You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

The ward was deathly silent.

The air was thick with the stench of blood.

The legendary S-class assassin, "The Silent One," was pinned to the wall with a cheap fruit knife, his blood staining the white wall red.

His eyes rolled back; he had already fainted.

And opposite him.

Lin Chen, the "wounded" person who should have been the focus of protection.

He was barefoot at the moment, and the large hospital gown he was wearing was fluttering loudly in the strong wind.

He casually grabbed the pristine white sheet and slowly wiped the bloodstains from his hands.

His composure and calmness made it seem as if he had not just been engaged in a life-or-death struggle, but had simply crushed a buzzing fly.

Doorway.

Su Qingge's brain completely shut down.

Her pride in her composure and logic was shattered in the face of this incredibly impactful scene.

The SWAT team members behind her, fully armed and holding assault rifles, looked at each other, their faces filled with absurdity and confusion.

who are we?

Where are we?

Aren't we here to protect witnesses and catch the killer?

What... it seems like the work is already finished?

Among the crowd, Li Mingyu's face was ashen.

First, his face flushed red with anger, then turned ashen with horror, and finally, he turned deathly pale.

He looked at the assassin on the wall, whose fate was unknown, and then at Lin Chen wiping his hands with the bed sheet. He felt as if an invisible giant hand was slapping him hard across the face from both sides.

My cheeks were burning.

"Qingge, don't worry, I, Li Mingyu, always handle things flawlessly!"

"This security plan, which I personally designed, is absolutely airtight!"

Every word of his confident and impassioned speech became a scathing satire of his incompetence.

Foolproof?

Airtight?

Now it seems like a complete joke!

"Lin Chen!"

Su Qingge finally snapped out of her shock.

She let out a cry of surprise and rushed inside without thinking. Her usually sharp phoenix eyes were now filled with only anxiety and worry.

She rushed to Lin Chen and nervously began to examine him from head to toe.

When her gaze fell on the back of Lin Chen's hand, and she saw the IV hole where he had roughly ripped out the needle and where blood was still seeping out, her heart clenched.

That look in her eyes was one of heartache so overflowing that she herself hadn't even realized it.

next second.

An uncontrollable rage erupted!

Su Qingge suddenly turned around, her eyes, filled with frost and fury, like two sharp swords, fixed on Li Mingyu's face.

"Li Mingyu!"

Her voice wasn't loud, but it was icy cold, each word sounding like it was being squeezed out from between her teeth.

"This is what you called an impregnable fortress?!"

"If Lin Chen hadn't been here today, do you know what the consequences would have been?!"

"The entire operation has failed! The witness is dead! We will all become a disgrace to the Jiangcheng police force!"

Each question struck Li Mingyu hard in the heart.

He was verbally abused mercilessly, but couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.

Shame, embarrassment, jealousy... all sorts of emotions intertwined, making him wish he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into on the spot.

"I……"

He opened his mouth, but in the end, under Su Qingge's murderous gaze, he could only lower his head in shame.

"never mind."

Lin Chen waved his hand dismissively and tossed the blood-stained sheet aside.

"It's just a minor injury, you won't die."

His nonchalant attitude made Li Mingyu feel utterly ashamed.

The two SWAT officers snapped out of their daze and rushed forward, hurriedly removing the "silent one" from the wall and binding him tightly with specially made restraints.

The assassin was dragged away as he passed by Lin Chen.

In his unfocused pupils, there still lingered an indelible fear and bewilderment that originated from the depths of his soul.

Lin Chen didn't even glance at him, turned around and walked back to his ward as if he had done something insignificant, and lay back down on the bed.

It was as if the man who had just kicked the door apart and subdued the S-class killer with one hand was not him at all.

[Ding! S-Rank Emergency Mission: Hunting the "Silent One" - Completed!]

[Mission Evaluation: Perfect! The host swiftly nipped the threat in the bud!]

[Task Reward: Divine-level Mastery of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Already Issued)!]

A system notification sounded in my mind.

The next moment, instead of a rigid indoctrination of knowledge, a mysterious intuition awakened in his mind.

It was as if a brand new door had been opened, and the whole world presented a completely different picture in his eyes.

The flow of Qi and blood, the pathways of the meridians, the balance of Yin and Yang...

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases, Compendium of Materia Medica...

Observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation; acupuncture, massage, cupping, pharmacology...

These concepts, which were originally vague and ethereal, have now become as clear as the lines on a palm.

Su Qingge followed them into the ward.

Silently sitting on the edge of the bed, she quietly took out cotton swabs and iodine from the first-aid kit and carefully treated the wound on the back of Lin Chen's hand.

Her movements were very light and gentle, as if she were afraid of hurting him.

Under the dim light of the bedside lamp, she lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes casting a beautiful shadow beneath her eyelids. Her stunning profile, which was always covered with frost, was now filled with complex emotions she had never shown before.

There was lingering fear, relief, shock, and even a hint of... a kind of admiration that she herself was unwilling to admit.

Lin Chen rested his head on his arm, watching her with a leisurely air.

Feel the gentle touch on the back of my hand and smell the faint fragrance emanating from her hair.

The corners of his mouth curved slightly upwards at an angle unnoticed by anyone.

This wave...

That's a perfect score for showing off.

It's a huge profit, no loss at all.