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After a night without incident, by the next morning, Ning Fan felt in good spirits.
The two rushed to the Xu Family.
Originally, Ning Fan had wanted to test the girl for a few more days, but seeing her pitiable earnestness, he couldn't bring himself to tease her further and decided to first see the beautiful sister.
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The Xu Family of Zhonghai City.
In the past five years, a rising star since being taken over by the eldest young mistress of the Xu Family, Xu Ruolan. The entire family and all its enterprises saw a qualitative leap and soared.
In just five years, they had entered the top ten of the Zhonghai business circle.
Xu Ruolan excelled not only in her brilliant business acumen but was also acknowledged as the number one beauty of the Zhonghai business community!
However, the flourishing Xu Corporation was suddenly struck by a calamity.
The behind-the-scenes controller of the Xu Family, Xu Ruolan, fell ill with a strange disease half a year ago.
With this illness lasting for half a year, the corporation, which once had a market value close to ten billion, saw nearly one-third of its value evaporate in less than six months!
And the navigator of this commercial ship, Xu Ruolan, was growing weaker each day due to the severity of her illness…
Upon arriving at the Xu Family estate, they learned of the terrible news from within the manor.
The eldest young mistress of the Xu Family, Xu Ruolan, had fallen ill again and fainted!
Hearing from the old butler that her sister had passed out, Xu Xiaoqing's face paled with fright.
With a sob in her voice, she rushed into the villa.
At this moment, the villa was already crowded.
These people were all direct relatives of the Xu Family.
There were Xu Xiaoqing's second uncle, younger aunt, and the second uncle's wife, among others.
"Where is my sister? How is she?"
Xu Xiaoqing burst into the villa, tears streaming down her face, and made straight for the bedroom.
"Xiaoqing, I'm afraid your sister won't make it."
A middle-aged man dressed in a sharp suit said with a sob in his voice.
He was Xu Xiaoqing's second uncle, Xu Mingqiu.
Though tears streamed down his face in a picture of utter despair,
Just moments ago he had brought up the issue of equity distribution in the Xu Corporation, showing his true colors as a bad apple of the Xu Family.
"No! Impossible! Where is my father?"
Hearing that her sister was on the brink, Xu Xiaoqing cried, yet she didn't see her father.
"Your father went to fetch the Medical Saint Liu Chongyang."
Xu Mingqiu looked grief-stricken.
Meanwhile, Ning Fan followed behind her, expressionless.
"And you are?"
Just as Ning Fan was about to enter the bedroom, he was stopped by Xu Mingqiu.
"I am..."
"Second uncle, he's the God Doctor Ning I brought."
Before Ning Fan could speak, Xu Xiaoqing's anxious voice interrupted.
"Ning Fan, please come in and look at my sister!"
"You're a doctor?"
Xu Mingqiu frowned, casting a cold glance at Ning Fan.
Even the surrounding family relatives were stunned for a moment, murmuring among themselves about how such a young "Divine Doctor" could exist.
"You could say that," Ning Fan nodded, lifting his foot to head towards the bedroom, but was stopped by Xu Mingqiu.
Xu Mingqiu sneered, "You, a young country bumpkin who hasn't even grown a full beard, dare to call yourself a Divine Doctor?"
Everyone at the bedroom door sized up Ning Fan in his simple clothing and youthful appearance.
No matter how they looked at him, they couldn't associate the term "Divine Doctor" with Ning Fan!
"Divine Doctor is too grand a title for me, at most I'm just a practitioner of traditional medicine," Ning Fan said with a slight smile.
He prepared to step towards the bedroom once again.
"Stop right there! Where did this Jianghu charlatan come from? So young and yet you come here to deceive people, do you know where you are?"
Xu Mingqiu stood tall, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, with a dangerous glint in his eyes and a threatening expression.
"You've got some nerve, scoundrel, daring to come and deceive the Xu Family. Do you have a death wish? Someone! Throw this swindler out and break his legs! Let him remember clearly, not everyone can be deceived!" Xu Mingqiu commanded, waving his hand.
Suddenly, two cold-faced bodyguards dressed in black suits stepped forward.
"Hold it!"
Xu Xiaoqing rushed out of the bedroom, stepping in front of Ning Fan with arms spread wide, and shouted coldly, "Who dares!"
"Xiaoqing, what are you doing?"
From the crowd, a noble and elegant woman approached.
She was called Xu Rongfei.
Just over thirty, Xu Xiaoqing's aunt.
She was extremely beautiful and possessed the bearing of a lady, once famously known as Zhonghai City's beauty.
"Aunt, Ning Fan is the one I invited to treat my sister's illness and he is also my friend. Let's see who dares to touch my friend!"
Xu Xiaoqing stood firmly in front of Ning Fan, her face set with determination.
Even though there had been unpleasantness between them.
But taking a stand, Ning Fan was her invitee, and no one had the right to touch him!
"Xiaoqing, I know you are anxious to save your sister, but what medical skills could this country lad have, even if he had been studying medicine from the womb? Besides, even the specialist from our First People's Hospital, Hong Yuanqiao, is helpless. How could this country bumpkin do anything?"
Her uncle, Xu Mingqiu, stared coldly at Ning Fan.
Then he turned to a somewhat chubby and prosperous-looking man beside him and said, "Doctor Hong, please share your thoughts."
Hong Yuanqiao pushed his glasses up his nose, his eyes carrying a hint of mockery as he glanced at Ning Fan and said, "Miss Xu, I know the depth of the bond between you sisters. But Miss Xu Ruolan's condition is very serious now, and it's not just about me.
Even if my master, Medical Saint Liu Chongyang, was here, he wouldn't have more than a fifty percent chance of success."
"As for this country bumpkin, I think you must have been deceived by him."
By the end of his speech, Hong Yuanqiao did not forget to throw in a taunt at Ning Fan.
After all, what capabilities could man in his early twenties from the countryside have when even he, an expert of his statute, was at a loss? Moreover, if this country boy could cure the condition, what use would they have for him? Wouldn't his own position become rather awkward?
"Ning Fan would never deceive me!" Xu Xiaoqing defended Ning Fan vehemently.
"Girl, you are still young, the human heart is complicated in society," said Hong Yuanqiao, a representative authority from the Zhonghai City People's Hospital, a provincial medical expert, and a nationally renowned physician.
Political dignitaries and business tycoons alike held him in high regard.
What could Ning Fan, a simple country lad, possibly do about a medical problem that even the esteemed him couldn't solve?
Additionally, with the Xu family patriarch growing old and Xu Ruolan seriously ill, if Xu Ruolan were to pass away, then the whole of the Xu Family's enterprise would naturally fall into Xu Mingqiu's hands.
Through all of this, Ning Fan naturally saw things clearly.