"Why would I need to see her? I’m not going." Looloo refused to embarrass herself again.

"I’m not asking you to eat and chat with her, just to secretly see what she’s doing."

Looloo understood; her mother wanted her to secretly gather intelligence on Xie Wanying. They were unsure how Xie Wanying was faring in the Capital and needed to investigate personally.

"If possible, go and check on your sick cousin," Zhou Ruomei instructed her daughter.

Can my cousin be cured after being sent to Capital Hospital? Looloo wondered. Knowing her brother disliked their cousin very much.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Ruomei felt a bit uneasy, unexpectedly her sister couldn’t stop the group from leaving, allowing Xie Wanying to shine on the plane. Speaking of which, Xiao Shugang was truly fearless, listening to an intern’s advice and flying to the Capital to risk surgery.

Xiao Shugang is likely doomed, fully curing him would come at a price. She had already discussed these things with her sister Zhou Ruoxue; if anything happened, their family would bear the consequences. She had done all she could. Zhou Ruomei sighed, thinking how difficult it was being a doctor and worrying about relatives and friends.

With her mother’s orders, Looloo handed her luggage to Ah Hui to take to the hotel and ran to the hospital to check on her cousin.

The ambulance sped down the main road; the Capital Airport was quite a distance from Guo Zhi Hospital, a journey lasting several dozen minutes.

Shilei asked the nurse to use his phone to call the hospital and ask them to prepare; the patient might need mechanical ventilation and immediate surgery upon arrival.

The emergency department at Guo Zhi Hospital rang loudly with a phone call; the triage nurse told Shilei, "Director Zhang had us prepare an emergency bed early this morning. Which department’s doctor should come to see the patient?"

For such a condition, let internal medicine try first. The risks of major surgery in the surgical department are too high. Recalling the head nurse’s news, Shilei said, "Let Dr. Shim come down; he has other patients in the emergency room that he can see together."

The nurse on the other side almost laughed aloud, remembering the conversation between the head nurse and Shim Youhuan. Shim Youhuan told the head nurse that there were enough doctors in the hospital and no need to call him alone.

"Yes, yes, Dr. Shi," the nurse simply relayed the message without commenting.

The doctors in the inpatient department upstairs were equally busy. Guo Zhi Hospital’s internal and surgical doctors were needed in the operating room every day. When the emergency department notified Shim Youhuan, he hadn’t yet come out of the interventional operating room, so he hadn’t heard clearly what the situation was and did not object.

Night had fallen; it was already late, almost seven at night when leaving the airport. With bad weather and previous rain, visibility was very low, and the sky was dark and heavy like a large black curtain.

The cold of late autumn in the North is unimaginable for people from the South. Shang Siling had just gotten off the plane and sneezed twice, remembering that fortunately, Xie Wanying had reminded her to wear more clothes, including a thick coat.

Before being carried off the plane, Xiao Shugang was already wrapped tightly in thick blankets, especially around the neck and head where wind easily seeped in, with scarves and hats all on. The seemingly exaggerated attire for her cousin was the main concern Xie Wanying had mentioned to Senior Brother Shim on the phone.

Lying in the closed ambulance, at least there was no cold wind, but occasionally a few wisps of cool air sneaked through the crevices of the cabin, which Xiao Shugang himself needed to endure. His tightly closed lips appeared ready and tense throughout the journey.