When I Was a Wallflower (Leo and Amelie)

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.

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

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

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

he heard that

cornea to? What’s her name?” He

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

looked at the doctor and grabbed his arms.

me!”

helped Amelie into Estrela Eye Specialist, but Amelie yanked her arm away as she glanced awkwardly at the surrounding indistinct gazes

entirely blind. Thus, she felt absolutely awkward when Julia held her like

one to talk!” Julia was

and of course,

how sad he’d be if he learned that his

have a lot of nerve to do something as crazy as removing your cornea just like that! You can even give up your life

Amelie smiled helplessly and tugged the hem of Julia’s shirt gingerly. “Come on, don’t be mad anymore. I promise

her fist, wanting to bash the

red-rimmed. “Alston, that son of a b*tch. You sacrificed one eye for him, yet he isn’t even willing to give you

hand gently. “I made the decision myself without letting him know at all. Besides, we were married for four years, and I made him angry and

suffered every possible misery! Tell me that offsets it!” Julia

help feeling bad for Amelie every time she thought about

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