"What I told you has scientific basis; your feelings are unreliable." Shen Xi sat down and tidied the things on the desk, unwilling to pay him any attention.
Seeing this, Su Chengyu became more anxious. He raised his eyebrows and deliberately provoked her, "I think you're no different from any ordinary TCM doctor and don't deserve the title of An Kang's Chief TCM Physician. It wasn't Qin Si Ye who gave you a backdoor and deliberately put you in this position, was it?"
"You..." Hearing this, Shen Xi looked up and glared at him furiously.
After a long pause, a faint, sinister smile spread across her lips. She said, "If you're in too much pain, I can help relieve it for you."
"How can you relieve it?"
"Do you see that bed? I can try acupuncture on you."
Su Chengyu glanced in the direction she pointed, his body trembling involuntarily, but he said, "Okay."
He had been afraid of needles since he was young, but thinking that he could spend a little more time with her, he agreed without hesitation.
Shen Xi wrote another prescription and handed it to him, "Go pay first, and I'll get ready."
A few minutes later, when Su Chengyu walked in again, Shen Xi was ready.
"Come here, lie down on the bed."
Su Chengyu felt a little uneasy. After finally lying down, he looked up at Shen Xi warily and asked, "You're not going to play dirty tricks on me, are you?"
Seeing his pathetic state, Shen Xi's expression darkened. "Why do you have such a worry? Don't tell me you have a guilty conscience?"
Su Chengyu chuckled a couple of times and immediately lay flat, "You're really good at joking. I'm straightforward and honest, so how could I have a guilty conscience?"
Straightforward and honest, how could he have the nerve to utter those four words?
Five years ago, he had drugged Qin Si Ye and cheated with Lu Yushan. Such a sinister, dirty, and scummy man, mentioning these four words was practically a blasphemy against language.
Shen Xi didn't reply to him. She sat on the stool at his head, took out a silver needle, and said coldly, "Close your eyes."
"Oh." As soon as Su Chengyu closed his eyes, the painful image of Lu Yushan being pricked by her that day suddenly flashed in his mind, and he abruptly opened his eyes.
Shen Xi, whose needle was about to fall on his head, was also startled by his reaction, "What's wrong?"
"Can I go to the restroom?" Su Chengyu asked, clutching his hands, feeling embarrassed.
Shen Xi knew this was due to his nervousness. She sternly said, "No. I'm very busy and don't have time to wait for you. If you go now, the acupuncture session for today will be cancelled. You can come again next time."
He was afraid of injections. Shen Xi knew this when they were dating, which was why she deliberately offered to give him acupuncture, intending to punish him properly.
"Alright. I won't go." Su Chengyu heard this, took a deep breath, and slowly closed his eyes.
This was a hospital, after all. He had come to her for treatment as a patient. Even if she had any complaints about him in the past, she wouldn't openly seek revenge on her own turf.
However, as soon as he thought of this, a drilling pain came from his head.
His face contorted, and he shouted loudly, "Ah! It hurts, it hurts."
Shen Xi, however, curved her lips slightly, slowly twisting the silver needle in her hand, and said dismissively, "Acupuncture isn't painless. You're a grown man, and you're not as good as that eighty-year-old grandma just now. She didn't even groan once from beginning to end."
Hearing this, Su Chengyu also felt ashamed. He immediately shut his mouth and endured the pain.
Suddenly, his phone rang. Shen Xi took it out of her pocket and saw it was Qin Si Ye.
She didn't want to answer, but she was afraid he had something urgent to tell her. After a moment of hesitation, she slid to answer.
"Hello? Mr. Qin." She deliberately addressed him loudly, wanting to see Su Chengyu's reaction.
As expected, the man on the bed's eyelids twitched, and his body tensed up.
Qin Si Ye's warm and pleasant voice came from the other end of the phone, as if the unpleasantness of the morning had never happened, "I'm at the hospital now. Are you busy over there? Let's have lunch with Si Yue today."
"Ah?" Shen Xi was startled, and her right hand, which was twisting the silver needle, trembled slightly. "Not yet."
Qin Si Ye detected a hint of unnaturalness in her reply, "What are you doing now? How about I come to find you?"