Chapter 5

Yanyan was terrified and started crying loudly.

Cheng Wang heard the noise and rushed downstairs, hurriedly picked him up, and went out the door.

I tiredly looked at the mess on the floor, quickly treated my burn, and returned to the kitchen to cook porridge to take to the hospital.

On the way, someone sent me Ruan Qing's Little Red Book account.

The latest post only had a casual photo, capturing Ruan Qing and Cheng Wang with Yanyan eating street food.

Captioned: "A family of three enjoying the everyday life~"

Ruan Qing was fairly well-known as a fitness influencer and recently appeared on a parent-child variety show, her popularity soaring.

The comments were full of praise for her down-to-earth nature, her resemblance with Yanyan, and admiration for their family's happiness.

Not forgetting to criticize me as the ex-wife, saying I was too controlling.

Cheng Wang and Yanyan never found real happiness with me.

I closed my phone, feeling bitter inside.

Years of effort, just a joke after all.

I didn't want to go back to see them, so I decided to stay in the hospital with my mom for a few days.

Her condition improved a lot, but she was very worried about me and Cheng Wang, so I told her the excuse I'd prepared, saying the photo was AI-generated and Cheng Wang loved me very much.

I said the reason Cheng Wang hadn't come to see her was because he was competing abroad.

After hearing my explanation, she finally smiled.

At that moment, a call came in from Yanyan's smartwatch.

"Mom, Yanyan feels terrible... Yanyan can hardly breathe..."

My hand trembled, and I stepped out of the ward, my heart racing.

"What's wrong? Is your chest tight?"

Yanyan kept saying he felt awful, wanted to vomit, wanted to cry.

The call was picked up by someone else, telling me they'd called 911, but there's traffic, and the ambulance couldn't come for a while.

After asking for the address, I rushed over in haste.

After all, he's the child I went through ten months of pregnancy to give birth to, and no matter how wrong he is, hearing he's in trouble makes me extremely anxious.

I kept telling the person on the phone about precautions while taking a cab to rush over.

Sweat poured from my palms, trembling uncontrollably, almost unable to hold the phone.

"Driver, can you go a bit faster?"

The August rain came fiercely, and the driver, irritated by my urging, yelled: "Rush rush rush, what for? Can't you see the traffic jam ahead? Or you can run yourself! It's only a few kilometers anyway!"

Listening to Yanyan's crying and painful voice on the phone, I gritted my teeth and dashed into the rain.

I was terribly worried, fell several times on the way, and could only think of Yanyan's face.

When I arrived at the indoor amusement park, the crowd was layered thrice over.

I squeezed in, held Yanyan in my arms, and skillfully checked his pulse.

Yanyan pushed me away with a disgusted expression:

"Go away, you're all wet and smell terrible!"

I froze, looked up at his flushed face, and realized he hadn't had any attack at all.

Yanyan pushed me away, turned around, and leapt into Ruan Qing's arms.

She held Yanyan, curled her lips in my direction, and smiled disdainfully.

The crowd watching chuckled softly, eyes full of mockery.

"She actually came."

"This episode has its highlight."

"What a failure, a mom ending up mixing like this in life."

"A happy family of three, crazy ex-wife grabbing the son, let's buy this headline for the trending news."

"Poor thing, though a sickly child, she was a Shen Family heiress after all, look at her now, a madwoman."

As I turned, I realized that surrounding us was clearly the crew of that parent-child variety show.

I knelt awkwardly on the ground, still holding the posture of having Yanyan in my arms.

Rainwater slid drop by drop from my hair to my collar, soaking my dress and sticking it tightly to my body, almost transparent.

Yet the crew focused all cameras on me.

Helplessness, humiliation, sadness, pain...

An overwhelming surge of emotions filled my heart, my eyes hot, and I stood up to approach Cheng Wang and Yanyan.

I wanted to ask them, what did I do wrong to them?