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.

we didn’t deliver it for the transplant immediately. As such, the director had no choice but to send the cornea as a consignor

she… wake up?” Leo tensed up when he heard the

nodded. “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. She left not long after waking up,” said the doctor as

finally turned a little brighter when he heard that the girl had woken up in

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

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

stupefied, Leo looked at the doctor

me!”

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

and she was not entirely blind. Thus, she felt absolutely awkward

one to talk!” Julia was still mad about the

for a check-up, and of

he’d be if he learned that his baby girl was

cornea just like that! You can even give up your

gingerly. “Come on,

fist, wanting

heart ached, and her eyes turned red-rimmed. “Alston, that son of a b*tch. You sacrificed one eye for him, yet he isn’t even willing to give you his love. B*stards like him should go and rot in

myself without letting him know at all. Besides, we were married for

four years while you suffered every possible misery! Tell me that offsets it!”

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

she had brought Amelie over to check on her eye. With