But Yu Tian never expected that just after she had sworn to stay away from men and planned to edit her materials properly to make a special program, she would have to go to the First Affiliated Hospital to find Yan Ming again because of a phone call from Ren Yali.

Ren Yali had suddenly gone blind.

When Yu Tian first received Ren Yali’s call, she didn’t believe it. She suspected that Ren Yali was trying to find a roundabout way through her to find an excuse to continue approaching Qi Sihao.

However, when she saw Ren Yali in person, this suspicion was completely dispelled.

Ren Yali could no longer walk independently at all, being supported by her mother the entire time.

Yu Tian tried waving her fingers in front of Ren Yali’s eyes several times, but Ren Yali’s eyes showed confusion, and she couldn’t focus. She really couldn’t see anything at all, not even light perception. When Yu Tian inquired, she learned that Ren Yali’s eyes hadn’t suffered any external injury, nor had she taken any medication recently.

About this, Ren Yali was about to cry from anxiety: “I don’t know what’s wrong either. I woke up one morning and suddenly couldn’t see. My mom has already taken me to several private hospitals, I’ve taken quite a lot of medicine, and we’ve done all the tests we could, but just can’t find what’s wrong.”

“Yu Tian, isn’t your brother an ophthalmology attending physician? And at the First Affiliated Hospital too, could you ask him to take a look at me?”

Before Ren Yali could finish speaking, her mother interrupted her: “We looked at the First Affiliated Hospital’s ophthalmology expert appointment platform online, but all the expert appointments have a two-week wait if booked normally. But our Yali has a gala to host next week, which we finally managed to get as a resource. This will be Yali’s first appearance on stage, and Yali is looking forward to it. Our eyes must recover before the gala, we really can’t wait any longer!”

Ren Yali’s mother was very anxious, almost desperately seeking medical help: “You’re Yu Tian, right? Yali said you’re her friend. Your brother works in ophthalmology at the First Affiliated Hospital, could you help us get seen first? Our Yali has been crying for several days to be able to perform on stage successfully, isn’t that right, Yali?”

Ren Yali’s eyes were red-rimmed. When called by her mother, she paused before nodding and showing a hurt expression.

Although Yu Tian wasn’t familiar with Ren Yali at all, her personality couldn’t ignore someone seeking help at her doorstep.

“I’ll try. My brother isn’t seeing outpatients today; he’s in his office. If he’s not in a meeting and has time, I’ll take you to his office to have a look.”

After Yu Tian finished speaking, she reluctantly called Yan Ming under Ren Yali’s mother’s thousand thanks and earnest gaze.

“Brother Yan Ming, this is Yu Tian. Are you free right now?”

Yu Tian hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief. Although Yan Ming was as cold as always, he was free and agreed to Yu Tian’s request to bring a friend for an examination.

Without wasting even a minute, Yu Tian rushed to Yan Ming’s office with Ren Yali and her mother.

When Yan Ming received Yu Tian’s call, he wasn’t surprised, even feeling some relief like the other shoe had finally dropped.

Since returning home last night, Yu Tian hadn’t contacted him yet.

In the past, this would have been impossible.

Since they’d known each other, Yu Tian’s advances toward him had always been very direct. She contacted Yan Ming almost every day, sometimes sending medical-related public account articles, sometimes asking professional medical questions, and sometimes curious about surgical operation details. Each time, it looked like an eager medical student, but Yan Ming knew she was mostly just looking for reasonable excuses to maintain her presence.

However, since crying last night, perhaps somewhat discouraged, she hadn’t contacted him until now.

Yan Ming suspected this was Yu Tian’s trap, but after continuous daily contact, Yan Ming seemed to have developed a conditioned reflex, frequently checking his phone since starting work.

Yu Tian had found a good excuse today, saying her friend’s eyes had suddenly gone blind.

When she brought people over, Yan Ming’s understanding deepened.

This wasn’t even really a “friend”—if he remembered correctly, this girl was exactly the “love rival” who had previously failed in pursuing Qi Sihao and had turned her anger and hostility toward Yu Tian.

To find someone with eye problems as a reasonable excuse to see him, Yu Tian had apparently gone to great lengths.

But facing a patient, Yan Ming quickly stopped thinking about other things and focused on giving the other party a simple preliminary examination.

The patient was named Ren Yali, looked very young. The examinations done at other hospitals had been very thorough, even including a head CT, showing no organic lesions.

