Chapter 541: Chapter 248: Grudges Between Directors, Playing Matchmaker (Part 3)

The woman was in her fifties, wearing relatively heavy makeup, and dressed quite stylishly.

She wasn’t unattractive.

But for a woman at this age, she’s already old, and talk of beauty is essentially nonsense.

"She’s my ex-wife! I’ve heard that I’m sick, and since there’s no one to take care of me, she’s come to take care of me."

Shao Bing looked at his ex-wife with complicated eyes.

"You two chat first."

The woman might have felt a bit embarrassed, so she smiled and nodded at Li Jingsheng, then walked out of the ward.

"Dr. Shao, forgive my candor, but your ex-wife is quite something! Even after the divorce, she knew you were hospitalized and came to visit you first thing to take care of you—she’s a woman with a lot of affection. At this age, if you haven’t remarried and she hasn’t either, why not get back together!"

Li Jingsheng truly felt that such a woman was worth cherishing.

"Sigh! The past is unbearable to look back on. Years ago, I had a major accident at the hospital and had to compensate the patient a large sum of money. To not drag her and the children down, I deliberately picked fights with her and even paid a woman to act as my temporary mistress. I completely broke her heart, and we got divorced. Since I cheated during the marriage, all the family property naturally went to her.

I never explained this to her.

Over the years, my work hasn’t been smooth, and I haven’t made much money running a clinic, barely getting by. Naturally, I didn’t want to add any burden to her.

Besides, she’s so outstanding, she probably found another man a long time ago.

This time, she coming to the hospital to take care of me is indeed quite surprising, but I couldn’t propose remarriage to her just because of this. She would never agree. If she’s already found a man, that would make things even more awkward for me."

Dr. Shao shook his head and sighed as he recounted past events.

Sometimes, people are like this, when going downhill, nothing seems to go their way.

When a career faces a significant problem, often marriage starts showing warning signs too.

Dr. Shao was once a renowned doctor at Qiaobang Hospital, but a major accident directly changed his fate and life.

He wasn’t willing to ask his ex-wife if she had found another man, just because of fragile self-esteem.

He was afraid that after asking his ex-wife, it would be very awkward to learn that she had indeed found another man.

"Are you still owing a large debt now?"

"Owing quite a bit, and I’m always listed as a defaulter!"

Li Jingsheng secretly rejoiced when he heard the other party was deeply in debt.

It’s not schadenfreude.

He’s been there himself and knows well that when in debt, all one thinks about is making money.

But the deeper one falls into such a predicament, the harder it is to extricate oneself.

Dr. Shao’s old debts haven’t been cleared, and now his clinic has been destroyed by a family, and he’s also paid a lot of medical expenses in advance. He might be rather disheartened.

At this moment, if someone reaches out to help him, it’s believed he should seize the opportunity.

"Has the cause of the little girl’s illness been diagnosed?"

Li Jingsheng switched to another question.

"It’s been diagnosed; after treatment, there’s already visible improvement today. Speaking of which, I must thank you. If you hadn’t aided in the timely diagnosis, the consequences might have been very severe. Lyme disease has three stages, and the child had progressed to the second stage—progression to the third stage would have a very poor prognosis."

Shao Bing expressed relief as he spoke of this.

If the little girl ended up a lunatic, paralyzed, or blind, none of the outcomes would be something Dr. Shao could bear.

"It’s good that it’s diagnosed. As long as the cause is identified, this disease shouldn’t be hard to treat."

Li Jingsheng felt a weight lifted off his shoulders.

The little girl was that family’s hope, and if anything were to happen to her, it would certainly be disastrous for them.

Countless families have been torn apart due to a child suffering a strange disease or insufficient prenatal exams leading to family breakdown.

"Even if the cause wasn’t identified, I should have been able to cure the child’s illness. Maybe I’m just a bit unlucky; the child was truly of a special constitution, unresponsive to ceftriaxone with poor absorption. Later, when switched to penicillin, the effect was immediate."

Shao Bing truly wanted to sigh to the sky when speaking of this.

Such is time and fate.

Heaven always likes to play small jokes on him.

"What’s that saying? ’When Heaven is about to bestow a great responsibility upon a person, it first afflicts their mind, exerts their bones, and starves their body.’ Dr. Shao, I think this is Heaven deliberately tempering you."

Li Jingsheng could only comfort him this way.

It wouldn’t do to agree with the notion that he’s just a bit unlucky, as it would imply he’s cursed, and Dr. Shao’s mental burden would be immense.

"Haha, don’t try to cheer me up! I’m fifty-eight years old already, well past the age of knowing destiny, and here we are talking about heavenly duties. The ambitions I had when studying medicine have vanished long ago; reality is just too cruel. I never dreamed I would end up like this."

Shao Bing looked bitter.

The laughter was also to relieve his mood.

Fate, to him, is indeed unfair.

"Don’t be so pessimistic! Life is unpredictable, and no one knows how exciting tomorrow may be. What do you plan to do after this matter is resolved?"

Li Jingsheng, after some small talk, finally got to the point.

"What else can I do? At this age, besides medicine, I can’t do anything else. I’ll try to find acquaintances, see if I can get a job as a librarian or some other administrative position at Qiaobang Hospital. Just take it one day at a time, repay the debts as much as I can." 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

He truly wasn’t planning to run a clinic anymore.