The entire opposition was immediately silenced by the news released by Mu Lin’s clinic. All the condemning and refuting voices in the media came to a sudden halt, as if nothing had ever happened. Gradually, the media shifted to other news.
Mu Lin knew this was merely a temporary calm before the storm. Behind this tranquility, a greater tempest was brewing, but he no longer cared.
He had carefully considered this matter. His clinic followed a high-end, premium route, treating so-called social elites. Compared to the entire Western upper class, the number of patients he treated was negligible. Moreover, his clinic posed no threat to ordinary Western doctors, so the Western medical organizations had not publicly supported the opposition. Therefore, he would not likely clash with the Y country’s government or conflict with church organizations over interests.
There must be some unknown reasons and methods behind all this. Since the opposition had already come after him, it was not Mu Lin’s style to refuse to fight back. If they wanted to play hardball, he would play even harder. Let’s see who would laugh last and who would give in first.
Mu Lin had always followed global medical trends and understood the diseases that currently challenged the medical world. Since he had issued a challenge, the opposition would surely find some difficult cases that required top experts to treat and send patients with these conditions to his clinic, aiming to humiliate him.
Would they also find a few terminally ill individuals within their upper circles, send them to his clinic, and create even bigger legal trouble if he failed to cure them? If he succeeded, those patients would gain a free miracle, and he would be used like a tool.
To prevent this, Mu Lin’s clinic issued an urgent statement through the media. First, the clinic fully believed in its own capabilities. To prove its ability to integrate traditional Chinese acupuncture with Western medicine, the clinic would only accept the treatment of three patients from the opposition side. Otherwise, the clinic would be overwhelmed by a continuous stream of patients from the opposition, and it simply did not have the time or need for that.
Second, the three patients sent to Mu Lin’s clinic must be ordinary individuals. The clinic would not accept any politicians, wealthy elites, or church-affiliated personnel from the opposing nations. Furthermore, Mu Lin’s clinic would no longer establish branches or treat patients from opposing countries. If the people of those countries could not access the clinic’s advanced medical services, the responsibility would lie with their governments, unless they publicly apologized in the media and retracted their previous statements.
Mu Lin’s firm stance once again drew the world’s attention. This time, the statement received widespread praise from media outlets in countries supporting him.
They commended Mu Lin’s exceptional medical skills, which enabled him to stand on the global stage and accept challenges from the opposition. They admired his compassion for ordinary people, as he insisted that the patients sent by the opposition must be common citizens, not social elites, even after enduring fierce criticism from foreign media.
Surprisingly, the entire Chinese media remained silent on the matter. However, some small neighboring countries that had long been influenced by Chinese civilization had developed traditional Chinese medicine far more extensively and in a more favorable environment than in China itself. Not only did their governments provide various supports for the development of TCM, but they also heavily promoted it, deeply rooting it in the hearts of the people.
Now, these small countries were loudly claiming that acupuncture techniques practiced by Mu Lin were actually invented and spread by their own nations. They believed that with only superficial knowledge, Mu Lin was sure to be defeated by the advanced Western medical technologies of the world. Their implication was that if Mu Lin could recruit some skilled practitioners from their countries, he might still have a chance to win. Otherwise, his clinic would surely lose to the opposition.
Mu Lin found these shameless claims amusing. After all, this was his personal matter, and what did it have to do with these small countries? Moreover, they were boasting about some superficial techniques their ancestors had learned from the Chinese, claiming them as their own inventions. He thought to himself that he would deal with them later.
The Y country’s government could no longer sit still after hearing Mu Lin’s statements in the media. Originally, their resistance to Mu Lin had merely been influenced by lobbying from local doctors fearing loss of profits and incitement from the church, prompting them to instruct the national media to heavily criticize Mu Lin’s clinic and his acupuncture techniques.
They had not anticipated that media hype would escalate the situation so much that they were now stuck in a difficult position.
Mu Lin’s ability to hold a global press conference indicated that he was highly confident in treating some of the current medical mysteries. As a national government, they could not possibly send Mu Lin incurable patients already known to the public.
Facing a single individual was already impressive enough. If the country resorted to underhanded tactics and ended up in a ridiculous situation, the Y government would become a laughingstock across Europe and America—something they could not accept.
Moreover, the matter had now drawn the attention of the aristocratic upper class. These nobles, whose ancestors had accumulated immense wealth through centuries of plunder, were exactly the kind of clients who needed a clinic combining treatment and wellness care.
Previously, some had even used connections in the U country to receive treatments at Mu Lin’s clinic, and the noticeable results had made many envious. After expanding beyond the Americas, their greatest hope was for Mu Lin’s clinic to open on the peninsula. But now, their government had messed things up unintentionally.
Now that the government’s dignity was at stake, they could not push too hard. They could only subtly convey the message to the royal family, hoping they could find a solution. Now, both sides were stubbornly holding their ground for the sake of dignity. Even if one side won, it would not be a proud victory, and the outcome was still uncertain. Therefore, the royal family also had no better ideas and simply urged the government to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
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