What Couldn't He Accept?

A case Ni Haixia had treated surfaced in Ye Chen's mind:

A patient had suffered severe perineal pain, so much pain that he had wasted away.

He sought out Western medicine, but no illness could be found. The tests showed nothing, yet the pain was excruciating.

He went to Chinese medicine practitioners, but they could not cure him either.

Ni Haixia treated the patient with acupuncture.

The moment the needle went in, the patient's pain stopped.

But as soon as the needle was removed, the pain immediately returned.

Ni Haixia asked the patient, "When did the pain begin?"

"One night, some friends and I were catching shrimp by the river. It felt like someone pushed me, and I fell into the water. After that, my perineum started hurting," the patient replied.

After considering it for a moment, Ni Haixia administered the Ghost Needle treatment.

Renzhong, Shaoshang, Yinbai... When he reached the seventh Ghost Needle point—

Ni Haixia heard a woman's voice whispering in his ear, "This has nothing to do with you. Stay out of it!"

Hearing the woman's voice, Ni Haixia quickly removed the needle and did not continue the treatment. Instead, he asked the patient, "Do you have some unresolved emotional issues?"

After a moment of stunned silence, the patient answered, "I'll go back and see her right away."

Two weeks later, the patient returned.

With a grateful expression, the patient told Ni Haixia truthfully, "Before I went to university, I had a girlfriend I was very close to, and we slept together. Later, after I got into university, I went to Taipei and lost contact with her. I never expected that girl to take her own life by jumping into the river.

When I went home, it happened to be the seventh day after her death. I felt terribly guilty. I knelt before her memorial for a long time and begged for forgiveness. That night, I had a dream. In it, black blood and leaves sprayed from my perineum. We had slept together in the woods.

When I woke up the next day, I was fine. Master Ni, I came here specially this time to thank you."

When Ye Chen had first read about this case, he had treated it as nothing more than a story.

But after absorbing the knowledge the system had given him, he realized it probably was not a story.

That discovery practically overturned Ye Chen's entire worldview.

After all, in both his lives, Ye Chen had been a materialist.

But not seeing something did not mean it did not exist.

The system itself existed.

What else was there that Ye Chen could not accept?

Ye Chen had taken in so much information all at once.

His CPU was practically about to burn out.

Hopefully, he would never need to use these advanced methods of Chinese medicine in the future...

Ye Chen still felt dizzy and drowsy. Before he knew it, he fell asleep.

More knowledge continued churning through his mind...

By the time Ye Chen woke again—

Night had already fallen, and the sky was full of stars.

Ye Chen's stomach rumbled loudly. It seemed that even while asleep, he had burned quite a bit of energy.

That nap allowed Ye Chen to adapt to the amount of knowledge he now possessed.

His energy returned, and he felt refreshed again.

When Su Ningwei saw that Ye Chen had awakened, she said with delight, "A-Chen, you're awake? You must be hungry. I saved some food for you. I'll have Auntie Li heat it up and bring it over."

"I'm fine. I can heat it up myself. You're still in confinement after giving birth. How can I let you take care of me? Lie down and rest." As Ye Chen spoke, he took Su Ningwei's hand and pulled her into his arms.

At the same time, Ye Chen secretly checked Su Ningwei's pulse.

He had no medical license, so he could only do it in secret.

Mm, Su Ningwei was recovering well.

Su Ningwei raised her hand and rubbed the spot between Ye Chen's brows. Still worried, she looked at him and said, "What do you mean, how can you let me? Could I just watch you suffer? Are you sure you're fine? You didn't sleep very peacefully just now. Your brows were furrowed so tightly."

"I'm really fine, don't worry. Look how strong I am. What could possibly be wrong with me? I just skipped my afternoon nap and had a nightmare, that's all." Ye Chen smiled as he lowered Su Ningwei's hand, casually flexing his bicep.

At that moment, Dabao began fussing for milk.

Su Ningwei hurriedly rose from Ye Chen's arms and went to pick up Dabao.

Ye Chen propped a pillow against the headboard so Su Ningwei would be more comfortable while nursing.

Su Ningwei leaned back against the bed, lifted her shirt, and skillfully began feeding the baby.

"Go eat already. Don't go hungry. I can handle things here," Su Ningwei said as she nursed Dabao.

"Okay. I'll have Auntie Li come in and help you." Ye Chen nodded, then went to the kitchen to heat up the food.

Li Mei had just finished tidying the house.

"Mr. Ye, you're awake. I'll heat up your food for you," Li Mei said hurriedly when she saw Ye Chen.

Ye Chen replied, "Auntie Li, I can heat it myself. The three babies are awake. Go help look after them."

"Okay, Mr. Ye." Li Mei nodded and went to the master bedroom to help look after the children.

After heating up the food, Ye Chen wolfed down three large bowls before finally feeling full.

After dinner—

Ye Chen checked the time. It was only a little past eight in the evening, not too late.

He decided to visit a nearby mother-and-baby store to see if they had any reliable baby powder.

While he was at it, he would buy some fruit and vegetables for tomorrow from the supermarket.

After telling Su Ningwei, Ye Chen took his car keys and headed out.

As Ye Chen drove out of the residential complex—

A silver-gray minivan parked in the shadows of the trees crookedly followed behind his car.

Seeing a fairly large mother-and-baby store by the roadside, Ye Chen pulled over.

The silver-gray vehicle also stopped behind Ye Chen's car.

Ye Chen got out and walked toward the mother-and-baby store.

The man in the vehicle had an unshaven face, bloodshot eyes, and a sickly madness in his gaze.

Watching Ye Chen get out of the Mercedes-Benz—

The man viciously cursed, "That bastard in the photo is him. Every woman in this world loves me, especially beautiful female celebrities—they're all my women. They shouldn't have scandals, boyfriends, or husbands. How could Weiwei possibly have a child with someone else? It must be this bastard who defiled Weiwei. I'll kill him!"

"Glug! Glug!"

After taking two more swigs of baijiu, the man pulled a long, sharp fruit knife from beneath his seat, hid it in his clothes, got out of the car, and staggered unsteadily toward Ye Chen.

A pregnant woman, more than five months along, was walking ahead of him. Annoyed that she was blocking his path, the man brutally shoved her to the side of the road.

The pregnant woman fell to the ground, feeling a sharp pain shoot through her tailbone, followed by a dull ache in her belly.

"Ah... it hurts... You..." The pregnant woman clutched her stomach and looked up at the man.

The man turned around, gave her a vicious glare with his bloodshot eyes, then stabbed toward her stomach and cursed, "Another slut who had a child with some other man. Die!"

Instinctively shielding the baby in her belly, the pregnant woman twisted aside. The knife plunged into her shoulder instead.

"Out of my way!" The man kicked the pregnant woman, ignored her after that, pulled out the knife, and charged at Ye Chen.

The pregnant woman let out a scream. Shocked and in pain, she fainted.

Just as Ye Chen was about to step into the mother-and-baby store, he heard the scream behind him and caught a whiff of alcohol.

He was about to turn around to see what was happening—

When he felt a fierce gust of wind rushing at him from behind.