Chapter 40

“Enough. This is our family matter.”

He Jing said this again.

I remembered those years in Nancheng, when Fu Ziyi helped me overturn my case, and even tried to take me away that day.

He Jing had also coldly rebuked him then: “Enough. This is my family. It’s not your place to interfere.”

Back then, I was standing on the balcony on the second floor and did not respond to him.

But now, I stood behind them and spoke in a cold, chilling voice: “Get out.”

He Jing hadn’t noticed that I was right behind him, and for a moment, he looked a little guilty.

“When did you wake up?”

I didn’t want to waste any more words with them. I picked up a fruit knife from the table and pressed it against my own neck. “If you don’t want to see me die in front of you, then get out. Never appear in front of me again.”

He Jing stared at me, horrified and speechless.

Fu Ziyi frowned and rushed over. He gripped the blade with his hand, not even blinking: “Let go.”

I felt a little wronged-he had never spoken to me like this before.

But in the end, I obediently loosened my grip.

The knife clattered to the ground.

A nurse came in.

Fu Ziyi wiped the blood from his hand and said, “Take care of her wound first.”

Through the transparent glass window, I realized that so much blood-perhaps not all of it belonged to Fu Ziyi.

My mother arrived.

She brought soup she had carefully prepared and poured some out for me.

But she understood me a little better than He Jing and the others; she didn’t mention anything about the past.

I couldn’t drink the soup anymore.

My mother looked at me, her expression suddenly softening.

She took out a mooncake tin from her backpack, opened it, and inside was a bankbook and a handful of bills-hundreds, tens, fives, all mixed together.

I was very familiar with this tin.

When I was thirteen, I had fallen ill once.

At that age, I already had a shallow understanding of our family’s financial situation.

So I hadn’t told my mother.

But my brother noticed.

That day, my mother didn’t say anything. She simply took out that old, worn mooncake tin from home.

All the money my mother had saved was hidden inside.

She took me to the hospital.

Fortunately, we went early, and the illness was quickly brought under control.

I didn’t know why she had brought the mooncake tin this time.

Of course, it was no real use to bring it.

“All this money was saved for you by your brother.

“Besides these small bills, there’s also a bankbook with more than ten thousand yuan in it.”

The hand stirring my spoon suddenly stopped.

“Back then, your brother was always saying he wanted to go and bring you back. He said you never talked after you left, so you must have been unhappy.”

As she spoke, my mother broke down in deep, bitter sobs: “If I had known… if I had known, I never should have stopped him.

“Xiao Yu, go get treatment. The way you are now, your brother can’t rest easy watching over you from heaven.”

My mother gripped my hand, crying with such sincerity and pain.

But I just looked at her, not shedding a single tear.