“Daddy, it hurts! I’m dying…”

“I’m not receiving the treatment, okay?”

“I don’t want to feel hurt like this anymore. I don’t want you to spend money on me anymore.”

“Can you take me home? I want to go home… really want to go home…”

Inside the ICU ward, a tiny b*dy lay there. The once delicate and lovely little face was as pale as paper, but blood kept flowing from the mouth and nose, with spots of bleeding all over the b*dy!!

A small hand, using all its strength, grabbed Lachlan Willis’s hand with big eyes full of pain and reluctance to leave her father!

Lachlan’s eyes were red, and he felt like his heart was being pricked by a needle. The pain was ten thousand times worse than the knife wound on his left kidney.

“Nora, be good. I will definitely find a way to cure you. When you get better, I will take you home and make fried chicken wings for you, okay?”

Lachlan held the little hand and choked back tears as he spoke.

“You’re lying. I know I cannot be cured. Save the money. When I die, you still need to live.”

“Daddy, please don’t spend any more money on me…”

As he spoke, the little one struggled to lift her small head and took off a dragon-shaped jade pendant from around her n*eck.

“This jade pendant is useless for me to wear. I let you wear it and let it bless you!”

This jade pendant was a relic left by Lachlan’s father. It was said to be an heirloom passed down from generation to generation in the Willis family and had the ability to ward off illness and avoid misfortune.

After Nora fell ill, Lachlan put the jade pendant on the little one, hoping to bless her.

But now, it seemed like all the efforts to ward off illness and misfortune were just wishful thinking! Hearing these words, Lachlan felt his heart being sliced with a knife.

He tightly held onto the jade pendant that still carried Nora’s warmth, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably. Nora was only five years old but so mature for her age. The more responsible she became, the more it tore at Lachlan’s heartstrings!

It felt like there was a lump in his chest that he couldn’t cough up, driving him crazy! His daughter followed her useless father and never got to enjoy the joys of this world – was she going to leave them? No! No way! Even if he had to risk his life and reputation, he would make sure his daughter continued living.

last time. Are you going to continue with treatment? If we use special medication for your daughter’s condition, then perhaps she can hold on for a few more days. Maybe we’ll even find a matching bone marrow donor in these

arm and pleaded desperately, “Dr. Saunders,

first before treatment,”

I’ll go gather

Saunders, please give me medicine for my daughter!”

continued, rushing out of the hospital room like a

and several nurses

could we give

heard that guy just sold one of his

parent… but without money, everything is

this moment, Lachlan rushed out of the hospital like

Money! Money! Money!

money was Nora’s only hope

where could he get it

all that he possibly could in order to raise funds quickly

with her – even if it meant

compared to Nora’s life, what did his dignity even

“Who is this?”

the other end of the phone, a sweet and sultry voice

“It’s me, Lachlan.”

are you calling me? We’ve been divorced for ages!” The coquettish

but also Nora’s biological mother. Back when they were in college together, Lachlan had some success with his small business and made a few hundred thousand dollars annually. Claudia was the belle of their department and took advantage of her good looks to seduce him at a class reunion. They ended up

to their daughter Nora.

even mortgaged his business before selling it off

cold-hearted and materialistic towards her husband who had fallen on hard times due to their daughter’s illness. She repeatedly obstructed any attempts by him to spend money on

a wealthy second-generation individual, plotting her own path

hadn’t even come to see her child in a month, as if she had escaped the plague! If

some money?” Lachlan asked with

for money? You’re really something else. How did you end up like this? I must have been blind to marry you in the first

here. Who do you think

this, Lachlan’s heart sank. “Nora is about

can’t pay for medical

dollars on account of our daughter!

you! Definitely!” Lachlan said urgently and fearfully that Claudia might hang

was silence on the other end of the

now. Leukemia can’t be cured; it’s just an endless pit. Forget about it…” The line went dead before he could

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