"Xiao Xi."
As Shi Youxi's figure grew clearer, Bai Shengsheng, wrapped in a black coat, reached out her hand towards him under the lamplight.
"Mother... what are you doing here?"
Shi Youxi sheathed his long dagger. He grasped the woman's icy hand, and despite being chilled by the cold wind himself, he still rubbed Bai Shengsheng's hand to warm it up.
Bai Shengsheng did not answer Shi Youxi's question immediately. She was stunned as she felt the warmth coming from the back of her hand. The words she wanted to say suddenly became stuck in her throat because of the boy's actions.
The last time she was lucid, her son wasn't this tall. Now the boy stands in front of her, shielding her from all the cold wind with his broad shoulders.
This feeling was both strange and familiar. Looking at the boy's aloof face, Bai Shengsheng's eyes blurred for a moment. She always... felt the same cold warmth from that person.
Shi Youxi changed; someone changed him.
Bai Shengsheng's confused gaze cleared in an instant. She looked at Shi Youxi with a crazy yet contradictory determination in her eyes.
"Xiao Xi, come with me."
"..." Shi Youxi lowered his head, stubbornly holding Bai Shengsheng's hand. Her hands were fair and delicate, not at all like the hands of a woman who was about to turn 40.
From the moment Shi Youxi first saw Bai Shengsheng, he knew why she had come to see him. He didn't dare to look up because as long as he saw his mother's face, which was as beautiful as an artificial flower but lifeless, Shi Youxi would agree to anything she asked.
"Um?"
Bai Shengsheng stroked his cheek and lifted him up. "If it were you, it would be easy to leave the capital, so come with me?"
"......."
In a corner at the other end of the garden, Shi Bianji stood behind a low tree, a cigarette dangling from his lips, watching a mother and son holding hands not far away. The boy's back was straight, but he obediently bowed his head in front of the woman.
His little Xi is still so naive, still believing in that so-called gentle and enduring maternal love.
But it doesn't matter. The more he is hit, the more Shi Youxi will break down. Only in this way will Xiaoxi stay obediently by his side like she did when she was a child.
Shi Bianji raised his wrist and glanced at the time. 24 hours had almost passed. When Bai Shengsheng, who was now lucid, heard that Cheng Mo was seriously ill, she easily agreed to go with him. However, Bai Shengsheng did not know that the effect of the special medicine only lasted for 24 hours, and he had never thought of helping Bai Shengsheng escape from the capital.
Looking down from here, several cars are speeding towards us on the highway in the distance, and it won't be long before the people from the gate catch up.
Everything is fine, except why is there still no news from the person he sent to find Cheng Ran...?
"Mother, will you be happier if we leave here?"
Shi Youxi looked down at Bai Shengsheng. Their similar features met, but Bai Shengsheng's eyes were empty. She only raised the corners of her mouth and smiled faintly.
"I have no idea."
"....."
Shi Youxi already knew the answer. He slowly exhaled and sent a message to Guan Shiyan, asking him to come and watch over the ward. "I will... send you away from the capital."
Bai Shengsheng's face lit up with joy. She gripped Shi Youxi's hand tightly and pulled him outside, her expression excited. "Let's go, let's go, Xiaoxi!"
The next second, her arm was grabbed, her steps stopped, and the deep voice of the boy behind her dragged Bai Shengsheng's joy into darkness.
"But I won't go with you."
"What..."
“Mother can go anywhere she wants, except Yicheng.”
Yicheng is where Cheng Mo is. After the Cheng family was suppressed by Shi Yan in the capital, they were forced to move to Yicheng, which is the farthest place from the capital.
Shi Youxi tried to pull away Bai Shengsheng's hand that was tightly gripping his, but her slender fingers suddenly gripped the back of his hand, leaving a deep red mark.
Bai Shengsheng's eyes widened as she grabbed Shi Youxi, incredulous. "Why! We were supposed to leave together! We were supposed to go together!"
Her voice began to tremble and her eyes grew heavy, signs of an attack. Shi Youxi immediately tried to leave the garden to call a nurse, but her face was pulled back.
