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.

finally here!" he said, relieved. "We're all counting on you. Please save

her first." Peter rushed towards the

who is he? My sister is being

good for

who treated mom last time. He can help!" Audrey answered quickly.

my sister?" Vicky looked at Peter, unconvinced. "Are you sure

shouted at Peter, "Which hospital

but I can cure her,

doctor?" Vicky asked, skeptic. "You want my sister to die, don't you? How could you let a random guy come in and

aunt.

dare you prey on a sick woman like my sister. I should be calling the police now and have

it. I know you look down

you think you are? I'm not like other people who fear you, James! It's just too obvious that this guy is not qualified to give out treatments! He's

stayed calm despite his rising anger at his sister-in-law making a commotion out

how could you be so shameless? Mom is in a comma now because of the quack doctor YOU brought. How can you blame my dad

Pak!

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

was about to answer when the door of the ward

them. "Doctor Wu, how is my sister?

old and had a long grizzled beard. He had an air of calm wisdom

sorry. I did everything I could. I should have been able to cure her, but she seems to have received too many wrong treatments before. Now her illness is worse and there is no way for me to salvage the situation anymore, " he replied

face turned

fury. 'Who does this Doctor Wu think he is?