Chapter 460

Stella grinned and asked, "Rosie, do you like the life you're living now?"

Without skipping a beat, Rosie replied, "I do."

Sure, there was some backstabbing among colleagues, but she had learned to handle it with ease, sometimes even finding joy in the challenge. The job was tough, but it allowed her to find her own worth.

"I think it's pretty great, sis," she said.

People always have their own agendas, but it was undeniable that everyone was striving toward a better future, believing that life would get better.

Stella smiled, feeling ready for a new beginning herself.

Later that evening, when Jasper came home and saw Stella packing, he couldn't help but ask, "How was the hospital today?"

The understaffed and under-equipped hospital was as you'd expect. But with Collin's presence, there was a newfound sense of hope.

Stella felt a pang of regret. "Dr. Garcia was pretty old when he joined the Kindle Society and fell ill soon after. Sadly, he didn't make it."

Dr. Garcia had been a towering figure in traditional medicine, and his formula for combating the smog virus had saved countless lives during the disasters. His passing was a great loss. If he had still been around, the restoration of traditional medicine would have been much faster.

Learning Stella had decided to work at the hospital, Jasper was thrilled. Nobody knew whether the disasters had truly ended, but life had to go on. Having a job could really ground a person.

"That's fantastic. We can commute together from now on."

was, back at a job. Used to sleeping in, she found it hard

a ragdoll, Stella was coaxed out of bed by Jasper, who handed her a toothbrush slathered with toothpaste. "You can't

battle. They barely caught the ferry, Stella collapsing onto Jasper's shoulder and

spare, Jasper dropped her off at

in charge of administration and the other of academic affairs. Collin had worked late into the night, getting a handle on the hospital's

claim to shoulder everything, but she

approach was to combine Western and traditional medicine to save as many patients as possible. Stella had reviewed the inventory of medical supplies the previous day. There wasn't an abundance of emergency surgical equipment or medications, but there was enough to last a year or

rushed in with a deep gash in his leg, bleeding

to his side. Collin used acupressure and acupuncture to reduce the bleeding. Stella

and Collin

to pick Stella up from work. She was swamped with a lot to handle on her first day and didn't finish

was a long wait, so they decided to row back in a dinghy. They got home after nine, and Rosie and Cooper hadn't returned

difficult at

beginning. With insufficient surgical

and less

hospital to

to find their rhythm. Through numerous collaborations between Stella and Collin, the integration of Western and traditional medicine became increasingly proficient. Just as they were catching

the force of circumstances, were a troubled lot. Stella dismissed the idea without a second thought, but to her surprise, Collin was

Collin," she warned, "there are daily incidents of people faking illness to cause trouble, and many caregivers have been injured. You're

each person isolated and living separately.

been forced to eat mutated seafood, leading to long-term physical changes, though these weren't necessarily untreatable acute conditions. If even the mutated yellow croaker fish could eventually be safe to eat, perhaps they

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