kingnovel Chapter 1052 Looking forward to the future
Chapter 1052 Looking forward to the future
"You...what did you say?" Jiang Mubai's voice trembled, as if it was squeezed out from between his teeth.
Lu Ziyang swallowed hard, his lips so dry that they seemed to be cracked. "Mu Bai... do you... do you still remember... our last time...?"
Jiang Mubai certainly remembered that it was a stormy night, and it was also the night when she and Lu Ziyang broke up completely. After that night, she completely disappeared from his life until she married Cheng Yunchuan.
"That...that night..." Lu Ziyang's voice became weaker and weaker, as if it would break off at any moment, "I...I was drunk...I..."
"What do you want to say?" Jiang Mubai's heart was beating wildly, and an ominous premonition came to his mind.
"The child...is...mine..." Lu Ziyang used up his last bit of strength to say this intermittently.
This sentence was like a bomb that exploded in Jiang Mubai's mind, making her dizzy and almost unable to stand.
"Impossible!" Jiang Mubai took a step back, his face pale. "This is impossible! You...you are talking nonsense!"
Lu Ziyang smiled weakly, with a hint of bitterness in his smile. "Mu Bai... I... I didn't lie to you... Nian Bai... she... she really is... my child..."
He fished out a faded pendant from under the pillow and handed it to Jiang Mubai. "This is... this is... I gave it to... you... do you... remember?"
Jiang Mubai took the pendant with shaking hands. It was a small silver heart-shaped pendant with the words "Mubai" engraved on it. This was a gift from Lu Ziyang on her birthday. She had kept it as a treasure, but later accidentally lost it. She didn't expect it to be with Lu Ziyang.
"I... I made it... into two... You... You have one... Nianbai... and you have one..." Lu Ziyang's voice became lower and lower, and his breathing became weaker and weaker.
Jiang Mubai looked down at the necklace that Cheng Nianbai had been wearing. On it was a pendant that was exactly the same as the one in his hand, but it was a little smaller.
She felt her blood freeze, and a chill ran from her feet to her head. If what Lu Ziyang said was true, then... then Cheng Nianbai... was really his child?
No, this is impossible! She would never believe it!
Jiang Mubai suddenly raised his head and wanted to question Lu Ziyang, but found that he had closed his eyes and his breathing had completely stopped.
The ward was dead silent, with only the regular beeping sound from the monitor sounding particularly harsh.
Jiang Mubai stood there blankly, tightly clutching the cold pendant in his hand, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw.
She didn't know how she left the hospital, nor how she got home. She was like a zombie, doing everything mechanically, but Lu Ziyang's last words kept echoing in her mind: Cheng Nianbai... is my child...
In the evening, Cheng Yunchuan came back and saw Jiang Mubai's distraught look. He asked with concern: "Mubai, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so bad?"
Jiang Mubai raised her head and looked at Cheng Yunchuan's gentle face, feeling mixed emotions. If what Lu Ziyang said was true, how should she face Cheng Yunchuan? How should she face Cheng Nianbai?
"Yunchuan..." Jiang Mubai's voice trembled, "I...I have something...to tell you..."
"What's the matter?" Cheng Yunchuan gently hugged Jiang Mubai and stroked her hair lightly.
Jiang Mubai took a deep breath and closed his eyes, as if he had made some kind of decision.
"Nianbai...she...she might..."
Just then, the doorbell rang suddenly.
Cheng Yunchuan frowned slightly, a little unhappy about being interrupted, but he still let go of Jiang Mubai and went to open the door.
A strange woman was standing outside the door, holding a little girl about the same age as Cheng Nianbai in her arms.
"Excuse me, is this Mr. Cheng Yunchuan's home?" the woman asked.
Cheng Yunchuan nodded, "I'm Cheng Yunchuan, who are you?"
The woman took a deep breath and looked at Cheng Yunchuan with complicated eyes, "I am... Lu Ziyang's wife, and this is... his daughter..."
Cheng Yunchuan was stunned, his eyes flickering back and forth between the woman and the little girl. The little girl timidly hid behind the woman, revealing a pair of big watery eyes, which looked somewhat similar to Cheng Nianbai.
Jiang Mubai also came over, and when she heard the woman claiming to be Lu Ziyang's wife, her face instantly turned even paler. She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
"You...what did you say?" Cheng Yunchuan's voice trembled a little, "You are Lu Ziyang's wife? This child is..."
The woman's eyes were red, and she tried hard to hold back her tears as she said, "Zi Yang... before he died, he told me to bring the child here and let you... take good care of her..."
Cheng Yunchuan felt that it was becoming difficult for him to breathe. Lu Ziyang's wife, Lu Ziyang's child... This sudden news caught him off guard.
"What on earth is going on?" Jiang Mubai finally found his voice, with a hint of disbelief and horror in his tone.
The woman took a deep breath and slowly revealed a secret that had been buried for many years. It turned out that she and Lu Ziyang were college classmates. After graduation, they fell in love and got married. Not long after the marriage, Lu Ziyang was diagnosed with an incurable disease. In order not to worry his wife and unborn child, he concealed his illness and endured the pain alone.
"He has always loved you deeply," the woman looked at Jiang Mubai with a hint of apology in her eyes, "but he knew that you two could not be together, so he chose to protect you silently and buried this love deep in his heart..."
Jiang Mubai felt her eyes go dark as she listened to the woman's words. She staggered back a step and almost fell. Cheng Yunchuan quickly supported her, his eyes full of worry.
"Then...what about Nianbai?" Jiang Mubai's voice was trembling, as if he would collapse at any time.
The woman hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Zi Yang said... Nian Bai is also his child..."
This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, hitting Jiang Mubai hard. She couldn't believe her ears. She had always thought that Cheng Nianbai was Cheng Yunchuan's child, the fruit of their love, but now...
Cheng Yunchuan was also stunned. He looked at the woman, then at the girl hiding behind her, his heart filled with confusion and shock.
"How...how is this possible?" Cheng Yunchuan muttered to himself, "Nianbai...she clearly..."
The woman took out an old photo album from her bag and handed it to Cheng Yunchuan. "This is what Ziyang left behind. He said... I hope you can take a look..."
Cheng Yunchuan took the album with trembling hands, turned to the first page, and a photo came into view. In the photo, Lu Ziyang and Jiang Mubai were hugging each other tightly, with happy smiles on their faces.
Turning to the next page, there was a B-ultrasound photo, which clearly showed the outline of a fetus. On the back of the photo, there was a line of words written: Our child, Mu Bai.
Cheng Yunchuan flipped through the album page by page. The photos inside recorded every moment that Lu Ziyang and Jiang Mubai spent together, including sweet dates, warm hugs, and scenes of the two looking forward to the future together.