"Who is the student in the suit, Director?"A tall man with perfectly groomed hair stopped in the center of the surgical corridor. He wore a crisp medical coat and a silver watch that caught the ceiling lights.Director Bai stopped walking and straightened her posture. "He is not a student, Dr. Wang. He is the new Supreme Chief Consultant for this hospital."Dr. Wang laughed and adjusted his glasses. He looked at Ye Tian with a gaze that held years of Ivy League arrogance."The Chief Consultant?" Dr. Wang asked as he turned to his group of fawning residents. "I assumed the board was joking when they mentioned an appointment. He looks like he just finished his college entrance exams.""Mr. Ye possesses skills that do not require decades of tenure." Director Bai replied. Her voice held a warning edge."In this wing tenure is everything." Dr. Wang stepped closer to Ye Tian. "I spent twelve years in the most prestigious schools in the West. I have performed thousands of successful surgeri

"Do the burdens of your empire always weigh this heavy on your shoulders?" Ye Tian swirled the dark crimson liquid in his crystal glass.They sat by the floor to ceiling windows of the Starfall Pavilion. The sprawling city grid of Jiangbei stretched out beneath them like a scattered sea of diamonds. The revolving restaurant sat at the very peak of the tallest skyscraper in the province.Su Qinghan let out a quiet sigh and leaned back against the plush velvet booth. She looked nothing like the terrifying corporate monarch who commanded the hospital lobby that morning. She wore an elegant emerald evening gown."They weigh more than anyone knows." Su Qinghan traced the delicate rim of her wine glass. "My grandfather built our logistics company from the dirt. My uncles plot to steal it from me every single day. I sleep three hours a night just to keep the vultures out of the boardroom.""Mortal ambition is a relentless parasite." Ye Tian took a sip of his wine. "It devours the host from t

"I have exhausted my medical repertoire." Dr. Wang stepped away from the operating table and stripped off his bloody latex surgical gloves.Ye Tian walked into the VIP intensive care unit. Director Bai and Su Qinghan trailed close behind him. The air smelled of blood and harsh antiseptic chemicals.The Prime Minister of the neighboring province lay on the steel table. His skin mirrored the color of wet chalk. A mechanical ventilator forced oxygen into his failing lungs. The digital monitors above the bed beeped with a sluggish erratic rhythm."His cardiac tissue is decaying." Dr. Wang looked at Director Bai with a mask of feigned exhaustion. "I opened his chest cavity and attempted a standard bypass. The blood vessels collapsed upon contact. Modern surgery cannot repair this level of decay."Dr. Wang turned his gaze to Ye Tian. A flicker of hidden malice danced deep in his eyes."I officially pass this case to you." Dr. Wang gestured toward the dying dignitary. "You hold the title of

"Explain the glowing cluster on the monitor, Wang." Ye Tian pointed at the digital screen.Director Bai rolled the portable imaging machine away from the surgical table to give everyone a clear view. The high resolution display highlighted a bright dense pocket of foreign material lodged deep within the liver of the Prime Minister."It is an anomaly." Dr. Wang wiped a thick layer of grease from his forehead. "The human body produces strange calcifications under extreme stress. He suffered a severe cardiac event.""A colossal anomaly indeed." Ye Tian replied. His voice dripped with biting sarcasm. "Since when does a human liver synthesize a laboratory grade synthetic neuro catalyst?"Dr. Wang swallowed hard. He looked at the police captain and then back at the screen."The chemical half life displayed on the spectroscopy readout tells a very clear story." Ye Tian continued his precise deduction. "It proves the volatile compound entered his bloodstream exactly two hours ago. That timeli

"I will show you the true peak of human conditioning." Master Lei exhaled a harsh raspy breath.He planted his boots on the asphalt of the cordoned commercial street. The private enforcers scrambled backward to escape the expanding radius of his aggressive aura."Watch him closely." Chu Yun shielded his eyes from the flying dust. He grinned at his wealthy friends who cowered behind the vehicles. "Master Lei is executing the Heavenly Tiger Descent. That vagrant is going to the morgue in a dozen separate bags.""He should have ran when he had the chance." The man in the silver jacket laughed a nervous hollow laugh."Nobody runs from my Grandmaster." Chu Yun bragged. He pointed a finger at Ye Tian. "He is the predator of this province. I paid him ten million yuan just to travel down the mountain for this execution."The loose gravel beneath the boots of the Grandmaster began to vibrate. Tiny pebbles levitated two inches into the air. A fierce unnatural wind whipped through the empty inte