“All the test results show no problems.” Ren Yali’s mother was very anxious, also showing doubt on her face, “Doctor, could you help introduce a senior expert?”

This showed some reservations about Yan Ming’s youth.

After Ren Yali’s mother finished speaking, she probably felt somewhat embarrassed and immediately explained: “It’s mainly because we’re in a hurry. We have a hosting gig next week, and Yali has put a lot of effort into this, practicing every single day. She wants to go on stage…”

Yan Ming finished looking through all the test results, obviously reaching the same conclusion as doctors at other hospitals.

Facing Ren Yali’s mother’s doubt and distrust, he showed no impatience or displeasure, but rather than communicating with Ren Yali’s mother, he directly turned his gaze to Ren Yali, who was silently standing aside, looking very distressed.

“You started being unable to see from the morning the day before yesterday, right?”

Ren Yali couldn’t see, so she could only nod following the sound.

“You’re looking forward to participating in next week’s hosting, right?”

Ren Yali paused, clearly showing anxiety and irritation on her face. She bit her lip: “Yes.”

Yan Ming smiled slightly, his tone gentle, like flowing water nourishing the heart, neither abrupt nor aggressive, completely without his usual coldness and unapproachability, as patient as if speaking to a child.

He began asking Ren Yali other questions, but they seemed unrelated to her eyes, more like casual conversation.

Ren Yali was somewhat nervous at first, but Yan Ming’s questions were very natural and not aggressive, like a gentle spring breeze that made people inexplicably intoxicated and give up resistance.

Soon, after a few minutes, Ren Yali had obviously relaxed, and her answers to Yan Ming became more varied and lively.

Yu Tian watched as Yan Ming quickly built rapport with Ren Yali within five minutes. A medical consultation became like a casual chat, and the two started talking and laughing together.

Although Yan Ming was always more patient with patients, Yu Tian had never seen him so proactively chat with a patient and show curiosity about their private life.

So was he attracted to Ren Yali?

Yu Tian pressed her lips together, carefully observing Ren Yali. She was quite pretty. Her originally spoiled temperament, because she had lost the light in her eyes, now carried a vulnerability and pitifulness that neutralized into an endearing helplessness that wasn’t annoying, and was indeed quite attractive.

But…

She had brought Ren Yali here to see about her eyes!

Not to set up a blind date for Yan Ming!

How was this turning into Ren Yali chatting with him!

Yu Tian didn’t know why, but she felt somewhat angry.

Reason told her to trust Yan Ming, he was a very professional ophthalmologist, but emotionally, Yu Tian felt somewhat awkward and uncomfortable. Although it was normal for doctors and patients to chat casually, and Ren Yali was brought by her, Yu Tian still hoped Yan Ming would maintain his original business-like attitude.

Shouldn’t doctors treat all patients equally?

But Yan Ming didn’t receive Yu Tian’s reproachful gaze. He was looking gently at Ren Yali: “I believe if you could host that gala, the effect would be very good, because you have a very pleasant voice.”

Upon hearing this, Ren Yali’s face turned slightly red: “Really… is that so…”

Yu Tian knew Yan Ming was charming, but she hadn’t expected that even without vision, unable to assault Ren Yali with his face, Ren Yali would still obediently show obvious shyness and bashfulness in front of Yan Ming.

Yu Tian didn’t know why, but her heart felt irritated and swollen with anger, and she didn’t know what was wrong; she was just very angry.

Perhaps it was because Yan Ming was introduced by her, so she felt frustrated that Yan Ming hadn’t been able to diagnose Ren Yali’s condition yet.

Someone equally frustrated as her was Ren Yali’s mother: “Doctor! I just want to ask if you can treat my daughter’s eyes! You also know her voice is pleasant, but if you can’t treat her here, we still need to rush to other places for treatment! That way we won’t delay going on stage!”

When questioned like this, Yan Ming’s tone remained composed.

“It can be treated.”

He said concisely, glancing at Ren Yali’s mother: “I can cure her, but for next week’s hosting, you must promise me not to let her participate.”

Ren Yali’s mother was stunned from the ecstasy of hearing it could be cured: “Why?!”

“Because even after her eyes are cured, in the short term, they can’t be overstimulated by light. She should be exposed to natural light as much as possible. The lighting effects on stage would be a great burden on her eyes.”

Ren Yali’s mother indeed hesitated: “But this hosting opportunity…”

“Is your daughter’s eyes more important than the stage?”

