Chapter 674 - 185: An Le (5)
The elderly woman, wearing a headscarf, had been standing quietly in the corridor for a long time.
She kept watching the patients lying in beds inside the ward, their consciousness blurry, with a tinge of sadness in her eyes.
Before coming to the Peaceful Ward, she actually had a glimmer of hope for this place.
She thought that by abandoning painful treatments and entering palliative care, perhaps doctors might find a way to restore her to her pre-illness state, allowing her to spend the last phase of her life.
But the reality is, this is completely impossible.
"Ha... ha..."
She took a breath, struggling to tear her gaze away from the ward.
Then, supporting herself against the wall, she slowly moved toward the rooftop on the side of the Peaceful Ward.
Opening the glass door that separated the inside from the outside, and walking less than ten meters, she reached the edge of the rooftop with no railing, where the step was just wide enough for two feet to stand together.
"Hoo... hoo..."
The old lady arduously pushed open the glass door, and the fierce wind from the twenty-seventh floor almost knocked her down.
But even so, she still exerted all her strength to tear away the headscarf covering her head, revealing the hairless scalp.
The next second, she took a deep breath and walked step by step towards that side.
"Ding~"
At this moment, the elevator on the twenty-seventh floor opened, revealing the dozen or so people who had taken the elevator up first.
Before the door was fully opened, the middle-aged man next to Yan Huan rushed out of the elevator with a worried face,
"Mom?! Mom, where are you?!"
This hysterical call was quite different from the silent footsteps of the elderly woman, so in an instant, the nurse doing rounds and the family members of patients with sullen faces all walked out of the rooms,
"Who are you, you’re not allowed to shout loudly here..."
Just about to stop him, but seeing the many people standing outside, he was momentarily speechless,
"This is..."
After a fruitless search and call, the middle-aged man, looking tense, turned around and grabbed Yan Huan’s collar, questioning him,
"Are you sure my mom came to the 27th floor?"
Yan Huan glanced helplessly at his hand and then at the floor structure chart on the wall.
After a moment of silence, he opened his mouth to the man,
"Let go of me first, if granny came to the top floor, she can only go to one place... come with me."
"..."
The man was slightly stunned and immediately let go of Yan Huan.
Then, Yan Huan roughly determined the direction and led An Le and the others towards the rooftop.
Arriving at the glass door, Yan Huan glanced outside but didn’t see anyone.
However, when he pushed open the door and looked outside, he could clearly see a figure in a patient’s gown leaning against the edge of the step, panting and resting.
His pupils narrowed slightly, and he immediately rushed out,
"Granny!"
"Mom!"
Unexpectedly, as soon as the middle-aged man spoke, the elderly woman at the edge of the step trembled, directly standing on the edge of the step, and without hesitation, was about to jump.
Seeing this, Yan Huan knew it was too late.
In a moment of crisis, he quickly grabbed the shoulder of the middle-aged man beside him who wanted to rush over.
His body, enhanced by the Kissing God, grabbed the man as easily as picking up a chick, pressing him down.
At the same time, Yan Huan shouted towards that side,
"Granny! Even if you want to leave, you can’t just go without a word! At least say a few words to your son, leave a thought!"
"..."
This sentence finally made the elderly woman who was about to jump, stop.
She stood at the edge of the step, unable to turn her body back, so she could only turn her head slightly, looking behind.
After seeing his mother turn back, the middle-aged man finally couldn’t hold back, kneeling on the ground, crying,
"Mom, why do you have to do this? How can you bear to leave me? What would I do without you? I beg you, come back, let’s hold on a little longer, there will be hope... there will be..."
Beside him, Bai Yi pursed his lips, seeing that the elderly woman didn’t move forward.
She looked at the staff members and the family members of patients on the twenty-seventh floor standing around, realizing that no one dared to step forward.
But the elderly woman, hearing her son’s plea, just shook her head slightly, saying painfully,
"Mom hurts, son..."
She pointed to her own hair, then to her stomach,
"Mom hurts everywhere, hurts so much... The chemotherapy medicine feels like it’s soaking into my bones, makes me want to rip my bones out...
"Take good care of the family, take good care of the grandkids... Don’t keep going out for business, money is never-ending, you even harmed your liver by drinking too much...
"Let mom go, okay? I’m begging you..."
Hearing the voice of his mother tormented by illness, the middle-aged man, tears streaming, went from kneeling to lying flat, hitting his head on the ground.
Yan Huan lowered his eyes, even Bai Yi couldn’t help but clench the pocket watch in his hands.
Those family members in the Peaceful Ward more so, each couldn’t bear to watch anymore, covering their eyes and turning their faces away...
"Mom... jumping off will hurt too... no... don’t... come back... I beg you... let’s go home... no more treatment..."
The man kept kowtowing on the ground, pleading for his mother to come back.
Seeing this, Yan Huan took a deep breath, unwilling to watch any longer, turned his head to the side.
But what he saw were the equally sad faces of Jiang Xiong and Bai Yi.
This sight directly brought Yan Huan back to reality.
Where is An Le?
"Uncle, Bai Yi, have you seen An Le?"
"An Le?"
Jiang Xiong and Bai Yi were also slightly stunned, turned their heads, and only then did they realize that An Le was nowhere to be found.
Yan Huan anxiously scanned around, but couldn’t see anyone.