Chapter 122
Chapter 122: Untitled
Doctor Chen was won over by her toughness. After the broken bones were forcefully patched up, and with the effects of the anesthesia wearing off, she did not scream in excruciating pain. She was indeed resilient as many adults could not endure such pain.
Like Second Master Ye who was admitted the night before with almost wasted legs. The long time spent lying in the dark parking lot resulted in a night-long amputation for legs that were merely infected. When he was just sent to the hospital, he was moaning and groaning in pain so loudly the entire hospital could hear him.
“Miss Cheng, such a condition is very normal…” Doctor Chen explained to Cheng Anya her condition as simply as possible and left a few reminders before he left the ward.
Daddy Cheng was crying tears of joy amidst feeling embarrassed. He turned his head around to wipe the tears and thanked the heavens.
“Daddy, where is Ning Ning?” Cheng Anya grabbed the bedsheet as her hands gently trembled and her breathing almost froze. She was feigning calm in spite of being deeply fearful of hearing news that would overwhelm her.
Daddy Cheng hugged Anya dearly and gently touched her shoulders. He gently said, “Daughter, all is good. You are doing very well. Ning Ning will visit you in a moment.”
“Ah…” Cheng Anya breathed a sigh of relief and her strength vanished. She seemed very weak whilst Daddy Cheng helped her lie down. Cheng Anya’s eyes were wide open and stared at the ceiling in a daze. It was as though there was a spiderweb on the ceiling.
“Anya, how are you? Please do not scare Daddy!” Daddy Cheng asked in a worried tone and could not help as he straightened Anya’s hair. His daughter getting into such an accident and predicament really broke his heart.
Cheng Anya conveniently grabbed his hand and tapped it twice. “Daddy, I am okay. I was just thinking about some things and got lost in my thoughts. Do not worry!”
“As long as all is good, as long as all is good!”
As Daddy Cheng went to get her some water, Cheng Anya’s smile disappeared and she became glum. How dared Ye Yutang try to knock her down!
What did that piece of junk from the Ye family really want?
As she recalled the incident, she clearly saw Ye Yutang driving into them with viciousness on his face. She could not have seen wrongly!
She had humiliated him in the office and splashed him with coffee. Surely he would not have wanted her life?
Or had she seen Ning Ning and…
As her heart pounded, she thought of Ye Yutang telling on about Ning Ning. Ning Ning’s identity could not be kept a secret anymore!
As that thought came upon her, Cheng Anya’s heart pounded and a twisted image appeared in her mind—Ye Chen easily tearing her into two and disposing of her whilst his immaculate face bore a sinister smile.
Cheng Anya was wowed at her vivid imagination and thought Ye Chen’s actions were purely typical given his messed up mind.
As the door to the ward opened, Cheng Anya thought Daddy Cheng had returned. As she turned her head, she saw Ning Ning’s cute face. Her pale face was written with joy and at ease. Although she knew Ning Ning was okay, she could only relax when she saw him herself.
Cheng Anya forgot her lips had slightly cracked, and her smile agitated the wound on her lips. The pain from the wound sent her gasping.
“Mommy!” Ning Ning was slightly shocked and put down the fish soup. Looking at her worriedly, Ning Ning said, “Mommy, don’t be excited. You…”
“It’s okay!” Cheng Anya tapped her son’s face. To miss seeing him for a day sent her into a panic, and it was perhaps amidst the horror of the moment before she fainted that she hoped her child would be fine. To see him all okay made Cheng Anya feel that her wounds were not for naught. “My lips are a little cracked. They do not hurt too much. It will get well soon.”
Ning Ning saw his mommy’s sickly countenance, and it hurt him. Her face was pale, and there was a pain hidden in her gaze. She struggled to show how calm she was, but he knew that she was in a lot of pain.
Because he saw the beads of cold sweat on her forehead and the hidden pain in her gaze.
This was his mommy. She would not allow him to be worried in spite of how much pain she was in. When she was once a waitress in a cafeteria, she was splashed by a picky customer in the back with scalding hot water. She hid it from him and did not let him know what had happened.
He slightly regretted going easy on Ye Yutang earlier!
“Baby, help Mommy up!” Cheng Anya propped herself up as Ning Ning supported her back and slowly moved upward. He took two pillows and put them beneath her for support.
“Baby, don’t pull such a long face, okay?” Cheng Anya saw her son’s tender face. She liked it when her son smiled. She did not want to see a little old person with a glum face.
It was scary looking at him with a glum face and not uttering a word. “For the sake of your mommy who just woke up, please smile! Pulling a long face is inauspicious. Come on, smile for Mommy!”
Ning Ning leaped into Cheng Anya’s embrace and tightly hugged her by the waist. “I am worried about you, Mommy!”
“Baby, I am okay! Good child!” Cheng Anya said. She gently messed with Ning Ning’s hair as she looked down with tears welling in her eyes. ‘I will do anything for you, my baby, even if it means giving up my life, let alone a leg.’
He was scared stiff!
To encounter such a serious accident for the first time, and in front of Ning Ning, she could imagine the fear Ning Ning experienced when she was in the operating theatre, let alone Ning Ning having to console her father. This child…
Was really endearing.
“Mommy, this cannot happen anymore. Please do not scare me this way. I will get very angry, yes, very angry,” Ning Ning said in a low voice as he snuggled into his mother’s warmth. He would rather be the person getting into the accident than seeing his mother lying in a hospital bed.
“Okay, no more second time!” Cheng Anya gently held his back and felt tears building up in her eyes. The pain in her leg seemed to have subsided, and her baby was everything to her. With him, nothing else mattered.
“Baby, Mommy has already promised you. Can you get up?” Cheng Anya teased as she became her typical scheming self. Getting people all gushy was not her strength anyways. “Although I should not say this, baby, you are quite heavy. Mommy is so weak not and I cannot bear your… weight!”
Ning Ning slowly crawled up and stared at her with his beady eyes. He perfectly expressed his lament whilst Cheng Anya looked on indifferently.
“Mommy, there is something I need to tell you.”
“What is so serious?” Cheng Anya saw Ning Ning’s glum face and a shred of panic showed on her pale face. “Baby, you shouldn’t be telling me that my leg…”
Cheng Anya had no courage to say what was about to follow. The doctor just mentioned that she would be able to walk, following two months of recovery and rehabilitation. If that was the case, why was Ning Ning so glum?
Ning Ning held Anya’s hands and comforted her. “No, Mommy, do not anyhow guess. It was because the doctor mentioned that you had to amputate your legs on the day you were undergoing surgery…”
Cheng Anya’s heart leaped out of her mouth as she turned to look at her leg. After being in shock for a few seconds, she could not imagine how she would be like being wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life following the amputation.
‘F*** you, damn Ye Yutang! If my legs were amputated, I would waste your legs no matter what! Even if it means hiring hitmen!’
One must say that this family of three had an uncannily similar pattern of thought.