Yan Ming paused, saying calmly, “If you insist on letting her participate in hosting, then it’s better not to treat her today, because there’s a high probability that if I cure her now, after she goes hosting next week, her eyes might become blind again.”

There was such a thing?

Although Ren Yali’s mother was somewhat skeptical, she understood which was more important: “Fine! As long as you can cure her! Not hosting is fine! Missing one hosting gig is nothing, but she can’t lose her sight, Yali is still so young!”

“Good, then just taking some medicine will do. Wait a moment while I get it.”

After Yan Ming finished speaking, he turned and went into the small room behind him. A moment later, he came out with a small medicine bottle, poured out three pills, poured a cup of water, and handed them to Ren Yali: “Just take these. They work very quickly, you should be able to see in a moment.”

Ren Yali’s mother was very hesitant, but they had already seen almost all the famous ophthalmologists in Rong City with Ren Yali, and even tried folk remedies from their hometown, but Ren Yali’s eyes showed no improvement. Since this young doctor was so confident he could cure her, trying wouldn’t hurt.

Thus, with Ren Yali’s mother’s help, Ren Yali swallowed the pills Yan Ming gave her.

And the incredible happened just like that.

Less than fifteen minutes after taking the pills, Ren Yali cried out in surprise: “I can see! I can see again!”

Ren Yali’s mother originally hadn’t held much hope, but seeing this, she couldn’t help rushing forward and waving her fingers in front of Ren Yali to test.

The miracle happened just like that. The eyes that originally had no light perception directly recovered after taking medicine right before their eyes!

Not only was Ren Yali’s mother incredulous, but even Yu Tian began to doubt modern medicine.

What kind of miracle drug was this?

Just as she was about to lean forward to grab the medicine bottle, Yan Ming quickly stuffed the medicine into his pocket.

“You can go to the outpatient clinic and register for a regular appointment to get a vision test. If nothing unexpected happens, your vision has already returned to its original level.”

“Also, her eye condition cannot bear any pressure. Psychological pressure will ultimately affect physical health. If you don’t want her eyes to go blind again, you can’t put too much pressure on her in the future. Let her decide for herself whether she wants to do many things, don’t always make decisions for your child. Auntie, can you do this?”

Ren Yali’s mother now had no hesitation whatsoever, nodding repeatedly: “I understand, I understand, thank you, doctor!”

She now felt shaken, realizing that Ren Yali’s physical health was more important than anything, that compared to health, any fame and glory were just passing clouds.

After Yan Ming finished speaking, he glanced at Ren Yali’s mother again: “Auntie, come with me for a moment. I’ll help you add a regular outpatient appointment, then explain what medicine I just gave your daughter, what care points to pay attention to for her eyes afterward, and there’s an eye drop that can be used together. Our pharmacy doesn’t have it; you can buy it directly from outside pharmacies. I’ll write down the name for you.”

Ren Yali’s mother no longer dared to criticize Yan Ming’s age and followed along, almost bowing and scraping: “Okay, okay, thank you, doctor!”

Thus, Yan Ming left with Ren Yali’s mother, leaving only Ren Yali and Yu Tian in the office.

After regaining her sight, Ren Yali had secretly observed Yan Ming several times. Now that Yan Ming wasn’t present, the residual effects were still working on Ren Yali.

She looked at Yu Tian with a shy yet grateful expression: “Yu Tian, I’m sorry about what happened before. Thank you so much, I didn’t expect your brother to be such a good person.”

“And handsome!” Ren Yali added quietly, “And gentle too, obviously so young but with such strong professional abilities…”

Praise kept flowing from Ren Yali’s mouth. She was enthusiastically praising Yan Ming, and logically, Yu Tian should have felt proud, but this time, Yu Tian couldn’t be happy.

Her feelings were complex, like her treasure was being coveted by someone.

Like some people who follow stars, what they like most is when their idol is still unknown, having that careful secret joy and uniqueness of harboring a hidden gem. But once the originally unknown idol suddenly becomes popular with thousands of followers and easily gains fervent love, these people no longer love that idol as much.

Because many preferences require uniqueness and secrecy.

Yu Tian suspected her mentality was consistent with fans.

She felt somewhat uncomfortable, but couldn’t find a reason for her discomfort.

Yan Ming’s professional excellence and superior appearance were unquestionable, anyone could see it, and many had always pursued Yan Ming. Ren Yali being attracted to him was completely normal, but…

But Yan Ming was too gentle with Ren Yali. He wasn’t even that gentle with her, this potential future step-sister.

