Medical Center.
Thanksgiving, 2000.
After years of accumulated experience as a playboy, Mark Sloan had an epiphany. His thoughts soared straight into the thunderclouds to undergo tribulation.
After a barrage of lightning strikes, he leveled up twice in one go, becoming a terrifying grandpa-tier powerhouse!
"Please tell me that's your child!"
Grandpa-tier powerhouse Mark, seeing that Adam, a mere onlooker, refused to play along, could only provide his own sound effects. He sucked in a sharp breath and stared at Adam.
"...Wishful thinking."
Adam's mouth twitched.
"I really wish it were!"
Mark said sincerely.
"This is your biological daughter and biological grandson."
Adam sized him up for a while, then said in surprise, "Shouldn't you be happy right now?"
"Happy?"
Mark said incredulously, "Are you kidding me?
What is this, some boring soap opera?
A playboy has had enough fun, then suddenly discovers he has a daughter.
And then he turns over a new leaf and becomes the ultimate Doting Father?
Give me a break!
I'm Mark Sloan!
I'm still young!
Being called Daddy—I kind of like that, in a certain sense.
But being called Grandpa?
No pretty girl with any sense of romance could accept that title.
I'd lose them all completely!
And do you really think someone's personality can completely reverse in such a short time because of one thing?
Everything in soap operas is a lie!
The more our lives lack a certain kind of person, the more those people behind the scenes want us to become that kind of person, the more soap operas will be full of nothing but people like that!
And the point is never that a playboy turns over a new leaf and lives a happy, warm family life from then on.
The point is always that no matter how wildly a