2026-07-26 10:43:45Melvin gently helped her to her feet, offering a warm, reassuring smile. "My name is Melvin. You don't owe me anything. Just focus on being there when your daughter wakes up."
The moment the transaction was finalized and Elena rushed after her daughter's gurney, a profound phenomenon occurred within Melvin's body.
Buzz!
Deep inside his lower Dantian, the divine blueprint of the Sovereign Astral Meridian vibrated with intense golden light. In ancient cultivation law, performing a divine medical act for worldly profit incurred karmic drag, slowing down spiritual growth. But by instantly bestowing that wealth selflessly to preserve an innocent life, Melvin triggered the Law of Karmic Conversion.
A surge of pure, warm Karmic Qi condensed from the heavens, flowing directly into his chest.
Crack!
A soft, resonant sound echoed inside his spiritual vessel. The second meridian channel—the Sovereign Foundation Channel—shattered its ancient seal under the cleansing wash of Karmic Qi.
Melvin took a deep breath as a wave of refreshed energy washed over his limbs. His physical senses heightened tenfold. His Astral Sight expanded beyond physical anatomy, allowing him to perceive subtle vital energy flows, hidden toxins, and spiritual aura signatures across a fifty-meter radius.
Melvin realized his strength, reflexes, and qi reserves had doubled in an instant. ‘Giving away material wealth opened my second meridian faster than days of focused meditation would have, The Dao of the Sovereign Divine Physician truly aligns with righteousness.’
Up on the second-floor glass balcony overlooking the main lobby, a tall, striking figure stood silently against the railing.
Evelyn Cross, dressed in her signature tailored suit, watched the entire scene unfold below. Her sharp, piercing eyes remained fixed on Melvin as he walked away, his posture relaxed yet radiating an unmistakable air of supreme confidence.
Her assistant, standing respectfully behind her, held a tablet detailing Melvin’s official medical background. "CEO Cross, according to hospital records, Melvin is merely a low-level intern who was blacklisted by Vice Director Victor Vance six months ago. He should be impoverished."
Evelyn did not answer immediately.She touched her collarbone lightly.
For eight months she had woken with her skin burning and her thoughts fraying, and four separate specialists had filed the same word in her chart: stress.
Last night a rideshare driver had laid one palm over her sternum and named it in under a minute.
"An impoverished intern who possesses miraculous medical arts, commands the respect of the Sterling Syndicate, and throws away a hundred thousand dollars to save a stranger's child without blinking?" Evelyn murmured, her cool lips curving into a rare, captivating smile.
"He isn't an intern," Evelyn said softly, her eyes flashing with keen intellect. "He is a hidden dragon. Make sure our meeting with him is prepared. The Cross Consortium will need a man like him for what is coming."
Within less than an hour, news of what had transpired in the VIP isolation suite spread like wildfire across every floor of Apex Medical Center.
In the breakrooms, nurses whispered in muted shock.
In the administration offices, senior attending physicians frantically re-evaluated their stance on the blacklisted intern. The balance of power inside Apex Medical Center was shifting rapidly.
In a private ward on the third floor, Gavin Vance lay groaning on a hospital bed, his right leg encased in heavy bandages, his vital nerves severely damaged from Melvin’s quick counter-strike earlier that morning.
Standing near the door, Vanessa held her phone with trembling hands. She had just overheard two senior nurses discussing Melvin’s triumph—how he had earned the personal gratitude of Lady Beatrix Sterling, handed a $100,000 black card over to pay for a dying child's ICU treatment without blinking, and stood tall before the hospital directors.
Vanessa’s heart pounded violently against her ribs.
A hundred thousand dollars? The backing of the Sterling Syndicate?
She looked back at Gavin, who was whining in pain, his face pale and pathetic, complaining about the hospital food. GGavin was broken. His martial arts career was finished, and his father was barricaded in an executive office two floors up, refusing to take calls.
Gavin was no longer a golden ticket—he was dead weight.
Vanessa thought frantically, cold sweat dripping down her back ‘No... this can't be happening!. Melvin was supposed to be a loser! He was supposed to rot in poverty forever! How did he suddenly become someone even the Sterlings bow to?’
Panic and greed clawed at her soul. She remembered the five years Melvin had catered to her every whim, buying her meals, taking extra shifts just to buy her gifts, enduring her constant complaints. He had loved her unconditionally
‘He still loves me, He was just hurt yesterday! If I apologize, if I cry and tell him I was forced, he will take me back. He always takes me back!’ Vanessa convinced herself desperately, clutching her handbag tightly.
Without another glance at Gavin, Vanessa turned and rushed out of the ward toward the main hospital lobby.
The grand central lobby of Apex Medical Center was bustling with doctors, visiting specialists, and patients.
Melvin walked calmly across the polished marble floor toward the main exit, his posture straight, his eyes sharp and bright. Opening his second meridian had filled his body with a refined, magnetic aura. Every step he took radiated an effortless, quiet dominance that drew the eyes of everyone nearby.
"Melvin!"
A high-pitched, desperate cry echoed across the lobby.
Vanessa sprinted through the automatic doors, her eyes red-rimmed, tears flowing down her heavily made-up cheeks. She threw herself forward, reaching out frantically to grab Melvin's arm.
Melvin didn't even look back. With a subtle sway of his torso, he casually stepped aside.
Vanessa missed her grip entirely, stumbling forward and nearly crashing onto the hard tile floor. She barely caught her balance, gasping for breath as she turned to face him, her face a mask of grief and remorse.
"Melvin... oh god, Melvin, wait! Please!" Vanessa cried out, her voice loud enough to instantly draw the attention of dozens of doctors, nurses, and onlookers in the lobby.
