"Have you heard? The embroidered ball from that ugly miss of the Su Family was picked up by a beggar!"
"For real? HAHAHA, how interesting. An ugly woman for a beggar."
"Yeah, to think Su Yanxue was once the number one beauty in Xijing. A shame she's fallen to this state!"
Outside the Su Family mansion, the various upper-class figures of Xijing were all gossiping about Su Yanxue, who stood on the stage.
Su Yanxue, her face veiled in white gauze and her aura otherworldly, stood before Su Guowei and sighed softly.
"Dad, perhaps this is the 'heaven's will' Master Song spoke of."
"Maybe marrying this beggar is the best fate I can hope for."
A desolate look filled Su Yanxue's eyes. If it weren't for that great fire three years ago…
How could she have become the laughingstock of the entire city, forced to marry a beggar?!
"Xue'Er, how about I have someone give that beggar some money to send him away?"
"I really can't bear to see you suffer like this…"
Su Guowei said to Su Yanxue, his eyes filled with heartache.
But Su Yanxue just shook her head, as if resigned to her fate.
"There's no need, Dad. Since he's the one who caught it, he is my husband."
"Even if he is a beggar."
Su Yanxue's eyes dimmed as she turned to look at Lin Feng.
However, at that moment…
BOOM!
A splitting headache suddenly struck Lin Feng as a flood of memories poured into his mind!
'Hiss… I never thought the Soul-Sealing Chapter of the Supreme Profound Medical Scripture would be so tyrannical.'
'It sealed my three hun and seven po for a full five years.'
'But thankfully, the seal broke today.'
Lin Feng's face was filled with joy. His medical skills should have reached a new level now.
He might even be able to perform unparalleled medical techniques like the Golden Needle Dao!
Just then, two bodyguards strode up to Lin Feng and said coldly,
"Hey, you stinking beggar, our Patriarch wants to see you!"
Lin Feng froze upon hearing this.
Then, the recent memories surfaced.
'So that's what happened. Before I regained my memories, I caught an embroidered ball and picked up a convenient wife?'
'But it seems this convenient wife is a famously ugly woman.'
'I'd like to see just how ugly she can be.'
'Who was he?'
'He was the master of the Immortal Doctor Valley!'
'The Young Master of the Medicine God Lin Clan.'
'A minor affliction like this was nothing to him.'
With that, Lin Feng followed the two bodyguards and came before Su Guo'an and Su Yanxue.
"Here's ten thousand yuan. Take it."
"Give me the embroidered ball."
Su Guo'an waved his hand dismissively, tossing ten thousand yuan onto the table.
Lin Feng looked at Su Guo'an and rolled his eyes.
'This old codger, trying to pay me off?'
'Just ten thousand yuan.'
'Does he really think I'm a beggar?'
'If he wanted a vast fortune, tens of billions in assets, it would be his for the taking.'
'Hundreds of tycoons and magnates would line up to offer him treasures.'
"You should take this ten thousand yuan back."
Lin Feng refused, a trace of arrogance in his tone.
Hearing this, Su Guo'an assumed it wasn't enough money and added several tens of thousands more.
"This should be enough, right? A beggar like you, are you worthy of my daughter?"
Su Guo'an sneered at Lin Feng.
"Heh, besides me, no one can cure your daughter's face."
"If you take back what you just said, I can treat her. But if you insist on being so arrogant…"
"Then I'll turn around and leave. To treat her or not—it's your call."
Finished speaking, Lin Feng turned to leave without the slightest hesitation.
Seeing this, Su Guo'an's face was a mask of indecision. He didn't dare gamble with his daughter's fate.
However, Su Yanxue stepped forward and cried out, "Please, help me!"
"If you can really cure me, I'll marry you immediately!"
Su Yanxue looked at Lin Feng, her eyes filled with excitement.
All these years, she had suffered too much verbal abuse and humiliation.
