Overbearing Immortal Doctor Chapter 1718 - 1817: The Real Reason

"...So... she didn’t get into Qinghua because of this?"

The pitiful girl on the roadside holding the old man was Tang Mo.

In her previous life, Tang Mo’s grades had always been excellent. She had never fallen from first place in the whole grade, and everyone thought she was definitely

going to be the first study god in the history of Su City No.3 Middle School to get into Qinghua.

But in the end, her college entrance exam results shocked everyone.

Su Zhe hadn’t known the reason before, but seeing Tang Mo now, weak, helpless, completely at a loss, he instantly understood.

What happened today was exactly what caused her to fail the college entrance exam. She even... probably didn’t make it to the math exam at all. Only

that could explain why she scored so poorly and only got into a second-tier university.

Watching Tang Mo grit her teeth as she held the old man who was even taller than she was, Su Zhe drove straight up to her, got out of the car, and

under her slightly dazed gaze, reached out to support half of the old man’s body. "What are you standing there for? Get in the car!"

"Oh, oh... thanks..."

Tang Mo wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes, revealing a face like a pear blossom bathed in rain.

She probably hadn’t even washed her face; she looked extremely worn out.

In fact, Tang Mo was really a bit shocked, because she recognized Su Zhe—he was the one she’d bumped into at the hospital not long ago.

But with her grandpa suddenly having a cerebral infarction, her whole mind was in chaos.

Fortunately, Su Zhe helped her grandpa into the back seat, and Tang Mo followed and climbed up.

"Did you call 120?"

Su Zhe drove quickly as he asked.

Tang Mo hummed a reply. "I did... I waited ten minutes and it still hasn’t come!"

It was obvious that Tang Mo was usually a very calm person.

Once she was in the car, she quieted down. She gradually seemed to return to how she was at school, calm and resolute.

It was just that her brows were full of worry and anxiety.

Su Zhe glanced in the rearview mirror just as Tang Mo lifted her head, their eyes meeting briefly. She said softly, "About last time at the hospital... I’m really sorry."

"Is your hand okay?"

"It’s fine now!"

Su Zhe smiled, then took his phone out from his pocket.

Tang Mo watched, surprisingly saying nothing.

"Hello, is this the county hospital? I’m the family member who just called 120 for emergency."

"Tang Fuping, brain hemorrhage."

Tang Mo whispered lightly by Su Zhe’s ear; she understood what Su Zhe was doing.

"The patient’s name is Tang Fuping, brain hemorrhage. We’re rushing to the hospital right now. I just want to ask, your 120 ambulance—

which route is it taking? I want to coordinate with you halfway..."

"Yes, the patient is right here in the car!"

Su Zhe quickly explained the situation to the emergency desk, and soon learned the route of the 120 ambulance.

"You watch out for the ambulance along the way. I’ll drive according to the route the hospital gave us!"

Su Zhe spoke to Tang Mo, and she nodded. "Okay!"

"Thank you, really, thank you!"

"...What’s your name?"

Tang Mo asked quietly, her lake-like eyes fixed on the back of Su Zhe’s head, a surge of indescribable emotion rising in her heart.

"Su Zhe. ’Su’ as in Jiangsu, ’Zhe’ as in philosophy."

"Ah?!"

Tang Mo let out a small cry of surprise. Su Zhe froze for a second. "What’s wrong?"

He was driving fast, so he couldn’t turn his head at all.

"...Nothing."

Tang Mo’s expression was a bit strange, but after glancing at the unconscious Tang Fuping beside her, her face fell again.

The car suddenly felt a bit quiet.

Su Zhe casually opened up a topic. "You... you’ve been staying at home these days too?"

"Mm. With my grandpa like this, we can’t live in the city."

Su Zhe didn’t continue asking.

By now he basically understood Tang Mo’s family situation... her parents were probably not around, out working, or something even worse.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have left a young girl alone to take care of an elderly man.

