Female Star's Personal Bodyguard

Ye Chen returned to his room, tossed the bags of clothes to one side, and stood in front of a large mirror, quietly sizing himself up.

At last, Ye Chen reached a conclusion, he was just too handsome, capable of making countless young girls swoon!

Zhang Xinlan, the famous beauty of the economics world, had been swept off her feet by Ye Chen, and the feeling was simply too great!

"Ye Chen, come here quickly!"

Just as Ye Chen wallowed in self-admiration, Zhang Xinlan's urgent call reached his ears.

"I'm too handsome, too charming, the goddess can't stand a moment without me!" Zhang Xinlan praised his reflection in the mirror.

Ye Chen strutted over with his head held high, the goddess was summoning him impatiently.

"Ye Chen, come take a look at Shihua, I can't wake her up no matter how much I call her!" Zhang Xinlan was already in tears when she saw Ye Chen, grabbing onto him like a lifeline.

Just a moment ago, Zhang Xinlan wanted to tease Liu Shihua, but no matter how daring her teasing was, Liu Shihua remained deep in sleep with no sign of waking up.

This struck Zhang Xinlan like a thunderbolt, something had happened to Liu Shihua!

Seeing Zhang Xinlan crying as if her heart would break, and Liu Shihua still in a deep, unwakeable sleep, Ye Chen was stunned, his mind cleared of all complex thoughts, wondering what on earth was happening.

"I heard Auntie say you know medical techniques, please come and save her!" Zhang Xinlan was nearly sobbing, she treated Liu Shihua like her own sister and couldn't imagine how distraught she would be if something terrible happened to her.

"Alright, you go rest over there, don't worry, she's not in any life-threatening danger!" Ye Chen consoled her.

The household skills of traditional Chinese medicine are observation, listening and smelling, questioning, and pulse-taking, so with one look, Ye Chen knew Liu Shihua's vital signs were very stable.

Zhang Xinlan, with tears streaming down her face, nodded and stepped back, not daring to delay Ye Chen's diagnosis.

Ye Chen frowned, he had always been at Liu Shihua's side, this big star was suddenly afflicted with a disease without any warning whatsoever!

Ye Chen flipped Liu Shihua's eyelids, inspected her tongue coating, felt her breath, and finally focused on taking her pulse.

Liu Shihua's symptoms were very strange, he had never encountered such an illness before, there were no apparent pathological changes in her body, and her vital signs were stable, but she remained in deep sleep!

"Strange!" Ye Chen furrowed his brow.

"Ye Chen, how is she?" Zhang Xinlan asked anxiously, her faith in Ye Chen was blind.

"It's nothing." Ye Chen shook his head. "I'll give her a thorough check to find the problem."

The 'thorough check' Ye Chen spoke of meant releasing True Qi, covering Liu Shihua with it, akin to taking an X-ray, allowing him to peer into the most fundamental structures within the human body.

This was equivalent to opening the heavenly eye to inspect physical structures, a feat beyond the reach of any but those within the Grandmaster Realm of martial practitioners.

"So that's how it is!" Finally, Ye Chen withdrew his hands, this level of detection was also a considerable burden for him.

"What's wrong with her in the end?" Zhang Xinlan asked urgently.

"She seems to suffer from a latent disease, referred to as 'deep sleep syndrome,' extremely rare and unique!" Ye Chen said, his brows still tightly knit.

"Is it serious?" Zhang Xinlan asked nervously.

"Deep sleep syndrome is subtle, its severity varies; mild cases recover quickly from a brief sleep, but severe cases might fall into a sleep from which they never awaken!" Ye Chen explained.

"What! There's actually such a disease in the world!" Zhang Xinlan couldn't believe it, it seemed too legendary!

"That is indeed the case." Ye Chen said solemnly.

Ye Chen was initially puzzled as to why Liu Shihua, with her steady life force, would fall into such a deep sleep and not wake up?

However, when his True Qi probed into Liu Shihua's brain and neurological system, he spotted some problems and recalled a symptom described in the Tianshi Medical Classic: deep sleep syndrome.

"Is Shihua suffering from a mild or severe condition?" Zhang Xinlan gently massaged her temples, still struggling to digest Ye Chen's diagnosis. "Can you wake her up?"

"Yes!" Ye Chen replied confidently.

Sleeping sickness was a challenging puzzle for modern science, but it was trivial for Ye Chen, for the Martial True Qi he had cultivated was the very nemesis of sleeping sickness. All he needed to do was to slightly stimulate Liu Shihua's brain, and she would wake up on her own.

"Then hurry and wake her up!" implored Zhang Xinlan.

Ye Chen nodded and then fell silent, considering how best to stimulate Liu Shihua's brain to the greatest extent possible.

"I am about to administer treatment, and you may choose not to watch because my next method will be somewhat violent," Ye Chen said after a moment's contemplation to Zhang Xinlan.

Ye Chen had thought of a way to stimulate Liu Shihua's brain to the utmost. However, this method was too violent, and he didn't want to leave an impression of brutality in Zhang Xinlan's mind.

"It's okay, I'm not afraid!" Zhang Xinlan said it was fine. How bad could violence be? Does she think I'm a three-year-old kid?

Ye Chen sighed helplessly, showing hesitation, but ultimately he raised his right hand and struck the sleeping Liu Shihua.

"Slap, slap!"

With a swift motion, Ye Chen's treatment was straightforward—he slapped Liu Shihua twice across the face, shocking Zhang Xinlan, who had been full of anticipation, into a dumbfounded state.

Ye Chen did not treat her delicately; the slaps were hard, leaving bright red imprints on Liu Shihua's delicate, fair face.

Zhang Xinlan stared at the bright red marks on Liu Shihua's cheeks, a nameless rage suddenly flaring within her. She felt she had been deceived by a con artist!

"Ye Chen, you bastard!"

Zhang Xinlan thought she was foolish, too easily trusting, to have pushed Liu Shihua into such peril, to be bullied by this charlatan.

Verbal anger couldn't satisfy Zhang Xinlan; she stormed up to Ye Chen and slapped him across the face.

"Slap!" Zhang Xinlan struck Ye Chen's face, leaving behind a vivid palm print, and she found it deeply gratifying.

This was the first time in her life she had hit someone because she was truly furious.

Over two days of interaction, Zhang Xinlan hadn't spoken of their relationship, but she had come to view Ye Chen's arrival as the coming of true love.

After today's little romance, Zhang Xinlan had even silently conceded her heart to Ye Chen, believing that in time, she would become Ye Chen's legitimate girlfriend.

Therefore, she had a blind confidence in Ye Chen; she trusted him!

But Zhang Xinlan could not have anticipated that Ye Chen would be so heartless, exploiting the guise of medical practice to harm Liu Shihua, a revelation that struck her like a bolt from the blue, her anger indomitable.

Ye Chen quietly endured the goddess's rage; he could have easily dodged, but he chose not to.

Because he believed that Zhang Xinlan would eventually understand his good intentions, understand he truly wasn't a big liar, so he took the resounding slap.

Viewing Ye Chen's dumbstruck look, Zhang Xinlan, after her initial satisfaction, suddenly felt regret. Perhaps the slap had been too impulsive.

"Ah, why didn't you dodge, you idiot Ye Chen!" The more Zhang Xinlan thought, the more she regretted it, nearly going insane.

Ye Chen simply smiled wryly.

"Love is flesh and blood, with its wounds and joys," Ye Chen ultimately said, a statement rich with philosophical meaning.

Zhang Xinlan: "..."

"You're, being so noisy!"

At that moment, full of annoyance in her voice, Liu Shihua was awakened by their commotion.