I am the Billionaire CEO's "The One That Got Away". I'm dying of illness and want to return to New York for surgery, but my brother tries every way to stop me from returning. He firmly believes that if I return, the CEO will abandon his "Rebound" (the substitute). He is the ultimate Simp for the substitute. "If you're sick, just endure it, no rush to save you." "Surgery a few days later won't kill anyone, they are about to get married." To survive, I bit the bullet and called the CEO: "Heard I am the one that got away, can you pick me up to return to the country?" Heard when I called, they were holding the wedding. The CEO abandoned the bride and guests, took a flight overnight to rush over. ... Chapter 1 In the hospital ward, other patients were surrounded by family members asking about their health, only I lay lonely on the bed. My brother Sebastian's cold and scoffing voice came from the phone: "Not sick earlier, not sick later, just when Lila is about to hold a wedding with Julian Vance, you are sick to death?" "You really never change, lying becomes nature, do you think I will believe?" "I tell you, stop having crooked ideas, seeking life and death is useless to me, even if you are dying, you have to endure for me, endure until they finish the wedding." I lay weakly on the bed, tears flowing chillingly, begging him with a trembling voice: "Brother, I didn't act, beg you, let me go back to New York okay?" "The doctor said, this surgery only Dr. Foster, who has the most surgical experience in the country, can do it, only then I have hope to live." "My illness, really can't delay anymore, if you don't believe, I let the doctor tell you." I pressed the speaker button, begging the attending doctor to prove for me. The doctor said I didn't lie, indeed critically ill, urgently need to return to the country for surgery. My brother was unmoved: "Surgery a few days later won't kill anyone, they are about to get married, you endure a bit more." The attending doctor was furious, scolding through the phone: "How do you be a brother? Your sister is critically ill, you still want her to endure? I tell you, delay any longer, miss the best surgery time, even if return to the country for surgery, it will be powerless to save, don't regret then." My brother laughed coldly: "I won't regret. You doctors have nothing better to do, actually accompanying her to act against conscience. Just letting her return a few days late is powerless to save? If she insists on making trouble like this, then never come back." I clenched the fabric over my heart, held back tears instantly burst. Turns out brother still doesn't believe? "Brother, how can you believe, do you have to wait until I die, holding my Urn back to the country, then believe?" My voice was too hoarse, too indignant. My brother was silent for a while, seemed moved. At this time my dad's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Serena's call, what's wrong with her?" "She said she is critically ill, needs to return immediately for surgery." My dad disapproved: "What surgery can't be done in London, must go back to New York? Foreign medical conditions are clearly better than domestic. Does this child want to come back to destroy Lila's wedding? Find an excuse also don't know to find a more reasonable one." "I tell you, although Lila is only my stepdaughter, she is also your sister. As a brother, you can't favor one over another, only love Serena, not love Lila." "Lila is about to marry Julian, absolutely no moths can come out at this time. How lethal the return of 'The One That Got Away' is, you are also a man, you should understand." My brother's momentary hesitation was instantly washed away. "I know, forget it, ignore her first." Then, the phone was abruptly hung up. The busy tone of "beep beep" came from the receiver, like a heartless slap, fiercely hitting the begging face of a dying person. So cold, so painful, painful that I couldn't breathe. Turns out the brother who held me in his palm and loved me when I was young, really became Lila's Simp. He is still that sister-spoiling maniac, but the one spoiled is no longer me, his biological sister, but the stepsister Lila who has no blood relation. Do I have to die of illness to get their cheap regret and collapse? But, what use is that? I don't want the spiritual victory method of dead person literature. I want to save myself! Chapter 2 In the following days, I searched for famous doctors abroad, sent my medical records to them, but they all shook their heads. "Can't do it, this surgery is very difficult, only