Su Zhe had a car, so during the college entrance exam he could live at home and drive to the test site every day.

But as for Tang Mo, Su Zhe couldn’t even imagine a girl walking such a long stretch every day, catching the earliest bus to the city,

then transferring again to get to the exam site.

The whole trip took about two hours.

He suddenly felt an ache in his heart for the girl sitting in the back seat.

"An ambulance..."

Suddenly, Tang Mo shouted. She pointed at a white ambulance roaring past on the opposite side of the road. Su Zhe reacted immediately,

made a sharp U-turn, and sped after the ambulance.

"Hey—!"

"Stop the car!"

Tang Mo shouted inside the car, and Su Zhe hurriedly lowered the rear and side windows.

In the end, the ambulance was forced to stop by Su Zhe.

The paramedics were stunned by the luxury car in front of them, but good medical professionalism still sent them rushing to

the back seat, where they moved Tang Fuping onto the stretcher.

Seeing that Tang Mo was about to follow the medical staff into the ambulance, Su Zhe quickly called out to her, "Tang Mo!"

With one foot already on the ambulance’s rear step, Tang Mo turned her head. Her face was pale to the point of being frightening, yet it carried

a faint, different kind of heroism.

It was a face that, with just a little dressing up, could stun the whole world—yet right now it looked so fragile that it stirred people’s pity.

"...You’re not planning to take the college entrance exam anymore?"

Su Zhe let out a breath.

He felt he had a responsibility to save her.

Tang Mo pressed her lips together; her face was full of struggle... it was obvious she very much wanted to take the exam, but she couldn’t leave her grandpa.

The medical staff nearby had clearly heard Su Zhe.

They looked curiously between him and Tang Mo, guessing at their relationship. But the college entrance exam was indeed very important, so one nurse quickly

said, "Little girl, your Mr. Gu isn’t in too serious a condition. It’s just a mild brain hemorrhage and shallow coma..."

"Doctor!"

Su Zhe beckoned to one of the emergency doctors. The doctor looked at him in surprise and walked over to the side of the car. Su Zhe

hurriedly pulled out 5,000 yuan from his pocket. "Doctor, this is for the medical fees. If it’s not enough, I’ll make up the rest after I finish my exam!"

"Please, my classmate needs to take the college entrance exam, but there’s really no one else at home, so..."

"...This is..."

Su Zhe firmly stuffed the money into the doctor’s pocket. "Doctor, I’m begging you, please take good care of him!"

"Sigh, all right!"

"I’ll do my best!"

The doctor glanced at Tang Mo inside the ambulance, shook his head, and accepted the medical fees that Su Zhe had paid in advance.

"Tang Mo, let’s go. If you don’t go sit the exam, when your grandpa wakes up, he’ll be upset too!"

"I think his biggest wish is probably to see you get into Qinghua!"

"Not to see you sitting by his hospital bed!"

Su Zhe turned to look at Tang Mo, who was sitting in the ambulance, silent. A few nurses were also persuading her. In the end, Tang Mo still followed

Su Zhe back to his car, and they headed for the exam site together.

Her gaze stayed fixed on the ambulance disappearing into the distance, full of worry and reluctance.

"Don’t worry, your grandpa will be fine!"

"But you—how are you going to handle the math exam in this state?"

Su Zhe glanced at Tang Mo in the passenger seat, and she suddenly turned, two trails of tears sliding down from her eyes, her shoulders

starting to tremble. "...Thank you."

"Really, thank you... If it weren’t for you... I wouldn’t even know what to do today!"

"Wah!"

That cry was clearly the eruption of emotions she had been suppressing for a long time; she broke down sobbing, utterly heartbroken.

All this time, she’d always seemed like a girl who was outwardly very strong and independent, and she was even the class monitor. But in

front of Su Zhe, she finally couldn’t hold it in anymore.

When it came down to it, she was still just a 17-year-old, not yet even an adult.

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