After Divorce, Hidden Marriage Husband Became Addicted to Me-Chapter 16: A World of Difference

Recalling the incident from last night, Tang Xi's stubborn and clear face came to mind, and he pursed his thin lips, "I left early last night and forgot to tell you."

Su Mengshu breathed a sigh of relief, glad that he did not suspect her. She held onto Fu Tingzhou's arm, "I'm already very happy that you could come for my birthday."

Watching Su Mengshu's smiling face, Fu Tingzhou said, "It's your birthday, so naturally, I should come back. I have time at noon, I can have lunch with you."

"Sure." Su Mengshu completely relaxed.

It seemed that Fu Tingzhou was unaware of what happened last night. She tried hard to present herself as a gentle, kind, and ladylike figure in front of him. The two had lunch together at the top floor in Fu Tingzhou's private restaurant, and Fu Tingzhou asked Xu Ze to take Su Mengshu back to the Su Family.

Xu Ze was driving when, to avoid a child who darted into the road, he suddenly slammed on the brakes.

Su Mengshu's body lurched forward due to inertia, and she scolded in dissatisfaction, "What are you doing! Can't you drive!? You almost hurt me!"

Xu Ze was taken aback and saw Su Mengshu's beautiful face contorted slightly with anger through the rearview mirror, and he said, "I apologize, Miss Su."

Su Mengshu put on an arrogant air, "Hmph, just a driver, be more careful. If this happens again, believe it or not, I'll have Tingzhou fire you!"

Xu Ze furrowed his brow; although he was Fu Tingzhou's special assistant.

However, he had followed Fu Tingzhou for a long time, and when Fu Tingzhou was in England, Xu Ze had been by his side, supporting him in his endeavors, practically Fu Tingzhou's right-hand man.

At this moment, seeing Su Mengshu's arrogant and rude demeanor, Xu Ze was somewhat astounded.

This Miss Su, usually in front of Mr. Fu, displayed demureness and understanding... it turns out it's all an act... in private, her true face has been revealed.

The car stopped at the Su Family's place, and Su Mengshu got out.

Xu Ze continued driving. After passing through several streets, he spotted a familiar figure on the roadside.

She was hurrying, seeming to want to hail a taxi, her face anxious.

Tang Xi's mother had collapsed and was currently being resuscitated. When Tang Shiyue couldn't reach her, he called the thoracic surgery reception to inform Tang Xi.

"Miss Tang, where are you going? I'll give you a lift."

A car stopped in front of her, and Xu Ze rolled down the window.

"Assistant Xu." Tang Xi was somewhat surprised, and after hesitating for a moment, she got into the car in her urgency.

There was no one else in the car, and Tang Xi relaxed a little.

"Assistant Xu, please take me to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital."

Seeing Tang Xi's anxious expression, he quickly drove off.

"Miss Tang, you seem very anxious. Is there anything I can help with?"

Tang Xi pursed her lips, "A relative of mine fell ill and is being resuscitated."

Upon hearing this, Xu Ze increased his speed, and around two o'clock, the car stopped at the entrance of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.

"Thank you, Assistant Xu," Tang Xi expressed her thanks before getting out of the car and running off.

Watching Tang Xi's departing figure, the thank you she had just uttered seemed to linger in Xu Ze's ears.

Her politeness and gentleness were not pretense; remembering the arrogance of the Su Family's young mistress, the difference in their characters was indeed quite significant...

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Outside the resuscitation room, Tang Xi came running, gasping for breath, and she looked at Tang Shiyue, "How is Tang Mom doing?"

Tang Shiyue's eyes were rimmed with red, "We just signed the critical condition notice, she was fine just yesterday, then suddenly...suddenly she collapsed."

Tang Xi leaned against the wall, trying to steady her breathing.

She stared at the tightly shut door of the resuscitation room, her heart clenched.

As time slowly ticked by, Tang Xi, being a doctor herself, finally understood what the feeling was like for the family members waiting outside the operating room.

An hour later, the door of the resuscitation room opened.

The doctor came out, it was Tang Jingyun's attending physician Xu Chen, a disciple of the father figure in nephrology, Professor Gao, "Dr. Tang, I know you are also a doctor, and we are colleagues. You should understand that for your mother's condition, there is only one way out, which is a kidney transplant."

Tang Xi bit her lip hard, "Um, my mother now..."

"Her condition is very serious, if she doesn't get a transplant, she won't make it through the month."

But a kidney transplant would cost at least 500,000 yuan.

Tang Shiyue swayed slightly, his fists clenched as he knelt on the ground and cried, "Doctor, please, I beg you to save my mother."

He looked at Tang Xi, "Sister...what do we do..."

At that moment, it was as if the sky had collapsed.

Tang Jingyun was taken to the intensive care unit.

Tang Xi, dressed in a sterile gown, entered and knelt by the bed, holding Tang Jingyun's hand. The woman's eyes were closed tightly, and various tubes were inserted into her body to sustain her life.

"Tang Mom... I won't let you be in danger, I will definitely save you."

