Chapter 533: Sorry I am Late

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Eyes closed, Su Qingsang could hear the sound around her clearly.

Footsteps, noises, and a small sound of the wind. She could even feel the wind of the fist throwing.

“Stop it!”

There came a cold snap. Someone pulled her body aside. The next second, she was thrown into a warm and strong hug.

Su Qingsang opened her hand, looking up along the hand on her waist.

“Jinyao?” On the phone, she told him there was no need for him to come. But when she thought she was going to be punched, how she wished him to be by her side!

“Jinyao.”

She held on his arm. Su Qingsang was about to accept the result to be punched, but at the sight of Huo Jinyao, she almost burst into tears.

“Huo Jinyao,” She had so much to say but barely uttered a word. She kept calling his name.

“I am here. I am here.” Huo Jinyao held Su Qingsang, hugging her tightly.

“Honey, I am sorry. I am late.”

He already fended off the fist that had been targeted against her. Despite the crowd around them, with his height and build, Huo Jinyao succeeded in taking Su Qingsang into his arms and protected her.

He led her to a corner in the hallway near the wall. He built a harbor for her with her in his arms, keeping all the noises and chaos outside.

Su Qingsang gripped his shirt-front, her face buried in his chest, and tried to calm down her intense agitation.

Huo Jinyao let her hold him, glancing at the people in the hallway. He squinted, eyes dwelling particularly on Lin Gang. He knew that it was Lin Gang who was going to strike Su Qingsang.

But he was not in a hurry. He would decide what would happen to him later.

Su Qingsang smelled a clean and fresh smell on Huo Jinayo. She gradually relaxed and realized that the surroundings became too quiet.

She couldn’t help but turn her face to look at what happened.

The chaos a moment ago in the hallway completely disappeared right now.

The person who was going to strike her, the journalist who interviewed her, as well as the fellows brought by Lin Gang, were all arrested.

The people who arrested them were all in green uniforms. When Su Qingsang saw clearly who led these people, she was taken aback.

Zhang? Zhang Yichen? How could he be here?

Different from before, this time, Zhang Yichen was not in the ordinary military outfit; instead, he wore a very formal uniform, and the two golden bars and four stars on his shoulder surprised Su Qingsang.

She heard from Huo Jinyao about this uncle. However, it never occurred to her that he was so young to be the senior colonel.

Now, the people he brought here were divided into two groups, easily separating the crowd.

Zhang Yichen stood in the middle of the hallway, glancing coldly at the people who were making a scene just now. “We are on duty right now. No photos.”

They are on duty? What tasks are they carrying out? Nobody dared to ask further and put down their cellphones.

Su Qingsang looked at him with eyes wide open. She couldn’t believe things turned out to be so easy. It was resolved instantly.

Lin Gang stood there. He was about to say something but closed his mouth and drew his neck when meeting Zhang Yichen’s eyes.

“Our chief is seeing the doctor here. Please keep quiet. Now, anybody who is irrelevant please leave. Thank you for your cooperation.”

The tone was polite but also tough in the way that it silenced all the journalists and “medical dispute profiteers.” These irrelevant people exchanged their glances.

They all tucked their heads and left.

Lin Gang didn’t want to leave and still wanted to make a scene, but he knew he had no advantage to control the game.

He glared at Su Qingsang’s direction, his eyes manifesting that he wouldn’t give up.

Instinctively, Su Qingsang leaned over to Huo Jinyao. She never thought she would come across a person who was so hard to deal with.

“It’s Okay.” Huo Jinyao hugged her shoulder, leaning to her ears to whisper. “Leave it to me. I’ll help you resolve it.”

Su Qingsang looked up at him with concern in her eyes. “Huo Jinyao.”

She didn’t want to drag him into this chaos. But she already incriminated him.

“Don’t worry, honey.” Huo Jinyao kissed her forehead. “Believe me; I already have a solution.”

