{"id":64,"date":"2026-09-28T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-40\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:56:00","slug":"in-my-desperate-time-40","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 40<br \/>\nIn My Desperate Time novel Chapter 40<\/p>\n<p>Steven Song tells me to be ruthless and ignore my mother, and I do according to his words.<\/p>\n<p>My mom is stopped at the gate by a security guard, and I go upstairs with Steven Song. My phone is vibrating all the time. I know it is mom calling.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t answer it. When I arrive at the door, I receive a message from my mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t help your brother. I will be always knel down here util you say yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She spells \u201ckneel\u201d wrongly. My mother doesn\u2019t receive much education. It must cost her much energy to send a message like this.<\/p>\n<p>I go to the window and see my mother kneeling at the gate of the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>The security guard tries to pull up her several times, but she wouldn&#8217;t leave. People stop by and point at my mother, but she just ignores them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat can I do?\u201d I turn to Steven Song disappointedly.<\/p>\n<p>My mother\u2019s bone was broken before, and she hasn&#8217;t been able to walk well since then. She can&#8217;t kneel down like this.<\/p>\n<p>Just ignore her. If you relent, things will be in more trouble than they are now. Go and cook.\u201d Steven Song says to me.<\/p>\n<p>I give a deep look downstairs, sigh and go to cook.<\/p>\n<p>After I take a bath after dinner, I hear the rain clattering.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s raining.<\/p>\n<p>I go to the window and see that my mother is kneeling there, not even moving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t go down. Jane Noyes, you can&#8217;t live your life at the mercy of your family all the time. Believe me, if you keep staying in the room, it won&#8217;t be long before your mother leaves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I listen to Steven Song and go to bed.<\/p>\n<p>But I have always been worried about mom in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>The rain beat loudly on the window, more and more loudly. Perhaps, my mother sees the rain is too heavy and she has gone back. I comfort myself like this but can\u2019t be restless. I don\u2019t sleep well, and get up early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t help walking to the window to look at her. I see my mother is still kneeling there. Pale face, the shaking body, to which I feel so sorry.<\/p>\n<p>She struggles off the ground and catches me with her hot hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJane, help your brother. Help your brother! He is so young. His life can\u2019t be ruined!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I want to say that I am young, too. Can my life be ruined?<\/p>\n<p>But facing my mother&#8217;s hoarse voice and hot forehead, I can\u2019t say it out.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when I was a little girl. Once I had a fever, my mother carried me for miles to see a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Before my brother was born, my mother loved me very much.<\/p>\n<p>My heart melts and softens down.<\/p>\n<p>I grit my teeth and nod to my mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-64","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}