Ye Qingxian maintained an utterly serious expression as she nodded along with my slightly pitiful little facial expressions, acknowledging my symptoms.
"Wait a little longer. I'll look through my books."
At those words, dead memories began to return.
My eyelids twitched wildly.
When an old Chinese doctor started flipping through books, what that meant went without saying.
"Are you going to write me into your medical book too?" I asked in a fit of exasperation, my voice full of grief over my own hopeless condition.
"No." Ye Qingxian answered without even lifting her head.
I had just breathed a sigh of relief when I heard her add—
"Because I already have."
Me: "..."
Fine. You're the old doctor.
You wrote me into your medical book. Aren't you impressive.
"This is my personal medical record. No one else will see it." Ye Qingxian lifted her eyes slightly and gazed at the little girl in front of her, whose face was full of resentment. "Your situation is unusual. The side effects come from your constitution. To improve your condition completely, we'll need to suppress your constitution to some degree."
"I..." She hesitated for a second before continuing, "I want to know how pure your water spirit root has become."
"Can you let me find out the specifics?"
With a buzz, my mind went completely blank, and countless wild fantasies flickered through it.
The little girl's already adorable face turned red in an instant.
"You, you, you—what are you talking about?"
"Th-this kind of thing..."
I was still trying to act shy when I saw Ye Qingxian already holding my wrist. After silently sensing it for a few seconds, she slowly let go beneath my increasingly vacant stare.
I was utterly dumbfounded. My bashfulness had been nothing but wishful thinking...
And now there