She is the Third Kind of Peerless Beauty

Peerless Beauty – Chapter 106

by Little Panda

Farewell

Perhaps never to return again

The Health Commission, Health Supervision Office, and Public Security Bureau displayed the characteristic of passing the buck within the system.

The people from the Health Commission and Health Supervision Office said: “We have already given administrative punishment on our end. She broke the law, it’s a criminal case, we can’t handle it. It falls under the Public Security Bureau’s jurisdiction. Now the Public Security Bureau won’t take her in, we have no way either!”

Old Man He said: “You should revoke her practice license!”

The Health Commission leader spread his hands: “There’s no such regulation! When speaking and handling affairs, we must pay attention to evidence. There’s no evidence proving that your daughter-in-law’s death has a direct relationship with the medication. It doesn’t count as a medical safety incident, it hasn’t reached the standard for revoking the practice license. We must act according to the law, we can only give an administrative punishment of temporary suspension of practice!”

Old Man He then ran to the Public Security Bureau to make a scene.

The police at the Public Security Bureau said: “We also need to pay attention to evidence when speaking and handling affairs. She didn’t make a profit, it can’t be treated as a crime, we can’t file a case for investigation. This is a medical dispute between you and the hospital. Either you negotiate with the hospital yourselves, or find a mediation agency, or go to the Health Commission and the court. We can’t handle it either.”

At the hospital, Wei Mingming burst into a tirade: “If it wasn’t for you kneeling down and begging her back then, would she have recommended it to you? Don’t push your luck! She’s already been suspended, what else do you want? Have you no shame?”

Old Man He shouted loudly: “You dare to scold me? If it wasn’t for taking the fake medicine you prescribed, would my daughter-in-law have died? You are simply unconscionable!”

Zhang Yue pulled at Wei Mingming from behind, signaling her to say less, to avoid causing another scene.

Wei Mingming shook off Zhang Yue’s hand and continued to point at their noses and scold: “She was already at stage IV! Did you expect the new medicine to be a miracle cure that works immediately? If you want money, just say it! You old thing! Ungrateful! Wolf’s heart and dog’s lungs!”

Seeing that the situation was becoming increasingly uncontrollable, the security department personnel rushed over and also called the police.

Because of these few extra words, Wei Mingming took off her white coat and was taken to the Medical Education Department to receive a reprimand and write a self-criticism.

The police comrade came over and warned Old Man He: “If you continue to make trouble like this, it won’t be just a matter of being detained for a few days.”

After all the commotion, in the end, only the court accepted their lawsuit request.

But public opinion continued to spread. Medical workers and self-media in the medical field kept speaking out, crying injustice, bombarding He Baozhen’s family for their moral bankruptcy and petty behavior, bombarding the TV station for indiscriminately accepting medical advertisements from the Putian system, and for blackening doctors and the medical field without distinguishing right from wrong in order to grab eyeballs (attention).

At first, the TV station remained stubbornly unrepentant, refusing to admit fault, saying they were exercising their right to public opinion supervision.

The Administration for Industry and Commerce posted on their official website the results of Lu Yinxi’s previous report about the TV station broadcasting false medical advertisements. They imposed administrative penalties on the TV station, ordering them to stop broadcasting the advertisements, confiscate the advertising fees, and pay a fine of twice the amount of the advertising revenue.

After the announcement came out, CCTV’s 《Today’s Law》 also gave an objective and fair report on the fake medicine case incident.

As a result, the public opinion attack became even more intense, with netizens flooding to the comments section of the TV station to curse—

“A TV station that spares no effort in advertising fake medicine, a running dog of the Putian system! How dare you shamelessly criticize the fake medicine case? Suggest the Discipline Inspection Commission thoroughly investigate the TV station!”

“You are just troublemakers! The conscience of media professionals has been fed to the dogs!”

“Please give doctors justice! The deterioration of doctor-patient relationships is partly due to the instigation of media like you! Trash!”

“Infertility TV station, fake medicine-selling TV station, Putian TV station, I’m waiting for those who were wrongfully killed by you and killed by Putian treatment to come back and find you.”

Under the pressure of public opinion, the TV station issued a public apology statement.

The He family hired a criminal defense lawyer from a well-known law firm in the capital.

The lawyer came to Jiangzhou City, and after understanding the public opinion and the specific details of the case, refused to accept the He family’s request for representation, stating that public opinion cannot be defied.

Chu Yan came to apologize to Jian Qing, because it was his statement “can’t be used for now” that day that made the He family fearlessly come to make trouble.

Jian Qing wouldn’t see anyone else. Lu Yinxi told Chu Yan: “Take me to see He Bei’s parents.”

She and Jian Qing had once saved He Bei’s life, and He Bei’s parents still remembered them.