Bai Shengsheng's voice was high-pitched, and she shook her head with tears in her eyes, saying, "Xiao Xi, come with me, let's go together, I need to see Cheng Mo!"
“Mother, take a deep breath, don’t rush…” Ignoring the tearing pain on his face, Shi Youxi patted the woman’s thin shoulder.
Bai Shengsheng's eyes were bloodshot and her body was trembling. She had never begged Shi Youxi like this before. Looking at his mother like this, Shi Youxi suddenly felt very sad.
He hated Cheng Mo. Who was Cheng Mo to deserve his mother abandoning him and his father? But Shi Youxi couldn't hate Bai Shengsheng. He didn't want Bai Shengsheng to continue suffering like this...
"Mother, we'll talk about it after we leave the capital..."
"Cheng Mo, you're sick." Bai Shengsheng interrupted him, her eyes unfocused, her fingers gently stroking the boy's face.
Shi Youxi knew that she had completely fallen ill and had mistaken him for Cheng Mo.
"Sheng Sheng, I'm fine, I'm not sick," Shi Youxi reassured her, leading the woman indoors.
"No! I know, I know, Amo, you're sick, and you can't see anymore. It's so serious, so very serious," Bai Shengsheng smiled foolishly. "It's okay, it's okay, I'll save you. Xiao Xi, I have Xiao Xi!"
Shi Youxi stopped abruptly, his blood seemed to freeze, and he stared stiffly at Bai Shengsheng in his arms.
As if he had learned something, Shi Youxi asked hoarsely, "Sheng Sheng... how do you want to save me?"
Bai Shengsheng smiled, as if giving a gift to her beloved, and said with satisfaction and a little pride, "Being sick is nothing, it can be cured, it can be cured. I'll give you Xiaoxi's."
"....."
Shi Youxi stared stiffly at Bai Shengsheng, at the twisted yet joyful smile on Bai Shengsheng's face. "Xiaoxi is healthy. You can have his. He can save you. And his eyes too. You can't go blind..."
"......"
His warm hands, which he had been rubbing, lovingly caressed his eyes. Though so gentle, they felt like blades slicing across his eyelids.
So that's why...
It turns out that his mother's decision to take him away wasn't because of any so-called mother-son bond.
So it was all for treating Cheng Mo's illness.
He didn't know what illness Cheng Mo had, and Bai Shengsheng probably didn't know either, but even so, her first thought was to use her own son to save her lover's life.
Replace what? Do you want to replace his eyes, or his heart?
Shi Youxi slowly closed his eyes, pulled Bai Shengsheng's hands down, and dialed Shi Si's number.
"Shi Si, Mother is with me—"
"Smack!"
Shi Youxi was slapped across the face, his head snapped to the side, and he took a step back, his phone and the dagger stuck in his waistband falling to the ground at the same time.
Bai Shengsheng's face was contorted with rage. "You have to tell him! You have to call them to arrest me! No, no! I have to go save Cheng Mo!" Her steps were unsteady, and her foot landed on something hard.
Shi Youxi watched as Bai Shengsheng picked up the dagger, her crazed gaze sweeping over him. She ran towards him, muttering, "Come with me, Xiao Xi, come with me! We're going to save Cheng Mo—"
Behind the tree, Shi Bianji looked with satisfaction at Shi Youxi, who stood there stiffly like a puppet. This was the moment he had been waiting for.
He will pick up Shi Youxi from the pile of broken trash, just like when he was a child. He is the only savior of Shi Youxi, and he is the only one who will love Shi Youxi.
Shi Bianji strode out, intending to block the boy's path, when out of the corner of his eye, a blue and white figure rushed past.
Shi Youxi knew Bai Shengsheng's strength; she couldn't hurt herself. The woman, holding a dagger, drew closer and closer, but before he could react, a slender figure in blue and white tackled Bai Shengsheng to the ground in the next instant.
Shi Youxi's pupils contracted, "Sister!"
[Tokibe is a... sadist who's into torpedoes and also a sadist.]
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