Peerless Beauty – Chapter 105

Counterattack

Justice resides in people’s hearts

The day after coming out of the police station, Jian Qing closed her door to visitors, seeing no one except Lu Yinxi.

            

The person who used to wake up early without fail has now learned to sleep in.

In the morning, Lu Yinxi prepared breakfast, walked into the bedroom, wanting to wake Jian Qing up.

Approaching the bedside, the person on the bed slept with closed eyes, dark circles of a blue-black color floating beneath her eyes.

            

When she sleeps deeply, she naturally conceals the gloom and coldness about her, revealing a gentle and tranquil beauty, now with an added touch of fragility.

Lu Yinxi looked at Jian Qing, unwilling to disturb her, bent down to kiss her forehead, then quietly sat at the head of the bed, took out her phone, sending messages while waiting for Jian Qing to wake up.

When Jian Qing opened her eyes, looking at the somewhat unfamiliar ceiling, her gaze was a bit bewildered.

            

For a moment, she couldn’t remember where she was.

After a few seconds, she recalled that this was the residence near the university town.

She looked towards Lu Yinxi at the bedside.

            

Lu Yinxi lowered her head, looking at her tenderly: “It’s now 8:30, if you want to sleep, you can rest a bit longer.”

Jian Qing didn’t continue sleeping, sat up, leaned against the headboard, silently contemplating what to do for the rest of the day.

She was accustomed to being busy, with medical work, scientific research, teaching, previously wishing she could split each second of the 24 hours in a day into two, suddenly having free time, she felt at a loss.

            

She looked towards Lu Yinxi.

If she were alone, she would start planning revenge, to make those people taste the bitterness of a fate worse than death.

But now she had Lu Yinxi.

            

This person had said before that she wanted a stable, peaceful, and ordinary life.

She wanted to give her such a life, so that she would stay by her side, never leaving.

Jian Qing lifted the blanket, got out of bed to wash up, and went to eat breakfast.

            

During the process of eating breakfast, she found her next objective.

After Jian Qing finished breakfast, Lu Yinxi said to her: “I’m going out for a while, I’ll be back by evening.”

Jian Qing made a sound of acknowledgment, habitually reminding her: “Be careful.”

            

Lu Yinxi went to Director Yan’s home.

On the day Jian Qing was summoned for questioning by the Public Security Bureau, Director Yan’s wife, Aunt Xu, was also taken away, and her cousin was even detained.

Aunt Xu’s cousin worked for a multinational company, traveling all over the world.

            

After Director Yan was diagnosed with cancer, he, being kindhearted, created a mutual support group for fellow patients, often asking his cousin-in-law to help purchase imported and generic medicines.

Jian Qing had introduced Aunt Xu to He Baozhen’s wife, Mrs. Li, giving the He family a channel to purchase medicines.

During the hospital disturbance, He family’s relatives jointly caused trouble for Director Yan’s family, insulting Aunt Xu and those who purchased medicines, cursing that sellers of fake drugs deserve to die, accusing them of making ill-gotten gains, and demanding compensation.

            

The He family made exorbitant demands, asking them to compensate one million yuan.

Lu Yinxi smiled bitterly with resignation: “Director, do you know how much they’re asking Dr. Jian to compensate them?”

“Ah Qing, how much are they asking you to compensate?”

            

Jian Yan, having seen reports about Jian Qing selling fake medicine across major media outlets, came to visit once again.

Jian Qing sat on the living room floor, holding a small knife and a piece of wood in her hands, carving a human figure.

She blew away the wood shavings: “Four million.”

            

She initially didn’t want to let Jian Yan in, but Jian Yan kept standing at the door, calling her “sister.”

She felt utterly disgusted and let her in.

Jian Yan sat on the sofa, fingers tapping on her knee, pondering for a moment, with a smile at the corner of her lips: “That’s quite a sum, can you afford it?”

            

“If I sell the house, I can afford it,” Jian Qing said calmly.

“Don’t sell it, how about I pay this sum for you?”

Jian Qing glanced at her, then withdrew her gaze, focusing on carving the wooden sculpture: “A weasel paying New Year’s respects to a chicken?”

            

What kind of intentions?

Jian Yan said: “I want you to come back home to help me.”

“Continue being your lackey?”

            

“Don’t put it so unpleasantly, it’s mutually beneficial.”

“You have nothing I need.”

“Don’t you need to pay compensation?”

            

“I won’t pay, I did nothing wrong.”

“The old man is sick, he still doesn’t know about your situation.”

Jian Qing stood up, opened the door to see the guest out: “Rest assured, I won’t go back. Even if I don’t practice medicine anymore, I won’t fight with you for the family inheritance. Please leave.”

