dognovel Chapter 1444: The Grand Finale (Part 30)
Chapter 1444: The Grand Finale (Part 30)
Gu Nuan, her mind already somewhat hazy from the chaos earlier, felt even dizzier and couldn’t recover for a while. It was only when she heard her father’s voice that she opened her eyes and nodded to the others.
"Nuannuan?" Xiao Yebai turned around and gently touched her face, his hand on her cheek so cautiously, as if fearing she might shatter like porcelain.
Gu Nuan said to them, "Bring Lingxin and Mingli over."
This request was unexpected to everyone. They paused in surprise.
When Gu Dad said okay and walked out, complying with his daughter’s wish to bring the children over, Ou Yanan hurried over and grasped Gu Dad’s shoulder: "No, Dad, no! Doing this will make her lose the will to survive—"
Gu Dad stopped at the word ’Dad’ and turned back, saying to him, "You’ve called me Dad, called her Sister; you should respect us, shouldn’t you?"
Ou Yanan’s fingers and facial muscles trembled uncontrollably. Such an emotion he had never experienced in the Ou Family—the love and convictions of family in life and death separations.
Gu Dad patted his hand in comfort, reflecting that this was his biological son’s first time calling him Dad.
Back home, Gu Mom finally heard the news, and at that moment, it felt as if the sky was falling. Her legs suddenly gave way, and she weakened. Xiao Grandma saw her dropping her phone and appearing to faint, much alarmed: "Hey, in-laws!"
Mrs. Zhao threw down the remote control and rushed over to support Gu Mom, saying, "It’s alright; she’s very lucky, I know. She’s much luckier than Ruzhen. Remember, she survived childbirth in that cursed house, didn’t she?"
Gu Mom opened her eyes and looked at Mrs. Zhao: "You’ve remembered? Do you know who it is?"
"I only remember Ruzhen, only remember your daughter Gu Nuan." Mrs. Zhao was speaking, unsure whether she was babbling nonsensically.
Xiao Grandma widened her eyes, uncertain whether Mrs. Zhao was truly senile.
Lingxin and Mingli heard that Grandma had fainted and ran out of the room, nervously surrounding Gu Mom: "Grandma, are you sick? We’ll call Uncle to come check on you."
"No need." Gu Mom stood up again, enveloped the children in her arms, her voice choked with emotion but holding back for fear of alarming them, "Let’s go to the hospital now. Will you accompany Grandma to the hospital?"
The two brothers, Lingxin and Mingli, immediately furrowed their little brows: Grandma looks so strange like this!
Xiao Grandma was the first to disagree, saying, "If you go to the hospital for treatment, you can go alone; why drag the children there? Do you know how young they are, and that hospitals are filled with germs?"
Upon hearing Xiao Grandma’s words, Gu Mom was infuriated and yelled: "First of all, these children are my daughter’s, and we will take them wherever we want. They don’t carry the Xiao surname."
Xiao Grandma’s hair stood on end at Gu Mom’s outburst, leaving her both furious and bewildered at the sudden scolding, wondering what madness Gu Mom had suddenly started.
Seeing that Gu Mom took the children and went out without a care, Xiao Grandma could do nothing to stop her and quickly called her own son: "Jianming, go to the hospital and check on the in-laws; the in-laws are sick. Also, bring back the two youngsters. What kind of elder takes children to the hospital for treatment!"
Yet her son was silent for quite a while in response to her reproach about Gu Mom, which made Xiao Grandma sense something was amiss, her eyelid twitching: "Has something happened?"
Xiao Jianming said, "I’ll go to the hospital." And then he hung up the phone.
Gu Mom took the two kids downstairs, and Zang Xiaolian’s car was waiting by the roadside for them. As soon as the three of them got into the car, they saw Xiao Jianming’s chauffeured car arrive too. Gu Mom felt a surge of tension, but the other car didn’t attempt to block their way, merely following behind their vehicle.