The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits-Chapter 85: The Poisonous Childhood Friend (Part 14)
Chapter 85: Chapter 85: The Poisonous Childhood Friend (Part 14)
When Shi Shen opened his eyes, what filled his vision was a world of pure white.
He turned his head and looked around, realizing that he was now in a hospital.
His memories lingered on that night when a piercing white light flashed before his eyes, followed by a surge of intense pain.
"Ah Zhi, how are you feeling?" Shi Mu, full of concern, gripped her son’s hand tightly.
Her fingers, now and then uncontrollably trembling, truly revealed how this scare had already shattered her utmost emotional defenses.
She couldn’t even close her eyes, for once she did, her mind would conjure the image of herself covered in blood, lying on the cold damp ground like a broken doll, unconscious.
"How is Dad?" Shi Shen asked, feeling pain in every part of his body, yet what he worried about most was his father.
Now that he had had another mishap, he had no idea if his father at the police station had suffered any unfair treatment.
He knew that reports often surfaced online of unscrupulous police officers finding pleasure in bullying people. It wasn’t that his mind was dark; he just couldn’t bear even the slightest possibility of that.
Shi Mu was more focused on her son than her husband, no longer as worried as she had been the day before.
"Don’t think too much, your dad hasn’t done anything wrong. Even if it’s administrative detention, it’s only a matter of a few days, no big deal. But you...if not for that deadbeat, you wouldn’t have had to suffer all this."
Shi Mu couldn’t help but feel a surge of resentful energy toward her own husband.
"You just lie down. I’ll go call the doctor."
"Mom, don’t..."
Shi Shen tried to stop her, but all he could do was watch as his mother ran out of the ward.
Once at the hospital, the truth he had wanted to hide was finally going to be exposed.
Indeed, it wasn’t long before Shi Mu returned, her face streaming with tears and on the verge of collapse, supported by a nurse.
As she entered the room, she pointed tremblingly at Shi Shen and wept uncontrollably.
"Mom, you know...I, I didn’t mean to deceive you," Shi Shen thought his mother had discovered the truth that he hadn’t been suffering from kidney disease.
As he watched his mother in this state, guilt washed over him like a tidal wave, engulfing him from head to toe.
"I, I’m sorry..."
Shi Mu, seeming almost crazed, suddenly shrugged off the nurse’s supporting hand and charged forward to slap Shi Shen’s face with two heavy blows.
Caught off guard, Shi Shen, his mouth agape in shock, murmured, "Mom."
He never expected such a strong reaction from her.
The nurse nearby exclaimed, "Can’t you see he’s a patient? After the donor surgery, this is when he’s most vulnerable. As family, how can you do something like this..."
Shi Mu, with eyes as wide as brass bells, filled with disappointment and pain, rasped in a hoarse shout, "Don’t call me mother... How dare you, how dare you do this..."
Beyond all other emotions, what Shi Mu felt most was heartache, pure and profound heartache.
She clutched her chest, her tears and snot streaming down her face, "Now you’ve grown bold, you can disregard our feelings, can’t you?"
"Deceive us, seeing me and your Dad distressed and running around for you is easy, isn’t it? For love, you can ignore the two old ones, can’t you?"
Shi Mu had learned from the doctor that this time her son was injured, and due to the special circumstances, they directly informed his girlfriend to proceed with a kidney transplant surgery.
This had been arranged a long time ago, but no one expected that he would suddenly be in a car accident.
However, the current state of both individuals seemed to be fairly good.
Shi Mu stood there as if she had lost all sensation, dazed on the spot.
Why was it that she understood every word the doctor said, but when put together, she couldn’t comprehend?
Her son hadn’t been ill, and he had donated a kidney to his girlfriend?
Shi Mu felt she was particularly ridiculous, having been completely played by her own son.
Toward Shi Shen’s girlfriend, whom she had never met, she felt a desire to devour her flesh with resentful energy.
Ah Zhi must have been deceived—didn’t he realize what it meant for a man to lose a kidney?
Ah, truly what goes around comes around, retribution is inevitable.
When Shi Mu initially thought Shi Shen was sick and coerced Su Li to donate a kidney by playing on his emotions, she did so with conviction and sincerity, repeatedly assuring that it would not impact his life in the future.
But when the situation turned on its head, happening to her own family, she found it unacceptable.
The same emphasis on emotion—why was it okay for others, but not for them?
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"Mom, what did the nurse say just now?" Shi Shen had not taken a single word of Shi Mu’s reproach to heart; his ears were filled with those few words the nurse had uttered.
A donation surgery, a donation surgery?
Shi Shen suddenly lifted his hospital gown, and the left side of his waist was wrapped in layers of gauze. The anesthetic had not worn off completely, and he could still feel a throbbing pain.
He had thought it was due to a car accident, but now...
Shi Mu slowly calmed down and saw her son’s panic-stricken expression—not faked. With suspicion, she glanced at him and asked, "You donated a kidney to your girlfriend, and you’re not aware of it?"
"I donated? Wasn’t it Su Li?" Shi Shen blurted out in shock.
"Doctor, doctor, what exactly is going on?" Shi Mu also sensed something fishy and immediately ran out, shouting loudly in the hallway.
She was terrified and furious that her son had inexplicably lost a kidney.
They had to give her an explanation.
"Mom, Mom... call the police..."
Shi Shen mustered all his strength, calling out to Shi Mu outside: "You call the police first."
The regaining-her-wits Shi Mu took out her cellphone in a fluster and dialed the emergency number, 110.
Whether it was Shi Shen’s car accident or the kidney donation surgery, the police needed to handle it.
What took the Shi Family mother and son by surprise was that the doctor was not intimidated at all.
When the police arrived to question this significant medical incident, the attending surgeon who had operated on Shi Shen was composed and took out a stack of documents signed personally by Shi Shen stating that he had voluntarily donated his left kidney to his girlfriend, Ye Ruolan.
Shi Shen looked at the document, at the handwriting uniquely his own, and was taken aback.
He remembered signing some papers at Ye Ruolan’s behest.
At the time, he hadn’t looked closely; Ye Ruolan merely said they were insurance papers she was submitting for him, so he didn’t think much of it, even feeling a touch of joy.
But it turned out, Ye Ruolan had already set a trap for him.
Does this mean that in her heart, he was merely her backup kidney source? The second choice after Su Li?
