Overpowered Resident Doctor

Chapter 614: Chapter 613: Don’t Cause Trouble

Yan Feifan waited until nearly ten o’clock at night for Wang Chuan to finally emerge from the private room.

He suppressed his urgency, got into the car with Wang Chuan, and waited until they had driven some distance before asking, "Chief, how did it go?"

"What did they say?"

Wang Chuan, who was driving, glanced at Yan Feifan’s concerned face, and a warmth spread through his chest. He said softly, "I told them everything."

"They said they need to conduct a further investigation and verify the details, and they told me not to go to the police station to turn myself in just yet."

Yan Feifan asked anxiously, "Didn’t they say anything else?"

Wang Chuan gave a faint smile. "They also said that if everything I told them is true and I haven’t hidden anything, then I won’t be in too much trouble."

"However, it requires Xinyi, in the United States, to actively cooperate with the investigation, provide relevant information, and work with them."

He added, "Over the past few years, Xinyi has become something of a local player in Los Angeles. She has connections and has worked with some corrupt officials and fugitives on the Red Notice list who fled from China."

"They want Xinyi to be useful to them."

"Useful how?" Yan Feifan asked, confused.

Wang Chuan chuckled. "You see reports online from time to time about some corrupt official who fled abroad suddenly deciding to return to China and turn themselves in."

"If they were living well abroad, would they voluntarily turn themselves in?"

"A big reason why their lives become difficult is that they get targeted and bullied by local gangs."

A look of understanding dawned on Yan Feifan’s face. He then asked, "Will Mrs. Zhong agree to cooperate with them?"

Wang Chuan sighed softly. "It’s about choosing the lesser of two evils. It also depends on how they can help us get through this current crisis."

"If the person blackmailing us sees that we refuse to cooperate, he might get angry and leak the information he has on us. I might be okay, but Xinyi would definitely be arrested by the police in the United States."

Yan Feifan, who had done a lot of thinking while he was waiting, said, "Chief, even though that person has leverage on you and Mrs. Zhong, I doubt he’d be so ruthless as to burn everything to the ground."

"If he did that, he would be making a true enemy out of me."

"And if he’s acting on behalf of some high-ranking government official with a brain or spinal tumor, he’d be even less likely to dare."

"In the end, a compromise is the most likely outcome."

Wang Chuan said hopefully, "I hope you’re right."

After a pause, he said with deep emotion, "Feifan, when Xinyi and I chose this path back then... we told ourselves we had no choice, that it was for Yanyan. But that’s not to say there weren’t other options."

"For years, Xinyi and I have lived in fear that one day everything would come out and we’d be thrown in jail."

"We’ve tried to leave the past behind, to go clean, but once you’re involved in something like this, it’s very hard to get out."

Wang Chuan warned, "Feifan, you should learn from my mistake."

"A single thought can lead you to heaven or to hell. Once you make the wrong choice, you’ll spend your days constantly on edge. It’s no way to live."

At this, Wang Chuan sighed again. "To be honest, I used to constantly worry about what I’d do if the things I’ve done were ever exposed."

"I was always terrified, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep."

"But today, after telling you and telling them... even though I don’t know what the future holds, I feel an indescribable sense of relief."

"Feifan, never do anything that weighs on your conscience."

Yan Feifan nodded firmly. "Chief, I’ll hold to my principles. I won’t do anything wrong..."

When Yan Feifan got back to his apartment at Zuimo Court, it was already past eleven. He saw his sister and Yu Suye were still waiting for him in the living room.

He explained vaguely, "Sis, Su Ye, the Chief and I met up with a few friends and lost track of time talking."

Yan Ziruo, who had been lounging on the sofa, sat up. "As long as you were with Chief Wang Chuan, I wasn’t worried."

"Feifan, go get washed up and get some rest. You have that all-day conference tomorrow..."

Yan Feifan did as she said and went into the bathroom to wash up.

Just as he was rinsing off in the shower, Yu Suye pushed the door open and came in.

Yan Feifan instinctively turned away. "Su Ye, don’t start anything. I’m not in the mood right now."

Yu Suye scoffed lightly, smiling. "What are you hiding for? Is there any part of you I haven’t seen?"

"I came to talk to you about something serious."

Yan Feifan turned off the water and urged, "What’s so important it has to be discussed while I’m in the shower? Spit it out."

Yu Suye poured some shower gel onto a loofah and gave a mischievous grin. "Actually, it’s not that big a deal."

"We admitted some car accident victims in the trauma surgery department today. It was a mother and her two children, and their injuries are very severe."

"And the one who caused the accident was a thirteen-year-old kid!"

"Only thirteen?" Yan Feifan asked, wanting to confirm.

Yu Suye started scrubbing Yan Feifan’s back with the soapy loofah, her voice filled with indignation. "Thirteen. He secretly took his family’s car out for a drive and caused a horrible accident."

"We managed to save their lives, all three of them, but..."

"Disability and disfigurement are unavoidable."

"Of course, if you were to step in, Feifan, then disability and disfigurement wouldn’t be an issue at all."

Yan Feifan grunted. "So that’s what this is about. You just want me to take the case, don’t you?"

Yu Suye giggled. "The mother and her children are in a truly pitiful state. Feifan, if you just go and see how they look now, I know your heart will go out to them."

"Lately, all you’ve been doing are brain tumor aspirations and spinal tumor aspirations. You haven’t performed a single proper surgery in ages."

"I know you’re itching to get your hands on a real case."

"Aren’t you?"

Yan Feifan grabbed her mischievous hand. "Stop messing around and be serious. Have you looked at the time?"

Yu Suye pouted, reluctantly moving the loofah to a different spot.

"The mother has two children, a girl who’s eleven and a boy who’s nine. I saw pictures of them from before the accident. They were so beautiful and cute."

"But now..."

Yu Suye said with a sigh, "One has comminuted fractures in their leg and knee, and the other’s arm is also a comminuted fracture."

"Their faces were also severely injured. One of the children’s noses was completely ground off, and the other’s face was abraded down to the cheekbone."

Yan Feifan cut in, "They were dragged?"

Yu Suye hummed in affirmation. "The mother was thrown on impact, but the two children were run over and dragged for over a hundred meters."

"Feifan, it’s truly too gruesome to look at."

Yan Feifan let out a soft sigh, his voice filled with sympathy. "I’ll find some time to go see them tomorrow."

"Great! That’s great!"

Yu Suye said joyfully, "I guarantee it. Once you see their condition, you’ll want to take the case."

Yan Feifan rolled his eyes at her, then asked, "What’s the financial situation of the kid’s family?"

Yu Suye scoffed. "From the way they dress, they seem like an ordinary family. I heard the car was just a Volkswagen, worth maybe one or two hundred thousand yuan."

"Who cares about them? If you don’t discipline your kid, you sell your car and your house to pay for it."

"Isn’t there a saying? ’If you don’t discipline your own kids, society will do it for you.’ This is the kind of case the hospital loves. No matter what the cost, someone else is footing the bill."

"So, Feifan, you don’t have to hold back."

"Tch," Yan Feifan clicked his tongue. "I haven’t even said I’d take the case."

He reached over and took the loofah from her hand, shooing her away. "Alright, alright, stop messing around and get out."

"I can wash myself..."

"Are you sure you want me to leave?" Yu Suye’s eyes turned sultry...