Tycoon: From Rags to Riches

Chapter 64: Chapter 64: Ill Winds in a Small Temple

On this day.

The sky was clear and the sun was bright.

Against the pale blue sky, a few wisps of clouds were fluffed up by the wind like cotton.

At this moment, before the entrance of Jilin University Ninth Hospital’s inpatient building.

People came and went, their footsteps hurried.

Gu Heng stood by the main entrance, gazing at his reflection in the glass. He raised a hand to gently fix the hair that had just been ruffled by the wind.

"Sigh..."

’I really hate this world where looks are everything.’

’It makes it impossible to know who truly loves me for me.’

Gu Heng nodded, satisfied, then took out his phone to check the time.

’It’s almost nine-thirty. Why isn’t Momo down yet?’

Gu Heng muttered to himself, a seed of doubt growing in his mind.

At that thought, Gu Heng opened WhatsApp and gave Xu Mo a call.

Half a month had passed. Because Xu Mo was an intern nurse, her schedule was packed with night shifts of all kinds, and the two had been unable to find a suitable chance to meet again.

Today, however, Xu Mo was determined.

Even though she had worked the night shift last night, she still expressed a strong desire to see Gu Heng.

Speaking of which, Gu Heng had always held a special place in his heart for this kind and simple young nurse.

The women who had recently been around Gu Heng—

whether it was Luo Xiwen or Jiang Ruan, they had all gotten to know Gu Heng’s "money" before they got to know Gu Heng the "man."

Only Xu Mo was different. When she met Gu Heng, he was a genuine "poor boy," aside from the cold 100 million sitting in his bank account.

Kind, naive, simple, frugal...

In just a few short days, Xu Mo had left a very deep impression on Gu Heng.

While Gu Heng was thinking this, his hands didn’t stop.

He called once. No answer.

He called twice. No answer.

Gu Heng called four times in a row, but no one ever picked up.

’Strange...’

Gu Heng was puzzled. After a moment’s thought, he stopped waiting around, put away his phone, and strode into the inpatient building.

He knew which floor Xu Mo worked on because he had been a patient here before.

"DING—"

As the elevator doors slowly slid open, Gu Heng had just stepped out when he heard the sound of a harsh scolding coming from a distance.

"You’ve been an intern for two months and haven’t improved at all!"

"You don’t know how to use a glucose meter, you can’t figure out how to give an IV push—I have no idea what you even learned in school!"

"Even if you don’t know anything, couldn’t you at least press the call button to get a supervising nurse? This is a matter of life and death! Is that something you can be reckless about?"

...

Gu Heng followed the sound with his gaze and saw a crowd of nurses in white gathered around the triage station. The severe rebukes were coming from within that group.

"Xu Mo!"

"In a hospital, any mistake can lead to a medical incident!"

"Based on your performance last night, I find you completely incompetent as a nurse. You’re not fit to be one! I will write up this situation truthfully in your internship report!"

Gu Heng, who had been walking slowly, felt his expression change the moment he heard the voice from the triage station again. He immediately quickened his pace.

He had just assumed Xu Mo was one of the onlookers in the crowd of nurses, never imagining that she was the one being reprimanded.

Gu Heng hurried over and quickly reached the area near the triage station.

In the center of the crowd, he saw a woman in her thirties. She wore a nurse’s cap with a blue stripe, signifying her as the head nurse. She looked furious, her face contorted with anger.

And standing before this head nurse was the young nurse, Xu Mo.

At that moment, Xu Mo had her head bowed, looking like she was on the verge of tears. Her hands were clasped tightly in front of her, her knuckles white from the pressure.

The people around them were a mix of full-fledged nurses and interns.

Their expressions varied, but none of them dared to say a single word at a time like this.

Seeing this, Gu Heng’s brow furrowed deeply.

In his memory, Xu Mo was extremely hardworking and conscientious during work.

Because of her poor family background and the hard-won opportunity to intern at a top-tier hospital, Xu Mo put in far more effort than any of the other interns in her cohort.

Gu Heng’s brows were tightly knitted as his gaze swept across the crowd.

Until he saw Liu Dan.

"Sister Dan..."

Gu Heng quietly slipped behind Liu Dan and tapped her on the shoulder.

Liu Dan was startled at first, but when she saw it was Gu Heng, she quietly slipped out of the crowd to the back.

"Sister Dan, what’s going on?"

Gu Heng got straight to the point, asking Liu Dan directly.

