"If everything goes smoothly, we can probably achieve about seventy to eighty percent of his original appearance."
Yan Feifan quickly added, "Yanyan, since I had Mr. Tang’s case to refine my skills on, your outcome will be even better."
"I promise that after the surgery, you’ll be as beautiful as your mother."
Yanyan’s eyes curved into crescents as she smiled. "Mr. Yan, you don’t have to humor me. It’s impossible to recover that perfectly from such a major surgery."
"I’m not expecting to be as beautiful as my mother..."
Yanyan’s gaze quickly swept past Yu Suye, lingered on the faces of Yan Ziruo and Tian Yu, and then she continued, "I’ll be more than satisfied if I can just look as good as Xiaoyu."
Tian Yu took offense at that.
"Yanyan, what’s that supposed to mean? Are you saying I’m ugly? I’m a well-known beauty in my own right, you know! At least I’m prettier than Ruoruo..."
Noticing Yan Ziruo raise an eyebrow, Tian Yu quickly corrected herself. "Prettier than the old Ruoruo, I mean. Of course, I can’t compare to the Ruoruo of today."
Yan Ziruo huffed and retorted, "With that chubby little round face of yours? How pretty can you be?"
Tian Yu retorted in a small voice, "It’s an oval face, I’ll have you know! If I just lost a little weight, it would be a perfect v-shaped face."
Amid a ripple of soft laughter, the tune of Jasmine began to play.
Yan Feifan picked up his phone and saw it was a call from Mrs. Qin.
"Feifan, we’ve been running tests all day, and we finally have a diagnosis."
"You were right. It’s toxic nodular goiter."
Thyroid hormone is the primary hormone that regulates the body’s metabolism. When secreted in excess, it can cause various symptoms like heart palpitations, heat intolerance, weight loss, and personality changes.
Toxic nodular goiter can develop slowly in some patients over many years. Although it can cause hyperthyroidism, the resulting symptoms and signs are often so mild that they are very difficult to detect.
However, the disease had already affected Zhuo Xingfa’s nervous system, causing him to change from being introverted and sensitive to becoming unusually cheerful and positive.
Yan Feifan was reassuring. "Mrs. Qin, toxic nodular goiter can affect one’s personality, but it doesn’t cause the kind of severe, drastic changes you see with other diseases. It merely exacerbates certain existing personality traits."
"In his case, the condition probably combined with Zhuo Xingfa’s own initiative, accelerating his positive personality transformation."
"Strictly speaking, this is actually a good thing."
A faint sigh from Qin Ying came through the phone. "You’re right, but..."
"Sigh... let’s just focus on treating his illness first and see how he changes afterward..."
Just as he ended the call with Mrs. Qin, before he could even put his phone down, it rang again.
This time, it was Zeng Ni.
"Feifan, I’ve found some surgical candidates for you. Three of them, in fact. You can take your pick..."