After being reborn, the scumbag CEO begs me to remarry him every day.

On New Year's Eve, a 3D animation played on the giant screen of the city's tallest building, accompanied by dazzling fireworks, illuminating the dark corridors of the hospital time and time again.

Suddenly, all the lights were turned on, and several doctors rushed towards the operating table with a stretcher.

"Heart rate has reached critical point, prepare defibrillator!"

"Quick! We must operate immediately!"

The nurse ran alongside the IV drip, shouting, "Mrs. Qiao, please have Dr. Qiao contact Professor Li! The child is about to give up!"

Tang Xia, panting heavily, took out her phone and slowed her pace.

Slender, long fingers tapped the screen again and again, fine beads of sweat dripping down and being quickly wiped away.

After a long while, her husband Qiao Zhiyu's impatient voice rang out.

"Aren't you annoying? I'll be home late, you two go to bed early, don't wait for me."

Tang Xia's habitually gentle voice trembled and choked with sobs.

"Zhiyu, didn't we make an appointment with Professor Li? Niannian is in the operating room now. Please contact Professor Li quickly to perform the surgery for our daughter. Please ask him to come as soon as possible!"

Suddenly, there was a commotion on the other end of the phone. Qiao Zhiyu had disappeared. After a long while, he finally clicked his tongue.

"You've already agreed with the professor to have the surgery after the New Year, but now you've changed your mind? Couldn't you have let Niannian have the surgery after the New Year? You're such a terrible mother! Or are you using Niannian to get me to come home?"

Tang Xia hurriedly wiped away the tears on her face, sobbing and struggling to breathe, "Niannian fainted while I was making dumplings, she couldn't breathe, and the doctor in the emergency room said she might..."

Niannian is three and a half years old and has congenital heart disease. Her condition has suddenly worsened in the past six months. Tang Xia immediately made an appointment for her with Professor Li, a leading expert in cardiology. The surgery was originally scheduled for after the new year.

But Niannian couldn't wait until then.

Qiao Zhiyu interrupted her, "Stop it. I said Professor Li can't come, and that's it. Stop pretending. Using a child to disgust people during the New Year, you're really something."

Tang Xia was stunned, a surge of intense humiliation and anger rising to her head.

In Qiao Zhiyu's eyes, his wife, with whom he had shared a deep and loving marriage for several years, was just a shrew who would only threaten the lives of their children.

Her daughter was her lifeblood, and she didn't have the energy to argue with him. "What time can you come? Let's talk in person."

For some reason, Tang Xia had a feeling that something was about to happen. Fear slowly tightened behind her, and her heartbeat became more and more violent under the empty, dazzling incandescent light.

"I've already called Professor Li, but I have something to do, so please don't..."

A scream suddenly came from Qiao Zhiyu's end. Tang Xia's hand trembled. Before she could ask what had happened, the other party hung up the phone in annoyance.

"Beep beep..."

He hung up the phone.

Tang Xia's trembling hands almost crushed her phone as she frantically tapped the call button.

No one answered. Three or four screens of WeChat messages were sent, whether pleading or cursing, but not a single reply came.

A nurse brought over disposable slippers. "Mrs. Qiao, please don't go barefoot, it's cold."

Tang Xia looked down and realized that she was only wearing a sock on one foot; her slipper and the other sock had probably been lost on the way.

"Thank you. Do you know when Professor Li will be able to arrive at the hospital?"

The nurse nodded: "Dr. Qiao just called. Professor Li will be here in five minutes at most."

Tang Xia breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Five minutes later, the operating room was still pitch black, with only a few nurses running around anxiously.

Tang Xia was frantic and grabbed a nurse to question her, who was at a loss for what to do.

"Mrs. Qiao, please have some water first. Only Professor Li has successful experience with this surgery. We will do our best to buy time and wait for him!"

Fifteen minutes later, they finally rushed in, crowding around a figure in blue surgical scrubs. The words "In Surgery" finally lit up.

Tang Xia took a deep breath; her face felt itchy, and when she touched it, she found it was covered in tear stains.

Less than twenty minutes into the surgery, the nurse from before rushed out again, almost crying.

"Mrs. Qiao, our emergency room doctors really can't handle your daughter's condition. Please have Dr. Qiao bring Professor Li upstairs quickly. Shall we go upstairs to treat the other child?"

