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Heavy rain poured outside, soaking the entire city. Yang Seok-hyeong curled up on the sofa, staring at the flickering chandelier above—this was the third time this month. The light flickered erratically, like a dying signal. He was too lazy to fix it, or even to report it; he just silently counted the frequency of the flashes.\n\nSuddenly, a dull thud came from the second floor, followed by a scream from his assistant. A worker had slipped and fallen off a ladder.\n\nChae Song-hwa rushed in before even changing her shoes. She knelt on the floor, hands stacked, precisely compressing the worker's chest. Counting the rhythm, she turned her head and shouted to her stunned companion, “Call 119! Tell them someone's been electrocuted and has gone into cardiac arrest!” Her voice was steady and fast, like she was reciting lines she had long since memorized.\n\nBy the time the emergency personnel arrived, the worker had regained a weak breath. Song-hwa stood up, brushed back the stray hairs on her forehead, and glanced at her phone—a message from Neurosurgery, asking her to prepare for emergency surgery tonight. She handed the patient over to Yang Seok-hyeong and turned to disappear into the rain.\n\nAt the same moment, Kim Jun-wan had just finished a heart surgery. Bloodstains were still splattered on his white coat, but his phone screen was blindingly bright—PD Song’s car had crashed again, his third DUI. “Are you coming?” the voice on the other end was slurred. Jun-wan remained silent for three seconds, pressed hang up, and turned toward the emergency room.\n\nLee Ik-jun was packing up in his office. His son, U-ju, had a persistent high fever at home, and the nanny had called three times urging him to return. Just as he picked up his jacket, a duty nurse poked her head in: “Professor, a new gastrointestinal perforation has arrived in the ER. The family specifically requested you.” He froze for two seconds, sighed, and put his white coat back on.\n\nAhn Jeong-won came out of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, his pant leg gripped tightly by a child. Neither hurried nor annoyed, he leaned down, peeled a dinosaur sticker from his cuff, and gently stuck it onto the back of the child's hand. Just as he was about to leave, a nurse ran over: “Min-young's blood oxygen has dropped. Please come immediately.”\n\nThe rain fell harder. Chae Song-hwa’s car engine cut out in the hospital basement. She swiped through a couple of push notifications on her phone and suddenly froze—the headline of the top news story pierced her eyes like lightning: “Chairman Ahn Byeong-woo of Yulje Group Suffers Sudden Brain Hemorrhage, Rushed to Hospital for Emergency Treatment.”\n\nThe sound of footsteps in the hospital suddenly grew dense.\n\n<choice_group>\n <choice id=\"1\">Change the topic</choice>\n <choice id=\"2\">Observe current details</choice>\n <choice id=\"3\">Advance the current plot</choice>\n</choice_group>