Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 300 Zheng Sheng, the Angel in White
Criminals were ordinary people before they committed crimes. They also needed to eat, work, and sleep, and they had lovers, friends, and relatives. It's just that once they crossed that line defined by law, they became criminals despised by everyone.

So why did they cross this point?
Zheng Sheng was originally a highly skilled attending physician who dedicated himself to saving lives for over twenty years at a grassroots health center. His excellent skills and meticulous nature did indeed cure many patients.

How did a nurse, seen as an angel by many, become a fearsome violent criminal? This story begins more than twenty years ago.

Due to insufficient education, Zheng Sheng could only work in the staff hospital of a state-owned factory after graduating from nursing school at the age of 22, where he worked for more than ten years.

Although the salary wasn't high, it was at least stable. While Zheng Sheng was usually serious and introverted, his profession as a doctor earned him considerable respect among the factory workers, the hospital staff, and his neighbors.

Later, the staff hospital was restructured into a community health service station. With his accumulated work experience and learning achievements, Zheng Sheng successfully obtained the qualification of a Western medicine doctor and became a surgeon who could work independently in the community health service station.

Although he had been promoted, his nature remained unchanged after more than forty years. He was still very introverted at work. He never participated in any company activities and had few close friends. Occasionally, he would have a meal with his childhood friends, but it always ended with them complaining about work and life. What might be a cathartic release for others was, for Zheng Sheng, an accumulation of negative energy.

My daily routine is home → workplace → home.

His family consisted of his parents and a younger brother, all crammed into a small 60-square-meter room.

Over the past decade or so, he has dated more than a dozen girlfriends, but all of them ended without a trace. He privately concluded that it was because they didn't like him because he didn't have money.

In fact, his younger brother, who comes from a similar family background and doesn't have a stable job, has also reached the stage of discussing marriage with his girlfriend because of his hard work and perseverance.

Ultimately, it comes down to his personality.

At work, I thought that after working diligently in the company for more than 20 years and being promoted to a higher professional title, I should finally get a position. But I didn't expect to be parachuted in with a new leader.

He already harbored resentment, thinking that the other party was blocking his path to officialdom. So, in the daily work at the health station, Zheng Sheng and this leader were constantly at odds, and they disliked each other.

Initially, the disputes were only about work and profession. Later, Zheng Sheng disregarded everything else and spread rumors that the other party was given an official position because his wife slept with a leader in the health bureau.

This not only completely offended his superiors, but also made his colleagues in the unit have a real opinion of him, and everyone began to gradually distance themselves from him.

According to psychology, introverted people are actually more sensitive to how others perceive them than the average person, and they tend to overthink things.

Overthinking can easily lead to trouble.

Since his colleagues started to become increasingly indifferent, Zheng, who is very sensitive, has been immersed in all sorts of wild thoughts every day. One moment he feels that everyone is laughing at him for being unmarried at an advanced age, and the next he feels that people suspect him of spreading rumors about the leaders. He feels that he can no longer stay at the company.

In a fit of anger, he quit his stable job.

I originally thought that with my title as an attending physician and more than 20 years of work experience, I could easily find another job elsewhere.

Unexpectedly, he remained unemployed at home for a full six months. It's unclear whether the competitive society couldn't accommodate a licensed physician like him, or whether Zheng Sheng was unable to relinquish his status as a licensed physician to adapt to the decline in social standing.

Under the double blow of life and work, Zheng Sheng, who had no income, completely sank into despair. In the following months, he stopped going out to look for work and spent his days sitting on a small stool in the courtyard downstairs, sitting at sunrise and resting at sunset.

They eat the food provided by their elderly and frail parents and live in an increasingly crowded house.

As people embraced the new year and embarked on new goals in life, Zheng Sheng, who had been in endless silence for too long, ignited a raging fire within him. "Fuck you! Since you won't let me live, I won't let you live either! You're the ones who drove me insane! You're the ones who did it!"

From then on, the angels in white officially became demons in white.

Waiting hall, first floor!
Zheng Sheng sat in the corner behind the girl, peeking out half his head and looking indifferently at a special police officer a dozen meters away.

The other person's voice was loud, but Zheng Sheng refused to listen. He just stared silently at the SWAT officer's opening and closing lips, his mind gradually conjuring up images of the officer's incessant talking, his ex-girlfriend, and his hospital superiors.

"Fuck you!"

Suddenly, Zheng Sheng stabbed the girl's hand, which was supporting her on the ground, with a knife.

"what!"

The girl's screams echoed in the waiting room.

Special police officer Li Da was seething with hatred. He had originally only wanted to stall for time until the city police's backup arrived. But now, seeing the hostage's suffering and the criminal's reckless actions, he wished he could pounce on them and engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Li Da suppressed his rage, gritted his teeth, and slowly, forcing a friendly tone, said, "Brother, I really don't have any weapons on me. I'll take off my clothes and show you in a bit."

Zheng Sheng yelled, "Get out! I don't want you! Just throw your stuff at me!"

Li Da recalled Chen Shu's earlier warning on the phone and knew that this person would definitely make a move after finishing his meal.

While taking his time unbuttoning his shirt, he patiently cracked a few jokes, trying to ease the tension:

"Brother, don't be fooled by my SWAT uniform. I'm just a fake. Look at my belly."

He patted his beer belly and joked, "It's from drinking. I'm just an old man with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood sugar. If you switch places with me as a hostage, I can eat KFC and drink Coke with you. If you're feeling stressed right now and want to have a drink, that's fine too. My alcohol tolerance is definitely high enough."

At this moment, Li Da really wanted to switch places with her. He was a grown man in his forties, and a policeman at that. He really couldn't bear to see a girl cry.

If kowtowing could get the other party to agree to a replacement, Li Da would definitely kneel down immediately and even add a few words of "Grandpa"!
Seeing that the people opposite him seemed to have become a little curious, Li Da had a sudden idea. Regardless of his half-naked body and the fact that it was a public place, he knelt down on the ground.

"Brother, we're both men, I know what's wrong with you. Let me have a drink with you for a while."

The teeth were clenched with genuine emotion.

A tribute to the negotiating officers in the Kunming hostage crisis.

Aside from the word "Grandpa," the kneeling and the hostage exchange were genuine and unpretentious.

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(End of this chapter)