            

Jian Yan looked at her half-sister and asked: “Ah Qing, in your heart, do you think every time I come to find you, it’s only because of the family inheritance?”

Jian Qing lightly raised an eyebrow: “What else could it be?”

Was there any sisterly affection between them?

            

“Every time you refuse my help, I feel very sad.” Though she said this, Jian Yan’s face showed no trace of sadness. She took out a bank card from her bag, placed it on the table, “I’m leaving. Remember what you said, this money is to buy your promise.”

“Four million?” Director Yan slapped the table angrily, “They’re truly despicable!”

Lu Yinxi cursed along: “They’re just animals!”

            

Aunt Xu was released today, and after returning home, she cried in Director Yan’s arms.

She was a public school teacher, an intellectual, who had never suffered such great humiliation in her life.

Moreover, this humiliation arose from a moment of kindness.

            

Lu Yinxi apologized on behalf of Jian Qing: “Aunt Yan, I’m sorry, we’ve caused you trouble.”

“Silly child, it’s those bad people who are at fault, why are you apologizing?” Aunt Xu gradually stopped her tears, “Auntie is already retired, it doesn’t matter much, just suffered a bit of grievance. But what will little Dr. Jian do in the future?”

“I don’t know either.” Lu Yinxi lowered her head and sighed, “She doesn’t want to practice medicine anymore, I don’t know how to persuade her…”

            

Director Yan said: “I’ll go see her this afternoon, keep her company and chat.”

Lu Yinxi shook her head: “She doesn’t want to see anyone now, just stays at home, and hardly talks.”

The couple sighed deeply.

            

After a moment of silence, Lu Yinxi said: “I’ll take you to meet a journalist.”

Her visit this time was firstly to apologize to Aunt Xu on behalf of Jian Qing, secondly to take them to meet a journalist for some interviews; and thirdly, to find some cancer patients and their families from Teacher Yan’s mutual support group, asking them to come forward and say a few words.

The journalist was quite renowned, having previously exposed an unfair medical accident report on television, successfully reversing public opinion.

            

Since the incident occurred, the journalist had been seeking ways to contact Jian Qing, wanting to gather materials in person.

Lu Yinxi proactively reached out to him, cooperating with him, acting as a bridge and introducing various involved parties.

On the evening after the interviews, the journalist wrote an article and sent it to Lu Yinxi for review.

            

Lu Yinxi said: “Wait a bit longer, I’ll first lay some groundwork for you, spread some pre-heating public opinion.”

The journalist said: “Then I’ll polish it up even better!”

On the morning of the third day after Jian Qing left the police station, a police officer within the system published an open letter.

            

The letter stated that he was a family member of a cancer patient, his wife had breast cancer, and after joining Director Yan’s patient mutual support group, they found a channel to purchase medicine. After his wife took the medication, her condition improved significantly. Disregarding his personal career prospects, he pleaded for those who helped purchase medicines, for Aunt Xu, and for Jian Qing.

The leadership of the First Affiliated Hospital, to distance themselves from the matter, prohibited staff from forwarding or expressing opinions on this incident.

A typical practice within the system.

            

Ren Jiajia, who had just started her first year of graduate studies, couldn’t be bothered with these restrictions.

She was still considered a student of the school, under the school’s jurisdiction, and the affiliated hospital couldn’t control her speech.

Earlier this year, she had mobilized her classmates to report to the Medical Affairs Department that Dr. Gong from the Digestive Group of the Oncology Department had a terrible teaching attitude and made interns wash dishes during the New Year.

            

After making the report, she returned to the department and was ostracized and given the cold shoulder by everyone.

At that time, she stood there, not knowing whether to move or not, like an ant being roasted over a fire, constantly reflecting, what had she done wrong? It clearly wasn’t her fault, it was that instructor, so why were they all blaming her as if it was natural?

Back then, only Jian Qing stood up for her, came to her defense, telling her that in clinical practice, one must listen, observe, think, have independent judgment, and have the courage to overturn existing conclusions. What’s written in textbooks may not be the most comprehensive, and what senior doctors say and do may not always be right.

            

Now that Jian Qing was in trouble, she utilized her mobilization and organizational skills to mobilize medical students on various social media platforms to repost the police officer’s open letter and spread public opinion.

She also listed Jian Qing’s achievements in foreign aid and earthquake relief, and left comments on online platforms describing the incident from earlier this year, telling netizens: “How could a teacher who cares for students, a doctor who dared to stand up for me when everyone else was silent, possibly be a doctor with poor medical ethics who has lost their conscience?”

Lu Yinxi saw this comment, paid for water army to boost likes, keeping the comment at the top.

            

She locked herself in her room, drawing comics all night, using popular science comics to educate the public about this case, explaining that the so-called “fake drugs” were not fake in terms of ingredients, but imported drugs that had not obtained approval for marketing in our country.

