Chen Xiaoxiao’s pupils suddenly shrank.
In the next instant, she shouted anxiously, “Doctor! Nurse! Hurry!”
“Bingyan, how do you feel?” Xu Tian panicked as well.
“Get away from her!” Chen Xiaoxiao, burning with fury, shoved Xu Tian to the ground beside the bed.
Just then, Lin Tong hurriedly entered the ward.
“What happened?”
“CEO Tang had just taken a few sips of soup and then suddenly started vomiting blood!” Chen Xiaoxiao said quickly.
Lin Tong’s heart skipped a beat.
Could it be… the three herbs he had altered?
No. Impossible!
The three herbs he substituted were extremely similar in properties to the original ones. Even if there were slight discrepancies, it shouldn’t have caused her to vomit blood…
It had to be the acupuncture!
It must’ve been something the old man did during acupuncture!
Thinking this, Lin Tong rushed to the bed and checked Tang Bingyan’s condition.
Once he finished, Chen Xiaoxiao asked anxiously, “Doctor Lin, how is CEO Tang?”
Lin Tong looked grave. “From my initial examination, the medicine she took had no issues. The cause of her vomiting blood… should be due to the acupuncture!”
“What?!” Chen Xiaoxiao and Ah Wei’s faces changed drastically.
The one who performed the acupuncture was brought by Xu Tian!
They had already been suspicious. How could Xu Tian have possibly found a real miracle doctor? Now it seemed that Xu Tian really had come to kill Tang Bingyan!
At that moment, Xu Tian stood up from the floor and grabbed Lin Tong by the collar.
“Quack! What trick did you pull?! If anything happens to my wife, I’ll kill your whole family!”
Xu Tian’s bloodshot eyes looked like those of a wild beast.
“Xu Tian, that’s enough!” Chen Xiaoxiao roared. “I actually believed you had found a real doctor. You were just trying to kill CEO Tang!”
“Get out! Get out right now!”
Pfft!
Another mouthful of blood sprayed from Tang Bingyan’s mouth.
“CEO Tang?!”
Xu Tian, Chen Xiaoxiao, and Ah Wei’s expressions changed instantly.
Xu Tian ignored everything else and rushed to the side to call Zhang Zizhen.
Half an hour later.
Lin Tong wiped the sweat from his forehead. “The patient’s condition is now temporarily stabilized.”
Chen Xiaoxiao let out a long breath of relief. At least she was stable.
But Lin Tong glanced at Xu Tian and added meaningfully, “But Assistant Chen, I hope you’ll trust our hospital’s professionalism in the future. Don’t let random people treat the patient again. If something goes wrong, we can’t take that kind of responsibility.”
“Of course, Doctor Lin. There won’t be a next time,” Chen Xiaoxiao said quickly.
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Chen Xiaoxiao’s expression turned cold instantly when she saw them.
“You can’t go in!”
Then she turned her sharp gaze on Xu Tian. “If it hadn’t been for you stopping it, Doctor Lin would have performed the surgery already. CEO Tang wouldn’t have deteriorated to this point. The one you brought in did this to her!”
“I’ll die before I let him step into this ward again!”
“Lin Tong is a quack. He can’t cure Bingyan. And as for the real reason she’s vomiting blood, we don’t know yet. Let Zhang Lao check!” Xu Tian’s tone grew cold.
“Heh, Mr. Xu,” Lin Tong sneered. “We are all professionals here. I already told you—acupuncture caused this!”
Then he turned to Chen Xiaoxiao and said, “Assistant Chen, I suggest you call the police. This kind of fraud, harming people for money, should be punished by law!”
Lin Xiao could no longer bear it. Furious, he glared at Lin Tong. “Shut up!”
“My master has practiced medicine for decades and has never made a mistake!”
“When he was treating people, you were probably still playing in the mud!”
Lin Tong smirked. “You’re trying to defend yourselves? The evidence is right there—the blood CEO Tang vomited!”
“It couldn’t have been my master’s fault!” Lin Xiao retorted, but Zhang Zizhen stopped him.
With no emotion on his aged face and a calm look in his clouded eyes, he turned to Lin Tong and said, “Young man, my acupuncture only drains internal stagnated blood. It doesn’t harm the body. The cause of her vomiting blood must be confirmed with proper examination.”
“Heh!” Lin Tong scoffed. “So it’s our hospital’s fault now?”
Before Zhang Zizhen could respond, Lin Tong turned to Chen Xiaoxiao again, tone hard and unwavering. “Assistant Chen, if you allow these two to touch the patient again and something happens, the hospital will not take responsibility!”
