Lu Yuan's Name Shook the Nation

"And another thing: since when did treating patients mean harvesting them like leeks with tests, whether they needed them or not? I, Lu Yuan, won't earn a single cent of money that goes against my conscience. I'm giving you one day. Take every Western medicine practitioner in the country and get the hell back where you came from." After that outburst, Lu Yuan hung up.

The medical students who had studied Western medicine for the money all looked terribly pale.

Before this, they might not have taken Lu Yuan's words too seriously, but he had summoned Elder Tang with a single phone call. Perhaps he really could do what he had said.

Lu Yuan patted Tang Renbo on the shoulder. "Elder Tang! Thank you for sharing your medical skills. When you return to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, remember to pass a message to its president: recruit more capable traditional Chinese medicine practitioners from among the public. Hospitals across the country are short of good doctors like them."

Tang Renbo was overjoyed. "Wonderful! Traditional Chinese medicine has fallen into decline, but now it's finally going to rise again. Chairman Lu, leave it to me. I'll personally assess the skills of those practitioners and make sure not a single quack slips into a hospital."

After the president of the Western Medicine Association hung up on Lu Yuan's call, he immediately got to work, notifying hospitals everywhere to stop hiring Western medicine practitioners.

At the orthopedic hospital where Lu Yuan was, the Western medicine practitioners who had once acted so high and mighty all took off their white coats and threw them into the trash, weeping as they did.

"Boo-hoo, why did I choose to study Western medicine in college...? I've lost my job! Four years of college down the drain!"

"If only we'd known and studied traditional Chinese medicine instead..."

"It's over, it's over. My mortgage payment is due in half a month. It's eight thousand a month, and now I'll have to borrow money to live on again."

Among them was the doctor who had spoken rudely to Wang Meiqi earlier. Lu Yuan walked up to him and snorted. "Go on, stick your tail up to the sky and show off for me now. Your iron rice bowl is gone. Surprised?"

The man in the white coat was speechless and choked up. "I, I..."

When the other Western medicine practitioners in the hospital heard this, they all assumed he had offended Lu Yuan and caused them all to lose their jobs. At once, their anger boiled over. "Fuck! You fucking idiot, you offended the big shot and got us all fired?"

"Fuck your mother! Let's all beat him up!"

A group of Western medicine practitioners threw all concern for appearances aside and charged at the man in the white coat. His screams and wolf-like howls made people's scalps tingle, and foul curses rang out from time to time.

Lu Yuan watched coldly as the dogs bit one another.

The dismissal of Western medicine practitioners and removal of their Western medicine expert badges played out simultaneously in tens of thousands of hospitals across the country. The matter also landed on Weibo's trending searches and made the local news.

Lu Yuan's name spread once more to households across the country.

"Since the implementation of the national poverty alleviation policy, some people in certain regions, despite living well-off lives, used their connections to have their households classified as impoverished and fraudulently obtained national subsidies. Thanks to Mr. Lu Yuan, an outstanding young entrepreneur of our country, this matter was uncovered layer by layer and dug out by the roots."

"This matter has drawn great attention from the state. Yesterday afternoon, the participants were apprehended one after another. The state will hold them legally accountable for their misdeeds."

"Also recently, Mr. Lu Yuan, chairman of the Chinese and Western Medicine Association, abolished Western medicine and adopted a nationwide system based entirely on traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine will once again welcome spring... Mr. Lu's vision and deeds are worthy of praise. We hope the businesses under his name will continue to prosper in the future."

The people of the country did not care how much money Lu Yuan made, but what he had done benefited people in their communities, so it directly concerned them.

Lu Yuan's name became famous throughout the country.

In one remote corner after another, elderly traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in their eighties and nineties wept bitterly. "Traditional Chinese medicine has finally been revived. Mr. Lu is a good man!"

"Mr. Lu has given us hope again. From now on, whenever Mr. Lu comes to me for treatment, I won't charge him a cent."

"Without Mr. Lu, who knows what year of the monkey or month of the horse it would have been before we could move into proper housing for people on minimum subsistence allowance? Mr. Lu truly is a great legendary hero."

The relatives on both Lu Yuan's father's and mother's sides were all proud of him now, telling everyone they met, "Did you see that Lu Yuan who was praised on TV yesterday? That's my eldest nephew!"

"That Lu Yuan who caused a sensation across the country yesterday is my eldest nephew. He's family..."

Lu Yuan himself did not feel much about the sensation outside. All of it had taken him no more than a lift of his hand, and he had not expected something he did so casually to cause a nationwide sensation.

For the past few days, Lu Yuan's phone had been ringing off the hook.

The real estate company and Yida Shopping Mall under Lu Yuan's name had attracted many contracts, nearly all of which amounted to the other parties paying out of pocket to do business with his companies. Because of those deeds, people also went on a frenzy of "wild spending" at Yida Shopping Malls across the country.

Faced with such wild spending, Lu Yuan issued a special order that goods at Yida Shopping Malls nationwide had to stay at their original prices. Prices could not be raised just because customers were eager to spend wildly. This won Lu Yuan another wave of goodwill across the country.

Watching the news replay, Ma He could not help showing a bitter smile. "Only now do I finally realize that Lu Yuan is someone I can't afford to offend."

"Wh-why didn't I know sooner...?"

A great many things also happened that day.

In an alley somewhere in Magic City.

The disheveled Brother Long cowered in a corner, staring at the newcomer in terror. "M-Master Tian, you... what brings you here?"

"I've come to take your life! You can't be allowed to live!"

Brother Long broke down and wept. "Master Tian, I-I've been begging for food every day to get by, just as you demanded. Why won't you let me live...?"

Yang Tianba sneered. "It's not that I won't let you go. You shouldn't have offended Lu Yuan, and you shouldn't have hit his younger sister. The hatred between you runs too deep. Although Mr. Lu hasn't asked me to, I think that as long as you're alive, you're a potential threat to him. I'm going to get rid of you for him."

A black car drove past, and Brother Long was no more. As Yang Tianba and the others walked away, only a pool of blood remained on the ground. Brother Long's corpse had been taken away and dumped in the vast ocean.

At a hospital, two women whose faces were mangled beyond recognition, their features covered in rotting flesh, sat in an examination room. The doctor's words were exceptionally cruel to them. "Miss Gu, Miss Xu, you've had too many abortions. You'll never be able to have children again, and there's no possibility of your faces ever recovering their former appearance!"

Gu Xixia and Xu Bing walked outside in a daze. They looked at each other and gave bitter laughs. "What's the point of living anymore?"

"If we hadn't offended Lu Yuan's younger sister that day, we wouldn't have been violated by that bunch of scum, and we wouldn't have been disfigured. How would we have ended up like this?"

"What's the point of living? Sister Gu, there's no point in me living..."

"I don't want to live either."

"Let's end this life together... Hopefully, in our next lives, we won't provoke a guy named Lu Yuan again."