"Master Qin's wife is a real boss," Li Jieying said confidently. "The nameless divine doctor can definitely cure Mom's rheumatoid arthritis, so don't you all bother."
Yu He was speechless.
Just then, her phone vibrated in her pocket. She glanced at it; it was Qin Beiting calling.
She walked to the side and answered. Before she could speak, Lu Yiming's anxious voice came from the other end.
"Miss Yu, Ting Ge is in trouble. He's been seriously injured. I'm afraid he won't make it. Where are you?"
Yu He's mind went blank for a moment, her ears buzzing. She even forgot to breathe.
"Miss Yu? Are you listening?"
Yu He snapped back to reality and said, "Come to the old Lu family mansion to pick me up."
After hanging up, she turned to Lu Enhua and said, "I have something to attend to, I'm leaving now."
"Xiao He, are you alright..." Lu Enhua saw that her complexion was not good, as if something had happened.
But she was already gone, her figure hurried.
"Chen Yu, go and see her off," Lu Enhua said, turning to Lu Chenyu.
Lu Chenyu nodded and jogged to catch up with Yu He.
"Enhua, next time you invite someone, invite a more professional doctor," Li Jieying said with a light laugh. "Look, I just mentioned the name of the nameless divine doctor, and the child is already so scared that she's running away."
"She's not that kind of person, something must have genuinely come up," Lu Enhua said, her face grim, and then turned and left.
"Heh heh~ If she's scared off, she's scared off. What's there to explain," Li Jieying said dismissively and turned back to Madam Gu's room.
In the room.
"Madam Lu, what's wrong?" Qi Yuanyuan emerged from Madam Lu's bedroom.
"Nothing, my brother-in-law brought a child, claiming to be a TCM doctor. Turns out, when I mentioned your name, she got so scared she ran away," Li Jieying said, smiling. She then took Qi Yuanyuan's hand. "Miss Qi, I'll trouble you to pay more attention to my mother's illness and help her get better!"
The boast she made to Lu Enhua would have to be realized by her.
A flicker of difficulty crossed Qi Yuanyuan's face. Based on her understanding of current medical technology, she hadn't seen anyone truly cure rheumatoid arthritis. Treatment could only control it, and even then, the condition would slowly worsen. Rheumatoid arthritis was one of the world's incurable difficult diseases. Even the true nameless divine doctor might not have a solution.
"I will do my best," Qi Yuanyuan said with a smile.
***
Yu He walked out of the Lu family's gate and saw a helicopter landing.
The cabin door opened, and Lu Yiming jumped out, coming to pick Yu He up.
Lu Chenyu chased to the gate and saw the helicopter taking off.
"The academic prodigy actually knows Big Brother?" he murmured, watching the familiar helicopter disappear into the night sky.
Inside the helicopter.
"What's his condition now?" Yu He sat down and fastened her seatbelt.
Lu Yiming saw her practiced movements and realized this was clearly not her first time on a helicopter.
"The bullet is lodged in the inner thigh, pressing against the aorta. Qi Nan and several doctors at the hospital are afraid to remove it easily. One wrong move, and fragments could enter the bloodstream, flow to the heart, and be fatal. But if the bullet isn't removed, and it continues to press on the aorta, blood flow will be impeded, and the tissue will slowly die, leading to amputation... In this situation, their conservative treatment is to save his life at the cost of his leg, but Ting Ge disagrees. He had lost a lot of blood earlier, had a fever, and was semi-conscious. His condition was critical. He didn't want us to tell you, fearing you'd worry. Now he's completely unconscious, with a persistent fever. We're worried about him..." Lu Yiming choked up, unable to continue.
Yu He felt a pang in her heart, her breathing becoming difficult. So, the reason he hadn't contacted her or replied to her messages all this time was because he was in trouble... Why didn't he trust her medical skills more?
"Due to his physical condition, Ting Ge had actually retired from the front lines and moved to a behind-the-scenes role. But recently, we encountered a difficult mission, and our brothers were in dire straits, so we had no choice but to ask him to support us on the front lines. It's all my fault. Knowing his poor health, I still requested his support and failed to cover him properly, leading to him being shot." Lu Yiming said, punching the seat cushion heavily in self-reproach.
Yu He, not good at comforting people, said dryly, "Don't blame yourself. It was his decision."
Lu Yiming nodded in understanding. They were brothers who had faced life and death together for nine years. If Qin Beiting had asked him for support, he would have rushed to his aid without hesitation, even knowing the danger.
"Tell Qi Nan to prepare the operating room and a set of silver needles. We'll operate immediately upon landing," Yu He added.
"You..." Lu Yiming looked at her in surprise. He had come to pick Yu He up not to have her operate on Ting Ge, but in case Ting Ge didn't make it, so Yu He could see him one last time. Although he had heard from Qi Nan that Yu He knew medicine and was treating Ting Ge with TCM. But removing a bullet required Western surgery. If even Qi Nan and the skilled doctors at the hospital couldn't do it, could Yu He really?
"Why are you standing there?" Yu He glanced at him when she saw he wasn't moving. That look left Lu Yiming no room for argument.
"Alright!" he responded and immediately contacted Qi Nan.
Yu He also sent a message to Cheng Lizhu, informing her that she wouldn't be back for the next couple of days. After sending the message, she looked out at the night sky, silently praying. *Ting Ge, hold on, I'm almost there.*
***
Twenty minutes later, the helicopter landed at a secret military hospital.
Lu Yiming led Yu He directly to the conference room next to the operating room. In the conference room, Qi Nan and several doctors were discussing the surgical plan.
The doctors were surprised to see how young the person Lu Yiming had brought was, seemingly just an adult. They couldn't help but doubt, *Is this young lady really capable?*
However, Qi Nan had already opened up the surgical plans and information they were discussing for Yu He to review. The surgical suits and the silver needles Yu He had specifically requested were already prepared and placed aside, ready for her to begin the operation.
"Miss Yu, how many people do you need?" Qi Nan asked. He instinctively believed that since Yu He had managed to pull Ting Ge back from his critical condition before, she could certainly pull him back from the brink of death again.
"You can assist me."
Yu He took one look at the CT scans they had taken, confirmed the bullet's location, then tied up her long hair, disinfected herself, put on a surgical gown, took the silver needles, and entered the operating room. Her movements were clean and efficient.
"Okay." Qi Nan followed her.
The doctors heard her say that and were first astonished. She asked Qi Nan to be her assistant! Qi Nan was, after all, an internationally renowned prodigy healer. And for such a major surgery, at least two assistants would be needed. Yet she said only Qi Nan was sufficient? The two of them could complete a surgery that even they couldn't? Was this not just messing around?