During this period of time, he had the same nightmare almost every night.
In the dream, he returned to the small intensive care unit. He sat in a wheelchair and looked at his father, who was wrapped like a mummy on the hospital bed, wearing an oxygen mask and all kinds of equipment on his body.
This kind of father was undoubtedly unfamiliar to Huo Chenhuan, especially when he was only a teenager at the time.
At that time, he still had the naïvety of a young man and saw his father as a hero who could hold up the sky for him.
However, now that he had fallen, Huo Chenhuan’s sky had also collapsed.
Mr. Huo had already noticed Huo Chenhuan’s arrival, and his lips moved under the oxygen mask.
Huo Chenhuan listened closely and heard him asking about his wife’s whereabouts.
“Your mother… Your mother…”
Huo Chenhuan’s heart tightened, but he tried hard to maintain his composure. He forced a smile and said, “It’s okay, mom is fine. Dad, take care of yourself. Mom is still waiting for you, she’s waiting for you to get better.”
Mr. Huo did not say anything. He looked at Huo Chenhuan with a heavy gaze for a long time before he spoke again, “Don’t lie to me. I know… your mother… is not here.”
Huo Chenhuan’s heart skipped a beat and he was stunned. It took him a long time to react and he quickly said, “No, no, no. Who did you hear it from, Dad? Mom is fine. She is fine.”
“No one told me.” Mr. Huo struggled to speak and his face was almost dead. He was like a dead tree that had lost all its vitality. He was old and fragile.
“I can feel it. At that time… I was holding your mother, and blood kept flowing out. We were still stuck in the car and couldn’t move. We were waiting for someone to come and save us, but no one came. Later, your mother fell asleep. I called out to her loudly and kept calling out to her, but she didn’t answer me. I could feel people coming and going. They separated your mother and me. I wanted to keep her, but I couldn’t. I know she’s leaving. I couldn’t make her stay, I couldn’t make her stay…”
Mr. Huo’s speech was interrupted, and it was not as organized as usual.
Huo Chenhuan listened to the whole story, and his nose started to ache.
Zheng Qianyang still did not let him see his mother one last time, and Zuo Yanbai and the others came back with pale faces. It was obvious that his mother’s death was not any better.
Huo Chenhuan wanted to see her, but he was afraid to. It was a subconscious escape. It was as if as long as he did not go, he could lie to himself that his mother was still there.
The woman who loved him the most and always looked at him with a gentle smile was still there!
“I could not make her stay, so I can only go with her.” Mr. Huo turned to look at Huo Chenhuan, his eyes filled with a strange eagerness, “Chenhuan, Chenhuan, you can understand my feelings, right? Your mother would be too lonely to go alone. I need to accompany her, I can’t let her leave alone.”
Huo Chenhuan did not understand what Mr. Huo meant, but he was still scared because of him. “Dad, what did you say? Mom is already… how can you go with her?”
Mr. Huo did not say anything, but he looked at his youngest son, his only son, with a complicated gaze.
Perhaps he knew that such a thing was too cruel for a teenager, but he had no choice.
At this time, only Huo Chenhuan could help him, and only Huo Chenhuan could make him trust him.
Instead of living a half-dead and miserable life, it was better to end it once and for all and leave with his wife.