Although currently he wasn’t legally a proper brother and they had no blood relation, Yu Tian still felt a sense of loss as if someone important to her was being taken away.

Soon, Ren Yali’s mother returned, her eyes somewhat red but her tone very grateful. After thanking Yan Ming profusely again, she took Ren Yali to the outpatient clinic for a vision test.

Only Yan Ming and Yu Tian remained in the office.

“What medicine was that just now, so miraculous?”

Yu Tian pretended to ask naturally: “But since you could already see her condition and knew what medicine to give, and the medicine was so miraculous, taking a few pills immediately restored her vision, why didn’t you take it out earlier?”

“After all, doctors are quite busy too, and you chatted with Ren Yali for so long, it was also quite time-consuming for you. And Ren Yali’s mother was obviously impatient, I saw she was about to get angry just now, probably too anxious from waiting too long.”

“But I just discovered you’re quite talkative, it seems like it depends on the person.”

After Yu Tian finished this rapid-fire speech, she immediately regretted it, because only after saying it did she realize these words were quite sarcastic.

But she had no standing to be sarcastic.

Especially since Yan Ming wasn’t seeing outpatients today, and Ren Yali was brought by her to bother him.

If she were questioned like this, she definitely wouldn’t want to pay any attention to the other person.

Yan Ming definitely wouldn’t bother replying to her.

Yu Tian felt somewhat embarrassed, her face burning. Just as she was about to change the subject and then solemnly thank Yan Ming, she heard Yan Ming begin to explain.

“Chatting was just to understand her condition.”

His voice was calm and flat: “What I gave her wasn’t any miracle drug, just comprehensive vitamins.” He raised an eyebrow at Yu Tian, “You’re also a medical student, where in the world is there medicine that works this fast?”

“Being a doctor also requires paying attention to patients’ micro-expressions. From her test results, her eyes have no organic problems, and the brain CT shows no lesions, so how could she be blind? We have to consider psychological factors.”

“Ren Yali’s mother is indeed very anxious, hoping her daughter will get better quickly to host next week, but didn’t you notice? Whenever next week’s stage hosting was mentioned, Ren Yali would unconsciously bite her lips and fidget with her fingers, in a very neurotic, nervous state. Although both she and her mother were nervous, if you distinguish carefully, it’s not the same kind.”

Yu Tian was somewhat surprised: “So…”

“Ren Yali’s mother is nervous, hoping she’ll get better quickly and not miss the hosting opportunity, while Ren Yali is nervous, fearing that if cured, she’ll have to go on stage.”

Yan Ming glanced at Yu Tian: “So I later chatted about her life and found it was exactly as I thought. Her mother is usually strict with her; she very much wants to meet her mother’s requirements, but those expectations put too much pressure on her. She doesn’t want to become the center of attention that much; she just wants to be an ordinary, happy girl. But her mother’s high demands give her a great psychological burden and make it impossible for her to easily accept failure.”

“So I tentatively said that even if cured, she couldn’t go on stage to host, and indeed found her expression greatly relaxed, looking like she was relieved.”

“Because she’s afraid of not doing well hosting on stage, afraid of failure, the pressure was too great, causing blindness.”

Yan Ming organized the documents on his desk: “The medical term for her problem is hysterical amaurosis, a complete visual disorder caused by psychological factors. I’ve encountered this in outpatient clinics before. It’s caused by some self-suggestion. Actually, in her heart, Ren Yali doesn’t want to participate in next week’s stage hosting, as it puts too much pressure on her.”

Yan Ming said this while glancing at Yu Tian, then looking away: “So I chat about everyday things with her to relax her guard and better confirm her problem, prescribing the right treatment.”

“This situation mostly occurs with underage children, because they have no voice or ability to resist their adult parents. Many children’s parents even use the banner of ‘for the child’s good,’ never listening to their children’s true voices, but wishfully forcing their children to do unwilling things with a ‘for your own good’ attitude, thinking it’s for the children’s benefit. These parents are the source of the greatest pain for their children.”

“When long-term inner displeasure and pressure can’t be expressed, and they’re powerless to resist, unable to control their own lives, some children develop various problems—some suddenly can’t see, some suddenly can’t hear…”

“This type of condition is more suitable for psychiatry, but many patients or patient families don’t realize the cause and seek help from ophthalmology. But as long as we roughly determine the patient’s cause, sometimes psychological suggestion from an ophthalmologist might have better, more natural effects, so I tried it.”

