Watching Shu Qianxin quickly disappear into the depths of the corridor, Shu Yi pondered for a moment, then turned and walked towards another place.

We can leave Shu Chuanran to his grandfather. In the current situation, the best way to help him is to give him no hope at all.

Shu Yi walked into Zhang Youye's ward with her head down. When she looked up, she saw Zhang Ningying tidying up the food containers on the coffee table with her back to the ward door. Looking at Zhang Youye, who still showed no signs of waking up, Shu Yi gently closed the door.

Hearing the sound behind her, Zhang Ningying turned around.

"Yiyi is back? How is Chuanran? I heard that Chuanran woke up when I came over, so I thought I'd put these things down first and then go see him."

"He's awake, but he can't stand the leg problem and keeps making a fuss in the ward. His grandfather is still trying to persuade him."

"This child." Putting down the lunchbox in her hand, Zhang Ningying sighed softly, and made a move to go to the ward with Shu Yi to take a look. "Yi Yi, why don't you take your aunt to see her? I can also help the old man persuade her."

For a period of time after her father's death, Shuyi also went through an extremely difficult and lonely period because she could not accept this reality.

As someone who has been through it all, she knows that some things are hard to get over on your own, and no amount of advice will help.

Shu Yi pulled Zhang Ningying's arm, smiled gently, and led her to sit on the sofa behind her.

"There's no need for him to go. He needs to figure some things out for himself; otherwise, no amount of persuasion will help."

Sometimes, Shu Yi's clarity and understanding really impressed Zhang Ningying.

With just a few words devoid of any emotion, she seemed to have said a great deal.

Helping Shuyi open the lid of the lunchbox on the coffee table, Zhang Ningying handed her the chopsticks and poured her a bowl of steaming hot soup.

"Yiyi, you've really worked hard these past few days."

"It wasn't hard work." After finishing the soup, Shu Yi lowered her head and ate her rice. "When I was in the hospital, he stayed by my side the whole time. As husband and wife, we should take care of each other."

"You child, you're so young but you say such mature things." Zhang Ningying got up and walked to Zhang Youye's bedside. "I don't know why Youye hasn't woken up yet. He's been unconscious for so long. Even Chuanran has woken up."

After finishing the meal that Zhang Ning had brought, Shu Yi put down her chopsticks and gave him a calm, indifferent instruction.

"Aunt, tell Dad that he doesn't need to come over every night. Huaiyi is too busy at the company by himself, and Uncle is usually just as busy. They also have to be wary of the Qin family. Anyway, I'll take care of things at the hospital, so they can rest assured."

After staring at Shu Yi for a long time, Zhang Ningying sat back down next to her.

She reached out and gently tidied a few stray strands of hair from her forehead, then smiled tenderly: "Yiyi, has Youye ever told you about his mother?"

“No, not at all.” Shu Yi shook her head. “I’ve never asked him about his mother. I only heard from Ting Li that his mother died of cardiac arrest.”

When he was a teenager, Zhang Youye returned to China after completing a semester of study abroad.

During the holidays, Zhang Youye followed the coursework left by his professor. When he had free time, he would often collect rare plant specimens with Zhang Huaiyi inside the garden.

In order to collect even rarer items, the two would sometimes go together to the Shu family's ancestral home.

When the event occurred.

It happened on a day during the holiday.

In a secluded courtyard within the garden, after separating from Zhang Huaiyi in the garden, Zhang Youye went to another, more remote courtyard in the garden, only to witness his mother sleeping with another man.

No one knows what Zhang Youye saw at the time. When Zhang Ningying received the news of the incident at the villa and rushed to the scene, she only saw Ren Man lying naked and dead on the bed.

Another man, also completely naked, was forced to kneel in the corner by the family's bodyguards.

Standing amidst a group of bodyguards, Zhang Youye stared blankly at his mother on the large bed.

After the incident, Zhang Jinnan rushed home from the company. Seeing the mess in his home, the naked corpse on the bed, and his son's indescribable gaze, he couldn't think straight.

In order to save face for his family, he suppressed this scandal as quickly as possible.

Only after receiving the autopsy report from the family doctor did Zhang Ningying learn that Ren Man had died of cardiac arrest.

As her sister-in-law, Zhang Ningying was well aware that Ren Man had some heart problems, and she would often make some nourishing soups for her sister-in-law.

However, logically speaking, even if there were some heart problems, it wouldn't be enough to die at that moment.

In other words, she may have been startled by her son suddenly appearing behind her.

Or perhaps, he got too excited while playing in bed and died because of it.

Forget it, there's no point in speculating about these things. Some things in the universe can't be explained in a few words.

No one wants to know why Ren Man, who lacks nothing in such a large family, would do such a disgraceful thing.

No one wanted to know why she, who outwardly loved her son and husband, was so sexually unsatisfied in private.

However, since the incident had already occurred and was a family scandal, no one was willing to delve into the truth of the matter.

Even today.

This matter was not only a taboo topic for the Zhang family, but also a lifelong taboo for Zhang Youye.

After telling Shu Yi about this old story, Zhang Ningying sighed, "When Youye was young, he was just like Huaiyi, sensible and smart. It was after this incident that he slowly became the way he is now."

"After the incident, perhaps due to the shock, he no longer wanted to study and stopped going back to school."

"He has become increasingly silent and resistant to our concern."

"Gradually, he became someone no one could control, looking down on everyone, spending his days eating, drinking, and having fun, living a muddled and aimless life."

"Later, he got into trouble while playing and was locked up in a juvenile detention center by his father, where he stayed for many years."

"Because of this incident, he lost faith in love and even completely lost interest in marriage. After being released from the juvenile detention center, he made countless excuses to avoid an arranged marriage."

Holding Shu Yi's palm, Zhang Ningying's expression was grave.

"Yiyi, without you, I don't know what he would be like now."

It's unbelievable that Zhang Youye's unspoken past is so heartbreaking, and even more unbelievable that his mother died because of such a thing.

No wonder he never took the initiative to tell her these things; whenever he did, the indescribable emotion in his dark eyes would always be glossed over.

Once this image entered their minds, not only Zhang Youye, but even Shu Yi didn't know how to comfort him.