Chinese Medicine: Starting with Daily Intelligence-Chapter 75: Evidence Obtained

Xiao Fei and Dong Yingying continued their intimate entanglement in the bedroom.

Dong Yingying herself wasn’t a particularly skilled doctor.

She didn’t want to work on the front lines.

She wanted to become an attending physician, using it as a stepping stone to a management position.

"Hmph. So what if I made a mistake during surgery yesterday? The patient was under anesthesia and wouldn’t know a thing. That bitch of a nurse actually dared to call me out on it. I was so pissed! Thank God you stood up for me, darling, and gave that bitch a piece of your mind."

Dong Yingying traced circles on Xiao Fei’s chest with her finger.

"Of course. It doesn’t matter what the reason was. A nurse daring to criticize you is her fault, period."

"There won’t be any problems from us leaving the operating room for over forty minutes, right?"

"Don’t worry. Even if there is a problem, Teacher Xue will help us cover it up."

Hearing this, Li Xu was left speechless.

What?

Leaving the operating room for forty minutes in the middle of a patient’s surgery?

What kind of human being does that?

This was some serious drama.

Li Xu’s spirits lifted. ’Could there be even more dirt?’

The scumbag couple chatted for a little while longer.

Xiao Fei said, "I have an idea. Gu Xiaoya has unpublished research data on her computer. You can change a few variables, re-run the analysis, and pass the results off as your own."

"This... Can that really work? Her research is in ophthalmology, isn’t it?"

"Heh, are you silly?" Xiao Fei pinched her cheek. "Have you forgotten? Your undergrad was in economics. Then you did your master’s and doctorate in internal medicine, but your advisor was in orthopedics. Your dissertation was on imaging and cervical cancer. After coming to the Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, you went from urology to thoracic surgery. You’re an all-rounder who’s done surgery, gynecology, and internal medicine. What’s so surprising about you publishing an ophthalmology paper?"

"Hehe, you’re right."

"It’s a waste for her to just let that data sit there. You might as well use it."

...

Li Xu was completely speechless.

This scumbag couple not only betrayed their marriage but were also planning to steal academic work.

They had crossed every moral line.

He quickly adjusted his equipment, making sure to record every single word.

「At twelve noon.」

Xiao Fei and Dong Yingying left the villa.

Only after confirming they were long gone did Li Xu climb down from the osmanthus tree.

He checked the materials he had captured:

High-definition video: The entire process of them being intimate.

Clear audio recording: The complete conversation about the pregnancy, the divorce plan, and the plagiarism.

Proof of time and place: Filming data with GPS coordinates.

"This is enough to get divorced ten times over." Li Xu backed up the data onto three separate USB drives and stored them in different places.

Back at his clinic, he dialed Gu Xiaoya’s number again.

...

「At three in the afternoon.」

Gu Xiaoya had just finished her last cataract surgery and was washing her hands when her phone rang.

"Dr. Gu, this is Li Xu."

The voice on the other end sounded somewhat familiar. "Regarding the collaboration on the eye drops, I’d like to speak with you in person."

Gu Xiaoya frowned. "Didn’t we say next week?"

"There’s a special situation..." The person on the other end paused. "It might be something personal. If it’s convenient, I’ll be waiting for you at the coffee shop across from the hospital after you get off work."

After hanging up, Gu Xiaoya was full of doubt.

What "personal matter" could this clinic doctor, whom she had never met, possibly have to discuss?

However, since her teacher had put in a word for him, she decided to go and see what it was about.

If he was in a hurry, she would just tell him to find someone else.

She really wasn’t in the mood to research eye drops recently.

...

「At six in the evening.」

Gu Xiaoya pushed open the door to the coffee shop.

"Dr. Gu, over here."

Li Xu waved.

A flash of amazement crossed his eyes.

She was stunning!

Even though she had a daughter, her skin was still firm and her features were perfectly proportioned, captivating at first glance. She was even more beautiful than in her photo on the People’s Hospital’s official website.

