Predestined Marriage

The attending doctors were discussing the treatment as the preparation in the operating room was underway. After having a checkup, Stanley lay on the mobile operating table, barely consciousness.

When Summer walked up to him, he minutely looked up at her.

Before she could say anything, she saw Stanley moving his lips. He was so weak that he failed to make a sound when he spoke. She could only hear his breath.

"I know."

The room was very quiet, so Summer picked up what he said easily.

Summer didn’t know what to make of it and looked at him with a complicated expression, "Did the doctor tell you?"

Stanley shook his head and scarcely managed to curl the corner of his lower lip. He seemed to smile at her, but he can hardly make such a simple move. Finally, he forced a bitter smile at her.

"Family should wait outside."

ready, so the doctor and nurse walked

was pushed into the room

had been sent to the

closed, Summer was thinking about the smile Stanley had given her before he was brought into

he would lose his leg. The doctor said they had to amputate his leg because it

Stanley was a psychiatrist, he was carefully raised by Lester. As an almost omnipotent man, Stanley must have known how seriously he had been injured. But he insisted on staying

about him, and he knew how to make the most of

should not disregard his own health for Jenny's sake. Therefore, Stanley stayed outside the operating room intentionally to delay the treatment of his

the reason, Summer

he wanted. The same went for Stanley himself as well. He gave up his legs, not to atone for his

life. If he gave up on his legs, Summer was sure

that had happened, she couldn’t

tormented by Lester's schemes over years. He didn’t want to

him, Stanley would not be able to stay in the