Refuse to Save the Devil Cousin

My cousin, Gavin Smith, fell ill, and then Dad quickly let the whole family to go to the hospital to visit Gavin.

Gavin had been strong, but then he was lying in the hospital with a pale face. His hands were so thin that the blue veins could be seen, and his hands were covered with dense needle marks.

My sister, Lucy Smith, hid behind me and whispered, "Gavin is so pitiful. It would be great if we could help him."

When sending us out of the ward, my uncle rubbed his hands and begged my father to go for a matching test.

Dad had a good relationship with my uncle and called on our entire family to go for a matching test.

For Gavin's sake, his precious nephew, Dad ran around and even looked for acquaintances in the hospital. The matching results came out very quickly, and no one except for me was successfully matched with Gavin.

Everyone was very happy. Lying in the hospital, with a smug look, Gavin bragged to his friends that he would drink after the operation.

"She? How dare she not donate a kidney to me? If she doesn't donate, I will kill her!"

My uncle came to my home carrying a lot of presents. After eating and drinking, Dad and my uncle started discussing the time for the surgery.

But I calmly put down my fork and told my uncle that I was not going to donate a kidney to Gavin.

Dad, who had just received a gift from my uncle, was embarrassed and yelled at me, "Yuki Smith, your brother is ill. How can you be so cold and heartless!"

"I remember that I am the first child in the family. Gavin is not my biological brother."

For my firm attitude, Dad simply locked me in the room to reflect on my mistakes.

My sister, Lucy Smith, brought me food. She persuaded me, "Gavin was so good to us when he was young. How could you just leave him to die? If my kidney was a match, I would save him without hesitation. Saving people is a blessing."

She kept on persuading me, but I ignored her.

It was her business that she was willing to donate a kidney to Gavin, but I didn't want to lose a kidney because of Gavin.

Lucy grew up with Gavin, and they had a close relationship like siblings.

But I was different from Lucy. I was left in the hometown as soon as I was born. If Grandma Alex was not too old to take care of me, I was afraid that my parents would still ignore me.

Once I was taken home, Gavin laughed at me and called me a country bumpkin.

Gavin said I was as black as a coal ball and had a bad smell, so he ordered me to stay away from him and Lucy.

At that time, I was ignorant and humble as I had just separated from my grandma. Later, I even became very quiet and often suffered from insomnia for frequent attacks of Gavin.

Grandma Smith favored boys over girls, so she disliked Mom, saying that the two girls in our family would go to other families.

I had heard Dad discussing with Mom to give one of girls away and have a son to support the family.

I was very nervous because I knew that if it was true, I would be given away.

Mom had a difficult labor when she gave birth to Lucy, and it took her more than ten hours. Mom didn't want to go through it again, so she flatly rejected the proposal.

My best classmate gave me the chocolate that she had saved for a long time but was reluctant to eat.

"I hear that you're about to transfer. We may never see each other again after you go to your new family. Remember to think of me."

I asked her why she knew it.

She sobbed and explained to me.

Gavin spread the word at school that I was adopted and would transfer next semester.

It was said that it was a poor family and the man was a lame old man in his forties or fifties. It was very likely that I would not have a good life after being taken away.

When I rushed over, Gavin was giving a passionate speech on the podium, with some money in his hand.

"Thanks for your kindness. Yuki will repay you double if she has a good life in the future."

I didn't get the money back, so I complained to my uncle and aunt.

Gavin was severely beaten, and there was a grudge between us.

Gavin was even more unwilling to return the money, and he said that he was beat and the money was compensation for his medical expenses.

He also borrowed others' money using my name.

Every time after school, there would be a gangster with colorful hair and a scoundrellike look waiting for me outside the school.

When they didn't get the money, they tore up my textbooks and stepping on my schoolbag.

From then on, I was the first to arrive at school and last one to leave every day.

No one dared to be friends with me because he didn't want to be blocked by vicious thugs.

After the high school entrance examination, I applied to the best high school in the city without hesitation.

I thought I could get rid of the bullying by Gavin, but I didn't expect to see Gavin again at the school gate.

He held a tall and beautiful girl in his arms and said that she was his girlfriend. He asked his girlfriend to "take special care" of me.

Fortunately, I was concentrating on my studies and wouldn't be sad because of isolation and neglect.

Gavin bullied me, but he was nice to Lucy who grew up with him.

Gavin gave Lucy all good food and played with her.

Once, touchscreen mobile phones became popular in schools. Lucy went home and begged Mom and Dad to buy one for a long time, but they refused her on the grounds that Lucy was only a junior high school student.

But after a while, I ran into Lucy. She was joyful and holding the latest mobile phone.

She begged me not to tell the parents.

Later, the fact that Lucy had a mobile phone was exposed. Gavin deliberately blocked me on the way home.

He hit my back with fistsized pieces of gravel, and I groaned in pain.

"Yuki, it's useless to be jealous for something doesn't belong to you."

In my senior year of high school, the school took the entrance qualification examination for Star University.

That was my dream school. I studied hard day and night just to be admitted to Star University.

My head teacher had a talk with me and told me to relax because I had a great chance of getting admitted based on my previous grades.

