Su Xiaofei could recognize her own birth mother even if Bai Qingyue was under disguise. It was understandable that people wanted to know Yun Qingrong's condition, but seeing Bai Qingyue tonight out of all people was out of her expectations. She couldn't understand why this woman would come here.
Did Bai Qingyue want to see how desperate and pitiful she was right now?
Bai Qingyue hardened her jaws and stared at Su Xiaofei, the child she abandoned for so many years.
"So it is you." She said after a long moment of silence between them. "Did Qiao Fengying tell you this?"
If the rumors were true that Su Xiaofei was frequently spotted with Qiao Fengying, Bai Qingyue surmised that everyone misunderstood the situation, because there was no way Qiao Fengying wouldn't be able to see their striking resemblance to each other.
"Does it matter who told me? You aren't supposed to be here, Miss Bai." Su Xiaofei gave her a pointed look.
She didn't give a damn about what Bai Qingyue was thinking right now. She came out of her mother's hospital room to get some air and clear her thoughts, but who would have thought that she would find this woman when she decided to drop by the oncology department to have a word with Yun Qingrong's doctor?
If Mo Yuchen hadn't sent Bai Qingyue, then what the hell was this woman doing here?
'It was probably because of the rumors that I was meeting Qiao Fengying lately.' Su Xiaofei thought that it was plausible. Bai Qingyue must have felt threatened, worrying that their relationship as mother and daughter would be exposed to the public.
Seeing Bai Qingyue right now wasn't helping Su Xiaofei at all. She could see that her uncles were starting to lose hope, and Lu Qingfeng's stiff expression said that he was still had no lead in his search to find the organs her mother needed. Even the doctors kept telling her that since Yun Qingrong was already on the transplant list, and they could only wait.
Wait for what? Su Xiaofei thought. If cancer didn't kill her mother, her multiple organ failure would. All the Yun family members except for Yun Xiang, who still hadn't shown up, tested negative for a match.
She tried to keep her spirits high, but it was hard to keep up when everything around her was crushing her. Her mother had been in this hospital for a week with no signs of recovery. Did this mean she needed to prepare for the worst?
There wasn't a single ray of hope she could cling on and with everyday that passed without any signs of a donor, her mother's condition continued to worsen. She was losing hope. What was the point of being reborn if she couldn't do anything for her mother?
She had tried everything in her power to save Yun Qingrong in this life, wanting to spend more time with her mother and keep her mother alive and well with her. Was all her effort in vain?
She wanted to cry, but she needed to put on a brave front so Yun Qingrong wouldn't worry about her. Her mother kept telling her that everything would be alright, that she would be okay.
"Just leave and pretend that you've never known me. Turn around and leave me alone. You've done it pretty well before, I'm pretty sure you won't miss that much." Su Xiaofei mocked Bai Qingyue.
Bai Qingyue's whole body trembled. Her hand itched to reach for her daughter, but the hatred in Su Xiaofei's eyes prevented her from doing so.
Ha. So the child she had left behind years ago managed to survive and find her. She had beat herself up every single day ever since she left her baby at that orphanage. She had taken the easy way out and ran away like a coward.
"You knew that I was your mother during our first encounter, didn't you?"
Su Xiaofei looked at her as if she would rather be elsewhere than here with Bai Qingyue at that moment. How could this heartless woman be her birth mother? She didn't understand.
Yun Qingrong was more of a mother to her. She had loved and taken care of her as if she was her real daughter. But this woman… Bai Qingyue only cared about herself. Wasn't that why she had done all her might in her previous life to drive Su Xiaofei out of showbiz?
"Why did it have to be you?" She murmured as her tears started running down her face. "You couldn't be my mother. My mother is down there, lying in her hospital room, fighting for her life. But you… how could you face me like this? You shouldn't have come here. I will never be your daughter, and you cannot be my mother! I refuse to accept that someone like you is my mother!"
It was probably all the pent-up frustrations and anger she'd been trying to hold down for days, but Su Xiaofei couldn't hold on to it anymore. Why was Yun Qingrong being punished instead of her? She was the one who had sinned and did those atrocious things in her previous life.
Why, why, why?!
"I just want my mom to live, and yet the woman who gave birth to me is here to torment me further."
"…"
"Yun Qingrong is my mom! You have no right to be here. Haven't you already gotten your wish? You have thrown me away like an unwanted kitten, you should have pretended I was dead! You've made it perfectly clear that I was nothing to you, so please continue to do so." She continued, letting out the things she had been keeping in for a long time.
Su Xiaofei staggered back and struggled to breathe. This was worse than being killed by Ye Mingyu in her past life. Her chest ached so much, as if someone was tearing her heart out.
She could see Bai Qingyue's shocked face as her sight blurred. She could also hear the other woman saying something, but Su Xiaofei was slowly losing her grip on reality and dropped on the cold ground.
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