Binhai University Affiliated Hospital is the most renowned and comprehensive hospital in Binhai City. It receives the most critical patients transferred from other areas and those who specifically come seeking treatment.

Lin Jie impersonated a relative visiting a patient and sneaked into the inpatient building of this hospital, making his way to the intensive care unit.

He was looking for patients in the terminal stages of liver cancer and uterine cancer!

For such patients, the cancer cells have already spread throughout the body, leaving no hope for treatment—only consuming resources while waiting to die. Lin Jie just needed to draw a few milliliters of blood from them.

Lin Jie changed into a white coat in the restroom, carrying a stethoscope in his hand, masquerading as an intern doctor, and wandered around the wards searching for targets.

The management of the Affiliated Hospital was quite strict, and the bed cards were meticulously filled out. Besides basic patient information, there was a brief diagnosis, which saved Lin Jie a lot of effort.

He roamed through over a dozen wards and found four patients with uterine cancer!

After his initial inquiry and own diagnosis in a three-person general ward, he identified a thirty-one-year-old woman named Pan Meichen as a terminal uterine cancer patient.

Clad in a hospital gown, she lay lifeless on the bed, her hair completely gone due to chemotherapy, with no family by her side.

She was severely emaciated, her face pale and haggard to the extreme, but judging by her facial features, she must have been a beauty when healthy!

When Lin Jie requested to draw some blood for an experiment, Pan Meichen did not refuse and cooperatively, though weakly, extended her needle-poked, skinny arm.

Lin Jie took out a prepared empty syringe and skillfully drew about ten milliliters of venous blood.

"I wouldn't have guessed, you're so young, yet your technique is exceptionally skilled!"

Pan Meichen managed a slight smile and said, "Now the young nurses are afraid to insert needles on me; it's always the head nurse personally doing it, and even then, it takes three to four attempts each time. You're really good at it."

"Luck! Pure luck! Thank you for your cooperation!" Lin Jie replied perfunctorily, ready to leave, as he still needed to find a liver cancer patient.

Pan Meichen suddenly spoke, "Can you... can you chat with me for a while?"

Seeing her dull eyes and extremely pale face, Lin Jie felt a sense of compassion inexplicably soften his heart. He sat on the corner of her bed and said softly, "My job is quite idle; I can chat with you for an hour!"

A glimmer of emotion flashed in Pan Meichen's eyes as she gratefully said, "Thank you! I just want to tell you my story. I feel you're very approachable, and I'm afraid if I don't say it now, there might not be another chance."

"Go ahead, I'm listening," Lin Jie responded quietly.

Pan Meichen gazed emptily at the ceiling, recalling as she spoke, "My story is very cliché, extremely cliché! I come from a small county in Chuansi Province, with a father and mother, and a younger sister and brother."

"After graduating from vocational school, I returned to the county to work!"

"Unexpectedly, my brother suddenly fell seriously ill, urgently needing a large sum of money. With no other choice, I agreed to become a boss's mistress to gather the money."

She spoke lightly, without a trace of emotional fluctuation, as if narrating someone else's story.

"My brother's illness finally got better, but my affair with that boss was exposed. His wife beat me up severely, and my own parents expelled me from home, saying they no longer had a daughter."

"I came to Binhai, somewhat resigned, and engaged in work you can surely imagine. A few years ago during the Spring Festival, I returned once. They accepted the money and gifts but didn't even let me in!"

"That time, I truly realized I no longer had a home, nor family."

Pan Meichen turned her gaze to Lin Jie and said indifferently, "Back in Binhai, I became even more indulgent."

"Two years ago, I was diagnosed with uterine cancer. When I heard the diagnosis, I didn't feel scared but rather a sense of relief, a feeling of liberation. My heart said, finally, the moment has come."

"Do you find this feeling strange?"

Lin Jie gently shook his head and said, "I don't find it strange. People like you with self-destructive and world-weary tendencies are not uncommon. To exaggerate a bit, every one of us has some self-destructive tendencies, but the vast majority manage to control it rationally."

"True, you're a doctor, so you must have seen all kinds of strange patients!"

Pan Meichen smiled self-deprecatingly and continued, "After being diagnosed, I took out all my savings and traveled. When the money was gone, I came here, volunteered as a test subject, and even donated my body. Now I'm just waiting to die."

"That's my story, quite boring, isn't it?"

Lin Jie gently shook his head and said, "No matter how one lives, it's their life. As long as you don't find it boring, you probably don't care about others' opinions or judgments either."

"I do care, I care a lot..."

Tears welled up in Pan Meichen's eyes as she choked out, "If I didn't care, why would I have self-destructively indulged in a fit of anger? But with things as they are, I can't go back."

Lin Jie, momentarily indifferent, stood up. After her emotions calmed a bit, he pondered and said, "Do you have any unfulfilled wishes? Do you want to contact your family?"

Pan Meichen shook her head, "Unfulfilled wishes? Before entering the hospital, I already fulfilled them. I wrote a will. When I die, the hospital will send someone to deliver it to my family."

"The experiments they're conducting on me are done. Now, I just want to leave this world sooner."

"You don't know, the anesthetics are increasingly ineffective. This daily torment is so unbearable and painful. But none of the doctors or nurses is willing to help me."

"I wonder if you..."

Pan Meichen only finished half her sentence, but Lin Jie understood what she meant—assisted death, which is still not allowed domestically.

Seeing Pan Meichen placed in this ordinary three-person ward, Lin Jie knew she wasn't lying.

If the medical experiment on her wasn't completed, at least, she would've been arranged into a single-occupancy room to avoid external interference with the experiment data.

Lin Jie knew what kind of pain a terminal cancer patient endures.

He took off the stethoscope, pretended to give Pan Meichen a check-up, and when his fingers pressed on her carotid sinus, he whispered, "If a person lies on their side with something hard like a knuckle pressing here, cardiac arrest could occur within minutes!"

Pan Meichen understood Lin Jie's words, nodded slowly, and softly said, "Thank you! Thank you..."

Leaving the ward, Lin Jie didn't know if what he did was right or wrong, feeling a bit inexplicably heavy.

Finding the terminal liver cancer patient took Lin Jie quite some effort, running several floors, and he finally found the patient he was looking for in a single room.

Fortunately, this patient was inserted with tubes all over and was in a coma, with no one accompanying them. Lin Jie swiftly drew some blood and left the room.

It seemed Lin Jie's luck had run out!

Just as he completed his task and exited the room, he bumped into a group of doctors, and leading them was a familiar face.

Lin Jie quickly turned around, walked briskly in the other direction, silently praying, "Didn't see me! Didn't see me!"

But contrary to his wishes, a loud voice immediately shouted, "You, the guy walking briskly, stop right there!"

"Keep walking, and I'll recognize you. Don't make me call security!"

Under these circumstances, Lin Jie had to stop and turn around, with a cheeky grin, "Professor Chen, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to bump into you here!"

Professor Chen Shi waved to stop the people behind him, slowly approached Lin Jie, and said in a deep voice, "Indeed, it's quite the coincidence. It's my first time seeing you in a white coat with a stethoscope!"

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