Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 344

Chapter 344: Chapter 340: Not Really Perfunctory [450 votes+]

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Seeing the frail mother, whose bones were visible as she fearfully shrank under the curtain, Yan Jinhao’s heart tightened. He slowly took a step forward, "Mom?"

Under the dim light, the woman who was revealed had gray hair and her eyes were profoundly sunken, especially around the grayish and swollen under-eye area, evidently showing her terribly poor resting state.

"Haohao, Haohao?" Qi Chunlan paused in her speech, just about to stand up and rush over, but then she suddenly remembered her own physical condition and shrank back: "You, don’t come here—leave quickly!"

Qi Chunlan thought of the rashes all over her body—if the disease was contagious, wouldn’t that harm her own child?

Therefore, upon seeing her eldest son approaching, she screamed shrilly.

"Mom, what happened to you? It’s Haohao!" Yan Jinhao wouldn’t listen to her. Seeing her lose control and even attempting to throw pillows at him from the bed, he quickened his steps.

It was just a five or six meters distance. After Qi Chunlan finished shouting, Yan Jinhao had already grasped her flailing arms—

When did Mom become so thin?

There was a sudden ’clench’ in Yan Jinhao’s heart. He held onto her shoulders, and only when he came close did he see the rash spots on her neck and face!

"Mom, what’s wrong with you? Are you sick? Why didn’t you tell me?"

Yan Jinhao felt guilty, as he had been a bit resentful towards his mother recently due to issues with his younger sister and also because his grandfather had moved back home, he paid more attention to the elderly and frail grandfather and his younger brother, thereby neglecting his mother.

Although he had noticed a few days ago that his mother appeared aging, she had always been a noble lady who loved beauty, and it was rare for him to see her in such a sickly and exhausted state.

However, it was late at night, and seeing her sleeping soundly, he didn’t want to disturb her. The next day he did ask Aunt Qiu, the family maid, who said that Mom was merely feeling down and hadn’t been out for a long time, which was why she looked so ’worn out’—this somewhat relieved him.

Aunt Qiu had originally intended to remind the young master that the lady should not be confined all the time as it was bad for her. But Yan Jinhao was hoping that his mother would stay at home every day and didn’t catch the unintended implication from Aunt Qiu.

This sudden sight of Qi Chunlan looking like an ’old lady’ had indeed scared Yan Jinhao half to death!

"Don’t come over, just leave, I don’t want to see you! Get out—" Qi Chunlan’s body could be described as ’thin as a skeleton’.

Originally, she was a noble lady who paid great attention to her appearance, weighing only around 110 pounds despite being tall, which made her look slender to others.

Since coming back from the county town, during the first half-month because her husband and children ignored her, coupled with her younger son gradually getting better, she had not eaten or slept well. But after the old man recovered and returned home, she began having terrible nightmares every night, suddenly unable to eat or sleep, and her physical condition worsened under her own ’psychological suggestion’.

Why was Qi Chunlan so convinced it was ’retribution’? That’s because deep inside, she felt guilty about her daughter whom she had never taken care of even for a single day.

Previously, because of her younger son’s illness and her partiality, she was truly willing to sacrifice Zhang Shanni’s life to save her younger son. Even if it meant going to hell, she was unafraid.