Chapter 163: Pretending to Be Sick

"Auntie, I'd like to interview you. Uncle Qin is a psychiatric patient — are you still willing to marry him? In TV dramas, it's always staying by their side no matter what, then spending a fortune to go abroad for treatment."

"He might have an episode and hit people — would you still love him just the same?"

Qin Zhenzhong frowned and glared at Su Xi in displeasure. How were the adults raising her? Look at all the nonsense she'd picked up!

Su Xi's expression was helpless — he hadn't taught her this!

Guan Xianxian lay on the bed, motionless. She had heard everything. She felt that Qin Yuanjun wasn't truly ill, but he had left with the Doctor!

Just thinking about this made Guan Xianxian's heart race!

Brother Yu hadn't told her what to do in this kind of situation!

"Auntie, it's impolite to keep pretending to be sick! Your breathing has gotten much heavier, and your eyelids are still twitching! Do you want to watch the video? You can see very clearly that you've been moving the whole time!"

【Qin Yuanjun really is a blind simp!】

"Huh? Grandpa Qin, you haven't left yet — then why don't you have Uncle Qin's fiancée come over! If this ugly auntie is willing to stay with sick Uncle Qin, things need to be made clear with Uncle Qin's original fiancée!"

【You can't have it both ways — what about my uncle?】

Guan Xianxian was a little nervous. Qin Yuanjun would definitely choose her. Qin Yuanjun's father was unwilling. Should she pretend to be driven off by Qin Yuanjun's father, or insist on marrying the suspectedly ill Qin Yuanjun?

Qin Zhenzhong thought it over. This matter was indeed very unfair to Rou Huiqing. It was rare that Rou Huiqing and the Rou family hadn't made a fuss all this time.

"I'll call and have someone from the Rou family come over."

He had to admit, Su Yu's remark about abandoning the main account and raising a side account had somewhat moved him. When he and his wife had Qin Yuanjun, they were already not young. People his age with faster timelines were already holding great-grandchildren. He hadn't even seen a shadow of a grandchild. If these two dragged a child along to force him to acknowledge them, he really might have acknowledged them for the child's sake.

Since he had this concern, Qin Zhenzhong wanted to clarify the marriage arrangements with the Rou family.

"But isn't marriage a matter between two people? Couldn't Uncle Qin's fiancée be pressured by the adults into agreeing?"

Su Yu sighed with remarkable maturity. "There are far too many cases of parents selling their daughters!"

Qin Zhenzhong said sternly, "What exactly have you been teaching her?"

The innocent Su Xi: …

"Grandpa Qin, that etiquette teacher who taught me before, Liang Lihua, was in this line of business. I understand you think kids shouldn't know about this, but I got punished a lot and heard a lot, so I super understand the rules behind it!"

【If they were truly a good family, they should have broken off the engagement when Qin Yuanjun made a scene pursuing Guan Xianxian! At the very least, they could have stated their position!】

Qin Zhenzhong: You're proud of getting punished and eavesdropping?

"The Rou family is a scholarly family — they're not that kind of people!"

【These families with cultural heritage break the most rules!】

【Host, that legitimate eldest granddaughter of the Rou family was also previously a student of Liang Lihua — she counts as your senior sister.】

"But among my former senior sisters, quite a few came from scholarly families! The Rou family's legitimate eldest granddaughter is one of my senior sisters!"

Qin Zhenzhong hadn't known about this.

"I don't have Rou Huiqing's contact information. Contact her parents — they will definitely come over!"

As a father-in-law, it would be improper for him to contact Rou Huiqing directly under normal circumstances. Every time Rou Huiqing visited him, it was together with her family.

【What's so difficult about this?】

"Then can't you have Uncle Qin call and ask her to come over? Once Uncle Qin's test results are out, the three of them can discuss it!"

Rou Huiqing's family was a scholarly household, but they weren't qualified to live in the grand compound — coming here would take some time too.

Qin Zhenzhong put on a long face and went to find Qin Yuanjun.

Su Yu saw that Guan Xianxian truly intended to keep pretending to the end, and she also found it boring. "Nurse auntie, remember to ask this pretending-to-sleep auntie for medical fees! Grandpa Qin, wait for me!"

Su Yu churned her short little legs to catch up. Su Xi, like an auto-following NPC, also followed along.

Qin Zhenzhong walked into the hospital room. "Call Rou Huiqing and ask her to come over. Be polite about it. Whether you end the engagement or not in the end, you owe this girl!"

Qin Yuanjun rubbed his hands together. He had struggled for so long to end the engagement, and the old man had never agreed — now it was just happening like this?

In front of Qin Zhenzhong, Qin Yuanjun gently called Rou Huiqing.

"She said she'll come soon!"

Qin Zhenzhong gave a long sigh. "Sigh, once the Doctor prescribes your medicine, take it properly!"

"Mm!"

Meanwhile, the Doctor looked at the test report, completely baffled. He suspected that Qin Yuanjun had no psychiatric problem, but rather an IQ problem. But an IQ issue — their hospital couldn't treat that!

He had previously sympathized with his older brother who worked at a private hospital, unable to bring himself to say that the patient had merely been sleeping. He hadn't expected that now the poor wretch had become him.

Qin Yuanjun claimed to have auditory hallucinations. If he produced a report saying there was no problem, would the family believe the report was correct, or that his medical skills were inadequate?

The Doctor paced back and forth in his office over a dozen times without figuring out what to do.

"Knock knock! Old Mr. Qin is pressing for the report. Give me the prescription list for the medication you want to prescribe in a bit — I'll check with the department head and then go to the pharmacy. Hurry up — Mr. Qin wants to take his medicine."

"Wait a moment — I'm deliberating the dosage!"

Why take medicine for no illness? No wait — Qin Yuanjun did have an illness. Having kneeled for so many days, he surely hadn't eaten well. He could prescribe some nutritional supplements. He was lovesick, so it could be "anxious attachment"!

The more the Doctor spun it, the more reasonable it sounded to him! Qin Yuanjun wasn't without illness, but he also wasn't as seriously ill as all that!

Coming before Qin Zhenzhong, the Doctor suppressed his guilty conscience and gave a whole spiel about anxious attachment, even throwing in some psychological terminology — the main point being that neither the Doctor nor the patient could understand it.

After finishing, the Doctor felt relieved that his life as a doctoral beast would end tonight. He was so good at spinning things — maybe he could try his luck at his brother's hospital?

"Can his condition be cured?"

Qin Zhenzhong hadn't expected his son to actually be lacking in love. At this age, let alone giving him care — the fact that he could hold back from beating Qin Yuanjun already showed he had a father's loving heart!

The things Qin Yuanjun had done after growing up were each more outrageous than the last. Qin Zhenzhong genuinely couldn't bring himself to give him the care the Doctor described!

"Mr. Qin's condition is currently not very serious and doesn't require medication to control."

The Doctor complained inwardly. If pills could cure lovesickness, that medicine would have been snatched up like crazy long ago.

"The key is still the individual's mood and certain overall changes in the body."

Breaking his legs might cure the lovesickness — or it might make it worse. But every person here was a gold nugget — who would be willing to test it out?

"As for whether it can be fully cured, it depends on the patient's subsequent recovery. The patient should try to maintain a cheerful mood."

Once he married her, perhaps he would no longer like her? The Doctor's inner drama played out in full swing, yet on the surface he remained perfectly serious.

Qin Zhenzhong looked toward the door.

"You heard everything?"

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