Chapter 1

Looking at the long queue in front of the clinic across the street, where patients were coming and going continuously, Jiang Fei glanced at his own clinic, which was so deserted that he could almost set up a net to catch sparrows. He couldn’t help but shake his head and let out a bitter laugh.

"If this continues, the clinic will have to close sooner or later!"

"Closing the clinic isn’t a big deal. But I rented this storefront for a year, and it’s only been three months. If I close the clinic, what other business can I do?"

"Plus, this room full of medicine is easy to buy but hard to return. If I don’t sell it, I’ll be in a huge loss!"

Standing at the door of his clinic, he sighed and lamented for half an hour, feeling melancholic. No patients came, and his legs even started to feel numb. Jiang Fei had no choice but to return to the clinic reluctantly and continue playing games on his computer.

Another day of idleness!

Jiang Fei is 25 years old and graduated from a second-tier medical university three years ago.

Originally, after graduation, he got a job at a large hospital's ophthalmology department through connections and by giving a lot of gifts.

In China, ophthalmology is one of the most profitable medical specialties.

As the saying goes, 'Golden eyes, silver teeth,' meaning ophthalmologists earn gold, and dentists earn silver. These two specialties make money quickly, with monthly commissions of tens of thousands of yuan being common.

Compared to other relatively profitable departments like cardiology, neurosurgery, and oncology, ophthalmology makes money even faster. Although these departments have high commissions per case, sometimes over a thousand yuan, they only perform one case a day, so the total income isn’t high.

Ophthalmologists, on the other hand, can perform dozens of myopia correction surgeries in a day, each taking just a few minutes.

The total commission for doctors is thus quite substantial.

Jiang Fei worked in this lucrative department for nearly three years after graduation. Although he didn’t buy a house, he did buy a nearly 300,000 yuan Jeep Compass and had a savings of several hundred thousand yuan in his bank account.

At every class reunion, his classmates envied him, thinking he was living a life of success and happiness.

Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last. Three months ago, Jiang Fei was fired from the hospital. The reason was simple: he offended the son of the hospital director and was thus given various excuses to be let go.

"Damn! In this day and age, being a good person really doesn’t pay off. If I had known how hard it would be to do business, I shouldn’t have gotten involved in other people’s affairs out of a sense of righteousness!"

Jiang Fei muttered resentfully as he turned on his computer.

After being fired from the hospital, Jiang Fei, after a few days of thought, decided to open his own clinic and be his own boss, so he wouldn’t have to suffer from others’ mistreatment.

The medical profession is still quite lucrative. After all, people will always need to see doctors and take medicine when they are sick.

Moreover, when you buy vegetables or clothes, you always like to haggle with the shop owner and might not buy if the price is too high.

But when you go to the hospital, you can’t haggle with the doctor, can you?

There’s no such rule!

Jiang Fei did some market research and asked some of his classmates who had opened clinics after graduation. He found that even if he opened his own clinic, it would still be quite profitable. Treating minor injuries, colds, and fevers, as long as the clinic’s location was good, earning ten thousand yuan a month wasn’t a problem.

Jiang Fei thought, "Alright!"

Since he already had some savings, he spent nearly 200,000 yuan to open the clinic.

For the first two months, the clinic’s profits were indeed quite good.

There were many residents in the nearby neighborhoods, but not many clinics. In the first month, his net profit was nearly 6,000 yuan, and in the second month, it almost reached 10,000 yuan!

He thought everything would go smoothly, and he could live a carefree life again, but fate had other plans.

At the beginning of this month, a new clinic opened across the street, completely unprepared, and directly and maliciously affected his business!

In less than a month, before he could attract regular customers, most of them were taken away.

By the end of the month, his net profit, which was nearly 10,000 yuan, had dropped to a point where he couldn’t even cover the rent!

"Is it just because she’s prettier? Is it just because she likes to wear black stockings and high heels under her white coat? Are you selling medicine or selling smiles?"

Jiang Fei got up and poured himself a cup of warm water.

Indeed, the doctor at the clinic across the street was a woman in her early thirties, with a good figure and a charming appearance. She had a child but still looked like a young girl, with a well-endowed figure.

Her long, black, smooth hair was always tied in a high ponytail, and the most hateful thing was that she liked to wear black stockings and high heels! Even if her medical skills were average, her appearance and attire gave her a significant advantage!

Jiang Fei, a big, burly man, couldn’t possibly compete with such a charming woman.

He lost without any suspense.

If it weren’t for the fact that she was a single mother and life was hard for her, Jiang Fei might have considered using some underhanded tactics.

