She emphasized the word "please".
With her lie exposed, Ren Xueni glared at Ye Mo, both anxious and angry, stubbornly saying, "Have you forgotten? I sent you a message before, asking you to take care of Yangyang for me."
Ye Mo: "... That was Mingming a one-sided notification; I never agreed to it."
She looked directly into Ren Xueni's fiery gaze and voiced the question that had been nagging at her since yesterday, "Actually, I've been wondering, what makes you think I'll do what you say? Aren't you afraid I'll just abandon the child at the hospital yesterday and run away? Also, Teacher Ren, we're not that close, are we? How can you be so comfortable entrusting the child to my care?"
Ren Xueni was furious. She never expected Ye Mo to be so disrespectful to her, especially since they were colleagues in the same film crew.
If Ye Mo knew what Ren Xueni was thinking at this moment, she would definitely roll her eyes at her. After all, although they were in the same film crew, they were not familiar with each other at all. Moreover, if she hadn't felt sorry for this kid named Ding Shuyang, she wouldn't have even come to visit him in the hospital yesterday.
So, where did Ren Xueni get the confidence that she would help her?
" Ren Xueni, what else do you have to say?" Fan Qingqing looked at Ren Xueni coldly.
Ren Xueni: "..."
She snapped, "What am I supposed to say? Have I starved your child or deprived him of his drink? What gives you the right to talk to me like that? If it weren't for me, do you think your son could have become a child star and made money acting?"
"Ha, if it weren't for me, your son would still be a country bumpkin following you and your wife around. How could he know so many celebrities and directors?"
Ren Xueni became more and more convinced of her point as she spoke. She didn't think she had done anything wrong to Ding Shuyang—he wasn't her biological son, and she had already done more than enough for him, hadn't she?
"And I told you, didn't I? You're not allowed to see him, and he can only have one mother, and that's me!" She stared intently at Fan Qingqing. "So what are you all trying to do by making a scene here? Do you want to take the child back?"
"Yes!" Fan Qingqing nodded immediately, her expression firm. "I want to take him back. He's my son, and he should live by my side!"
Ren Xueni sneered, "You're dreaming! You promised to give the child to me to raise, and I raised him from infancy, feeding him every drop of water. Now you think you can just take him back? There's no such thing as a free lunch."
Fan Qingqing retorted angrily, "But you promised us back then that if we gave you the child, you would treat him well and treat him like your own son. But look at how you've treated him now!"
"You hit him, yelled at him, even pinched him, and then abandoned him in the hospital when he was sick..."
As Fan Qingqing spoke of these things, tears welled up in her eyes; it was from heartache. She shook her head and said, "No, I can't bear to leave him with you any longer! He's my son. I don't care how well he lives or how promising his future is anymore. I just wish he could grow up safe, healthy, and Lele."
Seeing Fan Qingqing's insistence, Ren Xueni became anxious and immediately turned to look at her brother. "Brother! What are you thinking? Yangyang has been by my side for so many years. In his heart, I'm already his mother. Now you're saying you're taking her back like this? Have you considered my feelings or the child's feelings?"
Ren Baiyang had been unsure how to join in the two's "battle," opened his mouth.
" Ren Baiyang!" Before he could speak, Fan Qingqing interrupted, glaring at him and saying, "If you dare say anything, we're getting a divorce right now!"
Stared at by the two men, Ren Baiyang looked pained, feeling caught in a dilemma.
Fan Qingqing sneered, staring at Ren Xueni and saying, "It's fine if you don't give the child back to me. I'll just tell my brother-in-law directly that Yangyang isn't his biological son at all, and that his biological son died of illness six years ago! I don't believe my brother-in-law would leave behind a child who isn't his son!"
"How dare you!" Ren Xueni's eyes were bloodshot, and she looked at Fan Qingqing with such hatred that she wanted to devour her.
Fan Qingqing wasn't afraid of her at all. "You'll see if I dare!"
The two women glared at each other, the atmosphere tense, as if they might start fighting at any moment.
"... his biological son"
What does it mean to say that your son died of illness six years ago?
Suddenly, a somewhat dazed voice came from the doorway. Fan Qingqing and the others looked over and saw Ding Youcai and a strange woman standing at the door of the ward.
Ding Youcai probably overheard Fan Qingqing and Ren Xueni's conversation, because he looked at their expressions and found them both bewildered and surprised.
As for the woman beside him, her expression was extremely stiff, and there was an eerie, quiet madness about her, as if some terrifying undercurrent was surging beneath her calm, rigid expression.
Perhaps at some point, this undercurrent will suddenly erupt.
At this moment, she was staring intently at Fan Qingqing and asked the same question again.
Chapter 38 The thirty-eighth melon... what kind of melon is it? It's something you take thirty-eight bites of...
Ding Youcai's appearance was unexpected by everyone. Thinking that he might have overheard her and Fan Qingqing Qingqing's argument, Ren Xueni's eyes flickered, and she felt a little guilty.
What surprised her even more was that the woman next to Ding Youcai was even more agitated than Ding Youcai.
The woman strode up to Fan Qingqing, her gaze fixed on her with a hint of terror.
"... You just said that Ding Youcai's biological son died six years ago. Which son are you referring to? Which son died?" the woman pressed, her emotions clearly agitated and somewhat erratic. "Tell me! Tell me! Six years ago, which son died?"
Fan Qingqing found the woman's question rather strange—what did she mean by "which of Ding Youcai's sons died"? Didn't Ding Youcai only have one son? This question made it sound as if Ding Youcai had several sons.
Muttering to herself, Fan Qingqing glanced at her sister-in-law, resentful that she hadn't treated her child well after taking him away. Ignoring Ren Xueni's wink, she said directly, "How many sons does Ding Youcai have? I'm obviously talking about his son with my sister-in-law..."
She gave a cold laugh, looked at Ding Youcai, and said, "Brother-in-law, you probably don't know, but your son with my sister-in-law died six years ago!"
Six years ago, Ren Xueni took her six-month-old child back to her hometown for the Spring Festival. Due to her negligence, the child caught a cold and developed a fever, and eventually died because the child did not receive timely treatment.
After her child died, Ren Xueni was afraid that Ding Youcai would blame her, or perhaps there were other reasons, so she had the idea of adopting her brother and sister-in-law's child.
"You told me back then that Yangyang would only get the best education and have a better life if he stayed with you, and that you would treat Yangyang like your own son... But what did you do?"
Fan Qingqing gritted her teeth, "If I had known you wouldn't treat my son well, I would never have entrusted him to you! At least he would be with me and his father, unloved, and wouldn't be abandoned in the hospital when he's sick, left to be cared for by strangers!"
As Fan Qingqing spoke, she began to sob, feeling wronged for herself and for her child.
For so many years, she endured Ren Xueni's forbidding her from seeing her child for the sake of her child. But how did Ren Xueni treat her child? She actually abandoned her sick child in the hospital. Even if she wasn't the biological mother, even if she were the child's aunt, she wouldn't do such a thing, right?
Ren Xueni was embarrassed and angry, and explained somewhat irritably, "Didn't I say I didn't intentionally leave the child at the hospital? I... ah!"