The Princess and the Paupers

The whole classroom froze, especially Audrey. She was staring wide–eyed, unable to believe Arabella could do such a thing,

“Arabella, have you lost your mind? Professor Lambert, kick her out.” Audrey was about to rush onto the stage.

Seeing blood seeping out, Arabella squeezed the wound again to increase the blood flow. After letting out two drops of blood, she covered the wound with a disinfectant cotton ball.

Chloe was about to lose her temper when she suddenly felt a noticeable relief in her throat. She couldn’t believe it. Clearing her throat, she was astonished to find that her throat didn’t hurt like before. It was freaking magic!

Professor Lambert burst out laughing. “In my decades of teaching, I’ve never seen a student diagnose so quickly and perform acupuncture so accurately. Arabella, judging by the location of your needles, is Chloe’s throat pain due to a cold?”

“Yes.” Arabella disinfected the silver needles and put them back in place.

“Chloe, how do you feel? Has it improved?”

Chloe was so shocked that she was speechless. After a while, she managed to nod and say, “Yes, my throat doesn’t hurt anymore. I feel much better.”

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class broke into

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in place after she finished? This behavior is

time, even the students from the surgical class joined in

classmates to change their stance so quickly, let alone for

seats.” After Professor Lambert had them leave the stage, he continued, “For throat pain caused by a cold, acupuncture and bloodletting can be

seems that today’s class is irrelevant to your majors, what I want to say is: Whether you want to study traditional or modern medicine, or neurology, or internal medicine, etc., remember that you’re here to learn how to

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many students came to

a sore neck for days,