Zhu Yanyi was startled at first, but then she didn’t care. If she forgot, she forgot. She would remember everything after passing this trial. But there was one thing she could not forget: Yan Aohan.
Zhu Yanyi suddenly pulled out a golden needle from her hand. In this strange passage, she gently pricked her palm. Every time Yan Aohan seemed to fade away, she pricked herself. Slowly, other memories faded, but the name "Yan Aohan" remained carved in her heart.
"We’re out! We’re out!" someone shouted. Zhu Yanyi found herself back in the real world.
She looked at the people in front of her. Her eyes were blurry, but her spiritual sense was clear. These people seemed very familiar. Looking at Yan Aohan, she realized these familiar faces belonged to Zhu Shun Yao’s family. However, the Zhu Shun Yao here seemed different from the one in reality.
"Who is the family of the mother? The mother, Xie Xinlian, gave birth to a daughter," a doctor announced.
"Dad, sister is here," Zhu Shun Yao said, holding Zhu Yanli. He asked the doctor, "Doctor, is my wife okay?"
"She’s fine. Both mother and daughter are safe," the doctor replied.
Zhu Yanyi felt like she was watching from the sidelines, not living through it.
Zhu Shun Yao showed no dislike for her daughter. But when Zhu Guifu and others heard it was a girl, they disappeared. They showed no affection for Zhu Yanyi and didn’t come to care for her. Instead, Qi Qiaoer came to take care of Xie Xinlian.
When Zhu Shun Yao held Zhu Yanyi, she noticed her small hand was tightly clenched. Surprised, she opened her hand and found a golden needle inside.
Zhu Shun Yao didn’t tell anyone about this except Xie Xinlian and his father-in-law, Xie Zhong.
Xie Zhong only said, "It seems this child is born to be a doctor." A golden needle is used in traditional Chinese medicine. Being born with one? Who would believe it was an accident?
As Zhu Yanyi grew up, she showed a sharp sense for herbs and medicine. Boring songs about herbal formulas were hard for others to remember, but for Zhu Yanyi, they were easy. She could memorize them after hearing them just once.
When Zhu Yanyi was five, Xie Zhong fell seriously ill. When everyone had given up hope, little Zhu Yanyi went alone to Sicheng Mountain, found the right herbs, and cured her. From then on, both the Xie family and Zhu Shun Yao’s family knew Zhu Yanyi was a natural healer.
Fortunately, the turbulent years had passed. So, raising Zhu Yanyi didn’t require the same caution as before.
Xie Zhong introduced Zhu Yanyi to Old Man Yao. Seeing Zhu Yanyi’s talent, Old Man Yao was overjoyed and took her as her disciple.
Zhu Yanyi studied hard, but she always felt something was missing. It seemed like someone should have appeared in her life by now, but no one did.
Frowning, Zhu Yanyi took a red string from her neck. Attached to it was a small pouch containing a golden needle. Her father had told her this needle had been with her since birth.
"A golden needle," Zhu Yanyi said. She lightly pricked her index finger with it. Pain shot through, and a drop of blood appeared. A name flashed in her mind: Yan Aohan.
It was Yan Aohan. Who was Yan Aohan? Zhu Yanyi started to recall. Yan Aohan… she called him Aohan, or Han. Sometimes, she called him… husband.
Zhu Yanyi’s eyes lit up. She remembered! Yan Aohan was her husband. But if that was true, why was she here?
Never mind. She didn’t want to think about anything else. As long as she remembered Yan Aohan, that was enough. Zhu Yanyi thought simply.
In fact, besides Yan Aohan, Zhu Yanyi couldn’t remember anything else. She focused only on studying medicine. As her skills improved, she noticed many medical techniques appearing naturally in her mind. Much of this knowledge wasn’t taught by Old Man Yao. For example, once she saw the Eight Trigrams, she thought of formations, and then remembered medical formations.
When she saw rat poison, she thought of using poison to fight poison, and then recalled knowledge of toxic medicine.
It seemed her mind held endless medical knowledge. If it were anyone else, they would have been terrified. But Zhu Yanyi wasn’t afraid. She was especially happy.
She became interested in the knowledge in her mind. She started testing various medical cases to trigger more knowledge, slowly developing the Body-Peeping Machine and finding ways to help disabled people.
Xie Jifan watched from outside and sighed, "Your wife seems to be fighting against herself." Others use people as test subjects, but Zhu Yanyi is using her own brain as a test subject.
Yan Aohan smiled at Xie Jifan, "People are most afraid of comparing themselves to themselves. Only by defeating oneself can one transcend. My wife is like that. She seems to be using other things to develop her brain, but actually, she is conquering herself. Although everything in this secret realm is an illusion, many subconscious things are deep in her mind, so they naturally appear. For example, her relatives are all here, not missing anyone. The bad relatives all leave. She loves medicine, so she constantly absorbs medical knowledge."
Yan Aohan watched the screen. Indeed, it was so.
By now, Zhu Yanyi was nearly forty years old. She hadn’t married. Although Zhu Shun Yao and Xie Xinlian were anxious about her marriage, she dedicated everything to medicine.
She saved lives and never retreated. Fortunately, her older sister and younger brother had their own families, and she didn’t care about these things.
The name Yan Aohan was carved into her bones. As long as this person didn’t appear, she wouldn’t have a romantic life. She would spend all her time on medicine.
In her fifties, Zhu Yanyi started writing her medical knowledge into books, intending to pass them on to others.
At sixty, her parents had passed away. Zhu Yanyi suddenly said she wanted to travel. But she encountered a great disaster. A black hole appeared in the sky, raining endlessly. The human world instantly turned into hell.
Zhu Yanyi kept saving people until she collapsed from exhaustion. When she fainted, she found herself in a new place.
When she saw the blue sky and green earth merge into one, she suddenly smiled. In this life, there are things to do and things not to do. She turned her life into everything here. Her body became part of heaven and earth. Her eyes became stars, her limbs became mountains and rivers. Her heart nurtured endless herbs, so people here would never lack medicine.