"What? Steward Wu personally inquired about this kid?!" the driver exclaimed in surprise.
Steward Wu held a high position in the Long family, and his words represented the patriarch, Long Guofan.
"If not, this kid would have been kicked out long ago for daring to lay hands on me!" Luo Tao said fiercely.
The Long family was one of the top aristocratic clans. Even ordinary servants like Luo Tao were treated with respect. When had he ever endured such humiliation, especially from a trash doctor from a mental hospital? He was naturally filled with resentment.
"Let's go. After this kid is eliminated, I'll teach him how to behave!"
With that, Luo Tao opened the car door and got into the passenger seat.
Chen Fan followed the waiter to a room, which was an ordinary suite.
However, upon inquiry, he learned that the entire hotel had been booked by the Long family, who had invited many doctors.
To Chen Fan's further surprise, the Long family had even ranked these doctors into different tiers and assigned them rooms accordingly. The room Chen Fan was in was the lowest tier.
Chen Fan didn't mind this arrangement. His only thought was to see his mother as soon as possible.
Lying on the bed, Chen Fan recalled the words Song Wenting had told him when they parted.
She had warned him not to trust anyone, including Long Yinglan.
This left Chen Fan perplexed, unable to understand why Song Wenting would say such a thing.
Chen Fan waited in his room until the next morning. Finally, he received a text message asking him to gather in the hotel's third-floor conference room.
Upon receiving the message, Chen Fan's face lit up with excitement, and he quickly left his room.
Arriving at the third-floor conference room, he found it spacious with only twenty chairs set up. Chen Fan surmised that there would only be twenty participants.
As he was the first to arrive, Chen Fan chose a seat at the front, eager to participate in the so-called competition.
Shortly after Chen Fan sat down, other doctors began to arrive.
Chen Fan glanced at the doctors entering the room. Upon seeing their faces, he looked somewhat surprised. Indeed, as that person had said, the doctors invited were all renowned experts. Chen Fan had seen most of them in news reports.
Some of their papers had even been included in their medical school's textbooks!
Chen Fan hadn't expected the Long family to be able to invite so many famous experts from both within and outside the country.
"Hey, kid, who told you to sit there? Don't you see Dean Sun has arrived? Hurry up and get up." Just as Chen Fan was marveling at the identities of these doctors and experts, a voice suddenly sounded in his ear.
Chen Fan turned to see three people standing beside him. The middle-aged doctor on his left was looking at him with displeasure.
The elder at the head of the group, with his head held high, didn't even spare Chen Fan a glance, his face full of arrogance.
Chen Fan frowned slightly and asked, "Are there names written on these chairs?"
"No," the middle-aged doctor replied.
"Then why should I move?" Chen Fan retorted.
Upon hearing Chen Fan's words, the middle-aged doctor's expression changed instantly. "Kid, do you know where you are? We are all doctors, and we were invited by the Long family. Believe it or not, I can make you get kicked out of this hotel with just one phone call!"
Chen Fan looked down at his clothes, realizing the man mistook him for a waiter.
"Excuse me, I am also a doctor, and I was invited by the Long family," Chen Fan stated calmly.
"What? You're also a doctor?!"
"Kid, are you kidding me?!"
The two men beside the elder burst into laughter.
The conference room had been quiet, and the sudden laughter drew the attention of many.
However, these three hadn't noticed that the only twenty chairs in the room were already occupied, and many of the doctors who arrived late could only stand behind them, looking displeased.
Many even complained about the hotel's abysmal service, lamenting the lack of extra chairs.
Just then, a line of text appeared on the previously dark conference room screen.
One minute later, doctors with seats may remain; all others will be eliminated.
"How can this be?! Why can those with seats stay, and those without be eliminated?!"
"Exactly, this is too unfair!"
"I protest! Where is the organizer? Who made these rules?"
The room immediately descended into chaos, with people shouting incessantly.
But no matter how many were dissatisfied, no one came out to control the situation.
Seeing the text on the screen, the middle-aged man who had been mocking Chen Fan and laughing moments ago, his face instantly changed.
"Dean Sun, look, only those with seats can stay! Those without will be eliminated!" the middle-aged man on the right quickly pointed at the screen and said.
Dean Sun's expression also darkened. He glanced at Chen Fan and said, "Hurry up and make him get lost."
The two middle-aged men quickly nodded and turned their gaze back to Chen Fan. "I don't care who you are, move aside now, or don't blame me for being impolite!"
Chen Fan remained unmoved.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man angrily reached out and grabbed Chen Fan's shoulder.
"Take your hand off, or you'll face the consequences."
"Kid, you're quite arrogant." The middle-aged man exerted force, trying to pull Chen Fan off the chair.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard the middle-aged man tried, Chen Fan's body didn't budge.
"What are you waiting for? Pull him up!" the middle-aged man shouted to his companion.
Upon hearing this, his companion also stepped forward and reached for Chen Fan's collar.
However, before the other man's hand could touch Chen Fan, Chen Fan's hand had already grasped his wrist.
With a crisp "crack," the middle-aged man's right wrist instantly drooped, clearly broken!
"Ah!"
A scream of agony erupted from the middle-aged man in the conference room.
"Kid, you dare to injure someone!" the middle-aged man who was grabbing Chen Fan's clothes roared.
"Bang!"
Chen Fan showed no mercy, lifting his leg and delivering a kick directly to the middle-aged man's abdomen, sending him sprawling to the ground.
Straightening his clothes, Chen Fan looked at the elder beside him. "I don't hit old people. You can leave on your own."
The elder's face turned extremely grim.
As the dean of Jinghua Brain Hospital, he was respected everywhere. When had he ever endured such humiliation? Moreover, it was from a twenty-year-old kid, clearly rubbing his face in the dirt!
"I am Sun Mingshan, the dean of Jinghua Brain Hospital. Move aside, and I'll meet any condition you set," Sun Mingshan said with a dark expression, offering a deal.
He knew this was his only chance to climb aboard the Long family's grand ship. For fame and fortune, he was unwilling to give up.
"Not interested," Chen Fan replied simply with three words.
Little did Chen Fan know that at that very moment, in the Long family's manor, a screen was displaying live surveillance footage from the hotel conference room.