As the saying goes, "long-term illness makes the patient a good doctor." This was surely applicable to Xie Lianzhen.
Anyone who was in contact with medicines for long term would be very sure about how effective a type medicine was. Moreover, Xie Lianzhen was trained before. Because he hated to be touched everywhere and could not train normally like his other brothers, he used to learn the study of medical science during his free time.
He never thought that one day, his activity during leisure time would be used to save his life.
From his appearance to his character, only "weird" could be used to describe the Drug Lord. Anything that wasn't beneficial to his experiment was nothing more than a grain of sand in his eyes. But he was naive too; all he thought about was his experiments, and nothing else in the world mattered.