Since she was little, it was only by Tang Jingyun's side that she felt warmth, and she had always treated Tang Shiyue like her own brother.

After walking out of the intensive care unit, she saw the boy sitting on the ground outside the door; she bent down and took Tang Shiyue's hand, "Shiyue, you go to class first, leave this to your sister."

The boy's voice was choked, "Sister...is mom really...going to die?"

"No, she won't!" Tang Xi's voice was trembling but firm, "Your sister won't let anything happen to mom. Leave the surgery expenses to me. You go to class first, the college entrance exam is coming, and you can't fall behind. If mom wakes up, she would definitely want you to focus and do well on next month's exam."

"Okay." It seemed as if the boy had suddenly grown up. Tang Shiyue wiped away his tears, "Okay, I'm heading to school now."

Tang Xi stayed at the entrance of the intensive care unit for a while, then went to the doctor's office.

"We need a kidney transplant. I hope Dr. Xu can keep an eye out for a suitable donor and notify me... I... I will find a way to raise the money."

She left the traditional medicine hospital.

The sunlight fell on her, but she couldn't feel any warmth.

Walking somewhat numbly along the road, she didn't know how long she had walked when she took a deep breath, calmed down, and went to the bank to gather all the money from several cards into one account.

Looking at the amount, the 500,000 RMB needed for the transplant surgery seemed as unreachable as climbing to the sky...

Let alone 500,000, she couldn't even come up with 100,000 right now.

Tang Xi sat on a bench by the roadside, unable to hold back her tears; she didn't know what more she could do. Was she just going to watch her loved one leave this world?

A profound sense of helplessness swept over her.

For a week straight, Tang Xi worked during the day and sought various part-time jobs at night.

Any exhausting work was acceptable.

Ruan Youqing felt some pity for her, but she didn't have much money herself. After receiving her salary, she sent it to her boyfriend and only had thirty to forty thousand left, which she took out and gave to Tang Xi.

In the noodle shop, eating her noodles, Tang Xi's eyes reddened, "Youqing, thank you."

"What's there to thank for? We're friends, aren't we?"

Tang Xi lowered her head as tears still uncontrollably flowed down.

Ruan Youqing said, "After we finish eating, we'll work part-time together tonight. Tomorrow's Sunday, I'll accompany you. Aren't you going to work part-time at the amusement park?"

"Mhm."

The next morning at eight o'clock, Tang Xi and Ruan Youqing arrived at the amusement park.

By the end of April, it was gradually getting hotter, and few wanted to wear mascot costumes to work there, so the amusement park usually hired temporary part-time staff.

The salary was settled daily and charged by the hour, which was convenient for Tang Xi who was short on cash.

She and Ruan Youqing changed into their mascot costumes.

"Sister Xu knows you need money. These past few days, the amusement park started a new game called the venting mascot. Wearing a mascot costume, you cross a balance beam while people throw sandbags at the mascot, a hundred bucks for an hour."

That much?

Without hesitation, Tang Xi nodded immediately.

After putting on a bulky penguin outfit, Sister Xu led her to the venue, a square sandbox with a balance beam set up over it, only wide enough to walk on one foot at a time.

Guests buy sandbags to throw at the mascot, using this act to vent their emotions.

"Little Tang, our safety measures here are pretty good. The bottom is filled with sand; even if you fall, it won't hurt too much. If you do fall, you have to climb back up quickly so as not to delay the guests' fun, alright?"

"Got it."

Tang Xi stood on the balance beam, walking cautiously.

A sandbag hit her from behind, and she staggered for a moment, but steadied herself.

A few boys threw their sandbags at her.

"Come on, hit the penguin!"

"This penguin is so clumsy, knock it down!"

A barrage of sandbags came flying, and though she wore the thick mascot costume, it was still painful and also very hot. Tang Xi struggled to catch her breath. She couldn't dodge, and several times she was knocked down into the sand.

But she got up and walked back onto the balance beam.

More and more guests came to play the game,

Throwing sandbags to vent the anger from their lives.

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The force was very strong.

Sweat damped her hair, uncomfortably sticking to her cheeks.

Falling multiple times off the balance beam, her body bruised in shades of blue and purple, she still quickly climbed back up.

The surrounding laughter, urging her to get up again, was suffocating, and it took her a few minutes to gather herself before slowly standing up.

"Yi, Tingzhou, what's this? It looks fun."

Tang Xi, trembling on the balance beam, lifted her gaze. Through the sweat before her eyes, she saw two familiar figures approaching fuzzily.

Su Mengshu stood demurely beside Fu Tingzhou.

She seemed to want to maintain her image as a lady, "This staff member looks so pitiful."

Countless sandbags flew towards Tang Xi, and her movements on the balance beam appeared clumsy. As she moved, her eyes again fell on the figures of Su Mengshu and Fu Tingzhou, and a sense of powerlessness mixed with discomfort flooded her chest.

She bit her lip hard, tasting the blood between her teeth.

A chasm apart; is this the disparity?

Suddenly, a sandbag hit her hard on the head—

Tang Xi fell sharply off the beam.