"They’re so fucking shameless!"

"What happened last night wasn’t Momo’s fault at all! It was all that bitch Hu Yan’s fault, but she pushed all the blame onto Momo!"

Seeing Gu Heng, Liu Dan immediately unleashed all the anger that had been building up inside her.

Then, as if spilling a bag of beans, she quickly recounted the whole story to Gu Heng.

Interns like Xu Mo were typically mentored by several senior nurses, and Liu Dan was just one of them.

And the Hu Yan that Liu Dan had just mentioned was another one of Xu Mo’s "mentors."

Last night, Xu Mo and Hu Yan were on the night shift together.

In one of the wards they were responsible for, there was an elderly gentleman who had been hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction. He also had a history of diabetes and required close monitoring of his blood sugar and vital signs.

Because his blood sugar needed to be checked every half hour, Hu Yan found it troublesome and dumped the task on Xu Mo, telling her to watch the patient by herself and to only find her if something happened.

Normally, this was completely against regulations.

As a result, in the middle of the night, the patient’s condition truly took a turn for the worse.

His blood sugar suddenly plummeted, and he even fell into a coma.

As an intern, Xu Mo had never encountered such a situation before, so she immediately pressed the call button.

However, Xu Mo pressed it countless times, but Hu Yan never came.

So, Xu Mo had no choice but to try and administer an intravenous injection of glucose herself. But due to her panic and lack of experience, she failed to puncture the vein repeatedly, leaving several bloody scratches on the back of the patient’s hand with the needle.

It was only then that Hu Yan finally sauntered in.

"Sometimes, don’t be fooled when patients’ families seem easy to talk to. The moment something actually happens, they’ll show you in a heartbeat what it means to turn on you without a second thought."

"This morning, the elderly man’s family started making a scene. They claimed the hospital’s response last night was too slow and demanded an explanation, which even alerted the deputy director of our nursing department."

"In the end, it took a lot of talking and placating to calm them down."

At this point, Liu Dan’s gaze flickered to the ostentatiously dressed female nurse standing behind the head nurse, and she said hatefully, "That Hu Yan acts so high and mighty all the time because she has some family connection in the Health Bureau."

"Ever since Xu Mo arrived, she has bullied her constantly, ordering her around to do this and that. And after what happened last night, she just denied all responsibility and dumped everything on Xu Mo."

Hearing this, Gu Heng’s expression had turned quite ugly.

"So whatever Hu Yan says, your head nurse just believes it?"

Hearing this, Liu Dan glanced around and lowered her voice again. "After Momo’s group of interns arrived, basically every intern assigned to Ding Xia gave her a little something."

"Out of all the interns, only Momo didn’t give her anything, so she’s disliked Momo for a while. Add to that Hu Yan’s family connections, and she’ll naturally turn a blind eye and pin all the blame on Momo."

After speaking, Liu Dan couldn’t help but sigh softly.

"Xiaogu, don’t blame me for not helping."

"I’m truly powerless. I can’t afford to cross Ding Xia."

Liu Dan looked a little guilty. "If I get on her bad side, she’ll make my life hell with the shift scheduling."

"Heh heh..."

’The smaller the temple, the fiercer the gales; the shallower the water, the more scumbags you’ll find.’

’A petty official with no small amount of swagger.’

Gu Heng gazed at the head nurse, Ding Xia, who was still harshly scolding Xu Mo in the center of the crowd, and a cold smirk appeared on his face.

"Xiaogu..."

Seeing Gu Heng’s expression, Liu Dan grew worried that his youthful hot-headedness would lead him to do something rash.

"Sister Dan, who’s the top boss of your nursing department?"

Gu Heng suddenly turned his head and asked Liu Dan.

"Director Pang Juan."

Liu Dan answered subconsciously.

Gu Heng shook his head. "Sister Dan, I mean the top boss. The very top."

"The very top?"

Liu Dan didn’t know what Gu Heng was planning, but she answered truthfully, "That would have to be Dean Jiang Man, who’s in charge of all the administrative departments in our hospital. The nursing department is just one of the many departments under her management."

"Oh?"

’What a coincidence.’

Gu Heng lifted his eyes toward Ding Xia and Hu Yan in the center of the crowd and suddenly broke into a wide grin, revealing two rows of pearly white teeth. It looked like a brilliant smile, but when Liu Dan saw it, a sudden chill ran down her spine...

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