Chapter 62: I Am No Jianghu Charlatan

Several medical staff in white coats were conducting examinations on Xiaowen nearby. Zhao Shangde and Zhou Lihong stood to the side, their eyes filled with guilt and heartache as they watched the child.

Seeing Chen Yinan and me enter, Zhao Shangde walked over and said, "When you come, just come, don't buy things. The child can't eat them anyway, what a waste!"

I softly replied, "These aren't just for the child; the two of you need to nourish yourselves as well. What are you doing here?"

Zhao Shangde turned his head, sighed, and said, "Radiotherapy is finished. This is the examination before starting chemotherapy."

My heart gave a jolt. Having learned some medical arts from Third Master, I naturally understood a thing or two.

Generally speaking, the side effects of radiotherapy are temporary, and the suffering is relatively mild.

However, once chemotherapy begins, it becomes excruciatingly painful, making life feel worse than death.

I could not imagine how a child like Xiaowen could endure such agony from chemotherapy. I feared that before the disease could take his life, this horrifying pain would be more than the child could bear!

Standing nearby, Chen Yinan suddenly muttered in a low voice, "Absolute perfection!"

Following his gaze, I realized this fellow's eyes had landed on the female doctor who was currently examining Xiaowen.

Here I was feeling heartbroken, and this guy still had the mood to look at a beauty!

Besides, the woman was wearing a white coat and a face mask, leaving only a pair of large eyes visible. How could he possibly tell she was an absolute stunner?

Xiaowen clutched Zhou Lihong's hand and said weakly, "Mom, I want to go home! I don't want to be here anymore!"

Zhou Lihong sat by the bedside and wept, "Baby, once we cure the illness, we'll go home. Mommy will stay with you every day and never go play cards again, okay?"

The doctor with the large eyes bent down and said to Xiaowen, "Little brother, you can't go back just yet, oh! There is a big bug inside your body, and Big Sister is going to help you drive it away and kill it. Only then can you go home healthy and strong. I know you are the bravest little man. Are you willing to help Big Sister kill the big bug together?"

With tears streaming down his face, Xiaowen looked at Zhou Lihong and said, "Mom, I don't want to live anymore, I don't want medical treatment anymore. I feel so uncomfortable, there are monsters everywhere, and I'm so scared!"

"Baby, Mommy won't allow you to say such silly things!" Zhou Lihong burst into tears and hugged Xiaowen tightly.

My heart ached as well. For a child only five years old to have thoughts of wanting to die showed just what kind of torment the illness had inflicted upon him!

The big-eyed doctor said to the nurse nearby, "Nurse An, I can see that the patient's nerves are already under pressure and he is beginning to experience hallucinations! Check with the radiotherapy department to see when they have an opening, and schedule him as early as possible. We cannot wait any longer!"

"Understood, Dr. Lin!" the nurse beside her nodded.

I said to Zhao Shangde, "President Zhao, I want to take Xiaowen away!"

Zhao Shangde was stunned for a moment, looked at me, and asked, "Take him where?"

I took a deep breath, looked him in the eye, and said, "I thought about it for a long time last night. Perhaps I have a way to treat Xiaowen's illness without making him endure this kind of suffering..."

Zhao Shangde stared at me with wide eyes, his expression extremely agitated. Suddenly, he grabbed my shoulders and said, "Brother, is what you're saying true? Can you really save Xiaowen? Will it really spare the child from suffering?"

He spoke so loudly that everyone in the entire ward heard him.

I grabbed his arm, shook my head, and said, "President Zhao, don't get excited. I only said I would try, I didn't say I have a hundred percent certainty..."

"What are you two talking about?" Zhou Lihong turned her head from the bedside to look over.

Zhao Shangde said excitedly, "Lihong, Shitou says he has thought of a way to save Xiaowen! The child won't have to suffer here anymore!"

It was too late even if I had wanted to cover Zhao Shangde's mouth. Almost everyone's gaze in the ward fell upon me.

That Dr. Lin raised her head, looked at me, and asked, "Who are you? What do you mean by this?"

Indeed, right inside a hospital in front of the doctor responsible for the patient, claiming to have an alternative treatment plan and suggesting they stop treatment here—no matter how one looked at it, it felt like crashing someone else's turf.

I quickly explained to Dr. Lin, "I don't mean anything else; I just want to try a gentle treatment method for Xiaowen. He's still a child. If he keeps going through radiotherapy and chemotherapy like this, even if the illness is truly cured, it will cause severe damage to his body..."

"Which hospital are you from?" Dr. Lin interrupted me directly.

I quickly waved my hands and said, "I'm not a doctor, I'm just a..."

Dr. Lin interrupted me again, "Then how many years of medicine have you studied? Which medical university did you graduate from, and at which hospital did you intern?"

"None!" I shook my head and said, "I'm not in this industry."

"Then please keep your mouth shut!" Dr. Lin shouted sternly, casting a sharp glare at me as she lectured: "I don't care what your relationship with the patient is, nor do I care what you are here to do, but please leave immediately! This is a hospital, not a place where street swindlers like you can run amok! I also hope you people have a bare minimum of conscience and don't make a joke out of human lives, especially since this is a child of only five years old!"

Chen Yinan clutched his chest, shook his head, and sighed, "Beauty, what you just said makes me a bit sad. As the saying goes..."

I turned my head and snapped at him, "Old Chen, shut up!"

This fellow had no sense of occasion when it came to flirting with women. Normally, his tricks for dealing with women might work, but if he kept running his smooth mouth at a time like this, he was bound to ruin things!

Chen Yinan shrugged helplessly and obediently closed his mouth.

I looked at Xiaowen and said, "Dr. Lin, I am no street swindler. I am a Qi practitioner. The gentle method I speak of is something you may not understand or comprehend, but in our world of Qi practitioners, it is entirely feasible."

Dr. Lin glared at Chen Yinan with utter disdain, then turned her gaze back to me and said, "Isn't this just the legendary Qigong master? Though I haven't eaten pork, I've seen pigs run. People like you are complete and utter frauds! Who knows how many patients have been deceived by your glib tongues, refusing to trust doctors, refusing to enter hospitals, and handing over their life savings to con artists like you, only to end up with broken families and ruined lives! I just didn't expect you people to be so bold now that you dare march right into a hospital to snatch patients from doctors!"

The nurse beside her chimed in, "Dr. Lin, don't waste your breath on them. Let's call the police!"

"Exactly! Why should we be polite to such conscience-less people?"

"These people are getting more and more lawless, and increasingly arrogant. Daring to pull scams right in front of us—it's utterly lawless!"

"The police just caught a few last time, and now another batch pops up! These people really deserve to die!"

Just as I was about to speak, someone walked in and frowned, asking, "What is going on here?"

Turning my head, I saw it was an acquaintance, Director Fan Mingxuan.

Dr. Lin asked in surprise, "Master, didn't you go to a meeting?"

Fan Mingxuan shook his head and replied, "Due to matters concerning superiors, it was delayed. The meeting has been postponed. What are you all arguing about here?"

Dr. Lin pointed a finger at me, snorted, and said, "Master, there are two street swindlers here trying to poach the patient right in front of me! Let's call the police right now!"

Seeing us, Fan Mingxuan was also startled for a moment, then his face darkened as he scolded, "It's you again! Still refuse to give up, huh? Keqing, don't waste your breath on people like this. Call the police!"

Having been cursed at like this, no matter how good my temper was, I couldn't hold it back anymore. I walked up to Dr. Lin, looked her in the eyes, and said, "Listen well, I am a Qi practitioner, not some Qigong master!"