When I Was A Wallflower

Chapter 59

Only then did he relate, “It was indeed a girl who was about sixteen or seventeen years old. I freaked out when she came to me, saying she wanted to remove her cornea. I dissuaded her from doing something this crazy for a long time, but she looked anxious and kept saying she wanted to save a life. I’m sure you understand that we doctors can’t make a living, breathing person blind no matter how desperately we want to save anyone, what more when the patient was merely blind. With no lives at stake, we wouldn’t do something like this even more so. The director was there as well, and he reprimanded the girl for good before asking security to take her away.”

He continued, “I thought that was the end of it, but who’d have thought the director called me to his office a few days later, wanting me to do a cornea removal operation?! I thought I was doing it on a dead man, but when I got to the operating room, I found the same girl lying on the table. I don’t know what she did, but she ended up making the director agree to it. Meanwhile, the director kept telling me it wouldn’t implicate me if I kept my mouth shut and never divulged it to anyone ever.”

At that, the doctor took a big gulp of water.

Even after a decade had passed, he still felt gun-shy talking about it, still having deep guilt over what happened.

“I had no other options. As you might know, the director of the private hospital was also the CEO, so how could I say otherwise? So…”

The doctor didn’t dare miss Leo’s every expression when he spoke, and his heart skipped a beat, not daring to continue when he saw Leo lowering his head with furrowed brows and his hands bunched up into fists at some point. His face, too, was beyond somber.

“And after that?” He heard Leo ask moments later. Though his voice was still monotonous, it was obvious to the doctor that his mood was already off.

Despite being unable to grasp Leo’s thoughts, the doctor dared not defy him even more so, and he could only bite the bullet. “After that… After that, the girl… You may be unaware of this, but the risk of a cornea removal operation is high, and no doctor would do it on a living human. The girl insisted that we save the cornea at all costs, so I…

“What happened to her?!” Leo bellowed impatiently, startling the doctor, who sat upright and hurriedly said, “Because of an intraoperative infection, the girl fell unconscious, and for some time, we all thought she….

she…

Sweat gathered on his forehead as he spoke, still disturbed even after so long.

choice but to send the cornea as a consignor to the hospital the girl had specified beforehand. Fortunately, the girl left all the relevant information to the director beforehand, or it

tensed up when he heard the girl

idea how worried we were about her life then. Fortunately, she regained consciousness in the end and didn’t hold us liable for anything. She left not long after waking up,” said

when he heard that the girl had woken up in

ask the director to give the cornea to? What’s her name?” He was super

the doctor answered at once. “As for the girl, she didn’t leave her full name but

Utterly stupefied, Leo looked at the doctor and grabbed his arms.

me!”

Specialist, but Amelie yanked her arm away as she glanced awkwardly at the

had one bad eye, and she was not entirely blind. Thus, she felt absolutely

was still mad about

for a check-up, and of course, Steven had no

that his

a lot of nerve to do something as crazy as removing your cornea just like that! You can even give up your life for Alston, can’t you?!”

Julia’s shirt gingerly. “Come on, don’t be mad anymore. I promise it’ll

her fist, wanting to bash the young woman

ached, and her eyes turned red-rimmed. “Alston, that son of a b*tch. You sacrificed one eye

letting him know at all. Besides, we were married for four years, and I made him angry

earned and lost nothing during those four years while you suffered every possible misery! Tell me that offsets it!” Julia eventually didn’t stop her

bad for Amelie every time she thought about how great of a sacrifice Amelie made for Leo but never even got

that she had brought