Yu Tian had the most wonderful sleep of her life.

However, she had some very bizarre dreams. She still remembered Yan Ming bidding for the chance to take her for a drive, then the two of them absurdly escaping from school. She had taken him to her “secret base” behind the bar street, and then what happened?

Yu Tian’s memory became somewhat confused here. She couldn’t remember the process at all, but judging from the results, Yan Ming had safely sent her home anyway.

Perhaps dragging Yan Ming to escape from school was rebellious enough that Yu Tian also had many incomprehensible dreams—Yan Ming carrying her on his back, her arguing with Yan Ming to the point where traffic police suspected Yan Ming was a criminal, and… and even her kissing Yan Ming?

Yu Tian’s face felt a bit hot, feeling ashamed of her dream’s excessive imagination.

How could she do such a thing to Yan Ming!

Besides, even in dreams, she couldn’t think of something more ambitious.

Even if she were to do such a thing to Yan Ming, why would Yu Tian have to be the one taking the initiative to kiss him?

Yu Tian was shocked by her dream’s lack of principles, but fortunately, no one could know what nonsense her mind had conjured up after getting drunk.

After washing up and tidying her appearance, walking on the street, no matter how absurd last night’s dreams were, no one could know.

This made Yu Tian feel safe.

She didn’t dare think about those strange dreams. She and Yan Ming couldn’t even be considered to have any relationship, so how could she have such dreams?

It was almost like committing a crime.

But fortunately, others didn’t know.

Yu Tian regained her confidence. She checked the time—it was nearly noon. She had arranged to meet Qi Sihao during lunch break to continue filming an educational video, so she immediately rushed to the hospital.

Qi Sihao was already waiting at the agreed restaurant. Seeing Yu Tian, he pointed at his watch somewhat accusingly: “Do you know how valuable my time is?”

However, despite saying this, Qi Sihao still cooperated very well in completing the educational video filming.

After finishing their business, the two chatted while eating.

“Was Yan Ming also your accomplice yesterday? You shouldn’t have asked him for help. He isn’t as clever as I am. The bidding ended up failing, but later, where did you two disappear to?”

“We both just happened to have something urgent to deal with…”

Qi Sihao didn’t pay attention to Yu Tian’s evasive response. His attention was completely captured by something else.

He lowered his voice and winked conspiratorially: “Let me tell you some gossip—our hospital has produced a shocking scumbag.”

Yu Tian was somewhat surprised: “Hm?”

“A friend of mine’s girlfriend’s cousin is a traffic police officer. She was on duty last night and encountered a scumbag doctor from our First Affiliated Hospital. Supposedly very handsome, but proportionally as scummy as he is good-looking! Stringing along some girl, refusing to establish a relationship, scummily claiming she was just a ‘sister.'”

“This beautiful girl was drowning her sorrows in alcohol for him, not knowing how much she drank, but still couldn’t get his recognition. This scumbag still refused to admit it, insisting she was just a sister, even saying things like ‘you can only have one girlfriend, but you can have countless sisters.’ How can he even say such things? It completely raises the ceiling for scumbag behavior.”

Yu Tian didn’t realize anything at first, but the more she listened, the more familiar it sounded.

“Finally, after various interrogations, he was forced to admit she was his girlfriend, still looking like he was suffering great injustice…”

As Qi Sihao continued his account, Yu Tian had an increasingly ominous feeling.

If these things weren’t part of her dreams, then…

Others have dream-come-true moments, but Yu Tian was experiencing nightmare-come-true.

As Qi Sihao supplemented more details, Yu Tian began sweating and avoiding eye contact.

Qi Sihao didn’t suspect anything. At this point, he said indignantly: “My friend’s girlfriend’s cousin won’t tell us clearly, saying something about privacy not being disclosed, refusing to say what that scumbag’s name is. But this incident was also reported by other bystanders on Weibo, causing all the handsome men in our First Affiliated Hospital to be suspected. As a particularly handsome representative, I’m naturally the prime target, suffering completely inexplicable reputation damage.”

Yu Tian felt somewhat nervous but appeared quite composed on the surface, muttering: “The most handsome at First Affiliated Hospital wouldn’t be your turn anyway. How come no one suspects Yan Ming…”

“Who would suspect Yan Ming! He looks like, apart from work, it’s just work. At school, he seems like that unsmiling model student who would help the disciplinary director catch rule violations. At the hospital, he’s that elite, aloof doctor—a paragon of male virtue at first glance. Women don’t even dare misbehave in front of him. Who would dare date him?”

