51 He needs A Surgery (2/2)

She used her hands to cover her mouth as the tears poured involuntarily. Her dad who always wore a frown when he looked at her was so calm. So calm and peaceful.

His face bore no emotions, his eyes dark and his face white. His body fragile and thin. At that moment she wished he would wake up and slap her, beat her and kick her out of the room, she prayed earnestly but sadly he was still lying there motionless and pale.

”You should come with me to my office ” The doctor said to both of them and he turned and walked towards the door.

Liling staggered up immediately and helped her mom up. She cast a glance at her dad again before she helped her mom out of the ward and they followed the doctor silently.

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”The patient smokes and drinks a lot of alcohol, am I right? ” The doctor asked as he removed his glasses to look at the two people sitting in front of him.

”Mmm” Liling whispered after sometime when she saw that that her mom was too weak to respond.

”Good. It has damaged his liver, he has a tumor and needs a surgery as quickly as possible before his whole liver gets damaged which may lead to a transplant which we all know is almost impossible thus making the final conclusion, death! ”

Liling gulped hard as she held her mom's hand tightly. One thing she had never seen in her life is a very heartless doctor. How would he say something so heartbreaking to their faces!

He wasn't fit to be called a doctor! His place is by the dustbin!

She gritted her teeth teeth as they listened to the doctor silently.

”My main point here is the cost of the surgery. Approximately one million yuan. This includes the treatment before and after the surgery , the surgery proper and overall medical care...”

Liling didn't hear the rest of his speech. Her brain just resounded the amount of the surgery.

'One Million Yuan!!!!'

Even if she sold everything they had, she wouldn't even get ten percent of the money. Where was she going to get such an amount from?

She had nobody, they had nobody!. Nobody!

She turned to look at her mom and noticed that her eyes were already clouded in tears. Obviously because she knew there was no hope, no hope at all.