Novel
At the ancestral restaurant kitchen and then the emergency ward, Lin Yichen forces the family’s transfer scheme into daylight by demanding the original admission history, exposing that Zhao Meilan and Lin Zhenyu were using copies they never properly read. Dr. Shen Qiaowen verifies the medication and admission mismatch, signs emergency observation, and strips the Lin family of immediate transfer authority for the night. Publicly, the hospital stops treating the family’s version as authoritative, and a debt-linked outsider appears in the corridor, widening the conflict beyond the family as Zhao Meilan’s attempts to salvage face begin to expose the restaurant’s hidden financial rot.
Zhao Meilan’s lacquered fingernail tapped the transfer packet on the prep table. Six minutes had passed since Lin Yichen last looked up, and in that silence, she had decided his obedience was hers to command.
“Hand it over,” she said, her voice sharp under the copper pots. “Tonight’s already ugly enough. You’ve made your little point. You don’t get to sit in here and hold the family hostage.”