Liu Xin and Qin Yingying were full of anticipation for this trip.

While discussing tourist spots,

Liu Xin added, "I heard some of the men in Stan Country are really obnoxious. We’re so pretty, you don’t think we’ll be in any danger, do you?"

Qin Yingying thought for a moment. "It should be fine. We just won’t go to any secluded places."

As she spoke, a hint of regret crept into her voice. "Sigh, we should have asked Wang Shuai to come with us. He could have been our bodyguard."

"Tch."

Liu Xin pursed her lips, a look of disgust on her face. "Don’t even say that. His eyes are always wandering all over us. I can’t stand it. Besides, it’s often the people you know who cause trouble. We might end up avoiding trouble from the men in Stan Country just to get taken advantage of by Wang Shuai instead."

"That’s true."

Qin Yingying nodded.

Just then, a sudden wave of dizziness washed over Qin Yingying, and her vision began to darken.

She instinctively brought a hand to her forehead.

"Xin... I don’t feel so good..."

"What’s wrong?" Liu Xin looked up and saw Qin Yingying’s pale face. She asked anxiously, "Are you airsick? Do you need some motion sickness medicine?"

"I took some before we got on the plane..."

Qin Yingying said weakly, "...I feel so dizzy..."

Before she could finish,

her eyes closed, her head lolled to the side, and her body went limp as she passed out.

"Yingying, Yingying, what’s wrong with you?"

Liu Xin was startled.

She shook Qin Yingying vigorously while frantically pressing the call button on her seat.

A flight attendant quickly rushed over.

She was alarmed to see the unconscious Qin Yingying.

But her professional training allowed her to remain calm.

She told Liu Xin to stop shaking the patient and immediately contacted the captain and the purser via the internal communication system.

Since there was no medical staff on board this flight, the crew held an emergency consultation and decided to ask the passengers for help first.

Soon, an urgent, bilingual announcement came over the cabin’s PA system:

"Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. A passenger on this flight has suffered a sudden medical emergency. The situation is critical. Is there any medical personnel on board? If you are a doctor or a nurse, please contact our crew immediately. We need your assistance! Thank you for your attention..."

...

In his first-class suite, Li Xu was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, trying to drift off to sleep.

The urgent broadcast rang out.

He opened his eyes.

He had often read news reports about doctors who, by chance, encountered patients with sudden medical emergencies on trains or planes. They would provide emergency treatment and be hailed as "heroes who rush into the fray."

He never thought he’d actually encounter such an unlikely event himself.

Although he couldn’t help but grumble to himself,

he still sat up.

Saving lives is a doctor’s instinct.

Since it had happened, he couldn’t just stand by and do nothing.

He took his acupuncture kit from his luggage, opened the door to his suite, and found a flight attendant.

"I’m a doctor,"

he said simply.

"That’s wonderful! Doctor, please come with me."

The flight attendant, looking as if she had just seen her savior, quickly led the way.

One after the other, they passed through the long aisle and arrived at business class.

Unsure of Qin Yingying’s exact condition,

the flight attendants hadn’t dared to move her, simply leaving her lying flat on the seats.

When Li Xu arrived,

he found a young woman already kneeling beside Qin Yingying, examining her.

Seeing the flight attendant leading Li Xu over,

the young woman looked up and asked urgently, "Excuse me, are you a doctor?"

"Yes, I’m a practitioner of Chinese medicine."

Li Xu nodded.

The young woman breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly, "Hello, I’m a medical student. My name is Cao Feng."

It was clearly her first time in such a situation.

Though she had bravely stepped forward, she lacked clinical experience. After examining the patient for some time, she couldn’t figure out what was wrong and was growing anxious.

Hearing that Li Xu was a real doctor, she quickly made way for him.

Li Xu didn’t stand on ceremony.

He knelt, gave Qin Yingying’s pupils and complexion a quick check, then placed his fingers on her wrist.

As he felt her pulse, Li Xu’s brow quickly furrowed.

The patient’s pulse was wiry, thready, and rapid.

Furthermore, the rhythm was erratic, intermittently showing signs of being hasty and knotted, with no discernible pattern.

In Chinese medicine, this was a typical pulse for "palpitations" and "severe palpitations."

The pathogenesis was a deficiency in the patient’s heart qi, compounded by emotional distress and excessive mental strain. This led to a malnourishment of the heart spirit, causing the qi and blood to fall into disarray, ultimately resulting in syncope.

The situation was critical.

He had to take immediate measures to regulate her qi mechanism.

The fastest method, naturally, was acupuncture.

Applying needles to the "Shanzhong" point on the chest and the "Neiguan" point on the wrist could open the chest, regulate qi, and alleviate the symptoms.

Li Xu prepared to unbutton the patient’s collar to facilitate the needling.

However, before his hand even touched her clothes, it was viciously slapped away.

"What are you doing?!"

A sharp rebuke rang in his ears.

It was the patient’s best friend, Liu Xin, who had stopped him.

Her brow had been furrowed ever since Li Xu had taken Qin Yingying’s wrist moments before.

Now, seeing him about to unbutton Qin Yingying’s clothes, she completely lost it.

"What do you think you’re doing?!" Liu Xin’s face was full of contempt. "Let me tell you, don’t even think about taking advantage of the situation to get your hands on my friend. Are you even a doctor? What kind of doctor starts by unbuttoning someone’s clothes?"

She even took out her phone, shoved it in Li Xu’s face, and said, "I’m warning you, what you just did could be considered indecent assault. If you dare make another move, I’m calling the police."

Li Xu was completely stunned.

He couldn’t process what was happening.

’What the hell?’

’Is this for real?’

He looked at Liu Xin, who stood before him, self-righteously risking everything to protect her best friend’s "purity."

Then he looked at the patient lying on the seats, her face already starting to turn blue from arrhythmia.

’This is absurd!’

’Lady, your friend is about to die, and you’re worried about her being "assaulted" by me?’

’You’re being so "good" to her,’

’does she even know it?’

’Does she agree to it?’

The flight attendant, the medical student Cao Feng, and the onlooking passengers were all dumbfounded.

’What kind of "best friend of the century" was this?’

’In her eyes, was her friend’s "purity" more important than her friend’s life?’

’Besides, the doctor was just trying to unbutton her collar to perform first aid.’

’What does that have to do with "indecent assault"?’

The medical student, Cao Feng, couldn’t stand it any longer.

She explained, "Ma’am, you’ve misunderstood. For us doctors, there’s no gender when we’re saving a patient. Besides, in Chinese medicine, emergency treatment often requires massaging specific acupoints. What this doctor is doing is completely in line with standard emergency procedures."

However, Liu Xin wouldn’t listen to a single word.

She retorted with a sneer, "I don’t care, I don’t agree. I’ve seen it on TV. In ancient times, when real masters of Chinese medicine treated female patients, they would use ’suspended silk pulse diagnosis’ to avoid any impropriety. Why didn’t he do that just now? He started getting handsy with my friend right away. It’s obvious he’s not a legitimate doctor."