He Bei’s father, upon seeing Lu Yinxi, kept apologizing, saying: “I didn’t know it was Dr. Jian who prescribed the medicine at that time, and I didn’t know He Baozhen’s family would make such a big fuss. I’ve wronged you two young ladies.”

He Bei’s mother also tried to kneel down: “Auntie also apologizes to you, our He family has failed to repay your life-saving kindness!”

Lu Yinxi hurriedly helped her up: “Auntie, it’s not your fault, it’s theirs. You don’t need to apologize, but I want to ask you for a favor.”

He Bei’s father said: “What favor? Tell us.”

“I want you to help persuade the He family’s relatives not to follow He Baozhen’s family in making trouble anymore; also, persuade He Baozhen to withdraw the lawsuit, not to sue Dr. Jian. Now, no lawyer will take their case.”

He Bei’s mother said: “Our two families don’t interact much, but I’ve already gone to persuade them several times these days. As for the other relatives, I’ll also go talk to them these days. Some of them haven’t been to school and only knows that such imported medicine is fake. They think He Baozhen’s daughter-in-law died from taking the medicine, so they’ve been following along to make trouble.”

Lu Yinxi bowed in gratitude: “Auntie, thank you for your trouble.”

After resolving the issue with the He family’s relatives, Lu Yinxi went to the hospital again and spent a day and night with Wei Mingming looking for video footage. They found the segment where Wang Enyi was making unreasonable trouble in the department, copied it, wrote an anonymous report, and sent it to the disciplinary inspection department of his work unit. The report accused him of violating public morality, filial piety, public security management regulations, provoking troubles, disrupting medical order, and assisting the TV station in slandering medical workers without discernment.

Knowing full well that he wouldn’t receive any punishment or be fired, and might only get a talking-to from his superiors, Lu Yinxi still wanted to ruin his reputation within his work unit. She also used a virtual number to send him a message: “Heaven sees what you do. In the future, for any of your public announcements, be it a promotion or commendation, I will send a report to your work unit.”

Enduring for a moment won’t bring calm seas, stepping back won’t open up vast horizons.

He was ungrateful and helped those people ruin Jian Qing’s career, so she would ruin his official career.

Since the fake medicine scandal occurred, some people kicked her while she was down, while others offered help in her time of need.

Those to whom Jian Qing had intentionally or unintentionally shown kindness – Teacher Zhou, the old professor who introduced her to humanities books, Yan Miaomiao from the Emergency Department, Director Yan from the Medical Education Department, that female student Ren Jiajia whom she had once comforted, the disaster area civilians she had treated… all stood up to speak for her.

She was still falling into hell, but countless hands were reaching out to pull her up.

To win this public opinion battle, Lu Yinxi rushed about for nearly a month, contacting a large amount of human and material resources, almost exhausting all her savings.

On the battlefield of public opinion, she would receive tens of thousands of private messages every day, some encouraging, some abusive, and some sexually harassing.

Fortunately, her mentality had been well-tempered during her time as a celebrity, so she could still remain calm when seeing those malicious comments.

Jian Qing shut herself in her house all day long, not going out, not talking, only carving wood sculptures.

This was what worried her the most.

By the end of November, more than a month had passed since the fake medicine case occurred. Public opinion had completely reversed, but the administrative punishment would not be revoked.

Jian Qing still couldn’t practice medicine.

“For you, happy belated birthday.” Jian Qing presented a palm-sized wooden carving of an elk.

She had no art foundation, so the wood carving was a bit rough.

Lu Yinxi hugged the elk carving in her arms, looked at Jian Qing, and asked: “Do you know what I was thinking when I first realized I liked you?”

Jian Qing shook her head: “I don’t know, what were you thinking?”

Wanting to protect her, not letting her be hurt by anyone.

But she was still hurt by people of this world.

She chose to compromise, not to retaliate, just because of those one or two sentences she had said.

Lu Yinxi, hugging the elk, gradually reddened her eyes.

Jian Qing embraced Lu Yinxi, pulling her into her arms: “Don’t worry, I just need some time to recover.”

Silence, solitude, diverting attention – these were her ways of self-healing.

Lu Yinxi asked: “Can we leave this city?”

Jian Qing nodded: “Where do you want to go? I’ll take you there.”

She now had a lot of time to accompany her.

Lu Yinxi said: “Anywhere is fine, let’s go out for a walk, clear our minds.”

It was already November, and she didn’t know what would happen in another month that would lead to their deaths.

She wanted to take Jian Qing away from the people and things here.

Jian Qing agreed with a “okay.”

The next day, she returned to the hospital, directly submitted her resignation to the HR department, and went to say goodbye to the people in her department.

Wei Mingming hugged her and cried. Zhang Yue couldn’t understand: “Senior, you can come back and be with us after a year, the hospital hasn’t dismissed you, and now public opinion is on our side. Why do you want to resign? Are you not going to be a doctor anymore? We still have projects to do together, I haven’t finished revising my thesis, and Wei Mingming hasn’t completed her training. Are you going to leave us behind?”

