Dn looked at her tearily. “Really?<i>” </i>


    Mnie tried to pull her up, but Dn was too strong. Mnie could not drag her up at all.


    Dn quickly stood up on her own. She wiped her face and anxiously grabbed Mnie’s hand. “Mel, I’m sorry, but I raised Peachy with my own hands. I just can’t…”


    Mnie’s mind was calm. As she listened to Dn’s rambling, she realized that she barely felt


    anything for her mother anymore. “Just tell me what the hell is going on.”


    Dn began to wipe her tears again. “The doctor said that Peachy needs a new course of medicine to survive from now on, but the medicine costs tens of thousands of dors every month. How can I possibly afford it?”


    Mnie’s heart sank, and she pushed Dn away. “I’ll ask the doctor.”


    “He’ll say the same thing if you ask him. Oh, heavens, why us?!”


    Mnie picked up her pace as Dn wailed behind her.


    Xander gave chase as she left the ward in a hurry. “Wait, Mnie.”


    Mnie was getting a little upset right now, so she turned to Xander and said tiredly, “Sorry you had to see that.”


    Xander’s expression was the same as usual. “I have a friend from the hematology department. I can introduce him to you.”


    Mnie paused for a moment, and Xander quickly took out his phone. After a while, he said, “I just sent you his contact.”


    Mnie took a deep breath and whispered, “Thank you.”


    “Stephen told me to take care of you.” Xander paused and added, “And you helped me.”


    He was talking about the files she had organized that morning. Mnie was still pale, and she could not even force a smile. “You guys could have done that without me.”


    As they spoke, they arrived at the doctor’s office.


    Xander apanied her inside. The attending doctor’s diagnosis was clear. Peachie was born with this illness, and that expensive medicine was her best shot.


    Mnie nodded.


    The doctor continued, “She’s still young, so you have to make sure she gets the nutrients she needs too. She’s clearly malnourished.”


    When Mnie and Xander returned to the ward, only Vi and Dn were left.


    Dn rose to her feet quickly. “The doctor said I was telling the truth, right?”


    Mnie looked at Peachie lying on the bed. The doctor’s words echoed in her ears.


    She asked her mother, “Why is Peachie malnourished?”


    Dn hastily dodged the question. “How can Peachie be malnourished? I’ve been keeping her well- fed.”


    “The doctor must have told you.” Mnie considered throwing caution to the winds, but she quickly decided against it. Her voice was much colder now. “Isn’t Peachie your beloved daughter? Or was that just an act?”


    “I just…” Dn tried to exin, but she just could not find the words. Her expression was bitter.


    Mnie looked at her, suddenly struck by how different Dn was from the capable and caring mother in her memories.


    Dn was shrewd, calcting, and selfish.


    Was she really still the mother Mnie remembered?


    Mnie’s eyes turnedpletely cold. Dn felt guilty, but she was also worried that Mnie would abandon Peachie in a fit of anger.


    In the end, Dn decided toe clean. “I didn’t give the money to anyone else. I just saved some.


    “I–I thought you would…”


    Dn did not finish her sentence, but Mnie already understood.


    Dn was afraid that Mnie would stop giving her money someday, so she had been saving some of the allowance for a rainy day.


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