Chapter 608 — Kang Jingming Makes His Move
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Of course, she told neither her grandfather nor her father. She simply made the decision quietly on her own.
At that moment, Kang Jingming rather regretted not having made an effort to study the medical texts. If he had, he could have found some topic to chat with Guan Xin about! Such an opportunity was rare indeed. He himself came from a family of medicine and pharmacy, which made for a perfect excuse to strike up a conversation—yet unfortunately, apart from chasing women, Kang Jingming knew nothing at all.
Seeing Guan Xin pull a book from the shelf and begin flipping through it, Kang Jingming grew frantic with impatience. How was he to approach her? Wait... A sudden inspiration struck him. No, hold on—Guan Xin was only a nurse, and she surely knew nothing about medical matters!
And a nurse's daily work was surely just the sort of thing that came with practice, was it not? Injections, bandaging, and the like—none of that required buying books at a bookstore. So what was Guan Xin doing here...? Kang Jingming looked again toward the medicine section, where there were quite a few young women as well. Just then a girl happened to pass by him, and he clearly made out the words on the book in her hands: "Traditional Chinese Medicine Cosmetology"!
Enlightenment dawned on Kang Jingming. So it was TCM cosmetology! Then Guan Xin had likely come here to buy books of that sort too. What girl did not love beauty? Especially a lovely, pretty girl like Guan Xin—she would be all the more eager to become even prettier!
At this thought, Kang Jingming felt his confidence return. He might not understand medical skill, but Guan Xin likely did not either. So long as he sounded professional and plausible enough, she would probably never know whether what he said was true or false!
What was more, many books nowadays were outright frauds; the things written in them were not necessarily correct, and some were even self-contradictory!
Kang Jingming gritted his teeth, strode over, and said with a smile, "Beautiful miss, might I ask if you are looking at books on cosmetology?"
Guan Xin's book was open, so Kang Jingming could not see the cover; thus he had no idea what she was reading, and he asked with the utmost self-assurance.
"Oh..." Guan Xin glanced up at Kang Jingming, saw that she did not know him, and paid him no further mind, lowering her head again to continue reading the book in her hands.
"Heh heh, much of what is written in these books is pure deception! I happen to be free today, so let me tell you about how Chinese medicine can be used for beauty!" Kang Jingming said confidently. "Allow me to introduce myself—my name is Kang Jingming, and I am the grandson of Divine Doctor Kang!"
"Divine Doctor Kang?" Guan Xin was briefly taken aback. She had heard of Divine Doctor Kang—his wound medicine was quite famous. When Guan Xin bandaged the injured, she was often asked whether the hospital carried Divine Doctor Kang's wound medicine. But Guan Xin felt no particular fondness for Divine Doctor Kang; she had merely heard of him.
"That is right—the Kang family are a house of Chinese medicine! Ordinarily I would never casually pass judgment on books about TCM cosmetology, but today, seeing you, I simply could not restrain myself and had to say a word or two!" Kang Jingming, believing Guan Xin had been overawed by the name of Divine Doctor Kang, went on smugly, "If you beautify yourself according to the methods in these fraudulent books, you will surely ruin your face instead! I cannot bear to watch such beauty as yours be destroyed in an instant, so I must speak up!"
"Oh..." Guan Xin frowned, thoroughly irritated by Kang Jingming's endless chatter. "There is no need. I do not wish to beautify myself."