"He... has a terminal illness, I don't know if I can still save him," Jin Lan said with a bitter smile.
"Aren't you a doctor? You look like a top expert, how can you say that? If you can't save him, don't waste his time!" Ye Tuantuan couldn't understand Jin Lan's meaning and blurted out agitatedly.
"Don't rush, the terminal illness I'm talking about isn't what you think. It's a heartache, not a physical illness," Jin Lan realized the young girl had misunderstood and quickly explained.
"How is Yunting?" A beautiful woman walked over, her eyes red with anxiety.
This was none other than Gu Yunting's birth mother, Qiaoqiao. Gu Junbo had already revealed Gu Yunting's parentage, but at that time, Ye Wan was missing and her whereabouts unknown. Gu Yunting was heartbroken and didn't care about it at all.
Jin Lan had to attend to the newcomer first.
"Little girl, don't worry, Brother Ting will be fine," he reassured the young girl.
After hearing that it was Gu Yunting's family, Ye Tuantuan felt it was inconvenient to stay any longer and left.
Upon entering, Jin Lan saw Gu Yunting's biological mother crying while holding his hand. He was speechless. In his opinion, Gu Yunting's mother was definitely a reincarnated Lin Daiyu, excessively prone to tears and melancholy, with an overly affected personality.
But he could only keep these thoughts to himself. He looked at his brother lying on the bed and sighed inwardly. Ever since Ye Wan fell off the cliff with their stillborn child, Gu Yunting had followed her. He almost died too; he was in critical condition for three days and only woke up half a month later, barely clinging to life.
However, after waking up, he had 'amnesia.' Not that he lost all his memories, but he had lost all memories of Ye Wan. He had forgotten Ye Wan's existence.
Jin Lan knew this was selective amnesia. When something causes a person extreme pain, the body will selectively evade it. Thus, Gu Yunting had survived these past few years only because... he didn't remember Ye Wan.
He was now living like a walking corpse, his existence merely a shell, his soul having long since turned to ashes with Ye Wan's departure!
Jin Lan knew very well that if Gu Yunting hadn't forgotten Ye Wan, hadn't forgotten their deceased child, he wouldn't have survived. He would have died that autumn.
Gu Yunting woke up with a splitting headache, but he had forgotten what had just happened. He only remembered eating with Tuantuan, and then nothing else.
"Yunting, you're finally awake. You scared your mother to death," Qiaoqiao said, her face pale and her demeanor frail as she looked at her son.
Qiaoqiao was delicate and fragile. Even though she was getting on in years, Gu Junbo had doted on her like a little princess, and no one dared to wrong her. The only exception was Gu Yunting, her distant son.
Gu Yunting quickly withdrew his hand, which was wet. He knew it was from her tears. Gu Yunting was now indifferent to his stepmother. Although that woman had done many wicked things, she had raised him. Now he left her to her own fate. As for his biological mother, he had no real feelings for her either. Meeting her was merely fulfilling an obligation.
"I'm fine," Gu Yunting gave Jin Lan a look, signaling him to quickly get rid of her.
"Auntie, Brother Ting needs a lot of rest right now. Why don't you go back first, and he can see you when he's better?" Jin Lan suggested.