"Mom, look! I'm all better! We don't need to gather money for treatment anymore, can dad come and take us home?"
Watching Beibei stand on the hospital bed pretending to be healthy, my eyes couldn't help but redden.
Beibei's illness is congenital heart disease; the only way for her to survive is to wait for a heart donor.
I stepped forward and hugged Beibei tightly,
"Silly child, mommy and daddy have already gathered the surgery funds."
"Your task now is to rest easy and get better; once the surgery is done, we'll take you home."
Beibei's eyes immediately sparkled with excitement.
"Really? Then mommy and daddy won't have to work so hard anymore!"
"That's great! Daddy hasn't come for so long, I thought he didn't want me anymore."
A pang of sorrow struck my heart.
Her father is actually just upstairs...
But ever since Liu Qinyu burned her leg, Ling Yue has been tending to her meticulously around the clock.
Even though he's so close, he doesn't want to come and see us.
It's not like I haven't talked to him about it.
But no matter what I say, to him it all becomes my jealousy and unreasonable behavior.
Perhaps from the very first day Liu Qinyu appeared, I should have noticed Ling Yue's change and decisively ended this relationship.
But for the sake of giving Beibei a complete family, I chose to endure.
The only consolation for me was that he at least wasn't stingy with Beibei's treatment funds.
This time, to gather surgery funds for Beibei, I asked him to sell the house for me.
He didn't say a word, and he handled things efficiently.
As long as Beibei's illness can be cured, I can pretend not to know about other things.
Beibei coughed, pulling me back from my thoughts.
I suppressed my suffocating emotions and nodded with a smile, "How could daddy not want you? Daddy loves you the most."
Beibei laughed happily.
"When I get better, I want to grow up healthy! I want to make a lot of money!"
"With money, daddy won't have to run around outside all the time, and mommy won't have to eat only pickled vegetables with rice every meal!"
I held her in my arms, but tears flowed incessantly.
"Huh? Why is mommy crying?"
"Mommy's fine, mommy is just happy. It's almost time for the surgery; Beibei will have to go in by herself, don't be scared, okay?"
"Hum! I'm not scared, I'm already a big kid!"
I patted her head and pushed her towards the operating room.
But at the door, the doctor dragged me aside with a strange look on his face.
"Didn't you cancel Beibei's surgery?"
"What?" I exclaimed.
"How could that be! We've waited three years for this chance, there's no way we'd give it up—didn't you guys make a mistake?"
The doctor frowned, "The child's father said the money wasn't enough and personally canceled it yesterday."
Ling Yue?
The money has clearly been gathered...
Why did he cancel Beibei's surgery?
How dare he cancel Beibei's surgery!
With trembling hands, I took out my phone to call him, but I couldn't get through no matter what.
The few seconds the phone rang felt as long as a lifetime...
I just stood at the operating room door, feeling dizzy.
But in that instant, a terrible suspicion flashed through my mind.
Liu Qinyu's corrective surgery also requires a large amount of money...
Could it be that, for this woman...
He used up Beibei's life-saving funds?!