Three Women in the Cage

That day, the hospital suddenly called. On the phone, the doctor said seriously, "The cause of this child's illness has been found. The situation is quite complicated. You should be mentally prepared."

Upon hearing this, Huanhuan's heart skipped a beat. She already knew that the child's condition was serious, but she still held on to a glimmer of hope as to the specific cause and whether there was a chance of saving the child. She prayed that at the last moment, there would be a turn for the better so that she would not be so completely disappointed.

Seeing no response from the other end of the line, the doctor tentatively asked, "Hello? Are you listening?"

Hearing the voice in the microphone, Huanhuan came to her senses hastily and responded quickly: "Yes, sorry, go ahead! I'm listening."

After taking two breaths, Huanhuan pretended to be calm while listening to the microphone. After a while, the doctor's heavy voice came from the microphone: "After repeated research on this child and even contacting many experts from other hospitals, we finally concluded that this is a rare disease caused by gene deletion and gene mutation. This situation rarely occurs at present, and there is no complete cure. Many complications and various sequelae will appear in the later stage. The situation is very complicated and cannot be explained clearly at the moment. Therefore, we suggest that you take him back as soon as possible and take good care of him yourselves..."

Hearing this, Huanhuan couldn't hold back her tears any longer. She covered her mouth and sobbed, "Is there really no way? Is there no hope at all? Wuwu, no, I can't, I can't do this..."

The doctor sighed and said, "We understand how you feel, but do you understand? This is a genetic problem, genes, understand? We can't tamper with it or rewrite it. There is a missing part and a mutation in it. We have no way to deal with it. No one has studied genes thoroughly from ancient times to the present, let alone with our medical skills! Moreover, in order to understand the cause of the disease, we worked overtime to study and discuss, and it took us a month to figure out the cause. So, you should know how tricky this situation is. It is a field that modern science cannot reach at all."

"Otherwise, we wouldn't just let it go. We're making this call because we really have no other choice..."

Huanhuan's eyes were already swollen from crying as she listened. She choked up, unwilling to give up, "What if I bring him back? How should I take care of him? What symptoms should I be aware of in the future?"

The doctor advised: "His current condition is that his whole body is limp and weak, and he has no ability to suck. Therefore, we have inserted a gastric tube into him. After you take him home, he still needs to be fed a little bit of breast milk through the gastric tube, and he also needs to drink water through the gastric tube. The external tube must be cleaned regularly to avoid blockage."

"Also, his genitals are underdeveloped, so we need to be careful about toileting. We'll have genital surgery when he's older. We can't do it now, so we can only leave it like this for now."

"To address his weakness and limpness, you can give him growth hormone injections every month, combined with various medications and regular rehabilitation training. He will gradually feel better and won't be permanently limp, but it will only get better, not completely."

"Also, his appetite will only get bigger and bigger. He won't feel full and will constantly want to eat. He'll gradually get fatter and fatter. Without restraint, he might even burst his stomach without realizing it."

"So, you have to control his appetite, which is quite difficult. After all, someone who is constantly hungry is completely irrational. He just wants to eat, and if you don't give him anything, he'll pick up trash to eat, or even become violent."

"One last point, he has low intelligence and may not be able to study normally. Later, when he becomes an adult, he may not be able to reproduce normally. However, these are all stories for later."

"In short, what I want to tell you is that this child will definitely require more energy and thought than the average child. In addition, the money spent on him will also be higher, so you must be prepared."

The further she listened, the heavier Huanhuan's heart became. In the end, she couldn't even hear her own voice, because she really didn't know how to respond, or rather, she was afraid to respond.

She felt like she was in a dream, unable to feel her own real existence. Everything seemed so far away, so far away that it seemed as if she did not belong to this world.

As if it weren't raining cats and dogs, ever since she met the man, things that she couldn't accept happened one after another. Those things were beyond her expectations. She never thought that one day a man would cheat her out of all her savings, nor did she think that one day God would give her a child like this.

Everything seems to be fate! It seems that I have never escaped the teasing of fate since I was a child, and the invisible shackles have always been there.

I thought that by escaping from the village, escaping from the mud, and escaping from the suffering, I would have a bright future and would no longer have to suffer the pain of the past, and my life would be far away from the traces of the past.

But I didn't expect that everything was an illusion, and the inescapable bondage has always been there, and you can't escape it no matter what you do.

It’s as if fate is torturing you in another way, leaving you trapped in despair for the rest of your life.

At some point, the phone was hung up. Huanhuan stood there in a daze, her tears already drowning her. Her hands were shaking and she couldn't even hold the phone steadily.

Liu Ci quickly supported her and pretended to comfort her: "Don't cry, what's the point of crying yourself blind? The child is already like this, what can we do?"

Huanhuan looked at Liu Ci with tears in her eyes and said with a longing look: "Child?... What should we do? Wuuuu."

Liu Ci had just spoken to the doctor with the speaker on the entire time, and he heard everything about the child. He knew that the child's condition was very serious, like a piece of waste, a heavy burden.

Such a child is not only disliked by his parents, but even by himself!

He didn't even want to admit that he had such a child. How could he, who had always been hypocritical and concerned about his reputation, let the child become a stain on his life and be ridiculed by others?

Moreover, he did not spend a penny on this child, nor did he spend any thought on him. He did not experience the hardships of pregnancy for ten months, nor did he even endure the pain of childbirth.

If the arrival of this child was normal, he would feel a bit happy, but now it is the situation, he can only feel disgust and escape.

So, he said without any hesitation: "How about we not want the child? That child has no destiny with us, so we might as well abandon him!"

Yes, abandoning it is like throwing away garbage. It is best to discard it early while you have no feelings for it, so that everything can start over again.

But, as a mother, Huanhuan had gone through everything from conception to birth. How could she easily say "give up"?

She can't, she can't do it...

That was a little life. If it hadn't been born yet, she might have had a choice. But now that it was born, how could she abandon it without any hesitation just because of the child's illness?

Thinking about the child's little body full of tubes, lying on the cold bed, enduring the pain of illness, and struggling to find a glimmer of hope, and at this time, not only did she not share his suffering, but she also cruelly abandoned him. When she thought of this, she could not bear her own cruelty.

Yes! The hardest thing in this world is to give up your right to be a mother and abandon your only child in the blink of an eye!

She is just an ordinary person, an ordinary person who loves children instinctively, so she can't be as unhesitating as a man, nor can she be as ruthless as a man...