Published: March 8, 2025
Chapter 21: The Greatest Love in the World!
Everyone was stunned at the same time!
Chu Feiyan shook her head, feeling dizzy, and plopped down on the ground, staring blankly for a long while without saying a word.
"This is a difficult choice!" Chu Yang took a deep breath, "So, I can't decide for myself. I need you, third aunt... to make the decision."
Everyone understood that such a decision could only be made by the child's mother, Duan Shuyi. No one else had that authority! Chu Yang's request was reasonable and unassailable.
However, everyone remained speechless.
To avoid suffering for the next two years meant giving up the opportunity for life extension afterward. If they wanted the life extension, it was impossible to lessen the pain of these two years.
Duan Shuyi bit her lip in distress.
Her daughter had already suffered for eleven years. It was hard to finally have a chance to escape pain—how could she let that go? But... what if they chose two years without pain and couldn’t find the spiritual medicine after two years?
The difficulty in finding spiritual medicine had been experienced by everyone in recent years. Who could be so confident as to find it within just two years? But if they gave up the chance for the last two years, what if the medicine was found shortly after the child... passed away? Wouldn’t that be a lifelong regret?
This choice was truly a dilemma.
Everyone fell silent at the same time. Chu Feiling frowned, and Yang Ruolan looked heavy-hearted.
Putting themselves in others' shoes, if it was their child faced with such a situation, they wouldn’t dare make a reckless choice either.
This was not simply a choice; it was a matter of life and death!
Chu Feiyan, who had always been the most enthusiastic, was now silent. She didn’t dare cough…
Duan Shuyi was full of conflicting emotions, in pain, opening her mouth only to close it again, unsure of what to do.
Chu Le'er watched from the side, and after a long time, suddenly mustered the courage to say, "Big Brother, can I choose?"
Chu Yang was taken aback, "If Le'er wants to choose, of course you can."
Chu Le'er puffed out her lips, nervously licked her lips with her small tongue, turned to look at her mother with affectionate eyes, then resolutely said, "Big Brother... I want... I want to live for two more years! Even if there’s no hope... even if it hurts... I still want to... live to fifteen!"
Chu Yang was stunned!
Not only him, but even Chu Feiling, Yang Ruolan, and Chu Feiyan were all equally shocked!
"Why?" Chu Yang asked in surprise. Everyone thought this girl would definitely choose two years without pain. No one could have imagined she would choose to endure more pain to live two more years!
"I want to stay with my mom and dad," Chu Le'er lowered her eyelashes, sadly saying, "They can’t bear to be without me, and I can’t bear to be without them... My parents are so pitiful; since I could remember things, they’ve never smiled because I’ve been a burden..."
"Even if it’s more painful... I still want to be with them for two more years. Big Brother, you don’t know, when I’m in pain, my mom holds me, and then I don’t feel the pain anymore, really." Chu Le'er said seriously.
"I’m afraid if I die, my mom will be sad, and my dad will be sad too..." She paused, turning to look at her mother with deep affection, and said, "Even if it just means making them sad two years later, that’s fine. I will be very strong and promise not to cry out when it hurts."
"Le'er!" Duan Shuyi shouted, heartbroken, bursting into tears!
Chu Feiling’s eyes welled with tears, letting out a long sigh. Yang Ruolan had already let the tears flow; Chu Feiyan was sobbing, taking deep breaths, blinking continuously to hold back tears, muttering, "Good girl! Good girl..."
Chu Yang nearly cried as well.
Everyone knew that the pain Chu Le'er was enduring was truly worse than death. Every day brought new torment; every hour added more suffering!
Yet this strong little girl, in order not to make her parents sad and to delay that sadness, resolutely chose to endure two more years of pain worse than hell itself.