My CEO Husband Has Some Issues

Chapter 1495: Chapter 1496: Remembering Little Baby

The only one who could take her out of the village was the young girl in front of her.

“You, you, you’re a doctor?” Ye Qi opened her mouth in surprise, unable to process it for a moment.

Rong Yan smiled faintly and nodded, “Yes.”

Ye Qi looked at her with clear, untainted eyes. Staring at the dazzlingly beautiful face before her, she gradually dispelled the doubts in her heart.

She had assumed her older brother must have done something foolish for her illness, but it turned out he had brought back a young female doctor to help her.

At first, she was quite happy, but then, she didn’t know what came to mind; her gaze suddenly dimmed again, like a gemstone that had lost its luster. “Thank you, Rong Yan. Thank you for going out of your way to come here for my illness. But my condition is hopeless. The deputy director of the internal medicine department at Capital Hospital personally told me that my only choice is a kidney transplant. Even if I went through the surgery, the chances of me surviving are still very slim. My brother just doesn’t want my mom and grandma to experience the pain of losing a younger generation, so he’s always wanted to cure me. But I know… I know I won’t make it.”

As she spoke, her expression grew sorrowful again. Her nose stung, and she sniffled, forcing back the sour ache in her eyes. She managed a smile at Rong Yan. “What I have is a strange disease, one that many doctors have never even heard of. No one in our village has ever encountered it. No one in my family has ever had it, either, yet I got it. Maybe it’s just my fate, something heaven has preordained. I’ve come to accept it.”

The young girl in front of her was so well-behaved, so understanding. Even though her small body was burdened with an illness far beyond her years, she managed to face Rong Yan with a smile, carefully hiding all her sadness, keeping it to herself.

Rong Yan felt her heart soften. Seeing Ye Qi, she couldn’t help but think of Little Baby back in Mema. At such a young age, when he heard the doctor say he was sick, he had the same expression—tilting up his fair little face, sniffing back tears, and telling her, “Mom, don’t worry.”

“Can you tell me more specifically what makes it strange? Maybe I can help,” Rong Yan’s voice grew even gentler.

Ye Qi didn’t believe that someone as young as Rong Yan could be more capable than the deputy director at Capital Hospital. Yet she couldn’t bear to let Rong Yan down. “It started three months ago—I suddenly became very sensitive to the cold. Even though it was thirty degrees outside, I felt cold wearing a sweater. At first, I thought it was because I was malnourished or had a deficiency, so I didn’t pay much attention to it. But then it got worse. Even when it was scorching outside, I’d feel unbearably cold, even wearing a down jacket. My coworkers, after hearing about it, accompanied me to see a doctor… That’s when I found out I had this strange disease.”

Her hands unconsciously fidgeted with the edges of her clothes as she spoke softly, “The city hospital took notice of my condition and specifically assigned Doctor Zhou to treat me. She’s a top expert in this field in the country… But in the end, even Doctor Zhou couldn’t figure it out, so I went back home.”

The main reason was that her family couldn’t afford her hospitalization at the city hospital.

Even though the hospital, given her peculiar case and financial difficulties, had reduced part of the cost, the remaining expenses for a major hospital stay were still beyond what her family could handle.

Rong Yan patiently listened as Ye Qi spoke in broken sentences. Suddenly, Rong Yan pursed her lips and looked at her. “I have a solution.”

“Huh?”

“I have a way to cure you.”

Ye Qi’s eyes lit up for a moment, but then quickly dimmed again. Forcing a smile that looked worse than crying, she shook her head and murmured in a voice quieter than a mosquito’s, “I don’t want a kidney transplant. My family has no money left. My mom and grandma are getting old. I don’t want them to go around borrowing money for me.”