BXBX NOVEL Chapter 59: 59 He’s elusive_1
Chapter 59: 59 He’s elusive_1
It was me from my high school days.
Back then, I was wearing my school uniform, holding a red flower in my hand, and leading a dance to cheer on the school basketball team.
The screen was filled with a strong sense of youth.
Oh! This guy even used my photo as his screensaver?
Out of curiosity, I randomly opened a file folder called ‘Photo Album’ and opened a group photo from high school. To my surprise, there were a ton of photos, all of me.
What’s more, each one seemed to be taken discretely, from various angles.
Oh, this pervert!
Just as I was about to look further, a hand reached over and slapped my laptop shut.
Then, he took away the laptop.
“Lady, isn’t it rude to casually look at someone else’s computer?”
Ding Yinuo frowned at me.
“Oh, so you think it’s polite to sneak photos of others?”
“Did I take unpermitted photos of you?”
Ding Yinuo was surprisingly confident.
“Can you swear my photos aren’t on your laptop?”
Ding Yinuo sneered,
“You overestimate yourself. Are you sure you’re the only one in the photos?”
His question caught me off guard.
I thought for a while, and suddenly realized that there were indeed others in the photos.
Like in the screensaver photo, there were several others dance cheering with me, including his rumored girlfriend, Jiang Jiaying.
Maybe because I was leading the dance, I was clear in the photo, while the other girls standing behind me were not so distinct.
“Fine, let’s drop this. As the bigger person, I won’t bicker with you. Actually, I just wanted to find out my Aunt Wu Lijuan’s room number from the computer. Since you’re here, just tell me, and I’ll go find her.”
Ding Yinuo closed the laptop, “Do you think it’s that easy to break into the hospital’s database?”
“Give me your laptop, and let me try!”
Ding Yinuo’s computer likely had access to the hospital’s network, and intruding its database through the network shouldn’t be as difficult.
Ding Yinuo glanced at me,
“With your half-assed skills, it’s pointless… fine, I’ll take you there once I finish my work.”
After the argument ended, he eventually took me to Aunt Wu Lijuan’s ward.
Aunt Wu Lijuan on the hospital bed was unrecognizable due to her illness, which stunned me.
Actually, when I was younger, Uncle Song Shixiong spent most of his time busy at the company. The care for my daily life was all arranged by Aunt Wu Lijuan.
In my memories, Wu Lijuan could be considered as my mother. She was indeed very good to me.
But I never expected that less than a month after my death, she would be so sick.
Seeing the person who used to be close to me in this state, my heart ached.
I held my tears in front of her…
Choking back tears, I called out,
“Auntie, I’m here to see you.”
Wu Lijuan slowly opened her weary eyes to look at me, and after a while, she asked,
“Who are you?”
Just as Ding Yinuo was about to speak, I interrupted him and promptly said,
“Auntie, I am Ayun’s best friend. She entrusted me to visit you before she died.”
Upon hearing the name ‘Ayun’, Wu Lijuan started sobbing uncontrollably, holding my hand,
“Ayun, my poor Ayun!”
“Auntie, Ayun called you aunt, so I will too. Ayun once told me that she didn’t have a mom, so you were her mom. From now on, treat me as Ayun. If you need anything, just tell me!”
Upon hearing this, Wu Lijuan cried even harder. I wiped away her tears, but she kept crying continuously, as if the tears would never stop.
It wasn’t until a long while later that Wu Lijuan’s emotions finally settled down. Her dry hand kept clutching at me tightly.
“Ayun, my Ayun, she died so tragically!”
“I know, and I will definitely find out the truth! Aunt, please rest assured!”
Wu Lijuan’s lips trembled,
“I let Ami down! I did not take good care of her daughter!”
I remember Auntie once told me, my birth mother and her were classmates and later became best friends.
My mom played a big role in my aunt’s marriage to my uncle.
Maybe because of their friendship, Aunt Wu Lijuan took special care of me.
“It’s not your fault, you did your best. Auntie, Ayun said she appreciated you for raising her…”
Wu Lijuan shook her head,
“It’s all my fault, I failed her…”
“No, it’s not. She made the wrong choice. Gu Yuanzhou is at fault, he will pay for what he did.”
But Wu Lijuan still shook her head, her voice trembling and full of endless sadness,
“It’s my fault! This is my sin! I didn’t stop your uncle. If I had stopped him earlier, Ayun wouldn’t have had an accident. I should’ve known if I had tried harder to stop it, this tragedy wouldn’t have happened.”
Wu Lijuan’s health was not good. After talking to me for a bit, she started to have trouble breathing.
Thankfully, Ding Yinuo was nearby and put an oxygen mask on her. A few minutes later, she fell back into a deep sleep.
I stood by her bedside, watching her for a long time.
I wanted to do something for her, but realized there was nothing I could do.
Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that Ding Yinuo, who had been silent all along, actually had tears in his eyes.
“Let’s go, the patient needs to rest.”
He turned around and walked out.
I followed closely behind him.
After a while, when no one else was around, I asked him about her condition. He replied gravely with three words,
“Kidney failure!”
“Did you know? My aunt is also a doctor, I really didn’t expect that she’d be afflicted with illness.”
“Doctors are also human! In our hospital, every year some doctors are taken away by cancer.”
His voice was very low, suppressed, yet carried an undertone of acceptance towards life and death.
I nodded my head.
We walked side by side down the hall.
In the chilly corridor, the only sound was our heavy footsteps.
Both of our moods were very low.
“It must be suffocating to work here every day, isn’t it?”
“It’s okay! Although every day there are patients who die, there are also many people who escape from death each day!”
“My aunt just said that she did not stop my uncle. If she had stopped him, the tragedy would not have happened. What did she mean by that?”
Wu Lijuan’s words replayed in my mind, I was wondering if there was a deeper meaning behind what she said.
Even though she’s currently sick, she’s an educated and high-ranking woman and would not speak without cause.
Ding Yinuo considered for a moment,
“She might be referring to the time when you were about to marry Gu Yuanzhou! She didn’t stop you, if she had, you might not have been killed by Gu Yuanzhou!”
I was stunned. Is this what Auntie meant?