Chapter 54: The Hope of Becoming a Mother

Cheng Mingzhu's words crossed Chu Li's bottom line.

He looked at her pale face with no expression, his gaze icy: "Is Miss Cheng trying to boss me around now?"

Cheng Mingzhu felt aggrieved and gritted her teeth: "Qin Xingwan, there is surveillance here; you dare to spout nonsense."

As long as Chu Li went to check, he would be able to find out she had never said those words.

Qin Xingwan looked up at Chu Li, her tone as calm as usual: "Do you believe her or me?"

"I believe you," Chu Li said without hesitation.

Cheng Mingzhu was embarrassed; she did not believe she was inferior to Qin Xingwan: "She is lying."

Qin Xingwan looked at her and said indifferently: "Yes, I am lying, so what?"

She admitted it generously.

Cheng Mingzhu was stunned.

Qin Xingwan shook off Chu Li's hand and entered the hospital room.

She originally did not want to say those things in front of Chu Li, but Cheng Mingzhu had said her child had no fortune.

She could not tolerate it in the slightest.

Cheng Mingzhu walked up to Chu Li, her eyes slightly red: "A Li, it really is her who is lying."

"You said my child had no fortune; was that also a lie?" A dark, grim look covered Chu Li's handsome face.

"I..."

"Cheng Mingzhu, my wife will only ever be Xingwan. Since you are badmouthing her background and my child, I will go find Uncle Cheng myself to ask about the Cheng Family's upbringing."

Chu Li turned and walked inside.

Cheng Mingzhu was somewhat broken, shouting at his back: "I only came back for you."

The response she got was the closing of the door.

Cheng Mingzhu shed tears.

She had come back specifically to see him, but he only had that divorced wife in his heart.

Inside the hospital room.

The Old Master Yu brought by Chu Li was taking Qin Nainai's pulse.

Qin Xingwan stood quietly to the side, holding her breath as she waited.

Qin Nainai was quite composed; she had long since seen through the cycle of life, old age, sickness, and death. The only thing she could not bear to leave behind was Qin Xingwan, who had yet to find a good place to settle down.

After finishing the pulse reading, Old Master Yu's gaze fell on Qin Nainai's face, and he spoke thoughtfully: "The old lady looks familiar, like an old friend."

Qin Nainai was very calm: "People all look the same when they get old; you have mistaken me for someone else."

Old Master Yu wanted to say more but stopped, then nodded and went out.

Once outside the door, Qin Xingwan asked impatiently about her grandmother's condition.

Old Master Yu said: "The old lady is advanced in age; it is normal for her body to have some ailments."

There were no major problems.

Qin Xingwan let out a sigh of relief and thanked Old Master Yu.

She was about to go back in when she was pulled back by Chu Li, who said in a gentle, soft voice: "Sit down and let the old master take a look at you too."

Qin Xingwan refused; she did not want to accept Chu Li's favor.

As for her grandmother, that was what Chu Li should have done; who told him to give Qin Yunshu the idea to bring her grandmother to Yuncheng.

Chu Li insisted, holding her wrist and firmly placing it on the pulse pillow.

After Old Master Yu finished the pulse reading, he nodded: "The body has suffered from cold energy; it is indeed very difficult to conceive a child..."

Qin Xingwan pulled her hand back at once, her long eyelashes trembling, her eyes filled with moisture.

"Thank you."

She thanked the old master in a hoarse voice and prepared to leave.

She was pulled back again by Chu Li, who held her by the waist.

Her temper flared up instantly.

"Do you have to humiliate me like this?"

Old Master Chu had personally come forward to demand she and Chu Li divorce precisely because she could no longer conceive children.

Being driven out because she could not bear children was a genuine humiliation.

It was just that she had wanted a divorce anyway, so she had endured that humiliation.

But Chu Li insisted on bringing up the past, cutting into her heart with a knife.

She was unhappy.

Chu Li rubbed his brow and looked at the old doctor: "Uncle Yu, can you finish what you have to say all at once?"