Dr. Foster in New York, who has the most surgical experience, can do it personally, you have hope to live." "Who said foreign medical skills are better than domestic? Talking about surgical experience, doctors in your country dare say second, no one dares say first, especially doctors in your public hospitals." "Dr. Foster is the most authoritative surgeon in this field, known as the number one knife in surgery globally." I emailed Dr. Foster, asking if he could go abroad to operate on me? Dr. Foster replied in the email: [Sorry, due to family reasons, I am restricted from leaving the country. Your illness allows no delay, I suggest you return immediately, come to the hospital to register my number, I can arrange surgery for you as soon as possible.] But I can't return, passport confiscated, and bodyguards watching me 24 hours. Those bodyguards were long bought by Lila. That day I heard my brother call the bodyguard in the ward with my own ears: "Is Serena really sick?" The bodyguard stood outside the ward and said: "Young Master, Miss is not sick." The attending doctor was more anxious than me. "Serena, no matter what, you must return immediately. I have contacted Dr. Foster, as soon as you get off the plane, they will send an ambulance to the airport to pick you up." I closed my eyes, weeping in despair. "Is it that I don't want to return?" The attending doctor turned to any doctor he could find: "Then call Julian Vance, don't they all say you are Julian's 'The One That Got Away'? Can't the billionaire come to pick you up if you don't return?" But Julian doesn't love me at all. Before it was me chasing him, chasing very hard. Saying I am his white moonlight, I don't believe it a thousand times, don't know who spread this word, too ridiculous. Hard to say, I could only say: "You also said, I just went abroad, not flew out of earth. If I am really his white moonlight, if I am really his must-have, he would have gone abroad to find me long ago, why find a substitute?" The attending doctor snatched my phone: "Still have to call, what is his number? I dial for you." I reported a string of numbers, but I dared not hold any fantasy. Chapter 3 "Hello, are you Julian Vance? Heard Serena is your white moonlight, can you tell Serena's family, even if white moonlight returns, you won't abandon the substitute? She can't return now because she is your white moonlight." Julian sneered and refused: "She thinks too highly of herself. From the moment she stepped out of the country, I treat her as dead." I couldn't help choking, his words were like a slap on my burning face, extremely embarrassing. I shook my head to the attending doctor: "Forget it, I don't want to humiliate myself." The attending doctor was angry, roared at Julian through the phone: "What if she is really dying soon?" Julian was startled: "What do you mean?" "Literal meaning, she has a very serious illness, no one dares to do this surgery abroad, only Dr. Foster in your country's Mount Sinai Hospital personally operates, she has possibility to live. But her brother doesn't let her return. If you have no interest in her, make it clear to her brother, don't let people misunderstand she is the white moonlight in your heart, causing her to die in a foreign land. Time left for her is really not much." Yes, if I am not the white moonlight in Julian's heart at all, can he tell my brother. As long as I am not a stumbling block on Lila's road to happiness, my brother will allow me to return. Suddenly, Lila's happy voice came from the phone: "Julian, who are you talking to? The priest is asking you, do you willing?" "Guests are all waiting, if not a particularly important call, can you wait until the wedding ceremony is over to continue?" I then realized, what was playing in the phone was the Wedding March. Really nice, melody of happiness. No wonder my brother said I have to wait a few more days to return. So at this moment, Julian is holding a wedding with Lila? Calling him at his wedding, indeed humiliating myself. Probably he thought I wanted to make trouble at his wedding? I have imagined the happy wedding banquet, full of guests, my dad, my brother are all watching this new couple. The priest repeated again: "Mr. Julian Vance, do you willing to take Lila as your wife? Whether she is rich or poor in the future, whether she is healthy or unwell in the future, are you willing to be with her forever?" I immediately snatched the phone back from the attending doctor, hung up. I don't want to hear Julian say on the other end: "I do." Chapter 4 This day, my illness worsened, repeatedly