"Pfft!"
Hearing that Gu Xiyan had hurt herself instead of others, Mu Jinyu couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"It's all your fault!" Gu Xiyan, upon hearing Mu Jinyu's laughter, immediately became indignant and raised her elbow to gently hit Mu Jinyu, "I'm in so much pain, and you're still laughing?!"
This time, Mu Jinyu didn't dodge and let her hit him.
It wasn't a heavy blow anyway, and since she was in such a pitiful state, letting her vent her frustration with a hit didn't matter.
However, although he let Gu Xiyan bully him a bit with her hand, Mu Jinyu wouldn't miss the chance to tease her with his words, snorting mockingly, "You had it coming. Who told you to try stepping on me?!"
"You... Ow!!"
Gu Xiyan was about to say something more, but the moment she raised her right foot, she was in so much pain that her eyes reddened, and tears started swirling in them.
"Oh dear, don't tease her anymore."
That's when Yu Linglong intervened, giving Mu Jinyu a reproachful look and squatting down to look at Gu Xiyan, who was leaning on Mu Jinyu's embrace, and asked with concern, "Are you okay? Should we take you to the hospital right now?!"
"Yes, please, I'm in so much pain I feel like my foot is going to break off!" Gu Xiyan said, no longer with her usual haughtiness, but rather in a pitiful tone.
"Alright then..." Yu Linglong, seeing the swollen area on Gu Xiyan's foot that was in high heels, also felt it was quite serious. She nodded her head and stood up to tell Mu Jinyu, "I'll go bring the car over. Help Xiyan into the car later."
Mu Jinyu suddenly spoke up, "Why go to the hospital and waste money to suffer? It's just a sprained ankle, I can heal you in a minute. Why bother with such hassle?!"
"You?!"
Yu Linglong stopped in her tracks, looking back at him in surprise upon hearing Mu Jinyu's words.
Then she suddenly remembered the second time she met Mu Jinyu when he wanted to add her on WeChat, claiming to be a Divine Doctor, but neither she nor Gu Xiyan took it seriously and promptly forgot about it.
Now that he brought it up again, could it be... he really was a doctor?
Oh, right, he also mentioned earlier that Mei Yinxue was looking for him for medical treatment? Could that be true as well?
"Can you really do it?"
Gu Xiyan didn't have the energy to argue with Mu Jinyu and asked weakly after hearing his words.
"You'll know if I can in just a moment."
Mu Jinyu responded casually, then looked up at Yu Linglong and instructed, "That thing... come here and support this silly woman."
Yu Linglong felt a surge of speechlessness when she heard Mu Jinyu's way of addressing her and corrected him, "My name is not 'that thing,' it's Yu Linglong."
Mu Jinyu nodded slightly, not seeming embarrassed at all, and ordered, "Oh, Linglong, come over and hold this silly woman; I need to free up my hands to treat her leg!"
And Gu Xiyan, hearing that Mu Jinyu wasn't even clear about Yu Linglong's name, inexplicably felt a bit of schadenfreude. Being called a silly woman by him didn't seem so bad after all since he did remember her name.
Seeing things from this angle, she realized that she had indeed made a fuss over nothing when she got angry with him for proactively asking for Yu Linglong's WeChat.
Thinking this, Gu Xiyan decided to let Mu Jinyu give it a try.
"Okay..." Yu Linglong was still skeptical, but seeing that Gu Xiyan didn't argue further, she still went over, allowing Mu Jinyu to step away and took her place supporting Gu Xiyan.
Mu Jinyu walked in front of Gu Xiyan, squatted down, took off her other high heel, and tossed it aside. Then, he reached out to grasp her delicate and fair right foot.
Gu Xiyan's little foot was very pretty, crystal clear, with faint veins visible on the top of her foot. Her five toes weren't painted with any nail polish, yet they emitted a soft pinkish glow. Her little foot twitched nervously in Mu Jinyu's hand, adorably like the young fruit of the cardamom...
Mu Jinyu, squatting down, placed Gu Xiyan's little foot on his knee. As he did so, he noticed that despite often wearing high heels, her heels were surprisingly void of any dead skin.
Shaking his head slightly to clear his thoughts, Mu Jinyu began to concentrate and channel his True Qi, then raised his hand to massage the swollen area on Gu Xiyan's ankle.
"Hiss!!"
Gu Xiyan felt a strange sensation as a man other than her father touched her foot for the first time, but before she could fully process the feeling, Mu Jinyu pressed down hard. The pain was so intense that tears streamed from her eyes, and she screamed:
"Stop, stop, stop, I don't want you to treat me anymore!"
"Ah! It hurts so much, let go, it hurts, hurts, hurts..."
"I don't want you to treat me anymore, hiss!! Get away from me!"
Gu Xiyan screamed miserably, attracting the sideways glances of passersby.
Yu Linglong supported Gu Xiyan, her eyebrows twitching as she listened to her cries, wondering whether to stop Mu Jinyu.
In her hesitation.
Mu Jinyu suddenly let go of Gu Xiyan's foot, stood up, and dusted off his hands, saying, "All right, try moving it. Can you move now?"
"Huh?"
Still howling like a pig being slaughtered, Gu Xiyan was taken aback at Mu Jinyu's words and his release of her foot.
Then, she realized that the excruciating pain, which had felt crippling, had vanished out of the blue.
'How miraculous!' Gu Xiyan thought to herself.
She then rose from Yu Linglong's embrace and tentatively touched the ground with the tip of her foot.
"Eh, it really doesn't hurt anymore, huh." Gu Xiyan exclaimed in surprise.
Seeing this, Yu Linglong also stood up, her beautiful eyes curiously examining the indifferent-looking Mu Jinyu, thinking that this guy really had some skills.
Who could massage a sprained ankle and have it be fine in just a few touches?
Mu Jinyu said, "Good to hear you're fine. I'm leaving now, don't bother me again."
After speaking, he turned and walked away without a shred of reluctance.
Initially, he had considered charging Gu Xiyan the one million yuan fee for treatment. Although a sprained foot was a minor ailment, rules were rules after all.
But then he thought about it—given this foolish woman's character, she definitely wouldn't pay him, and would accuse him of asking for an exorbitant fee. In short, it would surely lead to a tedious argument. And he found that too annoying.
Moreover, Gu Xiyan's sprain had a little to do with him, so after some contemplation, Mu Jinyu couldn't be bothered to quibble with her.
"Sigh, I missed out big time. I didn't get Huang Juhua's billion, and I treated that foolish woman for free. In the end, I only made three hundred thousand yuan from her but ended up subsidizing her seven hundred thousand!"
Mu Jinyu grumbled as he left.
Watching Mu Jinyu walk away, Gu Xiyan felt annoyed and cursed, "What kind of person is that, showing off just because he knows a bit of medical skill?!"
"His medical skill is definitely not simple; he really can be proud," Yu Linglong said with a serene smile as she observed Mu Jinyu's departing figure and then turned her gaze back.
"Oh my, why are you speaking so well of him?!" Gu Xiyan looked at Yu Linglong with annoyance.
Yu Linglong laughed, "I'm not praising him; it's just the truth. Now, I'm getting more and more interested in this guy. Say, if you really have no feelings for him, then I won't hold back."
Hearing Yu Linglong's words, Gu Xiyan felt an inexplicable sense of panic, but she stubbornly said, "Do whatever you want, it's not like I fancy him anyway!"