Chapter 192 : Chapter 192
Chapter 192 A Famous Physician’s Diagnosis: Ning Cen Was Beyond Saving!
“Alas!”
Doctor Li observed Ning Cen’s condition and let out a deep sigh.
That sigh frightened Ning Dingyuan and his wife so badly that their hearts trembled.
Doctor Li was the youngest and most promising physician in the Great Qian Capital, the first eldest disciple of the world-renowned Divine Physician Ma.
Even a physician of this caliber had reacted like this.
Could it be that their Cen’er truly could not be cured?
“I have practiced medicine for half my life and have treated many people who suffered severe torture, but your esteemed son’s condition is especially unusual. I am afraid it will be difficult to treat.”
“How is that possible?!”
Ning Dingyuan refused to believe the truth. In agitation, he grabbed the other man by the collar and shouted.
“What is so special about Cen’er? What nonsense are you spouting?”
The physician’s judgment was like a death sentence.
It threw him into utter panic.
His son, the son of Duke Dingguo, could not be cured just like this?
“Why? Are your medical skills not supposed to be superb? How can you not even cure Cen’er?”
Doctor Li shook his head helplessly.
“Most of the patients I have treated in my life suffered from illnesses of the body, but your esteemed son’s problem lies more here...”
He pointed at his own head.
Aside from his physical injuries, Ning Cen’s problem was that he had suffered immense mental trauma.
This was not something that could be healed through ordinary methods.
Mental trauma?
With a boom in his mind, Ning Dingyuan recalled a certain secret anecdote.
Several hundred years ago, the Great Qian Jinyiwei had been at the height of its power.
If someone was arrested and brought into the Imperial Prison, it was basically equivalent to announcing his death sentence.
All manner of cruel interrogation methods were used there, and very few people survived.
Even if someone survived by chance, they would live in fear every day afterward, living a life worse than death.
Was Ning Cen’s current condition not exactly similar to that?
“Why did it become like this?”
No matter what, Ning Dingyuan was unwilling to believe this reality. His body swayed, and he braced himself against Ning Cen’s bedside.
“Cen’er, my son! Your life is so bitter!”
Duke Dingguo’s Wife held her son and broke down crying.
Doctor Li shook his head helplessly. “Your esteemed son was arrogant, extravagant, and dissolute in daily life. He did whatever he pleased... He grew accustomed to the feeling of controlling everything, and he also became extremely terrified of losing control.”
“After being thrown into the Imperial Prison and cruelly tortured, he would naturally be struck down more easily than an ordinary person...”
Doctor Li did not say the rest aloud.
Was this not simply because Duke Dingguo had spoiled his son too much, allowing him to commit every evil deed and develop an extremely self-important personality?
Someone who always stayed among the clouds would feel far more pain than an ordinary person when he fell to the ground.
How could nothing go wrong when such a person suffered a great calamity?
Ning Cen becoming like this was both the result of his own actions and the bitter fruit Duke Dingguo had planted.
“Cen’er! Father is the one who harmed you!”
Ning Dingyuan heard the implication and roared in anguish. However, rather than guilt, he felt more anger.
If not for Cheng Yu, so what if he had spoiled his son for the rest of his life?
The hatred in his heart toward Cheng Yu rose higher and higher like a surging tide.
“Doctor Li, you must save Cen’er!”
Duke Dingguo’s Wife loved her son dearly and had no mind for hatred. She cried out to the physician again.
Doctor Li shook his head helplessly. “For your esteemed son’s condition, unless my honored master were still here, there might be a sliver of possibility... My abilities are truly limited.”
“This Li is incompetent. I shall take my leave from you both!”
In truth, he did have the ability to attempt treatment, but after learning what Ning Cen had done, he could not bring himself to practice medicine on him.
According to his master’s rules, if he saved a beast like Ning Cen, his master would definitely expel him from the sect!
Even though he had already been expelled once...
Ning Dingyuan roared again. “Cheng Yu, I want your life!!!”
