I Refused to Be a Substitute, and Shot to Fame on a Variety Show With My Mother-In-Law

  Chapter 480 Tailan's Past 19

  Li You almost failed to stand still, and the moment his body was on the verge of falling, it seemed that he would fall down at any moment.

  Pei Jingzhou stepped forward to support her, bent his knuckles and held her little arms tightly to prevent her body from losing support and falling limply to the ground.

  With the help of Pei Jingzhou supporting her, she turned her head to look at Li's father who was standing on the side, and asked hoarsely, "Mom, what's wrong?"

  Li Huaisheng said: "Your mother is fine."

  Li You's voice was hoarse than before, and he spoke faster: "Dad, I've already arrived at the hospital, so don't hide it from me, okay?"

   Facing her choked up questioning, Li Huaisheng still didn't tell Li You anything, and only said: "You go in and see her first."

   After finishing speaking, Li Huaisheng said to Pei Jingzhou who was beside Li You, "Take care of her."

   "Yes." Pei Jingzhou nodded.

  Li You didn't understand why her father refused to tell her anything up to this moment, since she had already come to the hospital.

  But Dad didn't say anything, she couldn't question hysterically, Mom's illness was not her only pain, it was Dad who hurt more...

  After Li You entered the ward, Li Huaisheng did not go in with him for a long time. With an indescribable sadness hidden in his eyes, he stared at the glass on the ward door for a long, long time...

  The large ward was filled with a very strong smell of disinfectant, and the electrocardiogram equipment placed on the head of the bed made a beeping sound from time to time, and Mo Zhu, who was lying on the bed wearing a ventilator, was sleeping deeply at the moment.

  Li You didn't make a sound during these few steps towards the bed.

  She stood quietly by the bed, just looking at her mother's sleeping face, Pei Jingzhou didn't disturb her, and quietly accompanied her.

   I don't know how long it has been.

  Mo Zhu woke up faintly. She opened her tired eyes and vaguely saw two figures standing beside her hospital bed. She opened and closed her lips several times, as if she wanted to say something, a thin layer of mist soon spread on the ventilator.

  Looking at the awakened mother, Li You leaned down and said, "Mom, it's me."

  Mo Zhu blinked lightly, which means that she is awake now, and knows that the person talking to her at this moment is Li You.

  Li You's voice was very strong: "Do you want to drink water?"

  Mo Zhu shook his head lightly, his movements were so small that Li You could see clearly. But when she saw her mother wake up, she always wanted to do something, say something, the words were on her lips, but her throat was so dry that she swallowed those words.

  Seeing her daughter's worried expression, Mo Zhu raised the corners of her pursed lips slightly, using this smiling expression to show that she was fine.

   But this didn't comfort Li You, she shook her head and said, "How could it be okay, you were admitted to the hospital suddenly, and you didn't even tell me anything before that, and you even hid it from me with your father..."

  The more she spoke, the more she choked up: "You were fine before I went out this morning, yet you asked me what I want to eat tonight..."

  She tried not to cry, but she couldn't hold back her choked voice, and she would cry in the next second.

  The corners of Mo Zhu's lips moved, trying to make a sound, but it seemed very difficult to make a sound under the ventilator.

  Seeing this, Li You was in a hurry, so she didn't say those words anymore, and quickly stopped: "Mom, don't talk, you need to have a good rest."

  After speaking, Li You remembered her father who was still outside the door of the ward, and she quickly said to her mother: "Mom, I'll go and tell my father that you are awake."

  Mo Zhu blinked lightly: OK.

  Li You could tell that her mother wanted to see her father too, so she hurriedly got up, and just as she took a step forward, Pei Jingzhou, who had been standing behind her, clasped her wrist: "You can just stay with auntie, I'll inform uncle..."

   "No!" Li You interrupted Pei Jingzhou.

  She raised her face and looked at Pei Jingzhou, her tone was very firm: "I'll go tell Dad, Mom is already awake."

  Pei Jingzhou took a deep look at her, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing, let go of Li You's wrist, and let her go out.

  Outside the door of the ward.

  Li Huaisheng sat quietly on the waiting chair against the wall. He maintained an unchanged posture for a long time, so long that his body seemed to be a little stiff, but he did not adjust any posture. His body seemed to have his soul taken away, motionless like a statue.

  Until Li You slowly walked to his side, and softly called out: "...Dad."

Li Huaisheng came back to his senses when he heard Li You's voice. He followed the sound and looked at Li You beside him. His facial expression, which had been stiff for a long time, softened a little when he saw Li You. He asked, "Yes?" Isn't your mother awake?"

  Li You nodded: "Well, Mom is already awake."

  Li Huaisheng heard the words and slowly stood up.

   I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been sitting in one position for too long, and I’m almost too unstable when I get up. Li You's eyes were sharp and he quickly reached out to help, but Li Huaisheng waved his hand after barely standing still and said, "No need to help, your father and I haven't reached the point where I have to support even when I stand up."

  If Li Huaisheng usually said something like this, he must have said it in the most relaxed tone and in a joking tone.

  But at this moment, to Li You's ears, every word of this sentence is so heavy.

  Li Huaisheng was about to walk into the ward, but Li You stopped him and asked, "Dad, what happened to Mom?"

  Li Huaisheng paused.

  Seeing this, Li You stepped forward two steps at a time, stood beside Li Huaisheng and asked again: "Mom, what happened to her?"

  Li Huaisheng looked sideways at Li You. At this moment, Li You saw an expression of neither sadness nor joy on her father's face. She had never seen such an expression on her father's face since she was so old.

   Time passed by second by second.

   Just when Li You thought her father would not tell him anything, she heard her father's hoarse words—

   "It's leukemia."

  Four short words, to Li You, it was like five thunderclaps.

  The truth she desperately wanted to know was presented in front of her without warning, and she realized that even in the face of the truth, she was at a loss and powerless.

  But at this moment, apart from shock, the rest is disbelief.

   "How is this possible..." She shook her head, not believing the truth she knew from her father.

  However, Li Huaisheng didn't give her a more affirmative answer, and went into the ward in silence, leaving Li You alone standing there helplessly.

  She shook her head facing the air, once, twice, three times...until the tears in her eyes fell silently, and big ones fell down.

  She took a deep breath, and said to herself: "No, it must be a misdiagnosis, it must be... how could it be leukemia, my mother's body has always been so healthy, how could it be..."

  She was unwilling to believe this absurd truth.

   She convinced herself that it was a misdiagnosis! Must be a misdiagnosis!

  She immediately turned and went to the doctor.

   Didn’t know where the doctor’s office was, so she asked as she walked, and finally found out that the doctor’s office was at the end of the corridor. As soon as she entered the office, she asked loudly—

   "Who is Mo Zhu's attending doctor?"

  (end of this chapter)