******The atmosphere snapped into silence… so sharp, so sudden, it was as though time itself had recoiled.Glenn’s voice, calm and almost bored, continued to echo faintly in the room like a vice.“I’m someone versed enough to train you.”No thunder cracked, no lights flickered. But the words hit harder than either.What followed was a dead stillness… so thick it pressed against every eardrumNo one moved, not even a breath seemed to pass through the room. It was as though the world itself had gone mute in protest of the sheer audacity that had just been spoken aloud.To everyone present… Trent, his family, Melissa, the extended relatives, and even the allegedly divine-level doctor, Master Zhen Yuan. All of them couldn’t help but find Glenn's words too incomprehensible, ludicrous, and even blasphemous.This wasn’t just a case of biting the hand that heals. No, this was more like watching a stray mutt bark at a demigod and declare itself the trainer.If even half of what Trent

******Trent’s face convulsed after hearing master Yuan’s threat; the pressure was too much, making his jaw clench with such ferocity that it was a miracle his teeth didn’t crack.He didn’t look at Glenn right away.No.First, his bloodshot gaze darted toward Melissa and her parents like heat-seeking missiles. His fury wasn’t loud—it was low, venomous, and unstable.“You three…” he growled, his voice eerily quiet, “you better leash that stray mutt of yours.”Melissa stiffened.“If he becomes the reason father dies…” Trent’s eyes gleamed with something feral. “I won’t just cut out his tongue—I’ll make him wish he was never born. And you three...”He didn’t finish the sentence. Instead, he jabbed a finger at Melissa, her father, and mother in turn, then spat on the floor, his sneer a grotesque mask of hatred.Finally, he turned to Glenn.“One more word,” he snarled, “just one more word from you before this treatment ends, and your blood will repaint this entire ward.”Everyon

******The interior of the VVIP ward had erupted into unfiltered pandemonium at this moment.Machines screamed in protest… electrocardiograms, heart monitors, oxygen alarms, all blaring at once in a chorus of doom, their piercing beeps slicing through the tense air like countdown timers to a tragedy.Each second dragged like a lifetime as the oxygen levels plunged, dipping lower and lower, announcing their descent with relentless, shrill alarms.Before long, head Nurses burst into the room like a hurricane, barking orders one after the other, fumbling for emergency equipment, and calling out for backup with frantic voices that cracked from pressure.And the Wale family? It was a chaos incarnate.Their shouts and shrieks filled the ward right now.Phones were whipped out with trembling fingers, dialing anyone who could offer a solution—or at least tried to.Melissa’s mother was sobbing fearfully at the side as she clutched her husband’s sleeve, while Trent’s wife was muttering

******As soon as everyone heard the barely audible whisper that just sounded, they froze in place, a hush silence sweeping through the room like a sudden blackout.Why, because these words… these words brimming with unbearable agony, plea, and desperation, had been uttered from the lips of the unconscious, dying patient.And at that moment, even the beeping and blaring medical machines in the room seemed to pause, their beeping drowned out by the sheer weight of those words.Ultimately, time seemed to return to normal.Master Zhen Yuan staggered backward as though he’d been slapped.His hands, once firm, now trembled like brittle branches in the wind. His eyes locked onto the still figure of the patriarch… his lips barely moving, yet his message unmistakable.‘A plea for release, for… death?’The old man’s face crumpled completely, and he seemed to suffer a heart attack.“In all my years…” he rasped. “…This has never happened before. I’ve never lost one like this before… Whe

******“If you hadn’t slapped that vile ex-wife of mine and given both her and her bat-for-a-mother something to worry about, for the time being, I would have walked away already. And trust me, I wouldn’t have glanced back even if the heavens started bleeding.”Every syllable uttered by Glenn felt nothing more than a scalpel carving through ego and pride.In the next second, Trent jolted visibly, and Melissa flinched as though she was touched by naked high-voltage wires.As for everyone else… they were stunned into silence again.Glenn’s aura… languid yet terrifying, weighed down on the room like invisible chains.And finally, after what felt like a long time, but in reality, just a minute or so, one of the doctors, unable to contain himself again, scoffed. “What arrogance… Who does he think he is?”As though she had been waiting for someone to speak first, Trent’s wife instantly hissed.“Exactly,” she spat, her expression sourer than expired milk. “He’s just a stray mutt with