Chen Xiao was furious. He could no longer afford to care about the few remaining needles in Wen Xinyi's Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Everlasting Needle treatment. He rushed forward, grabbed Kang Jiali's wrist, and then slapped her across the face.
"You old bitch, it seems I shouldn't have gone easy on you and just smashed your car. I should have smashed you directly!"
"You..."
Kang Jiali clutched her burning cheek, stunned for a long time before realizing she had been slapped by Chen Xiao. Her already coarse face contorted into an even more ferocious expression as she gritted her teeth and roared,
"You... you dare to hit me..."
"Slap—"
Before Kang Jiali could finish speaking, accompanied by an even louder crisp sound, Chen Xiao slapped her again.
"I'm hitting you because you deserve it! If I had known that Deputy Director Zhou wanted me to save your daughter, you old bitch, I would have made you kneel for three days and three nights before I even considered helping!"
"Ah—"
Kang Jiali completely lost it, screaming as she lunged at Chen Xiao.
"You little bastard, I'll tear you to shreds tonight..."
"Slap!"
"Slap slap!"
"Slap slap slap—"
Chen Xiao was merciless, landing blow after blow on Kang Jiali's face. In a blink of an eye, Kang Jiali was disheveled and dizzy.
Kang Jiali finally realized Chen Xiao's power. Her rage gradually turned into fear, and she instinctively covered her head with both hands, backing away towards the corner of the wall, saying insincerely,
"Chen... Brother Chen Xiao, spare me... spare me, little sister... little sister knows she was wrong..."
But at this moment, surrounded by Ye Tongwei, Xiang Longfei, and seven or eight other men and women, an old man of similar age to Lin Huichun suddenly appeared. It was Wu Jianzhong, the director of the First Municipal Hospital.
Kang Jiali immediately pounced on him like she had found a life-saving straw, fiercely pointing at Chen Xiao and complaining,
"Dad, save me, save me! This doctor from Central Hospital named Chen Xiao not only smashed my car but also hit me several times. He even abused my Xinyi in the rescue room by taking advantage of his position. He's utterly wicked and unworthy of being a doctor!"
Although she said this, in front of Ye Tongwei, Xiang Longfei, and several other men, she made no attempt to cover Wen Xinyi. Instead, Chen Xiao was the first to pick up a white coat nearby and gently cover Wen Xinyi, preventing the unconscious Wen Xinyi from being exposed.
Ye Tongwei and Xiang Longfei, who were eager to shift blame, naturally assumed that Chen Xiao covering Wen Xinyi was a sign of guilt. They vied to speak,
"Director Wu, Chen Xiao is inherently morally corrupt. The despicable incident of him sending lewd messages to all the female colleagues in the hospital not long ago is still widely talked about. It's no wonder he dares to molest your granddaughter in the operating room. We should call the police on this beast!"
"Director Wu, while Chen Xiao is unforgivable, Zhou Wannong is even more so. As far as I know, if it weren't for Zhou Wannong's repeated favoritism, this trash Chen Xiao would have been expelled from Central Hospital long ago! Not only that, but when Director Ye and I were desperately trying to save your granddaughter, Zhou Wannong, as the attending physician, not only did she not help, but she also called Chen Xiao multiple times to talk about their love affair, severely disrupting the rescue surgery! Therefore, I believe that Zhou Wannong and Chen Xiao should bear full responsibility for your granddaughter's death!"
"Ah! Xinyi, how could you bear to leave your grandfather and pass away? Waa..."
As the saying goes, concern breeds confusion. After Ye Tongwei and Xiang Longfei left the operating room, they immediately called Wu Jianzhong to shift the blame. Wu Jianzhong believed that Wen Xinyi had already died. Seeing Wen Xinyi motionless on the operating table, his emotions completely broke down, and he rushed forward crying.
Ye Tongwei and Xiang Longfei became even more smug, continuing to grit their teeth and say,
"Chen Xiao, Zhou Wannong, your actions led to the death of Director Wu's granddaughter. Why don't you kneel down and repent?"
"Chen Xiao, Chen Xiao, you are simply the reincarnation of a devil. I, Xiang Longfei, am ashamed to be your colleague!"
Chen Xiao clearly hadn't expected that his good deed of staying up late to save a life would turn into such a mess. He was instantly infuriated and said with a cold laugh,
"Are all of you doctors, or are you blind or stupid? Haven't you noticed that the patient has already been saved by me? Why did I hit that old bitch? Because she deserved it! Why did I cut open the patient's clothes? For the convenience of acupuncture and massage!"
"Pfft—"
Xiang Longfei burst out laughing,
"Chen Xiao, you don't even need to draft your words when you boast. How could acupuncture and massage possibly save Wen Xinyi..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was stunned. Ye Tongwei was also stunned, because before this, they had been so focused on shifting the blame to Chen Xiao and Zhou Wannong that they hadn't noticed that the vital signs displayed on the electrocardiograph monitor connected to Wen Xinyi were all normal.
The other doctors from the First Municipal Hospital brought by Wu Jianzhong all assumed that Wen Xinyi had died and were only feigning sorrow and grief to please Wu Jianzhong. They also failed to notice that Wen Xinyi was not dead.
In an instant, the scene fell into a deathly silence. Wu Jianzhong, who was crying and wailing beside the operating table, stared at the electrocardiograph monitor as if he had seen a ghost, his expression filled with disbelief. After all, he had received various examination results from Ye Tongwei and Xiang Longfei immediately and knew how serious Wen Xinyi's injuries were. Otherwise, he wouldn't have led several key personnel from the First Municipal Hospital to Central Hospital in the middle of the night for a rescue.
"Could this electrocardiograph monitor be faulty?"
Wu Jianzhong suspected, and quickly checked Wen Xinyi's vital signs himself. What followed was even more shocking, and he couldn't help but exclaim in disbelief,
"Why are the vital signs of a critically injured patient with multiple fractures, a fatal concussion, and severe heart hemorrhage all normal? There's not even a fever! No! This is unscientific!"
"Heh."
Chen Xiao laughed in anger and said unceremoniously,
"It seems that the esteemed Director Wu of the First Municipal Hospital is indeed blind or stupid, failing to see the dense silver needles I've inserted into the patient?"
Zhou Wannong was clearly surprised that Chen Xiao dared to confront even Wu Jianzhong. She quickly leaned over to Chen Xiao's ear and whispered a warning,
"Chen Xiao, let it go. You don't know how deeply Wu Jianzhong is prejudiced against traditional Chinese medicine. Before Elder Lin, who was proficient in TCM, retired and was rehired, he and our Central Hospital had always kept to their own paths. He has publicly criticized TCM more than once. You want him to believe that Wen Xinyi was saved by you using TCM? It's harder than climbing to heaven!"
As expected, as soon as Zhou Wannong finished speaking, Wu Jianzhong immediately urged Ye Tongwei and Xiang Longfei,
"Xiao Ye, Xiao Xiang, I have every reason to suspect that your previous examination reports greatly overestimated my granddaughter's injuries. Arrange for the functional department to conduct another examination immediately. Once the latest examination results are out, it will be clear whether my granddaughter was saved by TCM acupuncture and massage. We can't say that TCM acupuncture and massage are so miraculous that they have an immediate curative effect on severe car accident victims, right?"