Chapter 120: What Would Happen if You Lost Control? (2/2)

But instead of going home right away, she instead went to the hospital first. On the sixth day of the new year, the psychiatry department normally wouldn’t have been very busy, but this year, there was a big commotion in the department. On the third, they had accepted a new patient who was suffering from an emotional impediment. When she first entered the hospital, she was only a little depressed. But on the morning of the sixth, as the doctor on duty, Dr. Ceng, was performing psychotherapy on her, that child had suddenly exploded, saying that the doctor had teased her with vulgar words……

Because the girl hadn’t been exhibiting any serious symptoms when she first entered the hospital, she had been assigned to an unrestricted ward. And since her family was worried that she wouldn’t acclimate to her new surroundings well, they visited her daily.

And they had been present on the morning she had made her allegations. When they saw her make such a big fuss and repeat those hurtful words that were incongruous with what a teenager would say, they immediately believed her. In their anger, they rushed into the therapy room and started making a big fuss too.

When Cheng Xi arrived, the fight was still going strong. The patient’s family did admit that their child was mentally ill, but they had never heard her say anything akin to those words before, and what’s more, would a teenager even understand what they meant? So, it could only have been the doctor who did something to the girl, and the hospital had to provide them with an explanation.

Ceng Xing was red-faced from arguing with the patient’s family while the nurses were trying to placate the other patients and their family members. Because it was still a holiday, there weren’t many doctors on duty, and as the accused party, he was clearly waning in strength as he tried to argue against three people alone.

His only piece of evidence was the security footage, but that didn’t contain any audio. In the end, Ceng Xing had no way to prove his innocence despite his desires.

As the argument continued to grow more and more heated, the nurses even wanted to call the department head over. It was at the point that Cheng Xi finally stepped in. She walked over and authoritatively said, “I have a method to definitely prove whether or not Dr. Ceng actually said those words.”

Upon hearing this, Ceng Xing’s eyes lit up and as he wiped the sweat from his forehead, he ignored his earlier feud with her and called out to her. “Dr. Cheng!” It was a rare sight to behold, him looking at her like a savior.

Cheng Xi smiled at him while the patient’s family members looked at her suspiciously. “You? What if you can’t prove it?”

Cheng Xi obstinately replied, “If I can’t do it, then I’ll stop being a doctor. How about that?”

Ceng Xing became flustered and discomfited. “Dr. Cheng!”

Cheng Xi ignored him, continuing to look at the patient’s family. “Give me two minutes, alright?”

Of course that was fine. And with the patient’s family’s approval, Cheng Xi put on her doctor’s coat and went into the ward with the family and Ceng Xing.

Because of the earlier commotion, the patient was currently staying in a room with a single bed. She was sitting on it, and her face revealed traces of unease.

Judging just by her outer appearance, she was a beautiful girl, with an oval face in the shape of a goose egg and elegant eyebrows like willow leaves. Her skin was a pale white and her eyes were big, giving her look a delicate and refined look.

Cheng Xi made Ceng Xing and the patient’s family members wait outside. “You guys can all wait for me out here.” And then she pushed open the door and entered alone.

Ceng Xing saw Cheng Xi walk in front of the girl, spread her palms, and say something he couldn’t make out. Then, the girl became angry and yelled at Cheng Xi. “I’m not ill! I want to go home! Why won’t any of you believe that I’m fine? Would a mentally ill person know how to frame a doctor, to think as clearly as I have?”

Everyone understood everything now, because the door to the ward wasn’t completely closed tightly, so the girl’s words reached those standing outside.

Cheng Xi was even able to pacify the girl after that. In just two minutes, she calmly came back out, as if nothing had happened inside.

It was almost fantastical.

Ceng Xing’s face was red in embarrassment. It seemed like he finally understood the difference between him and Cheng Xi, and that perhaps it wasn’t just those extra few years that he had spent as a doctoral student.

After resolving this affair, Cheng Xi went to check on her own patient. Ceng Xing wasn’t thick-skinned enough to ask Cheng Xi what she had done, and it was one of the nurses on duty who ended up doing so. “Dr. Cheng, how did you do it?”

Cheng Xi casually replied, “It was very easy. I just showed her some pills, and then I told her that I was her new doctor, here to give her medicine.”

“Just like that?”

“Yes, just like that.”

“Then how did you calm her down?”

“Oh, I told her that if she calmed down, then I would tell her the quickest way for her to go home.”

“It was that easy?”

“Yes, that easy.” Actually, was it really that easy? No. It was just that Cheng Xi’s luck was pretty good, and that the patient’s mental illness wasn’t too serious. She knew what she was doing, and she was very clearheaded; it was just that she couldn’t control herself.

Cheng Xi was suddenly reminded of Lu Chenzhou. He also knew what he was doing, and he was also very clear-headed, but he had always been able to control himself very well.

If…… he didn’t control himself so strictly, and lost control even slightly…… What would happen?

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