Chapter 1219 Need to clear your mind first

Although it is said that "everyone loves beauty", everyone wants to become more handsome and beautiful. The booming development of the plastic surgery industry is because there is a market, which is also understandable.

But now many people have become obsessed with plastic surgery. Xiao Peng thinks that what they need is not plastic surgery, but to fix their brains.

He'd seen too many women who'd had plastic surgery. Even Marlene Walter had her nose and chin augmented. There was nothing wrong with looking better, but Xiao Peng couldn't accept someone who'd resorted to a head transplant like the Koreans. Daxia lets you pay with your face. Why don't you try it in Korea? The technology is great, but it won't work in Korea—everyone looks the same!

And some beauticians Xiao Peng didn’t understand why.

Just like the so-called "elf ears" that are said to make the face look smaller, the surgery is actually a minor one. In fact, it involves injecting hyaluronic acid behind the ears to make the area behind the ears swell. Three injections are the minimum, and more than ten to twenty injections are normal. It costs tens of thousands of dollars.

But aren't these just protruding ears? If you had protruding ears as a child, you'd be laughed at! Plus, injecting a large amount of hyaluronic acid into a small area is very risky!

Of course, those influencers who are just trying to sell products don't care about this. They will do anything to make money. Look at those "beauty bloggers" and "medical beauty experts". When have they ever explained the risks of plastic surgery to others?

In fact, any foreign object entering the human body will inevitably cause a series of reactions! And any reaction may cause risks. This is basic biological common sense!

How many years haven't seen blindness caused by hyaluronic acid injections? How many years haven't seen rejection reactions after plastic surgery? A female singer died on the operating table at a plastic surgery hospital; another actor's nose completely necrotized, turning it into a "black nose." And those were the ones who could afford it and went to professional, legal, and compliant hospitals. Rogue hospitals have even more problems!

Xiao Peng likes to read when he has nothing to do. When he was with Abby, because Abby was a doctor, he also read some academic journals related to medicine, and also paid attention to some literature related to medical cosmetology. Basically, 40% of the content in the literature on injection cosmetology is specifically about various complications, ranging from local nodules and redness of the skin to blindness, tracheal perforation, cerebral infarction and death. The cases in them are all real and shocking!

Abby, a neurosurgeon, once encountered a case where a woman, displeased with her sunken temples, went to a plastic surgery clinic for lipoinjection to "fill out" them. The result? Just hours after the injections, she developed severe headaches and rushed to Abby's hospital for a checkup. The diagnosis was a vascular embolism. Because they didn't know what the injections were, the condition proved completely untreatable. Her entire scalp was necrotic, leaving no hair or skin, and in some places, even bones visible. After barely surviving, she went to the hospital where the injections had been given, but they had already closed down!

While some surgeries are understandable, others are beyond comprehension. For example, a calf muscle block involves making an incision in the hollow of the foot behind the knee to sever some nerve branches. To put it simply, it's like "severing the tendons" in martial arts novels. While this surgery might make the calf thinner in the short term, over time, the patient will walk unsteadily and become unable to walk or run quickly, essentially rendering him or her disabled.

There's also the practice of cutting off one's own ribs to create a larger bust and a slimmer waist. This involves removing the lowest ribs to make the waist appear thinner. You're saying that the human body has evolved over hundreds of millions of years, but nature hasn't eliminated any bones, so why would you just cut them off? Don't you know that ribs protect internal organs?

There is also local lipolysis, which is to eliminate fat in places like the collarbone, fingers, ankles, and double chins to make you look thinner - what will it look like if there is no fat and the skin is directly connected to the tendons, which will eventually cause adhesion?

You will have a basic idea of what this means after watching a Hollywood horror movie.

Some of these cosmetic surgeries are understandable, but some are horrifying: for example, bone-breaking surgery to increase height.

This surgery was originally developed to treat the sequelae of polio, and it can also treat some people with different leg lengths due to certain reasons. However, it has now become a means for some people to "increase their height."

This surgery has a 100% disability rate; if you do it, you'll permanently lose the ability to run. Yet, many people still take the risk just to add a few centimeters to their height. After Daxia banned this surgery, some people went abroad for treatment, only to become disabled and then take to the internet to complain and seek help.

There is also gastrectomy, which is a minimally invasive surgery to remove most of the stomach to stop the patient from eating large amounts of food. People do this surgery to treat large heart disease and diabetes, but now it is used by girls as a way to lose weight.

Regular hospitals will not perform such operations casually because they have to be consistent with the pathology, so they go to various "beauty institutions" or Putian-based institutions to do it, and the results can be imagined.

The surgery Xiao Peng finds most unacceptable is vaginal removal, one of the most popular cosmetic surgeries in China. What does it do? It involves removing the vaginal slits (small and large) of a woman's genitals.

Does it sound familiar? Isn't this the same 'circumcision' that's so despised in Africa and the Middle East? They even justify it by saying it's 'for aesthetics'! It's just surgery, but they're vaguely calling it 'maintenance'. Then, internet celebrities promote it, and countless young women follow suit...

It’s really fucking regressing the more I live!

In fact, it’s all due to ignorance.

For example, "Thermage", which is particularly popular among women nowadays, to put it bluntly, is "30% destruction and 70% repair".

Just like searing a raw steak tightens the skin, Thermage achieves the goal of "skin tightening" by destroying cells through high temperatures and allowing them to repair themselves.

Sometimes I have to admire how these people are willing to go to great lengths for beauty! Sometimes I really feel like they need to rethink their thinking.

It can be blamed on Abby. Xiao Peng originally thought that plastic surgery faces were just plastic surgery faces. He was not going to marry them anyway, so he just wanted to have fun. However, after Abby instilled in him various beauty methods and side effects, Xiao Peng could no longer look at these plastic surgery faces.

Li Xiuyun was describing the whole story in a disjointed manner, but Xiao Peng interrupted her directly: "Stop talking. I'm talking about the mountains and rivers. You should tell the story first. By the time she finishes, it'll be dawn! I just want to know what happened, but she just dragged me back to the third year of the Guangxu reign! After talking for so long, I still don't know what the main point is or what happened."

Zhao Shanhe was also helpless after hearing this: "Well, let me tell you."