Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son-Chapter 56 - Hospitalization

That’s such a relief!

Song Jinze swept up the little guy in his arms, “Is Ye Zhenzhen injured? Where is she?”

It was obvious that his son was fine, able to run and move. Since Ye Zhenzhen was nowhere to be seen, the injured person must naturally be her.

Song Yuchen nodded quickly, his urgent tone tinged with a sob, “Yes, Daddy, Mommy is hurt. She bled a lot. Mommy is in there…”

Song Yuchen pointed to the emergency surgery room on the first floor not far away, “Uncle Doctor is treating her wound. They told us to wait here for Mommy.”

Song Jinze’s already dark face grew even darker, “Where is she injured? Is it serious?”

“Excuse me, sir, who are you?” This question was accompanied by the sharp and authoritative sound of high heels on the hospital’s tiled floor.

Song Jinze, upon hearing the voice, swept an icy glance at the woman who was speaking. He did not acknowledge her, instead, his dark gaze stayed on Song Yuchen, waiting for the little one to answer his question.

The woman, holding her own son, approached and stopped in front of Song Jinze, continuing to ask, “Excuse me, sir, is this your child?”

Her pressing tone carried concern as she looked at Song Yuchen, “Little guy, do you know this man?”

Her current task was to take care of the child until his mother came out.

Song Yuchen turned to the woman and said, “Auntie, don’t worry, he’s my dad!”

Then, he continued to Song Jinze, “Daddy, Mommy got hurt while trying to save this auntie!”

As he spoke, a hint of pride could be heard in the little guy’s youthful, milky voice.

To him, Ye Zhenzhen was like a goddess, incredibly amazing!

Song Jinze’s frown almost became one with his eyebrows, his gaze toward the woman full of scrutiny and coldness, “What happened?”

The woman, slightly flustered by Song Jinze’s sharp and commanding gaze, cleared her throat subtly, her words filled with regret, “Oh, you’re the child’s father. I’m so sorry; it’s all my fault. It was due to me that your wife got injured…”

The woman recounted exactly what had happened at Anshan to Song Jinze…

“I went to Anshan without a bodyguard, just with a driver. Seeing that the ambulance was slow, I had the driver bring your wife here…”

Xiaowen from the production team had also come over and was currently outside reporting the situation to Director Fei.

Listening, Song Jinze’s breath grew increasingly rapid, his heartbeat speeding up, a fear he’d never felt before—if that robber’s knife had struck not Ye Zhenzhen’s arm but her heart…

The thought was something he didn’t even dare to consider. Or if the robber had been stronger, could have hurt her and then gone after Xiao Chen… Both the large and the small…

Standing next to Song Jinze, Secretary Zhang was also left speechless by the news. The lady was so brave!

Resisting a knife-wielding robber with bare hands—truly admirable!

The woman added, “Mr. Dad, please rest assured. Should you need any compensation, just say so. I will find the best cosmetic surgeon to take care of your wife’s arm and ensure there are no scars left.”

Song Jinze looked at the woman before him, utterly furious, “Do you think I care about your so-called compensation?”

“…” The woman looked at Song Jinze’s extraordinary demeanor and realized that he was someone who was certainly not short of money.

“Then what do you want me to do?” Things had already turned out this way, someone getting hurt wasn’t what she had wanted!

Song Jinze no longer looked at the woman in front of him but carried Song Yuchen towards the direction of the emergency room, and Secretary Zhang followed as well.

Just as the woman was about to follow, her phone in her bag rang, “Honey, we’re at the hospital now!”

“What happened, why are you guys at the hospital?”

The woman led her child to a corner to take the call and recounted to her husband the events that had taken place at Anshan…

By the time she hung up the phone and turned back towards the emergency room, Ye Zhenzhen had already come out.

The person was being pushed out on a hospital bed by a nurse, with a thick white bandage on her right arm and an IV needle on the back of her left hand…

“Mom…” Seeing Ye Zhenzhen come out like this, Song Yuchen was so scared that he was about to cry.

Ye Zhenzhen was temporarily unconscious and couldn’t hear Song Yuchen’s calls.

“Mom, what’s wrong with you, wake up, Mom!” Clearly, the unresponsive Song Yuchen had indeed been frightened.

Song Jinze’s handsome face turned gloomy as he inquired with the doctor, “Doctor, what’s the condition of my wife?”

Wasn’t it just an arm injury? Why was she being wheeled out? It seemed quite serious.

The middle-aged doctor smiled and lightly patted Song Yuchen’s head, speaking gently, “Don’t worry, little friend, your mom is just asleep, she’ll be fine when she wakes up.”

Then he looked at Song Jinze and said, “The patient is fine, the cut on her arm is a bit deep and large, but fortunately the bleeding was stopped in time, preventing excessive blood loss…

She had over a dozen stitches on her wound, I sewed it up as delicately as possible, but there’s still a possibility of scarring, which will require special treatment.

The reason she is currently unconscious is because she’s not very sensitive to anesthetics, so we had to increase the dose of the anesthesia we gave her earlier.”

Song Jinze nodded slightly, “Thank you.”

After the doctor left, a nurse asked Song Jinze, “You’re a family member of the patient, right? Where is the payment slip from earlier? The patient needs to be hospitalized for the next few days and be observed. You should go and handle the hospital admission procedures now.”

Secretary Zhang said, “I’ll take care of it.”

The woman who had come along clicked her high heels over to the nurse, “Nurse, here’s the payment slip!”

The woman pulled on Secretary Zhang, “Sir, let me handle the procedures, I will do it!”

This was what she should do.

Song Jinze held Xiao Chen, his lips pressed tightly as he glanced at Ye Zhenzhen lying on the bed, asking the nurse, “Why are we not moving?”

Just leaving the patient in the hallway like that, what kind of manners is that?

The nurse looked up at Song Jinze, her cheeks slightly red, gently explaining, “Sir, the hospital has a policy, we have to wait until the hospital admission form is processed before she can be moved to a ward.”

The subtext was clear: they wouldn’t allow hospitalization without payment.

PS:

[Explanation of the female protagonist’s injury…]

I felt it was necessary to explain the scene of the female protagonist getting injured while writing this segment.

Yes, my story is a romance that’s meant to be delightful, but the female protagonist, after all, is a woman, and was just taking care of a child. Her goal was to protect Xiao Chen and not to end up dead like in the original plot.

Encountering pleas for help in a poorly lit alleyway, it is normal for her to feel conflicted and at a loss. She wanted to protect the child and not make a move, but she couldn’t ignore her conscience and eventually intervened. She was focused solely on retrieving her bag, but she got stabbed by a robber who was prepared and carried a knife, which is a reasonable development of the plot.

This chapt𝓮r is updat𝒆d by ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom.

As someone who favors strong female leads, I’ve written her to be very capable, but even the most formidable people can get hurt sometimes.

So, dear readers, please don’t think of my female protagonist as weak; she is truly not weak, but rather very strong and determined.

This injury was just an accident; her focus was mostly on the child, leading her to overlook the malice of the criminal and leaving herself open to injury.