Listening to Duke Dingguo’s anguished roar, Doctor Li shook his head helplessly.
Then he quickened his pace and headed out of Duke Dingguo’s Estate.
He would not wade into these muddy waters.
Before he had gone far, he saw a dense crowd of people gathered not far from Duke Dingguo’s Estate. They were being blocked by the estate’s guards.
Yet their faces were filled with the excitement of seeing a great hatred avenged.
“Heaven has eyes! That beast who harmed my daughter has finally received retribution! I looked forward to it day and night, and I have finally lived to see that beast Ning suffer this day!”
“I do not know which benefactor among the Jinyiwei acted against that beast, but I will be grateful to him for all my lives!”
“I found out! It was Lord Cheng Yu, newly arrived from Jiangnan! He has the compassionate heart of a Bodhisattva, the man who once suppressed a rebel prefecture!”
They shouted sharply, tears mingled with sorrow and excitement flowing through their eyes.
That beast Ning Cen had finally received his retribution!
Doctor Li looked at this scene.
For a moment, his heart filled with countless emotions.
Just now, inside Duke Dingguo’s Estate, Ning Dingyuan had hated that Jinyiwei who harmed Ning Cen to the extreme and was determined to take revenge.
But Ning Cen ending up like this today—was that not also retribution for his lawlessness and evil deeds in the past?
Doctor Li thought of his honored master, Ma Minnong, who had once become strangely obsessed with such things after that incident.
Now, he felt he understood him more and more.
“Karmic cycles of cause and effect. Master was not speaking nonsense.”
Jinyiwei Headquarters Command Office.
The atmosphere here was far less intense than it was outside Duke Dingguo’s Estate, where great joy and sorrow filled the air.
On the contrary, this place had sunk into gloom.
Explosive news had spread. The newly arrived Commandant Cheng Yu had taken that lawless young lord of Duke Dingguo’s family...
And ruined him alive!
He had forced Duke Dingguo to charge into the Imperial Prison and break his son out, publicly slapping the Jinyiwei in the face.
Cheng Yu.
Just like in the rumors from before, he had once again become the core of an incident.
For the Jinyiwei, Cheng Yu had undoubtedly caused a major disaster this time.
Duke Dingguo’s son had been properly staying inside the Imperial Prison. When the time came, he would naturally have been released according to procedure.
Why did Cheng Yu have to provoke him?
Now Duke Dingguo had become hostile, swaggered into the prison, broken someone out, and left, fiercely slapping the Jinyiwei in the face.
These people did not understand the details.
Their perspective was very simple.
Since such a thing had happened, Cheng Yu, as the one with the lowest official rank in the incident, would definitely have to take the blame.
They could not help feeling somewhat pleased at his misfortune.
“Cheng Yu has already been summoned by Commander Lu. It would be one thing if he acted without restraint elsewhere, but I did not expect him to behave like this even in the Great Qian Capital.”
“He probably thought he could throw his weight around and show off, only to cause trouble and drag everyone into it.”
“I can see it now. He is definitely going to be convicted this time! That is just as well. He was acting as if the Great Qian Jinyiwei only had him, Cheng Yu, in it.”
As they were discussing this, someone suddenly saw Ai Peng walking over, and everyone closed their mouths.
This man had a good relationship with Cheng Yu. They could not wag their tongues in front of him.
Ai Peng had long since heard what those fellows were saying. Rather than anger, what he felt was more helplessness.
The people who could remain in the Headquarters Command Office in the Great Qian Capital and live in comfort all had some talent and background.
Their pride was far higher than that of ordinary Jinyiwei from the provinces.
When they encountered a dazzling figure like Cheng Yu, they could not even catch up to him by flattering him, so all they could do was slander him. They had no ambition to advance at all.
Was the Jinyiwei, and even the whole of Great Qian, not declining in the hands of people like these?
Rare indeed were people like Lord Cheng and Lord Zhao—men of outstanding ability and lofty ambition, who could accomplish what ordinary people could not.
“Sigh. I should go inform Lord Zhao of the situation first...”