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I watched as the emergency room door slammed shut and the red light came on. I collapsed to the ground, unable to say a word.
Ryan reached out to try and hold me up, but I grabbed his hand and bit down hard with all my strength.
He didn’t dodge, just endured it until I tasted blood, until I had no strength left. I finally pushed him away in despair.
Standing up on my own, I desperately questioned him: “Ryan, why did you come back? Why do you have to keep entangling with me! I just wanted us to part on good terms. I was doing fine on my own…”
He gritted his teeth, interrupting me, and asked back: “Lily, you ask me why I came back? Don’t you know? I was dying to see you!”
“You say you were doing well? Borrowing money from everyone, entertaining clients with drinks, abusing yourself, living a life that’s rotting away. You think that’s good?”
“You think I wanted to find you? I just couldn’t help but worry about you. Tell me what I should do!”
“Lily, you wronged me. What right do you have to be so cruel to me? What qualifications do you have to talk about parting on good terms!”
Ryan grabbed my shoulders, staring intently into my eyes.
He wanted an answer, so I gave him one.
That year after college graduation, Ryan cut ties with his family to marry me.
He was targeted by everyone, couldn’t find a good job, couldn’t earn a penny.
He didn’t say anything, hiding it from me, secretly finding manual labor work at a construction site.
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I still remember, during that time he was always very tired, even frowning in his sleep, but his gaze on me was always gentle and determined, full of love.
He said he would work hard to earn money, buy a small house, put it in my name, and give me a warm home.
We would get married there, have children, and hold hands tightly, living an ordinary but happy life together forever.
Until later, when I got pregnant, he had an accident at the construction site, falling from the top of a building, nearly dying.
The doctor said that without timely treatment Ryan might be paralyzed.
I knew that Ryan was such a proud person, this was more painful for him than death.
That day, I went to beg Ryan’s mother to save her son.
I’ll never forget the contemptuous and annoyed look in her eyes when she looked at me.
She said she didn’t lack sons, losing one Ryan wouldn’t matter much, even though Ryan
was once the pride of heaven, the most outstanding person in the entire family.
But a Ryan who couldn’t inherit the family business was not her son.
Why should she spend $500,000 to save a worthless waste?
That was the first time I knew that people could be so heartless.
That day, I knelt on the ground, my forehead bleeding from kowtowing, begging her to lend me $500,000.
I said I would leave Ryan.
I thought, Ryan would probably hate me to death.
Never mind, who says deeply in love people must end up together?
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Never mind, who says deeply in love people must end up together?
As I was saying this, I grabbed Ryan’s clothes and hysterically told him: “You want to know whose child Tommy is, right?”
“Fine, I’ll tell you! He’s your child. Are you happy now? He’s dying, are you satisfied?!”
Ryan grabbed my hand, tears falling drop by drop, as if he was heartbroken for me, yet fiercely questioning me: “Lily, how dare you lie to me? What right do you have to take my child and let him suffer so much! He’s dying, and you still wouldn’t come to find me?”
I slapped Ryan hard, then laughed out loud, asking him back: “Ryan, what would I find you for? To have you abandon everything and come with me again? Do you think your mother would let me and Tommy off?”
“Ryan, there are many things in this world more important than love. I don’t want you anymore. I just want to live my life quietly. Why do you have to keep entangling with me?”
“My child could have been cured! I don’t need your money. Even if I have to borrow, steal or rob! I could have cured him on my own…”
He was so good, so obedient. When he had to get injections or take medicine, he never
cried.
The doctors all said he could have gotten better.
Until Ryan appeared, with Emma, once again disrupting my peaceful life.
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