Ren Baiyang wondered to himself, and couldn't help but glance at Ye Mo a few times. He felt that her appearance and temperament were not like those of a caregiver, because she was too glamorous and beautiful.
"We're Professor Ren's colleagues, and we came to visit him in the hospital," Ye Mo said with a smile. "But we didn't expect Professor Ren to trust us so much. We came to visit him yesterday evening, and he just left his child with us to take care of, and he hasn't come back all night."
Upon hearing this, Fan Qingqing, who was looking down at the child, suddenly turned around and asked, "... What do you mean by that?"
"It means exactly what it says!" Zhou Xiaoyu chimed in, somewhat indignantly, as she harbored great resentment towards Ren Xueni and her husband.
"I'm not saying this to be mean, but Teacher Ren and her husband are so irresponsible. What kind of parents are they? Their child had a fever and was in the hospital, and they just abandoned the child and didn't come back all night, leaving us outsiders to take care of the child. Aren't they worried about the child's condition at all?"
Neither she nor Sister Momo slept well last night. They spent most of the first half of the night taking care of Yangyang, whose fever had returned. She sent messages to Ren Xueni, but Ren Xueni simply read them without replying.
"This is the first time I've ever seen parents act like this! Yangyang waited for them for so long last night, but they never came back... If I weren't certain that Teacher Ren is Yangyang's biological mother, I would have doubted whether she was even her mother given her attitude."
Zhou Xiaoyu was unaware of the Ren family's affairs, so her remark was just a casual remark. However, her words caused a great uproar in the hearts of Ren Baiyang and his wife.
Before this, they had been skeptical of everything the mysterious man said on the phone, but now that Zhou Xiaoyu was saying the same thing, they seemed to have no choice but to believe it.
" Ren Baiyang!" Fan Qingqing glared at her husband, "This is the 'good sister' you speak of? This is how your 'good sister' treats my son! Yangyang has a fever, and she just abandons him completely. Does she have no conscience at all?"
Upon hearing what she said, Zhou Xiaoyu thought she had misheard: What did she mean by "my good son"? Wasn't Ding Shuyang Teacher Ren's son?
Zhou Xiaoyu was bewildered and didn't understand what was going on.
"There might be some misunderstanding. Xueni wouldn't abandon her child; something beyond her control must have happened..."
Even now, Ren Baiyang still refuses to believe that his own sister would mistreat his son, because she had Mingming promised to treat him well.
Fan Qingqing didn't have the same "brotherly" bias towards Ren Xueni as she did towards Ren Xueni Ren Baiyang. When she saw the child's thin body and the pinch marks on his waist and abdomen, she almost believed the mysterious man's words.
--If Ren Xueni had treated the child well, how could the child have these bruises and pinch marks on his body?
Fan Qingqing held the child's hand, tears streaming down her face.
" Ren Baiyang!" she said coldly to her husband, "If you think your sister is right and continue to speak up for her, then you..."
Go live with your sister. We're getting a divorce, Yangyang will stay with me... I won't give Yangyang to you!
Ren Baiyang was stunned. He had no idea how the topic had jumped to divorce. He just subconsciously tried to explain himself, "I didn't mean to speak up for Xueni. I just felt there must be some misunderstanding... Yangyang is her nephew after all. How could Xueni abandon him for no reason?"
Fan Qingqing had already turned her head away, indicating that she didn't want to talk to him anymore.
Ren Baiyang opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say, so he could only remain silent.
Seeing this, Zhou Xiaoyu looked at Ye Mo questioningly. "... So, Sister Momo, what exactly is going on?"
[Host, Ren Xueni is already on her way upstairs!] 888 suddenly spoke up.
Ye Mo's eyes flickered, and he asked, "[Where are Ding Youcai and his lover?]"
888: [The two of them have arrived at the hospital parking lot and will be coming up soon.]
Ye Mo smiled: [Isn't this a coincidence? These three brilliant minds are about to meet face to face.]
skillful?
[Isn't this situation something you orchestrated yourself, host?] 888 speaks the truth.
Ye Mo first had 888 send Ren Baiyang and his wife a video of Ren Xueni pinching the child, so that the two, who were worried about the child's condition, would rush to City B overnight. After the two arrived in City B, Ye Mo had 888 send a text message to Ren Xueni and his wife, pretending to be from the hospital, saying that the child's condition had relapsed and the fever had returned.
The message sent to Ding Youcai was timed precisely when Ding Youcai's mistress had his phone, causing her to "coincidentally" see the text message and mistakenly believe that Yangyang was her son's lover. Upon seeing the news that the child had a fever again, she couldn't sit still any longer and naturally rushed Ding Youcai to the hospital.
It is these "coincidences" that have brought the three of them together so soon.
The first ward we arrived at was Ren Xueni's.
If it weren't for that text message from the hospital, Ren Xueni wouldn't have planned to come so early in the morning. Anyway, that brat Ding Shuyang had Ye Mo and her assistant helping to look after him—as long as she didn't come back, those two definitely wouldn't abandon the child!
As for the messages Ye Mo sent, she naturally saw them, but she selectively ignored them, mainly leaving them as read but not replied to, clearly treating Ye Mo and the other person as caregivers.
But now she had no choice but to come; that little brat Ding Shuyang was "critically ill," and it wouldn't be right for her not to come and watch over him.
However, Ren Xueni didn't expect that when the ward door opened, she wouldn't see Ding Shuyang, that little brat, but her own brother and sister-in-law.
"Brother, sister-in-law, what are you doing here?" Ren Xueni was bewildered.
When Fan Qingqing saw her, she remembered how stern and fierce she was to her son in the video. She was immediately filled with rage and rushed over, slapping Ren Xueni hard across the face.
"Smack!"
She didn't hold back with that slap; it sent Ren Xueni's head snapping to the side.
A burning pain shot through her face. Ren Xueni stared at Fan Qingqing in disbelief and asked, "You actually hit me? Are you crazy?!"
Fan Qingqing looked at her with bloodshot eyes and said, "Yes, I'm crazy! If I had known you would treat my son like this, I would never have let you raise him!"
" Ren Xueni, do you still remember what you told me and your brother? You said you would treat Yangyang as your own child, you said you would treat him well... But is this how you treat him well?"
Fan Qingqing was filled with hatred and anger, and questioned, "He's sick and you just leave him in the hospital and don't care about him. Is this what you call being good to him?"
Ren Xueni was initially furious after being slapped, but upon hearing Fan Qingqing's question, her anger immediately turned into guilt.
"... I... I didn't leave him at the hospital!" She stammered, trying to find a reason, her eyes flickering, and she didn't dare to meet Fan Qingqing's gaze.
However, when her gaze fell on Ye Mo standing in the corner, her eyes lit up, and she pointed at Ye Mo and said, "I found someone to take care of Yangyang... Miss Ye, this Miss Ye, Miss Ye is the one I hired to take care of Yangyang!"
She looked at Ye Mo expectantly.
Ye Mo, suddenly pointed at by her. "..."
She was so angry she laughed.
Ye Mo didn't think her relationship with Ren Xueni was close enough for her to cover for her; in fact, she was somewhat surprised—why did Ren Xueni think she would go along with what she was saying?
She immediately and bluntly exposed Ren Xueni's lie, saying directly, "If what you're saying is that you leave without saying a word and never come back, and you don't even reply to my messages... if that's what you call asking me to take care of the child, then it truly is an 'asking'."