Many in China deeply moved by boy whispering ‘I love you’ as his mum lay dying from cancer
Father says son gradually grew more mature as he observed his mother’s life fading
The Chinese social media was left heartbroken by the poignant story of a four-year-old boy in China who kept calling out for his mother by her bedside until cancer claimed her last breath.
Five million Douyin users watched touching video clips of Yang Yucheng, 4, tenderly calling out “mum” and whispering “I love you” as he sat by her bed in their home in southwestern China’s Yunnan province.
His mother, Cun Caituan, was diagnosed with terminal gallbladder cancer in August last year.
About 70 per cent of gallbladder cancer patients receive an advanced diagnosis at the time of detection, with only a dismal five-year survival rate of five per cent, as revealed in a 2020 hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery summit organised by the Jiangsu Anti-Cancer Association.
On October 17, her husband, Yang Fan, announced her passing at the age of 30 on his Douyin account, which has 200,000 followers.
A video taken by the father five days before her death shows the little boy lying beside her, innocently asking why she was not talking to him.
