The Devil Doctor's Spicy Love
Chapter 193: A sliver of hope?

Chapter 193: A sliver of hope?

Jia pounded her fist on the wall and once again, yet the storm of uncontrollable fury refused to settle down for even a minute. She didn’t know how to dump all that disgust she was feeling that crawled in every inch of her skin.

"That’s not a really healthy way to express your emotions."

Mingshen’s voice hummed in the air.

Jia closed her eyes, but she couldn’t concentrate. The images flowed in her head despite her resistance and the pain only intensified.

Mingshen stepped closer and held her wrist to pull it away from the wall. There were abrasions on knuckles and fingers, and blood was slightly trickling down the small areas of peeled skin.

"Ah, you have hurt yourself," he clicked his tongue.

"This is nothing compared to the pain in which I pushed Ehuang into!" She exclaimed, her misty eyelashes trembling.

Mingshen forced her to sit to which she lashed out, irritated. "Leave me alone!"

"So that you can break your hand?" He cocked his brow. "Remember that you have just recovered from a broken knee."

She glared at him. "I don’t need any first aid so please-"

"Are you trying to take on Ehuang’s pain? It’s useless because you cannot even begin to understand the gravity of it. So pipe down and sit, Superintendent Song Jia," he icily but very quietly shot back.

It was as if thorns and lightning crackled between them. Anybody who would intervene would only become a sacrifice.

Mingshen opened the first aid kit and began disinfecting her wounds.

"Anger is a very powerful emotion, Spicy," he said, patting her fingers with a swab of cotton. "It erupts like a volcano. You have to be like that mountain who doesn’t get burned by it, yet the lava flowing out of it would not even leave anybody’s ashes who comes in its way."

Jia replied. "...I am sorry for lashing out at you."

"I don’t get offended when Spicy is involved~"

When she managed to bring her thoughts together, she said, "I was an idiot. Ehuang is in this condition because of me. I failed her. How could I just believe in their words on face value? She was scared of her parents. She was shaking so badly when she was with us. How could I not understand that the situation was abnormal? I thought...that it was the typical fear teenagers felt towards their parents when caught."

A small tear slipped down her left eye. "It was way worse than that. They are not the type of people to understand by reasoning. Logic and emotions are foreign to them because they are maniacs! And I sent Ehuang right into their den to get eaten up!"

"If that’s the case, then I am equally to blame, don’t I?" Mingshen said, wrapping the dressing around her hand.

He remembered the fear with which she talked to him. It was now that he realized that it was so because Ehuang might not know how to talk to men in general because she was so crulley sheltered. She was educated that it was bad talking to a man, but he misunderstood her hesitation to be of a teenager speaking to an adult.

Jia whispered, her vacant gaze staring ahead. "Are...parents supposed to be like this? What were they thinking when they made their daughter go through this? I am not able to understand their thought process at all..."

"Because it doesn’t fall under logic and reasoning category, Spicy."

He closed the first aid kit and leaned back in silence. He stared at Jia, whose clouded gaze was difficult to interpret.

"This is...messed up on so many different levels," Jia rubbed her temple with her breathing slightly going haggard. "Obviously, the parents have to be punished. And Ehuang might need to come up in the court for testimony. But then what...? What will she do without her parents? She is only sixteen...H-How is she supposed to live her life without them?"

Suddenly, her own frightful memories of her parents dying right before her eyes surfaced in her mind. Even though the situation was different, it wouldn’t change the fact that Ehuang would be separated from her parents.

First it was Dai Yun from the Dahua movie theater case and now Ehuang, who would also have to go through this agonizing loss. She clenched her fist hard until her nails threatened to pierce her skin.

"Why the fuck can parents not act as parents for God’s sake! What is so difficult about it!? Why do they always have to choose a path that only ends up painful for their children? Why are the children always suffering from their decisions? If they don’t know how to be decent parents, then why even bother giving birth!?"

Her childhood’s past and the recent cases coincided painfully in her heart. But she suddenly realized that she screamed a little louder than necessary and stiffened.

"I am fine," she breathed out. "I am fine, okay?"

Mingshen said, "But I didn’t ask you if you were doing fine. Nobody is with the way things are."

Jia frowned. She was sure she felt as if she heard him saying something.

Was I imagining it?

"I see...I am sorry for lashing out again," she averted her gaze.

He squinted his eyes. "The lashing out isn’t as much of a problem as something else in your mind is."

"There is no problem in my mind," her gaze darkened. "Are you saying I am mental?"

"Getting agitated and too defensive unnecessarily is one part of it that you exhibited just now."

Her lips stretched in a thin line. "It’s Ehuang’s case that has riled me up, nothing else."

"Time will tell that clearly," he smiled meaningfully.

"Ignore my future for now and let’s focus on Ehuang’s," she said. "I am dragging her parents right away to the bureau for some serious interrogation. We also have to let Jin’s parents know that he is here. You stay here by her side. Call me if anything comes up."

It looked as though Jia was back in her mode again as her eyes blazed with the demand of justice.

Mingshen stared at her departing figure for a moment and then headed inside. Inside the ward, Ehuang urged him to come near her. Her eyes were reddened but they also looked at him with a sliver of hope.

"Dr. Yang..."

"Yes, Ehuang," he stood beside her with his hands behind his back.

"Is there some way t-to undo the surgeries? Make everything normal again? How...can I l-live my life like this?" Her eyes ached.

"Yes, please help us Dr. Yang!" Jin begged. "You are the best doctor. Only you can help us...Th-there must be some way."

Mingshen stared at them. "We can look for some possibilities."

Jin and Ehuang beamed.

"But the problem is that you are underage. To operate any surgery on an underage child, a doctor needs consent and permission from their parents."

They froze.

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