"Mm-hmm, Doctor Xia, everything you said is right. This really is my situation now, it’s already been more than two years."

Xia Liang nodded slightly and continued.

"A red tongue with no coating, a fine, faint pulse, that’s your current physical condition. Now let’s talk about the mental side: a lingering illness that doesn’t heal, occasional impulsive behavior, frequent hallucinations and delusions, flat affect, associative thinking障碍, social withdrawal and isolation, right?"

Xiao Yu nodded heavily again. Every symptom Xia Liang listed matched her perfectly.

There were even some symptoms she herself knew she had but had never been able to put into words.

And now, Xia Liang had told her one by one, letting her gain a clear understanding of her own condition.

"Doctor Xia, I’m begging you, please save me. I’m really in so much pain, every day I live in agony. If I hadn’t met you, if you hadn’t said you could treat my illness, honestly, I...I really would’ve wanted to leave this world already."

As Xiao Yu spoke, she started crying.

Xia Liang nodded and said.

"Don’t worry. Since I’ve opened my mouth, I will definitely cure you!"

At this moment, Zhang Ningyuan beside them was already so shocked she couldn’t speak.

In her heart she just kept thinking that this young anchor called Doctor Xia was way too incredible, because she understood that a patient like Xiao Yu, who had been imprisoned for years, couldn’t possibly be helping him lie!

Because she herself had mental illness—how could she lie for someone else?

That was impossible!

This was exactly what made this Doctor Xia in front of her so formidable!

And it also made her truly witness how powerful Chinese medicine was!

Xiao Yu hurriedly nodded, but then she hesitated again, and said in a low voice.

"But, Doctor Xia, I...I don’t have any money to pay your medical fees."

Xiao Yu’s adoptive father was very rich; you could tell just from the decoration and price of this luxury house.

And from his speech and mannerisms alone, you could tell her adoptive father was someone in a high position.

A few points, a few one-tenths, even several Yuan were nothing to him!

The key was, this money wasn’t Xiao Yu’s!

To put it bluntly, Xiao Yu was just a canary he kept in a cage!

And now, that man had already been arrested!

Even if he hadn’t been arrested, asking Xiao Yu to go get money from him for treatment—given her personality, she’d rather die than use another cent of his!

But she also understood that seeing a doctor costs money.

And she also knew that Xia Liang’s consultations weren’t cheap!

Zhang Ningyuan couldn’t help saying from the side,

"It’s okay, I’ll front the money first. When Xiao Yu walks out of the shadows in the future and starts working for real, she can pay me back then. Doctor Xia, how much do you charge for this consultation?"

In Zhang Ningyuan’s mind, although Xiao Yu’s illness was like a terminal one, this young man was consulting online—he shouldn’t be able to charge that much!

However, as soon as she said this, the viewers in the livestream burst out laughing.

"Officer Zhang, Doctor Xia’s consultation fee is one-tenth."

"Hard to say, depends on how serious the illness is. With Xiao Yu’s condition, it’ll be at least two-tenths to start."

"Yeah, this type of mental illness is untreatable in Western medicine—only Doctor Xia can treat it."

"Doctor Xia’s consultations are really not cheap!"

Seeing the barrage of comments from countless viewers in the livestream, Zhang Ningyuan was so shocked her mouth could fit a whole egg!

That much?

Although she was a Protector with the Liuzhou police, all her savings had been poured into buying a house recently.

Plus renovation costs—right now, never mind having no savings, she even owed a few one-tenths in debt!

For her to take out two-tenths’ worth of consultation fees all at once—she really couldn’t manage it.

But this illness couldn’t go untreated!

She also knew that in this world, you can owe anyone’s money, but not medical bills!

"How about this, Doctor Xia—when I get my year-end bonus, I’ll pay you the rest of the consultation fee then, is that okay? I’m Zhang Ningyuan from the Liuzhou police. My workplace can vouch for me. I absolutely won’t skip out on the bill. You can be completely at ease about that!"

Zhang Ningyuan gave an awkward smile and said quickly.

Xia Liang smiled lightly and said.

"That’s fine. Then you just pay one mililiter—send a little light-stick gift."

Zhang Ningyuan froze, thinking she’d misheard, and subconsciously asked,

"One mililiter Yuan? That cheap?"

That amount wasn’t even enough for a registration fee; it was basically the same as free.

That was exactly why she was puzzled!

Xia Liang smiled faintly and said.

"Of course not. That one mililiter is only part of the consultation fee. The viewers who’ve watched my streams all know: money isn’t the only form of consultation fee. Helping to promote Chinese medicine can also count as a fee. And today, under the witness of tens of thousands of viewers in the livestream, I’ve cured Xiao Yu’s illness, which means she has already paid the ’promoting Chinese medicine’ fee! So for Xiao Yu’s illness, she only needs to pay one mililiters more!"

Zhang Ningyuan, Xiao Yu, and the others all froze!

Although this was how Xia Liang put it, they all understood that Xia Liang was, while protecting Xiao Yu’s dignity, essentially waiving her consultation fee in disguise.

Right now, Zhang Ningyuan was truly overwhelmed with emotion; her eyes even turned red.

On Xia Liang’s body, she saw the true medical ethics that had long since disappeared!

This Doctor Xia not only had extraordinary medical skills, his ethics were beyond reproach!

"Mm, mm, thank you, Doctor Xia!"

Zhang Ningyuan nodded heavily, then hesitated and asked,

"Doctor Xia, I see so many viewers in the livestream all calling you Doctor Xia. Is there some particular meaning behind that?"

Nowadays, whether Chinese or Western medicine, everyone’s called "doctor."

But in this livestream, this young man in front of her was wearing a gray robe and letting people call him ’langzhong’, which made her a little puzzled.

"Because in ancient times, at the height of Chinese medicine’s glory, people called Chinese medicine practitioners ’langzhong’. They roamed the jianghu, treating people and relieving their suffering, and were called Quack Doctor. The fundamental duty of a langzhong is to save the dying and heal the wounded, not to make money! The internet, society, the world—they’re just another kind of jianghu. When I treat patients online, or in real life, I’m walking the jianghu. So I prefer people to call me ’langzhong’ rather than ’doctor’. Because Chinese medicine and Western medicine are different! I do this only to constantly remind everyone that I am a practitioner of Chinese medicine."

I am a Dragon Country practitioner of Chinese medicine, not a Western doctor, not the ’Western doctor’ in foreigners’ eyes. I’m different from them. As a Dragon Country practitioner of Chinese medicine, my ultimate goal is to let all Dragon Country people enjoy the benefits of Chinese medicine!"

Xia Liang explained slowly.

"Damn, Doctor Xia’s words really hit me right in the heart. This is what true medical ethics should be."

"Amazing—and the key is, Doctor Xia has actually been doing exactly that."

"I’m not convinced by anyone, but I’m convinced by Doctor Xia."

"Even though I feel like Doctor Xia is obviously just showing off, the way he’s showing off really feels great to me."