Yan Ming’s voice continued smoothly: “When treating this type of patient, besides giving psychological suggestions, we also take the opportunity to use the doctor’s authority to advise and enlighten the parents, trying to improve these patients’ family living environments to fundamentally solve the problem. So we need to understand their living patterns and core issues even more.”

Yu Tian’s mood suddenly felt like a roller coaster. She became light and airy, the uncomfortable emotions swept away, and everything looked pleasing again.

She felt somewhat self-reproachful, but not too ashamed, because her heart was now filled more with joy and relief.

It seemed Yan Ming was still responsible. How could she have misjudged him?

But not suitable as a boyfriend. Yu Tian put herself in that position—if she were Yan Ming’s girlfriend and saw this scene, her mentality would probably explode.

Even knowing he was working and treating Ren Yali from a doctor-patient perspective, seeing Yan Ming so gently and carefully inquiring about the other person, Yu Tian felt that, as a girlfriend, she still couldn’t help but be angry and jealous.

She secretly glanced at Yan Ming a couple of times. His profile was still perfectly superior. Now that he was no longer speaking or smiling, he carried an aloof, unapproachable quality, but the more this was the case, the more it seemed to easily provoke others’ possessiveness.

To be fair, even as a fellow medical student who should better understand colleagues, if it were Yu Tian, she probably wouldn’t do much better than ordinary girls. It seemed that facing a man like Yan Ming, one easily became jealous and irrational, unable to be so empathetically understanding.

So the best approach was still to stay away from people like Yan Ming, absolutely never to date such a person.

Yu Tian’s mind was full of various thoughts, sometimes stealing glances at Yan Ming, sometimes lowering her head and looking away.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

Yan Ming was looking down, but seemed to control everything. He didn’t even lift his eyelids, his tone chilly: “If I remember correctly, you originally wanted to match me with her, right?”

“Since you’re so generous, if I chat a bit more with her, even if it’s not a doctor-patient relationship, wouldn’t that align with your expectations at the time?”

Yan Ming took a sip of water and glanced at Yu Tian: “So unreliable with your words.”

For some reason, Yu Tian’s face turned completely red from this glance.

She wanted to defend herself, but before the words came out, Ren Yali and her mother returned to the office. Sure enough, as Yan Ming had said, after testing her vision at the outpatient clinic, Ren Yali’s eyes had completely recovered to their previous vision with no problems.

Ren Yali’s mother naturally gave another round of thanks, but after finishing, she nudged Ren Yali with her elbow. Ren Yali bit her lip, took out her phone, and somewhat shyly approached.

“Brother Yan Ming, could I add you on WeChat? If there are any issues with my eyes later, I was thinking I could ask you…”

Yu Tian had just wanted to defend herself as being generous and keeping her word, but now staring at Ren Yali, she was only glad she hadn’t spoken just now, because she probably would have broken her word anyway.

So angry! How dare she call him Brother Yan Ming! That’s what only she could call him!

How was Yan Ming Ren Yali’s brother?

Besides, didn’t Ren Yali like Qi Sihao? How could she switch sides so easily? This showed she couldn’t even be considered a loyal person!

But Yu Tian knew she couldn’t willfully stop anything. She could only silently repeat in her mind while glaring at Ren Yali, showing ten thousand percent support for Qi Sihao stealing Gao Mei away.

Look, Yan Ming was about to add someone’s WeChat again. If he continued like this day after day, whoever became his girlfriend would be full just from drinking vinegar. Indeed, he wasn’t as good as Qi Sihao.

But just when Yu Tian thought Yan Ming would take out his phone, what she heard was Yan Ming’s refusal—

“I won’t add your WeChat.”

His face no longer showed the gentleness and warmth from when treating Ren Yali, becoming cold and distant like a stranger.

“Your eyes should have no problems going forward. There’s no need to book my expert appointments. If there’s anything, just book a regular appointment.”

He said tactfully, “Normally I shouldn’t see patients outside of clinic hours, but because you’re Yu Tian’s friend, this won’t happen again.”

“Also, just call me Dr. Yan from now on.”

Yan Ming said this while glancing at Yu Tian. He didn’t say anything to Yu Tian, but his gaze conveyed, “Are you satisfied now?”

Yu Tian pressed her lips together, pretending not to care and that it had nothing to do with her, but the corners of her mouth had already unconsciously lifted slightly.

She felt that Yan Ming seemed to be somewhat better than Qi Sihao after all.