Chapter 0002: The Mayor's Daughter

Chen Fang appeared very embarrassed in front of so many patients and their families, as if the behavior of the hospital security suggested that her son was trying to run away without paying for his medical treatment.

Now, Chen Fang was not pulling her son away, but was waiting in the main lobby for Ye Qiu's father, Ye Weidong, to arrive.

However, it wasn't long after the security guards had spoken that a female nurse cleared out all the clothing and a large bag of fruit from that premium ward just now.

Now, after handing it over to a security guard, that guard directly threw those several bags in front of Chen Fang and Ye Qiu.

"Take your own trash," that security guard said arrogantly.

There had been a time when, in Ye Qiu's view, he was born a second-generation Immortal, and indeed, he was one of the most formidable young Divine Doctors within Heaven's Imperial Physicians.

A true Divine Doctor!

Even the Jade Emperor and other Immortal Lords, upon seeing him, would not dare show him disrespect!

These mortals before him, whom he regarded as ants, actually dared to look at him with such sarcastic and mocking expressions.

Chen Fang stood in front of Ye Qiu, blocking the looks from others directed at him.

Chen Fang knew that her son had always been physically weak since childhood, and for some unknown reason, he had always appeared frail, self-conscious, and timid, often being mocked as trash by others.

This time, after Ye Qiu awoke from a car accident, Chen Fang felt her son had somehow changed.

But, her impression of Ye Qiu still mostly remained as it was before the accident.

So, seeing those security guards and some strange glances from families in the hospital now, Chen Fang naturally stood in front of her son as a mother, to shield him from any upset.

"Mom, I'm fine," Ye Qiu said calmly.

These security guards before him, in his eyes, were merely dogs, and soon they would regret barking without cause.

As for that Zhou Peng, Vice President Zhou, Ye Qiu intended to make him regret even more.

Ye Qiu and Chen Fang were waiting in the main lobby, on one hand, Chen Fang was waiting for her husband, Ye Weidong, to bring money, and on the other, the hospital had not yet allowed them to be discharged.

Although it was arranged for them to stay in a common ward, the hospital was currently paying no attention to them.

Moreover, the security guards outside occasionally glanced at the two, as if really suspecting them of attempting to flee.

Jinling Hospital, located in Jinling City, was also the largest tertiary general hospital in Jiangnan Province and was the first affiliated hospital of Jinling University.

The patient traffic here, averaging around thirty to forty thousand per day, along with the patients' families and the hospital's doctors and female nurses, made for nearly sixty to seventy thousand people coming and going every day.

This was why the attitudes of those at Jinling Hospital had become what they were.

Of course, there was a reason Zhou Peng personally came to Ye Qiu's ward to drive him out.

If it had been usual, he wouldn't have dealt with these matters personally; he would have just asked a department head below him or have the chief of security directly take people to drive the patients away.

Furthermore, those who could afford the premium wards were typically either rich or noble.

Only, Ye Qiu was not.

Initially, Ye Qiu had been placed in a high-grade ward, and Deputy Director Zhou strongly believed Ye Qiu was related to the Su Family or was a member, which is why Zhou Peng had shown such enthusiastic concern.

However, once Ye Qiu started accruing debt with the hospital and no one from the Su Family appeared again, Zhou Peng's attitude toward the patient, Ye Qiu, changed drastically, almost like night and day.

Because Jinling Hospital has nearly a third of its wards as private rooms, which serve the wealthy and influential patients from Jiangnan Province, Jinling City, or other areas.

Today afternoon, however, Zhou Peng was called to the director's office, as Deputy Mayor Li Zhiguo's daughter, Li Qianqian, needed to be hospitalized at Jinling Hospital.

Li Zhiguo, being the second-ranking Deputy Mayor of Jinling City, naturally held significant power.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Peng, as the deputy director, naturally took it as an important task handed down from above and immediately called a meeting with relevant hospital staff.

Soon, Zhou Peng and the hospital's relevant authorities discovered that all the private high-grade wards were occupied.

These private high-grade ward patients were either wealthy and influential or related to hospital staff; even if some were nearly fully recovered, it was not appropriate to discharge them because the hospital had no grounds to do so if the patients were not ready to leave.

However, after verifying that one of the high-grade private wards was occupied by an ordinary patient who owed the hospital over one hundred thousand in fees, Zhou Peng took the opportunity to evict Ye Qiu and vacate the high-grade ward for Deputy Mayor Li's daughter's hospitalization.

All this appeared very normal to Zhou Peng and the hospital staff.

After all, Ye Qiu was just an ordinary person with no money.

What followed were the events that had just occurred.

Ye Qiu suspected that Zhou Peng had evicted him because of Deputy Mayor Li's daughter needing the ward for her hospitalization.

Now, he was waiting for Deputy Mayor Li's daughter to arrive, curious to see what illness she had.

Li Zhiguo was very worried about his daughter Qianqian and, as a government official bound by strict family planning policies, cherished his only daughter immensely.

Unfortunately, Qianqian had returned from a Spring Festival trip with friends looking completely soulless, to the great concern of her mother, Lu Xiuyu.

At that time, Li Zhiguo was preoccupied with his work and didn't notice anything amiss. However, when Qianqian later fell into a coma at home, it genuinely terrified Li Zhiguo.

Initially, Li Zhiguo did not rush Qianqian to the hospital, but instead invited skilled Traditional Chinese and Western doctors from the capital to treat her.

But after more than a month, Li Qianqian still hadn't awakened and was only surviving on IV drips to sustain her body's normal functions.

When her body started showing signs of muscle atrophy, Li Zhiguo decided to move his daughter from home to Jinling Hospital for treatment.

Jinling Hospital is the top third-tier comprehensive hospital in Jiangnan Province, and having many skilled doctors around made Li Zhiguo feel more at ease.

In the afternoon, after an important meeting, Li Zhiguo had his secretary, Xiao Zhang, call Jinling Hospital in advance to notify them of Li Qianqian's impending hospitalization.

Jinling Hospital's Director Zhang Weimin immediately assigned Zhou Peng to handle the matter.

Li Zhiguo returned to the Li family mansion, quickly loaded Li Qianqian into the car with Lu Xiuyu, and then drove to Jinling Hospital with Lu Xiuyu and Secretary Xiao Zhang, keeping a low profile.

Even though he was being low-profile, Li Zhiguo was a deputy mayor, and having the secretary call ahead certainly made a difference.

As Secretary Xiao Zhang drove near the main entrance of Jinling Hospital, Director Zhang Weimin and Deputy Director Zhou Peng immediately went to welcome them.