Mrs. Walker took the doctor''s advice to heart. On the way back from the hospital, she kept trying to persuade Ynda.


    "You''re really not that young anymore. A woman starts to age once she passes thirty. Once your engagement with Eden is settled, you two should hurry up and have a baby. If you don''t have one now, you''ll regret itter when you want to but can''t."


    Mrs. Walker chattered on, but Ynda didn''t hear a word.


    She stared out the window, her eyes filled with a nk look.


    "What are you thinking about? Did you hear what I said?" Mrs. Walker nudged her when she didn''t respond.


    Ynda snapped back to reality and looked at her mother, suddenly saying, “I wish Oscar and I had had a child."


    If they had a child, Mrs. Rogers wouldn''t have looked down on her for being infertile and wouldn''t have so vehemently opposed her marriage to Oscar.


    "What nonsense are you talking about? Have you lost your mind?" Mrs. Walker looked aghast, wishing she could cover her daughter''s mouth.


    "The Rogers family is gone from Istra, and Oscar is dead! Why are you thinking about a dead man now!"


    Ynda pressed her lips together and said no more, but her expression turned sour. For some reason, she had suddenly thought of Oscar.


    They had known each other for so many years, and he had always treated her like a princess, spoiling her rotten.


    Because of her poor health, the doctors had determined it would be very difficult for her to conceive. Oscar''s mother had adamantly opposed their marriage, constantly saying that the Rogers family line couldn''t be allowed to end.


    Oscar hadn''t wanted to break up with her. But Ynda, having been pampered her whole life, couldn''t stand the slightest grievance.


    In a fit of pique, Ynda broke up with Oscar and even went abroad for a while to avoid him.


    Disheartened, Oscar married Flora under his family''s arrangement.


    Flora was young and healthy, and she became pregnant soon after they married.


    When Ynda returned to the


    country and saw Flora''s protruding belly and the way Oscar cared for her so tenderly, she was suddenly consumed by a mad jealousy.


    At that time, the kidney in Ynda''s body was still functional, but it had started to decline. So, the doctors had always advised her agains getting pregnant, as it would be very dangerous.


    If the kidney in her body wasn''t good, then she would just get a better one.


    She didn''t know when the idea


    popped into her head, but after she


    identally saw from Flora''s


    prenatal report that they shared the


    same rare blood type the idea


    began to grow wildly.


    Ynda secretly started skipping her anti-rejection medication. Soon, the kidney in


    her body failed rapidly and became useless.


    Then, everything went as she had predicted.


    She was her parents'' only daughter; they couldn''t let her die. They kept putting pressure on the Rogers family.


    In the end, Oscar couldn''t bear to lose her either. For her, he gave up Flora and the child in her womb.


    After Flora''s death, Ynda could see that Oscar was somewhat heartbroken and sad. After all, that child was his own flesh and blood.


    She wondered if it was karma. Mrs. Rogers had refused to let Oscar marry her because she couldn''t have children.


    But in the end, Oscar died without any children of his own, and the Rogers family line ended with him.