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.

that point, so it’d be a waste if we didn’t deliver it for the transplant immediately. As such, the director had no 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 would have been

wake up?” Leo tensed up when he heard the girl had

“Three days later. The operation was too risky, so the director didn’t let anyone else know, leaving me, him, and another nurse to care for her the whole time. You have no idea how worried we were about her life then. Fortunately, she regained consciousness in the end and didn’t hold us liable for anything.

when he heard that the girl

ask the director to give the cornea to? What’s her

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

doctor and grabbed his

me!”

arm away as she glanced awkwardly at the surrounding indistinct gazes on her. “I’m fine. Don’t hold on to

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

one to talk!” Julia was still mad about the

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

he learned that his baby girl was blind in one

have 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?!”

of Julia’s shirt gingerly. “Come on, don’t be

Julia raised her fist, wanting to bash the young

eye for him, yet he isn’t even willing to give you his love. B*stards like him should go and rot in

without letting him know at all. Besides, we were married for four years, and I made him angry and annoyed the entire time, didn’t I? That offsets

and lost nothing during those four years while you suffered every possible misery! Tell me

Amelie every time she thought about how great

a long while later that she had brought Amelie over to check on her eye. With