Reincarnation - The Divine Doctor and Stay-at-home Dad

Chapter 8: Smelly Breath

"You... what... what are you talking about?" Gao Yan took two involuntary steps back.

"I said it's smelly. You know what I mean!"

Neither Lin Zhiyuan nor Lin Momo understood what Qin Haodong meant.

But Tang Tang hopped and cried, "I know! I know! Aunt Gao's breath really sticks. Once she did not wear a mask, and her breath smelled like fart and made me lose my appetite!"

The others then realized that Qin Haodong meant that Gao Yan had halitosis and wasn't referring to her offensive words. They had thought Gao Yan wore a big mask because of a doctor's natural obsession with cleanliness, but now they knew that she was covering up her bad breath.

Although she took no offense to Tang Tang's words, Gao Yan was so ashamed that she wished she had disappeared.

She didn't have bad breath as a child but somehow developed it in high school. In order to cure this unspeakable disease, she'd chosen to become a doctor. She had seen numerous well-known doctors, but her halitosis was still not cured and had even got worse over the years. Despite being quite pretty, she couldn't even get a boyfriend, because no man could stand her bad breath.

"Don't you believe in Western medicine? Why can't you cure yourself?" Qin Haodong addressed this question again.

Gao Yan gave him a bitter look and replied, "So what? Western medicine is scientific, but there are also difficult and complicated diseases that it cannot cure at present. You can't deny the role of Western medicine just because of this."

"Difficult and complicated disease?" Qin Haodong snorted with laughter. "Your halitosis is obviously caused by heavy stomach fire and gastrointestinal heat. In traditional Chinese medicine, this is a small problem that can be easily cured. But you don't believe in traditional Chinese medicine, so you've brought this on yourself."

"That's impossible. You're lying! I've had a standard examination of my stomach and intestines. There's nothing wrong. How could this be due to my stomach and intestine?" argued Gao Yan.

"That's why I said you didn't know anything about traditional Chinese medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine, the stomach and intestines is a system of passages, not organs as in Western medicine. It is precisely because of the limitations of Western medicine that it cannot find the root of your disease and ridiculously labels it a difficult problem. It would only take me a few minutes to treat an ailment like yours."

"What... What? You can cure my disease?" Gao Yan asked in disbelief.

"Yes! Of course! Doctor Magic is amazing. He can cure any disease!" Tang Tang yelled, clapping her hands. She was now the biggest fan of Qin Haodong. In her eyes, her Doctor Magic was omnipotent.

Gao Yan hesitated for a moment, then made a low bow to Qin Haodong, and pleaded earnestly, "Please, Doctor Qin, give me a hand. If you can cure my disease, I'll give you whatever you ask for!" Gao Yan had some faith in his medical skills now. What was more, she was almost driven mad by the disease and would jump at the slightest hope that it could be cured.

"Doctor Magic, Aunt Gao is so pitiful. Please give her some needles! If she hurts, I can sing a song for her!"

Qin Haodong lovingly stroked the little girl's head, turned to Gao Yan and said, "For Tang Tang's sake, I'll give you a little therapy."

Then he directed Gao Yan to lie down on the couch before he did acupuncture for her. For Emperor Green Wood, healing the gastrointestinal blockage was a piece of cake. Five minutes later, he put away his needles.

"It's over. Try and see if you still have bad breath."

"So soon?" Gao Yan hesitantly took off her mask. Then she put her hands together, breathed into them, and sniffed. She used to frown at her bad breath when she did this, but this time she didn't smell anything.