Of course, according to patient rumors, the prescriptions given by the charming woman across the street were slightly more effective than those given by Jiang Fei…

After all, although Jiang Fei graduated from a medical university, he had always worked in the ophthalmology department, not the outpatient department.

He opened the game.

With no business to do, Jiang Fei spent most of his time playing a game called "The Wandering Swordsman" after opening the clinic each day.

This "The Wandering Swordsman" is not the novel by Jin Yong, but a game that combines characters and martial arts from countless novels.

The game wasn’t very popular, and not many people played it.

Jiang Fei didn’t consider becoming a professional player to make money. Instead, he had invested nearly a thousand yuan in the game just for fun.

After investing a thousand yuan, Jiang Fei was even scammed.

He had originally exchanged gold coins to buy some secret manuals and equipment, hoping to become a martial arts master and show off in the game.

However, his game account was taken over, and instead of buying equipment or secret manuals, his character’s various life skills were upgraded to high levels.

For example: forging weapons, plant cultivation, cooking, gardening, playing the zither, brewing alcohol, and taming summon creatures, all of which were already at high levels.

Opening the game interface, his character was in a large estate, and a series of prompts appeared:

"Beep! Your high-level spirit grass 'Seven-Leaf Lotus' has matured!"

"Beep! Your high-level spirit wine 'Jade Nectar' has been brewed!"

"Beep! Your summon creature 'Xiao Bai' has reached 100% loyalty after a night of soothing!"

Jiang Fei quickly collected the rewards with his right hand holding the mouse, while his left hand was about to drink from the cup of water.

Suddenly—

Someone patted him on the shoulder and said, "Doctor, it’s time to see patients! Playing games during work hours!"

Jiang Fei’s left hand, holding the cup of water, trembled, spilling a few drops onto the keyboard of his laptop, which quickly seeped in. He hurriedly tried to wipe it with a tissue, but it was too late.

"Buzz..."

The laptop screen flickered and then went black.

Jiang Fei wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but he felt a tingling current enter his body when he wiped the keyboard, causing him to be briefly paralyzed for a few seconds.

"Lin Molili!" Jiang Fei turned around, glaring at the woman who had patted his shoulder, and picked up the black screen laptop. "Look what you’ve done!"

A woman in a beige knitted sweater, almost as tall as the 1.8-meter-tall Jiang Fei, was standing behind him, her smile frozen.

"Broken?" Lin Molili asked weakly, looking as if she was afraid of being scolded.

Lin Molili was indeed a natural beauty, living up to her beautiful name. Her pale, oval face was radiant even with just a touch of makeup. Her large, watery eyes, without the usual false eyelashes or colored contacts, made people’s hearts race.

Especially when her cherry lips were slightly pouted, it was impossible to stay angry.

"Beauty is trouble! No wonder the director’s son wanted to do something despicable for this girl!" Jiang Fei thought to himself.

Lin Molili was a nurse at the hospital where he used to work.

He was fired from his high-paying job at the hospital because he saw the director’s son trying to drug Lin Molili and couldn’t bear to let it happen, so he rescued her.

Then, he was fired...

Of course, Lin Molili, out of anger and a sense of justice, also quit her job after Jiang Fei left. She now works as a salesperson in a real estate company.

However, her situation after changing jobs was completely different from Jiang Fei’s.

She was doing much better!

Lin Molili’s monthly sales performance was always outstanding, making her a top performer in the company. Her salary was absurdly high, about four to five times what she earned as a nurse in the hospital.

As for Jiang Fei, his main gain was Lin Molili’s friendship, and they became good friends.

"At worst, I’ll buy you a new computer..." Seeing Jiang Fei’s anger, Lin Molili quickly held his arms and pouted, her full, elastic assets rubbing against his arm without hesitation.

The friction made Jiang Fei’s heart itch, and he had nowhere to vent his anger.

"Your computer has been used for so long, and the configuration is outdated. I’ll buy you an Apple laptop. What do you think?" Lin Molili asked with a big smile.

"I know you’re rich now, but does that make you so great? Do I care about the price of the computer? I care about the bond I have with this computer! I’ve used it for four years and got used to it. Besides, do you know how many... things I have stored on my hard drive?"

Jiang Fei was about to say how many action movies he had stored, but he stopped himself in time.

Waving his hand, he said, "And I know my clinic’s business is bad, and no one comes to see me. Can you not rub it in? I have my pride, you know? Where are the patients? Where are the patients?"

Before Jiang Fei could finish speaking, Lin Molili pointed to the counter outside, where an old, sickly man was sitting...

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