The smell of poisonous water assaulted his nostrils. Ling Xiao counted the drops of medicine from the IV drip, trying for the seventeenth time to see the cracks in the ceiling.

This is the third day since the bandages were removed from his eyes. The world after his sight was restored looks like an old photograph wrinkled by rain. He also can't see clearly with his other eye, and even when Xie Yuhua gets up, the light around him is blurry.

"How are you today? Can you see clearly?" Jieyuhua asked Lingxiao in sign language.

Ling Xiao shook his head. This was a highly difficult surgery, practically without any successful cases. If it weren't for his persistence and Xie Yuhua's financial resources, he wouldn't have been able to perform the surgery at all. Right after the surgery, the doctor issued critical condition notices for several days in a row. He had barely made it this far, and he had to endure the discomfort.

The doctor said he shouldn't be exposed to light for too long, so Xie Yuhua only opened his eyes for a short while before covering them again. In the afternoon, Xie Yuhua went out to answer a phone call. As soon as he left, he felt a sharp pain in his eyes. He covered his eyes and cried out, but he couldn't speak or hear himself. Now, his eyes hurt so much that he couldn't open them and had no idea if anyone was around. The pain was so intense that he couldn't control himself and fell straight off the bed.

Silence enveloped him, as if the entire world had forgotten him in this abyss of pain. No matter how desperately he cried out for help, no one answered his voice filled with despair and helplessness. He curled up, tightly covering his eye, large beads of sweat rolling down his forehead, mingling with his tears. He thought he might as well just gouge that eye out; after all, there had never been a successful case before. It was better to give up now than to die from the pain.

But it didn't work. Waves of pain washed over him, relentlessly eroding his will and body, and he could only endure this torment alone.

Just as he felt himself being swallowed by endless pain, a pair of warm hands suddenly reached out, gently piercing through the fog of darkness and suffering, and steadily supporting his swaying, nearly collapsing body. The warmth and strength emanating from those hands made him instinctively want to grasp more, and he involuntarily embraced the person's body. Like a ray of dawn piercing the night, it rekindled a glimmer of hope in his heart, which had sunk to the depths of despair, and even lessened the pain.

Ling Xiao struggled to open his eyes, which were soaked with sweat. He used all his strength to try and see who this person was.

He had a thousand answers in his mind, but he just hoped that the person was the man he had been with for more than a year.

However, as his vision cleared, the face that came into view was not the one he had expected. It was the confidante he had never really liked! Seeing that it was him before him, Ling Xiao felt a complex and indescribable emotion well up inside him…

However, he soon fainted from the pain, leaving all his anxiety to Xie Yuhua.

The doctor's diagnosis came back quickly: acute cellular rejection. The doctor immediately started systemic immunosuppressive therapy and prescribed various targeted drugs, as if they had been preparing for this moment all along.

Soon, Ling Xiao was sent to the operating room again. The doctor came to give Xie Yuhua a critical condition notice that was different from the previous ones. It explained the risks of this operation. Immunosuppression may cause Ling Xiao to have systemic infection, including liver and kidney poisoning, metabolic disorders, and may also cause irreversible retinal neurons, with a risk of permanent vision loss.

This is no longer a problem that can be solved by removing it again...

If the medical technology here can't save the child, then... let's go to the lab!

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