All Chapters of The Chairman’s Ultimatum Disgraced Surgeon’s Second Life: Chapter 31
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The First Counter-Sabotage
The next night, Adrian decided to spend his entire night in his office once again. Finding out about the Ghost Surgeon made him reconsider all the protocols he had already created.If it was the Ghost Surgeon he had heard about, then the current security systems he had placed would work at all.In front of him sat scattered blueprints laid across his desk and multiple screens, glowing around him and illuminating the dark room. Each of the screens displayed multiple internal security frameworks he had drafted.Adrian's pen scratched across one of the papers with sharp, decisive strokes. Each motion was efficient as he tore apart MMG's existing security structure and reassembled it from the ground up.He kept on erasing entire systems with the casual precision of someone drawing and erasing basic shapes. In their place, he designed new frameworks that were tighter and faster. Frameworks he felt could at least restrict the Ghost Surgeon's access to some things in MMGHe didn't need rest
Adrian's Fury
After taking Lily to her office, Eric immediately headed towards the board meeting room with hurried steps.The moment Adrian stepped out of the boardroom, the double doors barely closing behind him, Eric was already there— in the hallway with a clenched jaw.“Adrian,” he said firmly.Adrian stopped mid-stride. He read people the way most read text—for him, one glance at Eric’s posture was enough to know something had gone very, very wrong.“What happened?” Adrian asked immediately.Eric didn't waste time. “It's Lily,” he begins. “She was cornered in the stairwell."Adrian's expression froze completely— his entire demeanor shifted in a heartbeat. The calculating and composed CEO was gone, and was replaced with something colder.“How far did it go?” he asked quietly.Eric shook his head. “I got to her before anything could happen. But she was most definitely being followed. The only reason why I was able to get there in time was because I was around that area, and I was tracking her at
Lillian's Return
For the first time in what had been weeks, Lillian Monroe stepped through the main glass doors of MMG.Her heels struck the marble floors with a sharp and steady rhythm. It was a sound that once blended in effortlessly with the chaos of the hospital, but now, it just echoed in the building.MMG used to feel familiar. She had grown used to the chaos and drama that it brought due to research crisis or overflowing schedules.But now, it just felt completely different.It was calm, and quiet.Security guards were stationed at nearly every intersection, their expressions taut and watchful. New scanning devices hummed near the turnstiles.The front desk was manned by not one staff, but three instead. There were also robotic surveillance units that glided silently on the ceiling tracks.She stood still with a shocked expression. 'I was gone for just two weeks. How did he change everything in such a short amount of time.'Before long, one or two staffs noticed her arrival, and the news instan
The Second Round Begins
The Post-Op Recovery Ward was unusually calm for a Wednesday afternoon.Machines hummed softly and the overhead lights casted a bright glow. Nurses moved with the quiet routine of a day that promised usual checks and charting.A patient who had undergone a simple minimally invasive procedure rested peacefully beneath warm blankets, his chest rising and falling in a steady and slow rhythm.His vitals had been stable for about three hours straight.Everything about the ward today was normal. It almost felt like it was staged.Lily had walked past earlier, noting how serene everything looked. Even some of the senior nurses had joked."If everyday was like this, MMG would be like a holiday resort.""Yeah! If only—"Then all of a sudden, without warning. A piercing alarm exploded through the ward.Nurses jerked around and heads snapped towards the monitor showing the crashed vitals. Oxygen saturation had plummeted and blood pressure had completely flatlined.The patient's heart rhythm spas
The Second Round Begins
The Post-Op Recovery Ward was unusually calm for a Wednesday afternoon.Machines hummed softly and the overhead lights casted a bright glow. Nurses moved with the quiet routine of a day that promised usual checks and charting.A patient who had undergone a simple minimally invasive procedure rested peacefully beneath warm blankets, his chest rising and falling in a steady and slow rhythm.His vitals had been stable for about three hours straight.Everything about the ward today was normal. It almost felt like it was staged.Lily had walked past earlier, noting how serene everything looked. Even some of the senior nurses had joked."If everyday was like this, MMG would be like a holiday resort.""Yeah! If only—"Then all of a sudden, without warning. A piercing alarm exploded through the ward.Nurses jerked around and heads snapped towards the monitor showing the crashed vitals. Oxygen saturation had plummeted and blood pressure had completely flatlined.The patient's heart rhythm spas
