My beautiful boss

"Daaaad! It's for you!" Peter woke up from his ringtone abruptly, ending his dream. 'This sucks!' was the first thought in his head.

"Who is this?" Peter answered impatiently.

"Peter, my mom is very ill. Please come to the hospital and treat her. NOW!" The anxious voice from the other end of the line immediately sobered Peter up.

Not bothering to change or shower, Peter rushed to the hospital.

The girl who called was Audrey. He couldn't understand why Grace's illness was still recurrent even after he had treated her several times. The treatments should have been enough to cure her totally.

Peter pushed his thoughts aside. They wouldn't help for now. The most important thing was that he got to see Grace as soon as possible.

"There you are. Go to my mom, now!" Audrey said, greeting Peter immediately at the hospital entrance. Her eyes were red and swollen. It looked like she had been crying.

"What happened?" Peter asked as they were running towards the ward.

"Yesterday, my auntie visited, bringing along a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine. She suggested that mom would get treatment from that person, and my mom felt too shy to say no.

The person did acupuncture on mom several times. We didn't pay much attention to it because it seemed harmless; but today, her illness seems to have gotten worse!"

Audrey narrated.

Finally arriving at the floor of Grace's ward, They navigated through a crowd, all looking anxious. It was impossible to tell if they were sincere or not.

Accompanying James were a man and a woman. He was clearly in a bad mood, but he maintained a respectful demeanor.

"Dad, Peter is here, " Audrey told James loudly as they approached.

walked towards Peter. "You're finally here!" he said, relieved.

rushed towards

James stopped him abruptly. "James, who is he? My sister is being treated by

really good for her age. However, her

mom last

Vicky looked at Peter, unconvinced. "Are you sure he's a doctor, Audrey? He looks

answer, Vicky shouted at Peter, "Which hospital do you work

any hospital, but I can cure her, " Peter replied, scrunching

sister to die, don't you? How could you let a random guy come in and treat her?" she accused James. "Don't pretend like you care! I can see

really..." Audrey tried to say something but she was stopped by her aunt. "Shut up, Audrey! You're a university student! You should

said, addressing Peter, "How dare you prey on a sick woman

James couldn't take it anymore. "Just stop it. I know you look down on me, but

who fear you, James! It's just too obvious that this guy is not qualified to give out treatments! He's a

his rising anger at his sister-in-law making a

other people thought. "Auntie, how could you be so shameless? Mom is in

Pak!

you address Doctor Wu as a quack one? Are you saying I intentionally hurt my

answer when the door of the ward opened suddenly and out

them. "Doctor Wu, how is my sister?

had a long grizzled beard. He had an air of calm wisdom and superiority, similar to Chinese

many wrong treatments before.

turned

'Who does this Doctor Wu think he is? Bastard!