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Chapter 106: It’s Okay to Cry (2/2)

As the nurse turned and left, Shen Cheng vaguely heard her muttering with a sigh, “Even a girl like Wen Yuanyuan, with so much baggage, has a handsome boyfriend. But here I am, over thirty, still single. What am I lacking…”

“…” Shen Cheng’s lips twitched repeatedly.

Turning his head, he noticed that Wen Yuanyuan was blushing and nearly frozen. Shen Cheng quickly reached out and patted her shoulder, saying, “Come on, let’s not forget why we’re here. Let’s go, quickly.”

“Mm… mm.” Wen Yuanyuan nodded, patted her face to regain some composure, and then led Shen Cheng in search of her mother’s hospital room.

After climbing several floors and passing through a few white corridors, they stopped in front of a room deeper inside the hospital.

Wen Yuanyuan opened the door and entered the room, with Shen Cheng following closely behind.

At the first glance inside the room, Shen Cheng saw a woman lying on a hospital bed. She was wearing a patient gown, her face gaunt and haggard, with a thin right hand connected to an IV drip.

“Mother… I’ve come to see you.” Approaching the bed, Wen Yuanyuan gently held the woman’s left hand and softly said, “Today, I brought a friend to visit you. It’s the one I often tell you about—Shen Cheng, the owner of the Cat Café. He’s a very kind and gentle person…”

Shen Cheng stood silently behind Wen Yuanyuan, watching her chat with her mother. In this situation, he had nothing to say, only silently praying in his heart that the Bio-Scientific Institute could find a way to cure Wen Yuanyuan’s mother.

Judging by the current state, she must be in a vegetative state. The only question was how long it had been…

…

“Mother, I’ll be leaving now.”

After chatting with her mother for a while, Wen Yuanyuan finally let go of her mother’s frail hand. She then turned around, looked at the silent Shen Cheng, and softly said, “Let’s go.”

“…” Shen Cheng wordlessly nodded.

The two walked outside the hospital. The cool evening autumn breeze slightly eased Shen Cheng’s heavy mood. At this moment, Wen Yuanyuan broke the silence, “Shen Cheng, you graduated from Ming University, right?”

Shen Cheng was taken aback for a moment, then nodded, “Yes, why?”

“We almost could’ve been schoolmates,” Wen Yuanyuan said with a bitter smile, her hands behind her back, gazing at the stars intertwined with the neon lights of the city center. “I’m sorry, Shen Cheng. I lied to you before when I said I joined a club in college. I never went to university… The day before I was supposed to start at Ming University, I got the news that my mother had been in a car accident.”

“…” Hearing Wen Yuanyuan begin to recount her past, Shen Cheng silently watched her, acting as a quiet listener.

“The situation was critical, and the treatment required a lot of money. My father passed away early, so it was just my mother and me. We were barely getting by. When my relatives and friends heard the news, they immediately cut ties with us. It was my grandmother who used her funeral savings to save my mother. But… even though we saved her, she ended up in a vegetative state, just like now, needing continuous nutrient infusions.”

“Back then, I was utterly lost and helpless. I had just turned eighteen and had spent my life immersed in studying. I didn’t know anything about the world. That’s when I gave up on Ming University and started working to support myself.”

“Although the family responsible for the accident paid for most of my mother’s medical expenses after negotiations, there was still a portion that I couldn’t cover on my own…”

“For my mother’s medical bills, I worked from morning till night every day, sometimes holding down five jobs at once, from preparing breakfast to working the night shift. Many times, I felt like I couldn’t take it anymore and wanted to give up. But then I would think of my mother in the hospital, and I’d pull myself together, telling myself, ‘Wen Yuanyuan, be strong. Mother will wake up,’ and I’d continue working day and night…”

Seeing Wen Yuanyuan trying hard to hold her head high and look at the night sky, her voice trembling slightly, Shen Cheng couldn’t help but step forward, gently patting her on the back with compassion, and softly said:

“It’s okay to cry.”

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