ER Code Red: Let the Rookie Take the Lead

After being stabbed to death by a vengeful family, a dedicated doctor wakes up on the most pivotal night of his past. In his previous life, saving a patient led to broken rib accusations, a suspension for drinking glucose, and being framed for theft by Scarlett York. Now back in the ER, he fakes an illness to let the pretentious Scarlett take the lead. He refuses to be the hero again, choosing survival over a career that once destroyed him.

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I was only human, not a god. I couldn't be perfect all the time.

"You're my mentor. Of course, I'd come to you with any questions." Scarlett's tone was stiff, and there was a hint of barely concealed resentment in her eyes.

A chilling thought suddenly crossed my mind.

But before I could voice it, I needed to verify something.

Frowning, Aidan started taking passive-aggressive swipes at me.

"Wilder, next time, don't take so long in the restroom. We're fighting for lives in the ER. There's no room for slack. How can you be focused on filing charts right now? Shouldn't this have been done ages ago? If everyone is stuck doing paperwork, who's left to save the patients?"

I bit back my anger and forced myself to answer him calmly, "I'm only working overtime because I didn't finish filing the charts. Besides, I'm not even scheduled for the ER tonight. Dr. York is the one on duty."

Aidan's face flushed with fury at my rebuttal. "What do you mean by that? I'm the deputy director. Can't I even question you? If your efficiency is so low that you have to work overtime just to finish your work, have you considered that you might be the problem?"

My blood was boiling, but no matter how unjust I felt, I couldn't publicly argue with a superior.

The pile of patient charts on my desk was as high as a mountain.

The patient, who was discharged just this morning, had been hospitalized for six months. The printed medical records were 20 inches high. I had to meticulously check every single page and handwrite a case summary.

Any senior doctor would need days to finish this task. But because I volunteered for overtime, Aidan twisted it into an accusation of low work efficiency.

"Dr. Garrison, even if you weren't on duty, the ER was busy. You should have helped out. As a doctor, how can you just stand by while lives are at risk?"

Helping out didn't come with a bonus, so why the hell should I be expected to jump in?

Out of professional ethics, I kept those thoughts to myself.

Even the work I loved began to lose its initial appeal after long, exhausting hours.

I cared about my patients, but I wasn't so sure they appreciated me.

Just like in my last life, I collapsed at the surgery door, almost fainting from low blood sugar. I had given everything to save the patient, only for him to stab me to death afterward.

Any doctor would feel betrayed by that.

When Scarlett heard Aidan's words, she burst into louder sobs.

"I heard Dr. Garrison say before that he's sick of this job. He doesn't even like saving people.

"Once, I happened to walk in on him during rounds. He was standing over a comatose patient, muttering about how the man should just die instead of pointlessly hogging a bed in the ward."

Shaking, she hid behind Aidan.

"Dr. Palmer, I refuse to work under a mentor who is so utterly devoid of humanity. He treats human life like it's disposable. It's terrifying. How can a doctor with no medical ethics and zero professional integrity be allowed to stay on staff at this hospital?"

She wept with bitter, heart-wrenching intensity.

No medical ethics?

If I lacked medical ethics, then Aidan was probably a fake doctor. He had done enough shady things, and I'd seen a few of them with my own eyes.

I couldn't stop myself from letting out a scoff. "If you can provide proof that I ever said those things, then I'll resign."

It was just her word against mine. Scarlett wanted to pull me into her mess, but I crushed that idea before it could start. So, she hadn't had time to fabricate any evidence yet.

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At her high-society engagement party, she waits alone as her fiancé chooses to stay at the hospital with Victoria, the family's fragile adopted daughter. Publicly canceling the wedding earns her no sympathy—only her mother's fury and her brothers' blame for ruining a business alliance. When Victoria hires thugs to drag her into a van, her family brands her a liar and defends the fake sister. Stripped of her identity and frozen out of her accounts, she's cast into a winter storm. But they never knew she was secretly a top-tier medical genius. When a Bentley arrives carrying the secretly injured king of the NHL, she steps inside with a deal: cure his ruined career, and he'll give her everything she needs to crush them.

