Ning Xiuyuan abruptly stopped in his tracks.
"I carefully watched your treatment process today. Although it was very similar to the Ascetic Physician's, it... ultimately wasn't the Ascetic Physician's."
Angela spoke in a low voice. The wavering candlelight cast an uncertain expression across her face.
Although she had seen Ning Xiuyuan's treatments before, he had been treating ordinary people back then, so the process had inevitably been somewhat concealed.
But today, he had been treating extraordinary beings. Without that layer of concealment, Angela keenly noticed the abnormality in Ning Xiuyuan's methods.
Perhaps others couldn't distinguish it, but having long since completely fused with the Ascetic Physician, she could see the clues at a glance.
"I'm sorry for hiding it from you for so long. But I had no choice. The characteristic I possess is somewhat special. You should understand. This was also Bishop Byron's intention."
Since he had been discovered, Ning Xiuyuan had no need to hide it any longer.
However, he still brought up Bishop Byron as a guarantor.
"Then how much of the medical knowledge you mentioned is real? And how much comes from your extraordinary characteristic?" Angela's expression grew tense.
Yes, that was what concerned her most.
"You care that much about medical knowledge?"
By the time Ning Xiuyuan asked this question, he already had an answer in his heart.
After the Orlando loss of control incident, he had been placed under house arrest for investigation. Everyone had avoided him like the plague, yet Angela alone had come to seek his guidance on medicine in the middle of the night.
He had seen it then: Angela possessed an obsession with medicine that ordinary people could hardly understand.
"All that medical knowledge is real. I'm compiling it into a book. Once it's finished, I'll definitely give it to