Chapter 240: Another Difficult Patient
"Ru Yan, please don’t cry. Seeing you so sad is breaking my heart. I..."
Before Song Zijin could finish, Sheng Yueyue viciously cut him off. "You... What are you trying to do? Are you telling me you want to marry her?"
Uncle Song saw that the Sheng family had all gone to the hospital, so he let go of Song Zijin to take care of other matters.
But he never expected his nephew to be so stupid as to step forward and comfort the assailant.
Sheng Yueyue cursed nonstop. She wanted to rush over and scratch up Jiang Ruyan’s face; she had long despised that vixen-like face of hers.
Earlier, she had been too intimidated to move by the stare from that third idiot, but now that he was gone, who was she afraid of!
When Jiang Ruyan saw Sheng Yueyue charge at her, she didn’t dodge, letting her come right at her.
But her eyes were fixed on Song Zijin. As long as he was willing to step in and help, everything would be fine.
Besides, the two people holding her wouldn’t just stand by and watch her face get scratched up.
’That cripple may be outstanding, but what about him? He didn’t say a word. He didn’t even spare me a glance.’
’He even knocked my wooden cane away before. He probably wanted to cripple me for real so I wouldn’t bother him!’
As expected, Song Zijin didn’t disappoint her. He actually went up and pulled Sheng Yueyue back. "Yueyue, that’s enough! How can you be so malicious?"
Hearing this, Sheng Yueyue was so enraged that she forcefully shoved Jiang Ruyan, her eyes turning vicious.
Her face twisted into a grimace of hatred and jealousy, and she clenched her fists so tightly that her knuckles turned white.
"Bitch! You slut, wasn’t breaking my brother’s leg enough for you? Now you’re trying to seduce the groom? What the hell are you planning?"
Jiang Ruyan was being held by Song Zijin’s cousins, so Sheng Yueyue couldn’t push her over. Thus, she stood there, completely unfazed.
She didn’t look the least bit afraid of being bullied by Sheng Yueyue. In fact, she even gave Sheng Yueyue a provocative look.
She said with a faint smile, "Zijin, just let your bride hit me a few times to vent her anger. It’s my fault today."
"Ru Yan, you’re just too kind," Song Zijin said. "Yueyue, I’m so disappointed in you. How could you try to hit her?"
"This bitch deserves a beating! She dared to break my second brother’s leg in public! I’ll beat this bitch to death—"
Sheng Yueyue’s face flushed red from Song Zijin’s scolding, but she didn’t stop cursing. As she yelled, she lifted her foot to kick Jiang Ruyan.
Seeing this, Song Zijin quickly pulled Jiang Ruyan’s hand and dodged. The two cousins immediately let go and stepped away when they saw Song Zijin approach.
"Zijin... are you going to abandon your bride again?" Sheng Yueyue was so angry she could have coughed up blood.
As he pulled her along, Jiang Ruyan felt her heart race. His palm was sweaty, yet very cool.
A faint, fresh scent of mint traveled from his fingers to her nose, and she felt a little dizzy.
Unsure of what her future held anyway, Jiang Ruyan simply let Song Zijin pull her along as they dodged.
The three of them ran around the banquet tables in a chaotic chase. Sheng Yueyue, wearing high heels, was no match for the other two.
"Zijin!" Mr. Song roared, slamming his hand on the table.
"What are you doing? Hurry and take your woman and go! Do you want everyone to see this disgraceful display? Haven’t you caused enough embarrassment for one day?"
Seeing his grandson’s wedding banquet descend into such chaos, Mr. Song felt dizzy with anger.
He had already been worried about the marriage of his eldest grandson, Song Zijie, who was already twenty-seven this year.
He had hoped to see both his grandsons married with children before he kicked the bucket, but he never imagined this kid’s old flame would show up on his wedding day.
’If only one of them could be given to Zijie!’
The Xie family’s patriarch had seen enough of the spectacle and said to his grandson beside him, "Zhuoyu, aren’t you going to step in and stop this?"
"Yes, I’ll do as you say, Grandpa." After speaking, Xie Zhuoyu exercised his authority as a captain.
He walked toward the chasing trio with a serious expression. "Your public fighting is a serious disturbance of the peace."
"All of you will come with me quietly. Of course, we won’t wrongfully arrest a good person, nor will we let a bad one go."
"Anything that puts you above the law will not be permitted. Do you understand?"
The three of them were dumbfounded. They were just making a scene in their own home, and they were going to be arrested?
"Xie, we were just playing around! Yueyue, isn’t that right?" Song Zijin immediately lost his nerve when he saw Captain Xie.
Sheng Yueyue had known Xie Zhuoyu in her past life. Because she was often bullied by the He family, Xie Zhuoyu, on her father’s orders, had personally come to their home to mediate.
He had warned the He family not to go too far, frightening her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law from that life into bowing and scraping as they apologized to her.
Sheng Yueyue immediately started crying pitifully to Xie Zhuoyu. "Xie~ Song Zijin isn’t human! He abandoned his bride to protect that vixen~"
"Song Zijin is indeed a piece of work. In that case, take them all away," Xie Zhuoyu said, cold and ruthless.
Sheng Yueyue: "..."
She was being taken away too? Then her sob story was all for nothing. She had forgotten that in her past life, she was always the weak one who was beaten and scolded.
But right now, she was the aggressor, chasing after Jiang Ruyan to beat her up.
In the end, it was Mr. Song who stepped in and told Song Zijin to take Sheng Yueyue back to the bridal chamber.
Jiang Ruyan scurried back to the Jiang Family in disgrace, and the farce ended with a whimper after starting with a bang.
Mr. Sheng and Mrs. Sheng rushed to the hospital after getting the news and saw their pale-faced second son.
They learned from their third son that their daughter had hit Miss Jiang, and in retaliation, someone had broken their second son’s leg and ribs.
Mr. Sheng never imagined that one day his own daughter would give him a heart attack from pure anger.
Mrs. Sheng cried her heart out, hating the heavens and the earth, but in the end, she didn’t know who to blame.
Gu Jiaojiao had no idea that so many things were happening in Qing City, a thousand miles away.
She was currently facing a difficult case: a patient who had also been shot in the chest, but his condition was much worse.
Removing the bullet casing from his chest should have been relatively simple. She had done it once before for Han Jingshen since coming here, so she had experience.
The difficult part was that this patient had a cardiovascular tumor that needed to be removed at the same time as the bullet casing.
One wrong move could lead to unstoppable bleeding. This procedure was extremely risky; even in a future era, no one would dare to take it on.
Xia Qiuming was a highly skilled surgeon, but even he had only been 50% confident when removing the bullet from Han Jingshen.
For this patient, he had no confidence at all.
Gu Jiaojiao couldn’t just pull more high-tech medical equipment out of her space. The items she had taken out before had all been modified by Su Shuochi.
Besides, even with high-tech medical equipment, Gu Jiaojiao felt the success rate of the surgery would only be 50%.
Without that equipment, the success rate would be even lower!
This patient was in his thirties. Not only did he hold a high-ranking position and was a rare talent...
...but according to what Xia Qiuming had quietly told her, the family backing him was also incredibly powerful.
If it were an ordinary person, Gu Jiaojiao would have operated without hesitation. After all, when saving a life, every second counts.
But in this situation, if the patient died during her treatment, she wasn’t just being paranoid. Her title as Divine Doctor Su Gu would be gone, and it was hard to say if she could even keep her own life.
But could she refuse to save him? Their consciences wouldn’t allow it.