Melvin stopped, turning around slowly. His expression was an unyielding wall of ice, his dark eyes looking down at her as if she were nothing more than a speck of dust on the road.
"What do you want, Vanessa?" Melvin asked, his tone flat and utterly devoid of emotion.
"Melvin, I was wrong! I was so wrong!" Vanessa wept, stepping closer with her hands clasped in prayer. "Yesterday... yesterday was a huge mistake! Gavin forced me! He threatened my job, he threatened to destroy my career at the hospital if I didn't go along with him!"
She tried to reach for his hand again, her voice trembling with manufactured agony. "I never loved him, Melvin! You know I only love you! We spent five years together... five years! You can't just throw all of that away because of one mistake! Please, forgive me... let's start over!"
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The public did not recover its trust that week, yet it stopped sliding. The families who had met Melvin in the small room went home and told their neighbours what they had heard. The anchors kept logging their pulses at the gates, and the cold patches kept walking in the same order.Chen came to the window with the ledger under his arm. He looked out at the car park, at the striped canopies and the folding chairs, and at the volunteers who sat on their positions with their hands folded."It will not come back fully, Doctor. Not in a month, and perhaps not in a year.""No. It will hold, though, Chen. That is the most a broken trust can give us at the start."Evelyn's raw data reached the western hospital by the second bell, and the anchors sent copies of every log down the line to the car park. For the first time since the eastern arc, the volunteers heard the census read aloud in their own voices, and they listened without fear.Lin's frame chirped on the sill beside them. She had bee
Chapter 213
"Why did nobody warn us?" the next family asked. Melvin told them about the census, the rotation, and the four hundred anchors who were learning to read a pulse by hand. He told them what the cold patches had done to the north wing, and what Yan Shou had done to the chamber under the delta.Nobody in the room interrupted him. When he finished, the father nodded slowly and asked for a copy of the map.Ruth Alden's husband came last, and he did not sit down. He held a folded cushion against his chest, the same faded blue cushion his wife had carried to the car park every morning for nine weeks."She brought this every day, Doctor. The chair was hard, and she said she would not sit on bare concrete for anyone." His voice was steady, and his hands were not."Then she should have it back on her position, and the anchors will put it there. Chen, record the cushion against her name.""It is already recorded, Doctor," Chen said quietly, and he wrote a line in the margin.By the afternoon ther
Chapter 212
The councillor wrote the figure on his slate and underlined it twice.Merrow took the stand in a grey suit that hung loose on his frame. He described the afternoon he had stood in a doorway and watched his own hands. The councillors wrote it down without looking up from their slates.Lu was not in the hall. Mo's wardens had kept him at the crater with his plates and his brush, and the high table had not asked for him. Melvin noticed that the seat Lu had been promised stayed empty all morning."Councillor, it is being read aloud by a voice that has already decided how the sentence ends." Merrow's voice cracked only once, on the last word.A murmur ran along the benches. Iris Varga sat at the centre of the high table in her grey federal coat, and she did not write anything down. She waited until the murmur died before she spoke."Doctor Melvin, the council has heard that a man on a slab can be spoken through. Can you show us how it is stopped?""Doss will show you, Councillor, with a pr
Chapter 211
"Sun Wen, do you give your consent? Freely, and in your own voice, with the right to stop whenever Doss says so.""Given," the old carrier said, and he crawled across the gravel on his hands and knees.He reached the litter and laid his palm flat on Merrow's wrist. Merrow's body went rigid under the blankets, and the cords stood out along his neck. The core under Sun Wen's hand gave one deep note that Melvin felt through the stone."Old carrier, you have no right to this vein." The voice hissed through Merrow's throat."I had no right to a thousand years in the dark, Yan Shou. I took them anyway, and I am still holding."Merrow's heart stuttered. Doss's hand flew to his throat, and her lips began to count aloud. Melvin watched the old carrier's palm darken and then brighten against the wrist.The voice fought him for almost a minute. It pushed up through Merrow's chest in short hard waves, and each wave broke against the full core. The blankets slipped from Merrow's shoulders, and his
Chapter 210
Melvin looked at Lin's frame. The sixty-fourth chamber's readings glowed beside the census map, and the thread from the carrier's socket ran up the shaft toward the disc beneath him. He had read that carrier for an hour that afternoon, and he had felt a patience in the slow beat that no living man should have.The council had sealed Yan Ming alive so that his brother could keep a seat on the deputy's bench. Melvin understood now that the bargain had never been fair to both of them. He had spent two days learning the carrier's architecture, and he had begun to think of the sixty-fourth entry as a living man who had been filed away."Doctor, do I stop him?" Doss asked over the line, her voice thin."Not yet. Let him talk, and get me every word. Then tell him I need a reason to bring anyone up out of the stone."Lin's voice cut in from the frame. "The thread is warming, Melvin. The sixty-fourth socket has started reaching for the line again.""Let it reach. It can't pull what it hasn't g
Chapter 209
"So Yan Shou's proxy came through the gate wearing Lu's face. Hui saw the face and let it in, and then someone killed him and wrote a fever over the death," Melvin reasoned."That's the reading, Doctor. I have entered charges against the dead man for the record, as the law requires. The charge is obstruction of a sealed escort, and the defendant is Gate Warden Hui," Chen said, and his voice did not change at all."Enter a second charge against the physician who signed the record, in the same ink.""Already entered, Doctor.""Then keep every entry open for the federal observers, Chen. Varga will want to read every name before she reads a single rule."Outside, the light had turned copper over the crater rim, and the cots along the edge of the stone threw long shadows across the disc. A cold wind came off the far ridges, and the marshals pulled their coats tighter.Lin had not spoken for several minutes. She stood with the frame in one hand and the day's sheet in the other, and she was
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