Xinyue rushed to Yunfan's side in a panic. "Brother Fan, don't be impulsive. I... my grandfather still depends on him to be saved."
For a split second, Xinyue even suspected that Yunfan's appearance at the Chu Family was not entirely innocent.
Could he be plotting to kill her grandfather so that, after marrying her, he could seize the Chu Family's fortune?
Just as Xinyue's mind was running wild, Yunfan gently reached out and wiped the tears from his fiancée's face.
"Learning a few amateur medical tricks and thinking you know everything—quacks like this will kill your grandfather sooner or later," Yunfan said earnestly.
"You... bullshit! If it weren't for me, this old bastard would already be dead!"
As Chen Chong spoke from the floor, air hissed through his missing teeth, but anyone could see the fury burning in his heart.
Yunfan sneered. "Then tell me, what is Elder Chu's exact condition?"
"Physical weakness leading to organ failure!" Chen Chong said angrily.
Yunfan said with utter disdain, "Any medical student could diagnose organ failure. I'm asking you for the cause of the illness."
It wasn't hard to assess the old man's current condition; a trip to any hospital and their equipment could detect his state.
Yet the root cause of the old man's illness was far from simple.
"Bah!" Chen Chong spat out a mouthful of blood-tinged saliva. "The old man took a fall before the attack; it must be organ damage that led to the failure."
"Incompetent doctors aren't that terrifying. What's terrifying is a famous quack like you!"
Unable to hold back any longer, Yunfan pointed right at Chen Chong's nose and cursed him up and down.
"When dealing with ordinary quacks, people still maintain a skeptical attitude. But famous doctors like you are different! Patients believe your every word unconditionally, only to be killed by you!"
When Yunfan was traveling and learning under Third Master, he had witnessed this very scenario in a village.
A very famous Western medicine doctor treated a patient using the wrong method. Yunfan had seen the problem back then and tried to speak up to stop it.
Instead, the patient's family cursed him out severely, and even passersby chose to unconditionally believe the famous doctor.
That patient had been the pillar of his family. Because of the incorrect treatment, he was left permanently disabled and unable to care for himself.
In the end, his family fell apart, his wife and children left him, and unable to bear the blow, he drank pesticide.
Therefore, Yunfan didn't just look down on incompetent doctors—he utterly despised those arrogant and highly renowned amateurs.
Yunfan pointed at the old man on the bed. "This old man isn't sick at all!"
"Pfft, haha... Ouch!"
Chen Chong was almost amused by Yunfan's words, but halfway through laughing, he triggered his painful injuries.
"The man is about to die, and you're telling me he's not sick? I'd say you're the one who's sick! Do you want me to give you some money so you can go get your brain checked at a hospital?" Chen Chong sneered.
The surrounding members of the Chu Family nodded in agreement. One was a rising star in the medical world, while the other was a nobody—of course they believed the rising star.
"Where on earth did this punk come from? It's one thing that he's dressed like a bumpkin, but he actually dares to talk nonsense and question Divine Doctor Chen."
"Just a clown seeking attention. Tie ten of him together, and they wouldn't match Divine Doctor Chen's medical skills."
"Chu Tianxiong would stop at nothing to fight for control of the Chu Family, even dragging its name through the mud. And this Xinyue is no better—finding a scapegoat just to murder the old man in her bid for the family."
Everyone looked at Yunfan with undisguised contempt.
Seeing that everyone around him agreed with him, Chen Chong puffed out his chest even further.
"My name is Chen Chong. Having studied abroad for so many years, even some of the famous veteran professors in this country are no match for me."
Chen Chong said arrogantly, "The treatment methods of those old fogies are outdated. From now on, the medical world belongs to me, and my diagnosis that Elder Chu's organ failure was triggered by a fall is infallible."
"Wrong, dead wrong!" Yunfan pointed at Elder Chu and said, "The old man isn't sick; he has been poisoned."
Poisoned?!
The expressions of everyone in the Chu Family shifted instantly. How could that be?!
Though they didn't believe Yunfan's words, they still glanced consciously or unconsciously toward Chu Tianxiong.
Chu Tianxiong's expression looked a bit unnatural. "Utter nonsense! Divine Doctor Chen's judgment cannot be wrong."
Chen Chong laughed with even greater disdain. "Poisoned?! Have you been watching too much TV, you bastard? We used the most advanced equipment to run a comprehensive check on the old man, and we didn't find a trace of toxins in his body at all."
Yunfan said seriously, "I am a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine. I rely on looking, listening, asking, and feeling the pulse. Unlike quacks like you who can only heal people with machinery, I can wake the old man up with just three needles."
As he spoke, Yunfan retrieved a very rustic cloth roll from his pocket.
Slowly unfolding the cloth, everyone saw countless silver needles of various shapes stuck inside the lining.
Some were thick, some were thin, and some had spiral threads...
Chen Chong's face was full of contempt. "Fine! I'll stand right here and watch. If you can wake the old man up with three needles, I'll kneel on the ground and apologize to you, you bastard!"
Yunfan smiled. "It's a deal!"
"No!"
Just as Yunfan and Chen Chong made their wager, three voices called out in unison to stop them.
Those three were Xinyue, her sister, and Chu Tianxiong.
Xinyue pleaded, "Brother Fan, hurry up and apologize to Divine Doctor Chen. Maybe there's still room to salvage this? Can't we just take a step back, please?"
Yunfan asked sincerely, "Do you remember the first time we met?"
Xinyue nodded. Of course she remembered.
At the time, her grandfather had taken her out to play, and she had suddenly fallen ill, crying in terror until Yunfan ran over to comfort her.
He had even begged his master to save her grandfather.
Back then, Yunfan was the light in Xinyue's heart; he was her faith.
Yet the Yunfan standing before her now felt entirely like a stranger.
Yunfan smiled and said, "I studied medical arts under my master for a full two and a half years. Trust me, I can definitely cure your grandfather."
"Oh, dear god, you're going to kill me with laughter!"
Chen Chong, standing nearby, clutched his stomach, his body convulsing as he fought back his laughter for fear of tearing the wound on his mouth.
"You're going to kill me! Do you know why traditional Chinese medicine is being phased out? The treatment results are poor, and the study time is ridiculously long. TCM takes at least ten years to even start, and you come out to treat people after just two and a half years? You'd be hard-pressed not to kill someone." Chen Chong forced himself to speak through his laughter.
Chu Tianxiong's expression was somewhat unnatural. "Divine Doctor Chen is right. This brat is clearly a scapegoat found by Xinyue, who wants to kill the old man and then seize the Chu Family for herself!"
As soon as these words fell, several members of the Chu Family stepped out from the crowd and stood by Chu Tianxiong's side.
These people followed Chu Tianxiong's lead blindly; if the boss said no treatment, it wouldn't matter if the king of heaven himself showed up—it wasn't happening.