Chapter 794: Everyone fears him now (1/2)
Most of the people were waiting for Gu Beiyue to make a laughingstock out of himself, but they never expected him to be such a farce.
Memory loss and pregnancy?
Even if Hua Tuo himself were here, he’d probably burst out laughing too! The female patient seemed to lose all self-control as she glared at Gu Beiyue and kept repeating herself, “I want to change my doctor, I don’t believe you! I won’t!”
“Clan Head Ren, if a doctor can’t even earn the basic trust of his patient, isn’t that the greatest failing of all?” Department Head Huo asked.
Before Clan Head Ren could reply, Department Head Lin added, “Not only did he fail to earn the patient’s trust, he even lacks basic respect for her! Gu Beiyue, no matter how stunning your medical skills are, you don’t deserve to be a doctor! The medical academy’s medical skills competition is the most holy contest of the Apricot Woods Conference. You don’t have the right to participate!”
“Someone come, protect the patient and chase Gu Beiyue off!” Department Head Ouyang spoke up as well.
No one expected Gu Beiyue to lose so quickly and in such a way. This might end up being Medical City’s biggest joke in history!
The guards were already coming. Gu Qishao was completely lost as he wondered whether Gu Beiyue’s brains had cracked. Even so, he moved to shield the man behind him. Meanwhile, Han Yunxi knitted her brows as she seemed to recall something.
“Gu Qishao, what else do you want to do? The patient herself said that she wanted to change doctors. Are you guys going to force treatment on her instead?” Department Head Lin demanded, but he didn’t dare to step forward. He was afraid that Gu Qishao would step on him again.
“Isn’t this too shameless? That’s a unmarried woman right there. All she did was lose her memory, but why accuse her of pregnancy? Gu Beiyue, you might be a doctor without medical morals, but as a human being, shouldn’t you have some basic virtue?”
“Everyone, tell him to get lost. He’s bullying the patient! That’s uncalled for!”
As waves of emotion swept through the audience, many of them began to denounce Gu Beiyue. Tang Li and his wife, Medicine City’s Old Wang, Mu Qingwu, Luo Zuishan and the rest remained silent, but they didn’t stand out in support either. None of them could understand what Gu Beiyue was thinking.
When everything seemed to go out of control, Gu Beiyue simply ignored the crowd and looked carefully at the agitated old woman, the mother of the amnesia patient. His calm gaze seemed to examine and take in everything.
“Old woman, if you wanted her to forget, then why have you been trying to make her remember over the past ten years?”
What...did that mean?
The old woman’s face visibly blanched before she backed away a few steps, just in time to crash into her daughter. She calmed down and looked at her. “Mother, what is he saying?”
The old woman kept backing away to distance herself from her child.
“Old woman, think it over carefully. You can change doctors, but…”
Before Gu Beiyue could finish, the old woman squeezed her eyes shut and shouted, “She has been pregnant before, but she lost the child when she was unconscious! Only I know this, but I’ve never told her.”
The patient froze at her words. She looked at her mother in disbelief. “I...I’ve been pregnant before? I...who does my child belong to?”
As she asked, she suddenly grew anxious and ran over to grasp her mother. “Mother, whose child was it? Whose?”
The old woman was shaking. Before she could reply, the patient suddenly clutched her head and cried out in alarm. “Ah...ahhhhhh….I don’t want this, I don’t...ahhh……!”
Her alarm and fear was a reaction to the old memories that she’d purposely forgotten. Not only were she and her mother attacked by robbers, but she’d been taken advantage by the thieves. The child belonged to one of the bandits. With that memory restored, all of the rest came flooding back into her head. She knelt on the ground and clutched her head as she screamed, attracting the attention of the now stunned and speechless crowd.
Gradually, the woman’s cries lessened before she stood up. Unexpectedly, she was smiling through her tears. She turned to Gu Beiyue and bowed. “Doctor Gu, I’m sorry for just then. I remember now, every single thing. Thank you!”
Then she looked towards the old woman. “Mother, you’ve spent bitter years hiding all this from me!”
This…
What’s going on? How can this be?
The sudden shift only left everyone in the crowd clueless. Department Head Lin was the first to explode. “Gu Beiyue, you threatened the patient!”
“No!” the patient denied. “I really remember what happened in the past, truly!”
After that, she recounted everything about her birthplace, her origins, and the things she’d experienced. For the sake of the judging panel, the old woman had already submitted a record of the lost memories to the judging panel, who compared her accounts to the records and found that they matched perfectly.