Mr. CEO's Substitute Bride-Chapter 924 - 920: Immediate Surgery Required

This time, the performance was done in one take, but even after the director called cut, Melody Zachary remained seated on the floor clutching her chest, refusing to get up, her expression pained. The male actor she had just been performing with turned back, concerned, and asked, "Miss Zachary, are you alright?"

Just as he was about to reach out to help Melody up, an angry voice sounded from behind, "Get lost!"

Oliver Shaw pushed the actor aside and squatted down in front of Melody, his brow furrowed, unable to hide the tension on his face. "Melody, what’s wrong?"

"It’s... it’s nothing, just a stitch," Melody said, clutching her chest where she had been pushed. She took a painful breath and was about to leverage Oliver’s strength to get up when the latter simply scooped her up entirely.

"Go to the hospital for an examination."

Carrying Melody, Oliver strode out of the set, his expression serious. With one hand on her chest, Melody continued to frown in pain, "It’s nothing, maybe he just pushed too hard. It’ll be fine after a while..."

"At your age, you still don’t take care of yourself!" Oliver reprimanded discontentedly, while Melody’s assistant ran over, alarmed, and asked, "What’s wrong with Miss Zachary?"

"I’m fi—"

"Shut up!" Melody had just started to speak when Oliver cut her off, turning to the assistant beside him, "Tell the director Miss Zachary is feeling unwell and needs to go to the hospital for a check-up."

...

At the hospital, after taking the x-ray, both Melody and Oliver were silent.

Breast cancer, requiring immediate surgery.

On the bench in the hospital corridor, Melody hung her head, looking at the x-ray in her hands. Oliver turned his handsome face, keeping his gaze on the silent woman.

With a sigh, he placed a hand on Melody’s shoulder, "Let’s go back to T City, get hospitalized, and have the surgery immediately."

"Get away! It’s none of your business!" The sudden bad news had thrown Melody into emotional turmoil, and she turned her head to shout, her eyes turning red as she pushed Oliver’s hand off her shoulder and said.

"Oliver Shaw, we’ve been divorced for a long time now,"

"If you’re upset, just cry it out," Oliver once again extended his arm, pulling Melody into his embrace. The latter buried her face in his chest, clutched his shirt, and began to sob quietly.

Melody was forcibly taken back to T City by Oliver. As for the yet-to-be-completed film, Oliver assertively said they’d either recast and reshoot, or let the writers kill off the character!

After arranging for Melody’s hospitalization, he only then informed his son. In the hospital room, Melody, in her striped hospital gown, stubbornly refused to undergo surgery.

Felix Shaw came with his wife to visit his mother and also to act as a mediator, "Mom, the doctor said the sooner the surgery, the better, otherwise it will keep spreading."

"I won’t do it. I’ll die whether I do it or not, so why bother with the suffering."

Melody turned her head to look outside the window. In fact, her left breast had been faintly aching for half a year, which she always thought was mastitis and hadn’t paid attention to, but she never expected... to develop this terminal illness.

Mia Foster stood up from her chair and sat on the bed, holding Melody’s hand and smiling, "Mom, don’t be too pessimistic. With today’s advanced technology, everything will be alright. Didn’t you say you wanted to help Felix and me with the kids in the future..."

"Are you pregnant now?" Hearing about grandchildren, Melody eagerly asked. Mia felt a bit shy, recalling Felix’s nightly efforts, and said, "Felix and I are actively trying. Maybe by the time you recover, we’ll have a baby."