Chapter 6: Mo Tiling

City A.

That morning, inside Shenzhen Ji Hospital.

Operation theatre.

"Scalpel"

A scrub nurse prudently handed the scalpel on the stainless steel tray to the neurosurgeon putting on surgical gloves and a mask.

"Entrance hole in the abdomen, and it's likely that it pierced the liver. The bullet is lodged under the diaphragm, probably where the inferior vena cava meets the right hepatic vein" The surgical techs and medical students augmented their knowledge as they observed the surgeon. Every minute, they would sneak a look at the anesthesia machine, while also monitoring the blood pressure, pulse rate, and temperature of the patient.

"Could there be a chance of excessive bleeding, Dr. Mo?" A student inquired under the mask.

Mo Tiling nodded "Excessive bleeding is likely to occur due to possible damage to the IVC and the hepatic veins" he ascertained professionally and continued "The patient is shot close to the liver. First, I'll detach the liver from the peritoneum to mobilize the right lobe of the liver"

He held the scalpel tightly and cut smoothly on the skin of the patient.....

"As predicted, there are traces of the bullet found in the IVC and hepatic veins, which will create excessive bleeding"

The monitor began beeping voluntarily and unstoppably.

"Infusion is needed to control the bleeding" Beads of sweat covered Mo Tiling's face as he tried to control the bleeding.

"The bleeding has stopped" Another student notified in relief.

Mo Tiling went back to subtracting the bullet. Before being told, the scrub nurse passed him the extractor tool, which he used to finally break out the bullet from the body.

"The bullet is out, next is to suture the wound" He placed the bullet inside the other empty tray by his side and sutured the wound of the patient.

...

Mo Tiling went back to his office after washing up. His face turned pale from the exhaustion and dehydration his body had to take. Without taking proper rest, a nurse rashly entered his office and informed "The patient in room 408 is having another brain seizure... Dr. Maxwell called for your cooperation to perform the craniotomy"

Mo Tiling exhaled enormously, but after all, saving lives was his motto. He stared at his blank screen for a while before following the nurse.

.....

Mo Tiling is the eldest son of the Mo family, who is part of one of the remarkably notorious Big Three in China. After the Wei family, comes Mo then followed by Li. Mo Tiling is a thirty-one-year-old good-looking neurosurgeon, likewise Wei Yuze, who had triumphed over tons of ladies' hearts. But different from Wei Yuze, his cousin, he was considered an "Iceberg" or "Cold fish" for his fundamental technique of rejecting women. That started in his high school, where he'd brutally kill every girl's feelings, dreams, and respect for him into shrewd. Though he was indifferent, one thing that could tremble him was his zeal for liberating lives and the love of his special person.

"Hey" his voice was as cold as ice. After seven hours of surgery, he left the hospital back to his residence to finally have some alone time for himself. But the moment he got home, his phone rang. It was his wife calling.

"A...are you busy?"

"No, I just got off work...did you and Mianmian get there already?" He rubbed the spaces in between his temple.

Chun Hua looked at the young girl in a deep sleep. Out of uneasiness, she suggested, "Can you come back today?"

Mo Tiling's heart almost skipped a beat when she spoke in a sensitive voice. She had never spoken so temperately before to cause a heart trepidation. He cleared his dried throat and asked "Why? Did you not miss your parents?"

Chun Hua turned silent for some minutes, and Mo Tiling felt disturbed. He was feeling drowsy but because she seemed to be in a difficult problem, he yielded from his weakness.

"Do you want me to arrive as early as possible?" He inquired nearly in a whisper. His emerald eyes eyed the document and passport in his hand as though his bullshit meter was ticking in the red zone. Strange that before she called, he was thinking of returning to City F. Three years was a long time.

"Will you if I said I miss you?" Mo Tiling's gaze narrowed sightlessly into a realm of darkness. The fatigue he once felt disappeared in a flash, while an unexplainable volt of power radiated leading to a complicated flow in his body.

"Did you meet him?"

Chun Hua rubbed her raw eyes as she felt sleepy "No"

"Isn't that the main reason for your return?" He thought.

"I heard from Maxwell that you performed on two particularly laborious patients and you succeeded...it must have been hard, right? Deprived of sleep, unable to forget a past, and... Mianmian is awake, I'll call you later" She said before pressing the end button.

Mo Tiling sighed "It is the first time in our marriage, you'll ever congratulate my hard work even if it was indirect, Huahua, is that a positive change or an intentional negative change? It is so hard to read your mind"

He took his phone and dialed a number.

"Book the ticket, now!!"

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City F.

Han Yufan got off his car and scurried straight into the pub. His hair was disheveled and had little time to put a decent outfit on because he came in urgency after getting a call from one of his friends, who was the owner of the place, that Wei Yuze had been lingering in there for a long time.

"Where is he?" Han Yufan quickly questioned the young-looking man, sitting undisturbed on the sofa. Chen Yi smiled "Trust me, man, you don't want to face him right now...he looks like a waste"

"Is that bastard drunk?" Han Yufan clenched his jaws.

Chen Yi ran a hand through his hair "Guess"

"That!! He drank in broad daylight!!" his face contorted in rage and his teeth were bared. Looking peeved, he threw a hostile glare at Chen Yi and lambasted "You made him drunk?"

Lifting his arms to the air, Chen Yi innocently retorted "What now?? It is my fault for offering drinks to a customer"

"To hell with your customers!! Yuze goes nuts when he is drunk and you know it, yet you still...."

"I apologize for pleasing my customer" Chen Yi spoke in sarcasm. He led the way to the room Wei Yuze was in.

"I bet he is asleep" Chen Yi proudly muttered, without him having a clue of what had gone crazy inside the room. When those two entered the room, Chen Yi fell to the ground as his heart was split into two, while Han Yufan gritted his teeth in disappointment.

"My baby" Chen Yi moaned "Why! My baby! You bastard!!"