Chapter 3

After saying this, I didn't wait for their reaction and got up to leave.

"Dr. Hazel, is the hospital rule more important than your son's life?"

"If even you don't help, the patient really has no chance of survival!"

The attending doctor called after me, trying to stop me.

But I remained indifferent and resolute, leaving without looking back.

As I reached the hospital entrance, my in-laws and Declan caught up with me.

My mother-in-law knelt in front of me, begging:

"Hazel, I'm begging you. You can't leave. If you leave, Sunny has no hope!"

Her public kneeling drew the attention of people around.

"Isn't that Dr. Hazel, the surgical expert? What's going on?"

"I heard her son got stabbed by a thug trying to save her, and now she's leaving him to die while her family begs her!"

Hearing the story, those present were filled with righteous indignation:

"I never expected Dr. Hazel, who seemed so responsible with patients, to be so cold to her own son?"

"She was probably just putting on a show before. How can she truly care for patients if she's so heartless to her child?"

"Exactly, what kind of mother leaves her child to die? She's no different from a demon!"

"Even a tiger wouldn't harm its cubs. It's a pity her son, so filial and brave, risked his life to save such a cruel mother!"

The crowd's curses flew, and they all branded me as a villain.

Even those patients and families I had helped before, who respected me, now looked at me with disdain and disgust.

Amidst the crowd's gossip, my father-in-law, wiping tears, spoke to me earnestly:

"Hazel, I can't believe you're really such a cold and heartless person."

"When you gave birth to Sunny, you almost died from a difficult labor but kept telling the doctor to save the child."

"You said this child was more important than your life and that you'd do anything as long as he survived."

"Sunny is the child you risked your life for. You wouldn't just stand by and watch him die because of you, right?!"

With tears streaming down his face, my father-in-law looked at me with eyes full of pleading and hope.

But I remained unmoved, just quietly watching him without saying a word.

Declan, seeing my indifference, became increasingly anxious, his voice rising:

"Hazel , lying in that operating room is your son, who protected you with his life!"

"Are you really going to be so heartless?!"