I don't know how much time had passed when Lin Jie groggily opened his eyes and murmured, "Where am I?"

Lying face down on the bed, he slowly lifted his head!

The scene before him was so abstract—the nightstand would elongate and then shorten, the walls would get close and then distant—it was truly uncomfortable, giving him a nauseous feeling!

Lin Jie quickly closed his eyes, shook his head vigorously, and finally stopped feeling sick, with his muddled mind clearing up a bit!

He clenched his right hand into a fist and started pounding his head, desperately trying to recall what happened before he fainted!

"Bar… dancing… going home… car… anesthesia…"

He finally remembered the most vivid scene before he lost consciousness. Lin Miao fell down, collapsed right in front of him, and then she was held by someone!

"Miaomiao…"

With a startled shout, Lin Jie tried to push himself up!

But the intense pain from his lower left back made him yelp and fall back onto the bed!

The pain had come so suddenly and so violently that Lin Jie broke into a cold sweat, but it also brought him back to full consciousness!

"Could I have been drugged and had an organ harvested?"

This thought, once it occurred, consumed Lin Jie's entire mind, and the accompanying fear nearly halted his thinking.

After a brief pause, Lin Jie's thoughts started working again, regaining some rationality and analytical ability. If an organ had been harvested, the pain site should be the abdomen and chest, not the lower left back!

Feeling slightly reassured, Lin Jie began to observe his situation, discovering he was wearing a white cotton nightshirt, lying on a bed, the walls clad in light-colored textured wallpaper…

This seemed to be a hotel!

Turning his head, he saw someone lying on another bed two meters away!

Covered with a quilt, the extremely familiar side of Lin Miao's face peeked out, her nostrils gently moving. It was Lin Miao!

Lin Miao, who was either sleeping or unconscious!

Other than her, there was no one else in the room!

Lin Jie forced himself to calm down, concentrated and listened for a while, hearing no other sound except for the noise of the air conditioner.

"Miaomiao… Miaomiao…"

Lin Jie softly called a few times, but Lin Miao showed no response, which filled him with deep fear!

He took a deep breath, endured the pain from his lower back, and slowly got out of bed, step by step moving to stand by Lin Miao's bed.

Lin Jie took another deep breath and gently lifted the quilt from Lin Miao's body!

Lin Miao's clothes were intact, the ones she wore to the bar last night. Although they were a bit wrinkled, they didn't seem like they'd been taken off and put on again!

To prevent any accidents, Lin Jie gave Lin Miao a thorough examination!

Her heartbeat and breathing were stable, there were no external injuries or bleeding on her body, and no signs of assault, allowing Lin Jie to breathe a sigh of relief!

He covered Lin Miao with the quilt again, then cautiously moved into the bathroom.

He took off his nightshirt and turned to face the mirror above the sink!

There was a bandaged wound at the posterior superior iliac spine area of his left hip bone!

He reached out and slowly peeled back the bandaging to reveal a needle-puncture wound!

This position is generally used for bone marrow puncture, to extract bone marrow!

Lin Jie immediately understood that he had been forcibly subjected to bone marrow extraction!

This discovery left him both puzzled and relieved.

Bone marrow extraction isn't fatal and he only needed a few days to recover!

Bone marrow transplantation is an effective treatment, primarily used to treat leukemia; bone marrow failure diseases; some solid tumors like breast cancer, ovarian cancer, testicular cancer; and other diseases like combined immunodeficiency, hemophagocytic syndrome, severe autoimmune diseases.

The old method of bone marrow extraction is to draw marrow directly from the donor's iliac bone!

This old method is extremely painful for the donor and requires anesthesia, which causes fear among donors and hinders bone marrow donation, which is why this method is no longer used in modern medicine.

Nowadays, bone marrow transplantation involves extracting hematopoietic stem cells from the donor.

This requires donors to receive daily injections of growth factor for four to five days before donating.

The growth factor injections cause a massive proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells, and the growth factor makes the bone marrow release a large number of hematopoietic stem cells into the bloodstream;

Then, apheresis machines are used to collect stem cells!

Blood is drawn from a vein in one arm, runs through a catheter into an apheresis machine to separate out the hematopoietic stem cells, and other blood components are returned through a catheter and needle into a vein in the other arm.

The entire collection process takes place in a completely closed state, lasting about three to four hours, and ultimately collects 50 milliliters of hematopoietic stem cells.

This method causes the donor minimal suffering and doesn't require hospitalization, and is widely used, although it is relatively time-consuming.

For someone like Lin Jie who was drugged and secretly had bone marrow extracted, a quick and clean approach had to be taken, which meant the first old method had to be used.

"Sister Lanruo, how much do you know about what happened to me?" Lin Jie asked softly!

Shen Lanruo's voice immediately rang in his mind, "Sorry, my perception of the outside world is all based on your perception of the outside, so I don't know more than you do!"

Lin Jie hadn't had high hopes, and upon hearing this, he wasn't very disappointed, and he continued asking, "Sister Lanruo, what do you think about this?"

"The primary condition for bone marrow transplantation is matching!"

"Because a child receives half of their genes from their father and half from their mother, they are at least 50% compatible with either the father or the mother, called a haploidentical match."

"With identical twins, the matching is 100%; with full siblings, the probability of compatibility is 25%."

"In the case of half-siblings or cousins, the probability of matching is very low, about the same as with a stranger, with compatibility ranging from one in 30,000 to one in a million."

Youyou Shen Lanruo said: "Judging from last night's situation, the other side was well-prepared!"

"You have to know, the probability of matching with a half-sibling or a stranger is incredibly low, not impossible, but the odds are so low it drives people crazy!."

"For a stranger unrelated to you to suddenly appear and extract your bone marrow in this manner, the likelihood is minuscule, practically zero!"

She paused for a moment before slowly saying, "Lin Jie, I suspect that who extracted your bone marrow for transplantation might not be anyone other than your mother or father."

"As you know, under current medical conditions, a haploidentical transplant is possible, with a fairly decent success rate. Perhaps, it's even a 100% match who knows!"

In fact, as Shen Lanruo tirelessly listed the probabilities of bone marrow matching, fear dissipated, and Lin Jie, having regained most of his rationality, had already suspected this!

But when Shen Lanruo finally voiced her own conjecture, a wave of indescribable pain surged in Lin Jie's heart!

The other party clearly knew of both his and Miaomiao's existence, yet chose this method to extract his bone marrow, clearly indicating they didn't want to see each other again!

Such parents… such parents…

After calming his feelings, Lin Jie suddenly laughed, saying, "Fine, fine, this is fine too! Consider it repaying the debt of giving life, after this, nothing more is owed!"

"I shouldn't have harbored fantasies to begin with... boohoo..." Suddenly, Lin Jie started to cry like a little child!

At this moment, he cried so sorrowfully!

Tears rolled down his cheeks, gathering at his chin, and then fell like droplets onto his chest, onto the floor…

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