City's Best Divine Doctor-Chapter 263 - 0264: Be Mentally Prepared

Shen Zhigang’s expression looked very grim, not even he himself had any confidence, as for Shen Yueru, there was no need to say more—father and daughter exchanged a glance, worry filling both their eyes.

"Nurse, how is my sister’s condition?" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Shen Yueru asked.

"Miss Shen, your sister is still in resuscitation, I don’t know the details inside."

"Then, how was my sister injured in the first place?"

Shen Yueru asked.

"I heard that your sister was stabbed five or six times in the chest with a fruit knife by a man, and she collapsed into a pool of blood, motionless. When she was brought to the hospital, your sister’s clothes, backpack, that black bag, they were all drenched in her blood."

As the female nurse spoke plainly, Shen Zhigang and Shen Yueru looked even more worried.

When Shen Zhigang had arrived earlier, that nurse had already returned all of Shen Xingru’s belongings to him.

Seeing Shen Xingru’s bag and the contents of that black bag, which were all stained with Shen Xingru’s blood, lying aside, Shen Zhigang could only feel a cold numbness.

When Shen Yueru took them over and saw they were indeed soaked with blood, and found the divorce certificate inside that black bag, she realized that it must have been after the divorce when Zhang Chong, outside the civil affairs bureau, tried to stab her sister to death with a fruit knife.

Shen Zhigang and Shen Yueru didn’t know what to say. After a while, Shen Zhigang finally spoke, "Your mother fainted when she heard the news; I’ve left her with the nanny for care."

Shen Yueru understood that this was the case.

Her mother already suffered from high blood pressure and feared such incidents the most. But now, there was no way to avoid the situation.

The father and daughter waited outside for another half-hour. When the emergency room doors finally opened, two ER doctors came out.

They had just been working on resuscitating Shen Xingru, their clothes soaked through with sweat, yet the patient’s condition remained very serious.

"Doctor, how is my daughter?"

Shen Zhigang asked urgently.

"Are you the patient’s father? Sir, we’ve done all we could!"

As soon as the ER doctor finished speaking, Shen Zhigang thought his daughter couldn’t be saved. His face turned ashen, and he nearly fainted.

After Shen Yueru helped steady her father, the ER doctor, realizing his words had caused a misunderstanding, hurriedly explained, "The patient’s condition is still very severe, she’s facing severe internal and external bleeding, and her organs are damaged. Our hospital is limited in its capabilities, so I hope you can quickly contact a larger hospital to transfer her. Maybe then she’ll have a chance of survival."

Shen Zhigang, feeling slightly relieved when he realized the situation, quickly called a doctor at Jinling Hospital to arrange a ward in advance.

Once Shen Zhigang had finished the call and the Red Cross Hospital had completed the transfer paperwork and settled the fees, an ambulance from the Red Cross Hospital immediately transported Shen Xingru to Jinling Hospital.

The distance to Jinling Hospital wasn’t too far, about just a half-hour’s drive.

Shen Zhigang and Shen Yueru prepared to drive their own car there, but seeing her father’s pallor and worrying he might not be able to drive, Shen Yueru insisted Shen Zhigang ride in her car instead.

As the two of them were about to leave, a security guard came over with keys in hand, looking at them and said, "Sir, Miss, your car was left unlocked."

"Thank you."

Shen Yueru thanked the security guard, took the car keys, then asked her father to get into the car, and she drove towards Jinling Hospital.

She was praying earnestly that her sister could not fall into harm’s way, for if something did happen, she truly didn’t know what would come of it.

By the time Shen Zhigang and Shen Yueru reached the entrance of Jinling Hospital, the ambulance had delivered Shen Xingru there ten minutes earlier. The emergency doctors at Jinling Hospital had already taken her in for continued treatment.

The Red Cross Hospital they had just come from was only a second-grade hospital, and compared to Jinling Hospital, the top-tier third-grade hospital in Jinling, there was a significant gap.

Whether it was the medical skills of the doctors or the overall conditions of the hospital, it was clear that the Red Cross Hospital was vastly inferior.

Now, with Shen Xingru taken into the emergency room, as the emergency room doctors began another round of examinations and treatments, Shen Zhigang and Shen Yueru waited outside, anxious.

From what the doctors at the Red Cross Hospital had said, they knew her sister’s condition was grave, with a very low probability of survival. Even after being transferred to Jinling Hospital, the odds weren’t likely to improve by much.

After another agonizing two hours of waiting, Dr. Han Zhongwei, the ER attending physician, came out from the emergency room.

"Mr. Shen, your daughter’s condition is still very serious. However, we have performed all the necessary surgeries. Now, all we can do is transfer her to the intensive care unit and monitor her condition to see how it progresses. If she can’t make it through the night, there’s nothing more we can do as doctors," said Dr. Han.

"Thank you, Doctor," Shen Zhigang said.

Shen Xingru had already been moved to the intensive care unit, with a female nurse assigned to watch over her. Shen Zhigang and Shen Yueru took a glance inside and noticed that Shen Xingru’s face was deathly pale, completely void of color.

She had lost a lot of blood. At the Red Cross Hospital, she had already received around 800CC of blood matching her type. However, internal and external bleeding was still severe.

During the treatment process at both hospitals, the blood had kept flowing despite the use of hemostatic drugs, which were largely ineffective. Internal bleeding might still occur, even if the external bleeding had been dealt with.

The extreme pallor of Shen Xingru’s complexion was exactly due to this reason.

When Shen Zhigang and Shen Yueru stepped outside, Dr. Han Zhongwei had already prepared them mentally for the worst and had asked Shen Zhigang to sign the consent form, stipulating that if anything were to happen to Shen Xingru, the hospital and doctors would not be held responsible.

Shen Zhigang had signed it.

He knew that only after the family member signed would the hospital and the doctors do their utmost.

Moreover, no matter the outcome for Shen Xingru, the culprit was Zhang Chong, not the hospital doctors, and the doctors had already done everything they could — now, it was up to fate.

"Dad, don’t worry. My sister has always been lucky; she’ll definitely be okay this time," Shen Yueru said.

"Sigh, I should have firmly opposed your sister getting involved with that beast. I never expected that he would truly turn out to be non-human," Shen Zhigang lamented.

Now, he deeply regretted not being more resolute at the beginning, or even taking direct action to make Zhang Chong disappear.

However, he knew that at this point, regret was futile.

The two sat outside for a while longer as nightfall enveloped the outdoors.

When Shen Zhigang called home to update the female nanny, she informed him that Tang Shuzhen had awakened. To avoid further agitating her, Shen Zhigang instructed the nanny to tell her that Shen Xingru was fine, just recovering in the hospital.

But not long after Shen Zhigang had finished his call, Dr. Han Zhongwei came over and said to Shen Zhigang and Shen Yueru, "Mr. Shen, Miss Shen, you must prepare yourselves mentally. The patient could pass away at any moment."