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.

but to send the cornea as a consignor to the hospital the girl had specified beforehand.

wake up?” Leo tensed up when he

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

brighter when he heard that the girl

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

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

Leo looked at the doctor and grabbed his arms. “Where’s her information?

me!”

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

one bad eye, and she was not entirely blind. Thus, she felt absolutely awkward when Julia held

was still mad about

dragged Amelie over for a check-up, and of course,

be if he learned that

do something as crazy as removing your cornea just like that! You can even give up your life for Alston, can’t you?!” Julia caterwauled, utterly disappointed in her

shirt gingerly. “Come on, don’t be

fist, wanting to bash

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

all. Besides, we

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

but she couldn’t help feeling bad for Amelie every time she thought about

Julia instead, who finally remembered a long while later that she had brought Amelie over to check on her eye. With