On the other side of Earth, at 19:38 in the evening, within a county hospital in Hubei Province, China.
Yuan Zhengming frowned slightly with annoyance. Mrs. Ye had been blocking him from leaving, insisting that he agreed to her request.
"Mrs. Ye, I am the doctor and I know what to do," Yuan Zhengming explained to her, hesitatingly suppressing his impatience.
"But Doctor Yuan, my daughter needs to be on an IV drip. She has been taking medicine for four to five days, and it has had no effect at all," Mrs. Ye lamented, her concern for her daughter plainly visible on her face.
"The IV drip is not the key to the problem. You're just suffering from a mild cold, there's no need for an IV," Yuan Zhengming asserted.
"But in the past, when I went to other hospitals, I was always given an IV and got better very quickly," Mrs. Ye argued with disbelief written all over her face.