Chapter 230 Don't Die
Upon hearing this, Yan's mother froze on the spot, looking at Yan Kui with a face full of astonishment.
"You... Shang Yu hasn't contacted you?"
Yan Kui remained silent, waiting for her mother to continue.
Yan's mother's lips moved twice, as if she wanted to say something flattering, but after seeing Yan Kui's expression, her previous excitement collapsed, and she slowly said, "Shang Yu went abroad for medical treatment."
"What illness?"
Yan's mother carried a basket, wore a simple black floral dress, and had no makeup on her face. Her skin looked more freckled, as if she had aged more than ten years since the last time Yan Kui saw her.
"Neuropathy."
Yan Kui frowned, unsure whether her mother was scolding her or something else; her expression was not pleasant.
As soon as she finished speaking, Yan's mother became clearly agitated: "Shang Yu went abroad to cure his addiction to his sister and his suicidal tendencies. Are you satisfied now?!"
"Do you know what he's become? He almost didn't make it when we found him!"
Seeing the angry expression on Yan's mother's face, Yan Kui took a step back behind the stone bench: "Is he not going back to the country?"
Mother Yan stopped looking at her and strode into the courtyard without a trace of lingering affection, leaving behind the words: "Why don't you go and ask for yourself? You come back to laugh at us. Are you happy about that?"
Yan Kui lowered her eyes, not even turning her head to look at her mother's departing figure, and walked out of there.
The air in Nanshi in June was filled with humidity, so muggy that it felt as if a layer of moisture was covering the skin, just like the day Yan Kui left.
Stopping a car on the roadside, Yan Kui found Yan Shangyu's phone number, calmed herself down, and dialed it.
The phone rang for a long time, so long that Yan Kui wondered if he had changed his phone a long time ago.
Just two seconds before the automatic disconnection, a long-lost male voice came from the phone.
"Aoi?"
Yan Shangyu was brimming with energy at this moment. His voice, which was originally somewhat weak, was forced up, making it impossible to tell that he was now thin and emaciated, looking like a man who was terminally ill.
Yan Kui thought that Yan Shangyu didn't seem to have done anything to hurt her. The thing that Yan Kui couldn't understand the most was the first time she learned from Huo Qingshi that Yan Shangyu liked her.
Recalling the disgust that made her skin crawl back then, Yan Kui touched the gleaming diamond ring on her ring finger, and her heart slowly calmed down.
"Hmm, you went abroad?"
Yan Shangyu seemed to become even more agitated, and he couldn't stop coughing.
The person next to him handed him a glass of water, and his throat was soothed by the warm water.
Yan Kui remained silent, only to hear Yan Shangyu begin to apologize: "Kui Kui, I've returned from abroad and am currently in Nanshi."
Have you seen your parents?
Yan Kui wasn't the type to downplay major issues or let minor ones go: "They're your parents."
The volume, however, is not high.
Yan Shangyu realized she had said the wrong thing: "I'm sorry, Kui Kui."
Yan Shangyu felt that it had been a long time since she had spoken to Kui Kui so calmly.
Are you happy with your life now? Are you content in Taipei? Is he good to you?
After the apology, a series of questions followed.
Yan Kui could hear the weakness in his voice and remembered the gaunt appearance of Yan Shangyu in her dream.
She touched the ring with more force: "He treats me very well, and I am very happy now."
Yan Shangyu on the other end of the phone seemed to laugh.
The two remained on the phone, neither Yan Kui nor Yan Shangyu hanging up.
A minute later, Yan Kui pursed her lips, her patience almost gone, and had no more words to reminisce with Yan Shangyu.
Yan Shangyu had a lot to say, but he didn't know where to begin, whether he could say it at all, or whether Kui Kui would even listen to him.
He even found a charger and plugged his phone in, praying that the call would last a little longer, much longer.
But as soon as the charger was connected, Yan Kui only said one emotionless sentence on the other end of the phone.
"Yan Shangyu, you'd better live well."
beep--
The phone call ended abruptly, along with the glimmer of light that had just appeared in Yan Shangyu's eyes.
The phone slipped from his palm; yes, Kui Kui simply didn't want to listen to him.
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