei Feng’s words.
Looking at her, he asked, “Will she really be heartbroken if I am hungry?”
Mei Feng choked slightly at his question and said after a pause, “For sure. No matter what, she gave birth to you. How would she not be heartbroken?”
He hung his head and kept silent.
Yes, of course, her heart would ache for him.
He looked up at Mei Feng again.
For some reason, there were things that he suddenly didn’t feel like telling her anymore.
He did not bother with the food that she had brought him and walked away.
Alone, he took a quiet walk around the hospital grounds.
It was already three in the morning.
There was no one to be seen—the corridor was pitch dark.
At this point, a car pulled to a stop at the hospital entrance. Following this, a mother got off the vehicle and ran into the hospital, carrying a swaddled baby.
As she ran, she was crying. “Hurry up, my darling, you have to get well...”
Next to her, the father of the baby said, “What are you crying for? The child is fine, it’s just a fever.”
“What do you know? He’s feeling unwell and it makes me upset.”
The couple carrying the baby hurried past him.
Shen Zihao looked back and stared at their anxious figures in a daze.
Suddenly, he felt as though a big hand had clamped itself tightly around his heart.
It’s true, in this world, was there a mother who didn’t love her child?
What had gotten into him at the business function tonight? How could he have said those words that hurt her?
And all the things that he had done...
As he thought about these matters, he found himself wandering into the garden next to the hospital. He found an icy wooden block to sit on.
He wished there was someone he could talk to.
Picking up his cell phone and under the moonlight, he scrolled through his address book.
It was only now he realized that, for the last eight years, he had led a pathetic existence.
Right up till now, he actually did not have even one friend that he could confide in.
Almost about to give up, he put down his cell phone. But it was at this point that he saw a name: Xia Nuannuan.
Even the sound of her name seemed to bring some semblance of comfort on a cold night such as this.
It would only be much later that Shen Zihao would realize that Xia Nuannuan had been the first person in the last eight years to give him any warmth at all.
Without thinking twice, he dialed her number.
The phone rang for a while before the line connected. Then, Xia Nuannuan’s voice was heard. Her voice had a certain dreamy quality to it. “Hello?”
Suddenly, Zihao realized that it was right in the middle of the night.
He pursed his lips, feeling childish and laughable all of a sudden. He was tempted to hang up, but her voice was gentle and heartwarming. He paused for a moment before he finally said, “Were you asleep?”
She was silent for a moment before she suddenly reacted, “Mr. Shen?”
“Are you okay? What’s the matter?”
Not knowing what had gotten into him, Shen Zihao immediately said, “I’m at the hospital. It seems... something’s happened to her.”
Xia Nuannuan was stunned for a moment. Then she asked, “Which hospital? I’ll come over right away.”