Chapter 239 - 238: His Wife's Not Dead

"Doc! How's my fiancé?" Alice rushed and asked the man who was still wearing his scrub and mask hanging on his neck.

"Are you the family of the patient?" The doctor asked Alice as it was protocol to only tell the patient's condition to the family members only.

"It's okay. You can tell her. She's her only relative." Mo Jing-sheng who came to check on Alice and the rest resounded behind Alice and looked at the doctor.

Since his mother had taken Alice and Iris as one of her daughters, then Mo Jing-sheng had come to them as a brother.

"Brother Jing-sheng." Alice acknowledged him.

Upon receiving the go signal from their boss, the doctor looked back at Alice and sighed heavily.

"The patient, she's in a very critical condition. A broken rib had punctured her lungs and made a huge cut on her heart. There's also a crack on her head.

Both of her legs were broken but managed to save it before we it was too late. Amputation could be the worst case scenario for them.

She died twice on the operating table under my watch but she came back to life. It seems like she still wanted to stay with you. She still had an unfinished business here on earth." The doctor said the last part in a lighter way to counter the heavy ones he had said prior to the last statement.

Upon hearing that, Alice's tears gushed out from her tear ducts as she sobbed both in relief and in pain.

"You heard that? Iris really loved you, Alice!" Guo Xioalan cheered up the sobbing woman in her arms.

Everyone gathered around and comforted Alice.

"How critical is she now?" Mo Jing-sheng asked the doctor.

"If she won't turn the tables within 48 hours, then...I'm sorry but we have to declare her that she's in a vegetative state."

"Please! Do everything to make her come back to me!" Alice pleaded on the doctor.

"Don't worry, we will save her Alice." It was Mo Jing-sheng who promised this time making the male doctor to look at him

"Give the list of medical equipment and facilities that she needed that we don't have." He added.

"Okay Master Mo..Ahm...the patient will be wheeled into the ICU. You may visit her there one at a time." The doctor said and excused himself as it took him ten hours to actually save Iris.

"Thank you doctor!" Alice thanked him.

"It's my job…and I'm glad that I your fiancé's a fighter, too." The doctor then politely excused himself as he wanted to go and rest.

"Girls, go and accompany Alice back home first." Mo Jing-sheng told them and then he looked at Alice who wanted to protest and said, "You're pregnant. What if something would happen to you and the baby? I'm sure Iris will not be happy with it."

Alice who wanted to be stubborn finally decided to obey Master Mo.

"Go and have a good rest. I'll notify you everything that had happened with her while you were away." He added.

Madame and Master Mo would be coming over tomorrow after they had found out that Eunji and Iris got into a car accident.

They had already arranged to come two weeks from now to look after the two pregnant women since they were already on the latter stage of the last trimester.

But since this accident happened, they had to reschedule and come early.

"Brother, how's Eunji?" Alice asked as she was also very worried for Eunji's condition.

Mo Jing-sheng could only sigh as until now, the operation was still ongoing at the moment.

He had to send Kelly into a VIP room in this hospital so she could have a proper rest. Due to stress, she was bleeding earlier. An Qi who was there when that happened advised Mo Jing-sheng to let her stay as she seemed to be in an premature labor.

"She's still inside. She had to prematurely deliver the babies. One of them unfortunately died." Mo Jing-sheng told them which made the girls to suck an ample amount of air.

"Oh my!" Yun Mei cried.

"My wife is resting in one of the VIP rooms upstairs. Due to stress, she might be in a premature labor just now. So please, listen to me and let them send you home." Mo Jing-sheng didn't want something to happen to Alice and the baby.

Alice didn't go back home but instead booked a hotel room close to the hospital so if something happened, she could rush there in time.

While Iris was finally saved, Nathan had just gotten back from the blood bank as Eunji needed another bag of blood.

She was still inside the operating room. Battling for her life.

On the other hand, Mei left to arrange the burial of their little angel.

She wanted her granddaughter to feel that she was loved.

As a mother and a grandmother, she was really broken-hearted to see her son in this state. Her beloved daughter-in-law was still inside the operating room while she was sending her granddaughter on her final rest.

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After nearly fifteen hours, the lights inside the operating room had finally turned off.

Moments later, the head surgeon who operated Eunji had a sullen look on the face.

"Where's my wife?!" Nathan asked him directly.

The rest who had been sitting on the bench also gathered around as they were all eager to know, too.

The male doctor then looked at Nathan and somehow he shivered because of how fierce Nathan was looking at him.

He deeply sighed and said, "We did everything but...I'm sorry."

Everyone was broken-hearted when they heard of Eunji's death. After all, they had grown closer to Eunji even in a short span of time.

