The Public Slight
At the ancestral restaurant, Han Rui endures public contempt from Han Zeyu and Madam Lin while Wei Hong pushes a time-sensitive transfer tied to a patient and the family’s business image. Han Rui quietly reads the paper trail and bedside clues, identifies a falsified chart copy, and forces the room to confront a mismatch between the official story and the medical reality. The chapter ends with the emergency worsening and Han Rui spotting a crucial medication entry that could stop the transfer, turning the joke into a looming leverage play.