Chapter 87
Taian Hospital had never been so busy for one person, but these past few days were different.
On the top floor of the hospital, everyone looked exhausted, walking back and forth, again and again, to confirm the relevant values.
They were dealing with a patient who had been transferred.
Originally, before and after the transfer, the two hospitals’ techniques for treating Alpha gland function were comparable, but this Su-surnamed patient had not received appropriate and proper treatment at the previous hospital and had been quickly transferred to their hospital for treatment.
The problem was that the hospitals the patient had chosen before and after the transfer were both among the best in the country for treating glands. What the previous hospital couldn’t do, they might not be able to cure either.
Fortunately, this patient’s family was wealthy and could afford the high usage fees of various equipment.
They could maintain her life, but they couldn’t cure her.
The doctors at Taian Hospital had a tacit understanding. This patient might spend the rest of her life in a hospital bed, as a vegetable.
They had told the patient’s family this possibility, and the family’s reaction had been intense. They had boldly said that they would not give up on their daughter and would spend any amount of money to save her.
The doctors could only think of other ways.
…
Wen Zhouqin was counting the days, waiting to be discharged.
Yes, although her body was getting worse and worse, she had a strong feeling in her heart that she would be fine.
How could anything be wrong? Everything should be under her control: finding her biological mother, entering the Su family, getting sick, changing her surname…
Everything was going smoothly. It was impossible for something to go wrong at the last step.
But what made Wen Zhouqin’s heart grow colder and colder was her endless tossing and turning: from a regular ward to the ICU, from the operating table back to the ward to lie down, and countless large machines waiting for her.
Just as her consciousness was blurring, someone had said they were going to push her away. She had thought she could finally be free, but in reality, she had been transferred to another hospital, and then the same old routine had been repeated.
She had heard that all her tests had problems, and every function of her body’s organs had problems.
Aging, and finally, gradually withering away.
She had changed her place of residence, but the big machines had not forgotten to accompany her. Wen Zhouqin could only have a little rationality in the intermittent opening and closing of her eyes, fantasizing about the healthy future she should have had.
Once, when Su Yaying had come to see her, she had told Su Yaying that she was being tortured.
Like the suffering of Sisyphus, again and again, without end.
“Mom, you’ll cure me, right?”
Su Yaying had promised her.
Later, Su Yaying had gone to ask about organ transplant matching.
“Ms. Su, I can understand your concern for your child,” the doctor comforted the emotional Su Yaying.
Su Yaying could not calm down and said, “I’m her mother. Can’t she use my gland?”
The atmosphere in the room eased for a moment. The doctor was wearing a mask, and the only two eyes left were actually curved.
“Ma’am, have you forgotten that you are an Omega, and your daughter is an Alpha? And even if you were an Alpha, directly replacing a gland is a very dangerous thing.”
If an ordinary person’s gland were to be removed from their body, there would most likely be only one outcome: death. And gland transplantation and matching were another matter.
Su Yaying: “We’re blood relatives. Can’t blood relatives help?”
The doctor coughed twice and said, “They can, blood relatives can help.”
There were places where blood relatives could help, but in such a critical situation, just a blood relationship might not be of much help. But the doctor, seeing Su Yaying’s intense attitude, still took her for a check-up.
On the way, Su Yaying’s mind was in a mess, her mind full of how to save her daughter, her long-lost daughter.
She had originally wanted to bring her child, her healthy child, back to find that person in a grand manner—although that person was no longer willing to see her.
But as long as a person was alive in this world, there was still a chance. There would always be a time to meet.
She was an Omega and couldn’t help Qinqin. Wait, in other words, an Alpha could help?
Su Yaying suddenly came back to her senses and asked the doctor, confirming this question.
The doctor was stunned, didn’t think too much, and replied, “That’s right. Does the patient have another Alpha blood relative? As long as it’s a direct Alpha relative. Is your spouse an Alpha?”
Ms. Su was an Omega, so her spouse was most likely an Alpha. But Ms. Su had never taken the initiative to mention it. The doctor had thought there was a special situation and hadn’t asked much.
“If it’s an Alpha, then it’ll be more convenient,” the doctor suddenly felt that her pressure had also lessened a little.
Sigh. If it was an Alpha, she should have said so earlier.
Su Yaying muttered, “Well, it’s an Alpha, there is an Alpha…”
Fang Jinyue, of course, wouldn’t do, but she and her daughter could.
