Chapter 361


    Chapter 361 Living In Humiliation? No Thank You


    Polly fiew from tree to tree. No matter how quickly Bellflower could move, it was still a four-legged


    creature!


    Bellflower’s whiskers were twitching with irritation.


    Meow’ I rather die than live on in humiliation!


    Polly continued to dodge cach lunge and sent Bellflower crashing into the bushes.


    “MeowITT


    The parrot returned to the second floor once it got tired of ying and made sure to fasten the window


    Polly admired the sight of the cat scratching frantically at the ss while happily enjoying her food.


    The cat had caught her off guard thest time. It was a shame that would stick with the bird for the rest


    of


    her life.


    She finally got her revenge!


    Lilly had just arrived at the hospital alongside Bettany when an ambnce whizzed by,


    A child was wheeled out apanied by a woman crying Johnny! My Johnny!”


    Lilly turned to look.


    A closer look made her wonder why the crying woman seemed so familiar. It then urred to her that


    she had met her yesterday…


    “That’s Ruby’s cousin, Pablo helpfully supplied.


    Lilly was shocked. She had only seen signs of Huxley having one foot in the grave and failed to notice


    the boy who was also present.


    She would’ve offered up a warning if she did but it was now toote.


    “Let’s go,” Pablo said.


    His expression was cid. The sight of life and death was par for the course. He’d seen a lot but could


    not interfere with others’ fates. It hardened him.


    Lilly silently trailed after Bettany but kept turning back to steal nces.


    If we can’t stop it even if we see it, then why do we catch ghosts, Master?” She asked.


    Pablo looked at her with downcast eyes and said warmly. “You can stop it but do you know what


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    effects are?


    “By changing one’s fate, you are also affecting the destinies of a million others connected to them.”


    Let’s say Mike grew up to be a criminal. He murders andmits arson. Ten people will die because of


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    him. Mike, however, should’ve died in an ident as a child. Those ten people would’ve survived if fate


    ran its course.”


    “But by saving him today, he would grow up to be a murderer with the blood of ten people on his


    hands.”


    “It’s fate.”


    It wasn’t as if he were indifferent to it. There was just no way for him to guarantee that his decision to


    interfere would be right or wrong.


    Lilly pursed her lips. “What if Mike was a hero?”


    What if Mike grew up to be someone who saved ten people? Wouldn’t she be condemning ten people


    to their graves if she chose not to save him?


    Pablo nodded. “Indeed but the reason boils down to how we cannot predict where Mike would turn out


    to be a good or bad person. We don’t know if he’s a hero or a murderer.”


    “It’s exactly because we don’t know that we don’t intervene. We can’t recklessly interfere with


    someone’s fate just because we’re more powerful than the average person.”


    Lilly couldn’t fully understand him.


    There were some truths she couldn’t grasp as a child. Perhaps she’d understand with experience.


    Bettany was used to Lilly talking to herself and chose not to interrupt. It was Zachary who spoke up.


    “You should just call the cat Fortune Cat, Lilly.”


    You like money. The more the merrier.


    Lilly was taken aback. “…”


    “I think you should get hospitalized, Zac!”


    Why did Zachary seem so much more dimwitted after she stopped being vignt against the


    Crawfords?


    She shook her head.


    Bettany handled the hospitalization procedures in an orderly manner.


    Ruby’s cousin, meanwhile, was still crying before the intensive care unit.


    “Johnny. My darling Johnny…”


    By her side were her rtives. Even Joel was there.


    “What happened?” Joel, who had just sobered up, was sell confused. “Johnny was fine yesterday. Did


    he roll out of the bed because you didn’t pay attention to himst night?”


    Ruby’s cousin pped him. “Shut up!”


    Joel was annoyed for having been pped but the res their rtives were sending his way made


    himply.


    It had nothing to do with him anyway. He huddled in a corner to y on his phone and treated it as if it


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    were a normal hospital visit.


    The doors to the ICU opened and the doctor stepped outside with a report.


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    “You apprised my colleagues about the situation on your way here, yes? There’s something very


    important. that I need to know. The child drank alcohol yesterday?


    The woman was shocked to which another answered, Just a small mouthful…”


    “We excluded trauma and ruled out food poisoning. The biggest possibility is now alcohol poisoning or


    alcohol allergy. You do know children aren’t supposed to drink?” The doctor said seriously.


    That was when she remembered what happened yesterday and muttered, “Johnny fell asleep after


    drinking that mouthful of wine. He didn’t wake up even after I brought him home. He did shift around. I


    didn’t think too much of it because I assumed he had tied himself out from ying. He didn’t wake up in


    the morning and hisplexion had changed for the worst…”


    To think…


    She felt her blood turn cold. How was she going to find the money to fund her son’s stay in the


    hospital?


    The doctor continued to speak and said they might’ve sought help toote. There was no guarantee


    that the child would survive. Even if he miraculously recovered, it was likely he would suffer brain


    damage. They were asked to prepare themselves for the worst.


    Ruby’s cousin went insane. The moment the ICU doors shut behind the doctor, she lunged at Joel and


    forcefully pped him!


    “You! It’s always you! Why did you feed my son alcohol! Give him back!”


    Joel had been focused on TikTok shorts of women dancing and was barely paying attention to what the


    doctor was saying. He was pped before he could even process what had happened.


    “Hey! What are you doing?! Stop!” He tried to stop her but why would she when everything wasing


    apart at the seams?


    She was screeching and hitting him!


    It was the rtives’ discussion that made him realize that Johnny was admitted to the hospital because


    of the alcohol.


    The revtion shocked him. It was just one mouthful of wine. How was that possible?


    The final diagnosis hadn’t even been announced!


    “Are you crazy?! The doctor only suspects that to be the cause. It has nothing to do with me!” He


    eximed and tried to leave, only for a trash can to hit him in the head.


    Ruby’s eyes were bloodshot. “Joel Jenkins! You put my father back in the hospital again. I told you over


    and over to stop trying to make him drink. Look what you’ve done. Do you want to send him to his


    grave before you’re satisfied?!”


    It turned out that after Johnny was whisked away by emergency services, Huxley also copsed.


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    He felt a dull pain in his abdomen after drinking yesterday but let it be because he didn’t think it was a


    big deal. He copsed the next morning. It was only after was wheeled into the ER that they realized he


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    was hemorrhaging from his surgical site.


    He was now being resuscitated.


    Ruby was beyond anxious and livid. She exploded after learning her cousin’s son was also in the ICU


    because of alcohol consumption.


    There were no weapons at the hospital but there were multiple trash cans in the corridor.


    She grabbed it and hammered it against his head with no mercy. Fruit peels, cigarette butts, and


    tissues all came tumbling down on Joel.


    Her cousin meanwhile was entranced by the sight of a brick that held the security exit open…


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