Qi Sihao was very certain: “Yan Ming would never appear near the bar street in the middle of the night, let alone drive around with some drunk woman. Does that fit Yan Ming’s character? He’s so busy—if he had that time, wouldn’t he just go home and sleep? From my observations, he loves sleeping! He spends almost all his free time sleeping!”

“That’s not necessarily true…”

“How is it not necessarily? Do you understand him better or do I? Have you spent more time with him or have I? Do you work with him every day or do I?” Qi Sihao couldn’t help but purse his lips at this point. “So many people chase after him—female doctors, female nurses, female patients, female patient family members—have you seen him pay attention to any of them?”

“Since it’s not Yan Ming, excluding him, the most handsome man in our hospital would be me. I don’t know which despicable man caused me to suffer this injustice, and now I have to find a way to clarify things with Gao Meicheng…”

Yu Tian had no mind to care about Qi Sihao’s reputation anymore. Her head was full of what she had thought were “dreams” from last night.

What had she done!

Yu Tian’s face was red with embarrassment.

She had kissed Yan Ming! Kissed Yan Ming! Kissed Yan Ming!

Yu Tian felt she’d better not face Yan Ming for a while, because this was extremely embarrassing.

Although she was drunk, Yan Ming wasn’t! Even if she could numb herself into forgetting her drunken nonsense and inappropriate behavior, Yan Ming wouldn’t have amnesia—medical students have excellent memories.

Yu Tian was simply speechless about this.

But the more you don’t want something to happen, the more likely it is to happen.

Just as Yu Tian was eating with Qi Sihao, the restaurant door was pushed open, and Yan Ming walked in alone.

Qi Sihao also saw Yan Ming and was about to stand up and wave him over to sit together, but his hand was slapped down by Yu Tian using the menu like swatting a fly.

Facing Qi Sihao’s puzzled look, Yu Tian said seriously: “Our table isn’t big enough, there’s no room.”

As she spoke, Yu Tian quickly put on her sun hat and sunglasses, also hunching her neck, as if trying desperately to reduce her presence.

Qi Sihao looked at the large round table that was still half empty and Yu Tian’s suddenly bizarre outfit, about to say something, when Yan Ming had already found an empty table and sat down.

Just as Yu Tian was thinking of how to make excuses to Qi Sihao, the restaurant door was pushed open again. An old woman with a five or six-year-old child and several adults crowded in. Without waiting for the waitstaff to guide them to seats, this large family headed straight for Yan Ming, sitting by the window, shouting at the top of their lungs—

“Everyone, please help us seek justice! My grandson’s eyes were ruined by this quack doctor! Such a good child! When he was born, both eyes were perfectly fine. Then he developed a small growth, and the doctor removed it. This wasn’t even a major surgery—we asked other experts, and they all said our child’s condition should recover to normal after surgery, at most some astigmatism later. But now? Now the child’s left eye, which had undergone surgery, can’t see at all!”

The old woman had an extraordinarily loud voice, crying and wailing dramatically. Perhaps thinking the commotion wasn’t big enough, she sat down on the floor and started pounding it while howling: “Everyone judge for yourselves! Such a good child—when he didn’t have surgery, at least both eyes could see. But this small surgery was botched by this doctor, blinding the child!”

Behind the old woman stood the child, trembling. He hadn’t experienced such scenes before, appearing somewhat cowering and afraid. If you didn’t look carefully, it was fine, but upon closer inspection, Yu Tian also noticed that the child’s left eye was indeed obviously unable to see.

The child didn’t know how to cooperate with the adults’ troublemaking, but several adult relatives behind the old woman played both good cop and bad cop. Some vented by cursing Yan Ming, others tried to force the responsibility for harming the child onto Yan Ming. In any case, this group lacked character. Seeing that Yan Ming ignored them and didn’t respond, their language became increasingly crude. A middle-aged man even pointed at Yan Ming’s nose and cursed, using language so vulgar it was shocking. The scene was chaotic.

Qi Sihao frowned, obviously knowing the situation, and cursed under his breath: “How are these people still coming? Will this never end?! After making trouble at the hospital, they’re following Yan Ming to make trouble outside! This is too much!”

Yu Tian couldn’t help but frown: “What’s going on?”

Qi Sihao said angrily, “I heard from the nurses in our department that a year ago, this old woman brought her grandson to see Yan Ming. The child had a typical corneal dermoid tumor. Yan Ming personally performed surgery on the child, doing corneal suturing. The surgery was very successful, too. Originally, the child’s eye could have completely recovered to normal, but they repeatedly emphasized that the child’s right eye, which didn’t have surgery, must be covered with an eye patch to help the child exercise the surgically operated left eye and ensure faster recovery.”

