Chapter 191: Xiao He Is Beyond Saving
Sui Qingshan was silent for a long time, finally closing his eyes: “I’m sorry, I can’t perform the surgery for Xiao He anymore.”
Old Mrs. Xie, upon hearing this, clutched her heart and gasped heavily, tears streaming down in big drops. Xie Jingyan quickly supported her. He looked at Sui Qingshan, his dark eyes stubborn: “Is it because Xiao He’s body isn’t suitable today? What about tomorrow? The day after? Doctor Sui, when will it be suitable?”
Sui Qingshan lowered his head, his gaze skipping over Xie He’s pale little face and the slight rise and fall of her chest. He only felt his eye sockets aching. Yesterday, Xie He was still happily imagining the future with him, joyful like a little bird about to break free from its cage.
He took a deep breath and slowly exhaled: “I’m sorry… Xiao He can’t be saved. Please accept my condolences.”
Old Mrs. Xie pushed Xie Jingyan away and crawled on her knees to Sui Qingshan’s feet, tears streaming down her wrinkled face: “Doctor Sui, Doctor Sui, please save Xiao He. She’s so pitiful. My Xiao He is really so pitiful, wuwuwu. Please beg the hospital to save her. Is it because there’s not enough money? We’ll go gather it. You perform the surgery on her. Do the surgery on her quickly. Wasn’t it agreed? Cure her today…”
The sound of sobbing and wailing echoed through the entire hospital corridor.
Sui Qingshan stood woodenly in place, his feet unmoving.
Xie Jingyan rushed forward, grabbed Sui Qingshan’s collar, and tackled him to the ground. He could no longer control his emotions, shouting hoarsely: “We agreed! It was so hard to find matching bone marrow for Xiao He. Once her body got better, we’d arrange the surgery for her. How can you just say you won’t save her? Is this what you doctors are like? You don’t treat human lives seriously. Have you thought about how we, as Xiao He’s family, feel? How can you do this to Xiao He? She trusted you so much…”
Xie Jingyan’s eyes were red, tears seeping from the corners.
Sui Qingshan didn’t struggle, lying dazed on the ground staring at the corridor ceiling, letting Xie Jingyan vent his anger, and prepared to be beaten.
However, this youth’s hand, which had been tightly gripping his collar, loosened, and finally he knelt powerlessly by his side, his voice hoarse and humbly desperate: “Please, save my sister. I promised her I’d take her to see fireworks next year.”
His voice choked slightly as he looked at the weakly breathing Xie He, feeling utterly powerless.
Three years ago, the god of death took his father and mother.
Three years later, was it going to take his sister too?
This gulf between life and death, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t reverse it.
He didn’t want to lose anyone else.
Sui Qingshan lay flat on the ground, raising one hand to cover his eyes, feeling his sleeve gradually getting wet. His voice was slightly hoarse: “I’m sorry, I want to save her too… But the matching bone marrow source was secretly sold a week ago… I have no way.”
Without surgery, Xiao He wouldn’t survive this spring.
She might not even live to next month.
Xie Jingyan lowered his eyes, his ink-black eyes calm: “Sold? If it wasn’t your hospital’s medical staff, who could get close to that thing? Doctor Sui, let me guess—was it someone who sold the matching bone marrow using your name?”
Sui Qingshan had no face to face Xie Jingyan and the others, nor Xie He.
He could only keep saying: “I’m sorry…”
Xie Jingyan helped Old Mrs. Xie stand up. His expression was no longer collapsed but calm, his voice unhurried: “Grandma, take Xiao He back to the hospital room. I’ll go handle something.”
The corners of his mouth curved into a cold smile: “I think I know who it is.”
Old Mrs. Xie was heartbroken. She looked at her grandson, then her granddaughter, and finally forced herself to let the nurse take Xiao He into the hospital room.
Xie Jingyan left the hospital.
The weather outside was somewhat overcast.
He sent a message to Jiang Ning: [Where are you?]
Jiang Ning: [Location]
She sent a location pin, then another message.
Jiang Ning: [Waiting for you. Smile.jpg]
Xie Jingyan took a taxi there.
That place was a self-built villa outside the Capital City third ring road.
It belonged to the suburbs, but it had the advantage of beautiful scenery, and there were many residents here.
When Xie Jingyan arrived, a servant was already waiting.
Seeing Xie Jingyan approach, he respectfully made a please gesture: “Our young lady is waiting for you inside.”
Xie Jingyan didn’t even glance at him with his peripheral vision, walking straight in.
Compared to the cold outside, this small villa was as warm as spring.
The milky white European style added some warmth to this small villa.
On the white Persian carpet laid on the floor, there was a reclining massage chair.
“Jiang Ning” with disheveled black hair, wearing thin beige silk pajamas, lay on it, her exposed skin fair and glistening like jade.
Her bare feet had round cute toes painted with red nail polish.
There were eight black-clad bodyguards standing in the room.
Beside her were two attending maids.
One feeding her fruit, the other doing her manicure.
At a glance, it was a scene of luxury.
“Jiang Ning” saw Xie Jingyan arrive.
She lazily lifted her eyes, curling her lips with a smile: “You’re here. Do you like the gift I gave you?”
Even though he had already anticipated it in his heart, hearing her admit it so lightly, his inner anger reached its peak.
He suppressed himself: “Why?”
“Jiang Ning” as if hearing something funny: “Why? I wanted to do it, so I did. What else? Making others unhappy makes me happy. This is all your sister’s fault—who told her to bump into me.”
“Just for that?” Xie Jingyan raised his head, looking at “Jiang Ning” with hatred, gritting his teeth word by word: “She just saw you happy and wanted to hug you, but because of that, you cut off her lifeline. Jiang Ning, do you have a conscience? The grudge between you and me, you can take it out on me as much as you want, but why harm Xiao He? She’s innocent.”
“Jiang Ning”‘s face vicious and disdainful: “What kind of lowly thing deserves to hug me? It’s her luck I didn’t break her hands on the spot. You, and your family—I won’t let any of you go! Your sister’s death is not the end of the grudge between us.”
The anger in Xie Jingyan’s heart couldn’t be described in words.
He even couldn’t understand how a person could be so evil.
Evil to the point where he really wanted to kill her.
“Jiang Ning” smiled with curved eyes, all innocent and pure: “Right, and your grandmother… What do you think of an ending where she’s accidentally hit by a car on the road and dies?”
The next instant, Xie Jingyan rushed over, tightly strangling “Jiang Ning”‘s neck.
Due to the sudden change, the nearby fruit plate was knocked over.
The maid screamed in fright.
The nearby bodyguards didn’t react.
“Jiang Ning”‘s face flushed red, unable to breathe.
Xie Jingyan’s dark eyes indifferent, increasing the force in his hand: “Before that, I’ll send you to hell first.”
“Jiang Ning” finally panicked in her heart—Xie Jingyan wanted to kill her.
She blinked her eyes, tears falling in a second, her eyes washed by tears clean and pure, like the person Xie Jingyan liked.
Her voice choked, intermittent: “Xie Jingyan, it hurts.”
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