Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 540 Thinking about you

Liu Fen, who had just undergone surgery a few days prior, lay on the hospital bed.

Gu Youlian sat beside the hospital bed.

Gu Youlian has been spending less time with Lin Qingping lately, precisely because her own mother has also undergone surgery.

Despite having a thousand grievances against her as her mother, she was still her own mother, and she had to take care of her.

When Liu Fen saw Gu Juncheng enter, she became somewhat timid.

"How was your day?" Gu Juncheng asked Gu Youlian.

"It's alright, the doctor said she's recovering quite well." Gu Youlian was stirring a cup of milk powder, preparing it for Liu Fen to drink.

Liu Fen was just talking, complaining that the milk powder didn't taste as good as malted milk powder, but now that Gu Juncheng has arrived, she doesn't dare to say anything more, since Gu Juncheng bought the milk powder for her.

Seeing that Gu Juncheng wasn't talking to her, Liu Fen felt very depressed, so she took the initiative to start a conversation with him, "How's your father?"

“Very good!” Gu Youlian answered for Gu Juncheng.

Before Liu Fen could get a reply, seeing Gu Juncheng's still cold face, her pent-up resentment surged again. "I've had surgery, after all, and this is how you treat me? I'll tell your father..."

Liu Fen thought about it and realized that even if she told her father, it wouldn't make any difference. This son, perhaps because he left home too early, simply didn't take their words seriously.

The memory of being forcibly driven off the island was still vivid in her mind. When she returned to the village, everyone asked her why she hadn't taken care of her daughter-in-law and had come home. Later, when it came to raising the children, she and her husband did absolutely nothing. The villagers were all gossiping behind her back…

You know, in their village, if the mother-in-law doesn't go when her daughter-in-law is pregnant and giving birth, she'll be talked about!

What else could she do? She could only say that her son and daughter-in-law were filial and didn't want her to suffer, so they let her go home and enjoy her retirement.

How many people would believe that?

Now that she's had surgery on her stomach, does her son still not forgive her?

In this day and age, especially in their rural hometown, surgery is a very serious matter, almost as serious as death.

Liu Fen became increasingly upset as she thought about it, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Gu Youlian said to her, "You know you've done this, and it's just a minor illness, yet you only have surgery on your stomach. If it were a bottle, you'd have to have surgery on its head. How did you treat her like this?"

Liu Fen's eyelids drooped. "That's why I found someone for your brother, because I knew her illness was incurable. With Zhiyuan included, your brother now has two children. If the person who comes after them isn't kind, how pitiful the children will be?"

She still looked like she was thinking of Gu Juncheng, feeling that she had already treated Zhiyuan as Gu Juncheng's son. Moreover, although she hoped that Gu Juncheng would have a son, Zhangzhu was her granddaughter. Now that she was born, she didn't dislike her. She was wholeheartedly thinking of the Gu family and her son, so why was everyone blaming her?

Upon hearing this, Gu Juncheng's brow twitched, and he looked about to explode in anger, but Gu Youlian grabbed his clothes tightly to stop him from speaking.

"Can you please stop talking? You've had surgery, so just focus on getting better!" Gu Youlian said to her mother.

But Liu Fen wouldn't listen. She felt that if she didn't speak up now, her son would be even less likely to listen to her in the future. So, with needles still stuck in the back of her hand, she grabbed Gu Juncheng's trouser leg and said, "Chengzi, I have something to tell you."

"You'd better not say anything more." Gu Juncheng said with a stern face, his expression saying, "I know you don't have anything nice to say."

Upon hearing this, Liu Fen became even more anxious and wouldn't let go of him.