Chapter 334: Chapter 332 Memory Recovery (Part 2)
And so, mother and daughter could have continued to live peacefully in the small town.
Until one day, a luxuriously dressed woman came to their home.
The woman wanted to take Jiayi away, but her mother refused.
The woman was Xuan Yu.
After being refused by the mother, Xuan Yu didn’t say much, only leaving behind a contact number and mentioning that if they ever needed anything, they should get in touch with her.
Her mother frowned and promptly sealed the piece of paper with the contact details in a drawer.
The mother and daughter thought they would never have to use that emergency number, but a year later, an accident happened to the mother—
At that thought, Jiayi felt a piercing pain in her heart and couldn’t help but whimper softly, "Mommy..."
Her mother was hit by a car that ran a red light while she was returning from work and going to the nearby market to buy groceries, on the same street they passed every day!
Her mother was taken to the hospital and needed several major surgeries, but where could Jiayi find the money? Even though Nie Yixiao and her grandmother had contributed a significant amount of money, it was merely a drop in the bucket and far from enough.
The fifteen-year-old girl, caught off guard, could only take out that contact number and call Xuan Yu.
Xuan Yu immediately came to S Country and arranged for her mother’s surgery. Although her mother survived the critical period, she didn’t wake up for several days.
In her panic, Xuan Yu told Jiayi that she’d consulted with a foreign expert who said that in cases like her mother’s, it was possible that she would remain in a vegetative state for the rest of her life.
However, she would take care of her mother’s medical expenses as long as Jiayi agreed to go back to the Chu Family in S Country and from then on, obey her every command.
Jiayi didn’t want to leave her mother, but what could a teenage girl do?
Having received a promise from Xuan Yu to take care of her mother, Jiayi followed Xuan Yu to the Chu Family.
...
In the years after she arrived at the Chu Family, she never made contact with her mother again!
Every time she inquired about her with Xuan Yu, she was told that her mother was still in a medically induced coma, unable to wake up, but that her mother was receiving the best medical care and was looked after by professional nurses.
Asking too many times, fearing she might annoy Xuan Yu, Jiayi no longer dared to ask. Even when she found out she had come to S Country as a substitute bride for Chu Xinyu, she swallowed the bitter truth.
...
Now—
Was it because of the car accident, the blow to her head, that she was fortuitously able to remember those things?
Gasping for breath, she struggled to get up from the hospital bed. She tried moving and found that her arms and legs seemed unharmed, but her head felt heavy.
On touching it, she found it was bandaged tightly.
Using the stainless steel railing next to the hospital bed as a mirror, she saw her head wrapped up like a rabbit’s.
Just then, the door to the ward banged open.
The bodyguard, pushing Ya Chen, walked in, accompanied by Chu Yanhan.
Both men were surprised and delighted to see Jiayi sitting dazedly on the hospital bed, exclaiming in unison, "Jiayi, you’re awake."
Chu Yanhan hurriedly pressed the call button in front of the bed to summon the doctor.
Within half a minute, the attending doctor and a nurse came, quickly examined Jiayi, and then straightened up: "Mr. Chu, the young lady is fine. It’s just that the impact of the car crash was quite severe, resulting in a mild concussion, but there are no other major issues. If you’re still concerned, we can conduct a couple more checks over the next few days, and if there are no problems, she should be able to be discharged. There’s also no need to postpone the wedding date with the Ya Family."
Chu Yanhan breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you, doctor."
The doctors and nurses left.
Chu Yanhan went over and lifted his daughter’s hand. "Jiayi, do you feel any discomfort? If you do, you must tell the doctors."
Jiayi suddenly slipped out of her daddy’s palm. "Where is Chu Xinyue?"
Was one attempt by Chu Xinyue not enough that she has to do it again?!
Chu Yanhan’s thick brows furrowed. "She was taken away by the police, and your mommy is at the police station now. Jiayi, why would she hit you without any reason? She refuses to say anything. Because of that, the bail procedures are very difficult, and your mommy is frantic. Jiayi, if your second sister did it unintentionally, you must speak up."
Jiayi hadn’t expected her to admit it, and for a moment, her clear gaze flickered. "This time, she may have done it unintentionally, but the last time I went missing in China, she was involved for sure."
"What do you mean?" Chu Yanhan was startled. Wasn’t Jiayi separated from them? How could it be related to Xinyue?
She articulated each word clearly. "I remember now, I was pushed off by her at Huanglong Mountain hunting grounds."
Ya Chen had not expected her to remember, and at that moment, Chu Yanhan was shaking with fury, not knowing what to say. Even if Xinyu was unkind to Jiayi, at least it amounted to child’s squabbles, jealousy, and roughhousing. But Xinyue, appearing so kind and pure, how could she do such a thing?
He had raised a daughter with the heart of a serpent.
Just then, the Chu Family butler, who came to the hospital with them, knocked on the door and entered with a mobile phone in hand, bending forward with an urgent look on his face. "Sir, the madam called again, urging the sir to see if he could use his connections to bail out the second miss. She said that staying in the police station for too long with her condition... might lead to problems..."
"Enough, let her find a way herself. Aren’t her maiden family’s connections very powerful, no less than the Chu Family’s? Why would she need me? Xinyue must take responsibility for her own actions!"
Chu Yanhan was caught in disbelief and rage, unwilling to meddle in Chu Xinyue’s affair. He swung his hand, nearly knocking the phone from the butler’s hand.
The butler had no choice but to step out and reply to Xuan Yu.
In the hospital room.
After dismissing Xuan Yu’s plea for help, quietness returned.
It took a while for Chu Yanhan to swallow his anger, his emotions too complex to speak.
The bodyguard leaned down and whispered to Ya Chen. "Crown Prince, the wedding is about to take place. Miss Chu got rained on at the airport today, and now she’s had a car accident. Maybe let miss rest first, and we can return."
Before Ya Chen could respond, Jiayi was taken aback and blurted out, "I... I... did I go to the airport?"
To the airport?
Did she go to the airport today?
She suddenly realized, while remembering everything else...
There seemed to be parts of her memory missing.
Indeed—
Her memory was blank from the moment Chu Xinyue pushed her at Huanglong Mountain hunting grounds...
There were intermittent memories after that, but they were fragmented and unclear. She only remembered that she seemed to have returned to the Chu Family house, and then under Xuan Yu’s coercion, she was to marry Ya Chen.
Her wedding with Ya Chen was set for after today—
She felt like a patient who’d been in a coma since that moment and had just woken up.
She didn’t even remember going to the airport today.
Both Ya Chen and Chu Yanhan were startled. What did she mean she didn’t remember going to the airport?
After a long while, seeing that neither of them had said a word, Jiayi spoke again in a weak voice. "So, was I hit on the way back from the airport?"