Su Qingsang’s lips were pressed into a hard line. Rascals like Li Hong and Lin Gang would break their promises at any time even if they had agreed.

What ways could he have?

“Honey, you should learn to believe me.”

Huo Jinyao opened his mouth close to her ear. Su Qingsang looked at him and nodded.

People in the hallway were gone. Su Qingsang and Huo Jinyao’s behavior was conspicuous.

Zhang Yichen just ordered his subordinates to dispel the people, and when he turned around, he saw Su Qingsang and Huo Jinyao hugging.

Their behavior like there was no one else in the room made Zhang Yichen frown. But he frowned only for a second, and then he marched towards them.

This morning, Zhang Yichen met with his subordinates and received an order to take part in a military exercise.

The station troops of Rong City were carrying out a military exercise, and he was assigned to guide. Also, by this chance, he wanted his own subordinates to practice with them.

This kind of military exercise was simple for him. After the exercise, he took his elite soldiers back to their troops.

It might be a coincidence or destiny that when he passed the hospital, he saw the outside was crowded with people who were inciting disorder.

He was not the kind of person who liked intermeddling into others’ affairs, but he was worried about Su Qingsang.

Before he came into the hospital, he saw Huo Jinyao hurry out of his car.

When he found Su Qingsang was going to be punched, he scooted towards her direction.

But he was a step later than Huo Jinyao. Or, was it because he saw Huo Jinyao appear and made himself later than him on purpose?

Whatever the reason it was, Huo Jinyao stopped the fist that was coming to Su Qingsang.

Zhang Yichen was relieved, and he was happy that she was not injured.

“Are you okay?”

The simple three words hid his deep concern about her successfully. It sounded like that his inquiry was derived from the fact that she was Huo Jinyao’s wife. He simply did the courtesy to ask.

“I am fine. Thank you, uncle.” Su Qingsang recovered from the shock and realized she was in Huo Jinyao’s arms right now in the hospital’s hallway.

She blushed and disentangled herself from his arms.

“It was fine, for the time being.” Huo Jinyao held Su Qingsang’s hands. He had called the police. Obviously, the police didn’t come here as fast as Zhang Yichen. “Thank you so much for today.”

Zhang Yichen shook his head and peeked at Su Qingsang without trace. She was pale a moment ago, but her face had color now under Huo Jinyao’s consolation.

She seemed too shy to show a public display of affection with Huo Jinyao. Huo Jinyao held her hands, but she wanted to take back her hands.

But Huo Jinyao held her hands so tightly that she couldn’t break it.

She couldn’t help but look at Huo Jinyao while Huo Jinyao seemed not to notice her stare.

Finally, Su Qingsang was a little bit frustrated and scratched lightly on Huo Jinyao’s palm. Huo Jinyao, instead, held her hands even tighter.

Their interaction was subtle but intimate.

Zhang Yichen was a soldier. He had much keener observation than normal people. He couldn’t help but glance at their hands held together.

Noticing Zhang Yichen’s eyes, Huo Jinyao lifted up Su Qingsang’s hands.

“Uncle, are you jealous? If you are jealous, you’d better find your own half!”

Zhang Yichen’s lips were pursed and ignored Huo Jinyao’s words.

Su Qingsang stared at Huo Jinyao. He was really good at embarrassing people.

People were almost gone, but there were still doctors and nurses in the hallway. They had wanted to come over but failed.

Now they were divided on two sides and let people behind them walk through.

President Zhou Shaonan and other administrators heard the news, and after a long time, they came over.

Zhou Shaonan walked to Su Qingsang.

“Doctor Su, are you all right?”

“I am fine. Mr. Zhou, thank you for asking.”

Looking up and down at Su Qingsang, Zhou Shaonan made sure she was not injured and breathed a sigh of relief.

“Great. Great.”

Mr. Zhou was discussing with other administrators how to resolve this issue when they heard some “medical dispute profiteers” and a bunch of journalists making a scene downstairs.

