Overpowered Resident Doctor

Chapter 527: Chapter 526: Counterfeit

Baining Hospital, in a private room on the second floor of the restaurant.

Yan Feifan, Zeng Ni, Ya Jiaojiao, and Feng Jian sat around a table laden with a sumptuous lunch, first turning to business.

First, Ya Jiaojiao solemnly informed Yan Feifan that she was completely satisfied with the plastic surgery design plan and had no objections whatsoever.

After she signed the supplementary agreement Yan Feifan had prepared in advance, the group curiously took the painting from its tube to admire it.

It was a traditional Chinese ink wash painting, one meter wide and one and a half meters long.

The painting depicted a goshawk perched on a strangely shaped rock, partially hidden by shrubs.

"Oh, it’s actually a masterpiece by Mr. Li Kuchan!"

Zeng Ni exclaimed in surprise, "Feifan, Mr. Kuchan is one of the ten great masters of modern Chinese painting, and he was especially skilled at painting eagles."

"Coming from Zhang Xirong, it definitely won’t be a fake."

Yan Feifan didn’t know much about traditional Chinese painting, so he asked bluntly, "How much is this painting worth?"

Zeng Ni mused, "In recent years, the auction prices for authentic works by great masters of Chinese painting like Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, and Li Kuchan have been on a steady rise."

"If my memory serves me right, Mr. Kuchan’s works have been selling for 120,000 to 150,000 yuan per square chi in the last couple of years."

"This painting is about fourteen square chi, so its value should be around two million."

These words immediately made Yan Feifan beam with joy. He couldn’t put the painting down, his perception of it completely transformed.

He no longer found the somewhat abstract goshawk ugly in the slightest.

He only saw an eagle that was incredibly majestic and domineering.

"I can’t believe this one painting is worth two million. I could hang it at home and pass it down as a family heirloom."

Yan Feifan couldn’t help but praise Zeng Ni, "I didn’t expect you to know so much."

Zeng Ni rolled her eyes at him and huffed, "Feifan, don’t you underestimate people. I received an elite education growing up, too. I’ve just been a bit rebellious these past few years, not focusing on proper business."

Yan Feifan nodded and said, "Zeng Ni, I admit I did underestimate you a bit before."

"Hey, tell me more about this Zhang Xirong guy."

"He casually gifted me a priceless masterpiece from a famous artist. His background must be pretty extraordinary, right?"

"Extraordinary doesn’t even begin to cover it..."

Zeng Ni said excitedly, "When he was young, he was one of the famous young masters of Jingcheng. His title as a ’young master’ was much more renowned and substantive than Lu Yao’s."

"Then, for some unknown reason, he laid low for over a decade. By the time he became famous again, he was already the undisputed king of Jingcheng’s bar scene."

"He owns sixteen clubs and bars, and every single one is wildly popular. He also has a beverage distribution company."

"It’s said that more than half of the bars in Jingcheng source their red wine and foreign spirits from his company."

Zeng Ni added a reminder, "Feifan, to be called the king of Jingcheng’s mixed-bag bar scene and to have a near-monopoly on the high-end liquor market for bars... you can just imagine how powerful he is!"

"Feifan, if you ever run into any trouble in Jingcheng, asking him for help will definitely be no problem."

Yan Feifan gave a soft "oh" of understanding, then heard Zeng Ni ask curiously, "Feifan, what did he need to thank you for?"

Yan Feifan replied succinctly, "The night before last, his old man was on the brink of death from a cerebral hemorrhage. I helped him regain consciousness for a while."

As he spoke, he carefully put the painting away, rolling it back into its tube.

"Let’s eat. We’re all starving..."

The group began to eat and chat, with Zeng Ni doing most of the talking about the preparations for her creative home decor startup.

In her words, although there were many similar products online, none of them had really taken off.

She planned to build a strong creative home design team to make the industry bigger and stronger.

