"This, it can really be cured?"
The female doctor, Sheng Qianmei, was incredibly surprised.
Meanwhile, the other Western doctors in the room expressed disbelief, all with a look that said they were ready to watch Liu Wentian make a fool of himself.
After getting the old man's consent, Liu Wentian quickly took out four silver needles, sterilized them, and began to perform acupuncture at specific points on the old man's back, abdomen, and arms.
In less than ten minutes, Liu Wentian put away the silver needles and said with a smile, "All done! After this, three more sessions over the next three days, once a day, and he'll be fine!"
"You're not saying... that's it?" Sheng Qianmei couldn't believe it, as surgery by Western doctors would take a significantly longer time. She didn't understand any part of Liu Wentian's swift needling technique.
"Wow, a miracle doctor indeed! I feel... I feel strength in my body again, and I... I remember things!" Suddenly, the elderly man who was previously lying there started to struggle to sit up.
Hao Yuntian was moved and slowly helped the old man. Initially, the man's movement to sit up was very slow, but gradually, he really managed to sit up.
This made Sheng Qianmei and the other Western doctors' eyes bulge out as if they had seen a ghost.
Before, this old man had been paralyzed in bed for two months. Could it be that just a few needles from Liu Wentian enabled him to sit up?
"This feeling, it's really good!" The old man's spirits seemed brighter, and he murmured, then immediately wanted to get out of bed to walk a few steps.
"Old sir, your body is still very weak, so please don't get out of bed. After a week, you'll be able to get up and walk on your own!" Liu Wentian quickly advised.
"Good, good, I'll listen to the miracle doctor!" The old man laughed, his heart filled with excitement.
Sheng Qianmei was even more stunned. Was the old gentleman now capable of getting out of bed and walking, but asked not to for the sake of his recovery due to his frailty?
This completely overturned her previous medical beliefs.
"Doctor Liu, you are truly a great benefactor of the Hao family! I'll remember this kindness. If you don't mind, may I address you as Doctor Liu, little brother?" Hao Yuntian said, holding Liu Wentian's hand, more and more moved, to the point of having moist eyes.
"Sure, Brother Hao!" Liu Wentian readily agreed.
After all, this was a big name in the entertainment industry, much older than himself, and someone he was willing to befriend.
Furthermore, Liu Wentian wanted Hao Yuntian's help in resolving Li Chuyue's issue. Her contract was still with the Jingjing Entertainment Company, a subsidiary of Hao Yuntian's Huayu Group, where he served as chairman.
Liu Wentian wrote a prescription for the old man, instructed on how to prepare it, and then left.
However, just as he stepped out of the building, someone grabbed his arm.
It was Sheng Qianmei, the female doctor.
What Liu Wentian didn't expect even more was that the mixed-race woman, who had issues with him just a while ago, was now giving him a strange look, as if looking at her own lover.
"You... you better not try to charm me with beauty tricks, I can't withstand it!" Liu Wentian said somewhat unnaturally.
With a different sparkle in her eyes, Sheng Qianmei blinked her beautiful eyes and said seriously, "Doctor Liu, I want to learn acupuncture from you!"
"No way!" Liu Wentian instantly refused, quickly pulling his hand back.
Acupuncture was the essence of Huaxia medicine, and what he had learned wasn't just any ordinary acupuncture. To think she could just learn it like that, not a chance!
But Sheng Qianmei was not one to give up easily, her voice turned soft and she said, "I've heard that Huaxia's medical arts are seldom taught to outsiders, some even passed only to males and not females, is that right?"
"It's not about that!" Liu Wentian spoke truthfully.
"So, are you saying you can't teach your medical arts to outsiders?" Sheng Qianmei blinked her eyes and suddenly burst into giggles, "What if I become your girlfriend? That way, I'm not an outsider anymore, right?"
Liu Wentian suddenly felt a headache coming on.
"It's not that simple..." Liu Wentian turned his head, wanting to leave!
"Ah? That's not acceptable either? Does it really have to go that far?" Sheng Qianmei chased after him, grabbing Liu Wentian's arm as if fearing he would run away.
