Doctor Wang almost passed out. In such a serious situation, the teacher still had time to joke.
"Teacher, could you please be more serious."
Old Han didn’t like that. He puffed his beard and glared his eyes.
"How am I not being serious? Don’t you understand how important this step is? If you don’t know, then don’t speak."
Did they think he was playing? Was he such an irresponsible person?
This was his apprentice, not someone else; he would never do that.
If there was someone to trick, it would not be his own apprentice.
At that moment, he moved.
Even before they could see what he was doing, Golden Needle had already pierced the acupoint.
Bai Zhi could feel that numb sensation mixed with a burning feeling.
Li Mo, "...", always felt that his teacher’s face looked pained.
As if it was swollen.
"Okay, okay. Let’s start, all focus and concentration."
The surgery was truly about to begin.
"Close your eyes and feel earnestly."
Old Han looked directly at Bai Zhi and spoke.
Bai Zhi didn’t say a word, just closed her eyes and started feeling everything this surgery was bringing her.
The initial numbness, pain.
Until the first needle was removed...
It hurt, terribly so. Years had passed, those needles, genuinely embedded in the body, had become part of it. Removing them felt like cutting out flesh.
Just as Li Mo was about to administer the anesthesia, Old Han spoke.
"Endure it, I know you can. We can’t use anesthesia, how else would you feel."
Li Mo looked conflictedly at Bai Zhi, whose forehead was already wet with sweat from her hair. She blinked her eyes, agreeing with Old Han’s words.
There was nothing she couldn’t endure. She could.
As long as she gritted her teeth, she could.
"Don’t resist the pain. What you need to do is accept and feel it, only then can you truly experience what Golden Needle brings."
Old Han’s voice rose again, urging not to resist. Because resistance would make you subconsciously fight against the burning sensation from the Golden Needle.
Only by feeling it, could you truly understand what it was like.
Bai Dan was not in the operating room; he had taken Bai Xin directly.
"Take me to find Bai Da. Didn’t you say he was also here?"
Bai Dan hadn’t gone directly before because comrades were present, and Xingxing wasn’t in the operating room, but now it was different.
It was time for him to settle accounts.
"Dad, you said my brother spoke so sincerely, Xingxing, she..."
Bai Xin didn’t want to doubt, but Xingxing had always been fixated on clearing this up.
"Of course, Xingxing is our family’s child. I am surer of that than anyone. Have you forgotten how well she treated your mother?"
Bai Dan glared fiercely at his daughter; those words shouldn’t have come from her mouth.
"Right, the bracelet, where is it? I’ll show it to Old Han."
He had underestimated Bai Da, under his watch for so many years, and he had failed to notice.
Was it that he had hidden it well, or was he getting old?
"We had it tested and then put it back where it was. Dad, you’re not thinking of seeing it too, are you? I told you, at that time, my mind was completely blank, extremely confused, it felt like my whole self wasn’t under my own control; it was Xingxing who pulled me out.
Even I, as a young person, felt that way; you better not."
It’s not that Bai Xin thought her father was old; it was just a fact—he was old.
"I don’t need you to teach me what to do. Just lead the way