Winner Takes All

“Mr. Hughes, I am sorry to tell you that your mother is in the late stage of liver cancer…”

Seeing the doctor shaking his head, Jack suddenly felt dizzy with bloodshot eyes. Since he was a child, his mother and he had been relying on each other. To fund his education, his mother had been overworked and ill. Without having the chance to enjoy her twilight years, she was suffering instead.

“Doctor, could you please save my mom? Any way we can try?”

Jack begged in a hoarse voice and almost cried.

“There is actually a way—liver transplant. Fortunately the hospital is able to achieve that…”The doctor said after hesitating for a moment. He paused again while staring at Jack up and down. He knew very well how the long and arduous medical treatments had taken a toll on Jack. However, he decided to break it to Jack, “But…it’s quite costly—at least two hundred thousand yuan.”

Two hundred thousand yuan? Jack’s eyes suddenly lit up as he grabbed the doctor’s hands, “I still have two hundred thousand yuan! You must save her. Please!”

Jack knew that he could make that money again, but his mother’s life would not take two.

“Then you have to come up with the money as soon as possible. If this delays, even the liver transplant would not save your mom,” the doctor nodded while letting out a sigh before leaving. He went home quickly and saw Katherine, his wife, sitting in the crouch.

“Mom is dying?”

Katherine asked as she caught a glimpse of Jack.

“The doctor said liver transplant was the only way we have,” Jack sounded as if he had grasped the last straw of hope as he continued excitedly, “It costs two hundred thousand yuan, and fortunately we still have it. Mom has one last chance here.”

A second later, he turned around to get the bank card. However, Katherine’s face changed as she halted him, “Jack, stop right there!”

Jack frowned as though he suddenly recalled something important. He turned around and stared at Katherine, “Where’s the money?”

She looked flustered as she started to stammer. “Did you give it to your family again?”

Jack raised his eyebrows with a bitter smile.

box from his pocket. With a flash, he

had happened before.

“Can

“Get it back?”

are you trying to say? I gave it to my parents as a daughter. How

for mum in the hospital right now. If I can pay the bill now, the hospital can carry out

what I worry about. It’s your problem and you should come

mumbled. “How do I get two hundred thousand yuan in such a short

head was going to explode, but he still begged Katherine in a pathetic tone, “Katherine, you have to help me. Get

ask for it again,” Katherine wailed as she sat on the floor, “Your mom is going to pass away anyway, but you

He felt that he was going to burst into anger

you won’t call them,

she could stop him, the call

has given you two hundred thousand

“Can we get it back? My mom is dying. I need it to pay for her surgery since she is

him with a shriek, “Jack, what nonsense are you spouting now? Katherine has given us that money, and you have the gut to ask for it? We’ve never

from the countryside, want us to return the money. How ridiculous! Let me make it clear. Tommy is going to marry soon, and we are going to use that two hundred thousand for the down payment of his future

that, the phone went dead. Jack was

Elissa understand his words? His mom was relying on that money to save her life! “Jack, are

do that? Is it wrong for me to give some

“So you think your brother’s new house is more important than my

“Nonsense!”

let go of him before grabbing the items in their house

since I married you. We even rent this shit house now. Do

“Lending a helping hand?”

“Over the past three years since we are married, how many times have you helped that useless Tommy, a man doing nothing but living off his parents? It is