Chapter 214: Even if he were wealthier, Yu Lizhen wouldn't think highly of him at all

"Hmm, it's out. I haven't gone back to check the house yet." Shen Li asked her: "Why did you faint at home?"

Yu Lizhen stroked her forehead and closed her eyes: "You didn't come back at noon, so I didn't cook. I had just laid down in my room for a while when the fire started. When I was preparing to go out, I suddenly had low blood sugar. I remember a young man carrying me downstairs."

"Is he okay?"

Shen Li pursed her lips, glanced outside the ward door, and heard the sound of games coming from outside. She told her in a slow voice after a long while: "It was Xie Qin who carried you out of the house, and he has several burn marks on his body. At that time, he called me, but I was still in the laboratory with my phone on silent, so I didn't hear it."

"I told you from the beginning that I don't have much time to take care of you."

"..."

"If it weren't for Xie Qin, I don't know what would have happened."

Shen Li had also seen the video in the news report and saw that the fire started right downstairs from their home, and the black smoke drifted to the twelfth floor. If Xie Qin hadn't gone over in time.

The atmosphere suddenly became heavy.

Yu Lizhen was silent, her lips tightly pursed, not saying anything else, nor looking at her, as if she were avoiding it, or perhaps unwilling to admit this fact, wanting to ignore the fact that Xie Qin had saved her and just let it pass.

Shen Li's gaze remained on her. After a while, Yu Lizhen changed the subject and continued: "You still have class in the afternoon, hurry back to school, class is important. If I'm fine this afternoon, I should be able to be discharged."

Shen Li shook her head: "You can't be discharged today, you still need to stay in the hospital for observation for a few days."

Yu Lizhen had been in the hospital for several years and had long been tired of it. She couldn't stay for another minute: "Mom is fine."

Shen Li told her: "Xie Qin has already prepaid the hospital fees for a week, and... in two days, a breast cancer expert will come to the hospital for a consultation, so he can help you take another look."

Yu Lizhen was speechless for a moment, unable to say a word.

"During this time." Shen Li thought for a moment and said: "Xie Qin will come to the hospital to deliver meals, and I've already hired a caregiver, who will be here in a while."

Yu Lizhen's expression was cold, her tone carrying a hint of distance: "No need to trouble him with delivering meals, I'll handle it myself."

"Mom, I don't understand. Why do you just not like him! I've told you, Xie Qin has turned over a new leaf, he only got into Jiangchuan University because of me."

Yu Lizhen was stubbornly silent, not bringing up anything related to him: "I don't want to hear this."

Shen Li stared at her, and finally, there was nothing more she could do: "I'm heading back to school, call me if anything happens."

Seeing her just leave, Yu Lizhen panicked instantly, eagerness filling her eyes. Looking at her back, her lips opened and closed, the words she wanted to say stuck on the tip of her tongue, but in the end, she didn't say anything.

Shen Li looked at Xie Qin; he must have heard everything just now.

She felt a bit sorry for him.

Even though he had done so much...

Seeing her come out, Xie Qin nonchalantly tucked his phone into his pocket, tilted his head, and lazily raised his hand to touch her head: "Hurry back to class, I'll be here, I'll take good care of..." As he spoke, he leaned forward and whispered two words in her ear: "Our Mom."

Shen Li curled her lips and nodded with a smile, saying in a very light voice: "Mom is in your hands."

Xie Qin: "Hmm."

If she could, Shen Li would want to hug him, but he was injured himself. If she hugged him now, he would definitely be in a lot of pain.

Perhaps Xie Qin saw the thought in her eyes, raised his eyebrows at her: "If you want to hug, it's not impossible."

"Gently?"

He stepped forward to hug her, but Shen Li stepped back to avoid it.

Shen Li: "When you're better, we can hug for a long time, not now."

When he was better, she could hug him however she wanted.

Xie Qin saw her to the door downstairs and only left after watching her walk away.

He turned and took the elevator to the single ward on the tenth floor.

The door wasn't closed, and Xie Qin knocked on it.

Yu Lizhen thought Shen Li had returned. She looked up, and her expression turned cold instantly: "Why is it you? Where's Ah Li?"

"She went back to school. I took a week off, specifically to take care of you." Xie Qin rested his hand on the doorknob, pushed the door open, and walked into the room, hesitating in his mind about how to address her. He spoke: "Au~ntie?"

Yu Lizhen didn't give him a good look: "Don't call me Auntie."

"Oh." Xie Qin called: "Mom?!"

Yu Lizhen's expression became even uglier: "Who told you to call me that! Get out, I don't want to see you."

Xie Qin raised an eyebrow, his tone rogue, not caring about her temper at all: "I'll go, I'm going to go. But I still have to ask, what do you want to eat?"

After what happened at noon, neither of them had eaten.

Xie Qin: "Should I go out and buy it for you? Or should I order takeout?"

Yu Lizhen leaned on the hospital bed and turned her head: "I lose my appetite when I see you."

"Oh, you don't have to eat, just call me when you have an appetite."

Xie Qin retreated and walked out. Just then, the hired caregiver arrived, carrying a thermal container. It was a woman in her fifties.

Xie Qin lifted his chin at her, signaling her to go in.

