888: [That's right, exactly!]
After Ye Mo finished sorting things out herself, she was shocked. After a long while, she exclaimed from the bottom of her heart, "[What is this, a melon within a melon, a child within a child...? What have they done with these nested dolls?]"
In this incident, none of the three adults were innocent; the only ones who were truly pitiful were the three children.
Of the three children, one died due to Ren Xueni's negligence, and of the other two, Yangyang was not treated well by his aunt, while the child who was switched with Ding Youcai Youcai's mistress likely did not receive much treatment either.
Ye Mo couldn't help but sneer inwardly, feeling sorry for the three children.
In the afternoon, the person who took the child to the hospital returned and told everyone about the child's condition.
"... The doctor said the child's fever was almost 40 degrees Celsius. If he had been brought in any later, he might have been brain-damaged." The man's tone was still somewhat fearful as he spoke of the doctor's words.
Everyone in the crew was an ordinary person. They weren't necessarily the kindest, but they couldn't bear to see a child suffer from brain damage caused by burns. Hearing this person say that, they couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy for the child.
"That teacher Ren is really something!" While still shaken, everyone couldn't help but criticize Ren Xueni and her husband for being so unreliable. "The child had such a high fever, and they didn't even notice?"
Someone else said, "I knew it! How could Yangyang have made two mistakes in such a simple scene? Turns out it was because he had a fever... Don't underestimate him just because he's young; his acting is quite good, otherwise Director Ji wouldn't have chosen him!"
However, even outsiders like them sensed something was amiss, but Ren Xueni and her husband remained oblivious, which only highlighted their unreliability.
Listening to everyone's discussion, Ye Mo then asked the person who took the child to the hospital if they knew which ward Yangyang had been placed in—she planned to visit him.
"... When I arrived, the child was being given an IV in the infusion hall, so I don't know which ward he was eventually placed in. Only Professor Ren and his wife probably know the answer to that question," the man said.
Ye Mo thanked him and said, "Okay, I understand."
Fortunately, she had Ren Xueni's contact information on her phone, so she sent her a message saying that she planned to visit her in the hospital. Not long after she sent the message, Ren Xueni replied.
Ye Mo glanced at it and memorized the room number.
After filming the last scene in the afternoon, Ye Mo took Zhou Xiaoyu to the hospital. At the flower shop and fruit shop near the hospital entrance, she bought bouquets and fruit as a token of her hospitality. Remembering that Yangyang was still a six-year-old child, she also bought him a toy.
When she arrived at Yangyang's ward following the room number given by Ren Xueni, she heard a hushed argument coming from inside as soon as she approached the door. It was Ren Xueni and her husband arguing.
"... You didn't even know the child had been burning up for so long, I don't know what kind of mother you were." Ding Youcai clearly had some complaints about Ren Xueni regarding the child's fever and subsequent coma.
However, Ren Xueni was not one to let others blame her. Upon hearing this, she immediately raised her eyebrows and sneered, "Heh, now you want to blame this on me? Yes, I haven't been very responsible as a mother, but do you think you, as a father, are any better?"
"Who was holding the child like a loving father before? You held him so many times and didn't notice he had a fever, how could I have?" she accused her husband. "If we're talking about responsibility, you, as the father, bear more of the responsibility!"
Ding Youcai, holding his breath, started talking about other things. "If you hadn't kept pushing the child to be ambitious and given him so many roles, how could he have gotten so tired that he developed a fever? He's just a child, not an adult, how could he have endured that?"
Ren Xueni laughed angrily, saying, "Now you're starting to criticize me? If you really think there's something wrong with what I did, why didn't you try to dissuade me when I wanted to get roles for my child? Besides, if I didn't give my child more roles, what would our family of three eat and drink? Would we starve?"
This is also something that Ren Xueni is extremely unwilling to accept. As a female star who was once very popular, she is now making a comeback, but she is not receiving as much work as her own child. This makes her feel both angry and resentful.
Ding Youcai felt a little embarrassed by her words and said, "... I'm not saying you can't take on roles for your child, I'm saying you should take on fewer roles!"
Ren Xueni scoffed, "Now you're playing the good guy for me... If I'd known you were so useless and I'd have to rely on a woman like me to earn money and support the family, I wouldn't have married you in the first place!"
Ding Youcai, enraged by her scolding, retorted, "Do you think I don't know why you married me in the first place? Wasn't it because you were pregnant with Mr. He's child? You were afraid of trouble from Mr. He's wife, so you grabbed me to be your backup plan..."
"And you? You think I don't know? You have a mistress, and your child with her is already as big as Yangyang!"
The couple blamed each other, each pointing out the other's shortcomings. Their tempers escalated, and in the heat of the moment, they blurted out things they had kept hidden in their hearts.
After they finished speaking, at a certain moment, the two of them suddenly fell silent. They looked at each other, and could see disbelief in each other's eyes.
"You actually knew why I married you in the first place?" Ren Xueni was shocked.
Ding Youcai: "... You knew I had a mistress?"
The two of them stared at each other, both with expressions as if they were meeting for the first time.
"You—" Ren Xueni suddenly erupted in anger, and just as a fight between the two was about to break out, a voice suddenly came from the doorway. "... Ladies, I've seen you standing here at the door for quite a while now, is there something you need?"
Ye Mo and Zhou Xiaoyu, who were eavesdropping. "..."
"Ha, it's nothing, we're here for a medical checkup," Ye Mo with a smile.
"Clang!"
The door to the ward was suddenly pulled open from the inside, Ren Xueni's somewhat distorted face appeared behind the door, her eyes fixed on Ye Mo and Zhou Xiaoyu, her expression both anxious and angry.
"Where did you come from?" she asked through gritted teeth, her rapid breathing and heaving chest revealing her unstable and agitated state of mind.
Zhou Xiaoyu immediately looked away guiltily.
Ye Mo, however, remained calm and said, "I just arrived... I didn't expect you to open the door as soon as I got here, Teacher Ren. It seems we really have a tacit understanding."
Lies!
At this moment, Ren Xueni's thoughts overlapped with Zhou Xiaoyu's.
Although Ren Xueni knew Ye Mo was lying, she couldn't directly ask her if she had overheard her conversation with Ding Youcai Ren Xueni Ye Mo wouldn't say.
... And it's very likely that after she asked, Ye Mo simply pretended not to know, leaving her with even less of a problem.
Therefore, in Ye Mo and the others' view, Ren Xueni's expression changed repeatedly as she stood at the door, but in the end she said nothing. She only glared at Ye Mo and the other person with resentment and unwillingness, and said with aggrieved resentment, "So it's Miss Ye..."
Ye Mo walked into the ward with complete ease, followed closely by Zhou Xiaoyu. However, Zhou Xiaoyu was clearly not as comfortable as Ye Mo, who seemed to be "coming home." When she passed by Ren Xueni, she didn't dare to lift her head. It wasn't until she entered the ward that she quietly let out a long breath.
"Doctor
"How so? Is Yangyang alright?" Ye Mo asked as soon as she entered the ward, taking the initiative. "When I held him earlier, I noticed he was burning up, his fever was incredibly high... How could you two parents be so negligent? You didn't even notice your child had such a high fever."