Jian Qing patted Wei Mingming’s shoulder and said to Zhang Yue: “Mingming will be transferred to another supervisor, your thesis will be revised by other senior colleagues, and if there’s not enough manpower for the project, Vice President Hu will recruit more technical staff.”

Everyone in the department tried to persuade her to stay, feeling indignant on her behalf.

She didn’t say much more, pushed Wei Mingming away, and went to find Hu Jianjun.

Hu Jianjun asked her: “Is there anything I can help you with? Do you want to take advantage of your break from clinical work to do a two-year postdoc, either domestically or abroad? I can write you a letter of recommendation.”

Jian Qing shook her head: “I don’t want to be involved with biomedical-related work for now.”

A postdoc is not a degree, but a period of scientific research activities.

With her background in oncology, postdoctoral research would inevitably revolve around tumor-related topics, which she didn’t want to engage with for the time being.

Hu Jianjun asked: “Then what do you want to do?”

“I want to go clear my mind,” Jian Qing said, then paused and added, “Teacher, as long as the law doesn’t change, I won’t be the last victim.”

The contemporary medical model is a bio-psycho-social medical model. The root of doctor-patient conflicts cannot be solely attributed to patients lacking quality, education, or having extreme personalities. Individual factors, disease factors, social and legal environments, and so on, all need to be considered.

In this society, it’s impossible for everyone to be truly good and beautiful. In this world, there will always be scum and degenerates.

Like rats in sewers and cockroaches in corners, they can’t be completely eliminated.

After the harm occurs, after the public opinion counterattack, how to design reasonable systems and improve and perfect laws and regulations to prevent similar incidents from happening again is the urgent task at hand.

Hu Jianjun said: “Our country is still in the stage of medical reform. Uneven distribution of medical resources, medical insurance reform, doctor-patient conflicts, outdated medical legal systems… many areas are still like crossing the river by feeling the stones. Our generation, your generation, and Wei Mingming’s generation are all testers in this reform stage. Next, I will call for the quick revision of the 《Drug Administration Law》, advocate for simplifying and accelerating the approval process for new drugs urgently needed in clinical practice, so that patients can use new drugs as soon as possible.

Furthermore, I won’t approve your resignation application. Even if you don’t want to do clinical work anymore, you can continue to stay in my laboratory, focusing on research work in the future. Don’t respond to me now, just consider it as taking a year off. After a year, you can answer me whether you’re willing to continue in clinical work or stay in my oncology laboratory.”

After Chu Yan heard about this, he also came to find Jian Qing and asked: “Didn’t you say before that you’d let me educate you when I could pick up the scalpel again? Now I can pick it up, and you’re leaving. Just because of those people, you’re giving up clinical work, is it worth it?”

Jian Qing looked at him coldly, responding with silence.

Chu Yan advised: “Vice President Hu is right, don’t make a decision now. Think about it carefully. After a year, when you come back here, then decide whether you want to leave or not.”

After Chu Yan left, Jian Qing took a final look at the white building of Jiangzhou University’s First Affiliated Hospital.

Patients, family members, students, doctors, coming and going, in an endless stream.

She walked through the campus, where on the campus walls was inscribed the slogan “Health entrusted, lives in our hands, revere life, save the dying and heal the wounded.”

As she was bidding farewell to everything here, she had an inexplicable premonition that she might never return.

Having bought tickets to X City, Lu Yinxi and Jian Qing traveled light.

Entering the cabin and taking their seats, Lu Yinxi said: “I want to take you to see the snowy Ming City Wall.”

Jian Qing leaned back in her seat, resting with her eyes closed: “Just a bunch of bricks, what’s there to see?”

Lu Yinxi was taken aback for a moment, then said: “Then I’ll take you to eat delicious food. There are many food streets, and there’s also a sleepless city where many beautiful sisters perform.”

Jian Qing made a sound of acknowledgment.

The plane took off, entered the stratosphere, and flew steadily.

Lu Yinxi turned her head to look at the clouds outside the window, while Jian Qing also turned her head to look at Lu Yinxi.

Thirty minutes into the flight, a sudden emergency announcement rang out in the cabin—

“Emergency announcement, ladies and gentlemen, a passenger in the cabin has suddenly fallen ill and needs emergency treatment. If there are any doctors or nurses among the passengers, please press the service call light to indicate!”

…

The announcement was repeated three times, with no response.

Lu Yinxi turned her head back to look at Jian Qing.

Jian Qing, expressionless, stared at the service call light.

The author has something to say:

Ying (an onomatopoeia expressing a whining or crying sound), it’s 1 o’clock again, my little red flower streak is broken