“But what happened? This old woman and her whole family completely ignored Yan Ming’s medical orders. The child was young and didn’t understand the consequences, just felt uncomfortable wearing the eye patch. This old woman’s family indulged the child inappropriately and unreasonably. Because the child refused to wear it, they just let him not wear it.”

At this point, Yu Tian understood: “So now the child’s surgically operated left eye can barely see, right?”

This is very common in life. Some children wear glasses with only one lens covered by a black cloth. Most of these children have uneven development in both eyes, with one eye having amblyopia, so they need to cover the good eye to make the amblyopic eye get more exercise and development.

Such operations are also common in ophthalmology. This child’s surgically operated left eye must have been weaker than the right eye and needed more exercise for rehabilitation.

Qi Sihao nodded, confirming Yu Tian’s guess: “How could it not be? Now the left eye can barely see. When they went to the hospital to test their vision, it couldn’t be measured at all. What does a small child know? If you don’t block the good eye and let the child use both eyes together, using the surgically operated left eye is much more tiring. Since there are two eyes, of course, they’d just use the good right eye.”

“Moreover, Yan Ming had long told them to come for regular check-ups, but this family never came for examinations. The child’s left eye should have shown vision problems long ago, but it wasn’t discovered until this year’s school health check. Then they immediately came to the hospital to make trouble, claiming Yan Ming had blinded her grandson’s eye. What kind of people are these?”

Fortunately, at this moment, the troublemaking family was “invited” out by the restaurant staff for their shouting and commotion. The restaurant manager expertly threatened to call the police, and they reluctantly left the restaurant half-pushed and half-dragged, still cursing all the way.

Due to the restaurant’s intervention, this family couldn’t just stand at the restaurant entrance blocking people, so they moved slightly farther away. Soon, from Yu Tian’s angle, she couldn’t see this group of troublemakers anymore.

The restaurant returned to quiet, but the originally admiring gazes directed at Yan Ming’s face became complicated.

Yan Ming appeared too calm, calm to the point of coldness. He even gave up explaining and had no intention of comforting the patients and their families. Being able to calmly dine while the old woman was crying and wailing at the top of her lungs was indeed conspicuous. After all, sympathizing with the weak is human instinct, and often, whoever has the loudest voice seems to possess the truth.

And watching excitement is also human instinct. Yu Tian sharp-eyed noticed that from the moment the old woman’s group appeared to make trouble, a young man in a baseball cap at Yan Ming’s diagonal rear had raised his phone to record. Soon after, he got up and walked out of the restaurant.

Qi Sihao was relieved by the group’s departure, but Yu Tian, looking at the young man’s unfinished meal on his table and his figure walking outside, felt things weren’t so simple.

At this moment, she should maintain a low profile and not let Yan Ming see her.

But Yu Tian couldn’t care about that anymore. She didn’t have time to respond to Qi Sihao who was talking, pursed her lips tightly, stood up directly, and also walked out of the restaurant.

Following the path to the end, sure enough, the old woman’s large family hadn’t left at all. They were waiting like hunters at the corner for Yan Ming, and that young man in the baseball cap was indeed livestreaming—

“Everyone, I was dining at a restaurant today and encountered this pitiful family. The child is only six years old, but his eye was ruined by a quack doctor. Such a young age and already blind in one eye—what can be done? What I just livestreamed for you was the child’s grandmother breaking down trying to question this doctor, but unfortunately, elderly people like the child’s grandmother probably can’t even use smartphones, so how would they know how to defend their rights against such experienced doctors?”

This young man looked like a high school student but had mastered the traffic formula. First, he made an emotional appeal, portraying the child and grandmother’s situation as tragic and pitiful to arouse public sympathy, creating opposition between doctors and patients.

“Yes, yes, everyone must have experienced being cheated by doctors. Some doctors nowadays wear white coats but do dirty, black deeds. How many patients nationwide are killed by quack doctors on operating tables each year? And those doctors who take kickbacks from drug reps to prescribe expensive non-medical insurance drugs, doctors who won’t perform surgery properly without red envelopes—these doctors are too corrupt!”

After this dramatic speech, the young man began elevating his image—

“Fortunately, today, I was present and recorded this entire process. I will continue following up on this poor child and grandmother, helping them defend their rights! We must get them justice!”

In this era of universal livestreaming, such livestreams attract attention through these routines: intensifying conflicts, exaggerating facts, and guiding opposition.

