My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points Chapter 1263 - 497: Heavenly Dao’s Just Retribution, Ultra-Hard Mode Myocardial Infarction (Part 2)

Right at that instant, when he heard his wife demanding a divorce, he stood there utterly stunned.

He gazed at his wife, filled with utter disbelief.

"Divorcing means you’ll forfeit your city residency and head back to your rural hometown!"

His reluctance for divorce was crystal clear.

"Even if I end up begging on the streets, I refuse to stay with a spineless man like you. Every time your mother berated me, you never once stood up for me; that’s why she acts so superior. For these past two years, I’ve suffered endless humiliations in your home, yet you failed completely as a husband. I handle the kids at home while you hand your entire salary to your mother. Even buying diapers requires me to beg her with a fake smile, enduring her nagging for ages just to get some money."

"If you have any manhood left, grab the household register and marriage certificate, head to the civil affairs bureau, and finalize the divorce right now. If you refuse, I’ll despise you even more. Besides, I’ll pursue legal channels; this divorce is inevitable."

The woman’s resolve stood unshakeable.

From the sidelines, Zhou Can observed, feeling a sense of approval.

Women sometimes truly need that sharp decisiveness.

Particularly against such a domineering family, splitting up offers the best way to cut losses swiftly.

Naturally, awakening the man and moving out separately from his parents could serve as an alternative path.

After all, the journey from meeting, loving, marrying, and raising kids isn’t simple.

Post-divorce, the children bear the heaviest burden.

"You vile woman, acting all high and mighty. I warned you, don’t marry some country girl..." Hearing her daughter-in-law seek divorce, the old lady didn’t try to calm things but unleashed a torrent of curses at her instead.

Desperate to pin every blame on the daughter-in-law.

"Son, divorce her if you wish. We city people have homes and residency; we’ll snag a better, prettier, and more virtuous one. Who’s she kidding? After divorce, she’s damaged goods—no one would touch her even for free..."

"Mom, enough already!"

With his family on the brink of collapse, the man realized inwardly that his mother’s domineering cruelty caused it all.

"Oh heavens... Now you side with this country wretch against your own mother? I raised you from a tiny infant through all the mess... Waaah... I can’t go on living, I just can’t!"

The old lady wailed, then promptly smashed her head against the wall.

Anyone with eyes could tell it was mostly fake drama.

Holding the child, the baby’s mother had already strode far away, never glancing back.

Surprisingly, the man ignored his mother and chased after the woman.

The old lady kept up her act for ages, but her son never came to stop her, nor did nearby medical staff intervene. Unable to resist, she peeked back, mortified to discover her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson had all departed.

Stricken with grief, she collapsed to the floor, sobbing hysterically.

"What a curse... I don’t want to live anymore, not at all..."

Zhou Can shook his head as he watched; this old lady spelled doom for any family she joined.

Elders shouldn’t demand blind obedience. Truly smart kids avoid foolish filial piety. Such compliance only emboldens undisciplined parents to act worse.

In the end, it destroys your own small family.

Today’s ideal balances filial duty with love; show respect while offering elders more warmth and care.

As people age, loneliness creeps in, twisting their minds further.

Blindly following them then harms everyone involved.

Regrettably, millennia of feudal ideas blind most to this truth.

Zhou Can headed back to his consulting room to resume treating patients.

This round, his grasping skill had surprisingly leveled up to 6, matching a chief physician’s mastery—truly impressive. Across all of Tuya Hospital, scarcely any reach that pinnacle with grasping.

Countless surgeons practice by picking food with toothpicks at meals.

Climbing from associate chief to full chief demands 100,000 Experience Points. Even at 0.1 per food pick, that’s a million reps needed.

In truth, few surgeons stick to daily toothpick meals.

Doctors’ schedules leave no room for slow, toothpick dining.

Surgeons especially skip meals entirely during operating room rushes.

...

Rescuing the peanut-choking child delayed things, so by the time Zhou Can cleared his registered patients, clocks showed 1:30 PM.

Su Qianqian had delivered his meal just past noon.

She lingered outside for an hour and a half.

As Zhou Can emerged from the consulting room, her face brimmed with worry.

"Why not eat first, then treat patients? It’s way past time; starving could harm your health!"

"Every patient seeking care rushes in desperation. Pediatrics hits hardest—kids and babies, so delicate, each a parent’s priceless gem. How could I abandon them for a meal? They chose me on their registration out of trust; I won’t betray that."

Zhou Can explained to her.

"The world can pause, but meals can’t wait! If you get run down, how will you help their children? Plus, they worry for their kids, but I fret over my dear husband!"