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"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.

rushed towards the ward,

he? My sister is being treated by Doctor Wu and Director Wang. They shouldn't be

and had a voluptuous figure. She looked really good for her age. However, her intrusive tone made Peter

who treated mom last time.

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

Audrey could answer, Vicky shouted at

but I can cure her,

my sister without even being a doctor?" Vicky asked, skeptic. "You want my 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 through

she was stopped by her aunt. "Shut

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

it anymore. "Just stop it. I know you look down on me, but

too obvious that this guy is not qualified to give out treatments!

his sister-in-law making a commotion out of

other people thought. "Auntie, how could you be so shameless? Mom is in a comma now because of the quack doctor

Pak!

as a

answer when the door of the

them. "Doctor Wu, how is my

beard. He had an air of calm wisdom and

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,

turned cold.

Doctor Wu think