Chen Mingxing flopped onto the sofa with a smirk, his voice dripping with sarcasm,
"You don't even know where your own mother is hospitalized, and you call yourself a son? Enough of the nonsense, find the property deed immediately!"
"You..."
Chen Xiao knew his cousin's true nature well. After a moment's thought, he directly called Song Yan,
"Miss Song, my mother is missing. Could I trouble you to help me find her? Alright! I'll send you her identification information right away. Thank you."
Just then, Yang Pinru stormed out of Chen Qing's bedroom, cursing,
"You little bastard, still playing on your phone at a time like this? Don't you care if your mother lives or dies?"
Chen Mingxing chuckled mockingly,
"Mom, Chen Xiao is quite something. He's on the phone asking some Miss Song to find his mother."
Yang Pinru spat with utter disdain,
"Unless you hand over the property deed obediently, you won't even get to see your mother one last time!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Song Yan called Chen Xiao back,
"Dr. Chen, your mother was unfortunately in a car accident this morning. She's currently being resuscitated at Central Hospital. The attending physician seems to be a resident doctor named Liu Zihao..."
"Mom—"
Chen Xiao's reason completely snapped. He bolted out the door.
...
In the cold operating room, Chen Qing lay unconscious on the operating table, her forehead bruised and her body covered in blood. The heart monitor beeped incessantly.
However, Liu Zihao remained unhurried, spewing vulgarities,
"Tsk, tsk, tsk! Truly worthy of being the most beautiful woman in Juxian City twenty years ago. Even in her early forties, she's maintained such a perfect figure. Even an eighteen-year-old girl would be ashamed. It's a pity she's too badly injured. She can't be saved. Declare her dead and send her to the crematorium!"
With that, he viciously pulled off the oxygen mask and roughly threw a white sheet over Chen Qing.
Chen Xiao, bursting through the door, witnessed this scene and his fury ignited. He lunged forward, punching Liu Zihao square in the face,
"You bastard! My mother is still alive, how dare you declare her dead?"
Clutching his bleeding nose and mouth, Liu Zihao's face contorted into a snarl,
"Chen, you intern doctor, how dare you question a resident physician's decision? Who is the attending here?"
Trembling, Chen Xiao reached out to place the oxygen mask back on Chen Qing and quickly took her pulse. The mysterious, wordless golden prescription in his mind whirred rapidly. Without looking back, he growled,
"Even if you're the attending, you can't treat life as a game!"
Before the grim-faced Liu Zihao could retort, he urgently prompted the instrument nurse,
"Prepare a set of silver needles for me immediately. My mother desperately needs acupuncture to survive!"
With a mocking laugh, the instrument nurse replied haughtily,
"A mere intern doctor ordering me around? Do you really think saving Kai Chao Song once makes you a medical king? Hmph!"
Chen Xiao gritted his teeth and lunged for the stainless steel sterilization tray the instrument nurse was holding, which clearly contained a box of silver needles.
Liu Zihao was quick, snatching the silver needle box first and saying sinisterly,
"Chen, you'll have to beg me. Because in this operating room, I make the rules!"
At the same time, several other doctors, who were close to Liu Zihao, suddenly attacked, cursing and beating Chen Xiao to the ground.
Some nurses were so scared they fled on the spot, while others stood by and laughed heartily.
The slender Chen Xiao was completely stunned, feeling as if his skin, tendons, and bones were being ripped apart.
But seeing Chen Qing on the operating table, hanging by a thread and on the verge of death, he ultimately forced himself to stand up. He grabbed a scalpel from the stainless steel sterilization tray and lunged at Liu Zihao,
"The barefoot aren't afraid of the shod. Since you're determined to push me to my death, let's go down together!"