Su Yumei glanced at the thermos on the bedside table and said, "You cooked for me?"
"Yep, I got my paycheck, was feeling good, so I made some of your favorite dishes."
"My Nuannuan's cooking skills are impeccable... But today, mom planned to have you accompany her shopping for clothes and then go out to eat."
"Mom, can your health handle leaving the hospital?"
"Yes, I've asked Doctor Zhou, it's fine."
"Then why the sudden whim to go shopping... You haven't wanted to go shopping in ages, and you never agreed when I previously asked."
"Things are different now... Nuannuan, you don't understand. I totally lost face today. If I'd known Ah Chen was coming to see his mother-in-law, I would have dolled myself up and made a good impression on my future son-in-law... But it's not too late, Ah Chen said he would come again."
Su Nuannuan felt goosebumps all over as she heard the endearing way her mother referred to Ah Chen.
She was somewhat speechless.
Never mind, her mom hadn't been this happy in a long while, so she wouldn't dampen her spirits.
Otherwise, if she told her mom about that scoundrel Li Yanchen fooling around with someone in the bar restroom, with how concerned her mom was now with the future son-in-law, she'd probably pass out in shock.
"Since we're going out to shop, we might as well eat first, I've already cooked." She spent a full two hours preparing that lunch! It couldn't just go to waste!
A glint flashed in Su Yumei's eyes as she said, "Right, since it's all made, it'd be such a waste not to eat it... But it's been so long since your mom has eaten out with you, Nuannuan. How about this, you take this lunch to Ah Chen. He left his business card with me today; it has his company's address on it."
Now, Su Nuannuan really felt like killing Li Yanchen.
What the hell, was he a fox demon reincarnate?
One visit and her mom was this enchanted?
And she's scheming to get her to deliver lunch to him?
The lunch she personally cooked to honor her biological mother, why should she give it to that scoundrel to eat?
Seeing her daughter's clear reluctance, Su Yumei's face turned pale as she said, "Nuannuan... if you don't want to treat your illness, we can just go home... From now on, mom won't ask you to do anything you don't want to."
"Su Yumei! Were you incarnated from a white lotus? Always playing this card on me, fine, I'll go, okay?"
Only then did Su Yumei's face light up with a smile as she said, "My Nuannuan is the most obedient and compliant, listen to your mother, Ah Chen can't be wrong... He's someone you can rely on."
In the end, Su Nuannuan left the hospital with her mother, a sullen expression on her face as she carried the thermos.
Though her heart was unwilling to deliver the lunch that she had painstakingly made for her mother to that scoundrel Li Yanchen, she couldn't bear it when she saw how rare and glowing her mother looked, radiating with vibrant energy.
Because she knew, that was something very important.
Her mother went from someone nearing death who had given up the will to live, just wanting to settle her down before peacefully leaving this world, to someone who now... had a will to live, as if suddenly she found the world beautiful and wanted to keep on living.
For that alone, at this moment, she didn't want to do anything that could upset her mother.
The mother-daughter pair originally intended to take a taxi to Empire Group, but halfway there, Su Yumei looked her daughter up and down before asking the driver to stop the car with a face full of disdain.
Su Nuannuan said with a face full of surprise, "Mom, have you finally changed your mind?"
Then Su Yumei looked at her with disdain and said, "Do you even remember that you're a girl? You don't look like one from head to toe!"
Damn!
Disdained by her biological mother...