Empress, please lay down your armor, for I will save the world with a single sword!

Shangguan Na tilted her large, dark, and lively eyes to the side.

She glared fiercely at Wu Liang, gritting her teeth as she warned, "If you can't tell me exactly what's wrong with me later, I'll make you pay!"

Wu Liang wasn't intimidated by her threat at all; instead, he burst out laughing.

He leaned back and retorted loudly, "Oh? What if I've correctly diagnosed your ailment?"

"That would be best. It would save your life."

Shangguan Na snorted coldly, raising her chin slightly. "Besides, if you are cured, you will naturally receive a generous reward."

"Alright, stop wasting time talking tough."

Wu Liangyi remained unfazed, but his tone grew impatient. "The longer you delay treating this illness, the more complicated it becomes to cure, and the more deadly it becomes when it flares up. If you don't want to experience that excruciating pain again... stick your tongue out now. Let me see it clearly so I can prescribe the right medicine."

Shangguan Na's eyes suddenly flashed.

A wave of surprise washed over her. He... he really figured it out?!

To know,

In the past, the so-called renowned doctors her family hired would repeatedly take her pulse and ask her many roundabout questions before daring to make a vague diagnosis.

This guy just took my pulse and didn't ask any unnecessary questions, yet he knew what was wrong with me?

snort!

I want to see if you're just putting on an act or trying to be mysterious!

Shangguan Na glared at Wu Liang fiercely once again.

Then, an extremely unnatural blush, tinged with embarrassment, appeared on her delicate and pretty face. Her eyes darted away slightly, and she reluctantly opened her rosy lips.

She even subconsciously lowered her thick eyelashes, not daring to look into Wu Liang's eyes, as if this would lessen the shame of being exposed.

Then, little by little, she cautiously and uncomfortably poked out that tender, soft tip of her tongue, as delicate as a lilac stamen.

At that moment, the private room became extremely quiet.

The beauty stuck out her tongue, yet her face wore a conflicted expression of shame and indignation, a mixture of wanting to refuse and welcoming.

Sunlight streamed through the window paper, softly illuminating her face, making her skin appear like jade, her cheeks flushed, and her long eyelashes tremble.

The slightly parted lips and the protruding tip of her rosy tongue created an extremely enchanting scene, yet also carried a strange and taboo feel.

In the air,

It seemed as if a faint, sweet, girlish fragrance and an awkwardness permeated the air.

On the surface, Wu Liang remained calm and composed, adopting the serious demeanor of an old Chinese medicine doctor observing a pathological condition, and even leaned forward slightly to cooperate.

In reality, he was secretly overjoyed and chuckling to himself.

You little brat, trying to act all high and mighty with me?

My men even threatened me?

How are things now?

You still have to obediently open your mouth and stick out your tongue for me to see, right?!

He composed himself and carefully examined Shangguan Na's delicate tongue, observing the color, thickness, moisture, and subtle changes in its shape.

In short, he was extremely serious.

Yes, I knew it.

His diagnosis based on pulse diagnosis was almost entirely accurate.

In fact, Wu Liang had already figured out most of the problems with this young woman as soon as he took her pulse.

From the first moment he saw Shangguan Na, he felt something was wrong.

Too pale!

It's not the pampered, sunless white; it's a white that has an air of emptiness, like fine Xuan paper—beautiful, yes, but always seems to lack color underneath, thin and a little eerie.

When I took his pulse just now, his fingers felt icy cold.

The pulse was very weak and feeble, indicating a severe deficiency of qi and blood, and insufficient yang qi.

Wu Liang knew perfectly well what these symptoms pointed to when they came together.

It's just the usual troubles women face. Inside and outside the palace, in big and small households, countless young women have been tormented to the point of near death by this.

However, Shangguan Na's condition is probably much more serious than that of the average person.

However, while he was there to see a doctor, Wu Liang was not about to let go of the opportunity to torment her after being threatened by the master and servant.

He adopted a serious expression, as if he had encountered some rare and difficult disease, and leaned closer, his brows furrowing slightly: "Hmm... I can't see clearly, stretch it out a bit more."

Shangguan Na could only blush and stretch her arm out a little further.

"No, curl your tongue tip upwards, I need to check the back of your tongue," Wu Liang continued to instruct seriously.

Shangguan Na's face was now flushed red to the roots of her neck, and she felt extremely uncomfortable.

She thought she could just glance at him and be done with it, but who knew this guy would keep going on and on, telling her to stretch out one minute and roll up the next, as if he thought she was a street performer!

She kept a straight face, suppressing her embarrassment, and tried to curl her tongue upwards, feeling a slight soreness in the corners of her mouth.

Wu Liang squinted, leaned closer, and instructed, "Don't stretch it out horizontally, stretch it out a little longer."

Shangguan Na: "..."

The embarrassment and shame were simply too much to bear.

With a sharp "smack," Shangguan Na shut her mouth abruptly, gritting her teeth and shouting angrily, "Are you ever going to stop?! My tongue's getting sore from holding it up! Do you even know how to read?!"

Wu Liang was secretly overjoyed, but he quickly waved his hand to reassure her, "Almost there, almost done. Medical principles are rigorous, so let me see just a little bit more..."

"Don't stretch!"

Shangguan Na's arrogant temper flared up completely. She pursed her lips tightly and coldly questioned, "After looking for so long, have you even figured out my illness? If you dare to lie to me here, I'll immediately let Batel in and chop you up to feed the dogs!"

Faced with this aggressive threat, Wu Liang remained unperturbed. He leaned back in his chair and said slowly, "During your period, does your lower abdomen... always hurt terribly?"

boom!

Shangguan Na froze instantly, stunned on the spot.

It's more than just painful!

That was absolutely excruciating pain!

Especially in the last year or two, it feels like a rusty saw is tearing at my stomach, each time more excruciating than the last.

Before she could come to her senses,

Wu Liang tapped his fingers lightly on the table, then said casually, "Do you usually avoid even touching anything cold? If you indulge in a little bit of cold food, your lower abdomen immediately cramps up?"

Shangguan Na couldn't hold back any longer. She nodded repeatedly, her voice trembling with excitement, "Yes! Absolutely right! What exactly is my illness? Can it be cured?"

"The root cause of this condition lies in the qi and blood."

Wu Liang glanced at her indifferently and explained, "A woman's menstrual cycle is a normal process of replenishing and depleting Qi and blood. However, your Qi and blood circulation is not smooth, and they are stagnant in the uterus... that is, in the lower abdomen. Where there is no flow, there is pain, so you are experiencing severe pain. If this continues, not only will the pain intensify, but it will also damage the foundation of your body."

Shangguan Na, as if grasping at a straw, asked again urgently, "Can it be cured? I wasn't in this much pain before, but in the last year or two, it's gotten worse and worse, each time more excruciating! And...and..."

She stopped mid-sentence, her cheeks flushed bright red, almost to the point of bleeding, and even the tips of her ears turned bright red.

The unspeakable shame and embarrassment made her want to crawl into a hole and disappear immediately.

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