"Chen Fan?! You, how did you get here?!"
At the entrance of Jiangcheng City First Hospital, Li Mengyao looked at Chen Fan, who was holding flowers and a gift box, with surprise and a hint of panic.
"Mengyao, you forgot, today is our fourth anniversary. I specifically took leave to rush here from the suburbs. This is a gift for you."
"I've also booked a table at your favorite steak restaurant for tonight." As he spoke, Chen Fan handed the flowers and gift box to Li Mengyao.
This gift was of great significance to Chen Fan. His grandmother had given it to him. Inside was an ancient-looking thumb ring, which she said was the heirloom of their Chen family and a gift for his future granddaughter-in-law.
He and Li Mengyao had been dating for four years, and he planned to propose to her today.
However, to Chen Fan's surprise, Li Mengyao did not take the gifts. Instead, she took two steps back, as if deliberately keeping her distance from him.
Chen Fan was stunned.
Before he could ask, a familiar voice sounded from behind him, "What kind of trash did you buy from a street stall? Are you not afraid of dirtying my Mengyao's hands?"
Following that, a young man in a suit and tie glanced at Chen Fan mockingly and walked directly to Li Mengyao's side.
"Xiao Ran?" Chen Fan frowned.
This was Xiao Ran, his university classmate. However, their relationship had always been strained during their school days.
He didn't understand why Xiao Ran would suddenly appear here.
"Chen Fan, it's been a year since graduation, and you're still so poor. Someone like you, haven't you looked in the mirror? How can you give my Mengyao happiness?" Xiao Ran's lips curved into a smile, and he reached out to wrap his arm around Li Mengyao's slender waist.
"Xiao Ran, what are you doing! Take your hand off!" Seeing this, Chen Fan stepped forward, intending to confront Xiao Ran.
"Chen Fan!" However, Li Mengyao's angry shout made Chen Fan freeze and calm down.
"Chen Fan, let's break up."
"Break, break up? Mengyao, you, you want to break up with me?" Chen Fan looked at Li Mengyao in disbelief.
He couldn't believe these words were coming from the lips of the girlfriend he had been dating for four years.
Li Mengyao took a deep breath. "Yes, I want to break up with you."
"Xiao Ran is right. As an intern doctor who graduated and can't even get into a proper hospital, only interning at a mental hospital in the suburbs, what can you give me happiness?"
"Do you know? It was because of a word from Xiao Ran's father that I'm no longer an intern nurse but a formal nurse at this Jiangcheng First Hospital! Can you give me these things?!"
"You can't even control your own future, so what right do you have to be my boyfriend!"
Chen Fan was stunned.
He stood there blankly.
He had never imagined that his girlfriend of four years would say such things to him.
"Mengyao, I will work hard. I'm doing well at the mental hospital. The director also said that after the new year, I'll be regularized and stay at the mental hospital. You also said you would believe in me and give me time. Have you forgotten all this?"
"And this, this is what my grandmother asked me to give you. This is our family heirloom, specifically kept for the Chen family's daughter-in-law." Chen Fan, unwilling to give up, stepped forward and excitedly grabbed Li Mengyao's hand.
"Let go!" Li Mengyao struggled to break free.
"Chen Fan, wake up. What can you compare to Xiao Ran? His father is the vice president of Jiangcheng First Hospital! And your family only has a small clinic."
"You should leave. Don't come to me again in the future!"
"Mengyao, Mengyao, I will work hard in the future. Wear this thumb ring, wear it." Chen Fan took out the thumb ring from the gift box and grabbed Li Mengyao's hand again, intending to put it on her finger.
"You dog, you dare touch my woman again."
Bang!
Seeing this, Xiao Ran kicked Chen Fan directly in the waist.
Chen Fan was already thin, and this kick sent him sprawling to the ground. The thumb ring fell to the ground.
With a crisp "crack," it shattered into two pieces.
Chen Fan picked up the two pieces of the thumb ring from the ground. Looking at the broken heirloom, tears couldn't help but well up.
Xiao Ran took two steps forward, squatted down, and looked at Chen Fan mockingly. He reached out and patted Chen Fan's head, "You dog, listen to me clearly from now on. Don't you dare come looking for Li Mengyao again. She is my woman! Understand?"
"Oh, and I have something else to tell you."
"Do you know why you, a top student with the highest grades, were assigned to intern at a mental hospital? I can tell you, it was my doing."
Then, Xiao Ran leaned in and whispered in Chen Fan's ear, "You are just an ordinary person. What can you do to fight me? Weren't you very arrogant at school? Didn't you look down on me?"
Chen Fan suddenly looked up, his fists clenched tightly, his face filled with anger.
Only now did he understand why he, with his excellent grades, was assigned to intern at a mental hospital. It was all because of this person!
"Oh, right, I should also thank you. Thank you for taking care of Mengyao for the past four years."
"I'm really surprised that Mengyao is still a virgin, hahaha." With that, Xiao Ran stood up laughing.
"You, you scoundrel! I'll fight you!" Chen Fan was completely enraged.
He got up from the ground and swung his fists at Xiao Ran.
Bang!
Xiao Ran sneered and kicked Chen Fan again, knocking him to the ground once more.
Just then, security guards from the hospital entrance rushed over. They all recognized Xiao Ran's identity.
Seeing someone dare to attack Xiao Ran, they all started punching and kicking Chen Fan, showing no mercy.
Chen Fan's forehead was hit hard by a baton, and blood flowed down his forehead.
Chen Fan clenched his fists tightly, not uttering a sound.
The two pieces of the thumb ring in his hand dug deeply into his palm, and blood stained the entire heirloom.
However, at this moment, Chen Fan suddenly felt an intense burning pain in his palm.
A powerful surge of information directly entered his mind.
His mind and eyes both experienced intense stinging pain, causing Chen Fan to widen his eyes. In fact, Chen Fan's eyes turned blood red for a moment!
This state only lasted for a moment. Chen Fan's body went limp, and he fell to the ground, losing consciousness.
"Xiao Ran, stop hitting him." Seeing Chen Fan faint, Li Mengyao quickly stepped forward to persuade him.
After all, Chen Fan had a past with her, and she still didn't want to see him beaten like this.
"Alright, stop. Throw him out, don't dirty our hospital entrance." Xiao Ran waved his hand and gave the order.
Several security guards nodded quickly, carried the unconscious Chen Fan, and threw him out of the hospital, into the flower bed outside.
They had acted with restraint, knowing that these injuries would not be fatal to Chen Fan.
An unknown amount of time passed.
When Chen Fan woke up from his unconsciousness, it was already dark.
Chen Fan clutched his forehead and sat up from the flower bed. The flowers were tall, so no passersby noticed him.
But what shocked Chen Fan was that he found a lot of things in his mind, all related to medical classics and knowledge!
He looked at the wound on his palm, and at that moment, Chen Fan's eyes widened abruptly.
Because what Chen Fan saw was not his skin, but red muscle, wriggling blood vessels, and bones!
Chen Fan looked at his legs, and it was the same. The clothes and skin on the outside could not block his vision at all.
"What, what is going on? My eyes can see through skin!"
Chen Fan's mouth gaped in shock. This made him recall the burning sensation in his palm and the stinging pain in his mind and eyes when he was beaten.
"Could all this be related to that thumb ring?"
"The thumb ring, where is my thumb ring!" Chen Fan suddenly remembered the broken thumb ring and quickly searched around him.
But he found nothing.