Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder Supporting Female Lead Couldn’t Care Less - Chapter 288

Hearing about the pain made Yu Guang relax.

For the soul of the client to feel pain meant that it must be a very urgent task.

Yu Guang had no idea how long it actually took before she was finally transported through the channel. All she knew was that her body suddenly felt light, and she finally entered her next task world.

As soon as she entered the task world, a woman’s overjoyed voice came into her ears. She said, “Sir, I finally have a heartbeat.”

A man’s deep voice replied to her, saying, “Don’t be too happy. This patient drank a large dose of paraquat. This is likely temporary.”

Some people said that if someone took a large dose of paraquat, then no one would be able to save them. Really, what was the use of trying to save this person now?

At the same time, another doctor nearby got emotional as well. He expressed his frustration by saying, “I heard that the patient herself is a resident doctor. How could she do this to herself?”

Paraquat was a deadly substance. The mortality rate of its consumption was as high as 90%. For the patient to be saved, she must not have consumed more than 5 ml of the substance.

She also had to receive help within six hours after consuming the substance.

Those who didn’t consume more than the fatal limit could still be saved, as long as their digestive system could be cleaned of the substance within six hours. Even then, the damage to the patient’s lungs was irreversible.

Paraquat often attacked the lungs first before it eroded any other organs.

Lungs that had been eroded by paraquat would become completely useless. No matter how much money was spent on that patient’s treatment, that patient wouldn’t recover. They simply couldn’t be saved. 

However, what was the most scary about paraquat wasn’t its severe toxicity. It was the fact that, when it entered a person’s body, it would destroy their body without affecting their central nervous system.

Paraquat’s effects were both brief and prolonged. As such, until the moment of their death, that person would always remain awake. They would remain fully responsive to the pain that the paraquat dealt them.

It gave the patient enough time to feel regrets, but not to receive help and survive. 

Every time that these doctors had to deal with a patient that attempted or committed su*cide by using this method, they always felt very helpless and powerless.

Their effort could bring some comfort to the patient’s family, but would only deal more torture towards the patient.

The patient before them was such a case. Multiple organs in her body had failed, and her lungs were already completely destroyed.

The moment that they turned off the respiratory support machine, she would immediately die.

This person was a doctor herself.

How could he not feel frustrated and emotional about this? Didn’t this person learn about paraquat while she was in medical school?

As the doctor said that, a nurse hurriedly walked in from the sterilisation room. She informed them, “The family members of the patient asked about the patient’s condition. They said that if she cannot be saved, then we should give up on her and have her organs donated as soon as possible.”

As soon as the nurse finished speaking, Yu Guang’s heart suddenly throbbed.

The doctor in charge of the rescue cursed without even thinking. However, he quickly regained his composure and said, “The patient’s organs are no longer functional. They cannot be transplanted.”

What should be donated? All her organs had practically been destroyed. How were they supposed to be transplanted?

The nurse expressed her understanding. She then quickly called the nurse outside to inform the patient’s family of the news.

Wailings immediately echoed in that corridor of the hospital.

They sounded sadder when they heard that they couldn’t transplant their daughter’s organs compared to when they heard that she had died.

The doctor was rendered speechless by this. What kind of parents were they?

One wouldn’t be so cold even when treating strangers, let alone their own daughter.

As if sensing that he was in a bad mood, his physician assistant softly said, “Sir, the patient’s medical history includes a bone marrow donation. She’s also missing a kidney.”

Just saying this made his chest tighten. No wonder the patient chose to commit su*cide in such a manner.

Yu Guang felt that she’d heard about everything that she needed to. As such, she sank into her mindscape and said, “08, give me the storyline.”

This was about the only use that 08 had.

Her client in this task world was still named Yu Guang. When she was alive, she lived in a family where everyone was happy but her.

Besides her, this family included her annoying father, her hateful mother, and her unlucky brother.

The Yu family was a picture-perfect family. The only problem in this family was her. 

In fact, she was a child who shouldn’t have ever been born in the first place.

Yu Guang had a brother who was sixteen years older than her. Her brother’s name was Yu Yaoyang. 

Even just Yu Yaoyang’s name made it clear what kind of hopes that Yu Yaoyang’s parents had for him. [1]

Yu Yaoyang didn’t disappoint his parents. Ever since he was a child, he had been a prodigy. At the age of fifteen, he was admitted to a top university with excellent grades.

However, his fate also took a turn for the worse this year. That year, Yu Yaoyang was diagnosed with leukaemia.

If that was the end of it, things would have been better. However, Yu Yaoyang had the same blood type as Father Yu: the rare Rh-negative blood type, which in China was referred to as ‘panda blood’.

Less than 1% of the nationwide population had this blood type. This meant that there were also very few donors available for the blood type.

If they waited for a match, it might take very long. By then, things could be too late.

Father Yu owned his own company. His son was the company’s only hope and its future. Of course, Father Yu and Mother Yu couldn’t let anything happen to their son.

After experiencing several rejections when trying to cut in line, Father Yu and Mother Yu received guidance from a kind person and came up with a ‘good’ idea. They could have another child and use the baby’s umbilical cord blood to save their precious soon.

As for whether their second child would find this fair, that wasn’t their concern.

If it weren’t for their son, they wouldn’t have brought their second child into the world, anyway.

Anyhow, their family was well-off, and they could afford to have another child. They didn’t see a need to feel any guilt regarding this decision. [3]

Since this child was coming into their family to enjoy a good life on this earth, it was only right for that child to pay them back by doing things for their older brother.

It was these ‘expectations’ that the original host’s parents had for her when she was born.

Since she was born to bring hope to Yu Yaoyang, Father Yu and Mother Yu named the original host ‘Yu Guang’, so that Yu Yaoyang would never give up hope at any time. [2]

Their family would always be his strongest supporters.

When the original host was just born, her umbilical cord blood was collected and put to use.

After she grew older, she underwent peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, which stabilised Yu Yaoyang’s condition.

When the original host turned five, Yu Yaoyang showed signs of relapse. Her parents then took her for a bone marrow examination, so she could provide bone marrow for Yu Yaoyang’s bone marrow transplant.

Thanks to these procedures, the original host had hated her family since the moment that she gained self-consciousness. 

Even then, Father Yu and Mother Yu continued brainwashing the original host.

“Without your brother, you wouldn’t exist.”

“Your brother is sick. Our whole family must make sacrifices for him.”

“Giving a rose to others leaves fragrance in your hand. This isn’t just about saving your brother; it’s also about making yourself feel fulfilled.”

“Your brother is so good. You should be happy to make sacrifices for him.”

“Everyone says that you’re a sensible kid. Shouldn’t you be better behaved?”

“Look, your brother is praising you for being smart again. Aren’t you happy?”

The original host wanted to say that she was unhappy with the way things were. She was unwilling to make sacrifices. She was also very scared of the needles that’d pierce her body every time she needed to undergo yet another procedure.

After each operation, she would always feel very hurt and cold.

Even after taking medicine, she would still be in a lot of pain.

Since everyone had to make sacrifices for her brother, why was she the only one who had to have her bone marrow extracted?

However, no one wanted to listen to her complaints.

Translator’s Note:

[1] The character Yao can mean ‘shine, sparkle, dazzle, or glory’ while Yang can mean ‘light, sun, male.’

[2] The character Guang means ‘light.’

[3] Families in China, who were subject to the one-child policy and violated it, faced large fines and other penalties. It’s presumable that in this story, Yu Guang was born sometime during the time span when the one-child policy was implemented (1980-2016). Since 2021, China has implemented a three-child policy.