Chapter 279

After ending the call, Jiang Nannan opened Huo Jingyan's WeChat.

The conversation between the two had stopped two days ago.

That night, while she was chatting with Shu Xia, she received a message from Huo Jingyan.

He said he wouldn't be coming home for the next two days because the company was too busy.

Then she called Huo Jingyan, wanting to tell him to take better care of his health, but his secretary answered the phone and just said that President Huo was busy.

She had a premonition at the time that Huo Jingyan was tired of her, and she didn't sleep the whole night, thinking about this matter the entire time.

This time, she did not take the initiative to contact him again.

As a result, he hadn't sent a single message; it had been two days...

She considered herself a thick-skinned person, yet she could still feel the distance from the person sleeping beside her.

She couldn't understand how, not long after they got married, Huo Jingyan could already be so impatient and distant toward her? She didn't want to affect Shu Xia's mood while she was traveling.

Standing in front of the mirror, she looked at her somewhat haggard and listless self and took a deep breath.

"Huo Jingyan, if you have no interest in me, just tell me directly. I won't pester you and refuse to let go. Do I look like the kind of woman who can't let go of things?"

After asking herself this in front of the mirror, Jiang Nannan felt a sense of stifling frustration in her heart.

"It's possible I'm just overthinking it. There really are a lot of things at the company, and the Huo Family's massive enterprise is being handled by Huo Jingyan alone. When one is in a high position, it's difficult."

She began to repeatedly persuade herself in her heart again.

Even her mother-in-law was saying that Huo Jingyan was usually too busy and that she should be more understanding.

Her mother was also saying that she couldn't demand that Huo Jingyan accompany her often.

She glanced at her phone again; the chat history between the two over the last month or two was getting shorter each time, and even the video calls didn't seem as long as they used to be.

Was she really just overthinking it?

Her hand gripped the phone tightly; this time, she would see when Huo Jingyan would think of her.

——

Chen Xiuyue gradually accepted the truth that her legs had been amputated.

However, her emotions would break down from time to time.

Lying on the bed unable to move was truly torturing her to death.

Looking at the vegetable porridge she had been served for two days in a row, she flipped it over and swung a slap across Lin Miao's face.

Lin Miao was stunned by the blow.

"Mom, you..."

"Are you doing this on purpose? Buying me such disgusting porridge? Is this how you all treat me? Seeing that I'm lying in bed unable to move, you feed me this disgusting stuff! You don't even know how to change it for me every day!"

They clearly despised her for being a cripple!

They weren't putting any effort into caring for her as a patient.

She could see it all!

Lin Qi, who was to the side, reacted and immediately came over to protect Lin Miao, looking down with heartache at Lin Miao's reddened face, then frowned and rebuked Chen Xiuyue, "Mom, how can you just hit people? Miaomiao has been caring for Mom with all her heart. It was the doctor who said Mom couldn't eat those messy things; it has nothing to do with Miaomiao. We sympathize with you for losing your legs in the car accident and not being used to it, but you also need to be considerate of us. We've been caring for you at the hospital from morning till night; we're also very tired, okay?"

Lin Miao's eyes turned red, her face hurt, and her heart felt even colder—as expected, she wasn't her biological mother!

Before, she could still pretend to have a deep mother-daughter bond, but now Chen Xiuyue didn't even bother to pretend!

"I am your mother, the mother of both of you. I worked hard to raise you, and now that I've had a car accident and need someone to care for me, are you being diligent enough? Use your conscience and tell me, are you being diligent?" Chen Xiuyue's eyes were incomparably red.