"Mom..." Gao Hongfei suddenly called out.
"Hmm?" Wen Sinan turned her head to look over.
Almost simultaneously, Xing Zhaozhao subconsciously responded with a "Yes..."
A moment of silence fell over the surroundings, and everyone present, including Lin Wan, couldn't help but stare at Xing Zhaozhao in astonishment.
No, how dare you agree to that?
Xing Zhaozhao only realized it then, it was an unintentional conditioned reflex. However, the words had already been spoken, and she couldn't take them back. Fortunately, she was thick-skinned and didn't care what they thought of her.
"Why are you looking at me like that? We'll be family sooner or later anyway, what's wrong with me practicing a little beforehand?" she said nonchalantly.
Several people couldn't help but roll their eyes; they had never seen anyone so shameless.
"Heh." Gao Hongfei sneered, walked straight over, and pushed Xing Zhaozhao aside from Wen Sinan.
Xing Zhaozhao was fuming. This child was so rude, all this age for nothing. But considering he didn't know the truth yet, she decided not to hold it against him. After all, she was his mother.
Wen Sinan noticed the look in Xing Zhaozhao's eyes when she looked at Gao Hongfei. It was a look of helplessness and tolerance, and even a hint of doting, like an elder looking at a junior. Wen Sinan felt a strange unease.
"Mom," Gao Hongfei called out again.
This time, Xing Zhaozhao moved her lips, but ultimately held back and did not agree.
"What?" Wen Sinan came to her senses and looked at Gao Hongfei.
"How is my dad now?" Gao Hongfei asked with concern.
Wen Sinan immediately focused all her attention on Gao Mingcheng's condition.
She looked at Gao Hongfei seriously and said, "He's stabilized for now, but the longer he doesn't wake up, the lower the chances of him waking up in the future. Every time he's critically ill, the more difficult it is to save him. You need to be mentally prepared."
Gao Hongfei nodded with a sorrowful expression: "I understand."
Xing Zhaozhao panicked and grabbed Wen Sinan's arm, asking, "How could it be so serious? Is it really beyond saving? Please think of something else."
"I'm sorry." Wen Sinan pulled her hand away from Xing Zhaozhao's.
Xing Zhaozhao's eyes instantly reddened, and she turned to rush into the ward: "I want to go in and see him."
Wen Sinan and several other doctors and nurses quickly pulled the person away: "No, this is a special care ward. Unauthorized personnel cannot enter without permission."
Xing Zhaozhao ignored them completely, dragged the whole group of people along, opened the door to the ward, and went inside: "I am his wife, not some nobody."
The doctors and nurses were so exhausted from being dragged around that they were starting to question their own abilities. How could someone have so much strength?
The Gao family members outside the ward were also stunned. Such strength was something that even their most gifted and strongest member, Xiao Fanxing, couldn't match.
Xing Zhaozhao rushed into the ward and, seeing Gao Mingcheng lying on the bed, his body covered in tubes, looking unusually thin and weak, tears streamed down her face. Her voice choked with emotion as she called out, "Mingcheng..."
Lying on the hospital bed, Gao Mingcheng, who had been completely unconscious, twitched his fingers almost imperceptibly.
Before Xing Zhaozhao could even reach the bedside, a group of strong and sturdy caregivers rushed into the ward and, with all their might, dragged Xing Zhaozhao out.
"You are not welcome here. Please leave. If you still want to force your way in, don't blame me for being impolite and calling the police," Gao Hongfei said coldly, looking at Xing Zhaozhao.
With tears still in her eyes, Xing Zhaozhao looked at the group of strong caregivers standing in a row in front of Gao Mingcheng's ward. She knew that she would not get away with forcing her way in, and besides, she did not want to be taken to the police station again, so she had no choice but to hold back for the time being.
That brat.
Xing Zhaozhao glared angrily at Gao Hongfei, holding back her anger for a long time, but she couldn't hold back any longer. She walked over and kicked him in the shin. Knowing that she was strong and afraid of hurting him, she just lightly rubbed her foot, as if it were a tickle.
“You just wait.” She poked Gao Hongfei’s chest with her finger and said, “You just wait, one day you’ll be hugging my legs, crying and calling me Mom.”
Gao Hongfei scoffed dismissively: "Absolutely impossible, unless I'm dead."
Xing Zhaozhao: "..."
Xing Zhaozhao clutched her chest, feeling like she was about to have a heart attack. This damn son of hers, couldn't he have been less harsh with his words? What was she, as his mother, supposed to do?
She looked at Gao Hongfei helplessly and sighed heavily: "Fine, you win."
She turned and walked away, dragging her heavy steps.
As Gao Hongfei watched her forlorn figure leave, his heart clenched, and for some reason, he felt a faint pain.
Seeing Xing Zhaozhao leave, Lin Wan quickly chased after her and, taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, pinched her arm hard: "What's wrong with you? Didn't I already tell you before we came? I told you not to be so sharp, to be gentle, to be tolerant. Don't you have a child yourself? Don't you know how to be a mother? Why did you argue with him?"
Xing Zhaozhao said coldly, "Even if it's my own child, if he's disobedient or does something wrong, I'll still beat him if he needs to. What's the problem? I don't believe you've never beaten your own child."
Lin Wan was speechless for a moment, then said after a pause, "But he's not your biological child, and there's such a big age gap. You need to be gentle with him, understand? Now that you've done this, it'll be even more troublesome to handle him in the future. Don't you realize that?"
Xing Zhaozhao gave Lin Wan a deep look and said, "I think even if I didn't cause any trouble, dealing with him won't be easy. He's very hostile towards you, and he's become wary of me as well. So, what exactly happened between you two that caused such a dirty feud?"
Lin Wan's expression froze: "This is not something you should be asking. You should think about how to complete your mission first, or you can go back to your mountains and continue your hard life."
After saying that, he quickened his pace and soon walked away.
Xing Zhaozhao watched Lin Wan's departing figure, her eyes narrowing slightly. What exactly did she do that's so shameful that it can't be said like this?
Outside Gao Mingcheng's ward, after watching Xing Zhaozhao and Lin Wan's figures completely disappear from sight, Gao Hongfei's originally unpleasant expression eased slightly.
“Mom,” he turned to Wen Sinan and asked, “Can we go in and see Dad now?”
Wen Sinan nodded: "Don't let too many people in at once."
Gao Hongfei and Ying Rongrong entered the ward first, and a short while later, they stumbled out of it.
With a look of surprise on his face, Gao Hongfei looked at Wen Sinan, who was about to return to her office, and exclaimed, "Mom, Dad's finger just moved!"
Wen Sinan was startled and immediately turned back with the other doctors and nurses to carefully examine Gao Mingcheng: "It's still the same as before. Are you sure you're not wrong?"
Gao Hongfei nodded emphatically: "I'm very sure."
Wen Sinan looked at Ying Rongrong.
Ying Rongrong shook her head. She was following behind Gao Hongfei at the time, and her view was blocked, so she didn't see it.
Gao Hongfei became anxious: "I really saw it."
Wen Sinan thought about it and found a nurse to keep an eye on things. However, after a whole day of watching, she found nothing.
She called Gao Hongfei and said, "You must have seen it wrong."
Gao Hongfei felt a little wronged. He was sure he saw it, but he didn't quite understand why his father, if he was really conscious, would only move at that exact moment throughout the entire day.
Xing Zhaozhao's face involuntarily flashed through his mind.
Because of her?
He shook his head, subconsciously rejecting the idea.
Even if she looks a lot like his mother, she's not his mother. He firmly believes that woman could have such a big influence on his father.
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