Chapter 273: Chapter 273

Le Tong had a long dream, in which she saw her mother fainting in the kitchen.

At eighteen, she cried as she rushed her mother to the hospital. At that time, she really loved to cry, and her mother often teased her, saying, "Tongtong, you little crybaby, are you trying to cry out all the tears in a lifetime at once?"

On the night she found out her mother was terminally ill, Le Tong found a secluded corner and cried her heart out. That time, it felt as if she had cried out all her tears for a lifetime.

The next day, she dried her tears and began borrowing money from relatives.

Those usually kind and friendly relatives were initially polite, but soon stopped answering calls. Even after ringing the doorbell until it broke, no one answered the door. Within a few days, Le Tong experienced the coldness of the world and the thinness of human affection.

With no one to turn to, Le Tong even visited various nightclubs, but just the surgery for her mother would cost three hundred thousand, and with post-operative recovery expenses, she needed at least four to five hundred thousand to get by.

Yet Le Tong, no matter how beautiful or pure in temperament, could not be worth four to five hundred thousand.

In the end, with no options left, she logged onto an overseas black market website, where she finally saw hope!

That evening, someone contacted her. The next day, a "banana man" speaking fluent English met her at a quiet café. He questioned Le Tong with tricky questions like a high-ranking company executive assessing a new employee, then demanded a series of documents, including educational certificates and some award certificates.

Three days later, Le Tong signed a confidentiality agreement. Subsequently, she was blindfolded and taken to a well-equipped small hospital. Hours later, she was safely sent home, and on that very day, she successfully received the first payment.

This payment gave her mother a new life. Five months after the surgery, her mother recovered well, but Le Tong, using recovery as an excuse, was taken by an agent to an unknown place for fetal care until the baby was smoothly born.

The baby was a handsome little guy. After crying with a wail, his shiny black eyes darted around, and his small face was perfectly sculpted, yet not a hint of Le Tong’s likeness.

Probably, he resembled his father.

Weak from childbirth, Le Tong looked at her pretty son, and her eyes became misty. Her son’s face became blurred and unclear in her vision.

Initially, the baby was to be taken away the next day, but after Le Tong’s imploring, the doctor made an exception and allowed the baby to stay one more day.

Le Tong knew that once her son was taken away, she probably wouldn’t have the chance to see him again in her lifetime. So, during this one day, her eyes never left her precious son.

The medical staff kept an eye on her, so naturally, she couldn’t take a picture to remember the baby by. But the baby bore no resemblance to her; trying to remember his features by memory was impossible.

Fortunately, the little guy had a leaf-shaped purple birthmark along his spine, which was the only visible characteristic by which Le Tong could identify her precious son.

Even though she knew the chances of seeing her precious son again in this lifetime were slim.

Not to mention she had signed a confidentiality agreement, which prohibited her from looking for or inquiring and certainly not disturbing the child’s life. Even if she really tried to find him, in the vast sea of humanity, how would she find a child who was taken away two days after birth?

Moreover, Le Tong guessed that the baby’s father must be a very wealthy foreigner because during her months of rest, the other party was extremely generous, providing her with extravagant food and items.

Originally, the other party wasn’t obligated to cover her living expenses for these months, but they insisted on it. The feeling of benefiting from her child’s fortune was something Le Tong experienced once, but it was always accompanied by heart-piercing pain, inseparable from her.

She thought the pain would slowly subside with time and perhaps disappear.

But as the days passed, the pain only grew day by day.

Especially every year around the baby’s birthday, Le Tong habitually suffered from insomnia.

In her dreams, she often heard the piercing cries of a baby. Countless times, she saw a cute little boy running towards her, shouting "Mommy," but every time, just as she was about to touch the baby’s face, she would wake up in pain.

The intense guilt and sense of sin weighed heavily on Le Tong, making it hard for her to breathe.

In one dream, she cried and pleaded with the baby, who stood coldly in front but refused to come over and let her touch him.

"Baby, mommy is sorry! Please, let mommy hold you for a while, okay? I promise there won’t be any other children besides you, baby, I beg you..."

Yet even after making such a vow, the baby still looked at her with resentment, then gradually retreated and faded from her sight...

Even in the dream, trying to touch him was such an impossible task, and in reality, Le Tong dared not even hope to truly meet her baby.

Therefore, even when she heard Yang Sheng say that Ji Rui’s adorable son’s birthday was the same as the baby’s, she dared not have a bit of doubt.

She only thought it was all a coincidence.

Perhaps because the baby was born in the same year and month as her son, Le Tong harbored a deep and unresolved affection for Ji Baby. She thought it was just because she missed her son so much that she poured her feelings for him into Ji Baby.

Until she saw that leaf-shaped purple birthmark on Ji Baby’s body that had been etched in her mind for years, she began to secretly harbor a hope that Ji Baby was indeed her son.

She sent a sample of her hair and Ji Baby’s to the D Province Central Hospital for testing, and a few days later, the results came back. Ji Baby was, incredibly, the precious son she had heartlessly sent away.

At that moment, Le Tong just wanted to fly to the baby’s side and hold him tightly in her arms.

The baby said, Sister, be baby’s mommy!

Several times, she almost couldn’t resist nodding in agreement.

But would a strong and ruthless man like Ji Rui easily let her have her way? The source of thɪs content is NoveIＦire.net

Plus, she didn’t want anything to do with a dangerous man like Ji Rui. She couldn’t imagine what terrible things Ji Rui might do to her if he found out she was the baby’s biological mother.

And Ji Rui didn’t owe her anything; he paid a sum and got a son. She, in turn, got a sum of money that saved her mother’s life.

Reasonably and logically, she shouldn’t disturb Ji Rui’s life.

[First update, a recollection to skip through this part as briefly as possible, Bamboo should have explained the baby’s background.]