Chapter 384 This Isn't My Fault

• My ears worked fine. There was and had never been anything wrong with them.
• I heard every word that Ruan Ling had said.
• But I couldn't help but believe that I had misheard her.
• "What did you just say? Can you say that again?" I said with a hint of uncertainty. I needed to be sure. I hoped desperately that I had misheard her the first time.
• I had not. She repeated herself.
• "Your stepmother has passed away," Ruan Ling said. "She died on the operating table. The surgery failed."