Chapter 1106: Chapter 1106: Just Stab Like This (Extra Chapter)
“Yan Chunlu, let me tell you, you can’t treat me and your father like this. We worked so hard to raise you, for what? Now you’re abandoning your parents for a man. You’re really breaking my heart; I might as well just die!”
“Bai Song! Look at what you’ve done! You’ve ruined my perfectly good daughter. I don’t want to live anymore!”
Yu Shaohan really lunged at Bai Song.
Yan Chunlu hastily looked over, and saw Bai Xiao raise his hand and Yu Shaohan fall to the ground. Bai Xiao had given her a hard chop to the back of her head. Because of his studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine, he was able to execute it just right, causing a brief fainting spell.
Yan Chunlu came over, and she and Bai Xiao helped Yu Shaohan to a bed outside.
“I’m sorry! Bai Xiao! I didn’t mean for this to happen! I didn’t think my mom would act like this. She wasn’t like this before; in the past two years, I don’t know what’s happening to her, her temper is getting worse and worse, she flares up at the slightest thing.” Yan Chunlu never thought her mother would act this way.
“Your mom is showing symptoms of menopause. I guess your mom has been experiencing frequent anxiety, hot flashes, sweating, insomnia, ringing in the ears, and irritability, right?” Bai Xiao had noticed earlier that Yu Shaohan, being an adult woman, shouldn’t behave like a madwoman, throwing tantrums over trivial matters that defy common sense.
This isn’t normal. Bai Xiao had already used his special ability to check; Yu Shaohan was indeed experiencing an early onset of menopause, with the most severe kind of symptoms.
No wonder Yu Shaohan is acting like this.
“Menopause? What’s menopause?” Yan Chunlu heard the term for the first time.
She hadn’t thought of her mother’s symptoms as an illness. She thought it was due to her mother’s work not going well or her own rebellion, stimulating her mother and causing the irritability, never imagining there was such a condition.
“Menopause is a physiological change that occurs in women when they reach a certain age, typically around the time of menopause, due to a decline in hormone levels, leading to a series of mental and physical manifestations as well as possible physiological and psychological changes, like anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders.
For women in this age group, menopause is a normal physiological change, and the appearance of some symptoms is unavoidable. Don’t be overly anxious. Relieve mental burdens and maintain open and optimistic emotions. Engage in more recreational activities to increase life’s pleasures. When symptoms can’t be alleviated through self-guidance, seek medical psychological counseling.”
With professional medical terminology, Yan Chunlu quickly understood.
“So there’s no medication that can solve this?”
If her mother remained this way, how could it be resolved? They couldn’t let her continue being irritable forever.
“Medication is not advised. The key is to address the psychological aspect and keep her in good spirits. Medication always has side effects,” Bai Xiao didn’t recommend it.
Let alone the lack of effective medication, even the effective ones would also have significant side effects.
Yan Chunlu lowered her head, “I’m just worried. If I leave, and my mom is like this! I…”
Bai Xiao sighed. Her heart wasn’t as hard as she imagined. Although Yu Shaohan shares the same family name, she’s her mother’s sister. No matter how she is disliked by her, she doesn’t expect her to look upon her favorably. After all, they have no emotional foundation. To demand wholehearted affection is unreasonable.
But to watch Yu Shaohan causing such a fuss, in the end, wasn’t it uncle, grandpa, and grandma who suffered?
Pity every parent’s heart in the world.
“If your mom trusts me, I can give her acupuncture treatment. It should only take one session, or you can make the decision and I can give her a needle right now,” Bai Xiao suggested. She thought of handling it quickly while Yu Shaohan was still unconscious. If Yu Shaohan agreed, maybe the sun would rise in the west.
This aunt seems to be at odds with her in this lifetime.
Upon hearing this, Yan Chunlu quickly wiped her tears. Hearing about her mom’s menopause, she immediately jumped to the worst scenario, thinking it was incurable! Now if there’s a cure, how could she not agree?
“Bai Xiao, give my mom the needles now! Spare her from waking up and causing a fuss. It’ll save us all some peace!”
To be tormented by one’s mother, what a helpless response.
Bai Xiao acted decisively, inserting two silver needles and manipulating them, doing a good deed for the day.
She closed her eyes, letting her special ability circle around.
Watching Bai Xiao’s demeanor, like a master at work, Yan Chunlu thought it seemed profound. Even though she herself was just a nurse, Doctor Bai was evidently more capable than her! It really seemed impressive.
This reminded her of the car accident back then. Bai Xiao hadn’t been as formidable as now, yet even then he was already impressive.
Despite both being medical practitioners and having a grandmother, must there be such a gap?
After removing the needles, Bai Xiao let out a breath.
“How is it? How is it?”
Yan Chunlu anxiously asked; it was her own mother, how could she not worry?
“Don’t worry. You’ll know when she wakes up!”
Yan Chunlu felt a bit disheartened; Bai Xiao referred to her mother impersonally, still harboring resentment.
“Bai Xiao, on behalf of my mom…”
“Save it. You can’t represent her, and no one can replace anyone. Stop apologizing for others. You have your own responsibilities and duties. Don’t casually take on others’ burdens, just like if someone apologized to my brother on your behalf, would you be okay with it? Do you think everything would be resolved?”
Bai Xiao disliked this culture of apologizing on behalf of others.
Where in the world is there such a concept of substitution?
“I…”
“Your mom is your mom, you are you. I respect your peacekeeping work, which certainly requires courage,” Bai Xiao said, having heard about the peacekeeping mission from An Zhiyuan. They were also forming such teams and training talents; peacekeeping personnel must be exceptional in both linguistic abilities and qualities, as well as have a crisis-consciousness for facing risks.
Yan Chunlu shyly glanced at Bai Xiao, “Bai Xiao, please don’t make fun of me. Compared to you, back then at the front line, I already admired you! But now I no longer have that chance! With this minefield incident, I suddenly realized I’ve still been just a child.
Not understanding anything, everything I thought I knew was naive and taken for granted. If I’d changed my mindset sooner, Brother Bai Song wouldn’t have to suffer, those two comrades wouldn’t have been injured, all due to my impulsiveness and willfulness.
I just want to leave home and truly grow up, becoming a real comrade and nurse, to save more people.”
It seems Yan Chunlu has truly matured.