“Body sculpting? ‘Extreme’ body sculpting, at that?”

After hearing Ji Meng’s request relayed by Zhu Jian, Yan Feifan rejected it outright. “Tell Ji Meng that when it comes to one’s figure, natural and healthy is the most beautiful.”

“Body sculpting isn’t like facial plastic surgery. You can achieve your body sculpting goals through persistent physical exercise and strict management of your figure.”

“If you can’t do those two things, even if you change your body through external forces, you won’t be able to maintain it for long…”

By the time Yan Feifan finished reviewing Ji Meng’s facial and physical examination results, it was time to get off work.

As he and Duan Yu walked out of the Little Red House, they ran into Lv Xing helping her father, who was using a single crutch, walk back slowly.

“Mr. Yan, my dad and I just got back from dinner at Canteen Number Three. The canteen in this building is expensive and the food isn’t to our liking.”

Lv Xing chattered on, then asked with excitement in her voice, “Dr. Yu said we can go home in about ten days. Is that true?”

Meeting the expectant gazes of Lv Xing and her father, Yan Feifan nodded lightly. “Once he’s been awake for a full month and the check-up shows no major issues, you can go home to recuperate.”

A smile spread across Lv Xing’s father’s face. “Mr. Yan, I can walk and move around now, and I can take care of myself.”

“I think I’m well enough to be discharged right now.”

His pronunciation was still a bit slurred, as if he had a piece of candy in his mouth, but outsiders could now understand what he was saying.

Yan Feifan smiled. Before he could explain, Lv Xing started rattling on, “Dad, how can you still not understand your own status?”

“We’re participating in Mr. Yan’s research on waking vegetative patients. Your status right now is that of a test subject.”

“Dad, stop thinking about going home all the time.”

“You need to cooperate fully with the doctors’ research and provide data for the experiment. You can’t just enjoy the benefits without fulfilling your obligations.”

Chided by his own daughter, Lv Xing’s father chuckled sheepishly.

Yan Feifan chuckled too. Then he heard Lv Xing ask curiously, “Mr. Yan, I heard the treatment period for the other three patients who haven’t woken up has been extended?”

Yan Feifan grunted in affirmation and explained, “The original plan was a one-month treatment period. If there were no results, we would stop.”

“Your father and two other patients waking up one after another shows that our treatment method is viable.”

“Since it’s viable and effective, it’s best not to make too many changes. We’re extending the treatment by another two weeks to continue observing the effects.”

Just then, a young nurse, Xv Shuang, came trotting out of the Little Red House and approached Yan Feifan.

“What is it?”

“Boss, I…”

Xv Shuang only got half a sentence out before glancing at Lv Xing and her father, who were standing nearby. Her face screamed that she had a big secret that couldn’t be revealed to outsiders.

She was being so obvious that Lv Xing naturally caught on. Bidding Mr. Yan farewell, she took her father’s arm, quickened her pace, and walked into the Little Red House.

Yan Feifan prompted her, “Xv Shuang, what is it? You can say it now, right? Do you need Duan Yu to step away too?”

“No! No! Mrs. Duan can hear it too.”

As she spoke, Xv Shuang moved even closer to Yan Feifan, almost leaning against his body.

She deliberately lowered her voice, an excited little expression on her face, and said, “Boss, Boss! That patient, Mr. Bai in room five, he might be faking his mental impairment!”

“Faking?” Yan Feifan frowned.

Xv Shuang nodded her head vigorously. “Boss, I’m pretty sure he’s faking.”

“Just now, when I went to set up his IV drip, I saw a cell phone on the other side of his hospital bed. It was half-covered by the blanket, and the screen was still on.”

“Then, the phone was suddenly yanked under the covers. And then, I made eye contact with the patient, and I felt the way he looked at me was weird…”

Xv Shuang thought for a moment, unable to find the right word to describe it, and said with a note of surrender, “Boss, it was just a really, really weird look. Anyway, it wasn’t the way a fool looks at someone.”

“Are you sure?” Yan Feifan pressed.

Xv Shuang nodded again. “Boss, I’m one hundred and ten percent sure!”

“Boss, why don’t you come up with me and confirm it?”

Yan Feifan responded with action, turning and walking toward the Little Red House.

To be honest, Yan Feifan paid very little attention to these patients with severe conditions.

He was only ever truly focused during the stimulation therapy every other day, when he would very carefully perform their punctures.

Although their wards were just one floor above his office, and Dr. Qiu Ge would make a special trip every morning to do rounds, for Yan Feifan, these daily rounds might as well not have existed.

At most, he would listen to the reports from the students and nurses on duty, and sometimes, on a whim, he’d take a stroll through the ward.

This wasn’t because Yan Feifan was irresponsible.

First, it was a bad habit he’d developed over the past few months: after a surgery was over, he could wash his hands of the patient.

Second, Yan Feifan considered doing rounds a waste of his time.

His thinking was that he was responsible for solving problems. He already had a clear grasp of these patients’ conditions, and during their routine recovery period, they didn’t require him to spend extra time monitoring them.

If any minor problems really did arise, there were doctors and nurses on duty to handle them.

Only when a major problem arose that they couldn’t solve was it time for Yan Feifan, the pillar of stability, to step in.

If Yan Feifan had bothered to stroll through the ward every day, he was confident that if patient number five was truly faking his impairment, he would absolutely not have escaped his keen observation.

A few minutes later, Yan Feifan, Xv Shuang, and Duan Yu arrived at the private room of patient number five.

At this time of day, there were no family or friends in the room, only a professional caregiver hired by the patient’s family.

Yan Feifan had the caregiver leave the room for a moment, then looked at Mr. Bai, who was propped up in bed, head lolling to the side as he slept, a long trail of drool dripping from the corner of his mouth.

The sight made Yan Feifan roll his eyes.

‘He’s overdoing it. It’s a dead giveaway!’

The caregiver Mr. Bai’s family had hired couldn’t be cheap. How could they let him appear before Yan Feifan and the others with drool running down his chin, a sight so damaging to his image?

In other words, the caregiver was also in on it and a co-conspirator.

Yan Feifan glanced at the IV drip by the head of the bed and said slowly, “Mr. Bai, I don’t care if you’re really impaired or just faking it, but there’s something I need to tell you…”

“Every time you get an IV drip, don’t you feel a little drowsy and a bit dizzy?”

“That’s because the drip contains quite a few drugs that promote the recovery of your brainstem injury.”

“All medicine is poison to some degree. The drugs we’re giving you are the lesser of two evils, because they can effectively promote the recovery of your brain injury.”

“If your brain injury is already mostly healed, then let me tell you about the negative side effects of these drugs…”

Yan Feifan said with a perfectly straight face, “They damage your vision. Harmful components in the drugs will build up in the visual center of your brain, causing irreversible damage to your eyesight.”

“The effect is gradual, but once the deposits reach a certain concentration, there will be a sudden, sharp decline.”

These words made Xv Shuang want to laugh. When her boss told a bald-faced lie, he was quite convincing.

She struggled to keep a straight face and show no sign of anything unusual as she heard Yan Feifan continue, “It suppresses male function. The cause is also the buildup of harmful components…”

Yan Feifan had only gotten halfway through this point when the guy in the bed opened his eyes.

“Mr. Yan, you don’t have to say any more.”

“I know you’re deliberately trying to scare me, Mr. Yan. But since you already suspect something, there’s no need for me to pretend anymore…”

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