fever, fell into nightmare. Dreamed of childhood, Dad loved me, Brother loved me, but all this changed flavor after Lila mother and daughter came to the house. After Mom died, Dad planned never to marry again. Five years ago met Lila's mom, that woman looked exactly like my mom, even Lila looked extremely like my mom when young, more like my mom than me. Dad finally couldn't resist the temptation of substitute literature. Even my brother said: "You just imagine her as our mom, imagine Lila as a sister mom gave birth to again, can't you?" Cannot! Of course cannot! That is my mom, how can I allow a woman to wear my mom's face, occupy everything of my mom. Even the jewelry my mom liked most before death, the wedding ring dad gave mom when married, were worn on that woman. I cried, I made noise, I tried every way to drive that pair of mother and daughter out of the house, but became the unreasonable bad girl in everyone's eyes. Family who once loved me hurt me, only left guard against me. Suddenly, persistent phone ring woke me up. Dazedly I saw "Brother" two words jumping on the screen. I immediately answered the phone, thinking if Julian and Lila's wedding is done, my brother finally allowed me to return? But my brother's furious voice came from the phone: "Must you be so vicious? Must you force Lila to death to be willing?" "You have love from me and Dad, what does Lila have?" "She is just a girl with no sense of security. For love she would rather be your substitute. She has sacrificed to this point for love, why do you still want to destroy her wedding?" "Do you know, your one phone call made Julian drop the wedding and abandon her. We all couldn't pull him back. So many guests watching, everyone laughing at Lila overestimating herself, deluding to replace you, but slapped in face by white moonlight's one call." "Now Lila became the laughing stock of the whole city, forced unable to live, can only jump off building, you satisfied?" "Touch your own conscience, if she has any mishap, can you sleep peacefully in this life?" Pfft— Anxious fire attacked heart, I vomited a mouthful of blood. Doctor said I can't be stimulated anymore, but did my brother speak human words? "Brother, why don't you touch your own conscience and ask, do I really have love from you and Dad?" "Who would be loved to almost dying, crying and begging can't return to country?" "Lila jumps off building, you heart ache. I lie lonely on foreign hospital bed, have you heart ached?" "I regret, I shouldn't extravagantly hope you still love me like when young." "You long aren't that brother who loved me, you have no heart!" When I spoke, the medical instrument alarm kept beeping. Nurse ran over to look, shouted: "Not good, Bed 18 patient blood pressure rising rapidly, heart beating too fast, danger of sudden death anytime. Dr. Du, call Dr. Du quickly, Bed 18 critical..." My brother probably heard the nurse's words, voice unstable: "What happened to you? Is someone cooperating with you to act again?" "Serena, you speak to me, not allowed to scare brother! Heard not? Speak!" "Not speak then give phone to bodyguard, I want to hear them say, immediately, right now!" Really funny, I am dying, he still firmly believes I am acting? My heart is desolate, what else to say? Give to bodyguard, let bodyguard open eyes tell lies, tell him I am not sick? Nothing is greater than heart death. I really don't want to be the heroine of dead person literature, but fate refuses to give me a trace of favor. Wait, my brother seemed to say on the phone just now, Julian dropped wedding abandoned Lila, everyone couldn't pull him back? Is this really not my hallucination? At this time, my brother's assistant's voice vaguely came from the other end: "Young Master, Julian went abroad. Old Master Vance ordered dozens of bodyguards to block him at airport but couldn't block." "He was like a beast suddenly went crazy, god block kill god, buddha block kill buddha. I have never seen such a terrifying man." "Also, I just got news, Julian never thought of marrying Miss Lila. Even without Miss Serena's call, Julian wouldn't say 'I do' three words. He entered the trap himself, originally wanted to play this at the wedding scene to destroy Lila." Play what to destroy Lila? I am too curious to see. Did Julian really come to pick me up back to country? But, seems, already too late. I saw many doctors swarming towards me, giving me shots, shining flashlight on my eyelids. But my vision became darker and darker, darker and darker...
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