Rebirth: I Became Mr.President's Beloved-Chapter 1168: Does It Matter?

Brain Meningioma, as the name suggests, is an intracranial tumor.

Song Baiyan took the report handed over by Pei Shiyu, a diagnosis issued by ASCO, all in English, yet it didn’t stop him from searching for the word ’tumor.’

"Fortunately, it was discovered early enough," Pei Shiyu spoke again.

A presidential health checkup usually doesn’t include tumor screening.

Normally, it involves checking blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, and screenings for colorectal and prostate cancer.

However, the last time Song Baiyan requested a lung check, Pei Shiyu simply added more tests during the checkup.

Unexpectedly, they did find a problem.

"The CT scan shows the tumor is within 3 millimeters."

At this size, it is early-stage benign.

If it weren’t for his careful attention, he might not have noticed that ’grain of rice.’

If it hadn’t been discovered in time and allowed to grow unchecked, it might have deteriorated four or five years later, and by then, treatment would be somewhat late.

Pei Shiyu placed a treatment plan on the desk: "In such cases, surgical removal is usually chosen; an early-stage meningioma is still relatively small and not tightly adhered to surrounding brain tissues, making the surgery not difficult and fairly effective."

Song Baiyan set down the CT report and asked him, "Can it be 100% cured?"

"If confirmed benign, early treatment can basically cure it."

If the tumor turns out to be malignant after surgery, radiation therapy needs to follow.

Some things currently can’t be concluded.

After all, only a head CT was taken at this stage.

Pei Shiyu noticed that Song Baiyan, though reviewing the plan, did not immediately decide. He also guessed Song Baiyan’s concerns, as Song Baiyan hadn’t been in office as President for even a year. If news broke out about his illness and hospitalization, especially something as serious as a tumor, it would undoubtedly affect his approval ratings and give the opposition a perfect chance to stir trouble.

Pei Shiyu suggested, "In the next few days, if you have time, I recommend going to the Army Medical Center for another head MRI scan."

This examination, of course, would be kept confidential.

"If you think that’s okay, I’ll go ahead and make arrangements."

Song Baiyan looked up, "For a benign tumor like this, how long can conservative treatment suppress it?"

Pei Shiyu replied frankly, "This varies from person to person, but—"

"But what?" Song Baiyan asked.

"However, patients under conservative treatment mostly experience symptoms like headaches, which occur most frequently in the morning and evening caused by the growing tumor pressing on or eroding surrounding brain tissue or causing increased intracranial pressure, and in severe cases, vomiting and dizziness."

In the end, surgery removal is still required.

"Of course, there are instances where the condition is controlled through conservative treatment."

But such cases are rare.

Such lucky individuals are indeed few.

Song Baiyan placed the proposal booklet back on the table; Pei Shiyu added, "This is just a reference plan; the specific treatment still needs to combine with your MRI results."

Having surgery now is undoubtedly untimely.

No matter how well secrecy is maintained, once admitted to the hospital, rumors are likely to leak out.

Currently, everything in the country is under Song Baiyan’s control. If hospitalized for treatment, even if there is a Vice President to take over, it means the country’s operations will temporarily slip from his view.

Some policy implementations will undoubtedly be affected.

Tang Li said she was coming to the company for business as an excuse, so as soon as she returned to IMG, she went to the underground garage.

Ever since becoming an entertainer, she developed the habit of checking trending searches whenever free.

Once in the car, Tang Li opened the Weibo app.

Then, she found that the Zuo Family smuggling case had reached the top of the trending list.

This news report by the official media was as hot as celebrity relationship gossip.

—Zuo Hong, the founder of Shunmao International, smuggled 21 types of cigarettes totaling over 280,000 cartons at the Southwest Border, involving a case amount of one billion. Shunmao International’s general manager and the person in charge of import-export operations had been invited for questioning.

On the way back to Tan Palace, another entry suddenly appeared on the trending list.

#Su City’s Hongjing Road Car Accident#

The ancestral home of the Song Family is in Su City.

Including several distant relatives of the Song Family who still live in Su City.

Looking at the words Su City and car accident, Tang Li thought of what Xiao Minglan mentioned at lunch, and when she clicked the entry, the first thing that popped up was indeed the accident involving Song Ye.

Unlike the smuggling case, it was an accident exposed by a marketing account.

The marketing account described Song Ye as ’arrogant due to family influence’ and attached a 16-second hospital video.

Tang Li had never met Song Ye.

The video’s main characters were two groups of people in dispute.

The camera was not pointed at the faces, but the shouted words ’Song Ye, your cousin is the President, what are you afraid of’ were particularly clear.

After watching the video, Tang Li saw that it had over 100,000 likes.

The comments under the video were also over ten thousand.

The emotions of netizens were already stirred by the video content.

[Wedding Sugar_]: "I just want to ask, how many people voted for this gentleman during the last election?"

[Exam Last]: "Everyone, quickly screen record and save the video! We’ll see 404 in ten minutes!"

[Lonely Seeking Mate]: "Ha-ha, before taking office, he spoke of raising taxes, expanding medical insurance, and protecting the interests of the middle and lower class. Now, instead, we’ve been shown what being close to royalty means."

When Tang Li browsed to a comment stating ’the current gentleman is irresponsible, letting his relatives act recklessly,’ which also had tens of thousands of likes, she replied to that comment—

"Not to mention that the one shouting wasn’t Song Ye himself. Even if Song Ye was truly acting arrogantly outside, he’s him, and the gentleman is the gentleman. Don’t confuse the two, besides, no one is clear about the on-site situation, right?"

After pressing send, she realized she hadn’t switched to her secondary account.

No matter how fast Tang Li deleted her comment, she couldn’t beat some netizens who took screenshots.

Five minutes later, #Tang Li Deletes Post Quickly# became a trending term.

The words she spoke in defense of Song Baiyan became evidence for netizens to criticize her.

[Liu Fanda Ben Da]: "Some female celebrities really have no limits; during the clean-up period, they don’t dare buy trending searches, so they start grabbing social news headlines. [Thumbs Down][Thumbs Down]"

[Vanikita]: "Tang Clinging: Are you guys polite?"

Tang Li: "..."

Just after Tang Li received a message from Feng Qi, the online narrative changed.

[Su City Traffic Police V] published an announcement.

The driver responsible for the Hongjing Road accident changed from Song to Liang.

Knowing that netizens would question backdoor dealings, the official account also released a surveillance screenshot.

By the time Tang Li returned to Tan Palace, the trending search had appeared #Song Ye Clarifies#.

Song Ye recorded a Vlog and uploaded it online.

He gave a simple explanation of last night’s accident, such as the car was his dad’s, but the driver at the time was his friend Liang, and it was this friend who yelled that sentence in the hospital.

This clarification matched the Su City traffic police’s announcement, and the initially angry netizens gradually retreated.

Tang Li looked at the young boy in the video with red eyes and couldn’t help but ask Yuan Qin, "So, was it really not Song Ye driving the car?"

Yuan Qin just responded with, "Does it matter?"