Su Yaying didn’t think too much and directly called Su Guan.
…She had never taken the initiative to call Su Guan before.
And in the past, no one had ever dared not to answer her call.
But it was this call that she had never bothered to make that had made her feel an unprecedented sense of embarrassment.
She couldn’t get through. It was all a busy signal. No matter what, she couldn’t get through.
It turned out that it wasn’t that she didn’t bother, but that Su Guan didn’t.
…
“Su Guan, I’ve raised you for so many years. The fact that you are where you are today, which part of it wasn’t arranged by me?”
It was very difficult to get through to Su Guan. Su Yaying had even gone to find Fang Jinyue.
Only then did she know that the connection between her and Su Guan was almost non-existent.
But none of this was important. What was important was that she had to get Su Guan to Taian Hospital, to have her undergo a check-up, to see if her physical condition could meet the conditions for a transplant.
Su Guan held the phone and did not deny it. “Yes, Mother. Everything I once had was arranged by you.”
Since it was “once,” then there must be a “now.”
“The kindness you showed me in the past, I can repay you, ten times, twenty times, as long as you are willing,” Su Guan said lightly—she could say this, of course, because someone was backing her up.
Su Yaying gritted her teeth in anger, but she had to bow her head. “I don’t want your money. I just need you to consider your sister.”
“My sister?” Su Guan asked back, with a hint of mockery.
Su Yaying seemed to have been stung. “If not your sister, who else could it be? That’s my daughter, and you are also my daughter. Of course, she’s your sister. You two are related by blood.”
“Alright, alright, we’re related by blood.”
Su Guan’s nonchalant tone finally made the sense of crisis in Su Yaying’s heart grow stronger.
That’s right, Su Guan was the Alpha who was related to Wen Zhouqin by blood. Now only she could help her—
Although she was very unwilling, Su Yaying’s voice still softened, and she pleaded, “No matter what, Mother has also done something wrong before. Your sister has been lost for many years, and now she has finally come back to Mother’s side after much hardship. I hope you… will not hold a grudge, and will come to the hospital.”
Heaven knows how rare it was for these humble words to come from Su Yaying’s mouth!
Su Yaying almost crushed her phone.
But the only person she could rely on now was Su Guan. She had her bloodline and was an Alpha.
She couldn’t control Su Guan at all—her relationship with Gu Yixi was so good, which was why she had supported Su Guan in saying that she would repay her ten times, a hundred times.
…But Su Yaying didn’t need these things. She just wanted Wen Zhouqin to be healthy.
“Guan-guan,” she said with difficulty. “I know you have a lot of opinions about your mother. I understand you’re angry, but now is not the time to be angry. Your sister is sick.”
However, no matter what Su Yaying said, Su Guan didn’t buy it.
“Well, so it’s my sister. In that case, I’ll consider it.”
In the end, Su Guan ended the conversation with these words.
Su Yaying didn’t know what to say.
She felt that Su Guan’s attitude was high and mighty, in control of everything, just as she had been to her and Fang Jinyue in the past.
Su Yaying’s heart ached with regret. She seemed to have really done something wrong.
Now Fang Jinyue’s attitude towards her was also different from before. And so was her daughter’s.
As for her former lover—she had long since parted ways with her and would not love her anymore.
Su Yaying touched the tears on her cheeks and finally couldn’t help but cry.
…
Wen Zhouqin was in so much pain that she couldn’t stand it. After she came back from the operating table, she asked the nurse to call Su Yaying over, saying she had something to tell her.
Su Yaying’s eyes were red. Crying day and night had already made her emaciated.
“Qinqin, why did you ask Mom to come over?”
Wen Zhouqin opened her mouth and spoke with great difficulty.
She meant that she had mistakenly used the wrong medicine, and there was still some left.
Su Yaying was immediately on alert. “What medicine? Who told you to use it? What’s its effect?”
Wen Zhouqin felt as if a row of steel nails had been embedded in her throat. She could only speak briefly.
She said that her illness was related to that medicine, that someone had told her to use it, saying that it would help her find her biological mother.
Of course, there were flaws in these words, but Su Yaying had no intention of pursuing the matter. She had learned from Wen Zhouqin that there was still some of this medicine left—it was in a warehouse in Jiangbei, and there were also loose packages in the room.
