Chapter 4

Seeing my mother suddenly appear before him.

Alex jumped in fright.

His face turned deathly pale as he looked my mother over for a long moment.

Then he stammered in disbelief:

"How... how are you..."

My mother's eyes flashed with confusion:

"Alex, dear, I'm perfectly fine. How could I..."

Mid-sentence, my mother seemed to realize something. She looked at Alex with sympathy and concern:

"These past few days must have been really hard on you."

During this time, my mother only knew that I had been running around daily dealing with Rose's medical accident.

But she didn't know what Alex had been busy with.

She assumed he was immersed in grief and hadn't yet accepted reality.

After all, my mother knew Alex had always cared deeply for his mother.

When the mother you'd depended on since childhood dies, who could accept it calmly?

Hearing my mother's words, Alex nodded, glancing at me meaningfully:

"It has been quite difficult."

Then he looked directly at me, his face full of displeasure:

"Mata, is there something wrong with your brain?"

"If it wasn't your mother who died, what's the point of filing complaints and reports every day, and refusing to let Lily go?"

"Do you just hate seeing her doing well?"

Faced with Alex's questioning, I couldn't help but be curious:

"Is that really how you see me?"

Alex snorted coldly and said decisively:

"What else?"

"The facts are right in front of us. It wasn't your mother who died, yet you've filed complaints multiple times and kept pestering—if that's not targeting Lily, what is?"

"Unless you're doing it for justice?"

Lily immediately leaned weakly toward Alex, sobbing softly:

"Mata never liked me. She's deliberately using this incident to target me because she blames me for being too close to you."

"Maybe I should just resign. I'm afraid there'll be even greater malice waiting for me in the future..."

Alex looked at her with heartache:

"You didn't do anything wrong—why should you resign?"

"Don't worry. I'll definitely get justice for you in this matter!"

Then Alex faced the surrounding people and cameras, declaring firmly:

"In today's society, many doctors no longer dare to wholeheartedly treat patients."

"If a condition is complex, we don't dare treat it."

"If the risk is high, we don't dare operate."

"Why?"

"Isn't it because we're forced into this by those extortionist patient families, and people like Mata who help tyrants do evil?"

"These scum are best at exploiting people's sympathy and our professional ethics to gain benefits for themselves!"

"How many doctors with benevolent hearts and skillful hands have been ruined by them, their careers destroyed?"

"Although Mata is my wife, I've always stood by principle over family."

"Today, I'm putting it out there—I, Alex, will use all my knowledge and connections to investigate this matter to the end!"

"I will make sure that social parasite who had illness but extorted the hospital, her family and descendants, and morally twisted people like Mata all pay a heavy price!"

Alex truly lived up to his reputation as a renowned chief physician in the medical field—his eloquence was indeed impressive.

With just a few words, he shaped himself into a hero fighting for medical dignity.

The crowd on site and netizens in the live streams instantly became fired up after hearing this.

They unanimously applauded:

"Way to go, Alex!"

"That's exactly how it should be—make an example of them, let everyone who makes unreasonable trouble be punished!"

"Right! Who told them to earn such unconscionable money every day? How many innocent doctors have they harmed?"

"The old person who died may be gone, but she definitely still has family and descendants. We need to make those people spit out every penny of extortion money they swallowed!"

"They should be ruined and notorious, to serve as a warning to all such scum!"

Hearing the chorus of support on site, Alex's face displayed unprecedented satisfaction.

Before this incident, he had handled numerous medical disputes, large and small.

But never before had any caused such a huge response.

In this moment, he forgot that the old woman's charge of "terminal illness extortion" was his own slanderous fabrication.

He forgot that his original intention in becoming a doctor was to cure illness and save lives.

He only wanted to seize this opportunity to be Lily's protector, to be the justice expert everyone praised.

To make an innocently killed old woman notorious.

To ruin me completely.