"Poor Eunji!" Mei cried in sorrow as she learned that her precious daughter-in-law had actually left them in peace.

She felt like she had lost another child once again!

"Sister-in-law!" Even as a man, Hua Zhang Wei sobbed hard as he heard the news.

Kim Jeong Ho was no different, too.

Jin Jie could not accept the news too.

He could only blame Nathan for what happened to Eunji. Thus he looked at the man fiercely while clenching his fist.

Nathan's mind went blank as soon as he heard the news.

"A broken bone punctured her heart, liver and lungs. She had a broken spine, arms and legs. Her kidneys could not take the heavy damage on her body. Her skull cracked too and there was a huge bleeding on her brain. I'm sorry but even if she survived this surgery, she'd be good as dead." He told them frankly.

It's not good for a doctor to curse his own patient but it was a harsh reality.

Should Eunji survived, she would be in a vegetative state and might not wake up in this life time.

He thought that Eunji must have realized that so she decided to leave them in peace. She must have subconsciously thought that her family would be in pain seeing her in this life.

Nathan loved Eunji so much and everyone knows he would do everything just to keep her.

Now, everyone was looking at Nathan with worries. Especially his friends. Will he go back to his old self? His self before Eunji came?

Compared earlier, Nathan had maintained a serious look on the face. And the air around him had also became heavier.

Everyone expected him to go wild and lose control. After all, Eunji was now dead. He had lost her forever.

But what came out from his mouth actually stunned everyone.

"Dare to declare my wife as dead and I'll kill you!" He warned the doctor as he grabbed the collar of his scrub.

"Son! Calm down!" Mei cried helplessly.

"Ha! Dare threatening him? Why don't you kill yourself! Your stupidity killed her bastard!" Jin Jie taunted Nathan after he found the opportunity to provoke him.

"Everyone please! I know you're in great pain but this is a hospital! This is not a debate room nor a boxing ring. Please be considerate to the patients who are also admitted here." The doctor calmly said even if Nathan was about to punch him.

He then looked at Nathan and said, "I could see that you loved her so much. That's why she chose to let go rather than to see you in pain. She wanted to free you from burden." The doctor meaningfully said.

Maybe Nathan had understood what the doctor had told him so he let him go.

Nathan turned around and walked away from them.

But before he finally left, Nathan once again spoke, "My wife is not dead."

Everyone felt broken-hearted for Nathan as they watched his lonely back disappearing as he went away.

Derek and Darren had also left with him as they were afraid that he would do something stupid.

He was still in denial!

As the only elder in the hospital, Mei had no other choice but to arrange Eunji's funeral and burial three days from now.

She had already arranged for her granddaughter's burial a few hours earlier and now she had to do it for her precious daughter-in-law.

How cruel was that!

She was also worried for her son as she knew it was hard for Nathan to take.

He had lost two of his beloved people in life. His wife and daughter.

And that was because of his mistake. It's his fault!

But she hoped that Nathan would not blame himself for what had happened.

The funeral was arranged privately and only those who had a close contact with Eunji attended.

Cries echoed as soon as they heard the news. Madame Mo and the rest were mourning. Kelly and Alice, too.

They also didn't announce it to the press as they knew they were not in the position.

All through out the funeral, Nathan never showed up.

On the day of the burial, they expected Nathan to be there but he wasn't.

Mei bid goodbye to their friends who went into the local cemetery for the burial.

Eunji's ashes was placed beside her daughter's and they had their own mausoleum.

She waited for her son to show up but he was not there.

"Aunty, let's go." Mo Jing-sheng called Mei.

He still had to go to the hospital to accompany his wife who had given birth to their son prematurely.

Alice had also gone back to the hospital to be with her fiancé.

Mei sighed as she felt totally helpless at the moment.

"J, aren't you coming with us?" Mei called out J whom just like her, was still reluctant to leave the place.

"I'll accompany them for a little while."

The atmosphere was so gloomy that it felt like suffocating.

The guests who attended the funeral and the burial had one thought in mind.

'Where's Nathan?'

Inside the NICU, Nathan was holding the hands of his son whom his dear wife had just left with him.

"It's the three of us now? Sons what should I do?" For the first time after he heard of Eunji's death, Nathan's voice cracked as he was trying to compose himself.

If one would look at him now, there were traces of blood on his white shirt.

For two days, he had gone and tortured the man who was driving the garbage truck.

He had jumped right before the collision happened so he only got bruises, abrasions and some broken arms. But he survived while his wife and daughter was dead.

As expected it was planned and not an accident.

Nathan's eyes were gentle as he looked at them.

Then he sighed and a lone tear escaped from his eyes and he sobbed with only his sons as the witness.