I Refused to Be a Substitute, and Shot to Fame on a Variety Show With My Mother-In-Law

Chapter 296: Tell Everything

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

That night, Guan Suling accompanied Li Xiwu in the hospital for the entire

Dao Xi asked the hospital to set up a bed next to Li XiWU’S bed. Guan Suling said that it would be closer to Li Xiwu, and she would be at ease this way. However, Li Xiwu felt bad. After all, her grandmother was already old and needed to rest well at night.

But she couldn’t dissuade her grandmother from insisting.

As for her grandmother’s question about what she had dreamed of, Li Xiwu did not answer. She only said that she had a headache and wanted to sleep.

Hence, she slept until seven the next morning.

The ward was quiet.

Her grandmother was still sound asleep in the next bed.

Last night, Li Xiwu slept very soundly and did not have any more dreams. On the other hand, Guan Suling, who was in the next bed, got up from time to time to check on Li Xiwu. She did not sleep well the entire night and only fell asleep at five or six o’clock.

It was still early. Li Xiwu got out of bed as quietly as possible and went to the bathroom. The sound of the comb falling in three minutes woke Guan Suling up. She quickly went to check on Li Xiwu.

Seeing that the bed was empty, Guan Suling was worried sick. “Darling, my good darling…”

When Guan Suling got out of bed anxiously to look for Li Xiwu, the bathroom door opened. Li Xiwu walked out and said softly, “Grandma, I’m here.”

Guan Suling looked up in the direction of the voice. The moment she saw Li Xiwu, she didn’t feel at ease. She got off the bed and walked over to hold Li Xiwu’s hand. Only when she touched her did she feel that it was real.

Li Xi knew that her grandmother was worried about her. She had already been worried about the car accident for the entire night. If she suddenly woke up and did not see her, she would definitely be very anxious. She explained, “I’m fine. I just went to the bathroom.”

Guan Suling asked, “What dropped just now?

Li Xiwu replied, “A comb.”

When she was about to comb her hair and look at herself in the mirror, some scenes from her dream flashed across her mind. Unknowingly, the comb fell to the ground.

Clatter! The sound pulled her back to reality. She bent down to pick up the comb. She heard her grandmother calling her, so she had no choice but to put down the comb and come out quickly.

When Guan Suling heard that it was a comb, she said, “So my darling wants to comb her hair. Just leave this to Grandma.”

As she spoke, Guan Suling let go of her hand and went into the bathroom. Inside, she removed a set of toiletries that were specially prepared for the ward. The hairbrush was one of them, similar to the equipment in a hotel.

Guan Suling came over with a comb. The worry on her face had disappeared. She called out to Li Xiwu, “Darling, come, Grandma will comb your hair.”

Li Xiwu agreed and walked to the bed. She sat down, and Guan Suling stood beside her. Her hand touched Li Xiwu’s hair, and Guan Suling took a closer look. “My darling’s hair is really nice.”

The corners of Li Xiwu’s lips curled up. “I usually take good care of it.”

Guan Suling: “I think you’re born with it, just like Ah Zhu.”

Hearing her grandmother mention her mother’s name, Li Xiwu pursed her lips and asked, “Grandma, how did my mother pass away?

Guan Suling’s hand that was holding the comb paused, and the smile on her face faded. “Darling, your mother is very outstanding.”

This was not the answer Li Xiwu wanted. She wanted to know how her mother passed away. However, when she saw her grandmother’s expression, she did not continue asking.

“Darling.” Guan Suling’s gentle voice called her.

Li Xiwu hummed.

Guan Suling asked, “You injured your head in this car accident, did you… remember something?”

Li Xiwu took a deep breath and wanted to shake her head and deny it. After thinking for a moment, she shook her head and denied it. “No.”

After a pause, she said, “I don’t have any memories of the past. Now that I’ve reunited with you, I know that I still have family in this world. Pei Jingzhou didn’t tell me much about my parents, so I want to ask you.”

She lied. However, she did not want to say that she had seen some of the past in her dream. Like fragments, she replayed them in her mind frame by frame, but she could not completely piece them together.

She guessed that this was probably because she had been hypnotized back then, so her memory kept appearing intermittently. If it was caused by external factors, she should have remembered everything after the injury at Mount Liang.

Although Guan Suling was afraid that Little You would remember the bad things in the past, she also realized that it was impossible to never mention the past in front of Little You.

Now that Little You had asked, Guan Suling told her, ‘Your mother passed away from illness.”

Li Xiwu raised her eyes slightly and looked in a certain direction. “…Illness?

After that, Guan Suling told Li Xiwu about MO Zhu’s illness.

Her grandmother had not lied to her after all.

Ms. MO Zhu was really outstanding. When she was young, she was the national chief translator. Later, she was appointed as the mayor of Shen City for five years and was the only female mayor in Shen City in recent decades. It was no wonder that Grandma loved her mother so much. In Grandma’s opinion, she was her most outstanding daughter and she was proud of her.

One term was five years. Five years later, Ms. MO Zhu stepped down as the mayor of Shen City and brought her daughter to Country T with Li Huaisheng to start her life in Country T. During her years in Country T, Ms. MO Zhu continued to work as a translator in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Later, a year before Li You returned to the country to take on the job of press statement for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. MO Zhu suddenly fell ill.

It was found out that it was leukemia.

This illness was terrifying. It was the most painful during chemotherapy. Her hair fell down one by one, like a hundred flowers withering and a dying tree.

Later, MO Zhu died.

According to her grandmother, Li You had stayed by Ms. MO Zhu’s side that day. It’s a month later when the news of her death reached the country. When Guan Suling had heard the news, she had almost fainted.

She insisted on going to Country T to retrieve Ms. MO Zhu’s ashes.

Coincidentally, there was a commotion in Country T at this moment. The road to Country T was ruthlessly cut off. Not long after, news of her son-in-law and granddaughter’s deaths spread.

Such news was worse than a nightmare for Guan Suling.

Her daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter had all passed away overseas. Under such a blow, Guan Suling fell sick and lay in bed for more than two months before she could get out of bed and walk.

After the chaos ended, Guan Suling personally went to Country T to pick up the ashes of her daughter and son-in-law.

Ms. MO Zhu’s ashes were very complete. Li Huaisheng’s ashes were only a little. Because only a few of his remains were found, Li You’s remains were nowhere to be found. Those people told Guan Suling that her remains should have been burned to ashes and blown away by the wind, back to the Eastern Lands…

Guan Suling’s body swayed unsteadily a few times.

Dao Xi, who was beside her, supported her. She looked up at the sky with tears streaming down her face. That was the direction of the Eastern Lands. Little You had already been brought back by the wind…

Guan Suling forced herself not to fall. Before she went back, she went to the place where Li Huaisheng and Li You had died. She wanted to take another look, but the place before her was still in ruins. When she saw that the damaged building was being repaired and that all had become history, her shaky body was still unable to hold on.

She could not even see Little You’s ashes.. She could only wail in the ruins…