It was like a bolt from the blue. The immense joy Li Yang felt from catching thirteen Bluefin Tuna was instantly washed away.
'My father is missing, and he left a message for Mom?'
'What did he mean, telling Mom, me, and my sister to go on and live good lives? The implication was obvious!'
However, after being stunned for less than two seconds, Li Yang snapped back to reality and quickly asked, "Mom, what exactly is going on?"
...
「One day earlier.」
Zhao Rou had felt a sharp pain in her lower back. At Li Guohai's strong insistence, she went to the hospital for a check-up.
Zhao Rou had been experiencing occasional back pain before, but it always went away after a short while, so she hadn't paid it much mind.
But the test results were a true bolt from the blue: Zhao Rou also had cancer, and it was late-stage pancreatic cancer.
Pancreatic cancer typically shows almost no symptoms in its early stages. By the time it's noticeable, it's already in the middle or late stages.
