Chapter 148: Caidie’s True Form
Qu Qiuming’s face grew paler and paler, beads of sweat trickling down his forehead.
“I… I…” he stammered for half a day, but nothing coherent came out.
Beside him, Caidie panicked. She clutched his hand tightly, eyes brimming with tears.
“Brother Ming, you don’t want to save me?” she asked in a trembling, pleading voice.
“N-no, I…” Qu Qiuming’s panic deepened, the sweat pouring from him like rain. Under the crowd’s increasingly puzzled gazes, he grit his teeth and forced out, “Of course I’ll save you!”
Caidie’s eyes instantly lit up with hope and joy, and she smiled sweetly through her tears.
“I knew Brother Ming was the best to me.”
But Qu Qiuming couldn’t muster his usual affectionate smile. His mind seemed to drift elsewhere, his thoughts scattered. Perhaps because of that distraction, this time he actually forgot to tell the others to leave.
He pulled a few silver needles from his robe. Though this case was unlike his past patients, that shouldn’t matter—he had healed everyone before; Caidie would be no different.