Hua Tianyou's brow was also dotted with beads of sweat.
He saw Han Lei precisely adjusting the angle of the broken bone with bone forceps, and suddenly recalled the devoted expression of a jadestone carver he had seen carving a Jade Pendant when he was a child.
As the first titanium alloy plate was placed on the bone surface, his pupils suddenly contracted. Under the shadowless lamp, the metal glowed bluish, and the sound of screws being driven in was exceptionally piercing.
"Is this... driving metal into the bone?" Ms Li's trembling voice drifted like a wisp of smoke.
She watched the cold gleaming screws penetrate her son's bone cortex, and suddenly her legs weakened too much to stand.
Han Lei's movements with her hands did not pause: "This is an alloy stronger than bone, and once it heals, it becomes part of the child's body."
As the last screw was tightened, Han Lei's eyelashes finally quivered.
