Chapter 3104: 2900 Paradox

I get a nosebleed as soon as I get excited; my wife printed out our chat records and threw them at my face.

"What did you say?" Su Yun asked curiously.

"Ah, what else can I say..." the man crouched, one hand covering his nose, the other holding a cigarette, smoking in a rather strange posture.

"You... frankly, I think we might as well just split." Su Yun said, "You've been set up. Of course, you scumbag also have your own issues, can't control yourself. But I reckon even if you could control yourself it wouldn't help; your wife planned this ahead of time, she definitely has other tricks."

"Huh? Why?" the man blinked.

"Hurry up and smoke, first stop the bleeding, I'll explain everything from the start. You said you're bleeding; what if you really go into shock?" Su Yun threatened him, "First see a doctor, then we can talk about other things later."

The man also felt his appearance was very strange, strange just like this year's experiences.

Upon arriving at the treatment room, Zheng Ren didn't do anything; instead Su Yun opened the... and examined with a nasal dilator.

I originally thought I'd see a ruptured capillary or some inflammation, but Su Yun glanced and immediately said, "Boss, come look, what is this?"

Zheng Ren had already seen the diagnosis on the system panel, otherwise he wouldn't be so interested in a patient with a nosebleed.

There was a protrusion in the patient's nasal cavity; Su Yun lightly touched it with tweezers and the patient cried out in pain.

"The previous nasal congestion and frequent bleeding can be explained." Su Yun said, "Is this due to irritation from inflammation or a foreign object?"

"It's probably a foreign object given the location, but we can't rule out a tooth growing in the nasal cavity."

The patient listened to the conversation between Zheng Ren and Su Yun, feeling today was truly absurd, just like the experiences of the past year: a tooth growing in the nose, and discussing an affair with his wife for a year...

"Let's do a CT to take a look." Zheng Ren said, "Just looking with the naked eye isn't clear; there's mucosa covering it, so we need an auxiliary examination."

After giving the patient simple hemostasis and issuing a film order, Su Yun gave a few instructions, sent him for the examination, then called the CT room to have the image data uploaded promptly after the scan.

"Boss, what's going on with the tooth? Can you confirm?" Su Yun asked.

"There are none of the many symptoms of maxillary sinusitis, so a foreign object is more likely. But look at that position—doesn't it resemble a supernumerary tooth from the maxillary incisor canal, growing in the nasal cavity when lying down?"

"What would it have to look like? And you know dental stuff too?" Su Yun still felt doubtful, thinking her boss's words were too bizarre.

But we'll see when the test results come back.

Zheng Ren smiled, "I know a little."

"Just pretend, you say 'I know a little' from Hai Cheng to 912—are you still planning to go worldwide? Anyway, this guy is really unlucky." Su Yun sighed, "You say you got such a wife; if, as you said, a tooth growing in the nose happens, all these low-probability events coinciding, I think he could buy a lottery ticket and surely win the jackpot."

"It's still his own fault regarding his wife." Zheng Ren felt Su Yun's worldview was somewhat off.

"He's definitely to blame, but think about it—his wife went to great lengths to do this." Su Yun sneered, "You say a couple should just live peacefully; instead she pretends to be a spy, constantly testing her husband's limits for a year."

"Uh..."

Although it's a bit abnormal, Zheng Ren still felt the man was wrong.

"Hey boss, let me tell you: if he can handle this, more temptations will show up later. Anyway, I think this couple is both abnormal, especially his wife." Su Yun said, "You can't just live a good life; you have to test someone's limits. Who could stand that? I think 99% of men would collapse."

"Manager Zhou might not be like that." Zheng Ren smiled.

Su Yun thought the boss was going to talk about himself, but he brought up Zhou Litao instead. Upon reflection, Zhou Litao seems like someone who is especially aware of his own limits, and his thought processes seem off as well.

Otherwise he wouldn't have suddenly decided to temporarily stop looking for a girlfriend.

"Also, Manager Zhou probably belongs to the type who dies upon exposure; this guy can't even meet face to face. Even just chatting, his wife probably can't take more than a few sentences..."

As she spoke, Su Yun felt she had reached a paradox.

In the end, it's simple: Manager Zhou simply can't find a girlfriend.

"You're fine, just go home and rest." Saying this, Zhou Litao arrived, comforting a woman in her thirties, "Leave your number; if anything else feels uncomfortable, just consult me directly."

Zheng Ren shook his head; if Zhou Litao could put half the patience he shows patients into finding a girlfriend, he'd probably already be married.

After leaving the number, Zhou Litao saw the patient and her partner out, then returned with a very strange expression.

"Manager Zhou, what do you think is going on with that nosebleed patient?" Su Yun wanted to gossip.

Zhou Litao wasn't interested in his gossip at all, but quietly said, "Boss Zheng, Brother Yun, come to the duty room."

"Oh? There's still a story here?" Zheng Ren blinked, but saw Su Yunxing eagerly follow Zhou Litao to the duty room.

Upon entering together, Zhou Litao said as soon as he went in, "Did you two see that patient just now?"

Zheng Ren recalled, the patient's system panel showed nothing wrong, but her partner's system panel was very red; he had just been thinking about that paradox and hadn't examined it closely.

"What's going on?" Zheng Ren asked doubtfully.

"The patient complained of general fatigue, frequent colds, reduced appetite, and occasional fungal growth in the mouth." Zhou Litao frowned, saying, "At first I only gave her symptomatic treatment, advising her to take fewer oral antibiotics. But one day, while thinking about the old patients who frequently come to the emergency department, I suddenly realized I might have misdiagnosed!"

"Those are the symptoms of AIDS." Su Yun frowned.

Zheng Ren tried to recall, but he hadn't seen an AIDS diagnosis on the patient's system panel. Normally such a diagnosis would be specially marked on the panel, and the color wouldn't match, so it's unlikely he missed it.

"Exactly!" Zhou Litao immediately said, "Brother Yun, you said it—it's definitely AIDS! I thought the same at the time. When she came for a follow-up yesterday, I chatted with her for twenty minutes before calling her partner in for a joint examination. I just said it might be some kind of viral flu or something; in short, I tricked them into coming."

Zheng Ren knew Zhou Litao was worried whether the patient's partner had also been infected with AIDS.

"That consideration is quite meticulous; the work done... could even be said to be somewhat excessive."

"Today the results came back: the patient who came for treatment had nothing wrong, but her partner's test was positive."