A dark thought suddenly went through Zhang Yuan's mind, and her eyes lit up. "Listen to me, Huo Nanchen will never wake up! Never! Stop lying to yourself!"
"What do you mean by that? Do you have to remind me that he is in a coma?" Gu Ruochu looked at Zhang Yuan calmly and continued, "Are you trying to insinuate that you're happy Ning Tangxi did not marry him and that I have to suffer in your daughter's place?"
Zhang Yuan was stunned, and her heart turned cold. "Ruochu, is that what you think of me? I just don't want you to be immersed in the lie that he will wake up. I'm afraid that you'll be unable to extricate yourself from it. In the end, you'll waste your whole life!"
"I've said it before, Huo Nanchen will wake up."
Suddenly, Zhang Yuan felt that her daughter was stubborn. She was doing this for Gu Ruochu's sake, but it was evident that she couldn't convince her. Zhang Yuan hadn't expected to give birth to such a headstrong child.
"Even if you don't care about me, you still have to think about your father's well being. Ever since the accident, he has been thinking about you. How worried will he be if he finds out that you are depressed because of Huo Nanchen?"
Gu Ruochu closed her eyes. She did not want to listen to Zhang Yuan anymore.
Ning Zongxuan was waiting outside the ward. When he heard his mother raise her voice, he walked in to support her. "Ruochu, how can you criticize your mother like this? Tangxi and I are victims. What right do you have to take the moral high ground? Is it wrong that my mother doesn't want you to be depressed because of a man?"
"Ning Zongxuan, you dare to accuse me of taking the moral high ground?" Gu Ruochu's eyes were frosty. "Why are you interfering in my business? Do you think that you have the right to criticize me? If you and Ning Tangxi had not been adopted by the Ning family, would you still have the life of a Young Master and a Young Lady? Perhaps, you would be orphans in a foster home. You've already taken all the benefits of living in the Ning family from me, yet you still have the face to criticize me. Are you insane?
"Do you think that you are my big brother?" Gu Ruochu stood up and glared at Ning Zongxuan. "I'm sorry. I wouldn't wish to have a brother like you."
Ning Zongxuan was embarrassed by Gu Ruochu's accusations. However, her words also had some truth to them.
Zhang Yuan had enabled Ning Tangxi and Ning Zongxuan to have luxurious lifestyles. However, after hearing Gu Ruochu's scathing remarks, Ning Zongxuan clenched his fists in anger.
"Ruochu, you shouldn't have said that about your brother," Zhang Yuan interjected. "I told you that I'm the only person responsible for your pain. Zongxuan and Tangxi are also victims of my mistakes."
"The Ning family's problems have nothing to do with me! If you have nothing else to say, please leave!" Gu Ruochu sat back on her chair and refused to look at them.
"That's right! You're the Young Madam of the Huo family now. You don't care about the Ning family, and you don't care about your parents." Ning Zongxuan tried to retaliate with some scathing remarks of his own. "Do you think that the Huo family likes you? If Huo Nanchen doesn't wake up, your mother-in-law will chase you out sooner or later. You don't even have a child together."
"What big words!" Gu Ruochu scoffed disdainfully. "Ning Zongxuan, you are a hypocrite. Even if the Huo family throws me into the streets, I won't associate myself with the Ning family."