Seeing a patient come in, Qin Jiang perked up right away.
“Hello, are you here to see a doctor?”
After walking into the clinic, the young man first scanned the room.
Then he saw Zou Mali and Liu Yan. He froze on the spot.
It was as if he had never seen such beautiful women in his life. He just stood there, dumbfounded, for a long time, unable to snap out of it.
Seeing his reaction, the viewers in the live chat room found it hilarious.
“What’s up with this kid? Is he mesmerized by the pretty ladies?”
“Sister Liu Yan is indeed gorgeous, but it’s pretty rude for him to stare like that.”
“He’s obviously a naive, inexperienced kid. There are guys like this at my school too. They talk big normally, but the moment they see a beautiful woman, they freeze.”
Zou Mali and Liu Yan both frowned.
As women, they really hated it when men stared at them so directly like that. It made them feel disrespected.
Qin Jiang tapped his finger on the desk to snap the young man out of it.
“Are you here to see a doctor?”
Qin Jiang’s words brought the young man back to reality. He cleared his throat, put on an aloof, cool act, and sat down across from Qin Jiang.
“Yeah, I’m here to see a doctor. I haven’t been sleeping well lately. Probably insomnia. Doc, just give me some medicine.”
“Just insomnia?”
Qin Jiang found this a bit odd.
If it was just insomnia, why not just buy some sleeping pills at a pharmacy, or go to a small clinic? Why come all the way here to his place?
After all, there was a long line of people waiting outside his clinic.
The young man explained, “My insomnia is pretty severe. I can’t fall asleep every night. Sometimes I only get about an hour of sleep a day. And I wake up really easily, too.”
Qin Jiang asked, “How long has this been going on?”
The young man thought for a moment.
“It started at the end of February, so it’s been about a month now.”
Insomnia for a whole month, sleeping only about an hour a day – that is pretty serious.
Qin Jiang took another look at the young man’s face and noticed his dark circles were extremely heavy. This meant he wasn’t lying.
Qin Jiang had the young man register his personal information, then used the internal medical network to look up his past medical records.
The young man’s name was Fang Hao. He was generally healthy, with no underlying conditions.
After Fang Hao finished registering his info, Qin Jiang continued, “Have you been under a lot of academic stress lately?”
Fang Hao scratched his head.
“I’m a vocational college student. I don’t really have any academic stress.”
Hearing this, Qin Jiang nodded. He understood.
Most of the students and teachers at vocational colleges are just coasting along.
As long as students don’t do anything too outrageous and follow school rules, their main goal is usually just dating.
As for final exams, cramming at the last minute is enough to pass because the questions are easy. Some subjects are even open-book.
Even if you fail, to ensure a decent graduation rate, the teachers will often turn a blind eye and give you a hand.
So, in a school like that, there really isn’t any academic pressure.
Qin Jiang then asked, “Have you experienced any recent emotional or mental stress? Like family issues?”
No stress with studies, so it could only be family-related stress.
But then Fang Hao said with a completely indifferent expression, “Nope. My family never interferes with me. I can do whatever I want outside, and they give me a thousand kuai a month for living expenses.”
As he said this, Fang Hao sneaked another glance at Zou Mali and Liu Yan, as if checking their reactions.
Qin Jiang caught this look and felt confused.
Hold on, buddy. You don’t actually think a thousand kuai a month is a lot, do you?
Why does your tone sound like you’re showing off a bit?
“Reach out your hand. Let me take your pulse.”
Since Fang Hao had no stress from studies or daily life, Qin Jiang was having trouble figuring out where the problem was.
Generally speaking, insomnia is caused by endocrine disorders, high mental tension, or emotional fragility.
In Chinese medicine, this is called “restlessness of the heart spirit” (Xin Shen Bu Ning).
If the heart spirit is restless, you can’t sleep well, and your mind races with all sorts of thoughts.
The tricky part is that for these kinds of mental or emotional issues, it’s quite difficult to pinpoint the cause just by taking a pulse.
Sure enough, after taking Fang Hao’s pulse, Qin Jiang found that aside from a bit of excessive liver fire, there didn’t seem to be anything else wrong.
But that’s actually quite normal.
Nighttime is when the liver does its job of soothing qi and detoxifying. If you sleep poorly, your liver won’t be in good shape either.
“So, Doc? Can you tell what’s wrong with me?”
Qin Jiang shook his head.
“It’s still hard to say for sure what your condition is.”
As soon as Qin Jiang finished speaking, Fang Hao curled his lip.
“I specifically came here because I saw online that you were supposed to be really good. I waited in that long line outside, and you can’t even figure out what’s wrong with me?”
Fang Hao’s tone was very rude. The live chat viewers got angry.
“This kid’s kinda cocky, isn’t he? Is he looking down on Dr. Qin?”
“I feel like this guy’s a bit of a show-off. It seems like he’s doing this on purpose, right in front of Zou Mali and Liu Yan.”
“Now that you mention it, I feel it too. This guy’s so pretentious. Like he’s deliberately trying to get attention.”
The netizens’ speculation turned out to be correct.
Fang Hao didn’t seem to care much whether his insomnia could be cured. He directly turned to Zou Mali, who was standing nearby, and said, “Beautiful lady, looks like Dr. Qin can’t cut it. Why don’t you take a look at me?”
Everyone around felt like Fang Hao was seriously off.
His social intelligence was just way too low.
Who talks about a doctor like that right to their face?
But Fang Hao didn’t see anything wrong with his way of speaking. Instead, he flashed what he thought was a charming smile and continued trying to chat up Zou Mali.
“I think my insomnia might be related to emotional or relationship issues. I often find myself alone late at night thinking about philosophical questions. Hey beautiful, are you into philosophy? Do you know what the three ultimate philosophical questions are?”
Fang Hao’s little speech completely threw Qin Jiang off.
Fang Hao even gave Qin Jiang the strange feeling that this wasn’t a Chinese medicine clinic, but some kind of bar.
And Fang Hao was just a guy who’d come to the bar specifically to pick up women.
As for a guy like Fang Hao, Zou Mali was naturally not interested.
She said flatly, “I’m just an assistant doctor. My skills aren’t as good as Dr. Qin’s. If you want treatment, get it. If not, you can leave now.”
Seeing Zou Mali’s response, the netizens were overjoyed.
This Zou Mali, she really had the same kind of straightforward attitude as Qin Jiang.
Being so clearly rejected by Zou Mali, Fang Hao didn’t seem embarrassed at all. Instead, he narcissistically remarked,
“Women nowadays… they all say one thing but mean another.”
The moment Fang Hao said that, Qin Jiang suddenly had a clue.
“I think I know what’s wrong with you.”
