Chapter 431: Heartbreaking
When Wen Nuan heard Ye Feimo’s question, she didn’t know how to answer. Just as she was hesitating, Cheng Anya opened the door and came in. Seeing that he was awake, Cheng Anya was very happy. Wen Nuan pulled her hand away from his and stood up.
"Mom..." she called, standing obediently to the side. She would let her mom tell him about his stomach cancer. She really didn’t know how to tell Ye Feimo. She instinctively wanted to avoid the whole thing.
Ye Feimo was so young and had this disease. Her heart ached for him.
His health was this way because of Han Bi.
"I warned you to get more rest, but you wouldn’t listen. You had to end up in the hospital to know how serious this is. Are you trying to anger me to death?" Cheng Anya couldn’t help but say. If her son’s face wasn’t so pale, she would have slapped him.
Ye Feimo looked at Cheng Anya and then at Wen Nuan. He asked in a low voice, "What’s wrong with me?"
Cheng Anya didn’t hide anything. "Congratulations, you have stomach cancer."
Ye Feimo was stunned and a little slow to react. Wen Nuan saw his shocked expression and felt a pang of sadness. She couldn’t bear to look. No one would have a good expression on their face after hearing they had cancer.
What was Feimo thinking in that moment?
Wen Nuan only knew that when she heard that he had stomach cancer and that the situation wasn’t good, her mind went blank. When she came to, she had only one thought: he couldn’t die. Feimo absolutely couldn’t die.
Ye Feimo’s shock and bewilderment only lasted for a few seconds. He quickly realized what was going on. No wonder Wen Nuan was so sad. It turned out that his condition had gotten worse.
His stomach exams this year had been fine. How did he suddenly get stomach cancer?
"Is it stage three?" Ye Feimo asked Cheng Anya.
"We’ll know after a detailed stomach exam tomorrow," Cheng Anya said honestly. Wen Nuan admired her mother-in-law’s directness and strength. Her own son had cancer, but she didn’t hide it or show any sadness. Her calmness was surprising.
Wen Nuan had thought that everyone would hide it from Ye Feimo. She was too afraid to say anything, but Cheng Anya told him as soon as she came in, without any preparation.
A normal person probably wouldn’t be able to accept that they had cancer.
Especially since Ye Feimo was only in his twenties.
Ye Feimo looked at Wen Nuan, but she avoided his gaze. Cheng Anya sighed, but didn’t say anything.
Tang Shuwen, Chen Xueru, Lin Ning, Cai Xiaojing, Su Ran, and his other good friends also came to see him that evening. Ye Feimo didn’t hide his stomach cancer from them. Everyone was very sad. When there were a lot of people, Wen Nuan was very quiet and barely said a word. Everyone just assumed she was too sad. Only Ye Feimo, who was always concerned about Wen Nuan’s emotions, knew that every expression on her face couldn’t escape his eyes.
He noticed that Wen Nuan barely ever looked him in the eye.
After Tang Shuwen and Lin Ning left, Cheng Anya told Wen Nuan to go home. Wen Nuan had been at the hospital since Ye Feimo was admitted and hadn’t rested or eaten anything. Cheng Anya told her to go home and rest for a night.
Wen Nuan didn’t pretend to be strong. She really didn’t have the energy to stay at the hospital.
The words "stomach cancer" and "curse" were like a chokehold around her neck, almost suffocating her. She felt awful and didn’t want to stay in the hospital for another second.
Ye Feimo wanted to talk to her, but Wen Nuan didn’t want to listen. She left in a hurry and didn’t notice the pain in his eyes.
After she left the hospital, Wen Nuan ran. She had to use something to relieve the pressure and pain in her heart. She didn’t know what else to do but run. When she got tired of running, she got into a taxi. She was going to go home, but when the car passed by a river, she got out. She walked by the river alone. Her mother knew about Ye Feimo’s condition and had called her several times. Wen Nuan answered one of them, but she wanted to be alone, so she turned off her phone.
She instinctively went to the bench where they always sat. The night was dark, and the wind from the river was strong, making Wen Nuan cold. The sky was as dark as ink, with no stars or moon. Wen Nuan sat alone, feeling like the sky was a black demon, closing in on her.
She was afraid. She was helpless. She was trembling. She was desperate...
But the demon didn’t let her go.
People came and went by the river. Wen Nuan sat alone, replaying all her memories with Ye Feimo: the happy ones, the sad ones, the joyful ones, the desperate ones. She tilted her head back and suddenly felt a salty rain fall from the sky.
She covered her face and sobbed.
The news of his stomach cancer was suppressed. The outside world believed that Ye Feimo had only been hospitalized for heatstroke, and Anning was unaffected. Ye Feimo had trained a group of young and talented leaders, so even with him in the hospital, Anning was running smoothly.
For a few days, Wen Nuan went to the hospital to see Ye Feimo in the afternoons. She would stay for a little while and then leave. The only time she stayed longer was when she was waiting for the report. The detailed stomach exam results for Ye Feimo had come out.
It was confirmed that he had stage two stomach cancer and needed surgery.
Liu Jiaming, Ye Sanshao, and Cheng Anya had a discussion. The success rate of Ye Feimo’s surgery wasn’t very high. He only had a 50% chance. And even if the surgery was successful, the chances of recurrence would be very high.
Ye Feimo only had five years to live at most. This news was a shock to the Ye family.
Ye Sanshao and Cheng Anya had gone through many hardships in their lives, and this wasn’t the first time they were facing a life-and-death situation with their children. They were both very calm. They didn’t agree to let Ye Feimo have surgery right away and decided to wait for Su Man and Bai Ye.
Ye Feimo’s medical report had also been sent to Bai Ye. Ye Sanshao and Cheng Anya were putting all their hope in Bai Ye. If Liu Jiaming only had a 50% chance of success, Bai Ye would have an 80% chance.
Wen Nuan didn’t know about Bai Ye’s medical skills. Ye Sanshao and Cheng Anya simply told her about it, but it didn’t ease her fear. She had been terrified for days, but she didn’t show it much on her face. She was very calm.
Cai Xiaojing and the others knew Wen Nuan’s personality, but they were surprised by her calm attitude.
This kind of calmness was almost like a kind of indifference.
It was heartbreaking.
His friends didn’t say anything, but everyone had different thoughts. They all guessed that Wen Nuan was still angry at Ye Feimo because of the baby and the scandal, so she was acting a little cold.
Cheng Anya and Ye Sanshao didn’t think much of it. All their thoughts were on Ye Feimo’s surgery.
"Wen Nuan, don’t think too much about things that aren’t real," Cheng Anya said sincerely.