Chapter 211: Treatment
In the end, Jiang Ning still went to find the doctor.
Upon learning that without treatment she could only live five months, and with treatment there was a 40% recovery rate.
Jiang Ning looked at the 190,000 in her card, was silent for a moment before asking: “How much money is needed to cure me?”
The middle-aged doctor said: “It doesn’t cost much at the start, but later on, the expenses will gradually increase. At least prepare 500,000…”
Jiang Ning pursed her lips and bowed to the doctor: “Thank you, I’ll go back and consider it.”
The middle-aged doctor said: “Do it as soon as possible. This illness can’t be delayed.”
Jiang Ning returned exhausted to the small apartment.
The landlord who rented her the house sent her a message that rent was due.
Twenty thousand a year.
Jiang Ning looked at this one-bedroom apartment where she had lived for three years.
But now it seemed she didn’t need to renew the lease.
She replied to the landlord, and they said she could pack her things and leave.
Jiang Ning didn’t have many things: a few pieces of clothes, a notebook she used to record daily, and a photo from childhood taken with Grandmother.
She burned the other things she couldn’t take.
Then she packed simple luggage and began her nomadic living.
She couldn’t go through life without properly living for herself before dying.
She had always been running around to earn money to support herself.
Now she had exhausted herself into illness.
Jiang Ning wanted to properly see the world.
As for life…
Forget it, wherever she went would be home.
She went to many places: the beautiful mountainous scenery of Xiangxi, the desolate northwest desert, the northern snow mountain, and the clear lake.
She recorded sheep herds, recorded sunrises and sunsets, from March to August.
She captured the breathtaking sight of sunlight on the golden mountain.
She made friends from all over.
They held hands, dancing around the campfire.
They praised Jiang Ning for being beautiful.
They exchanged contact information, saying they looked forward to the next meeting.
Only Jiang Ning refused.
She said she had no contact information.
They didn’t believe her and thought Jiang Ning was an eccentric loner.
Meeting was fate, but their relationship with Jiang Ning ended at this encounter.
They discussed going back and the next city to explore.
They were eager and unafraid of the world.
Jiang Ning had that too, but clutching her increasingly painful stomach, she felt somewhat powerless.
When she finished her twenty-third city trip.
After dinner one night, she fainted.
The boss of the homestay took her to the local hospital.
After examination at the local hospital, they suggested she go to the Capital City for treatment, where the best medical equipment was.
Jiang Ning took the medicine prescribed by the doctor.
Looking at the last 130,000 left in her card, she finally decided to return to the Capital City.
The longer she delayed, the more powerless she felt.
She found the doctor and formulated a treatment plan.
The doctor looked at her, having dragged mid-stage to late-stage, and didn’t know what to say about Jiang Ning.
He could only tell Jiang Ning that the current recovery chance had halved from forty percent.
Jiang Ning said it was okay.
She had already seen scenery she had never seen before, and she had lived happily.
She had originally planned that after five months when the illness onset came, she would die directly, and trouble the locals to withdraw the money from her card, hold a simple funeral for her, and bury her somewhere.
But after fainting and entering the hospital.
She heard them say, whose person is this?
Got cancer and still wandering around everywhere, not afraid of really dying outside, heart too big, only adding trouble to others.
Jiang Ning thought about it and still didn’t want to trouble others, so she would return to the Capital City for treatment. If the ending was still the same, she would go back to her hometown to accompany Grandmother, it wouldn’t be that bad.
Jiang Ning looked at the payment slip in her hand.
Looking at the ten thousand on it, she felt a bit dazed.
She thought of the time when she first entered that book.
This ten thousand was the turning point in her life.
She unintentionally saved Xie Jingyan’s sister, forming that bad relationship.
Now it was really her turn to be hospitalized, fortunes turning.
She originally didn’t want treatment.
She resisted the hospital and taking medicine.
But miraculously, during the coma, she dreamed of Xie Jingyan.
The scene was when she was trapped in the fire scene.
The unfinished building back then was not sturdy, and due to the explosives, the wall cracked, pinning her underneath.
She saw Xie Jingyan rushing in without hesitation, even with his back burned, he didn’t stop searching for her.
She dreamed of Father Jiang and Madam Jiang, who, unable to find her, couldn’t eat or sleep well; Madam Jiang would cry sadly when she was injured.
She dreamed of too many people.
Jiang Li, Sui Tang, Shen Jinhe, Jiang Yan, Xie He, Meng Xingcan, even Wei Jin who swore to marry her.
It seemed everyone was calling her name.
When Jiang Ning opened her eyes again, her tears had wet the pillow.
It was also at this moment.
Jiang Ning decided to accept treatment.
Perhaps it was already a bit late, but at least it could let her live a little longer.
The day before entering the hospital.
Jiang Ning went to the hair salon and shaved her head bald.
She touched her head, the sensation a bit prickly.
Jiang Ning looked at herself in the mirror and raised a big smile.
Keep going!
Then she went to a boutique and bought several wigs of different styles.
Black, brown, blue, yellow, pink.
She bought one of each.
When trying on the pink wig in front of the mirror, Jiang Ning cried while wiping tears with her hand.
It was really too beautiful.
No wonder Xie He liked pink; she was falling in love with wigs too.
Bald head was great.
Different hair color every day.
The next day, Jiang Ning checked into the hospital.
Her anti-cancer journey thus began.
Only by experiencing it herself did Jiang Ning realize how hard Xie He’s daily smiles were.
With no appetite, she vomited whatever she ate each day; her formerly chubby face became sunken.
Her originally bright and beautiful face also became dull.
She forced a smile in front of the mirror.
Only to find that due to the medication, she had become ugly.
The person inside had sallow skin, and due to medication side effects, her face was covered in pimples.
Jiang Ning almost cried again, even wanting to give up.
She had always been someone who loved beauty.
It was just that those voices were too real.
Everyone hoped she could live on.
Jiang Ning could only tell herself to persist a bit more, until there really was no way.
She would make the decision herself.
Jiang Ning spent summer in the hospital, passed autumn, and welcomed winter.
In the blink of an eye, it was already December.
The money in her card was left with only ten thousand.
This ten thousand couldn’t even buy a special medicine to alleviate her condition.
One hundred and twenty thousand let her live more than four extra months.
But she could no longer bear the subsequent treatment costs.
Under the doctor’s suggestion, she even opened a donation channel.
All in all, it added up to only five thousand.
There are plenty of beautiful people in this world; no one would sympathize with you just because you’re beautiful.
Jiang Ning didn’t use this money but chose to return it to the sender.
She had already found her own resting place.
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