Lin Kenning's eyes reddened, but she remained silent for a long while. Mu Changsheng had already lent her twenty thousand yuan last time, and she still had not paid it back. She was too embarrassed to ask him for help again.
Lin Kenning shyly pulled free from Mu Changsheng's embrace and asked, blushing, "Why are you... here?"
Mu Changsheng pointed at the electric scooter parked nearby. "Delivering food."
Lin Kenning froze. "What time is it already... You're still delivering food?"
"Don't worry about me. Stop changing the subject. Why are you here?"
Mu Changsheng had wanted to find out what exactly had happened to Lin Kenning's family before.
Since he had helped her today anyway, he might as well get to the bottom of it. Otherwise, if a beautiful girl like her got set up by Liu Tianhao and those people again, it would only become trouble for him in the end.
Lin Kenning looked somewhat embarrassed and waved her hand. "It's nothing... nothing. Just... some small matter. I can handle it."
Mu Changsheng frowned. "You can handle it?"
"If you could handle it, why were you crying at the hospital entrance?"
Lin Kenning's delicate body stiffened slightly, and the light in her beautiful eyes immediately dimmed.
Seeing that Lin Kenning would not speak, Mu Changsheng sighed, took her hand, and led her into the hospital.
"If you still don't want me asking, then take me to the ward."
Mu Changsheng looked toward the nurse and suddenly asked.
Lin Kenning raised her head and opened her mouth. In the end, unable to withstand Mu Changsheng's gaze, she led him toward her younger brother's ward.
Mu Changsheng followed Lin Kenning into a ward. Inside lay a boy of around eleven or twelve, his face pale as he received an IV drip.
"Your... little brother?"
Seeing that the boy resembled Lin Kenning somewhat, Mu Changsheng asked.
Lin Kenning nodded, her expression sorrowful.
Mu Changsheng frowned. "What illness does your brother have?"
"A month ago, his stomach started hurting. At first, we only bought some medicine from the local clinic, but it didn't do much. Later, with no other choice, we brought him to the hospital."
"Then they ran a lot of tests. The CT scan and everything else showed no problems. In the end, with no other choice, we had a gastroscopy and colonoscopy done. Then the attending doctor said... said my brother had stomach cancer."
As Lin Kenning spoke, tears began falling from her eyes again despite herself.
"The surgery costs a huge amount of money. I simply can't afford it..."
Mu Changsheng frowned as he looked at the boy lying on the bed. "Your brother is only twelve. How could he possibly have cancer?"
Although food additives were everywhere these days, it was impossible for someone so young to get cancer.
Besides, Lin Kenning was from the countryside. The food she ate should have been... better.
"Where is your brother's gastroscopy report?"
Mu Changsheng looked at Lin Kenning and asked.
Lin Kenning froze. "It's not with me... It's with the attending doctor."
At that, Mu Changsheng's expression turned strange.
Mu Changsheng looked at the boy on the bed, his lips twitching. "What is your brother's name?"
Lin Kenning paused before answering, "Lin Keyang."
"Your brother... might not be sick."
Mu Changsheng said softly.
Lin Kenning froze. "?"
"Tomorrow, take me to meet your attending doctor, and I'll know."
"For now, I can't be certain."
The next day, Ruisheng Hospital.
Lin Kenning brought Mu Changsheng to the attending doctor's office.
Outside the office, Lin Kenning looked at Mu Changsheng, then finally raised her hand and knocked on the door.
"Doctor..."
"Come in."
Lin Kenning walked in somewhat nervously.
A fat doctor sat inside the office, wearing glasses. His eyes narrowed as he first examined Lin Kenning's face, then immediately smiled. "Kenning, you're here."
But then Mu Changsheng walked in as well. The moment Mu Changsheng saw the attending doctor before him, the corner of his mouth twitched.
That confirmed it.
Lin Keyang definitely did not have stomach cancer.
"And this is?"
Du Mingde was slightly taken aback when he saw Mu Changsheng and asked in confusion.
Lin Kenning was about to introduce Mu Changsheng, but he stepped forward and wrapped an arm around her waist. "I'm her husband."
Upon hearing that, Lin Kenning's face instantly flushed scarlet.
Yet she did not dare resist and allowed Mu Changsheng to hold her.
Du Mingde's expression immediately turned unpleasant.
Du Mingde's tone grew noticeably colder. "You're Kenning's husband?"
"Then you don't know what happened to Kenning?"
Mu Changsheng could not be bothered with Du Mingde and said indifferently, "I came to tell you that Keyang is changing hospitals."
Du Mingde's face darkened at once. "Nonsense. Lin Keyang's condition cannot be delayed any longer. Changing hospitals now would mean missing the best treatment window."
Mu Changsheng chuckled. "Then why didn't Doctor Du arrange surgery for Keyang sooner?"
"Why drag things out until now?"
Du Mingde froze, his gaze shifting evasively. "That was... because the fees had not been paid. The hospital has rules...!"
"Then I'm very curious. Keyang has only taken some medicine, received IV drips, and undergone a few tests here. Chemotherapy hasn't even started yet, so how have the medical fees already reached twenty thousand yuan?"
"If your medicine were truly miraculous, I could accept it. But the more he takes, the less effective it becomes... Do you take us for fools?"
Mu Changsheng's tone turned cold as well.
Du Mingde's face trembled as he said in a deep voice, "What do you mean?!"
"I don't mean anything. I'm just very curious what kind of miraculous medicine Doctor Du prescribed that costs so much."
Mu Changsheng said blandly.
Du Mingde snorted. "If you want to change hospitals, fine. Pay the hospitalization fees first."
Lin Kenning's expression stiffened. "Doctor Du, I already paid those hospitalization fees a few days ago."
Du Mingde frowned. "Miss Lin, when did you pay?"
"My records still show that the payment is outstanding."
"And you haven't paid the IV fees for the past three days either."
Hearing this, Mu Changsheng took out his phone, stopped the recording, and casually slipped it into his pocket.
"Kenning, don't worry. Let's pay the fees first, then transfer Keyang to Tannan City First Hospital."
Mu Changsheng gave Du Mingde a look that made his expression shift.
A vague sense of foreboding rose in his heart.
But Du Mingde did not think much of it. His father was the vice president of Ruishi Hospital. What did he have to fear?
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