The caregiver spoke to her for a moment, then opened the thermal container and told her: "Your daughter asked me to buy these wontons, all handmade. Don't worry, the ingredients are very clean. I've been a caregiver for so many years, and I often go to their place to eat myself."

Yu Lizhen's expression softened slightly, and she picked up a spoon to eat a few bites.

Xie Qin went back once; he had to come back to keep watch at night. With a cigarette between his fingertips, he suddenly thought of something, took his phone out of his pocket, opened the app, and canceled the plane ticket back to Di Du on May 1st.

The situation happened suddenly, and plans couldn't keep up with changes.

With Yu Lizhen hospitalized, they could only find another time to go back.

The cause of the fire in the complex at noon had been cleared up.

That household had gone to work in the morning and forgotten to unplug the charger by the bed, causing a short circuit and leakage, which ignited the bedsheets first. The curtains were already easy to burn, and the fire flared up instantly.

It took the firefighters nearly an hour or two to put out the fire.

These past few days, Shen Li would come over every day at noon and night.

Fortunately, Yu Lizhen was recovering well.

The doctor notified her that she could be discharged early. Compared to the injuries from the fire, what needed more attention was her breast cancer.

Currently, the condition was only temporarily controlled and not completely cured. The biggest fear was a recurrence, lesion, or metastasis of cancer cells.

For the sake of safety, to avoid accidents during this period, it was better to keep her in the hospital.

Fortunately, the current situation was normal.

The caregiver said: "Teacher Yu, you are truly blessed. Your daughter is beautiful and highly educated, and your son-in-law is handsome and considerate. They are such a perfect match."

"This son-in-law of yours is even more attentive, staying at the ward door every day to accompany you, and doesn't even sleep much at night. He's so attentive to you before even getting married; he'll definitely be even more filial after marrying your daughter."

Yu Lizhen would usually have made a sarcastic remark or remained silent.

But this time, she didn't show any impatient resistance.

Shen Li finished the discharge procedures and came to the hospital at noon to pick her up, then went back in Xie Qin's car.

Sitting in the car, Yu Lizhen was expressionless and didn't speak.

Shen Li sat in the back passenger seat with her mother and told her: "The apartment we re-rented is still in the same complex. Didn't you say it was convenient for grocery shopping? So we just didn't change it."

Yu Lizhen: "Hmm."

The atmosphere in the car remained silent.

After returning downstairs to the Taoli Chunfeng complex, Shen Li accompanied Yu Lizhen upstairs.

Shen Li entered the password to return home. Yu Lizhen found that it wasn't much different from where they lived before, and the things in the house were all packed up.

"I heard from Sister Zhang that the rent here is five thousand a month?"

Shen Li: "Hmm. Xie Qin was afraid you wouldn't be used to living elsewhere, so he didn't change the location."

After saying this, Yu Lizhen turned around, her eyes carrying an emotion that had never appeared before. After a long silence, she slowly asked her a question: "Ah Li... tell Mom, are you truly wanting to be with him?"

"No matter how I object, you won't change your mind, right?"

Shen Li answered firmly: "Yes! No matter how you object, I will only be with him."

Yu Lizhen looked at her quietly and sighed. She didn't know what emotion this sigh held—was it compromise, or was she just unable to do anything about her?

She had been like this since she was a child; as long as it was something she had decided on, she would never change.

"Forget it, you go back, let Mom... think about it some more."

After dropping these words, Yu Lizhen turned and went back to her room. She sat alone in the unlit room, quietly thinking about some things.

Six years ago, when she went to Wuchuan, she had inquired about that boy.

She wanted to know what kind of boy could make her prefer to stay in Wuchuan rather than come back.

But what Yu Lizhen heard was all about him fighting, skipping school, hating learning, changing over a dozen girlfriends, and having a chaotic private life at a young age, entangled with other girls.

As a teacher and Shen Li's mother, how could she tolerate her daughter being with such a rebellious, ill-behaved person?

He would only ruin her daughter.

So whether it was before or now...

She didn't like him.

Even if he were wealthier, Yu Lizhen wouldn't think highly of him at all.

She didn't want her daughter to follow in her footsteps and hand over the rest of her life to such a prodigal son.

Once a marriage is gambled wrong, losing means a lifetime...

She would rather the person Ah Li chose be Jingze.

Previously, Yu Lizhen had always denied Xie Qin from the bottom of her heart, but Xie Qin's dedicated care over these past few days, she had seen it all, and her mindset had subtly changed, from opposition... to beginning to hesitate and waver.

That was why she specifically asked her if she was determined to be with Xie Qin.

And Shen Li's answer was still firm, never having changed.

Actually, Yu Lizhen coming to Wuchuan this time was because she couldn't let go of her daughter, fearing she would be hurt by Xie Qin.

But looking back, it had always been her, the mother, who hadn't been able to protect her well, instead causing her a lot of trouble, constantly dragging her down, and becoming a burden by her side.

Ah Li seemed to have... truly grown up.

She had someone by her side who was more important than her mother.

She no longer needed her, let alone her late atonement.

PS: Updated a bit late today, my cat got lost, I looked for it in the complex for over an hour. Called it and it didn't respond, later it came back on its own when it rained. Delayed my update~ ===== CHAPTER 215 =====