Yu Tian got a headache just listening to his inflammatory rhetoric.

“You’re going to get them justice? How? By leading them to make trouble at the hospital, paralyzing the ophthalmology department so more patients urgently needing treatment can’t get medical care?”

“You’re here watching the excitement and making videos for livestream, contributing to society? You think you’re helping these patients, but what about others who should have gotten surgery but had their treatment delayed because of your troublemaking? Will you compensate them or donate corneas?”

“Jumping around all day like a troublemaker stirring up muddy water, provoking doctor-patient conflicts. When real violent conflicts break out, what are your intentions?”

“Perfectly, you’re livestreaming—you’ve recorded all your evidence of inciting and instigating others to cause trouble.” Yu Tian pointed at the old woman’s group, completely unafraid of appearing in the livestream camera. “Audience members, take a good look. If this family gets sued for making trouble at the hospital in the future, don’t forget to include this host.”

The host loved unexpected incidents and controversy most, immediately turning all cameras to Yu Tian—

“Everyone look, a defender has appeared here. I highly suspect this is some friend or relative of that quack doctor, jumping around so frantically! What’s your name? I’m going to sue you for defaming my reputation! And who are you anyway? What right do you have to interfere in this matter?”

Yu Tian coldly extended her right hand toward the livestream camera: “I don’t have the right? Do you see this obvious and ugly scar on my hand? How did it get there? Cut by someone who attacked medical staff. I’m a victim of medical violence. Because of people like you who, when something happens, throw dirty water on doctors without distinguishing right from wrong, without respecting the law, constantly stirring up emotions! Don’t I have the right to criticize you?”

Although wearing a hat and sunglasses, Yu Tian’s bone structure was extremely beautiful, her skin fair to the point of being almost translucent, her nose delicate and pretty—a beautiful woman.

Because of her face, the livestream chat had already been derailed with comments like “seeking relationship,” “take off the sunglasses, young lady!” and “young lady, please share contact info.”

But such a stunningly beautiful woman had such a severely injured hand, full of brokenness and stark contrast.

Yu Tian had never willingly mentioned her hand in front of others, let alone in front of an unknown number of netizens. But somehow at this moment she found the courage to not feel ashamed of her ugly hand for the first time, instead wanting to display it openly—

“Because of medical violence, this hand was directly severed, and now I’m disabled. My original dream of becoming a surgeon was completely shattered.”

“Which doctor hopes for patients to have problems? Frankly speaking, besides medical relationships, doctors have no inheritance, marriage, or support disputes with patients. Unlike some family members who have ulterior motives due to financial entanglements, doctors worldwide hope most for patient recovery. Which doctor wants to deal with medical accidents and medical disputes while at work?”

Yu Tian stared at the young man in the baseball cap: “Besides, do you know what happened? Do you understand ophthalmology? Just flapping your lips up and down, calling people quack doctors, saying surgeries failed—you don’t understand shit!”

“It was clearly because after surgery, the other party couldn’t follow medical orders for care intervention, covering the good eye to force the child to exercise the surgically operated eye, which led to the child’s blindness. How did it become rumor-mongering in your livestream? Do you know what legal responsibility defamation carries?”

The young man opened his mouth to refute, but Yu Tian didn’t give him the chance: “Of course you don’t know. Have you been to college? What school did you attend? If not, what did you score on your most recent grade assessment exam?”

“Instead of spending time here stirring up opposition, why not go home and study hard!”

The boy was completely stumped by this barrage of questions, holding back for a long time before stuttering out: “Even if this incident might not be this doctor’s problem, but… but this doctor isn’t necessarily that good! He must not have explained clearly to the patient…”

“Have this patient’s family bring out all the original diagnosis and treatment records. I don’t believe the doctor didn’t wrote down precautions. As for whether he explained or not, everyone has different intelligence and comprehension abilities. I’ve explained so much to you—do you think you understood?”

“…”

The livestream comments had completely switched sides. Many people had family, relatives, or friends in medicine. Once they put themselves in those shoes, they began recalling the difficulties of studying medicine and being a doctor.

The young man had already lost momentum. Although still trying to resist, he was at his last gasp.

But Yu Tian was getting more energetic: “Besides, this doctor isn’t necessarily good—does that mean you, who completely don’t understand medicine, are good? What, you’re jealous because he’s more handsome than you, so you want to ruin his reputation? Even if you tried for a hundred years, you couldn’t compare to him, okay?”

