Chapter 11
"Please, let her be treated here, I'll find the money quickly!" Wu Fan continued to beg.
He knew that every minute of delay worsened his mother's condition. If she kept wandering, she could escape entirely.
"No, it's impossible. We have rules at the hospital: no payment, no treatment. If a doctor treats you without payment, they risk sanctions. They worked hard for years to earn their degree, you wouldn't want to see them unemployed, would you?" The guard, seeing his despair, tried to explain.
Hearing about the university, Wu Fan remembered his long-lost dream of entering it, a wish that had long slipped away.
He couldn't let a doctor lose their job because of him.
Unable to insist any further, he decided to call Lin Miao.
"Lin Miao, even though we're not married, you're legally my wife. I'm asking for help, can you lend me a thousand yuan? My mother really needs to be hospitalized!" He was desperate.
"Okay, what you're saying is touching. Come pick it up, quickly!" Lin Miao surprisingly agreed.
Wu Fan stood frozen, not expecting such a response.
No matter, it was good news. He left his mother at the hospital and rushed home to get the money.
Opening the door, he saw his family gathered around the table, eating. He couldn't help but swallow nervously.
But Hu Xiaoying looked at him with disdain and said, "Lazy bum, I told you not to come back and to return the five hundred thousand. Now that I see you have a little devotion, kneel at the door, and I might consider giving the money to Lin Miao!"
"What, kneel?" Wu Fan couldn't believe his ears, looking at Lin Tianlong and Lin Miao, who were also at the table.
They looked at him like a beggar, mocking him without saying a word, continuing to eat.
"You really want to stay standing? I have no patience. If you don't kneel, get out!" Hu Xiaoying loudly called him.
Thud! Wu Fan kneeled, his heart tightening.
Dignity was important, but his mother came first.
"Wait, I'll finish eating and then I'll give you the money, haha!" Hu Xiaoying laughed, returning to the table, completely ignoring Wu Fan.
Half an hour later, his knees were numb. He wanted to leave, cursing himself for such humiliation.
But the image of his mother in her unstable state kept him there. He couldn't afford to express his displeasure.
"What a useless man, kneeling for over an hour for a thousand yuan. What a shame! Get out of here and never come back saying you're the Lin family's son-in-law, it's too embarrassing!"
Forty-five minutes later, Hu Xiaoying finished eating. Wiping her mouth, she approached him, pulled out ten hundred-yuan bills, and handed him some right in his face while speaking.
She waved her hand, and the money flew through the air.
Bang! The door slammed shut.
Humiliated, Wu Fan picked up the bills one by one, dragging his numb legs. After a few steps, he stopped, staring at the Lin villa, seething with rage: "I'll make you pay for this humiliation one day, a hundredfold!"
"Stop!" Less than a hundred meters fro
m the villa, several men in black blocked his path.