Take your own life in public!
As soon as Ye Qiu uttered those four words, the entire venue fell silent. All eyes turned to Li Zhengxi’s face.
What now?
Li Zhengxi’s face was ashen, his heart filled with despair.
Ye Qiu said, “Mr Li, you’ve lost this round too!”
“According to the best-of-three rules, I’ve won this China-Korea medical contest.”
“So, it’s time for you to fulfil your promise and take your life on the spot.”
“Go ahead!”
Li Zhengxi stood rooted, unmoving.
“What, Mr Li, are you going back on your word?”
“Let’s not forget, you were the one who challenged Chinese medicine. You set the rules, and you proposed taking your life in public.”
“Are all Koreans so untrustworthy?”
Ye Qiu said with a cold smirk.
Suddenly, Li Minghan pointed at Ye Qiu, shouting, “You didn’t defeat my father.”
“I’m going to expose your true colours in front of everyone.”
“You’re a fraud!”
A fraud?
Ye Qiu laughed, “How am I a fraud?”
Li Minghan said, “You didn’t actually heal that patient. Otherwise, why didn’t you let the staff examine him?”
Ye Qiu retorted sharply, “Are you an idiot? The patient stood up and walked, and you’re saying I didn’t heal him?”
Li Minghan insisted, “Without an examination, I don’t believe it.”
“Clinging to denial, huh? Fine, let’s put an end to your delusions,” Ye Qiu called out, “Staff, examine the patient.”
Two staff members promptly brought equipment onto the stage.
They quickly conducted the examination.
Ten minutes later, the examination was complete.
The two staff members glanced at Li Zhengxi with pity.
“What’s the result?” Li Minghan asked.
The staff replied, “Dr Ye didn’t lie. He truly healed the patient’s comminuted fracture.”
What?
Li Minghan’s face turned pale.
Deep down, he had expected this outcome.
As a top doctor himself, and having competed against Ye Qiu during his previous trip to China, Li Minghan knew Ye Qiu’s medical skills were formidable. His earlier accusation of fraud was merely a stalling tactic to delay his father’s public suicide.
“Father, what do we do now?”
Li Minghan was panicking, glancing at Li Zhengxi, whose face was equally pale.
“I’m the Korean medical sage. I absolutely cannot lose to Chinese medicine, absolutely not!”
Li Zhengxi clenched his fists, growling under his breath.
At that moment, a staff member displayed the patient’s examination report on the large screen, sparking another wave of shock among the audience.
Ye Qiu said, “The results are out, Mr Li. It’s time for you to take your life in public…”
“I refuse to accept this!”
Before Ye Qiu could finish, Li Zhengxi roared, “I refuse!”
“The facts are clear. What’s there to refuse?” Ye Qiu asked.
Li Zhengxi said, “I’ve been practising medicine for decades and seen many methods for treating comminuted fractures, but I’ve never seen the technique you used.”
“This was a challenge from Korean traditional medicine to Chinese medicine.”
“I suspect the method you used wasn’t Chinese medicine at all.”
Unwilling to admit defeat, so now resorting to excuses?
Ye Qiu’s smirk grew colder, “Then what method do you think I used?”
“It’s…”
Li Zhengxi faltered, as he had no idea what method Ye Qiu had used.
Li Minghan quickly whispered something in his ear.
“I’ve got it,” Li Zhengxi pointed at Ye Qiu, “You used witchcraft!”
Witchcraft?
The audience buzzed with discussion.
“I feel like the Korean medical sage might have a point!”
“Everyone knows the best treatment for a comminuted fracture is Western surgical intervention. Yet Dr Ye cured it in minutes—that’s too incredible!”
“Also, Dr Ye’s treatment method was so bizarre. It really doesn’t seem like Chinese medicine!”
“If Chinese medicine had such powerful techniques, who would bother with Western medicine?”
On stage, Ye Qiu asked, “Mr Li, you claim I used witchcraft. What’s your evidence?”
Li Zhengxi said, “Your treatment itself is the evidence!”
“If you weren’t using witchcraft, how could you heal a comminuted fracture in such a short time?”
“You must give me a reasonable explanation!”
“Otherwise, I’ll return to Korea and hold a press conference to tell the world about your shameful actions!”
Ye Qiu, hearing this, was so exasperated he almost laughed.
You’re the one who can’t accept defeat, yet you’re turning the tables and calling me shameless?
This is the so-called Korean medical sage…
Utterly shameless!
“You want an explanation? Fine, I’ll give you one.”
Ye Qiu turned, his gaze sweeping over the audience, and said, “I’m sure everyone’s curious about what method I used to heal a comminuted fracture so quickly, right?”
The audience nodded eagerly.
Host Dong Si couldn’t help but ask, “Dr Ye, was that a Chinese medicine technique?”
Ye Qiu smiled at her, “I can tell you unequivocally, I used an absolutely authentic Chinese medicine technique.”
“I’m sure some of you are wondering, does Chinese medicine really have such powerful techniques?”
“Why haven’t we seen them before?”
“Or even heard of them?”
Ye Qiu continued, “Because I used the Sky-Mending Hand!”
Sky-Mending Hand?
What’s that?
The audience grew even more puzzled.
Ye Qiu explained, “The Sky-Mending Hand is an extraordinarily miraculous bone-setting technique with thirty-six forms, known as the unparalleled bone-setting art, created by the Medicine King, Sun Simiao.”
“During the Tang Dynasty, many renowned doctors mastered this bone-setting technique.”
“By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, due to wars, many doctors perished, and those skilled in the Sky-Mending Hand dwindled.”
“By the Ming Dynasty, only imperial physicians knew it. Because the technique was so remarkable, the emperor forbade its transmission outside the court.”
“But by the end of the Ming Dynasty, with the uprising of the rebel king and widespread warfare, the capital was overrun. The imperial physicians either died or fled.”
“From then on, the Sky-Mending Hand was lost.”
“I was fortunate. As a child, I met a wandering Taoist who passed down his medical knowledge to me, including the Sky-Mending Hand.”
“The comminuted fracture I just treated was healed using the Sky-Mending Hand!”
Ye Qiu looked at Li Zhengxi, “Mr Li, are you satisfied with my explanation?”
Li Zhengxi snorted, “That’s just your word, and it doesn’t convince me.”
“Then what would convince you?” Ye Qiu asked.
Li Zhengxi said, “Unless you compete with me one more time!”
