Chapter 30 – The Abandoned Wife: Leaving the Country After Divorce Novel

Filed to story: Leaving the Country After Divorce Novel (Lucian & Roxanne)

Jonathan was taken aback when he saw that.

If she’s doing that, it means she practices traditional medicine. It’s hard to believe she’s using such a simple diagnostic method on him.

The Queen family had hired medical practitioners of all kinds to treat Alfred’s condition, so he had personally seen different medical techniques being applied to Alfred.

That was the reason he was shocked by Roxanne’s action. It was a very simple technique to diagnose Alfred’s condition. Still, he didn’t say anything.

She sat next to the bed, holding Alfred’s wrist. Her eyes were lowered as she focused entirely on the activities of his pulse.

The more she observed his pulse, the more she was shocked.

She thought his condition was severe enough when Colby described it.

However, Alfred’s actual condition turned out to be even worse.

During her diagnosis, she noticed Alfred’s breathing was so weak that any breath could be his last.

After a while, Roxanne let go of the old man’s hand with a heavy expression and approached Jonathan

“What’s the result, Dr. Jarvis? How’s my grandpa’s condition? Can you treat him?”

Hope glimmered in Jonathan’s eyes.

However, Roxanne furrowed her eyebrows and questioned, “Why wasn’t Old Mr. Queen sent to the hospital, even though he’s in such a critical condition? Why is he being kept inside the house even though he’s on the verge of dying?”

The expression on the Queen siblings’ faces instantly changed.

“What are you saying?” Frieda glared at Roxanne furiously. “Can yoù treat him or not? If you can’t, then just say so! Don’t curse my grandpa like that!”

Roxanne stared at her coldly. “I’m already putting things very mildly. After the delay and not getting his treatment in time, your grandfather is suffering malfunctions in many of his organs. His immune system is rapidly deteriorating. Normally, cases like this require the patient’s body to be taken care of in a timely, healthy manner. However, the medical team you hired didn’t care about the patient’s health condition and just pumped his body full of drugs! This isn’t treating his condition; it’s killing him even quicker!”

The leader of the medical team was pretty unhappy at the accusation. He approached them and justified his actions in front of Roxanne. “If you don’t understand the situation, then don’t spit out nonsensical judgments, miss. Old Mr. Queen’s condition was getting pretty serious. If we hadn’t given him the medicine in time back then, he wouldn’t have survived! Please don’t question our professionalism. Besides, we’re hired by Ms. Pearson. Why would we hurt him?”

 

Roxanne instantly caught the name of his employer.

Ms. Pearson? Does he mean Aubree? I can’t believe she hired this medical team. Where the hell did she find this team of buffoons? Not only do they suck, but they’re also arrogantly confident. Heh, does he think I’ll be afraid just because she’s the one who hired them?

Roxanne’s expression was getting pretty cold as she retorted, “Professionalism? Forgive me for being candid, but I cannot see a shred of professionalism in this team! If you have even the tiniest bit of professionalism, the patient’s condition wouldn’t have become this severe!” The doctor was stumped. When he thought about how sick Alfred looked at that moment, his eyebrows furrowed tightly. No words came out of his mouth.

When she saw how the doctor was getting lambasted, Frieda’s expression changed as she stepped forward. “Since you’re acting so high-and-mighty, does this mean you’re certain you can cure my grandpa? If not, stop wasting time and talking nonsense here. Aubree had introduced many good doctors over the years to help treat my grandfather. Lucian is doing the same as well. But now you’re saying their years of hard work amounts to nothing?”

Roxanne furrowed her eyebrows and glanced at Lucian’s emotionless face. She then looked away and replied resolutely, “I’m simply speaking the truth. It’s not my place to say if their hard work has gone to waste. I just think everyone should know about the truth.”

“You!” Frieda didn’t expect her to be that sharp-tongued.

Seeing how a fight was about to erupt, Jonathan glared at his sister.

Frieda unwillingly shut up upon meeting his eyes.

He spoke sincerely after reprimanding his sister.

“I apologize on my behalf for my sister. However, right now, I don’t care about how the treatment

was handled before. I just want to know if you’re confident that you can treat my grandfather’s condition. If you do, then please hurry. As you said, my grandpa’s condition is so severe that we can’t afford any delays anymore.”

Frieda spat out sarcastically as well, “Yeah, aren’t you so good? Quickly treat our grandfather. then. I want to see how capable you are.”

Roxanne ignored her attempt at provocation and returned to the bed. “I’m going to treat him now. Please help me take off Old Mr. Queen’s clothing.”

When they heard that, they were shocked.

They had met many famous doctors who attempted to treat Alfred, yet that was the first time they heard someone asking them to take off Alfred’s clothes.

Jonathan was the first to react as he asked cautiously, “Is it necessary?”

Roxanne glanced at him weirdly. “I’m about to treat Old Mr. Queen, and his shirt will prevent me from treating him more easily. Can someone help? Please do it quickly.”

Everyone in the room, including the medical team, exchanged looks with each other.

They had no idea why it was necessary to take the patient’s shirt off for the treatment.

Jonathan hesitated before gritting his teeth and stepping forward.

Seeing that her brother had relented, Frieda was panicking, “What kind of treatment is this? Why

Before she could finish, she saw Roxanne pulling out a quaint wooden box from her medical kit. There was a scroll-like item inside.

 

After she unrolled it, hundreds of big and small silver needles could be seen arranged neatly inside.

Frieda was shocked by what she saw and swallowed her words.

Roxanne focused on taking out the needles she needed before disinfecting them with alcohol. She didn’t at all pay attention to what Frieda was saying.

In front of her, Jonathan was pulling Alfred toward himself with great difficulty. One of his hands was stabilizing the old man’s body while the other was taking off the shirt.

Since Alfred was completely unconscious at that moment, he wasn’t going to cooperate.

It made Jonathan’s actions even more difficult.

Lucian stared at Roxanne’s actions as the look in his eyes darkened.

When he saw how much Jonathan was struggling, he put Estella on the ground and ordered, “I’ll be helping Jonathan out. Stay here and don’t move, okay?”

She nodded obediently as she watched her father walk through the crowd and stood next to the bed. He then silently helped Jonathan remove Alfred’s shirt.

“Thanks, Lucian.”

Jonathan stared at him gratefully.

Lucian nodded silently,

When Roxanne noticed Lucian was there, her eyelashes quivered, though she quickly returned to her calm self as she focused on the needles.

Soon, Alfred’s shirt was removed, and everyone was able to see how thin his body was.

Roxanne had expected that. She asked the two men to hold the old man steadily. “Stabilize him. I’m going to start the treatment now.”

Jonathan nodded with a serious expression.

Then she looked at Lucian, who didn’t react at all. She took in a deep breath and began to poke the needles onto Alfred’s body.

After the first needle was placed, an exclamation rang out. “What are you doing? How could you stab that acupuncture point?”

Frieda was the one speaking.

While she had a medical background, she wasn’t familiar with acupuncture. Despite that, she could tell what Roxanne was doing was very dangerous.

It was possible even for normal people to die because of what Roxanne was doing, so the risk was greater for the sickly Alfred.

Frieda’s expression tensed up as rage and panic filled her eyes. “If you don’t know how to do it, then don’t do it! What are you doing? Are you trying to kill my grandfather?”

When she finished speaking, she violently pushed Roxanne away.

Roxanne heard her doubts, but she ignored them as she planned where to place the second needle.

That was why she didn’t expect Frieda would suddenly push her.

She was caught off guard being pushed like that, and so she lost her center of gravity for a moment.

It almost caused her to fall to her side and into Lucian’s arms.