Chapter 186
The last item Chenyang wrote on the diagnostic report was "dizygotic twins."
From a medical perspective, this term has two meanings.
One is boy-girl fraternal twins, whose genes are only fifty percent similar.
The other refers to twins from completely different genetic origins.
In layman’s terms, this meant the two fetuses were conceived from Liu Mei’Er’s union with two different men.
The first scenario is quite common.
The second, however, has a probability of only one in a million.
Of course, while extremely rare, it was not unheard of.
Never mind an experienced doctor like Liu Yun; even Bai Jie, who had only been an OB-GYN for two years, had encountered it once before.
The reason she found it laughable was because, to her knowledge, the only ways to check a baby’s DNA were through invasive procedures like amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling.
Although the technology for such tests was relatively mature, the accuracy rate was still not one hundred percent.
’Even advanced instruments and technology can’t guarantee one hundred percent accuracy, yet Chenyang dared to draw a conclusion based on pulse diagnosis alone.’ In Bai Jie’s eyes, this was an absolute joke.
More importantly, Liu Mei’Er’s in-laws were a prominent family in the city, and her father-in-law, Elder Tian, was a major figure in the real estate world.
’Having married into a family like that, Liu Mei’Er would have to be insane not to remain completely faithful. She would never sleep with another man after being with her husband, and even if she did, she’d never let him finish inside her.’
If something like this ever got out, forget what Tian Xiangqian might do—Elder Tian himself would probably leap up and strangle Liu Mei’Er to death.
In Bai Jie’s eyes, Liu Mei’Er was not only sane and intelligent, but also incredibly shrewd.
After all, women who marry into powerful families are never pushovers.
And someone that shrewd would never make such a reckless mistake.
From this angle, it only further proved that Chenyang’s conclusion was wrong—and not just wrong, but laughably, preposterously so.
With that, she shoved the reports into Chenyang’s hands.
"If you hadn’t written that last line, I would have been the one to lose. But now, you have been utterly defeated!"
Before Chenyang could retort, she turned to Liu Yun. "Master, taking me as your apprentice was the best decision you have ever made. Recommending him as a doctor for our department, however, is the worst."
Liu Yun pinched the bridge of her nose. "Jie, your medical skills are excellent, and you have great potential, but you really need to work on this overconfidence of yours. Nothing has been verified yet, so how can you be so certain Chenyang is wrong?"
"A skilled TCM practitioner is forged through years of practice. Without that depth of experience, so-called TCM techniques are nothing but a scam!
But this man you recommended today is in his early twenties, probably fresh out of school. To put it bluntly, I doubt he’s even figured out all the body’s acupoints and meridians yet."
Bai Jie shot Chenyang a disdainful glance, her tone shifting again. "Forget about him diagnosing that final conclusion by taking a pulse. I bet even the basic findings before it were just lucky guesses."
Liu Yun sighed. "If you insist on keeping this attitude, then I’m afraid taking you as my apprentice was the worst decision of my life."
"Master, is my thinking wrong?"
"Yes! And it’s preposterously wrong!"
"You..."
Just as Bai Jie was about to argue, Liu Yun’s tone sharpened. "Do you remember the first principle I taught you on your first day in Obstetrics and Gynecology?"
"Be thorough with the diagnosis, be careful with the treatment, be honest with the patient, and be rigorous with the facts."
"And have you done all that?"
"I... Haven’t I?"
"Hah!" Liu Yun scoffed. "You haven’t performed the relevant tests on Ms. Liu, which means you don’t know the facts either. If you aren’t certain of the facts, what right do you have to say Chenyang’s conclusion is wrong?"
"Does that even need to be checked? Ms. Liu loves her husband so much! How could she possibly find another man? And how could she get pregnant with another man’s child?"
"That’s just your speculation."
"But it’s also the truth!"
"What you’re saying isn’t the truth," Liu Mei’Er suddenly said. "I’m not carrying my husband’s child."