It was quite a coincidence. Shortly after the brain death was confirmed, a transplant schedule arrived from the provincial capital of Shan Province. The organ retrieval was scheduled for that very evening. They had even sent a helicopter, planning to transport the organs directly for surgery in the wee hours after the procedure was completed.
Two resident physicians accompanied them, waiting for Liang Xiu to finish the surgery. A few minutes before midnight, they urged Dr. Liang to proceed, but she snapped back at them, deliberately waiting until after the hour had passed.
The two doctors from the provincial capital were puzzled until Liang Xiu explained it was the patient's son's birthday. At that, everyone fell silent and waited together for midnight to arrive. After all, they couldn't let a child's every birthday be the anniversary of his father's death.