She had long since had enough.
As long as there was even a sliver of hope, she wouldn't give it up!
"Hm, you're not too bad. You're barely qualified to be my wife."
Lin Feng nodded in satisfaction as he spoke to Su Yanxue.
Hearing this, Su Guo'an frowned slightly, his expression displeased.
"Xue'Er, are you really going to let this guy try?"
Su Guo'an had a very low opinion of him.
The reason was simple: he was just a beggar.
'How could he possibly know medicine?'
However, Su Yanxue chose to give it a try.
Because she had no other choice.
"Dad, I believe him."
Su Yanxue said with great determination.
Su Guo'an replied helplessly, "Fine. Let this beggar give it a shot."
Hearing this, Lin Feng paid him no mind and waved a hand.
"Bring me paper and a pen."
The bodyguards were sharp and immediately brought them over.
"Have someone buy all the medicinal herbs on this list."
"Also, prepare a box of Golden Needles for me. Remember, they must be Golden Needles; no other kind will do."
Lin Feng instructed Su Guo'an on the spot.
Although Su Guo'an didn't think highly of him, he complied for his daughter's sake.
Soon, a group of servants came in with a box of Golden Needles.
After casually taking the Golden Needles, Lin Feng immediately had Su Yanxue lie down.
Seeing this, Su Guo'an knew Lin Feng was beginning the treatment and tactfully dismissed the servants.
'He's treating a dead horse like a live one, letting me give it a shot.'
'What if I can really restore his daughter's face to its original appearance?'
Lin Feng looked at his convenient father-in-law as if he were looking at a country bumpkin.
'A common mortal, after all!'
'He still doesn't understand the weight carried by the Young Master of the Immortal Doctor Valley.'
Even a dying person, as long as he took action…
...could be revived from the brink, their vitality restored, in less than five minutes.
Not to mention a medical technique as simple as restoring someone's appearance.
For him, it was all too easy.
"You should go out first."
"You can come back in after I'm done treating her."
Hearing this, Su Guo'an was somewhat displeased but didn't show it.
Lin Feng couldn't even be bothered to look at him.
'The Young Master of the Immortal Doctor Valley is his son-in-law!'
'And he still has the nerve to have an attitude?'
After Su Guo'an left, Lin Feng walked over to Su Yanxue.
Then, right in front of Su Yanxue, Lin Feng began to grind the medicinal herbs.
These herbs were potent medicines for treating her face, all of them precious and indispensable.
After grinding them into a paste, Lin Feng held up a bowl of the dark substance and offered it to Su Yanxue.
"I should warn you, this treatment process might be a bit painful."
"If you can't endure it, we don't have to use this method. It's just that the alternative isn't as effective."
"You decide. The choice is yours."
Lin Feng said nonchalantly, then stood by to see what Su Yanxue would choose.
Su Yanxue hesitated for a moment before she seemed to make up her mind.
"I choose this method."
Then, Su Yanxue immediately applied the medicinal paste to her face.
Seeing Su Yanxue's courage, Lin Feng couldn't help but look at her in a new light.
Because the medicinal paste he had just prepared was, in fact, Bone-Scraping Powder.
In reality, Su Yanxue's face wasn't caused by a fire.
Because a burn couldn't possibly make one's face so hideous!
At the very least, skin grafts could have repaired it.
The reason Su Yanxue's face became like this…
...was actually because she was afflicted with a type of fire poison—the third-ranked of all poisons under heaven, the Fire-Devouring Poison.
For those afflicted with this poison, the toxins continuously erode the body, twisting the original face beyond recognition.
If Su Yanxue hadn't happened to run into him…
...she would have probably spent the rest of her life with that disfigured face.
"HISS!"
Su Yanxue gasped, feeling a sharp pain spread across her face.
Lin Feng, however, watched her condition unfazed.
'The pain is normal.'
'If it didn't hurt, it wouldn't be working.'