Tang Xia's heart clenched suddenly, and she rushed into the operating room, "What does this mean? Wasn't it Professor Li who just went in?"

A group of people, not wanting her to disrupt the sterile environment, pushed and shoved her away from the operating room.

The surgeon's mask slipped down, revealing a young man's face, looking panicked.

The face looked like that of a recent college graduate; the monitor through the crack in the door showed only a green line and a pale beeping sound.

His voice trembled as he replied, "Teacher Li is on the second floor. Dr. Qiao used his authority to transfer him away. Please, I really have no other choice!"

Tang Xia gritted her teeth, her eyes red, and pushed them into the operating room: "Don't stop! Save her! Hold on!"

With almost all her might, Tang Xia turned and rushed toward the elevator.

Their location was on the fifth floor, but all the elevators were on the first floor, so Tang Xia couldn't wait any longer.

She immediately kicked off her shoes and rushed into the hospital stairwell, tumbling and crawling to the second floor.

With a muffled thud of footsteps, laughter echoed down the corridor, growing louder as it approached.

Qiao Zhiyu, with women and children on either side of him, surrounded Professor Li with a beaming smile.

Tang Xia was stunned for a second.

The woman with delicate and sweet features giggled, her pink fur coat tightly wrapped around her slender waist. She leaned against Qiao Zhiyu's chest, glaring at him with a hint of reproach.

Lin Yiyue is Qiao Zhiyu's childhood sweetheart whom he has never forgotten over the years. She gave birth abroad and only returned to China in the last six months.

"The child just choked on sugar while eating dumplings. Dr. Qiao and Ms. Lin, there's no need to worry. There's no need for surgery," Professor Li said with an awkward smile, changing the subject.

The two immediately praised Professor Li as a "miracle doctor" who could remove the sugar with tweezers without any surgery.

The couple, with their forced smiles and obsequious manner, brought tears to Tang Xia's eyes. She rushed over and grabbed Professor Li's arm.

"Please save my daughter! She's suffering from heart failure and is in critical condition. Only you can perform the surgery!" Tang Xia shook the other person's arm forcefully.

Professor Li was somewhat puzzled, "Your child? He choked, so..."

Qiao Zhiyu came up and pretended to pull Tang Xia up, holding her arm with one hand and pulling her hair tightly with the other, her voice filled with gritted teeth.

"Honey, can you be a little more sensible? Professor Li is already exhausted, so please stop acting crazy and embarrassing me!"

Turning to look at Qiao Zhiyu and Lin Yiyue, Professor Li seemed to realize something, his eyes widened, he slapped his thigh hard, and strode towards the elevator.

"Nonsense!"

Tang Xia hurriedly tried to get up and follow, but Qiao Zhiyu grabbed her tightly. "Tang Xia, didn't I arrange for the doctor to perform surgery on Niannian? Are you trying to deliberately embarrass me?"

The anger and disdain in Qiao Zhiyu's eyes almost engulfed Tang Xia.

Snapped!

These words completely shattered Tang Xia's reason, and she slapped Qiao Zhiyu hard across the face.

Qiao Zhiyu couldn't believe it: "You actually hit me, Tang Xia, are you crazy?"

"Brother Zhiyu, are you alright?" Lin Yiyue's voice was soft and sweet, but her face was full of sarcasm: "Sister-in-law, how could you hit someone like that?"

Tang Xia's eyes rolled back in anger.

"I'm crazy? Qiao Zhiyu, I think you're the one who's crazy! Your daughter needs surgery urgently, and you actually stole her doctor!"

“An’an choked on sugar. We’re all patients, I have to treat everyone the same,” Qiao Zhiyu explained impatiently.

"Treat everyone equally? Why won't you let another doctor see her? Why did you steal the doctor I booked for Niannian! Our daughter might die!"

Tang Xia could no longer control herself and punched Qiao Zhiyu hard in the nose.

The little boy next to her, Lin An'an, rolled his small, triangular eyes, and after seeing Lin Yiyue's attitude, he rammed his head hard into her stomach: "Bad woman, you're not allowed to hit Daddy Qiao!"

Tang Xia didn't have a proper postpartum confinement period after giving birth and was constantly doing housework. Her body simply couldn't withstand the impact, and she lost her balance and fell straight down the stairs!

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