"What?"
Gou Shunquan's scalp tingled, and he quickly bolted out of the office.
Seeing Chen Xiao waiting for the elevator, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and, bracing himself, stammered, "Dr. Chen, could you please come back for a moment? I... I still have something to tell you."
Noticing Gou Shunquan's terrified expression, Chen Xiao vaguely guessed something and turned back with a cold sneer, "Asking me back so soon?"
Forcing himself to produce a smile even more wretched than a cry, Gou Shunquan lowered his posture further and subserviently invited Chen Xiao to sit down, "Director Lin just called me. He wants you to continue the rescue of Song Kaichao."
As he spoke, he even bowed and poured tea for Chen Xiao.
Fiddling with the dismissal notice in his hand, Chen Xiao shook his head with a half-smile, "I not only have no physician's qualification, but I've also been fired by you. How can I rescue a critically ill patient?"
Gou Shunquan braced himself, took the dismissal notice, and tore it up, a fawning smile on his face, "I'll call the medical affairs department right now to cancel your dismissal..."
Chen Xiao unceremoniously picked up the teacup and splashed it in Gou Shunquan's face, "Just tearing it up isn't enough?"
Allowing the scalding tea to flow down his face, Gou Shunquan's fleshy face trembled violently, his smile becoming even more strained, "Dr. Chen, be merciful. Besides, it was Lin Chenggang who fired you, not me..."
Chen Xiao kicked Gou Shunquan hard, interrupting him with an irrefutable tone, "You didn't say that when you fired me just now!"
"Director Gou, Hao Ge's diagnosis is out. It's sudden acute epilepsy, and it can be completely cured with consistent medication."
Just then, accompanied by a saccharine female voice, Li Bingxue, dressed in a white coat, entered with a flattering expression.
She was clearly taken aback when she unexpectedly saw Chen Xiao kicking Gou Shunquan, and immediately roared sternly, "Chen, how dare you hit Director Gou? Are you looking for death?"
But as soon as she finished speaking, Gou Shunquan slapped her across the face.
Covering her burning cheek, she explained with a look of horror, "Director Gou, I was helping you."
Gou Shunquan roared fiercely, "Are you blind? Can't you see I'm entertaining Dr. Chen? Get out!"
Knowing he couldn't escape, he gritted his teeth and knelt before Chen Xiao, "Dr. Chen, I truly know I was wrong. I'll accept any punishment, but Song Kaichao is innocent. Please, for his sake, save his life."
As he spoke, he stuffed the dismissal notice into his mouth and chewed it, his face contorted into a smile more wretched than a cry.
Witnessing the usually arrogant Gou Shunquan kneeling before Chen Xiao, Li Bingxue was both shocked and terrified. While helping him up, she tried to persuade him, "Director Gou, you've asked the wrong person. Chen Xiao, like me, is just a newly graduated intern doctor..."
Before she could finish, she felt Gou Shunquan's sharp glare and quickly withdrew her hand. Then, she frantically ordered Chen Xiao, "Help Director Gou up immediately, or I'm not done with you..."
"We've been done for a long time."
Interrupting Li Bingxue unceremoniously, Chen Xiao stood up and left, heading straight for Song Kaichao's intensive care unit. Although he had no desire to help Gou Shunquan and Lin Chenggang out of their predicament, lives were at stake, and to establish a foothold at Central Hospital, he urgently needed to prove his medical skills.
As he left, Gou Shunquan, supported by Li Bingxue, retched and then shouted, "Chen, you just wait. If I don't ruin you, I, Gou Shunquan, am no man!"
At that moment, he suddenly received a call from the emergency center, "Director Gou, we just received an emergency call about Ms. Chen Qing of Jishetang being in a car accident on the airport expressway. We've dispatched an ambulance. Please arrange for a primary physician to prepare for the rescue."
He immediately became ecstatic. After hanging up the phone, he gleefully said to Li Bingxue, "Chen Xiao's mother got her comeuppance in a car accident. We're short-handed in the ER. Hurry up and have Zihao prepare to be the primary physician, hehe."
Li Bingxue, who had been with Chen Xiao for nearly five years, was not sad at all. Instead, she nodded excitedly, "Director Gou, don't worry, Hao Ge will definitely treat her to the death!"