When they hurried over, the conflict was over.

Actually, many doctors present tried to come and stop them, and they did try doing that. But there was a gang of people, and they couldn’t fight with them. If the doctors were involved in a fight, the nature of the incident would be different.

So, although the doctors who in the hallway tried to pull the passers-by and journalists to other places. They failed owing to the extreme disparity in the numbers of them.

Now seeing Su Qingsang was fine, every doctor heaved a relief. Regarding this thing, every one of them knew the truth.

The public was complaining about the heartlessness of doctors. In the public’s eyes, doctors nowadays were of low medical ethics and only cared about money.

But only the doctors knew it was harder and harder to be a doctor nowadays. The patients dared to make a huge scene just because of some trivial stuff.

They were relieved at seeing the accident was finally appeased.

The doctors and nurses felt the matter was resolved, but Huo Jinyao didn’t think that way. He looked at Zhou Shaonan with obvious dissatisfaction in his eyes.

“You are Mr. Zhou, right? Is this how your hospital treated your doctors? Right, Qingsang has been here for a short time. But you should be clear about her performance at your hospital during the past two months.”

Huo Jinyao was determined to speak up for his wife.

“Sure, we have seen her performance.” Zhou Shaonan felt his back was almost sweating. “This is our fault.”

“Of course, this is your fault.” Huo Jinyao was angry at the thought that if he were a minute late, Su Qingsang would be injured.

“It is obvious that Qingsang was framed, but you didn’t help her to clear her name. You didn’t do her justice. Instead, you allowed those medical dispute profiteers to come to the hospital and make a scene. Don’t you think the problem is resolved as long as you fire Qingsang or suspend her job?”

Now, Zhou Shaonan not only sweated on his back but also sweated on his head.

He was regretful, especially when he saw Zhang Yichen by the side.

They couldn’t afford offending Tian Yu Group. Now there was another powerful person in the hospital out of nowhere.

“I am so sorry. About this thing, we will make sure to clear Doctor Su’s name. But please understand us. You know things have gone too far right now.”

Zhou Shaonan didn’t clarify, but Huo Jinyao understood his meaning.

They didn’t want to discipline Su Qingsang, but as long as Lin Gang and Li Hong were stubborn about their lie, i.e., Su Qingsang caused her stitches to open up, the issue couldn’t be entirely resolved.

The hospital could allow Su Qingsang to go back to work. But if they did that, how could the hospital persuade the public that they did the right thing? What if the patients and the patients’ families didn’t recognize their decision?

These were all problems and was certain to cause trouble to the hospital.

Even if they didn’t give Su Qingsang any discipline, how could Su Qingsang remain a doctor at the Central Hospital without the stigma removed?

After all, as a doctor, how could she practice when she was blamed for being morally degraded?

Huo Jinyao wanted to swear at the hospital. They didn’t make things any different. They believed Su Qingsang’s innocence, but they still insisted on disciplining her.

Considering the fact that Su Qingsang would stay at the Central Hospital in the future, he controlled himself.

“Mr. Zhou, I understand you. Qingsang also understands your difficulties. What all you need right now is to tell the truth to the public. How about this? Please give me three days. After three days, I am sure I will prove Su Qingsang’s innocence.”

“Thank you for all your trouble.” Zhou Shaonan was finally relaxed. With a smile on his face, he said: “Please be assured that as long as the public believes it, we will let Doctor Su come back to work.”

The underlying meaning was that even if what the public believed was not the truth, as long as the public believed it, the problem would be resolved.

“Doctor Su should better take a rest in the next three days.”

“Sure,” Huo Jinyao nodded. “I want you to know that Qingsang was wronged.”

“Of course she was.” When talking, Zhou Shaonan looked at Su Qingsang. “Doctor Su, please stay at home and take a rest. After three days, you can go back to the hospital.”

He didn’t say how the issue would be solved.

