Chapter 3 Cerebral Hemorrhage

Upon seeing this, Mike was shocked. "Bastard! What did you do?"

Everyone in Y City knew very well that Mary could be quite aggressive. At times, Mike pondered if he had spoiled Mary too much that she turned too willful. Even then, he didn't expect anything like this from her.

How could she do that to her sister?

Serena flashed Mary a defiant sneer-she had successfully framed Mary. In a low voice, she hissed, "Mary, you're so arrogant but this time, you lose to me."

At that moment, a realization dawned on Mary. Who else would know her number and her whereabouts? Serena!

"Bitch!" Mary raised her hand in an attempt to slap Serena.

Watching the entire scene unfold, Mike only grew angrier at Mary.

"Bastard! Stop it!"

he roared. Unfortunately, his voice was dulled by the thunder in the sky.

It seemed that Mary hadn't heard him as his voice was inaudible, being drowned out by the thunder.

Mary was in a frenzied rage.

She slapped Serena across the face whose face was now burning.

However, Mary wasn't done yet. Driven by her fury, she was like a bloodthirsty beast.

She rushed forward and grabbed Serena's hair as she positioned herself on top of Serena. "Tell me! Did you set me up? Did you send that message?"

Mike was taken aback-he didn't expect that Mary would be so rebellious as to openly disobey him. How could she be so cruel to her own sister?

Since Mary had her back turned to Mike, she couldn't see how furious he was. Meanwhile, Serena had a pretty good view of Mike's wrath much to her delight.

A knowing smile tugged at the corners of her mouth as she theatrically pretended to be in pain. "Mary, let go of me! It hurts! Why are you so mad at me? I don't even know what you're talking about!"

"Is that so?" Mary snorted as she clutched a fistful of Serena's hair. "Stop playing dumb! If you hadn't texted me and lured me into that hotel, this never would have happened! How could I have fallen into your trap?"

Serena was a bit started at how angry Mary was. She could already feel her scalp burning.

Still, the show had to go on. "What hotel? Mary, what are you talking about? I don't understand you! You were caught red-handed having an affair in the hotel! Why are you blaming me?"

"Why don't you just admit what you did?" Mary demanded. While she was naturally cold and arrogant, she didn't think that someone would hate her so much that they even set up a trap for her.

The last person she expected who would plot against her was her own sister!

"Mary! Why would I admit to something I didn't do? You can't do this to me just because I didn't defend you!"

Upon hearing this, a shiver ran down Mike's spine as blood rushed straight to his head.

Thump!

Mike collapsed on the floor.

"Grandpa!" Mary cried as she dashed over to Mike.

However, she was too late. Mike's head had already hit the floor as a pool of dark red blood oozed out of his head.

In the emergency room of the hospital

The Gu family had gathered together while Mary buried herself in the corner, wrapping her arms around her knees. The cold air surrounded her.

The chilliness ate her up. It spread throughout her entire body-her heart and then her limbs.

The Gu family whispered amongst themselves, shooting glances every now and then at Mary as if she was some monster. She ignored them, not even bothering to care. Immersed in her own world, she would occasionally look towards the operating room, visibly worried.

The light was still on which meant that Mike was still in surgery

The Gu family were causing a buzz.

"If I had known that this troublemaker would do this, I never would have let her inside the house!"

"How ungrateful! Mike's the one who protected her the most. How dare she do this to him! I bet she wants to kill him!"

"I should've kicked her out! No one wants her anyway. She's a cold bitch!"

They weren't even trying to lower their voices anymore. Meanwhile, Mary still can't get the scene of Mike collapsing out of her head. Everything was still so vivid in her mind.

It was all her fault. If only she had been more careful. If only she hadn't been so rash. If only...

Unfortunately, there was no use on dwelling in such thoughts. It had happened already-Mike had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage because of her. At present, he was inside the operating room and no one knew if he was even going to live.

Bang!

The door of the operating room suddenly flew open as a nurse wearing a white mask poked her head out.

"The patient has lost too much blood. He needs blood transfusion. Where is the patient's family?"

Everyone fell silent at the mention of the blood transfusion.

And they called her a cold-hearted bitch? Where were they now that Mike needed them?

Mary shoved the thought aside as she quickly jumped up and volunteered, "Me! I'm his granddaughter! I can give my blood to him!"

Having stayed in such a position for a long time gave her a headache. Perhaps she had stood up way too fast. In addition to that, she looked so pale that she almost looked like a patient.

The nurse looked at Mary with concern. "Can you do it?"

Even if she couldn't, she had to try! She had to be there for her grandpa.

She rolled up her sleeves, revealing her pallid skin. "It doesn't matter! As long as I can save Grandpa, I'm willing to do anything!"

Mary followed the nurse all the way to the blood drawing room, her footsteps unsteady.

Ever since she was a child, she'd always been afraid of injections. But now, even as the shiny tip of the needle gleamed under the light, she wasn't the slightest bit afraid.

She felt like a heroine. Her grandfather had always protected her. Now it was time for her to do something for him.

As the needle pierced her skin, she grimaced.

She bit her tongue, trying to endure the pain. Soon, dark red blood began flowing through the IV.

The nurse immediately ran back to the operating room with the bag of blood in hand. After a while, she came back out once more.

The light was still on.

"It's not a match. Does the patient have any other relatives?"

Her voice boomed throughout the hall.

"What? How could this be?" Mary was on the verge of collapsing.

Finally, the Gu family spoke up. They all had strange looks on their faces. "Didn't Mike ever tell you? You're not his real granddaughter. You're adopted."

"She was just abandoned. Does she really think she's a Gu? How arrogant!"

"I was wondering why she was so enthusiastic in donating blood. Looks like she was just after the glory. I didn't know that she was just adopted!"

Mary drowned the voices out.

'You're adopted.' The thought kept ringing in her head.

It felt like a blow to the stomach. Finally, unable to stand it any longer, her vision went blank as she fell into a heap on the floor.