“Mom, I’m sorry. It was my fault. I was possessed at that time…” Wen Zhouqin said, tears streaming down her face.
Su Yaying’s heart was in a panic. She probably already knew something.
But she still couldn’t bear to say a harsh word to Wen Zhouqin and just said, “Alright, Mom knows. Mom will go and see. You just rest here.”
After she went out, Su Yaying skillfully dialed Su Guan’s number, her tone also very humble. “Guan-guan, are you free today?”
If not, she would also call Fang Jinyue, and she would also call Gu Yixi.
In short, she was already used to this process.
She had owed them in the past. She admitted that.
…
Bad news always clings to the unfortunate—although before this, Su Yaying would almost never use this sentence to describe herself.
But now she believed it.
She had found the remaining medicine of Wen Zhouqin and had also sent it for testing.
The result was heartbreaking.
But the only comforting thing was that Su Guan seemed to have finally shown signs of relenting today.
She said she would come.
“When?”
“Not sure yet.”
It was this vague answer that had already made Su Yaying feel immensely grateful.
A big mistake had already been made. Su Yaying couldn’t blame Wen Zhouqin anymore. She just wanted to comfort her now.
…
Wen Zhouqin had been tormented by her illness to the point where she was no longer human, so thin she was just skin and bones.
This was the fragility of an Alpha…
Su Yaying felt that her child’s appearance had almost changed. Her whole body, what should have been there was no longer there.
Her skin was peeling, and the new flesh that was growing was also pale.
“Qinqin,” she called her.
Wen Zhouqin’s tears immediately welled up. She suppressed the discomfort in her throat and kept begging for mercy, hoping that her mom could save her life.
Su Yaying loved her more than she had imagined. She didn’t say a single harsh word and just asked, “In other words, you were originally healthy, right?”
Wen Zhouqin nodded and said in a hoarse voice that she was wrong.
“It’s fine… it’s all fine. Who gave you this medicine? Do you have their number? Have you seen this person?” Su Yaying asked patiently.
Wen Zhouqin signaled for Su Yaying to get her phone.
Su Yaying noted down the phone number.
She told her to stay put, and she would find out—but Wen Zhouqin pulled her. “Mom, don’t go.”
“It’s fine. There are people here to protect you. You’ll be fine,” she said.
Wen Zhouqin swallowed her pain and could only agree, listening in despair as the door was closed.
Would she really be okay? She didn’t believe it herself.
Huh? Why had the door just closed and someone had immediately opened it? Her condition was much worse now, and she often had hallucinations.
Wen Zhouqin didn’t open her eyes.
But, she felt someone standing by her bed.
She couldn’t help but shiver. When she opened her eyes and found that there really was someone, she just closed her eyes in pain again, comforting herself not to be scared.
“Miss Wen, are you so afraid that you don’t dare to see me?”
The voice was familiar. It was Fang Jinyue’s voice.
Only then did Wen Zhouqin realize that this was not a hallucination, but reality. She opened her eyes and saw the person who had come.
Fang Jinyue smiled faintly. “You have the guts to fake it, but not the guts to bear the consequences?”
Wen Zhouqin looked away, her voice dry. “What… what are you talking about…”
“I am Mom’s child. These were originally mine,” she muttered.
However, Fang Jinyue lowered her head, forcefully turned her chin, and made her face herself.
“When you signed the agreement with that person, she told you that, and you believed it, right?”
“You had so many opportunities to contact your biological mother. Why didn’t you find her to verify who you really are?”
Wen Zhouqin was speechless, her eyes wide, her eye sockets deep.
…Just now, Mom had said that Su Guan would come for a check-up. She was also an Alpha. She would be saved.
“To be honest, the first time you played this trick, I still gave you some face,” Fang Jinyue looked at her coldly. “I didn’t expect you to want to use it a second time. That’s entirely your own fault.”
Wen Zhouqin still didn’t say anything.
“The person who signed the agreement with you, you don’t know her, right?”
Wen Zhouqin nodded.
Fang Jinyue smiled faintly. “But I do. I even know her name.”
“Do you know this?” Fang Jinyue said, taking out a light blue syringe with an unknown liquid flowing inside—Wen Zhouqin remembered this packaging.
It was the auxiliary medicine Su Yaying had brought her the second time. It looked like this.
