Chapter 930: [(930)] Family emergency

“He got hit in the corner of his eye and went to the ophthalmologist, who said his vision had slightly decreased. Fortunately, the ophthalmologist said his vision could recover, but it would take time. This means he might be delayed for more than half a month in his internship.” Li Qi’an said this, sympathizing with the student, “He was about to cry.”

It seemed Student Pan had it worse than her. Xie Wanying was thankful she had moved quickly at that time.

Not far away, Zhang Xiaohui and the other two heard their conversation.

Huang Beibei made a face at Shen Xifei: “Hey, it’s about your Obstetrics and Gynecology department, you know?”

“I wasn’t at work yesterday or today. However, Obstetrics and Gynecology is the number one department for medical disputes.” Shen Xifei squinted her eyes and smiled, “If someone has been beaten by a family member elsewhere, they’d definitely have a tough time in Obstetrics and Gynecology.”

After hearing this, Zhang Xiaohui and Huang Beibei could anticipate the tough days Xie Wanying would face in Obstetrics and Gynecology in the future. No matter how academically excellent she was, if she couldn’t handle the patients’ families, she would still have to leave the clinical field.

“Did they catch the person who hit you?” Li Qi’an asked Student Xie, “The person who hit Shihua was caught and detained.”

The phone rang suddenly–Xie Wanying stopped talking to her classmates. She pulled out her phone and saw it was a call from home, her eyebrows furrowed, and she turned away to answer.

“Yingying, did something happen to Li Xuan?”

On the other side, her mother, Sun Rongfang’s voice, was mixed in a chaotic background, indicating many people were at her house.

Xie Wanying realized that the situation she and her childhood friend had most feared had occurred, she asked, “Mom, have Li Xuan’s family members come looking?”

“Yes, they said they heard from somewhere that Li Xuan was hospitalized at your hospital, and they came here to ask me what was going on. I told them I hadn’t heard anything from you. What happened to Li Xuan? Is she really hospitalized there, Yingying?” Sun Rongfang anxiously asked her daughter.

Her childhood friend had told her to keep it a secret. But, there are no secrets that time does not reveal; no truth that does not come to light. The truth was bound to come out eventually. They could only hope that the best-case scenario would be for Li Xuan to be discharged from the hospital before her family found out. It looked like she might be discharged smoothly in a few days, but somehow the news had leaked.

Xie Wanying was thinking about how to reply to her mother. Despite her mother treating Li Xuan like her god-daughter, she was unaware of Li Xuan’s family matters. Li Xuan was even more thorough than her at keeping things to herself.

Back then, Li Xuan’s situation was a bit more tragic than hers, Xie Wanying. Being forced to drop out of school halfway was one thing, but Li Xuan hadn’t attended kindergarten as a child because her mother wanted to have another child, so she was sent to the countryside to be raised by her grandparents. It was not until her younger sister and brother were born, and her mother decided not to have more children, that Li Xuan was brought back from the countryside to attend elementary school.

Li Xuan’s family did run a tea business, but one year, Li Xuan’s father guaranteed a loan for a friend who then fled, leaving a large sum of money to be compensated by her father. Her parents’ mental health deteriorated from then on. After finishing elementary school, Li Xuan could only go home to help out because her parents seemed to have mental issues, even struggling with simple arithmetic needed to manage finances.

Later, as the business improved and debts were slowly repaid, life got better. However, Li Xuan’s parents could never return to normal. They would blank out like children whenever faced with any issue, making it necessary for Li Xuan and her sister to work while their brother stayed home to watch over their parents, preventing them from being manipulated by others.