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

"So what if it's me?"

Xu Jin laughed freely, her eyes full of provocation. "Nan Chen, you are a patient right now. If you hit me again at this time, it will only confirm that you are really faking your illness."

I lowered my eyes and sat back down in my chair.

Xu Jin is right. If I hit him now, I really won't be able to explain myself.

But I never intended to explain myself from the beginning.

At that moment, I knew perfectly well that things could never go back to the way they were before; that was a given fact, and divorce was only a matter of time.

Seeing that I didn't hit him or say anything, Xu Jin seemed to find it boring. After making a couple more sarcastic remarks, she turned around and chased after Shen Zhixia.

I sat in the chair, my thoughts drifting.

After what seemed like an eternity, an urgent voice came from not far away, interrupting my thoughts.

"Nan Chen".

It's Meng Jinghuai.

I turned to look at him, who was covered in sweat. "What brings you here?"

"I was worried about you, so I came over to check on you as soon as I finished dealing with things at the hospital."

Meng Jinghuai walked up to me and stopped. "Why do you look so pale? Did the doctor say something?"

"The doctors here said I just had a stomach hemorrhage and nothing serious."

I finished speaking indifferently, then turned and slowly walked out of the hospital. I hadn't taken two steps when Meng Jinghuai grabbed my arm. "What do you mean? Aren't the doctors here specialists? How come they can't find out you have it..."

Meng Jinghuai didn't finish his sentence because he suddenly realized what was wrong.

He turned and slammed his fist against the hospital corridor wall. "What exactly does Shen Zhixia mean? Does she think you were lying to her about being this sick?!"

"She definitely felt that we were lying to her."

I chuckled to myself and walked step by step toward the elevator.

Shen Zhixia, just pretend I'm lying to you, so you won't feel guilty and try to make it up to me.

This will save me from harboring any illusions that we might still be able to live happily together.

"You're so sick right now, how could you possibly be lying to her!"

Meng Jinghuai frowned, his face full of anger. "Shen Zhixia has really gone too far! You've endured so much all by yourself, and she doesn't even care about you, but how could she torment you like this!"

"Nan Chen, I'll go talk to Shen Zhixia about your matter."

I reached out and pressed the elevator button. "No need. It's good that she misunderstood. This way, I can have some peace and quiet."

Anyway, I won't live much longer.

Meng Jinghuai paused, his hands clenched into fists at his sides, unsure of what to say.

Later that day, I followed Meng Jinghuai back to the original hospital and stayed there.

For the next week, Shen Zhixia never came to see me again.

Knowing that I was bored staying in the hospital alone, Meng Jinghuai discussed it with the attending physician, who agreed that I didn't need to stay in the hospital for treatment indefinitely; I just needed to come back on time to cooperate with the treatment.

After being discharged from the hospital, I drove to my design studio as soon as possible.

The studio's operations have been much worse lately, largely due to Shen Zhixia's suppression.

Shen Zhixia thought I was lying to her about having cancer, so in order to teach me a lesson, she poached a third of our studio's employees with salaries 20% higher than the market rate.

The studio had signed a contract for design drafts, but even working day and night to meet deadlines, they couldn't deliver the finished products and had to pay a penalty for breach of contract.

After paying the penalty for breach of contract, due to the breach of trust, a large number of clients were lost, and those clients all went to Shen Zhixia's competing studio.

When I got downstairs at the studio, I received a call from my mom.

Last time I asked her when she was going to come to the hospital to see me, she said that coming to the hospital wouldn't do any good, so she hung up on me and went back to playing mahjong.

The last time she called me, it was to borrow money for investment.

So what's the reason this time?

When I slid the answer button, there was a lot of noise coming from the phone.

I frowned deeply. "Mom, you wanted to see me?"

"Nanchen, you have to save your mother this time, your mother..."

Before she could finish speaking, a series of noises came from the phone, followed by a man's arrogant and roguish voice.

Are you Zhang Guifen's son?

Along with the man's roguish voice came my mother Zhang Guifen's panicked voice, "You...you give me my phone, I need to get money from my son, my son has money!"

Upon hearing this, my brows furrowed even more, and my hand holding the phone tightened involuntarily.

"What happened?"

A mocking voice came from the phone, "Zhang Guifen gambled and owes us 2.3 million yuan. It's been a month. If she doesn't pay back the money today, we'll make sure she leaves her life here."

My mind went blank for a moment, and my vision went black.

My mom gambled and owes 2.3 million yuan.

It's been a month already?

So during the days she didn't visit me in the hospital, she was gambling?

I took a deep breath to calm myself down and said in a low voice, "Give the phone to my mom, I'll talk to her."

"Okay!"

The man readily agreed, and after another round of commotion, I heard my mother's trembling voice.

She said, "Son, I didn't intend to gamble so much. I thought it was the last round, so I... I borrowed that money. Who knew I would lose that round and not even get back what I had lost before."

"You have to help your mother this time! I'm only in my fifties, I don't want to die!"

I frowned deeply and gripped the steering wheel tightly. "Didn't I tell you not to gamble? Why didn't you listen to me!"

"Mom was wrong, Mom really knows she was wrong!"

Zhang Guifen's sobbing voice came through the phone, as if she finally regretted it. "You're never home, and I get so bored at home all by myself. I thought I'd hang out with my girlfriends to pass the time."

“At first I didn’t play much, and I was on a good run, but who knew… who knew my luck would get worse and worse, and I lost all my money. Then the police came to my door and said that my neighbor and I had been scammed by overseas gambling apps.”

"I...I don't know why things turned out this way. Besides, if those people hadn't used those software to scam me, I wouldn't have been cheated out of so much money!"

I pressed my temples hard, finally unable to suppress my anger, and demanded angrily, "More than two million? Where am I supposed to borrow that much money from you?!"

“My son, your wife Shen Zhixia is rich! She gave me money before, so go to her now and borrow money to save my life. She definitely won’t refuse.”

Zhang Guifen said these words urgently, as if she had grasped at the last straw.

But as I listened, my brows furrowed even more.

When did she give you the money?