The mother and daughter started chasing each other around inside the traditional Chinese medicine clinic.
Gao Lan was clearly Zhao Zhuo’s biological mother—she was really hitting hard.
Zhao Zhuo took several stinging slaps and immediately started begging for mercy.
Seeing Zhao Zhuo’s pale face, Gao Lan couldn’t bear to keep hitting her anymore.
She directly threatened Zhao Zhuo, saying, “Look at yourself right now—what do you even look like!”
“Get back over there and sit down properly, and let Dr. Qin take a good look at you!”
Zhao Zhuo held her arm where she’d been hit and obediently sat back down.
She glanced at Qin Jiang resentfully.
If Qin Jiang hadn’t asked her that question, she wouldn’t have been beaten so badly.
Gao Lan came over to Qin Jiang’s side and quietly asked with some embarrassment, “Dr. Qin, can you do examinations here?”
Qin Jiang looked at her with a puzzled expression.
“What kind of examination?”
Gao Lan said awkwardly, “You know, that examination—the kind that checks whether she’s still a girl.”
Qin Jiang understood immediately upon hearing this.
Gao Lan had really worn herself out worrying about Zhao Zhuo.
She never expected that her daughter would get a boyfriend while still in school.
And now, for the sake of that so-called boyfriend, she’d made herself look like this. Who knew whether she and Zhou Hao had done anything inappropriate?
Qin Jiang said directly, “You can rest assured about that—your daughter hasn’t taken that step yet.”
Gao Lan’s eyes widened immediately upon hearing this.
“You didn’t even do an examination—how do you know?”
Qin Jiang said calmly, “I figured it out from her pulse.”
Zhao Zhuo couldn’t stand listening anymore either, and said with a grievance, “Mom, stop asking. Zhou Hao and I really don’t have anything going on. There’s no way we’d do that kind of thing.”
Gao Lan glared at her fiercely.
“No way? You also told me before that you’d study hard and that there was no way you’d date. And what happened?”
Although Gao Lan was complaining, she still trusted Qin Jiang.
“Dr. Qin, about my daughter’s anemia—do you think it can be cured?”
Qin Jiang nodded and said, “Didn’t I already say? I need to know the cause of your daughter’s anemia first before I can prescribe the right treatment.”
Qin Jiang looked at Zhao Zhuo and asked, “Before you got a boyfriend, your periods and everything were normal, right?”
Zhao Zhuo nodded.
“Yeah, everything was normal.”
Qin Jiang said:
“That means your anemia has a lot to do with your boyfriend.”
“Think carefully again—did your boyfriend do something to you, or did you do something to yourself?”
Zhao Zhuo thought for a moment, then said hesitantly, “Does dieting count?”
Zhao Zhuo said quietly, “My boyfriend used to complain that I was too fat. He said he couldn’t even lift me up when he tried to hug me, so he told me to go on a diet.”
Hearing Zhao Zhuo say this, the viewers in the live stream immediately became agitated.
“Is this girl joking? She’s calling herself fat with a body like that?”
“She looks like she’s not even ninety jin. If she needs to diet, how are other women supposed to live?”
“There’s so much of this kind of trend these days—dieting at the drop of a hat, getting skinny as a bamboo pole. I don’t know what’s supposed to be attractive about that.”
Gao Lan said with frustration, “He told you to diet and you just dieted? Are you a pig? Do you have no mind of your own?”
Qin Jiang signaled Gao Lan to control her emotions, then asked, “So how did you diet? How many meals a day?”
Zhao Zhuo said quietly, “Just one meal a day—just breakfast. A glass of milk, a banana, and an egg.”
Qin Jiang was stunned for a moment.
“That’s it?”
Zhao Zhuo nodded.
“Sometimes when I really couldn’t stand the hunger anymore, I’d go drink some plain water. That made my stomach feel a bit better.”
Now even Qin Jiang was quite impressed by her.
“You survived on just that for three months?”
At this point, Qin Jiang didn’t know whether to say that love really has magic power, or something else entirely.
Hunger is one of the hardest feelings for humans to endure.
Because when people are hungry, they’ll go find something to eat—that’s instinct.
But Zhao Zhuo, for the sake of so-called love, for the sake of getting thin, was able to overcome that instinct.
How could Qin Jiang not be surprised?
After finding the cause of the illness, Qin Jiang pointed to the QR code on the table and said, “Alright, I know how to treat this illness now. Scan the code and pay—three thousand one hundred total.”
Gao Lan didn’t hesitate and directly took out her phone to scan and pay.
Ding.
[Detected that the host spoke frankly to the patient about her hidden illness, greatly helping the patient. Mission complete.]
[Congratulations, host, for obtaining reward: Danzhi Xiaoyao Pill.]
After telling Zhao Zhuo to wait there for a moment, Qin Jiang walked into the pharmacy and took out forty pills, putting them into a small bottle.
Qin Jiang handed the small bottle to Gao Lan and said, “This is the Huomai Shengxue Pill, for replenishing blood.”
“One pill in the morning and one in the evening. After taking them continuously for twenty days, her condition should improve.”
“Of course, the most important thing is to stop dieting. Eating normally is more important than anything.”
“Anemia—this kind of illness—is simple if you think about it simply, but troublesome if you let it drag on. If it continues without being properly treated, it will still affect her life.”
Gao Lan nodded repeatedly upon hearing this and expressed her thanks.
“Alright, Dr. Qin. Don’t worry—I’ll definitely keep a close eye on this child.”
After putting away the medicine, Gao Lan glared at Zhao Zhuo.
“What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and get moving. I’ll deal with you when we get home!”
Watching the two of them leave, Liu Yan spoke up, “Kids these days really do mature too early. Dieting for the sake of so-called love.”
“I could never do it—eating only that little bit every day. I feel like I’d definitely pass out.”
Qin Jiang said with a smile, “Kids these days are even more outrageous than you’d imagine. Everyone knows that giving birth carries great risks, right?”
“But there are plenty of clueless girls who go to the bathroom and just pop out a baby, like it’s as easy as using the toilet. They don’t even need a doctor or nurse’s help.”
Every time Qin Jiang saw news like this, he actually felt the most emotional about it.
He could only say that people’s ways of thinking are different, and their physiques are different too.
Some people giving birth feel like they’ve lost half their life, but some people give birth one day and can walk around the next day as if nothing happened.
Qin Jiang stood up to stretch and casually swapped out his tea.
Just then, a man and a woman walked in from outside the clinic.
The man’s nose was bruised and his face was swollen—he looked like he’d been beaten by someone.
“Doctor, can we get seen now?”
Qin Jiang quickly told the man to sit down.
“You’re here for treatment, right? Have a seat first. I’ll go get you some medicine.”
The man waved his hand and pointed at the woman beside him.
“It’s not for me—it’s for my wife. I keep feeling like something’s wrong with her, but she won’t admit it and won’t go to the hospital for a checkup.”
Just as the man finished speaking, the woman grabbed his finger.
“Talk if you want to talk—why are you pointing at me! You don’t want your finger anymore?”
