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All Chapters of Adopted Son Ascends, Bestie Returns From the "Grave": Chapter 1 - Chapter 7

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Chapter 1

"The patient's hemorrhaging. Get Dr. Cooper in here now!" a nurse shouted.She then stepped up to me. "Are you the patient's family? We're short on Type B blood. Can you donate?"I blinked in a daze. When I looked up, I saw the words "In Operation" overhead.I instinctively clenched my sleeve, and my breathing turned sharp and fast. My best friend, Helen Doyle, was in surgery.Had I been reborn?Noticing no response from me, the nurse nudged me. "Hurry up. She's not going to hold on much longer."I shook my head to clear my thoughts, then replied calmly, "No, I'm not her family. Find someone else."The nurse stared in surprise for a second, then rushed back into the operating room.I let out a sneer. In my last life, I had followed her without hesitation to donate blood.Yet, the nurse didn't bother with so much as a basic check and directly took almost one pint of my blood. It was clearly premeditated.After losing that much blood, I had nearly passed out. I was dizzy and we

Chapter 2

Helen suddenly sat up. There wasn't a hint of weakness in her voice as she pointed at me and yelled, "Are you even human? You kept calling me your best friend, yet you wouldn't donate blood for me or help raise my baby! What kind of friend does that?"I glanced at her sideways. "You look pretty fine to me. Maybe the hospital messed up the diagnosis."Realizing she'd just slipped up, she panicked for a moment before lying down on the bed with a pained expression, calling for the doctor.Chaos erupted around us, and I was shoved out of the room.A few minutes later, the nurse who had been working with Helen came out carrying Aidan.She shoved him into my arms firmly. "The patient just experienced a brief moment of clarity before passing. The baby's birth certificate is already processed, and your name is listed as the mother. Don't even think about ditching him. We have the right to call the cops."I nearly laughed out loud. What a blatant forced handover. I was the one who should

Chapter 3

Everyone bent down to look at the powder on the floor, and a doubtful voice said, "That doesn't look like ashes. There aren't even any bone fragments."After cremation, what was left should be crushed bones, not just a pile of sand.I turned to the nurse. "You cremated my best friend without my consent. Now, you can't even account for her ashes. I think it's reasonable for me to suspect there was a mistake in surgery, and your hospital is just trying to cover it up."The nurse immediately panicked and loudly denied it. "No! Our hospital is the most reputable one around."However, the suspicion had taken root. It wasn't so easy to explain away.Several onlookers whispered to each other, "My grandma had surgery here and suddenly passed too. Could the hospital be hiding something?""And they're the ones who recommended all those crematoriums and funeral homes. Could there be some shady business going on?" another person asked.The nurse was sweating bullets. She clearly didn't expe

Chapter 4

Helen immediately bristled. "Are you trying to say he's your son? With genes as poor as yours, there's no way you could have given birth to such an outstanding child. You just helped me raise him for a dozen years. Don't get so shameless as to think you're his real mom!"Before I could even respond, Aidan said coldly, "I already said that my mom died 18 years ago. Not just anyone can call themselves my mom. It's Ms. Sutton who raised me. She means more to me than my birth mother. If you keep talking trash, I'll have security escort you out."A warm rush bloomed inside me. Helen was right about one thing. Genetics was a major factor.Helen's genes were rotten. I had spent 18 years raising her son in my last life, but the moment Helen showed up, he didn't hesitate to abandon me. He had no gratitude for everything I'd done and was just a complete ingrate.Helen, stung by Aidan's words, spun around and shouted at me, "Melanie, you must have been badmouthing me in front of my son! You d

Chapter 5

Helen's face flushed red as people tore into her one by one.At that moment, Joe stepped forward and gently pulled her into his arms. Putting on a pitiful act, he explained in a low voice, "Losing contact with her child for 18 years has hit Helen hard. That's why she spoke harshly, but she meant no harm."He then pointed at me. "Melanie, on the other hand, had always wanted to climb the social ladder from the moment she met Helen. Helen was naive and never shut Melanie off. She even gave her plenty of money and favors."But Melanie never showed any gratitude. When Helen needed blood during her difficult labor, Melanie refused to help. In the end, Helen had no choice but to entrust her baby to Melanie."But who would have guessed she would just take the kid away? Back then, Helen and I weren't married yet, so we couldn't do much. But we had been secretly looking."With a bitter smile, Joe continued, "Now, finally, we have a chance to reunite with our son, but we keep getting refuse

Chapter 6

Helen panicked instantly and rushed over, questioning, "Then where's my child?"I brushed her off with disgust and motioned to my secretary. "Bring him in."A short, skinny young man walked in. He should have been 18 but looked no older than ten. As soon as he came in, he looked around with an innocent expression on his face.Helen stared in disbelief. "No way! There's no way this idiot is my son. Melanie, do you think I'd fall for some random fool you pulled out of nowhere?"I didn't bother arguing. Instead, I walked straight over to the young man and rolled up his sleeve. A red birthmark showed clearly on his small wrist."Familiar, isn't it?" I asked Helen.Her face turned pale, and she swayed unsteadily.Joe looked crushed. "Melanie, you're really heartless! You can choose not to raise him, but you can't just abuse him! He was perfectly healthy when he was born. Why would he become like this?"Startled by the commotion, Aidan Sutton opened his mouth wide and screamed.I ge

Chapter 7

I looked out at the crowd and explained, "The reason I refused to donate blood to Helen was simple. I knew she wasn't actually having difficult labor. She faked her death just to get me to raise her son."I spent a long time digging into why she was so determined to have me raise her son while she never showed up or cared all these years.Finally, I discovered that Helen really was the daughter of the richest man. However, she was just one of many illegitimate children and by far the least impressive and most useless.A few days before she was due, her mother suddenly revealed the truth about her background.Helen panicked that her out-of-wedlock pregnancy would ruin her image in front of her father, but she couldn't bear to give up her baby either, so she came up with a scheme to use me to raise him.Over the years, Helen and Joe had been working hard to butter up Helen's father and finally secured a small stake in his company.If Helen's father found out her son was mentally di

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