Gu Jiaojiao looked up at the voice and saw it was the young female doctor who had been standing beside the hospital director earlier.

In the blink of an eye, the young female doctor rushed up to Gu Jiaojiao. Her expression was foul, and her eyes were fixed on her in a death glare.

Her face was flushed from a combination of running and anger. Two braids hung at her sides, giving her a youthful and vibrant look.

The doctor looked to be about twenty-two or twenty-three, and the way she glared at Gu Jiaojiao, you would think they were sworn enemies.

Looking at her, Gu Jiaojiao had a sudden realization. ’This young doctor must be jealous of me.’

’No wonder her glare was so hostile. So that’s it—she thinks I stole her spotlight.’ 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Gu Jiaojiao deliberately put on a confused expression and asked, "Miss, is something the matter?"

"Shut up. It’s not your place to speak here," the young doctor snarled, glaring at her.

Gu Jiaojiao was speechless.

’I’d love to just jab her with a needle and be done with it!’

However, Professor Frank and the principal of Imperial University both took a step forward, positioning themselves in front of her.

Neither of them said a word. ’They probably don’t want to stoop to arguing with a nobody,’ she thought.

When the doctor saw that Gu Jiaojiao wasn’t responding, she turned to the hospital director and asked, "Director, how can this person be allowed to speak out of turn like this?"

The director, however, was not as clueless as the young doctor. He could see that both of the important figures they were hosting today were shielding her.

He frowned, about to reprimand the young doctor, but for some reason, he held his tongue.

The vice director, who was trailing behind the old expert, opened his mouth to give her a piece of his mind, looking up at Gu Jiaojiao in anger.

But then he saw just how beautiful the young woman was. In all his decades, he had never seen anyone so stunning.

The words of reprimand died on his lips; he found he couldn’t bring himself to say them.

For a moment, he was at a loss for what to say, so he simply remained silent and pretended he hadn’t heard anything.

Seeing that both the director and vice director remained silent, the young doctor was so furious she could have spat blood. She couldn’t stand the sight of Gu Jiaojiao even more now.

’Is everyone letting her get away with this just because she’s pretty?’

She shouted furiously, "What are you all standing around for? Get her out of here!"

She was the hospital director’s daughter. She had always gotten excellent grades, and in her school days, she had been the campus belle.

After graduating, she became a pediatrician at the county’s largest hospital, where she was widely acknowledged as the "hospital belle."

Now, a young woman who was ten times more beautiful than her had suddenly appeared. How could she possibly tolerate that?

She knew that today’s visitors were professors from a prestigious university, so she just assumed Gu Jiaojiao was nothing more than a college student with decent grades.

Instead of meekly following behind the principal and professors, she had the audacity to speak directly to the senior expert.

’The nerve of her!’ That was why she had angrily ordered people to drag her away.

Thanks to her father’s position, the male doctors and young nurses usually did whatever she said.

"I’d like to see who dares," Principal Shen said forcefully. Never mind the fact he’d only just learned Gu Jiaojiao’s true identity today.

Even if he didn’t know who she really was, the mere fact that Professor Frank considered her his mentor was enough reason for Principal Shen to protect her.

The young doctor looked at the principal with fear in her eyes but still mustered the courage to ask, "Excuse me, but shouldn’t she be punished for brazenly interrupting the experts?"

She was filled with rage as she spoke, forcing the words through clenched teeth.

It was because Gu Jiaojiao was too beautiful—impossibly so. She was the kind of beautiful that made all other women jealous.

That was why she was determined to find a way to get rid of any woman more beautiful than herself. She had to make her stay far, far away.

After she spoke, other doctors and nurses did indeed come running over. Feeling bold in their numbers, they were no longer afraid of causing a scene.

A young nurse tried to grab Gu Jiaojiao’s arm, saying, "Please leave! You’re not welcome in our hospital."

But was Gu Jiaojiao the type to just stand there and let them get close? Of course not. She sent one of them flying with a single kick.

Professor Frank also grabbed a male doctor who was getting close to Gu Jiaojiao, forcing the tall, thin man to stumble backward step by step.

The experts watching from the sidelines were dumbfounded. The young woman looked so delicate and fragile, yet they never expected her to be so strong.

It was completely unexpected. Moreover, the senior expert who had spoken first felt that Gu Jiaojiao had made an excellent point.

He shot to his feet. "All of you, stop! What is the meaning of this? The young woman wasn’t wrong. What she said was very insightful, and I was just about to ask for her opinion on the matter!"

The hospital director and his staff were speechless.

Gu Jiaojiao blinked. ’This renowned expert is truly magnanimous,’ she thought. ’No wonder his name would be known for generations to come.’

She replied, neither servile nor overbearing, "You flatter me, Sir. It’s no wonder you’ve achieved so much."

"Not at all, not at all. Compared to you, young lady, this old man still falls short. Your insight is extraordinary for someone so young."

"You old coot, you’re quite self-aware! Do you have any idea who our Jiaojiao is? Once you find out, I’m sure you’ll want her as your teacher," Principal Shen said, beaming with a pride that suggested her glory was his own.

"Could the young lady be Professor Frank’s personal disciple?" the expert asked in astonishment.

He knew, after all, that streptomycin was invented by Professor Frank’s grandfather, who was a legend in the medical world.

Professor Frank himself was a master physician, a titan in their eyes.

To become his student would be a tremendous honor. It wasn’t just the senior expert who thought so; the hospital director and his staff felt the same way.

Otherwise, why else would Professor Frank have immediately jumped to the young student’s defense?

But some with more cynical minds had another thought: the foreign professor was only protecting Gu Jiaojiao because she was beautiful.

This was exactly what the young doctor thought, and she was instantly hopping mad.

She was already jealous that Gu Jiaojiao was so much more beautiful than her, and she had been bottling up her resentment.

Seeing Gu Jiaojiao looking so confident and unabashed made her choke with rage. She shrieked, "You’re just using your pretty face to get your way!"

Gu Jiaojiao raised an eyebrow. "Why, thank you for the compliment. I happen to think I look decent enough myself."

The young doctor was livid. She pointed a finger at Gu Jiaojiao’s nose and spat, "Does being pretty give you the right to be so shameless?"

Gu Jiaojiao replied with a sweet smile, "How have I been shameless? And does being ugly give you the right to pick a fight with me for no reason?"

The young doctor was so angry she nearly coughed up blood. She was being driven absolutely mad by Gu Jiaojiao’s audacity.

She snorted, turned to Principal Shen, and said in a snide tone, "Just look at this student of yours. She’s utterly insolent! Are you really going to keep indulging her?"

"This young lady is gentle and kind. How is she being insolent? Seems to me you’re the one who’s been insolently causing trouble for her."

Upon hearing this, the young doctor burst into tears and ran off.

Professor Frank watched the doctor’s retreating figure and said in his less-than-fluent Chinese, "She is... a psycho."

"Haha... a psycho is right! And she’s wasting our precious time." The senior expert walked warmly over to Gu Jiaojiao and Professor Frank.