Chapter 323: Chapter 316: Who Did We Offend?

“What’s going on?” Mrs. Sun’s voice raised, they had hailed a cab and rushed straight to the hospital after hearing something happened, but no one had explained the details. All they knew was that their daughter, Sun Yumeng, was in the hospital. She demanded to know, what on earth had happened to her daughter?

Just as the professor began to speak, the doors to the surgery room swung open.

“Are the family members here?” The surgeon asked hastily.

“Yes, they’re here,” the professor pointed to Sun Yumeng’s father, “right here.”

“Good, that’s fine,” said the surgeon who was clearly in a hurry. “Please get them to sign the consent forms immediately. We need to start the surgery.”

“Surgery, what surgery?”

Hearing ‘surgery’, Mrs. Sun’s anger momentarily subsided. What was going on? Why did her daughter, her little Yumeng, need surgery? What had these people in the school done to her?

A nurse quickly produced the surgical consent forms and laid them before Mrs. Sun, “Please sign quickly.”

She responded by pushing the forms to one side, declaring, “I won’t sign, I won’t give my consent.”

“What surgery can we proceed with if you won’t sign?”

The nurse picked up the pen from the table, “Her life hinges on your signature.”

“What kind of surgery does my daughter need?” Mr. Sun stared at the consent forms as the struggle visibly pained him.

“Hysterectomy.”

The nurse spoke without emotion, perhaps seeing such things too often had rendered her numb.

“What?! A hysterectomy?” Mrs. Sun grabbed her by the arm, “Why does my daughter need a hysterectomy? You tell me, why, how could my perfectly healthy daughter need her uterus removed?”

“If she were ‘perfectly healthy’, she wouldn’t need her uterus removed. But she was heavily pregnant, and took abortion pills, which resulted in an intrauterine fetal death. The delay caused an infection in the uterus. Please sign.”

With that, the nurse extended the consent forms back before Sun Yumeng’s parents. Seeing their faces turn pale, she remarked caustically, “How could such a young girl be so irresponsible? She’s a medical student for heaven’s sake, doesn’t she have the slightest bit of sense?”

“Can’t she just not have the surgery?”

Mr. Sun’s voice seemed to age by several years. Mrs. Sun was in shock, unable to comprehend that her daughter was in the hospital because of this, and facing surgical removal of her uterus. Can a uterus grow back after it’s removed? Of course, it can’t right?

“If she did not need the surgery, we wouldn’t be asking you to come here,” the nurse said, her patience clearly wearing thin.

“Sign quickly, make your decision – life or womb. How could you have let your daughter get into this? ”

Mr. Sun picked up the pen, clenched his teeth and signed his name shakily.

“You can’t sign! You can’t!” Mrs. Sun urgently grabbed his hand, “If you sign this, our daughter will never be able to have children. What will happen to her marriage, her future children?”

“She can’t have children anymore.”

The nurse grabbed the signed consent form and walked into the surgery room. The situation had bypassed their control.

Mrs. Sun slumped down powerlessly into the chair with her head in her hands, unable to utter a word. They had never imagined that their daughter, Sun Yumeng, was actually in the hospital because of this. She was pregnant, but they didn’t even know who the father was.

Mrs. Sun’s voice had gone hoarse from crying as she spotted Lin Yile and her friends seated across from her. She was up on her feet immediately, “Why didn’t you take my daughter to the hospital sooner? You loathe my daughter, you wanted to see her suffer, did you want her dead?”

Mrs. Sun’s hand shot out, reaching for Lin Yile, startling her. It was clear she was trying to claw at Lin Yile’s eyes.

Tang Yuxin reflexively pulled Lin Yile aside, causing Mrs. Sun’s fingernails to graze her face. Tang Yuxin suddenly felt sharp pain in the corner of her eye and then saw a smear of red – her blood.

“Yuxin, wu wu…”

Seeing Tang Yuxin get hurt, Lin Yile started crying. The professor only then reacted and rushed to restrain Mrs. Sun, attracting nurses and doctors to the scene.

Tang Yuxin felt a sharp pain in her eye, as if she had gone blind.

A doctor came over to check Tang Yuxin’s injured eye, while Lin Yidong cried uncontrollably. Song Qingtong held onto a stunned Ting Yuan with one hand and Lin Yile with the other.

Seeing red, Qingtong didn’t understand what was happening.

With a thud, she collapsed to the ground.

“Don’t worry, she’s fine,” the doctor reassured after examining Tang Yuxin. “Thankfully the eyeball wasn’t injured; it was a close call though.”

“Doctor, how about her…” Tang Yuxin managed to ask, pointing to the collapsed Song Qingtong. Why had she suddenly collapsed?

“She fainted, probably due to stress.”

The doctor had already treated Tang Yuxin’s injuries, expressing a hint of regret. Such a beautiful young girl, now marred by a scar on her face, all because of an innocent misunderstanding?

Lin Yile stood aside, her eyes red from crying.

Tang Yuxin reassured her, “Don’t worry, I’m fine.”

“But…” As Lin Yile cried more, she only felt worse, “Why did this happen to us? We didn’t do anything wrong. Sun Yumeng got pregnant and indiscriminately took abortion medicine, resulting in the need for a hysterectomy. We didn’t even know about it! Her mom almost blinded me, and frightened Qingtong into a faint with her attack. ”

The police arrived shortly after and began an investigation. Tang Yuxin knew that it was just a matter of time before they arrived.

However, she touched the corner of her eye lightly where the wound was. At least her scar could garner some sympathy.

With no other choice, she had to sacrifice herself to protect her friends’ reputations. Of course, Song Qingtong got extra sympathy points for fainting.

They were all brought to the police station not long after, leaving only Mr. Sun to take care of Sun Yumeng. The surgery was a success and Sun Yumeng’s life was saved but she had lost her uterus, meaning she would never be able to have children in the future. The unborn baby had turned into a lump of flesh and was lost.