Gu Xiaoya saw Li Xu as well.

A young, clean-cut man.

"Dr. Gu," Li Xu said, standing to greet her. "Sorry for the intrusion."

Gu Xiaoya sat down directly. "You said you had a private matter to discuss?"

Li Xu handed her a phone. "Take a look at this first."

On the screen was a video—inside the Dragon City Imperial Garden villa community, Xiao Fei had his arm around Dong Yingying’s waist as they walked into a house. The image of them kissing in front of a window was clearly visible.

The time stamp showed it was filmed today at 10:17 AM.

Gu Xiaoya’s hands began to tremble, and her throat felt as if it were clogged.

"The curtains in the second-floor bedroom weren’t drawn completely," Li Xu said softly. "There’s more conclusive evidence after this."

He swiped the screen. In the next video, what Xiao Fei and Dong Yingying were doing in bed was clearly visible.

"You..." Gu Xiaoya looked up sharply. "Why do you have this?"

Li Xu had already prepared his excuse.

He pulled up the audio recording and skipped to the fifteen-minute mark.

He pressed play.

"There’s this clinic doctor, Li Xu, who got lucky and perfected the ’Clearing Qi and Stabilizing Blood Formula.’ I offered him five million to say that I was the one who perfected the ’Clearing Qi and Stabilizing Blood Formula’... and he actually refused. Hmph... I’m so pissed!"

"She wanted to take credit for my paper. I refused, so she wanted to get revenge on me. I happened to discover she was being a homewrecker, so I started tailing her, hoping to find evidence I could use if she ever came after me... Today, I discovered that the man was your husband..."

As Li Xu spoke, he took a USB drive out of his bag. "All the original files are on here, including the high-definition versions with timestamps."

Gu Xiaoya stared intently at the small USB drive, her eyes suddenly turning red. "Thank you... Can I listen to the rest of the recording now?"

Li Xu sighed. "Are you mentally prepared? The contents... are somewhat... difficult to accept."

Gu Xiaoya bit her lip. "I can’t wait another second."

"Alright."

Li Xu started the recording again, turning the volume down.

The vile, insidious words of Xiao Fei and Dong Yingying drifted out.

"...The court will grant me custody of our child, too. She’s an ophthalmologist; what time does she have to take care of a kid?" Xiao Fei’s voice was filled with cold calculation.

Gu Xiaoya’s fingers dug into her palms, her nails leaving deep crescent marks on her skin.

Her breathing grew more and more rapid, and her chest heaved violently, as if something inside was expanding, crushing her heart.

"What about my paper? You said you’d help me get one published in a core journal..." Dong Yingying’s coquettish whine was like a knife scraping against Gu Xiaoya’s eardrums.

"Gu Xiaoya has unpublished research data on her computer..."

When she heard her husband nonchalantly suggest stealing the research data that represented years of her hard work, Gu Xiaoya clapped a hand over her mouth as tears streamed from her eyes.

She doubled over, curling into a ball on the coffee shop’s sofa, as if she had been stabbed in the chest.

As for Dong Yingying being pregnant, she found she didn’t even care about that anymore.

She just felt a deep, profound chill.

A chill so cold it made the whole world seem dark and bleak.

"Dr. Gu? Dr. Gu!"

By the time Li Xu noticed something was wrong, Gu Xiaoya’s face was deathly pale, and a fine sheen of cold sweat had broken out on her forehead.

Her hand was pressed tightly against the left side of her chest, and her breathing had become short and labored.

"My... chest..." Gu Xiaoya forced out the words through gritted teeth, each one trembling. "It hurts..."

Li Xu immediately turned off the recording and quickly paid the bill.

He helped Gu Xiaoya, who could barely stand, to her feet and half-carried her out of the coffee shop.

A night breeze swept by. Gu Xiaoya shivered, her tears scattering into the darkness.

"To my car... there are painkillers..."

Gu Xiaoya said, her voice faltering.

"Okay."

Li Xu helped her to the front of the car.

...