Just the day before the exam, Gavin suddenly tied me up.

I struggled desperately to free myself and begged Gavin to let me go, but he remained unmoved.

By the time I arrived at the examination room, the first exam had already started for fifteen minutes, which meant that I missed out on attending my dream university.

Later I knew that the person who was qualified for admission was Gavin's girlfriend.

My uncle and aunt brought Gavin, whose back was bleeding, to apologize. My parents generously said that even if Gavin hadn't made such a fuss, I would not have been able to get into Star University.

We were all family, so they just forgot about it.

The past events came to my mind one by one, so of course I would not donate a kidney to Gavinn.

My parents, who were not close to me, directly called me an ungrateful person.

Lucy also said that I was heartless and ungrateful, and that I would end up living a lonely life because I didn't get married.

I couldn't stand their nagging, so I just quietly moved out of the house and lived with my colleague.

When I looked out of the window at work, I saw my uncle and aunt standing downstairs of my company.

That day was the day when the boss from the headquarters held a regular meeting. If my uncle and aunt made trouble in the company, I may lose my job.

I begged my colleague to help me.

She went downstairs for five minutes, and then she came back with an OK gesture.

"I said you resigned, and the old couple left soon."

Just as I was relieved, I heard the voice from the front desk, "Yuki, someone's looking for you!"

Everyone need an access card to enter the company. How could they go upstairs...

One colleague who was my competitor at work bumped my shoulder with a cup of water in her hand, and said with a meaningful smile, "I just brought it up. No need to thank me."

As soon as I stepped into the living room, my aunt knelt down and said, "Yuki, you can't be so cold and indifferent. Please save your cousin!"

Her voice was so loud that it was heard through the living room door, which had not yet been closed.

Colleagues were eagerly waiting and listening to the gossip.

There was a lot of noise in the office, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the boss.

My leader asked me into the office. He gave me three days off to deal with the thing.

I didn't have to go to work and the holidays were approaching, so I carried my suitcase and went home.

The house was empty, and no one was there.

I fell asleep on the bed. In a daze, I heard the door closing and my parents came back.

Just as I was about to open the door and go out, I heard Mom say, "Gavin's illness can't be delayed any longer. What if Max knew that Yuki is also a match?"

Dad yelled at Mom, "If we don't tell others about it, nobody will know it! Don't keep saying it. If someone hears it, it'll be over!"

My hand paused on the door handle.

I left home while my parents went out for a walk after dinner.

The door of my room was right next to the kitchen. If they had been more careful, they would have noticed that I went home today, but unfortunately they didn't.

I called Eric Lee, the son of Uncle Lee, who was my good classmate in high school. After a few words, Eric told me the truth.

Holding the report given by Eric, I returned home again.

When Lucy saw me come back, she tried her best to persuade me to save Gavin.

I stared at her chattering mouth and asked, "If it turns out that your kidney is a match, would you be willing to donate your kidney to him?"

"Of course."

She answered righteously, and then asked me, "Have you forgotten how good Gavin was to us when we were young?"

Gavin was nice to her, but not to me.

"I heard that after donating a kidney, people can't do manual labor for the rest of your life. If something unexpected happens in the future..."

Lucy interrupted me impatiently, "Our young people won't do much physical work. I think you are just afraid of death. If I can do it, I will definitely save Gavin first."

I had been waiting for Lucy to say this for a long time. I curled my lips and opened the door. "Uncle and aunt, Uncle Lee who did the matching called me today and said that the result was wrong. Lucy can also donate a kidney to Gavin, and she just agreed to donate. This is really a great joyous event."

My uncle and aunt took the report I gave them and turned to the last page. They were overjoyed and rushed forward to surround Lucy.

"Lucy, Gavin loves you the most. It is a fate given by God that you can save your Gavin's life."

Lucy, who usually spoke of morality and justice, was so frightened that her face turned pale and she couldn't even stand steadily.

She was not as righteous as when she advised me. She said, "It's a big deal to donate a kidney. I have to go home and discuss it with my husband."

Gavin had treated Lucy like his own sister since he was a child. My uncle and aunt thought that the "discussion" my sister mentioned was just a formality, so they happily returned to the hospital.

After the uncle and aunt left, Lucy lost her temper.

I pretended not to see it and enthusiastically expressed that when the operation day came, I was willing to sacrifice my annual leave to take care of her in the hospital.

She said nothing, and walked away angrily with her daughter in her arms.

When she advised me, she said that people only used one kidney to work, so why couldn't she do that?

Things turned out just as I expected. Lucy refused to donate a kidney on the grounds that her inlaws did not agree.

I also received abusive phone calls from my parents.

"Yuki, what were you thinking? How could you harm Lucy like this?"

"Are you going to let Lucy divorce? Come back right now."

I had long been accustomed to Dad's temper and tyranny, so I went home with the attitude of having fun. I wanted to know what "big event" had happened at home.

Lucy was crying on the sofa and her eyes were red and swollen. Mom held Lucy's hand and patted her back to comfort her.

Dad stood by the window smoking, not saying a word.

As soon as I got home, Dad directly said, "You are responsible for resolving the problems you caused. Hurry up and give me five hundred thousand dollars to return to your uncle."