novelraw Chapter 588 Meeting (8)
Chapter 588 Meeting (8)
"You... are?" Qiao Mo stood up, not understanding why she was looked at in such a way.Aunt Yang sighed softly, a bit disappointed: "You... don’t recognize me?"
Qiao Mo shook her head, she truly... had no recollection.
Aunt Yang forced a strained smile: "My name is Yang Peiyun, does this name sound familiar?"
Qiao Mo silently pondered for a while, Yang Peiyun. I have to say, this name indeed felt somewhat familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere before.
But perhaps it had been too many years since she last heard it, and Qiao Mo ultimately couldn’t remember.
Yang Peiyun gently took Qiao Mo’s hand, choking up as she said, "Xiao Mo... I am your mother..."
Qiao Mo was petrified, as if struck by lightning, staring at the woman before her whose eyes were red with tears, stunned and unable to react.
What did she say?
Mother?
Whose mother?
"Xiao Mo..." Aunt Yang sighed softly, seemingly filled with a myriad of pains, gently shook her head, and forced a smile: "Let’s go out and find a place to sit."
"Okay" Qiao Mo nodded, her gaze stayed fixed on Yang Peiyun. Her mind was blank, still not able to digest the earlier statement.
Mom?
Is she her mother?
Yang Peiyun looked somewhat worriedly at Qiao Yun in the hospital room, went in to inform her, then wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and showed Qiao Mo a gentle smile.
Qiao Mo returned an awkward smile, and even after sitting in a café opposite the hospital, she still hadn’t processed the statement from earlier.
"What... what did you say to me in the hospital just now?"
"I... I said... I said." Yang Peiyun seemed a bit nervous too, gripping the cup in her hands tightly, unsure of how to start.
Qiao Mo watched her intently, not urging her.
"Xiao Mo... do you... do you really not remember your mother?" Yang Peiyun ventured cautiously, observing Qiao Mo.
Qiao Mo shook her head gently, still having no impression of the woman before her.
But she had to admit, she finally remembered the name now.
Yang Peiyun. It truly seemed to be her mother.
She remembered hearing from Qiao Dehou about her mother’s name, and it was indeed Yang Peiyun, but she also remembered clearly.
Her father said she had long passed away.
She recalled Qiao Dehou saying that initially he didn’t know about her existence, essentially not knowing that Yang Peiyun was pregnant and had his child.
Until a few years later, it seemed Yang Peiyun fell seriously ill and wrote him a letter.
Saying that she had a terminal illness, and shortly after, disappeared.
The letter mentioned the orphanage she was sent to and her information, which was how Qiao Dehou found out he had a daughter, and went to personally bring her back to the Qiao family from the orphanage.
Qiao Mo was silent for a long time, still unable to accept that the woman before her was her mother.
"You... aren’t you... aren’t you supposed to be deceased?"
At this, Yang Peiyun’s eyes revealed a bitter smile, looking at Qiao Mo with some shame, as if finding it hard to speak.
"Actually... I didn’t die back then, but merely had a misunderstanding with your father, so we cut off our relationship. But later on, I, a woman with two children, simply couldn’t make ends meet."
"And coincidentally, I fell gravely ill later, and simply... simply couldn’t bear the burden..."
"So, I came up with a plan, pretending to be critically ill, thinking of sending you back to your father’s side, so that you wouldn’t have to suffer with me."