Cage and Rebirth (first update) Quan Yugui frowned. "High Priest? What are we going to his house for?"
"I have five appointments today. I need to see patients."
Li Fengci's face fell. "Yugui, how many times have I told you? You're of such noble status—how can you work as a doctor and see patients?"
"Being a doctor isn't some respectable profession. You're still serving others."
"Our Li's Pharmaceuticals has so many factories and hospitals. Doctors and researchers are merely our employees!"
"This isn't something a person of your status should be doing!"
"Whether it's the Quan family or the Li family, neither needs you doing this sort of thing and dirtying your hands!"
Ever since Quan Yugui had chosen to study medicine, Li Fengci had been trying to brainwash him with such words.
Fortunately, Quan Yugui had his own thoughts and convictions, and he had not been swayed by Li Fengci.
Still, hearing it so often affected Quan Yugui's mood.
It did not make him feel superior to others. It only made him feel that his mother did not support what he wanted to do.
Children still hoped to receive their parents' approval.
If they went against their parents' wishes for a long time, even if they did not obey, their emotions would still be troubled, and they would unconsciously begin to doubt themselves.
That was how Quan Yugui was.
He was already twenty-seven or twenty-eight, yet his mother still lectured him like this and looked down on his work.
That listless, world-weary expression appeared on Quan Yugui's face again, as though there was nothing in the entire world worth clinging to.
I might as well die...
Whenever he showed that look of wanting to die, Li Fengci would usually fly into a rage.
But today, she turned a blind