"You... what on earth are you after?" Liu Wentian had never encountered such a girl who clung to a man like this. Where was the reservedness that good girls were supposed to have?
Little did he know that Sheng Qianmei, who had always been cold to men, was only obsessed with medicine to the point of madness. At Yale University, she had even earned the nickname "Medicine Fanatic."
"Ah, I see now, do you mean you won't consider me family unless I marry you and bear you a child?"
Sheng Qianmei seemed to have suddenly understood something and said with a smile, "That's not off the table! What do you think of me?"
"..."
Liu Wentian hurriedly broke free from Sheng Qianmei's arms and fled in a panic.
Just to learn acupuncture, she was actually willing to marry herself off?
It turns out women out there are really tigers, truly frightening!
Sheng Qianmei continued to pursue, but Liu Wentian, when he started running with all his might, was exceptionally fast, and Sheng Qianmei quickly lost sight of him.
"Hmph, you think you can run from the medical skills that I have my eye on? Not so easy! Liu Wentian, you just wait!"
Sheng Qianmei stood with her hands on her hips, a picture of frustration.
Watching the news, he found that the crisis at Angel Hospital had been averted.
Seeing Dean Zhu Miaoqing talking at length on the news broadcast, singing his own praises, Liu Wentian felt particularly disgusted.
If Vice-Dean Gou Wudao was a yapping vicious dog, then Dean Zhu Miaoqing was an old fox.
He himself was the one who solved the problem, yet in the news coverage and award giving, his name didn't even appear once! How sad!
Liu Wentian once again recognized the world for what it was, the law of the jungle, the survival of the fittest had never changed.
He knew that only by becoming stronger himself could he escape this suffocating state.
In the future, you'll all regret this! Liu Wentian thought to himself, further convinced that his decision to leave that unscrupulous Angel Hospital was the right one!
In the evening, in an unnoticed corner of Xi Yue Garden.
Liu Wentian closed his eyes, recalling the figure of Sheng Tianzhan in his dreams, as well as his every punch and kick, especially that final blow.
Liu Wentian's body also moved continuously, sometimes he threw a fierce punch, sometimes his legs swept through with a piercing sound, and though his steps were light, his body moved through a great range. If someone were watching his footsteps, they would probably feel more and more dizzy.
However, despite the fierce and dominating power displayed in Liu Wentian's punches and kicks, his frown deepened. He practiced the same movement over and over again, like writing a stroke of a character that he's not satisfied with, then rewriting it endlessly.
After about an hour of this repetition, drenched in sweat and with a flushed face, Liu Wentian's hands and feet began to tremble involuntarily, and he finally stopped.
"No!! Why is it that despite copying every detail of Sheng Tianzhan's movements, when I execute them, the effect is worlds apart?" Liu Wentian mused, frustrated.
This feeling was like copying a master calligrapher's work. Although each stroke looked the same, the gap was huge—one was a master calligrapher; the other hadn't even reached the entry-level!
"Forget it, such a disparity can't be overcome overnight. The most urgent task is to quickly improve my physical fitness. My current strength is just too poor!!"
Liu Wentian felt the weakness and soreness in his body. "Right now, I am too weak, merely at the entry-level of the first layer of Heaven and Earth Demons Gods Technique. However, armed with an understanding and application of various martial arts moves, my combat power is much stronger than the average person."
"Heaven and Earth Demons Gods Technique," a cultivation technique that Sheng Tianzhan stumbled upon and the very reason he possessed that earth-shattering strength.
"Heaven and Earth Demons Gods Technique" is divided into three layers, with the first layer being Pseudo Body Refinement, which Liu Wentian currently had just entered.
"The Body Refining Chapter of 'Heaven and Earth Demons Gods Technique' can quickly enhance physical strength, but the strain on the body is too high. If energy replenishment cannot keep up, it could collapse the body instead. What I need to do now is to buy the ingredients to refine Yellow Spirit, then with the energy from Yellow Spirit, I can improve my physical strength using the Body Refining Chapter."
Thinking this way, Liu Wentian found himself in an awkward position when he realized that he didn't even have money to buy medicinal ingredients, let alone figuring out living expenses for next month.