After hard work in the research lab, the representative strain of the virus was finally successfully isolated. The next step is to study drugs targeting this virus.
Li Ying also successfully left the research lab and returned to her clinic to start her own work.
On the very first day of business, someone came to the door, not to seek medical treatment, but to cause trouble.
"You're Li Ying?"
The girl was around twenty years old, with her face covered in a thick layer of powder, making her look somewhat malnourished.
"It's me, sir. May I ask your surname?"
“You may not know me, but you should know Cao Xinqiao, right? I am his fiancée, Tian Aiai.”
Cao Xinqiao's fiancée!
Li Ying found it amusing: "Miss Tian, you said you're Cao Xinqiao's fiancée, so I don't understand why you came here to find me?"
"Of course I'm going to find you! If you hadn't been flirting with other women, how could Cao Xinqiao have been willing to break off our engagement? It's all because of you, you unfaithful, shameless woman!" Tian Aiai started cursing, which was really impolite.
"Hey, watch your mouth! My Li Ying would never do such a thing! Do you have paranoia? Besides, what the hell is this Cao something-bridge you're talking about?" Chi En pulled Li Ying aside and confronted Tian Ai'ai.
"Stop!" Li Ying raised her hand to interrupt the two of them, gesturing for Chi En to step aside so she could explain things to this inexplicable Miss Tian.
“Miss Tian, I don’t know where your anger comes from, and I have no idea how it came about. I have a husband, Ye Jingchi, who is a regimental-level cadre. He is handsome and capable. Do you think I would betray my husband and go to someone I barely know?”
Tian Aiai didn't believe it at all: "I don't care what you say. I only found out that the reason he broke off the engagement with me was because I saw your photo at the Cao family's house."
photo? !
That Cao Xinqiao actually hid her photos, it's outrageous.
"Tian Aiai, what are you doing?"
Cao Xinqiao rushed into the clinic, grabbed Tian Aiai's wrist, and tried to take her away.
“Cao Xinqiao, you’ve come at the right time. Tell me clearly in front of her, do you have a crush on her?” Tian Ai’ai wouldn’t leave, stubbornly insisting that Cao Xinqiao explain himself.
Li Ying also needs him to make things clear.
"Comrade Cao, I think you should make things clear today, otherwise it will be difficult for me to clear my name."
Cao Xinqiao adjusted his glasses and slowly took out a photo from his pocket. The girl in the photo did look a lot like Li Ying, except that she had a beauty mark under her eye.
"Yes, it's this photo. What do you have to say now, you shameless woman!" Tian Aiai pointed at the photo and cursed angrily.
Li Ying raised her hand and slapped Tian Aiai across the face, leaving her speechless and unable to react for a long time.
"Take a look at the photo, is that really me?"
Cao Xinqiao explained, "Ai'ai, you've got it wrong. The person in this photo isn't Li Ying, but a girl who looks similar to her. She was the most beautiful girl I met when I was a sent-down youth in the countryside. It's just a pity that she's no longer here."
Tian Aiai was stunned.
Cao Xinqiao went to the countryside as an educated youth and had just returned to the city some time ago. After returning to the city, he seemed depressed and even took the initiative to break off the engagement. Tian Aiai found the photo and then accidentally saw Li Ying, so she thought that the photo in his hand was of Li Ying.
Looking at the photo, Cao Xinqiao said emotionally, "That day we went to the mountains to cut timber and encountered wild wolves. She sacrificed herself to save me."
Tian Aiai immediately felt guilty: "Cao Xinqiao, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have misunderstood you. I thought... But she's gone now, why are you still breaking off the engagement with me?"
"It's because I can't forget her!" Cao Xinqiao roared, then gradually calmed down: "Every time I close my eyes, I see her dying tragically in front of me. I need to take massage pills every night to fall asleep. How can I, like this, enter into marriage with you?"
Tian Aiai felt instantly guilty and reached out to hold Cao Xinqiao's hand: "Brother Xinqiao, don't be like this. I didn't know it was like this. I shouldn't have come and caused trouble at someone else's clinic. Please forgive me. Let's face this together, okay?"
Cao Xinqiao gently shook his head, holding the photo, slowly turned around, and walked outside.
Tian Aiai hurriedly followed.
"That's it?" Chi En angrily flung his hand away. "If it weren't for the way he looked so dejected, I would have given him a good beating."
Li Ying gently pressed her chest and slowly sat down in the chair. Whenever this person appeared, her chest would ache intensely, and she didn't know why.
There was no trace of this person in Li Ying's memory, but why did the pain in her heart become more pronounced whenever she saw him?
On the opening day, many people came to offer their congratulations.
After the excitement fades, life goes on day after day.
That day, as soon as Li Ying opened the door, Tian Aiai and Cao Xinping rushed into the clinic at the same time.
"Dr. Li Ying, please go and save my brother!"
"Please, go and save Cao Xinqiao! I beg you!"
Li Ying asked in confusion, "What exactly happened? Tell me slowly."
“Let me tell you,” Cao Xinping stopped Tian Aiai and said, “My brother has been having nightmares lately, so he took a lot of sleeping pills. I don’t know if he took too many yesterday, but he didn’t wake up this morning. We immediately called a doctor to see him. He did wake up, but he kept crying, and it was really scary.”
"Dr. Li, we know you once saved the young master of the Hua family and the mentally unstable Young Master Chi. You can definitely save Xinqiao. Please."
The two women almost burst into tears.
Li Ying seemed to have no reason to refuse, especially since doctors have the heart of parents.
"Let's go, I'll go take a look."
Li Ying followed the two women to the Cao family home, a small but cozy two-story Chinese-style house.
Cao Xinqiao lived on the second floor. The bedroom door was tightly closed, but you could hear sobbing coming from inside. The sobbing was hoarse and incoherent, sounding like the screams of a demon in the dark.
When Cao's parents saw Li Ying, they both went up to her.
"You must be Dr. Li Ying, the famous doctor in Beijing's social circles. We beg you, you must help us save Hao Xinqiao. He is our family's hope!" Cao's mother sobbed uncontrollably.
Cao Xinping hugged his mother and comforted her, "Mom, don't worry, Dr. Li Ying will definitely have a way to save my brother."
“I can try, but I can’t guarantee I can save him. I will do my best.” After saying that, Li Ying went upstairs, came to the bedroom door, and knocked gently.
There was no response from the person inside, so Li Ying pushed the door open herself. What she saw was Cao Xinqiao, who was squatting by the bed, curled up in a ball, with his head buried between his arms, still crying.
This should also fall under the category of stress-related psychological disorders, but his reaction is different from others.
Li Ying squatted down and softly called out, "Cao Xinqiao."
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