Yuan Ya'er still had a prison sentence to serve, so she couldn't choose her own hospital. The hospital where she was receiving treatment was designated by the judicial authorities, so there was no possibility of the doctors deliberately deceiving or concealing anything from her.
Her child was really dead.
No matter how unwilling Yuan Ya'er was to accept it, this was the harsh truth.
Yuan Ya'er didn't know how she had walked out of that consulting room. She sat outside the hospital corridor, placing her hand on her belly. Her eyes were downcast, and it was hard to tell what was on her mind.
Since the fetus had stopped beating, she felt intermittent labor - like pains in her abdomen from time to time, and there was also blood oozing out, which made her face look even paler.
As applying for hospitalization required submitting an application to the judicial authorities, another policewoman guarding her had gone to handle the formalities, while one remained to watch over her.
Seeing Yuan Ya'er in such a state, the policewoman couldn't help but feel a bit sympathetic and tried to console her.
"You're still young. After you finish serving your sentence and get out of prison, you'll still have a chance to have children."
However, Yuan Ya'er suddenly clenched her fists hidden under her clothes. Her body trembled with intense unwillingness.
No one knew that this wasn't just about being young and healthy. Once the child was gone, she would lose the excuse for medical parole and would have to return to prison to serve her sentence! Even if she could have a child after getting out of prison, it wouldn't be Yan Zhen's "child," and thus it wouldn't be the "main character"!
This was not the outcome she had wanted at all!
Why had things turned out this way? She had thought everything would go smoothly!
The policewoman didn't know what was going on in her mind. She just assumed that Yuan Ya'er was sad because she had lost her child. Just as she was about to say something else, the other policewoman came back with the completed formalities, so she fell silent.
Yuan Ya'er was hospitalized in this way.
One day later, she was wheeled into the operating room, and the dead fetus in her belly was removed by the doctor. Even though she had been given anesthesia, she could still feel the child leaving her body. She stared with wide - open eyes and saw the doctor holding a bloody mass.
She clearly heard the doctor say,
"We didn't notice during the prenatal check - up. It's a deformed fetus. It seems that the quality of the child's father's sperm isn't very good. This is probably the main reason why the fetus stopped developing."
So that was the reason!
Yuan Ya'er trembled all over on the operating table. How she wished she could turn back time! Then she could have made a different choice...
...
The induced - labor operation was extremely physically draining. After the operation, Yuan Ya'er's body was much weaker than before. Her face was abnormally pale due to excessive blood loss. Even a slight breeze in the ward would make her shiver and wrap herself tightly in the quilt.
This incident also made her become silent. She always had a gloomy face, giving people an extremely uncomfortable and depressive feeling.
She was a prisoner serving a sentence. Without the child, it meant that she was capable of serving her sentence. She only stayed in the hospital for a few days before being escorted by the two policewomen to go through the discharge formalities.
Yuan Ya'er knew that she couldn't escape this fate, so she always cooperated very well.
Just as she was about to leave the hospital, when passing by the entrance of the ophthalmology clinic, she heard a familiar name floating out from inside.
"I didn't expect that Xu Zixi is actually a hidden biomedical genius! Do you know what she has done? She actually discovered an active substance in the glandular fluid of the 'Golden Amber' that is highly similar to the human gene. If this active substance can be made into a medicine, it will cure the blindness caused by Elinikobur Syndrome!"
"Really? Wasn't she the fake daughter adopted by the Yuan family before? I heard that she didn't even finish college, and she used to study art. How could she possibly do research? Could it be someone with the same name? Or did she steal someone else's name and become the first author of this paper?"
"How could it be fake? You probably don't know that she was awarded the 'Marine Rare Animal Protection Award' for successfully protecting the 'Golden Amber' and even made it onto the front - page news of a certain news agency! She has more advantages than anyone else in doing experiments. Moreover, this is the most authoritative medical journal in the world, with very strict review conditions. Any act of plagiarism or name - stealing would never make it onto their magazine!"
"So, this must be her work! She's really amazing! I'm sure this paper will cause a huge sensation!"
What? Xu Zixi had written a paper that could shake the world?
Yuan Ya'er clenched her fists tightly, so angry that she almost gritted her teeth.
The person who she had once managed to step on was now a well - praised figure. She didn't understand why Yuan Xi was so lucky. Even after being forced into a desperate situation by her, why could she still rise again?
A pharmaceutical genius? The original story never mentioned that Yuan Xi had such skills. Where did she learn them from? And where did she meet the big shot who helped her?
She was not convinced. She really wasn't convinced!
Yuan Ya'er wanted to hear more, but the policewoman had already pushed her forward.
The name "Xu Zixi" really did shake the world.
On the day when Yuan Ya'er was discharged from the hospital and returned to prison to serve her sentence, the paper written by Xu Zixi was published in "The Lancet". As soon as this paper came out, it shocked the entire medical community!
Elinikobur Syndrome is a disease caused by a defect in a gene segment. Only 1% of the global population suffers from this disease. People with this disease will go blind, and their pupils will show a gray - blue state deep inside.
The strange thing about this disease is that even if a suitable cornea is found and a replacement operation is performed, the patient still cannot regain their eyesight. Only by making up for the genetic defect can the disease be completely cured.
The world's ophthalmologists had studied this for so many years but still hadn't found a solution. Unexpectedly, it was discovered by a girl!
On this day, medical experts from all over the world bought tickets to Country C without prior consultation and planned to fly to Haicheng to visit Xu Zixi and take a look at the legendary "Golden Amber".
After learning that Xu Zixi intended to re - choose a university for further study, the world's top 50 medical schools sent people to Country C one after another, hoping to recruit this suddenly - emerged biomedical genius!
Media reporters from all over the world also flocked to Country C!
In a laboratory in Las Vegas, Country A.
"The Lancet" is a top - level medical journal, and each issue is sent here immediately after its release.
At this moment, a man in a white coat, with a handsome but gloomy face, was sitting back in his chair, flipping through the latest issue of "The Lancet".
The first paper in the journal was about the medicinal research significance of the glandular fluid of the "Golden Amber". After carefully reading to the last sentence, he saw the name "Tang Qian" as the second author. His bony hands, covered with tiny wounds, tightly grasped the magazine still exuding the smell of ink. His upturned phoenix eyes were filled with anger because things had gotten out of his control.
He had already dealt with the key information discovered by that person, but unexpectedly, someone still discovered this secret in the end. And it was her...
"'Whale Fall', you've impressed me once again. But do you think you can make him regain his sight?"
"Dream on."