Yu Tian was huffing angrily. At this point, she turned to look at the old woman’s group, who had been momentarily subdued by her momentum: “Auntie, stop making trouble too. When this gets big, netizens online are so capable—they’ll dig out all your family’s situation. Who’s right and who’s wrong will be clear at a glance. And when your acquaintances, the child’s parents’ colleagues and friends, the child’s classmates and teachers, all see this, will you still be able to face people?”

The livestreaming young man was intimidated by Yu Tian’s unconventional approach, but that didn’t mean the old woman would also back down. She immediately raised her arms and began pushing Yu Tian, simultaneously raising her voice to “perform”: “There’s someone here…”

However, such things always favor whoever acts first.

Yu Tian interrupted her, shouting before her: “An old auntie is bullying a disabled person here!”

“…”

In any case, if the old woman had a loud voice, Yu Tian was even louder. If the old woman dared to push, Yu Tian absolutely wouldn’t fight back, even bringing her injured hand close to the woman.

Yu Tian fearlessly made up stories: “Auntie, my hand looks like it just has a scar on the surface, but there are big problems inside. It hurts constantly on rainy days. The doctor said there’s an infection, but unfortunately, I can’t afford treatment. If you accidentally injure me today, I’ll make you pay for my hand’s treatment for the rest of my life. If I become more severely disabled, you’ll be responsible for my whole life. Anyway, I don’t have a proper job—I’ll just sit at your house and your grandson’s school every day…”

This old woman’s medical troublemaking relied on unreasonable pestering, but she didn’t expect Yu Tian to fight fire with fire. The young man had already turned off his livestream and slunk away after his chat turned against him.

Having achieved a staged victory, Yu Tian became even more fearless: “If you dare make trouble for that doctor here, I dare make this matter even bigger!”

Yu Tian glared at this family of young and old: “Especially with so many of you, including several strong men—I’ll shout that you’re assaulting and trafficking women, saying your whole family is a criminal gang!”

The old woman was so angry she nearly had a heart attack: “I… my grandson is blind in one eye. Shouldn’t that doctor compensate us?”

“No compensation, not a penny. Why should he compensate you? That doctor is poor—he was just scammed out of 100,000 yuan and has no money for you!”

The old woman’s face turned completely red: “Where did you come from? What’s your name? What does this doctor’s business have to do with you?”

Yu Tian said righteously: “Call me Lei Feng!”

“…”

This old woman’s group found no success and didn’t see Yan Ming come out of the restaurant for a long time. With Yu Tian standing there like a formidable obstacle, they had no choice but to leave first.

Yu Tian confirmed they had indeed left before returning to the restaurant to continue her meal.

She peeked around and saw Yan Ming’s seat was empty, breathing a sigh of relief: “Yan Ming left?”

After saying this, she completely relaxed, directly removing her hat and sunglasses, fanning herself: “So hot, this stupid hat…”

But soon after Yu Tian put down her hat, she glimpsed Yan Ming pushing the door and entering the restaurant again. Startled, she immediately instinctively wanted to put her hat and glasses back on.

Fortunately, Yan Ming didn’t seem to see her. He appeared to have temporarily gone out for something, returned to the restaurant to pay at the front desk, handed the waitstaff a bag, then left again.

Soon, Qi Sihao checked his watch: “I’m not waiting for you. You haven’t even finished your food, and I have plans with colleagues. I’m going back to the hospital first. I’m giving you a chance to treat me well—put this meal on your tab. Remember to pay when you finish eating!”

After saying this, ignoring Yu Tian’s speechlessness, he waved and made a stylish exit.

With Qi Sihao gone, Yu Tian lost interest in staying long and hurriedly finished her lunch.

However, when going to pay, the waitstaff informed Yu Tian the bill had already been paid: “A very handsome doctor paid it.”

Unexpectedly, Qi Sihao had done something decent. Yu Tian felt a touch of gratification.

But before her gratification could fully develop, she saw the waitstaff smiling and handing her a familiar bag—

“This is what he left for you, asked me to pass it along.”

Yu Tian’s heartbeat skipped a beat as she belatedly accepted the bag.

This bag was what Yu Tian had personally seen Yan Ming hand to the front desk, so the person who paid her bill wasn’t Qi Sihao at all, but Yan Ming.

She had still been seen by Yan Ming…

Yu Tian’s heart was like a flowerpot knocked over by a cat—chaotic and messy, not knowing where to start cleaning up, just feeling somewhat at a loss and unable to face the situation.

And when she opened the bag and saw what was inside, she was even more puzzled and confused.

Inside were egg tarts, sugar-roasted chestnuts, and mung bean cakes.