The CEO's wife, suffering from terminal cancer, is filled with regret!

In my memory, my existence to my mother has always been dispensable.

In the three years since I married Shen Zhixia, or perhaps more accurately, since I grew up and became independent, my mother has never cared about me except when she asks me for money.

She seems different from most mothers; she only cares about herself.

I originally thought Meng Jinghuai was just saying those things to make me happy, but I never expected that my mother would actually come to see me.

"Your aunt came to see you, and she cried very sadly when she came."

A flash of shock crossed my eyes, and I laughed, saying, "Maybe it's because I'm about to die that everyone around me has suddenly become a good person."

"You won't die. As long as you cooperate with the treatment, you have a chance to recover."

Meng Jinghuai spoke in a heavy voice, as if he were trying to persuade him to listen to me.

In the end, I didn't refute him. I smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will cooperate with the doctor's treatment plan and actively seek treatment."

He nodded, and after hesitating for a long time, he couldn't help but ask the question that had been bothering him.

"Nan Chen, do you still want to divorce Shen Zhixia?"

Do I want to divorce Shen Zhixia?

Actually, I don't know myself.

Shen Zhixia is the beautiful thing I've longed for but never had in the past ten years. I cherish her kindness to me, but I also know that we can never go back to the past.

She still doesn't believe that I didn't kill Pei Jin; she remains suspicious of me.

I understand that she won't easily believe me, but I wonder if her kindness towards me now is out of guilt, an attempt to make amends?

From the moment I woke up until she fed me porridge, I felt like I was in a dream. For a moment, I even felt that we could really erase the past and live a good life together.

But no, I can't deceive my own heart.

I know she is still herself, and we can't get a divorce. Once I bring up the issue of divorce, I will have to deal with other related issues, and in the end, the result will be the same.

Since the result is the same, why go through it again?

I'm tired and don't want to get entangled with her anymore. I'm thinking of just pretending to live together harmoniously, even if it's just to fool myself.

When I looked up again, I clearly saw the dark circles under Meng Jinghuai's eyes.

I know what I'm about to say might disappoint him, but I have no other choice.

"I don't want to divorce Shen Zhixia."

"Jinghuai, I don't know how much longer I have to live, but I'm certain that in the last part of my life, I hope to continue living the life I have now."

Meng Jinghuai remained silent.

After a long while, he got up, looked out the window, and said with a smile, "Nan Chen, it's okay. I respect whatever your choice is."

When he left the ward, he ran into Su Jinyun outside the door.

Su Jinyun met his complicated gaze and smiled mockingly, "Senior brother, you have to accept that there are fools in this world who never learn from their mistakes."

After saying this, she turned and left.

Standing there, Meng Jinghuai watched her figure slowly disappear into the distance and sighed helplessly.

If he had done everything in his power to stop them from getting married in the first place, would their fate be different now?

After Meng Jinghuai left the ward that day, I thought about many things, and finally mustered up the courage to call my mother.

I could hear my mom playing mahjong on the other end of the phone, along with her impatient questions.

"Nan Chen, why are you calling me?"

"Mom, when are you coming to see me in the hospital?"

When I asked that question, my hand holding the phone tightened unconsciously, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on my palm.

The shouts of mahjong players continuing on the other end of the phone were deafening, but I could still clearly hear what my mother was saying.

She said, "It's good that you're alright. There's no point in me going to see you anyway. You have so many people with you, so it won't make a difference if I'm not there."

"But……"

Before I could finish speaking, the phone was hung up.

The "beep beep" sound was cold, pounding against my heart again and again.

After that day, Shen Zhixia came to the hospital to see me as usual for the next two days, chatted with me, fed me porridge, and cut fruit for me. Gradually, I began to believe that she had some genuine feelings for me.

On the fourth day, after she finished feeding me porridge, she walked out of the ward and saw that familiar figure, and things began to become complicated.

Through the half-open hospital room door, I saw Xu Jin coming to find Shen Zhixia.

His eyes were red and he looked at Shen Zhixia pitifully, "Xiaxia, I miss you so much. You haven't seen me for so long and haven't replied to my messages. Do you really not want me anymore?"

Shen Zhixia frowned, looking at Xu Jin standing not far away with a complicated expression.

She clearly hadn't expected him to come to the hospital to find her.

It seems that after I woke up, or rather, after she realized that Pei Jin wasn't as good as she had imagined, her obsession with him became less intense.

Even the most virtuous woman can be swayed by persistent suitors; many things in this world are as tangled and complicated as a tangled mess.

"Xia Xia?"

After Xu Jin cried out in a pitiful voice once again, Shen Zhixia replied helplessly, "Why did you bring this hospital here?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Jin was overjoyed, like a dog finding a bone, and jumped over to grab her hand.

"Xiaxia, you've lost a lot of weight recently."

Shen Zhixia subtly withdrew her hand and wearily rubbed her temples. "I've been quite busy lately, running between the company and the hospital, and I haven't been getting much rest."

The man standing in front of her changed his expression the moment she pulled her hand away.

He keenly noticed that Shen Zhixia was no longer as warm towards him as before.

Was it because she felt sorry for that man that she decided to give him up?

When a sense of crisis arose in his heart, he subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction of the ward, and his eyes met mine as I was looking at them through the crack in the door.

He raised an eyebrow at me, gave a provocative smile, and then deliberately stepped forward, reaching out to affectionately pat Shen Zhixia's head.

"Xiaxia, I know you've been very busy lately, so I specially made you some nourishing soup before I went out. Shall I take you home for some soup?"

Shen Zhixia seemed to remember something, and turned to look in the direction of the ward. Luckily, I hid quickly and wasn't discovered by her.

The next second, I heard her gentle voice coming from not far away—

"I'm too tired lately and don't want to travel back and forth anymore."

A strange look flashed across Xu Jin's eyes, but she quickly reverted to her usual self, looking at her pitifully and saying cautiously, "Xiaxia, I'm actually very worried about Nanchen's condition, so I've been secretly coming to the hospital to see him these past few days. I was also afraid that you would be sad and faint in the hospital due to your physical weakness."

"I've thought about coming to see you several times, but I was afraid of causing you trouble, so I just glanced at you from afar and left. Aren't I a good boy?"