Magic City's No. 1 People's Hospital—
Home to experts from multiple medical fields and equipped with the world's most advanced medical technologies, the hospital has been committed to saving lives and aiding the injured for the past thirty years.
In terms of both reputation and the scope of its medical practice, it's unquestionably the best hospital in Magic City.
At 10:00 PM, the hospital received an unexpected visitor.
This was a disheveled, pale-faced middle-aged man.
He staggered as he walked, appearing as if he could collapse at any moment.
And collapse he did—
Just as he set foot in the hospital, his vision blackened, and he fell to the ground.
Staff on duty noticed him and immediately rushed over to assess the situation.
After a brief moment of chaos, the middle-aged man was rushed into the emergency room.
An attending physician promptly administered emergency treatment, which revived the man's consciousness.
However, upon examining the patient's comprehensive medical report, the doctor looked gravely concerned.
The patient was suffering from liver failure and had reached a critically severe stage; his life was hanging by a thread.
A bead of sweat trickled down the doctor's forehead.
This was a case that exceeded his capabilities.
Should the man die on his shift, it would severely impact his future career.
What should he do?
Suddenly, an idea flashed across his mind.
If he remembered correctly, the honorary deputy director, Li Shan, was in the hospital today. Perhaps he could seek his help.
With that thought, the physician hurriedly made his way to the deputy director's office.
Soon after, Li Shan arrived at the emergency room, accompanied by a team of doctors, all of whom wore grave expressions on their faces.
They knew that the patient's time was running out.
If anyone could prolong his life, it would be the deputy director standing before them.
"Please leave the room. I'll see what I can do," said Li Shan, pulling out his medical kit.
The doctors complied, leaving the room; they knew that Li Shan needed complete silence when administering acupuncture.
The door to the emergency room closed.
Li Shan took a set of silver needles from his medical kit and began inserting them into various points on the patient's body.
As time slowly passed—
Just when Li Shan was inserting the final needle, an unexpected event occurred.
The previously fading patient suddenly opened his eyes wide.
He even stretched out his hand to grab Li Shan's, driving the needle toward his own heart.
Simultaneously, he started screaming, "Murder! Murder!"
The sudden turn of events left Li Shan utterly bewildered.
Before he could react, the silver needle in his hand had already pierced the patient's heart.
At that very moment—
The emergency room door burst open, and the gathered doctors witnessed the entire scene.
Their deputy director had actually driven a needle deep into the patient's heart.
After struggling for a few moments, the patient's head slumped to the side, and he stopped breathing.
Even those without a background in acupuncture knew that one should never insert a needle into the heart.
"Murder, he's committed murder..."
One doctor, pale as a ghost, stammered.
Realizing the gravity of the situation, the other doctors scattered, frantically exiting the room.
They didn't forget to call the police either.
Inside the Emergency Room—
Li Shan finally snapped back to reality, his body swaying slightly.
If he still didn't understand what had happened, then all his years of experience would have been in vain.
Unexpectedly!
All he did was provide information to his protégé and used his connections to get Lin Feng out of prison, yet he had drawn Xu Hao's vengeance.
"How… ruthless..." He intermittingly murmured.
He knew that if Xu Hao was actually out for him then his career was over.
It wouldn't take long before word got out that he had deliberately killed a patient while administering treatment.
His decades-long reputation would be ruined in an instant.
In that moment, Li Shan felt as though all his energy had been drained.
He collapsed onto the floor, seemingly aging a dozen years in an instant.
...
Several Minutes Later—
A group of police officers entered the hospital and escorted Li Shan away.
Conversations about him were still rippling through the hospital.
"Isn't that our hospital's honorary deputy director? Why is he in handcuffs and being taken away by the police?"
"Don't you know? He just tried to kill a patient by driving a needle into the patient's heart."
"That's so brutal. How could he do such a thing?"
"Wait, why would Deputy Director Li want to kill that patient?"
"Well, there's really no need for discussion. The patient was critically ill; he knew he couldn't cure him. And if he failed, his reputation would be tarnished."
"So he decided to go all in and end it secretly..."
"I can't believe he is that kind of person..."
Concerning the Honorary Deputy Director of Magic City's First People's Hospital—
News about him spread like wildfire.
It even made its way online, instantly becoming viral.
Meanwhile—
Xu Hao had already returned home.
He got wind of the news almost immediately but merely chuckled.
In reality, he had known about it even before it broke.
After all, he had orchestrated the whole thing.
The patient was someone he had picked up from the slums, someone already on borrowed time.
A small sum for the family and it was all arranged.
Lin Feng only heard about the news the next day.
By then, the media was buzzing with stories about the alleged murder committed by Li Shan, the Honorary Deputy Director of Magic City's First People's Hospital.
Lin Feng was stunned, initially refusing to believe it.
"How could my mentor commit murder just because he couldn't cure a patient?"
He wasn't foolish; he quickly pieced it together.
He had spent a day in jail and it was his mentor who got him out.
And the person who had him imprisoned in the first place was Xu Hao.
Indirectly, his mentor had offended Xu Hao.
Considering Xu Hao's terrifying connections, everything became clear.
"Xu Hao, you deserve to die..." Lin Feng was seething, his eyes turning red with fury. His body shook uncontrollably, and his fists clenched so tight they made cracking sounds.
At the Office of Xu Hao—
Xu Hao had already arrived at his company, ready to embark on another day of money-making.
The stock market wasn't particularly volatile that day.
By mid-morning, Xu Hao had only made a few billion, but even that had his team of traders astonished.
This was the true god of the stock market in action.
Noon—
Xu Hao had his bodyguard drive him to Magic City University.
When he arrived, many students were leaving the campus.
They were heading out for lunch.
Although the university had its own cafeteria, it couldn't compete with the flavors outside.
Among the throng of students, one figure stood out distinctly.
She was the campus beauty of Magic City University—Xia Mengyao.
And she was the reason for Xu Hao's visit. What would lunch be without a heroine to spice up the atmosphere?