Lillian’s Observation Deepens
Lillian walked through the glossy main corridors of MMG with the grace of someone who once ruled these halls— and she actually did.Every step she took was deliberate. Her heels were soft against the polished floor as if she were afraid of drawing attention, or perhaps afraid of being noticed at all.It had been three days since she resumed her work in MMG, and she didn't bother talking to anyone within that period of time. She only gave orders to those in the ER department, and during her free time— she watched.At first she watched from doorways,then from the reflection in glass walls, then from the shadows between departments where most of the time, the lighting dimmed and conversations faded.Her ways of observation were subtle, almost invisible in fact. Yet every moment was intentional. Only someone who was observing her as well would be able to tell what she was doing.She observed the way Lily's voice had changed. It was gentle but authoritative. She spoke to the nurses with a
Vivian’s Cyber Breakthrough
Later that night, Vivian sat inside the cyber forensics room. All the lights were turned off leaving the room dim.The rest of the departments had already turned of their lights, leaving the entire floor buried in darkness. Yet, in Vivian's office, four monitors that were turned on shone a bright blue light that washed over the room, reflecting of her glasses.Her hair was tied into a messy ponytail with multiple strands falling from what could be hours of frustration. On her table sat her keyboard, and beside it a half-finished cup of coffee that was already cold.It had already been nineteen whole hours, and Vivian still hadn't gotten the time to get some rest.Her reason was very simple. Adrian had given her something to work on. She wasn't going to rest until it was completed.She wrote up another line of code that scrolled across the terminal. Multiple characters began flooding the system and streaming faster than even the human eye could track.Her eyes fluttered continually as
The Truth
It was early in the morning. The rays coming out of the sun reflected through the windows giving it an orange hue. Lily sat inside her office, surrounded by multiple rows of archived files.Her fings continuously shook as she went through each of the files over and over again, one by one.She had been looking through the same sequence for over an hour now. She had stayed up all night going through Adrian's old case files.Her breathing felt ragged as she traced and compared every detail.Finally, her cursor floated on one particular image. It was a pre-op scan that she had only seen once before.It was a match with the encrypted file that she had stolen from the board's hidden archive. The one that was hidden and proved Adrian's alleged malpractice claim was actually false.This was the last piece she had been looking for.She began cross-checking every metadata that she had read, to confirm everything. And with each and every confirmation, she could feel chest tightening.Adrian neve
Monroe Family Confrontation
Lily sat behind her desk in her quiet office, her gaze stuck on an open patient file, even though she wasn't even reading anything. The letters in the report were just blurry as the only thing that was on her mind was the confrontation she had with Adrian.She could still remember the way he spoke after she had shown him the file. The way he showed gratitude, his facial expressions. It was as if a large burden had finally been removed from his mind.Her fingers clenched around the page slightly.Then suddenly, the door of her office opened. She didn't even hear a knock. The sound of her door opening instantly brought her back to the present.All the thoughts she had of Adrian instantly left her head as she heard the footsteps drawing closer to her.She looked up slowly, and there she saw him— William Monroe, her father, standing in her doorway and looking at her with a cold gaze.Then behind him was Robert, who stood with his arms crossed and his jaw clenched tightly. It looked as if
The First Direct Threat
Back in Adrian's quiet office, he sat alone on his desk with the file that Lily brought him still opened.This was something that he had been searching for, for years, and now they lay in front of him.He began going through the files once more, and no matter how much he looked at it, each line seemed to confirm the truth.Adrian had always known from the very beginning that he wasn't negligent or careless. He never killed that patient, instead he was framed.He clenched his hand tightly around the edge of his desk. For three whole years, he had buried the wound the Monroe's had inflicted on him, forcing himself to move on and build something new.But Lily's discovery had re-opened that wound. And after going through everything, he had come to the conclusion that the Foundation was involved in his downfall as well.Adrian released a long exhale while pressing his hand on his brow. 'I should've known that William wouldn't just get rid of me for no reason. I was basically his money make