She downloaded literature proving the effectiveness of the Tibolo (changed from Tibulizumab) drug, translated key English passages into Chinese, and made the clinical trial data such as AE, SAE, progression-free survival, objective response rate, five-year survival rate into a simpler, clearer table. She started live streams to educate, made promotional videos, and tagged medical self-media accounts. Medical influencers reposted and commented extensively.

Lu Yinxi’s number of followers wasn’t as many as the self-media influencer who had scolded people at the outpatient clinic, nor was her popularity as high as his.

            

But Lu Yinxi had the complete audio recording of him cutting in line and scolding people.

She released the complete recording, proving that indeed at the time — he had caused a big scene at the outpatient clinic after missing his turn, disrupting order, and later when his father started coughing up blood, it was still Jian Qing who stepped in to save him.

She also bought trending topics, leveraging the popularity of the video influencer, bundling marketing, and pushing it to the top of Weibo’s hot search rankings.

            

The purchased water army, marketing accounts, Ren Jiajia, Wei Mingming, and other student groups controlled the top comments.

Netizens flooded to his comment section to scold:

“The doctor saved your father’s life! Yet you kick her while she’s down, taking the opportunity to smear and step on her! Have you no shame?”

            

“Ungrateful! Wolf’s heart and dog’s lungs! You’re not human!”

“Did you take money from those troublemakers at the hospital? Making dirty money? Unfollowing!”

“You’re eating mantou made with human blood!”

            

Lu Yinxi applied the public relations tactics and methods of guiding public opinion from the entertainment industry here.

Public opinion gradually began to reverse.

This was the first shot fired in the counterattack of public opinion, but it was just a warm-up.

            

After the police officer’s open letter, another family member of a cancer patient stepped forward, pouring out the current desperate medical environment, where doctors dare not use available medicines, and patients cannot use available medicines, lamenting that medicine can save lives, but it can’t save the hearts of bad people.

Lu Yinxi switched to a different account and published He Baozhen’s family’s phone numbers, home address, and other personal information.

He Baozhen received a large number of abusive text messages and harassing phone calls from netizens.

            

“So you’re the scum who bites the hand that feeds you?”

“A real-life version of the farmer and the snake, kneeling and kowtowing when buying medicine, then turning around to bite after the person dies! Shameless!”

“The doctor studied for eight years, practiced for five years, thirteen years on the medical path, and a good doctor is ruined by bastards like you! You should die to atone for your sins!”

            

Mother He and Old He couldn’t bear the harassment and changed their phone numbers.

But before long, the new numbers were leaked again.

On the fifth day after Jian Qing left the police station, Lu Yinxi once again pushed the police’s announcement of not filing a case to the top of the hot search, proving Jian Qing’s innocence.

            

At the same time, the journalist began to publish long articles, fully restoring the course of events in a story format, releasing video recordings of He Baozhen’s family causing trouble at the hospital, numerous recordings of them insulting doctors, blasting the family as real-life farmers and snakes, criticizing the TV station for convicting the doctor without thorough investigation, and calling on the whole society to—

“He Baozhen’s family, instead of defending their rights according to law, recklessly insulted staff and disrupted hospital order. They should be sentenced!”

“TV station, has the authenticity and objectivity of your news been eaten by dogs? Pushing an innocent doctor to the forefront of controversy, chilling the hearts of doctors and nurses nationwide, blocking the life-saving path for cancer patients, forcing everyone in the medical field to live in fear. You should apologize to oncologists and cancer patients across the country!”

            

The pen is the gun in the hands of the cultured, and the narrative ability, emotional rendering, and mood mobilization skills of a renowned journalist are incomparable to ordinary people.

Lu Yinxi spread press releases across the internet: 《Jiangzhou City Fake Drug Case Overturned!》 and 《Reversal! Police Report Exonerates in Fake Drug Case!》 She also made promotional videos exposing the TV station’s broadcasting of Putian and false medical advertisements, bought a trending topic to display them, and hired water armies to continuously stir up the heat.

The reversed public opinion was pushed to a climax.

            

Old He and Mother He, dissatisfied with the police report, once again caused a scene at the Health Commission, requesting severe punishment for the doctor, revoking the doctor’s practice license and professional qualifications.

Unable to bear the humiliation, He Baozhen hired a lawyer and sent a lawyer’s letter to Lu Yinxi and the journalist, suing them for insult and defamation.

He also sued Jian Qing.

            

Jian Qing received the court summons, glanced at it and tossed it aside, as if nothing had happened, continuing to sit on the living room carpet, carving wood.

The evil dragon had shed its claws, no longer causing trouble, curled up in a corner, silently licking its wounds.

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LP: I’m still hungry, author-san! Feed me more~

            

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