“And if you insist, then please discharge her immediately!”
Chen Xiaoxiao’s expression darkened.
Tang Bingyan’s current condition was too unstable for discharge.
She raised her hand, pointed toward Zhang Zizhen and Lin Xiao, and said coldly, “Leave. Now. Or I’m calling the police!”
Xu Tian’s face turned grim. “Chen Xiaoxiao, have you lost your mind?”
She could curse him all she wanted. He didn’t care.
Before he was reborn, he truly was a complete bastard.
But stopping Zhang Zizhen from treating Tang Bingyan? That was something he would never allow.
“Heh… I’m crazy? I have no right?” Chen Xiaoxiao snapped back, laughing in anger. “You still love playing the victim, don’t you? Xu Tian, if you don’t want to be thrown in jail, get lost with your fake doctor!”
Xu Tian’s patience finally snapped. “Chen Xiaoxiao, I’m still Bingyan’s legal husband. I am her next of kin. I have the right to decide who treats her! Get out of my way!”
“You…” Chen Xiaoxiao gasped.
But what he said was true. No matter the current relationship between him and Tang Bingyan, he hadn’t signed the divorce papers yet.
That made him her lawful husband—her closest family member.
And she, as just an assistant, didn’t have the legal authority to decide who treated her.
Still, even if she had no right, she couldn’t just stand by and watch Tang Bingyan be hurt!
“I won’t let you in!”
“Ah Wei! Block the door!” she ordered.
Immediately, Ah Wei and a few bodyguards stood in front of the door like an iron wall.
There was no getting through unless they were physically removed.
Just as things reached a stalemate, Zhang Zizhen finally spoke.
“But at the very least, you should let me examine her and determine whether it was truly the acupuncture that caused it.”
His tone was calm, but his gaze was firm.
Before Chen Xiaoxiao could respond, Lin Tong stepped forward.
“Heh, our hospital will run a full set of diagnostics. There’s no need for you to worry, old man.”
“I don’t trust you,” Chen Xiaoxiao said firmly. “I trust our hospital’s results!”
Zhang Zizhen frowned slightly and silently looked at Xu Tian.
Though he was confident in his medical skills, if the patient’s family wouldn’t allow treatment, there was nothing he could do.
Only Xu Tian could resolve this.
Xu Tian frowned.
With bodyguards blocking the door, barging in by force was out of the question.
But soon, his eyes fell on Lin Tong.
He suddenly smiled. “Doctor Lin, you just said it was the acupuncture that caused Bingyan to vomit blood. You cleared yourself of responsibility pretty quickly, didn’t you?”
Lin Tong’s smile stiffened. “Mr. Xu, what are you implying?”
“I’m implying that I suspect your hospital made a mistake that caused my wife to vomit blood.”
Lin Tong’s face darkened. “Mr. Xu, you’d better have proof before making such claims!”
“Oh? Then where’s your proof that acupuncture caused it?”
Xu Tian looked at Chen Xiaoxiao. “Are you working with him to harm my wife?”
“Chen Xiaoxiao, I thought you were Bingyan’s assistant and her friend.”
“I didn’t expect you to be helping an outsider harm her.”
Both Lin Tong and Chen Xiaoxiao’s faces changed dramatically.
“Mr. Xu, your own doctor caused the problem, and now you’re slandering us?!” Lin Tong snapped.
“Xu Tian, stop talking nonsense! Don’t throw mud at me!” Chen Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth. “You’ve got no proof!”
“That’s why I want to find proof,” Xu Tian replied calmly. “If you’re blocking me, it means you’re guilty.”
“You’re insane!” Chen Xiaoxiao shouted. She was furious.
Xu Tian had always been a bastard—but this?!
Now he was accusing her of trying to harm Tang Bingyan!
Unforgivable!
But she managed to suppress her rage and spoke through gritted teeth, “Fine! Go ahead and check! But only check. No treatment!”
“If you can’t find anything, from now on only Doctor Lin Tong will be allowed to treat CEO Tang, and you don’t get a say!”
If Xu Tian stopped interfering, Lin Tong could begin surgery soon, and Tang Bingyan’s condition would improve quickly.
“Let’s check first,” Xu Tian said and turned to Zhang Zizhen. “Zhang Lao, please.”
Zhang Zizhen nodded and walked to Tang Bingyan’s bedside to take her pulse.
About thirty seconds later, he pulled back and looked at Xu Tian.
“Mr. Xu, your wife did not vomit blood because of my acupuncture. It was caused by the medicine she took.”
“May I ask… was the medicine prepared according to the prescription I wrote?”