Action Modern Mystery Romance

8.1

Fake It Till You Ace It

8.1

Iverson played the role of a rebellious, useless loser to survive in his mother's new wealthy family. He deliberately tanked his grades and hid his genius so his perfect stepbrother wouldn't feel threatened. But when a violent gang extorted Brenda, the only woman who actually acted like a real mother to him, Iverson dropped the act. He brutally dismantled four armed thugs with a broken aluminum pole to save her life. At the police station, he faked being a terrified victim to avoid jail. But when his biological mother arrived, she didn't even ask if he was hurt. Instead, she glared at him with pure disgust. "How much more humiliation are you going to put me through?" She threw a tutoring folder at his chest, praising his stepbrother's Ivy League prospects while threatening to cut off Iverson's trust fund for fighting over slum trash. Iverson clenched his fists in silence. He had deliberately played the idiot and ruined his own reputation just to keep her safe in that toxic mansion. Yet, she looked at him like he was absolute garbage. She truly believed he was just a brainless thug holding her back. Back in his room, Iverson locked the heavy oak door and booted up his highly encrypted laptop. The screen loaded into the world's most elite underground academic network. "Welcome back, Rank 1." He stared at the glowing screen with a cold, dangerous smile. He was done playing the fool.

Action Billionaire Modern

9.2

Fake Love

9.2

On the day of their marriage registration, Henry Davis abandons his bride-to-be at city hall to assist his returning first love. Claiming the night is unsafe, he brings the woman back to the couple's new home, forcing the protagonist out. This displacement leads her into a life-threatening encounter with a violent criminal. Having narrowly survived the ordeal, she resolves to leave Henry for good, despite his tearful begging and sudden desperation to keep her by his side.

Action Modern Mystery Romance

9.8

He Forgot Me, I Married His Brother

9.8

After three agonizing months, I finally found my fiancé, Barnett Spencer, at a gala at The Plaza. He had vanished without a trace, and I was on the verge of losing my mind. But when I saw him on stage, my blood turned to ice. He had a strange woman tucked into his arm, and a lawyer announced that a recent accident had erased the last six years of his memory-our entire relationship. In front of a sea of reporters, Barnett looked right through me with freezing hostility. "Miss, you have the wrong person." He then declared that the woman beside him, Joslyn, was not only the person who saved his life but also his new, legal wife. The news hit me like a physical blow, and the camera flashes swallowed me whole as reporters shoved microphones in my face, asking how it felt to be publicly dumped. The man I had loved for six years had turned me into a national joke, a delusional stranger trying to cling to his wealth. That night, as I was drowning my humiliation in a martini, his ruthless younger brother, Dixon, found me. He slid a marriage contract across the bar. "Marry me," he said, his voice a low rumble. "I want his shares. You want his pain. We both get what we want." Fueled by alcohol and a burning need for revenge, I grabbed his pen and signed my name. I was no longer the abandoned fiancée. I was about to become my ex's worst nightmare: his new sister-in-law.

Action Modern Romance

8.8

His Sacred Promise, My Stolen Dreams

8.8

My fiancé, Ethan, insisted we use our life savings-the money for our dream architectural firm-to buy a house for his widowed friend, Kiera. He called it a sacred promise. I called it betrayal. After weeks of fighting, I discovered the truth. He hadn't been asking for my permission; he had already emptied our joint account two months ago. A photo confirmed it: him and Kiera, toasting with champagne, celebrating the day he stole our future. He then had the nerve to ask me to design her new house for free. When I finally confronted him, he chose to believe her fake pregnancy and her staged fall, calling me a "monster" as he rushed her to the hospital. He didn't just take our money; he stole my voice and painted me as the villain in his story. So while he played the hero for her, I quietly canceled our wedding, sold our assets, and booked a one-way ticket to a new life. He thought he was breaking me, but he was setting me free.

Action Fantasy Romance

8.1

Mocked in My Daughter's Paper, I Unleashed Hell

8.1

While browsing a satirical journal, a woman with severe face blindness discovers a trending article that mirrors her life with terrifying precision. The paper outlines a twelve-year plot where a mistress's child replaced a biological daughter. As she reads, she realizes her husband may have trafficked their real child while using her disability to facilitate horrific deals. This action-packed mystery follows her realization that her entire family bond is a calculated deception.

Action Horror Modern Mystery

ER Code Red: Let the Rookie Take the Lead

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