Zeng Ni envisioned two main product lines to start with: first, the various creative household items Yan Feifan had thought of for hiding stashes of cash; and second, cleverly designed small safes with hidden mechanisms.

Throughout this, Yan Feifan mostly just listened to her chatter on with great enthusiasm, acting as if success were already within her grasp.

’I hope your wild scheme actually succeeds!’

Yan Feifan, who wasn’t very optimistic about the project, offered a silent blessing, since his own sister was also investing a lot of money in it.

After lunch, the group rested and drank some water.

Before long, Zeng Ni took out an assortment of bottles and jars from her purse and started touching up her makeup, saying she had to meet some friends downtown later to discuss her startup project.

Seeing this, Ya Jiaojiao also dropped her reserve, took some cosmetics and skincare products from her own bag, and began to fix her face.

A moment later, Yan Feifan suddenly caught a familiar scent.

"Ya Jiaojiao, let me see that cosmetic product you’re holding!"

Ya Jiaojiao quickly handed over a delicate, flat, opalescent white porcelain bottle.

"Mr. Yan, this is a whitening and scar-removing cream from Germany. The results are quite good."

"Are you thinking of buying it for your girlfriend or family?"

Yan Feifan took the small porcelain bottle, looked at the slightly pinkish cream inside, and brought it to his nose to take a sniff.

Familiar scent, familiar color.

Only...

Yan Feifan looked at the instructions printed on the small porcelain bottle. It was all in German letters—they looked familiar, but he didn’t know what they meant.

"Are you sure it’s imported from Germany?"

Ya Jiaojiao hummed in affirmation and explained, "It’s actually a personal cosmetic product formulated by a retired R&D veteran from a German cosmetics company. The ingredients are all-natural."

"But since it’s not an official product, it isn’t sold on the market. A friend from my social circle brought it back from Germany."

"But its effects are really good."

"It’s just privately handmade, so the quantity is limited. You have to get on a waiting list to buy it."

Ya Jiaojiao added enthusiastically, "Mr. Yan, if you need some, I can ask my friend to see what she can do."

Just then, Zeng Ni leaned over and asked curiously, "Jiaojiao, are the results really that good?"

"Of course they’re good!"

Ya Jiaojiao recommended, "Several people in my social circle have used it and said the results are remarkable."

"I just bought this bottle not long ago. Look at my complexion, isn’t it much fairer than before?"

At this moment, Yan Feifan took another careful sniff of the cosmetic’s scent, then shook his head and said with a smile, "A prescription-grade steroidal scar-removal product. Of course the effects are good."

Ya Jiaojiao froze for a second, then asked in disbelief, "Mr. Yan, what are you trying to say?"

Yan Feifan chuckled and said, "Our plastic surgery center co-developed a scar-removing beauty cream with the Baiyulan Group."

"It’s a steroidal stimulant cream, mainly applied to incisions to eliminate post-operative scars and hyperpigmentation."

"I can’t say I’m one hundred percent certain, but I’m ninety-eight percent sure that what’s in your porcelain bottle is our cream."

"As a steroidal cream, it shouldn’t be used regularly."

Hearing this, Ya Jiaojiao was so angry her nose was practically crooked. She swore outright, "Son of a bitch, they actually used a counterfeit to scam me..."

Yan Feifan added cautiously, "Well, we can’t wrongly accuse someone without concrete evidence."

"Ya Jiaojiao, if you don’t mind, could you put some in a small container for me? I’d like to take it back for analysis and comparison."

Ya Jiaojiao quickly replied, "Mr. Yan, just take the whole bottle."

"Once you have the analysis results, please let me know..."

"Definitely!" Yan Feifan replied crisply...

The surgery that afternoon was a stereotactic needle biopsy and injection for a brain tumor patient from the PLA General Hospital.

Yan Feifan completed it in just under two hours.

On the way to Shoudu Capital International Airport afterward, Yan Feifan received a call from Liu Jin.

He was informed that his special promotion in professional rank would be discussed at the hospital leadership’s work meeting next Monday!