Huang Hai looked down and saw that Zhang Suqin, the patient who was on the verge of death, had indeed opened her eyes, looking around blankly.
“Son’s mother!”
Yang Zhigang lunged to the bedside, tightly gripping his wife’s hand, and choked out, “How do you feel now? Tell the doctor if anything is uncomfortable.”
Zhang Suqin looked at the horrified expressions of the people around her, and then at her husband, tears streaming down his face. She suddenly realized something and said weakly,
“No… I’m fine. I’m not dying yet… I haven’t seen Xiao Chen get married and have children. The King of Hell won’t take me.”
He really… he really came back to life!
When Huang Hai first saw Zhang Suqin open her eyes, he thought it was a deathbed resurgence. Hearing her speak so coherently now, he was even more stunned, looking at Yang Chen, who was sweating profusely, with a puzzled gaze.
Despite Yang Chen’s movements on Zhang Suqin earlier, which seemed like child’s play, he felt a portion of his inner strength being drained with each touch of his fingertips to his mother’s acupoints.
After dispersing more than ten black dots, Yang Chen thought he would not be able to hold on and would faint. Fortunately, his mother woke up.
“Did this idiot really save her?”
“No… impossible. Just poking points on a patient’s body can revive someone who is on the verge of death. What do we doctors do then!”
Huang Hai, in his shock, quickly dismissed his initial thought. He further mused, “The hospital has a considerable number of deaths each year, with very few being successfully resuscitated. If Zhang Suqin’s recovery from near death is attributed to me, it would be a significant boost to my promotion to associate chief physician!”
*Crack!*
As he thought of this, Huang Hai suddenly clapped his hands and exclaimed loudly,
“I understand… Dean, I understand. It must be the rescue measures I previously administered to the patient that have taken effect!”
“You’re talking nonsense!”
Yang Chen was furious. He had gone through great hardship to save his mother, and this unscrupulous doctor was stepping forward immediately to take credit.
“From the moment my mother became critically ill, you entered this room and, from start to finish, only urged us to give up resuscitation. You didn’t give my mother a single pill or use a single needle.
How dare you claim it’s your merit? Do you have any shame at all!”
Dean Ma’s face grew cold, and he looked at Huang Hai sternly.
“Is what the patient’s family member is saying true?”
“This… this…”
The nurses dared not meet Dean Ma’s gaze. They lowered their heads and glanced at Huang Hai, who was silently signaling them. After all, they were from the same department and saw each other often. None of them dared to testify for Yang Chen.
“You all need to think carefully. Don’t think about colluding with each other.”
Yang Chen pointed to the surveillance camera above the hospital bed and said,
“This has all been recorded. Once the Dean retrieves the footage, it will be clear. None of you want to protect Huang Hai!”
Huang Hai suddenly looked up at the camera, gritting his teeth and pinching his thigh. He had originally planned to fool the Dean for now. The nurses were on his side, and he could destroy the footage later to get away with it.
He never expected that Yang Chen, this supposed idiot, would be so sharp and speak so fluently and logically at this critical moment, striking directly at his weakness.
Seeing that Huang Hai’s lie was unsustainable, the head nurse quickly took the lead, saying, “Dean, what the patient’s family member said is all true.”
The other nurses nodded in agreement.
“Huang Hai, as a doctor, instead of immediately rescuing the patient, you asked the family to sign a waiver of resuscitation. Have you no medical ethics?”
Dean Ma’s face turned terribly grim. He reprimanded with great sorrow,
“This is a human life… a human life, do you know that!”
“Fortunately, the patient has been saved. Otherwise, your actions would be considered murder, and you would be a murderer, do you understand!”
“Your conduct is deeply disappointing. With such medical ethics, you are not fit to remain in our hospital…”
Huang Hai trembled, his face turning deathly pale. He grabbed Dean Ma’s hand and pleaded desperately,
“Dean… Dean, please spare me this once. I… I was possessed by a demon to…”
“Hmph, if I spare you, I’ll be allowing you to continue harming lives in this hospital, which is the greatest irresponsibility to patients!”
Dean Ma flung Huang Hai’s hand away, ignoring his pleas, and directly ordered security guards to forcibly escort him away.
After Huang Hai was expelled, Dean Ma personally examined Zhang Suqin again, his heart filled with shock and disbelief.
“The patient’s pulse is steady. How could this be a patient who has just been rescued from the brink of death!”
“Could it really be him…”
Dean Ma, while feeling Zhang Suqin’s pulse, looked at Yang Chen with a doubtful gaze. His gaze was so intense that it made Yang Chen’s heart skip a beat. He cautiously asked,
“Dean Ma, my mother… she… she’s not…”
“It’s fine, everything is very good.”
Dean Ma finished speaking and then asked somewhat curiously,
“Your medical skills are already extraordinary. Don’t you know your mother’s condition?”
“This… this…”
Yang Chen was able to save his mother solely because he could see images of the body’s meridians. He actually didn’t know how to feel a pulse.
But if he admitted it directly, the Dean would not believe him and would likely treat him as an idiot, perhaps even believing Huang Hai’s words and missing the opportunity to punish the unscrupulous doctor.
