Inside the room…
The Old Madam had only been conscious for a while. She was so weak that she had almost instantly fallen back asleep.
Cheng Wei took the opportunity to check her grandmother's condition. The blood clot in her brain had practically disappeared. The human body might be capable of healing itself over time, but something like this would have taken two to three months at the very least.
Cheng Wei's breathing quickened as she stared at the test results in her hands.
Everything was just so… impossible.
Her peers thought so as well. "Miss Cheng," one of the military doctors said after a moment's hesitation. "Perhaps your brain drainage procedure earlier had a delayed effect, which just happened to have coincided with that girl's acupuncture treatment."
But that made no sense at all. None of them had ever heard of a drainage surgery taking this long to manifest its results.
