Hope Lies Here

Three days later, Wang Huilan arrived at the foot of Lion Peak Mountain with her daughter, Zhang Ya.

Through the car window, she saw the sign for "Gao Jing Charity Hospital" hanging beside the main gate, and an unbidden sense of dread rose within the middle-aged woman in her forties.

Over the years, she had gone to many renowned major hospitals across the country to treat her daughter's illness.

Yet after spending countless sums of money, Zhang Ya's condition had only worsened.

Hope after hope, disappointment after disappointment—Wang Huilan had developed an indescribable fear of hospitals.

She was afraid that her hopes would once again turn into profound despair!

And Zhang Ya could no longer endure being put through this.

"Ms. Wang, we're here."

The driver's polite reminder jolted Wang Huilan back to her senses. She realized that the car she was riding in had already stopped in front of the building.

"Ah."

Wang Huilan hurriedly nodded. "All right, thank you."

She quickly got out of the car and, together with the accompanying staff, carried her daughter down and placed her in a wheelchair.

Looking at her daughter's pale little face beneath the sunlight, Wang Huilan's heart churned like rolling waves.

Three days earlier, she had just returned home from work when she received a call from the community office.

They said that a Gao Jing Charity Foundation was carrying out a charitable project, providing free medical services to rare-disease patients from impoverished families.

And because Wang Huilan's daughter Zhang Ya met the requirements, she had been included in the first batch of aid recipients.

The community office asked whether she was willing to take her daughter to Cloud City, a thousand miles away, for treatment.

Naturally, Wang Huilan agreed without a second thought.

Even if there was only a