1996㹓.
February 4th.
Lin Jianxue died of complications from AIDS.
That day happened to be the beginning of spring.
In a sanatorium in the suburbs of Kyoto, the spring weather was still chilly. Lin Jianxue was lying on the hospital bed, breathing out more than breathing in.
"Nurse, I'm dying. Can you please make a phone call and ask Jiang Chen to come see me?"
"Jiang Chen is my son. He is a student at Beijing University and is the president of the student union."
"It's very quick to come here by car, only an hour..."
The nurse who was taking care of her glanced at the woman on the bed with disdain.
This woman has AIDS.
Now AIDS complications have broken out and he is dying.
She was so young, she must have been having affairs everywhere, which is why she got this dirty disease. No wonder her son and husband never came to see her after she moved into the nursing home. They probably thought she was embarrassing.
The nurses in the nursing home were unwilling to take care of her. It was only because she was 18 years old and it was difficult for her to find a job that they were assigned to take care of her.
When she took care of her on weekdays, she was also rough and not polite at all.
Now that she was finally dying, the old nurse showed some kindness and said to Lin Jianxue, "Okay, I'll make a call for you, but if he doesn't answer, there's nothing I can do."
After a while, the old nurse came in with a landline phone.
The person who answered the phone was not Jiang Chen, but Jiang Yuning.
Jiang Yuning is Jiang Chen's aunt and the younger sister of her ex-husband Jiang Yuqi.
"Hello? Lin Jianxue, what do you want to do with Jiang Chen?"
Lin Jianxue pleaded, "I'm dying, Yuning, can you please let Jiang Chen come and see me? I miss him so much."
Lin Jianxue and Jiang Yuqi had been married for many years but had no children. The doctor said that she was born with a cold uterus and insufficient qi and blood, making it difficult for her to have children. Later, Jiang Yuqi discussed with her and decided to take an orphan from the countryside that his relatives didn't want, and raise him as their own child.
Jiang Chen has been smart and clever since he was a child. Because Lin Jianxue had no children of her own, she truly raised Jiang Chen as her own son. Even when she divorced Jiang Yuqi, she was willing to leave the house for the custody of the child, just to take Jiang Chen away.
In order to cultivate Jiang Chen, Lin Jianxue used the little money she had left to hire a tutor for Jiang Chen, and was reluctant to treat him badly in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
When Jiang Chen was admitted to Peking University, Lin Jianxue was inexplicably infected with AIDS. In order to treat her, Jiang Chen contacted Jiang Yuqi, who was already a big boss.
After the father and son got in touch, they reconciled, and Jiang Chen gradually stopped coming to the hospital to see her.
Sometimes when she called him, he would just say impatiently that he was busy with studies.
Last week, she felt that she was dying, so she called Jiang Chen and begged him to come to the nursing home to visit her. However, Jiang Chen scolded her and blamed her for being ignorant. She was clearly infected with AIDS, but she still wanted him to come and see her. Wasn't she afraid that he would be infected?
She made a few excuses, but Jiang Chen started cursing at her, asking her if she had contracted AIDS because she had been messing around outside, and if he wasn't ashamed to come here.
Lin Jianxue's heart had already died due to Jiang Chen's insults and coldness.
But as she was about to die, she still hoped that the son she had raised since childhood would come over so that she could see him for the last time.
Jiang Yuning said, "Lin Jianxue, since you're almost dead, I'll tell you the truth."
"What?"
Jiang Yuning's slightly smug tone gave Lin Jianxue a sense of foreboding.
"Jiang Chen is not your son, but Yu Qi's and mine. He has known about this for a long time! Therefore, he would never come to see you! Lin Jianxue, thank you for all your help in taking care of my son. Today is Yu Qi and my engagement ceremony, and it is also the day when Yu Qi's company goes public. After so many years, our family of three can finally live together!"
Lin Jianxue's eyes widened in disbelief, and she gripped the phone tightly. The veins on the back of Cang Yi's hand bulged. "What nonsense are you talking about? Aren't you and Jiang Yu Yi brother and sister?"
Jiang Yuqi's mother used to be her family's nanny. Every winter and summer vacation, Jiang Yuqi would come to her house to help his mother with housework.
After a while, she and Jiang Yuqi became a couple.
Jiang Yuqi also asked her father to help arrange a job for his sister Jiang Yuning.
Sometimes when they go on a date, Jiang Yuqi will bring Jiang Yuning along.
Jiang Yuning smiled and said, "Lin Jianxue, you're so stupid. Yuqi and I are not siblings. We're from the same village, so isn't it normal for us to have the same last name? Jiang Yuqi and I grew up together, childhood sweethearts. He married you for me, because I wanted a city hukou. You're just a stepping stone for Yuqi and me to climb up the ladder."
Lin Jianxue's eyes were about to burst, and his voice was hoarse: "You...you guys!"
Perhaps sensing the anger in Lin Jianxue's voice, Jiang Yuning's voice became more and more complacent, "Lin Jianxue, do you know why you can't get pregnant? It's not just that Yu Qi drugged your tea, causing your blood to become weak and unable to conceive - in fact, Yu Qi secretly went to the hospital to get a vasectomy after I became pregnant with Jiang Chen!
He said that he only wanted the child he and I would have, and that no one else in this world was worthy of having his child except me!
"Also, aren't you curious about why you got infected with AIDS?"
"It was Yuqi who asked Jiang Chen to secretly inject you. Jiang Chen was reluctant at first, but then I showed him the paternity test results and told him that I was his biological mother. As long as he injected you with AIDS-free blood, Yuqi Company would be his in the future. Jiang Chen agreed."
"We are a family of three, Lin Jianxue, you are nothing but a clown. Today is the day when Yu Yi and my company goes public. You should just die peacefully and don't cause trouble on Yu Yi's happy day!"
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