The group of six were lively.
Jiang Nanshu didn't pay attention to them anymore.
An afternoon's time, her whole worldview was shattered; now it had to be reshaped.
As it happened, Ji Ze called her.
She thought something had happened to Mrs. Ji, so she answered, "Is it a problem with Mom's treatment?"
Leukemia is hard to treat, but recovery is possible, and she had been helping Mrs. Ji find a compatible bone marrow transplant. As long as the transplant was successful and there was no recurrence, Mrs. Ji could be discharged.
Ji Ze sounded somewhat nervous on the other end of the line; he seldom called Jiang Nanshu.
He was afraid of annoying her.
But the Jiang Nanshu he had interacted with recently made him unable to resist the urge to get closer, so he had become much bolder, daring to call her.
The hand holding his phone tightened, "It's not about Mom, it's my thing... Sister, the parent-teacher meeting next Monday at noon..."