The hospital really had a headache about this matter. In the past, if pestered by the “medical dispute profiteers,” they would pay them to shut their mouth.

However, this time was different. If the hospital really paid them, they would verify these people’s righteousness. The hospital was not so reckless to do that.

“Thank you, Mr. Zhou.”

Su Qingsang was grateful to them. At least, they didn’t fire her and bluntly asked her to go home. They chose to believe her.

Zhou Shaonan wiped the sweat from his forehead, not realizing actually there was no sweat there. He knew they didn’t deal with the incident properly, but they couldn’t find a better way.

They couldn’t offend Tianyu Group, nor could they ignore the public’s views.

When they were talking, the police came. They were late to be here as the accident was finished.

The police found out what happened and made a record.

They asked Li Gang about the situation. He denied he was a “medical dispute profiteer” and insisted that he was pushed by someone from behind.

He also denied that he started a fight. “It’s impossible. Officer, how dare I to punch a doctor?”

He did literally make no move, but he asked others to hurt Su Qingsang. He pretended that it was none of his business.

“That’s good. If you have any doubts about the hospital’s treatment, you can complain in other ways. But I want you to understand violence against doctors is illegal.”

“Sure, sure. We understand. Don’t worry. We will not break the law.”

After giving the warnings, the police left.

The disorder was cleared for now. But everyone knew things were not finished yet.

They couldn’t delete posts on Weibo right now. The more posts they deleted, the more negative effect they would receive.

Su Qingsang was seated in Huo Jinyao’s car. They just said goodbye to Zhang Yichen.

Zhang Yichen asked them some questions with concern and didn’t say much after he knew what had happened.

Zhang Yichen only told Huo Jinyao that the incident was not targeting Su Qingsang. Instead, it was against Huo Jinyao.

Lin Gang and Li Hong didn’t come after Sun Huiya, the head of the department. Why did they fix their eyes on Su Qingsang, an anonymous young doctor?

Anyone with sense would felt something was wrong with it.

Huo Jinyao suspected it already. Now Zhang Yichen shared the same speculation with him.

“Uncle, thank you so much. I know you care about me. Don’t worry. I can handle this.”

Thinking of the trouble Huo Jinyao had in the company these days, noo matter it was the thing with Qiao Hong or the accident that happened to Su Qingsang, Huo Jinyao believed that it should be the same person’s scheme.

They thought he was busy with sorting out the things in the company, so they took the opportunity to set a trap for Su Qingsang. When Huo Jinyao was distracted by her accident, he would have no time to focus on Qiao Hong.

They had a brilliant plan, but it didn’t knock him over. Their scheme was doomed to be a failure because he already came up with a plan to fight back.

“As long as you know what to do.”

Zhang Yichen looked grave. Looking at Huo Jinyao, he opened his mouth to speak and then closed it.

“Since it was done, I’ll head out.”

“Okay. Thank you for what you have done today.”

Huo Jinyao really meant it. Su Qingsang also said: “Thank you, uncle.”

Zhang Yichen looked at her and nodded. He didn’t stay long and then left with his subordinates.

In the car, looking at the fleeting street view outside the window, Zhang Yichen thought to himself.

He received a new mission and wouldn’t be in Rong City for a long time.

He didn’t need to spend much time guessing why the incident happened. It was clearly targeting at Huo Jinyao, and Su Qingsang was merely implicated.

Huo Family was not complicated, but every family member harbored their own plan.

Su Qingsang must have been wronged or hurt because of her personality.

She was so beautiful and smart. If it were he who was with her, he would never upset her.

“Chief, what are you thinking about?”

The subordinate’s voice called back Zhang Yichen. His face fell, realizing he was thinking about that impossible thing.

“Chief?”

Zhang Yichen shook his head, saying nothing. He pressed his thought with all his efforts.

However, there were some things in the world that the more you pressed, the more they rebounded.

Zhang Yichen knew it, but he was in the game right now and couldn’t see things clearly.