Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
The next morning, Ning Qing rushed to the hospital to visit her mother. She happened to run into her mom’s attending doctor, Luo Ping at the corridor.
Doctor Luo saw Ning Qing and he stopped her. He said with a solemn face, “Ning, I was going to call you. Come to my office.”
Ning Qing’s heart skipped a beat and she suddenly had an inauspicious feeling.
After Doctor Luo entered the office and took out the X-ray that Yue Wanqing did, “Ning, this is the kidney X-ray that your mom had yesterday evening. I’m sorry to tell you that your mom’s kidney took a drastic turn for worse. She will need to do a kidney transplant surgery as soon as possible.
“What?” Ning Qing’s face grew pale. She stood up on her feet as she shook her head in disbelief.
Doctor Luo comforted and said, “Ning, if the situation is as such, you must stay strong. Your mom needs you to take care of her. The great fortune in the midst of the bad is that we found a suitable kidney source. The surgery will need to be carried out in three days. You should go and gather money for the operation fees.”
Ning Qing was shivering. She couldn’t let her mom be in such dire trouble, her mom was her one and only.
“How much money?”
Doctor Luo extended one finger, “The subsidy for the kidney donor, operation fees and maintenance costs at the later stages, the various expenses would add up to at least one million in total.”
One million?
Where can she get so much money?
Ning Qing suppressed her emotions and asked, “Doctor Luo, how many years can my mom live for after the surgery?”
“It varies from case to case. Some live for a year, three years and some even twenty years. As long as your mom actively stays positive and cooperate for treatment, she could live for very long.”
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Ning Qing left the office and went to the ward to talk to Yue Wanqing.
Yue Wanqing’s facial complexion looked worse. Doctor Luo didn’t tell her about her condition but she could obviously feel the discomfort in her body, though she didn’t tell Ning Qing. She only chatted with Ning Qing so dearly.
Ning Qing saw the pain in her mother’s eyes and she felt upset. But, she smiled so sweetly as not to reveal any of her emotions. She didn’t want to burden her mom.
The pair of mother and daughter chatted for a while then Ning Qing left the office using the excuse that she was going to school.
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When she reached the street, Ning Qing’s tears flowed down her cheeks. The thing she least wanted was for her mother to be in trouble. But now, her mother might leave her at any given time.
After crying for a while, she extended her hand and wiped her tears. It wasn’t the time to be weak, she needed money to save her mother’s life.
She took out her phone from her bag, “Hello, Xiao Zhou. I need cash urgently, about a million dollars. Is there any job that I can earn this figure very quickly?”
“A million?” Xiao Zhou was surprised, “A million is not a small figure. You are not that famous in the entertainment circle so there are no advertisement, ambassador opportunity or filming opportunities. If you really want to earn such a figure, I think there’s only… Why not, Ning Qing, let me arrange a dinner and you…”
“No!” Ning Qing refused immediately.
“Ning Qing, you only need to attend a dinner. Don’t be so against the idea…”
Ning Qing smirked as her gaze grew cold, “Xiao Zhou, Renminbi has yet to depreciate to the point that a million wasn’t some real money. We have been in the entertainment circle for so long. Who would pay me a million for just attending a dinner without taking off my clothes, being touched and slept with? Those men were all monsters. They wouldn’t pay if there wasn’t any benefit.”
She never believed that there’s money falling down from the sky. She didn’t attend any dinner arrangement because she couldn’t take that step.
Once she takes that step, her mental fortitude would collapse and she would truly reflect what Xu Junxi said, “selling her body.”
She didn’t have much, she didn’t want to lose the last bit of what she did have.
Plus, if her mother were to find out that she saved her using money that she earned from selling her body, her mother would die of anger.
“Ning Qing, I suddenly remembered that the Pink Lady filming crew is doing a casting for the female lead role. The female lead role’s pay is a million dollars.”