218: Demotion.
Author: King Solomon
last update2024-09-02 05:09:21

Scarlet's father was sweating profusely in the hospital's president's office, and the president had to calm him down by informing him that if he knew any information that could save his daughter and was holding it back, it could lead to his daughter's death, so he should speak up.

"My daughter is mixed," the inspector informed the president, who was still trying to understand what he was saying.

"She is mixed how, please speak in clear terms so that I and my staff can know how to help your daughter survive this," the hospital president said, tired of the inspector's evasiveness.

"The thing is that she is my daughter, but her mother is different; her mother died at a young age during our early marriage, when she was only a few months old, so I married again quickly, and that is how she is. She got her seizures from her birth mother," the inspector said with a heavy sign, as if he had just released a truckload of guilt he had been carrying around for years.

No one knew she was not his d
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