2025-10-22 15:43:04The ward should have been quiet, filled only with the steady rhythm of the boy’s breathing, but instead, chaos erupted.
The foreign specialists, men who had built reputations on prestige and price tags, stared at Charlie as though he were an insult carved into their very souls.
“This is outrageous!” one shouted, his accent thick, his face red with fury. “You risked this child’s life with your—your primitive tricks!”
Another slammed his hand against the table. “The boy’s condition is unstable! What if he relapses? What if he dies from your… concoction? Who will take responsibility then?”
They circled like vultures, their pride bleeding from the humiliation of failure. Their voices rose, demanding Charlie be removed from the ward immediately.
The boy’s parents froze in the storm, uncertainty pulling at their faces. On one side stood world-renowned experts, men endorsed by governments and institutions. On the other—a stranger, pale and trembling, who had stepped from the shadows and done what none of them could.
The wife clutched her son’s hand tighter, her tear-stained eyes darting between them. The magnate’s jaw tightened as doubt clawed at him. Could they really trust this man?
Charlie didn’t flinch. He stood still, calm as still water. When he finally spoke, his voice wasn’t loud, but it sliced through the specialists’ outrage like a blade through silk.
“You speak of risks,” he said, eyes steady. “But let us weigh them properly, shall we? Just moments ago, you pronounced this boy beyond saving. You told his parents to prepare for his death.”
The room stilled. Charlie’s tone remained soft, but each word rang with clarity, unshakable.
“You prescribed drugs that only worsened his condition. You failed to detect the toxin coursing through his body, something even a first-year student of traditional medicine could have noticed if they bothered to listen to his pulse. You claimed authority, but what you offered was a death sentence.”
The specialists’ faces darkened.
Charlie’s gaze turned to the boy, his hand gently adjusting the blanket over the child’s chest. “I did not gamble with his life. I diagnosed what you ignored. I treated what you could not even name. His breath is proof. His pulse is proof. His recovery is proof.”
Each sentence struck like thunder. The magnate’s chest heaved, his eyes narrowing at the so-called experts he had placed his trust in.
“You… you dare insult us with superstition!” one doctor sputtered, his pride in tatters.
Charlie finally looked at them, his expression sharpened with disdain. “No. I insult you with the truth. And if truth wounds your pride, then perhaps you should ask yourselves if you deserve to call yourselves doctors at all.”
Silence fell heavy. Even Linda, who had witnessed Charlie’s hidden brilliance before, found herself chilled by the authority in his voice. It wasn’t the authority of a man bluffing or boasting—it was the authority of someone who had walked paths far beyond theirs.
The magnate turned slowly toward the specialists. His voice was hoarse but cold as steel. “Enough.”
The word hit them harder than Charlie’s calm dissection.
“I entrusted my son’s life to you,” the magnate said, his voice shaking with suppressed rage. “You failed. Worse, you declared him hopeless. If not for this man, my boy would be dead in your care. From this moment on, I will not tolerate your presence here.”
His wife nodded fiercely, tears streaming as she bent to kiss her son’s forehead. “Leave us. We will never forgive your arrogance.”
The specialists paled. Their reputations could weather failure—but public disgrace, dismissal at the word of a stranger? That cut deep.
“You’ll regret this,” one snarled, snatching his coat from the chair. “When the boy relapses and dies, don’t come crawling back!”
They stormed out, their anger echoing down the hall. But their pride wasn’t the only thing wounded; in their hearts, a seed of vengeance took root.
Charlie didn’t bother to watch them leave. He simply exhaled slowly, his shoulders heavy. He hadn’t spoken to boast. He had spoken because it was true—and truth carried weight whether he liked it or not.
The magnate approached him, bowing deeply, the image of a titan humbling himself. “Doctor, from this moment on, you have my family’s trust. Please—take full responsibility for my son’s recovery. Whatever you need, whatever you ask, it will be given.”
Charlie’s lips parted, ready to protest. He wasn’t sure who he was anymore, wasn’t sure if he could shoulder that kind of faith. But when he looked at the boy, still breathing, still fighting, the words caught in his throat.
Linda stepped forward, her eyes unreadable. “He will,” she said softly, steadying the moment before Charlie could falter.
The magnate and his wife bowed again, gratitude pouring from them like water.
Yet outside the ward, the storm was only beginning.
******
In the dim light of a hospital stairwell, a figure pressed a phone against his ear. The spy’s voice was low, urgent.
“Yes,” he whispered. “I saw it with my own eyes. The child lives. The foreign doctors were dismissed. The man who cured him… they called him Charlie, but the staff whispered another name. The Miracle Doctor. He’s inside the Skydome.”
A sharp intake of breath crackled through the other end of the line.
The spy waited. Then came a voice, icy with fury: “Repeat that.”
“The Miracle Doctor has returned,” the spy confirmed. “He’s real. And he belongs to them.”
Silence. Then, faintly, a hand striking a table.
Back in his private villa, Carl Kidman’s expression twisted into something grotesque. His wineglass shattered in his fist, crimson liquid spilling like blood across the marble floor.
“That useless cripple?” he hissed. “He dares steal the title that should have been mine?!”
His men lowered their heads, waiting for his rage to burn through.
Carl stood, his breath ragged, his face pale with fury. “If the Miracle Doctor has truly returned… then every scheme I’ve built is at risk. Nancy, Skydome, everything.”
His voice dropped to a venomous whisper.
“Find him. Watch him. And if he stands in my way—” He crushed the shards of glass in his palm, uncaring as blood dripped between his fingers.
“—then I will finish what fate failed to do.”
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