Outside the Yu Xianyi Clinic.
Li Sichen sat in the car, watching Yu He's retreating figure. A cold warning came from Qin Beiting's voice on the phone pressed to his ear: "Stay away from her!"
"What if I don't? What can you do to me?" Li Sichen said with a playful grin. "She's not your private property, and besides, she never belonged to you from the start. You just got to her first."
"You will regret this!"
"Oh dear, I'm so scared~" Before Li Sichen could finish speaking, the call was hung up by the other party.
He looked at the phone screen, and the roguish smile on his face vanished completely.
We're all the same kind of people, why should you have a better life than me?
Heh~
He let out a cold laugh, turned the steering wheel, and headed back to the Li family.
Halfway through the drive, he suddenly received a call from his assistant.
"Ninth Elder, regarding the mission in Africa, the Hall Master has assigned it to you and wants you to depart today."
"Didn't the Tenth Elder take that mission?" Li Sichen frowned and said.
Who would want to go to that desolate place in Africa? Only the youngest of the Ten Great Elders, the tenth, had to accept the mission.
"It seems another elder recommended you to the Hall Master, so the Hall Master changed his decision and sent you instead," the assistant explained.
Li Sichen cursed under his breath. It must be that Qin Beiting!
He knew Qin Beiting was high up in Xing Que, but he didn't know his ranking among the Ten Great Elders.
Qin Beiting, you scumbag, using official business for personal revenge!
When I get back from Africa, I'll definitely expose your identity!
...
Evening.
In the study, Yu He sat at the desk, and Qin Beiting sat in a grand tutor chair. Both were holding books on computer programming languages.
On the surface, they were both diligently reading, but in reality, a mobile phone was hidden between the pages of each book.
After Yu He finished reading the procedural data from Shi Ban regarding the imminent launch of Qi Yuanyuan's special medicine, she switched to her anonymous account and opened the chat with the Xing Que Hall Master.
Anonymous: [What are your requirements for joining Xing Que?]
Qin Beiting had just returned to his message list and saw what Anonymous had sent. He looked up at Yu He.
Why is the little girl asking this suddenly?
Did Li Sichen say something to her?
Xing Que Hall Master: [Xing Que is not short of people right now.]
Yu He felt a strange sense of inexplicable disappointment upon seeing this reply. She had been rejected without any hesitation!
They wouldn't reveal any information. Did her status as the divine doctor Wuming not meet the entry requirements for Xing Que?
But if that were the case, why would they have made concessions and fought for the auction rights for the special medicine before?
This contradictory behavior made Yu He feel that the other party didn't actually want her to join Xing Que.
However, Li Sichen had told her to consider it carefully, and his tone didn't seem fake.
These two always seemed to have some secrets, but Xing Que itself was a mysterious and complex organization. Yu He wasn't interested in it for now. She just wanted to confirm if Xing Que was on the Qin family's side. Given the current situation, she could put this matter aside for now.
She would first think about how to teach Qi Yuanyuan a lesson for impersonating her and treating people indiscriminately.
Anonymous: [Oh, let's talk about the auction schedule for the special medicine...]
As Yu He typed, she sensed Qin Beiting getting up and walking over out of the corner of her eye, and she quickly hid her phone.
"What are you thinking about? So focused?" Qin Beiting came over and kissed her forehead.
"Nothing. Just reading."
"You're holding the book upside down," Qin Beiting reminded her.
Yu He looked closely and indeed, it was upside down. "..."
Yu He: "I'm practicing reciting backwards!"
Qin Beiting: "..."
He took the book from Yu He's hand. "Did anything happen today that you want to tell me about?"
Yu He recalled Li Sichen's words, "How do you know Qin Beiting won't lie to you?" She had already sensed that Qin Beiting seemed to be hiding something from her, and she was also hiding something from him. It was sort of even.
It's just that she wasn't sure of Li Sichen's intentions, so she had added him on WeChat and set his messages to do not disturb, waiting to see what would happen next.
"I can handle it all," Yu He said.
She suddenly thought of something and looked at Qin Beiting with amusement. "However, there is one rather tricky matter. I heard that the news of Seventh Master Qin's engagement to the eldest daughter of the Qi family has spread throughout high society. If I were to tear apart the Qi family's eldest daughter's reputation at this moment, would you feel heartbroken?"
This news had been released by the Qi family, not through formal announcements but through gossip among the socialites, so Qin Beiting couldn't possibly silence everyone.
He took Yu He's hand and squeezed it. "How do you want to tear it apart? I'll do it for you. Don't hurt your hand."
Yu He smiled. "No, I'll handle this myself."
The next day.
Yu He was pulled out of bed by Qin Beiting early in the morning and made to read for an hour. After he left for work, she immediately dove back into bed, intending to catch up on sleep, but was disturbed by the commotion from the clinic.
She changed her clothes and went out. The patients in the clinic had been evacuated to the courtyard, and the furnishings in the main hall of the south wing were scattered on the floor.
Qiao Wei was holding down a patient who was in a fit of madness. A nurse had a swollen forehead, and Qiao Qiao was applying ice to it. Another nurse was shrinking away. The patient's family member, a burly young man, was pointing at Elder Madam Yu and shouting.
"Aren't you a divine doctor? Why can't you cure her?!"
"In her condition, sending her to me is useless. She should be sent to a rehabilitation center." Elder Madam Yu said, neither rushed nor slow.
"She's not taking drugs at all, she's just sick! If you accuse her of taking drugs again, believe it or not, I'll beat you!"
As the young man spoke, he clenched his fist and was about to swing at Elder Madam Yu, when a slender hand suddenly grabbed his wrist.
Following the slender hand, he saw a beautiful girl.
"Who are you?! Get lost!"
The young man raised his other fist. Yu He pressed on the acupoint on his wrist. With a slight force, the young man immediately felt his hand go numb and weak, as if it were disabled.
Yu He flung his hand away and looked at the patient being held down by Qiao Wei, mumbling "Give me medicine, give me medicine" with a pale face, vacant eyes, and severe dark circles. She indeed looked like someone suffering from withdrawal.
She asked the nurse Xiao Qing beside her, "Did you have an appointment?"
"No," Xiao Qing immediately shook her head.
Yu He understood and looked at the young man with a cold gaze.
The young man felt a bit guilty under her gaze, but he still mustered the courage to say, "Is having an appointment so great? Can't I register on the spot?"
"Are you leaving on your own, or should I have the police escort you out?" Yu He asked calmly.
Upon hearing the word "police," the young man didn't dare to be arrogant anymore. They were being paid to do this, and if it escalated to the police station, it would be troublesome. So, they sheepishly left with the patient.
After the farce ended, the nurses soothed the other patients and resumed seeing them, while the cleaners immediately began tidying the hall.
"Yu He, I don't know what's going on today, but several patients who didn't have appointments, just like the one just now, have come," Qiao Qiao said.
Yu He yawned and sat down in the grand tutor chair. "Mm, don't panic. There will be many more like this coming."