Volume One, Chapter Three: To Save a Life, or to Take One?

“Oh my God, how dare he!”

“He’s doomed, this kid is finished. The Qian family will never let him off.”

No one expected that Chen Fan, fully aware of Qian Youliang’s background, would still strike decisively, severing his arm.

This was an enormous disaster!

“My hand! My hand…”

“Don’t step on my hand! Don’t step on it…”

Chaos erupted among the crowd. Some tried to assist Qian Youliang, but inadvertently trampled on the severed limb.

“Quick, send Qian Shao to the hospital!”

Liu Mingshan’s forehead was slick with sweat. With Qian Youliang injured in his home, if Qian Hu pursued this matter, Liu would surely suffer the consequences.

Sending him to the hospital now could still allow for the arm to be reattached.

“Master Chen, you were too impulsive,” Sun Miao said helplessly, feeling Chen Fan was still too young and prone to rash actions.

After all, it was just a verbal dispute—there was no need to strike so cruelly.

Yet, he was also deeply impressed. He hadn’t expected Chen Fan to not only possess superb medical skills but also such remarkable martial talent.

Using his finger as a sword, the sword aura radiated outward—this was the mark of a one-star warrior.

Chen Fan, however, was indifferent.

If Qian Youliang were not Qian Hu’s son, he might not have acted.

Ten years ago, the Chen family was the premier noble house in Jin City.

Qian Hu was nothing but a dog raised by the Chens.

But on the night the Chen family faced catastrophe, that ungrateful dog bit its master with relish.

Now, Chen Fan had returned.

Some debts needed to be repaid.

Starting with Qian Hu.

“Xiao Sun, go check on the patient.”

Sun Miao, now a one-star renowned doctor, wanted to see how much Chen Fan’s skills had improved over the past three years.

Sun Miao sighed inwardly—Master Chen truly had guts.

To offend Qian Hu and yet act as if nothing happened.

Still, he had a plan: to bring Chen Fan into the Renowned Physicians’ Hall. Once Chen Fan was affiliated, he would receive their protection.

Even Qian Hu wouldn’t dare openly kill him then.

A quarter of an hour later, Sun Miao sighed, “Old Master Liu’s illness is beyond my ability.”

“What? Even Master Sun can’t cure him?”

“How could this be…”

Liu Yanran and her father, Liu Mingshan, were filled with despair.

They had hoped that with Sun Miao’s intervention, the old man could be revived.

But now…

“I have no solution, but if Master Chen intervenes, he surely can save him.”

Sun Miao had absolute confidence in Chen Fan’s medical skills.

“Mr. Chen, please, we implore you to act!”

Liu Mingshan begged, “If you can cure my father, the Liu family will reward you handsomely.”

“Five grams of arsenic, thirty cents of pinellia, one tael of milkvetch root…” Chen Fan listed a series of herbs. “Boil three bowls of water down to half a bowl, then have him take it.”

Hearing this, everyone gasped sharply.

Anyone with basic knowledge of pharmacology knew these were highly poisonous ingredients.

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