Uncle Yu chuckled and beckoned to Qin Xingwan: "You young girl, your temperament is too impatient; I haven't finished my words yet."

"I said it is very difficult, not that it is absolutely impossible."

Qin Xingwan bit her lip; Tang Yisheng had also said those words, that with proper care and nourishment of the body, there was still a chance to be a mother.

But she knew clearly in her heart that it was just comfort.

Chu Li felt a sharp pain in his heart and lowered his voice: "Uncle Yu is a master of medicine; let him take another look at you."

Qin Xingwan looked at the old doctor with the gray-white beard opposite her and sat back down obediently.

Deep down, she longed for a child.

Just because Western medicine said it was impossible did not mean that Chinese medicine was the same.

This time, the pulse reading took a very long time.

Qin Xingwan went from initial trepidation and hope to final silence and despair, her face turning pale.

As expected, it still wouldn't work.

Tears uncontrollably welled up in her eyes.

She completely gave up hope.

Chu Li was also anxious, but he restrained himself well and asked softly, "Uncle Yu?"

The old traditional Chinese medicine doctor pondered for quite a while before saying, "It is just a temporary blockage of cold energy; take a few doses of medicine to clear it, and it will be fine."

Qin Xingwan clenched her fingers, her voice trembling: "Really?"

Is there really hope?

Can she really still become a mother?

There was also moisture in Chu Li's eyes; he held his wife's shoulders tightly, "Xingwan, it is true."

Qin Xingwan covered her mouth, unable to stop herself from crying out in pain.

Chu Li held her tightly, his heart burning hot.

They could still have children.

He could still win back her heart.

The prescription was written, and the old traditional Chinese medicine doctor still had to go see Old Master Chu.

Chu Li did not go; he went to get the medicine himself.

Qin Xingwan returned to the hospital room and told her grandmother every detail of what the old traditional Chinese medicine doctor had said.

Grandmother excitedly gripped her hand tightly, tears in her eyes.

That is wonderful.

If her Wanwan became a mother, she could die in peace.

Qin Xingwan was quite worried and uneasy, "If it still doesn't work after taking the medicine, I..."

She was afraid of another disappointment.

"I trust him," Qin Nainai said very firmly.

Across the way.

Old Master Chu was perfectly clear about matters outside; he squinted his eyes and let Old Master Yu take his pulse, "You wrote a prescription for that old woman across the way?"

He was not very happy.

Qin Xingwan had ability, but her background was insufficient after all.

In the beginning, Chu Li was unremarkable among his many children and grandchildren, and he did not care who he married, but now that he was the future successor of the Chu Group, his wife had to have a noble background.

Even though he had initially acknowledged Qin Xingwan's status in the Chu family, he would be happy to see her replaced by another granddaughter-in-law.

It was just that Chu Li had suddenly become obsessed and fallen in love with Qin Xingwan.

So, by association, he did not like the old woman across the way.

The old traditional Chinese medicine doctor stroked his gray beard, "At your age, worry less about the children's affairs, and you can live a few more years."

Old Master Chu snorted coldly, and not knowing what he thought of, he sighed, "How is that old woman across the way?"

"She has toiled for a lifetime, and her health is not very good; if she is taken care of well, she might live another three to five years, but if not, perhaps one or two years."

Old Master Chu sneered: "Look, this is the difference between people."

The old traditional Chinese medicine doctor wrote a nourishing prescription for Old Master Chu.

"She is, after all, the grandmother of our in-laws; didn't you go to see her?"

Old Master Chu was dismissive, "Is she worthy of me seeing her?"

The old traditional Chinese medicine doctor packed his things, swallowing the words on his lips.

He did not tell Old Master Chu that the unworthy old woman in the room across the way looked very much like that old friend he had been searching for privately for over forty years.

It was not that he did not want to say it, but he felt that with Old Master Chu's personality, it was better not to let him torment others.

Old Master Chu sat for a while, and suddenly had an idea.

Perhaps... he could watch a show!