"No need to help... no need to help... I feel very good now, I can walk on my own..."
Niu Ben's mother refused her son's arm and paced back and forth in the corridor, her face alight with excitement.
She had just taken a nap on the sofa in Fang Bai's office and, upon waking, felt that aside from some fatigue, all her other discomforts had disappeared, as if she'd returned to her pre-illness state.
For someone who had been sentenced to a "death penalty" by the doctors and was waiting to die at home, suddenly becoming as healthy as an ordinary person, how could Niu Ben's mother not be thrilled?
"Son, I feel like there's nothing wrong with me now... are you sure I'm not dreaming?"
Fearful she was in a dream, Niu Ben's mother grabbed her son's hand and asked with a trembling voice.
Niu Ben grinned and said, "Mom, it's not a dream! Divine Doctor Fang... no no, Master... Master said your illness is cured!"
"Master?"