Chapter 1535
Under Rat's guidance, Matthew managed to arrange a satisfactory accommodation for himself. Later, he went
out with Rat to enjoy slocal delicacies.
Just like that, Matthew treated his trip to Cummeal this time, as a vacation.
Rat brought Matthew to a small local restaurant. When they entered, they saw there were quite a number of
customers in the restaurant.
Once they took their seat, Rat ordered slocal specialties, while Matthew ordered sbeer.
The two acted like they were friends, sitting and drinking together, enjoying their meal.
After they had chatted for a while, Rat finally let his guard down against Matthew. As tpassed, he even
briefly summarized his life story and current situation to Matthew.
Through his brief story, Matthew learned that Rat's real nwas Karl Wanderbach. However, due to his petite
figure and being imprisoned for theft before, people around this area nicknamed him Mouse. Later, speople
thought the nicknMouse was somewhat positive for someone with a thieving background, so they cup
with a more mocking term and called him Rat.
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Over time, people kept addressing him as Rat. Just like that, many didn't know or had forgotten his real name.
Through Rat's brief life story, Matthew also learned that he had a tragic fate. When Rat was still studying, his
father died in an accident, leaving him alone with his mother and sisters to depend on each other for survival.
As for his uncles, they didn't hesitate to drive Rat, his mother, and his sister out of the house for the sake of
occupying his family's homestead.
Alone, his mother raised him and his sister, who was still an infant, while struggling to make ends meet. As a
result, she wore herself out and fell ill.
In desperation, Rat dropped out of school and worked part-tto subsidize the family expenditures.
Nevertheless, who knew his sister would contract an extremely rare disease three years ago? Rat spent a lot of
money to treat his sister's illness, but he didn't expect that there would be no cure.
Therefore, in order to treat his sister's illness, Rat took a risk and burgled once. He stole more than 200,000 and
paid her surgery fee.
Nevertheless, fate seemed to treat Rat as their personal chew toy. That was because he was caught just after
Tiana's surgery was over.
Eventually, instead of being convicted of burglary, he was sentenced to jail for a year on other trivial charges.
Later, Rat realized that the money from the family he stole at that twasn't from a legal source. For that
reason, they didn't dare to make a big fuss about the burglary.
Otherwise, Rat certainly would be sentenced to several years in jail for stealing so much money.
After that, Rat's mother passed away less than a month after he was released from jail. Thus, Rat had no choice
but to take care of his sister alone.
Since the previous surgery didn't completely cure her sister's disease, Rat could only work hard and earn money
to support her medicinal fee. So on weekdays, he would let her stay in the clinic and sustain he life with
intravenous drips.
Still, Rat had to take her to the hospital every once in a while for hemodialysis. Otherwise, she would become
critically ill.
Most of the time, Rat would work on the construction site to earn money.
Alas, he had borrowed and owed too much money because of his sister's illness, so he was presently deep in
debt.
He knew that he would have to bring his sister for another hemodialysis session soon. Out of desperation, he slid
into bad habits, considering he really was in need of cash. Therefore, he went to steal near the stop where the
buses were parked. Yet, he didn't expect he would cacross Matthew.
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Rat gripped his beer tightly as he said with tears in his eyes, "Matthew, I'm sorry. I-1 was really desperate. That's
why | took your wallet."
Matthew only smiled lightly as he couldn't help but see himself in Rat.
Back then, I, too, had thought of tempting fate for the sake of Nat's medical expenses. However, | was lucky! |
met Sasha, and | inherited our family's jade pendant. As for Rat, he's the miserable one. He's just an ordinary
Joe, yet he has to bear so many responsibilities.
As Matthew thought of this, he beceven more determined to cure Tiana. He picked up his liquor glass,
clanked glasses with Rat, and chuckled. "Let's not discuss that matter. Since | had promised to help cure your
sister, | definitely won't break my promise."
Rat was so overjoyed that he couldn't help the tears rolling down his cheeks. He wiped away his tears and said
anxiously, "Matthew, a-are you saying that my sister's illness can still be cured? | have been to the hospital in
Eastshire before, and those reputable surgeons in Eastshire toldthat only Dr. Ellis in Eastshire could cure my
sister's illness. Otherwise, n-no one can cure her in Eastshire!" Matthew smiled faintly as he replied,
"This reputable surgeon is also spewing nonsense. Even Dr. Ellis can't cure your sister's illness! Your sister has
been diagnosed with congenital organ failure. Dr. Ellis can't cure congenital deficiency either." Rat's facial
expression twisted into one of despair at Matthew's remarks.
Nevertheless, Matthew continued. "But-I can definitely cure her!"