She looked at Fang Jinyue, then at the medicine in her hand, and then she remembered Su Yaying’s complaint at that time. Her mom had said, how could there be nothing…
It turned out that it was not an optional medicine, but a fatal one.
…
Su Yaying had someone check this phone number, but the result was nothing. She could only take the simplest method and call directly.
She had originally thought that the call would not go through.
There was a crisp female voice on the other end. After a few words with her, she was told to wait.
Su Yaying waited for a reply with a pounding heart. It was this call, this person, who had taken those harmful medicines and had harmed her child!
But she had to bow her head.
“Hello. First of all, may I ask if this is Ms. Su Yaying?” That person actually said her full name.
Su Yaying was extremely surprised. After she had calmed down, she got straight to the point and asked for a solution.
“Who I am is not important. You might as well go back and ask your pillow partner… after all, you’ve brought a third party’s child home. It’s not me who’s disgusted,” the person on the other end of the line was clearly enjoying the show, and every word was a provocation.
But this was also very important information.
After Su Yaying had hung up the phone with a grim expression, she had received a message from Su Guan, saying that she had come to Taian for a check-up.
…
Holding the “no blood relationship” report issued by the hospital, Su Yaying’s mood fell to the bottom.
She hurried back and found Fang Jinyue standing in the ward.
“You, how are you here?” Su Yaying was shocked.
A light blue syringe appeared on the small round table.
“How can it be… here?” Su Yaying almost crushed the report in her hand and staggered to the small round table. “Fang Jinyue, you, you knew from the beginning, didn’t you?”
Fang Jinyue didn’t answer this question directly but sneered, “I didn’t know. At the beginning, I only knew my daughter.”
Su Guan was standing by the door, still holding her arm—she had just had a lot of blood drawn, and it hurt.
Because Su Yaying refused to believe that there was no blood relationship between them, she had ridiculously repeated it three times.
“You liar, betrayer! You wolf in sheep’s clothing!” The indestructible high wall in Su Yaying’s heart collapsed in an instant. She tore the report in her hand to pieces and threw it at Fang Jinyue. “They were right. You were with me for a business marriage, for benefits!”
“It would have been fine if it were just for benefits. If it were just for benefits, you wouldn’t be like this now, completely wanting my life!”
Fang Jinyue let Su Yaying get angry, unmoving, her eyes calm. “Su Yaying, I have already dedicated a lot to you. This time, it’s only because of my daughter. You don’t care, but I do.”
“…I never thought that you would hurt us so much for someone who has no blood relationship with you.”
Hearing their argument, Wen Zhouqin felt as if her heart was about to break.
She had been waiting with full expectation for her release.
What came was the answer, why she had harmed herself to this extent.
Fang Jinyue’s harmless appearance was all fake. She had tampered with the medicine her mom had brought her—oh, she couldn’t call Su Yaying mom now, could she?
No blood relationship.
“Mother, my sister has already passed away… not long after she was born, she passed away,” Su Guan, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke. “If you want to listen.”
She had actually brought a recording pen. The voice playing in it was none other than her former youthful memory.
What did it feel like to hear from Wen Fan’s mouth that her first child had died young?
Su Yaying’s head was dizzy, and her legs were unsteady. She almost fainted.
If she couldn’t stand, then she would kneel.
Fang Jinyue subconsciously called out “Yingying” and was about to help her up, but Su Yaying pushed her away and shook her head frantically. “Don’t come over, don’t come over…”
Actually, she had had a premonition, but, when she really faced it, people always couldn’t accept the truth.
She had been suspicious before that Wen Zhouqin should have a birthmark—this was a restriction of the method they had used at that time, and it would definitely leave a mark on the child.
Wen Zhouqin didn’t have one.
She knelt in despair, watching her partner and her only living daughter.
The pillow partner who had betrayed her, the daughter who would never forgive her.
…Who else did she have?
She turned her head to look at the hospital bed.
Wen Zhouqin had already fainted.
…
After Su Guan went downstairs, she ran into Gu Yixi. Gu Yixi listened to her finish everything, nodded lightly, and didn’t say anything, just asked one more question, “Then what about your mom?”
Su Guan was stunned.
She had just finished speaking excitedly and hadn’t noticed her mom.
Fang Jinyue hadn’t followed her down.
She thought for a moment. “She’s still upstairs, I guess.”
“Oh,” Gu Yixi nodded.