Su Ning'an was rushed to the emergency room, and Lu Shiyan stood outside, his face filled with worry.The assistant, nervous and hesitant, spoke up:"Mr. Lu, I've already notified the Su family. Should we head to the airport now? If we wait any longer, we'll miss the flight."Cloud City was in a remote mountain town, and there was only one flight a day from Night City to Cloud City. The weather there had been bad lately, with frequent flight cancellations, so the assistant was just trying to be considerate.
Lu Shiyan furrowed his brow and snapped, "Are you out of your mind? Su Ning'an is perfectly fine in Cloud City, she's not going to die. But An'an's life is at risk. How could I leave her now?"The assistant had thought that after Lu Shiyan's phone call earlier, he was planning to apologize to me, to make up for what he'd done. But now, it felt like he was back to his usual behavior, focusing on Su Ning'an.The assistant's eyes darkened slightly. He had witnessed the shift in Lu Shiyan's feelings for me, and it made him wonder if reconciliation between us was still possible.
He lowered his head to hide the disappointment in his eyes. "I'll go cancel the flight right now."
When the Su family arrived, Su Ning'an was wheeled out of the emergency room. The doctor held up the treatment results and called out, "Family of the patient?"Lu Shiyan rushed forward in a heartbeat. "I'm her family. How is An'an?"The doctor looked at him with a mix of sternness and concern. "She's out of danger now. But how are you looking after her? You know she has a heart condition, and you still choose to provoke her. If she hadn't been treated in time, she could have died at any moment."
"Provoke?" The Su family turned to look at Lu Shiyan in confusion.Lu Shiyan was just as confused. "Mom, don't worry. I'll get to the bottom of this. As long as An'an is okay, that's what matters."
Inside the hospital room, the family surrounded Su Ning'an as if she were a fragile porcelain doll. Their eyes were full of concern.
It made me think of a time when I was still living with the Su family, during the pandemic lockdown. My older brother had been stuck at his company, and I volunteered to take care of him. But after I got sick, the entire family hurriedly moved out of the villa, afraid of catching it from me. From that moment on, I realized the rift between my family and me, caused by Su Ning'an, could never be fixed.To them, I was insignificant.
Every time something went wrong with Su Ning'an, the family would mobilize, surrounding her with care. Meanwhile, I could only watch from the sidelines, feeling envious.
The maid who usually took care of Su Ning'an entered the room, and Lu Shiyan immediately asked, his face dark with anger, "What happened? Why was An'an provoked again?""Miss An'an seemed to be looking at her phone when she got upset. I glanced at it, and it was full of messages insulting her."
"Insults?" Lu Shiyan's voice was icy. "Who did this?"The maid hesitated. "I don't know. But Miss An'an's phone has been constantly ringing since last night. I suspect someone leaked her number."Lu Shiyan took her phone and easily unlocked it.Sure enough, the call logs were filled with harassment calls from all over the country, and numerous messages filled with vulgarities.
The messages were clear: she had been called all sorts of things—accusations of seducing someone else's husband and ruining her own wedding.
As soon as the phone powered on, another call came in. Lu Shiyan answered it, but the voice on the other end was a middle-aged woman. "You shameless little whore! Seducing someone else's husband, you deserve to die!"The family members, all from esteemed backgrounds, were appalled by the crude language.Without saying a word, Lu Shiyan ended the call. He wasn't about to argue with a woman like that—he was above that kind of confrontation.
"My poor daughter… How did she end up in this situation? Who did this to her?" Su Ning'an's mother looked at her unconscious daughter with eyes full of sorrow.Lu Shiyan's face hardened with resolve, "It was Su Wen. She's the one who did this!"It didn't matter that I hadn't done anything. The family, including my husband, immediately pinned the blame on me.As usual, just like Su Ning'an had twisted everything for years, I was the guilty one. Everything I did was wrong.
From the bed, a weak voice came, "Mom, Dad, Brother... Don't blame my sister. I was the one who made that phone call and ruined her wedding. She should blame me."Su Ning'an, pale-faced, cried from her hospital bed, making yet another attempt at manipulating the family into feeling sorry for her.
This trick always worked. Her family's pity for her only deepened.
She grabbed Lu Shiyan's sleeve, looking pitiful. "Brother, didn't you say you were going to bring sister back today? Please, go. I'm fine. When you get to Cloud City, apologize to her for me. I'll go abroad after she comes back, and I won't show up in front of her again.""How can you go abroad in this condition?" Lu Shiyan asked, concerned."Exactly," someone else chimed in. "You're in such bad shape, and you're talking about going abroad? Stop bothering with Su Wen, that petty girl. She's being ridiculous, running away just because you called her. This has gone far enough."Lu Shiyan hesitated, then seemed to change his mind. "I'm not going to Cloud City to pick her up. It's Grandma's birthday in a few days. She'll naturally come back then."
As I looked out at the swirling snow outside, one thought lingered in my mind: I won't be able to make it for Grandma's birthday...When that time comes, will they even notice that I never went to Cloud City? Will they realize that I've been gone for good?The truth that I had already died would remain a secret for now.