My Rescue-Team Dad Abandoned Me, and My Doctor Mom Refused to Save Me

When the floods hit, my father, the rescue team captain, saved my younger sister first. He cut my rescue rope. “Weiwei can’t swim, and there’s not enough room in the helicopter. You won’t die if we get to you a little later.” I was rushed to the hospital, barely alive. But my mother, a doctor, gave the last bag of panda blood to my sister, who wasn’t seriously hurt. I weakly begged her, but Mom pried my fingers loose. “Your sister is anemic. She’s always been in poor health. Are you still trying to compete with her for attention at a time like this?” But my parents didn’t know I had already stopped breathing after they abandoned me.