After thinking for a moment, Yang Chen finally came up with a suitable excuse. He glanced at his still weak mother on the hospital bed and said in a low voice, “Dean, may I speak with you outside for a moment?”
Dean Ma, without suspicion, followed Yang Chen out of the ward.
“Dean Ma, to be honest, three years ago, I was hit on the head, and I forgot many things. Recently, I’ve only occasionally remembered some things…
My medical skills are also intermittent.
However, please don’t tell my mother about this. She has been unconscious since she fell ill and doesn’t know about my situation. I don’t want her to worry.”
So that’s how it is.
Dean Ma suddenly understood, tut-tutting in amazement. He then proceeded to ask Yang Chen several more questions about medicine.
Yang Chen had not systematically studied medicine, so he was completely ignorant. He repeatedly used the excuse of forgetting to evade the questions.
“Young friend Yang, the way you selected acupoints when you saved your mother is somewhat similar to the Heavenly Gate Needle Technique…”
“Dean Ma, I really don’t remember.”
Yang Chen insisted that his memory was not good, saying,
“I… I only remember some methods for treating illnesses and saving lives when I’m in a desperate situation. Usually, I truly remember nothing.”
“I see…”
Dean Ma pondered for a moment and said,
“Young friend Yang, to be frank, we have a very important patient in our hospital. Our hospital’s experts have exhausted all their methods and have no treatment plan. I’d like to invite you to take a look.”
Me go see a patient?
Yang Chen was startled. He wasn’t a professional doctor. If the miraculous phenomenon that just happened to his mother didn’t occur, wouldn’t he end up killing someone!
He was about to refuse when Dean Ma quickly added,
“Don’t worry, if you’re not confident, you don’t have to prescribe any treatment. If you can cure them, I will definitely not treat you unfairly… all your mother’s expenses at our hospital will be waived!”
All waived!
Yang family’s savings had been depleted over the three years of his mother’s illness, and his father was forced to sell blood for medical expenses.
Yang Chen was suddenly tempted and was about to agree when a voice in his mind spoke up: “No… no, my medical skills haven’t been proven yet. What if I end up killing someone, just like Huang Hai!”
But he was unwilling to easily give up such a generous offer from Dean Ma.
“It’s best to find a few more patients to practice on. It’s not too late to agree after confirming that I can truly treat and save people.”
Having made up his mind, Yang Chen then put on a distressed expression and said,
“Dean Ma, can I have a few days to consider?”
“Of course.”
Dean Ma handed Yang Chen his business card.
“My phone number is on it. Call me anytime you’ve made up your mind.”
“Okay.”
…
After seeing Dean Ma off, Yang Chen was about to return to the ward when Yang Zhigang came out.
“Xiao Chen, your boss, President Li, just called. He wants you to go back to the company.”
“But my mother…”
“Your mother just took a nap. She should be fine. Hurry up. President Li was kind enough to hire you in your condition. You can’t lose your job!”
Yang Zhigang’s reminder made Yang Chen remember that his father didn’t know he had recovered.
“I need to go back to the company now. I’ll explain it to Dad later.”
Yang Chen immediately put on a dazed expression again, speaking unclearly,
“Then… then I’ll go back to the company to clean.”
“Wait.”
A few steps after Yang Chen left, Yang Zhigang caught up and shoved his slightly aged iPhone 6s into his hand.
“Take this phone, so I can contact you if anything comes up.”
“Mhm.”
Watching his son walk away with confidence, disappearing into the elevator, a thought suddenly flashed through Yang Zhigang’s mind:
“Xiao Chen seems… a little different from before?”
“Could it be… he’s better!”
But he quickly dismissed this unrealistic thought, let out a wry smile, and muttered,
“Where could such a good thing happen in the world? If Xiao Chen can truly return to normal, I’d be offering sacrifices to the heavens!”
…
Yang Chen rushed back to the company, and Li Yu immediately called him into his office.
“I’ve watched the videos you asked me to check.”
Li Yu pointed to the surveillance playback on the computer and gritted his teeth, saying,
“I hired Zhang Chi with a large sum of money to be the chief manager of the store, and he’s been stealing, and not just once!”
“I’ve already called the police. They’ll be here to arrest Zhang Chi soon. You’ll be there to identify and point him out.”
“Watch these surveillance videos a few more times and think about whether Zhang Chi swapped anything in the store besides today and the eighteenth of last month.”
Yang Chen’s gaze was fixed on the footage of Zhang Chi’s deceptive exchanges, and he nodded.
Seeing that Yang Chen was fully focused on the video, Li Yu got up and walked to the dressing room behind the office without closing the door, saying to himself,
“Qin Xiang from the Qin family will be coming to our store later to appraise an antique. She’s very picky and a bit of a germaphobe. I need to change into something cleaner to receive her.”
Change clothes?
Li Yu’s words made Yang Chen subconsciously shift his gaze from the computer screen to the open dressing room.
He saw Li Yu had already shed his white shirt, revealing a fair and well-defined back,
Full of youthful desire, making Yang Chen’s heart race and his breathing quicken, his body feeling uncomfortably hot.