After Yan Feifan's slap, the child, who had been wailing nonstop, immediately began to cough violently.
His crying before had been enough to give anyone a headache, but his coughing was earth-shattering, as if he were trying to cough up a lung.
After a dozen consecutive coughs, the little boy hacked up a thick glob of phlegm that sprayed onto the business class carpet. The coughing stopped abruptly.
Immediately after, the little boy started crying again.
However, compared to his earlier wails, his cries were much quieter now.
Yan Feifan set the little boy, whom he had been holding upside down, back down.
He immediately scrambled into his stylish mother's arms, not even daring to look at Yan Feifan. He buried his head, his body shaking with aggrieved and frightened sobs.
Meanwhile, the flight attendant quickly knelt down, pulled a tissue from her pocket, and began to wipe up the phlegm...
"Oh, there's something in the phlegm..."
The flight attendant stood up, rolled the tissue between her fingers, and then unfolded it with both hands to show the stylish mother.
On the crumpled tissue was a small pink rhinestone, about half the size of a grain of rice.
"Oh, that's one of the tiny rhinestones from my manicure..."
As she spoke, the stylish mother held out her hands.
On her ten rhinestone-encrusted fingernails, one was clearly missing from her left ring finger...
Amid the stylish mother's profuse thanks, Yan Feifan returned to his seat.
As he was fastening his seatbelt, Yu Suye's serious voice reached him. "Feifan, have you considered what would have happened if that slap hadn't made the child cough anything up?"
Yan Feifan explained softly, "Based on my examination and analysis, the probability that a foreign object had entered his bronchial tube was extremely high."
"The object hadn't been lodged there for long, so changing his body position created a high probability that he could cough it out."
Yu Suye pressed, "You said it yourself, it was just a 'probability.' What if he hadn't coughed it out?"
"What if your slap had made the boy's condition worse?"
Yan Feifan replied nonchalantly, "Every treatment carries a risk. Besides, I already identified myself as a doctor."
"I performed a proper examination and treatment, as a medical professional."
"I was confident in my actions. Even if it had been ineffective, it wouldn't have caused the boy any significant harm."
Seeing that Yu Suye was about to speak again, Yan Feifan chuckled. "Su Ye, the important thing is that it worked, right?"
"Otherwise, we likely would have had to endure that little boy's demonic wailing for the entire hour-and-a-half flight."
Seeing that Yan Feifan still didn't grasp the seriousness of the situation, Yu Suye cautioned him again. "Feifan, to put it nicely, what you did was an example of 'the skillful are bold.'"
"To put it bluntly, it was reckless."
"You should have consulted the mother before proceeding with the treatment."
Yan Feifan was starting to get impatient.
He said, annoyed, "Su Ye, all you needed to say was, 'Mr. Yan, you're amazing.'"
"That would've been sufficient."
"I understand everything else. I have my own way of assessing things."
At that moment, Yu Suye finally understood.
Yan Feifan was just an arrogant, stubborn guy. It was impossible to get him to listen to her.
Only by suffering a major setback would this boy ever learn the meaning of the saying, 'He who ignores an elder's advice will suffer the consequences.'
Thinking of this, Yu Suye stopped her pointless attempts at persuasion.
Then another thought occurred to her.
'For a difficult person like Yan Feifan, who seems easygoing but is actually stubborn and unruly, how am I going to make him obedient in our life together?'
Yu Suye couldn't help but think of one person: Yan Ziruo.
The two siblings had lived together for so many years.
'Even though that guy Feifan gets so much attention and is spoiled by everyone else, at home, Yan Ziruo is clearly the one in charge.'
'I need to get some good advice from Ruoruo...'
Having found a viable strategy, Yu Suye's mood instantly improved, and she no longer found the Yan Feifan beside her quite so annoying...
With the child's crying gone, the hour-and-a-half flight was quite comfortable.
The food and drinks in business class were especially lavish.
At 12:59 PM, having eaten and drunk their fill, Yan Feifan and Yu Suye disembarked the plane together.
When the stylish mother learned that no one was picking them up, she insisted on giving them a ride to the Affiliated Hospital.
Yan Feifan demurred a couple of times, but seeing her sincerity, he reluctantly agreed.
Afterward, the two of them rode in a Mercedes SUV with the stylish mother and her child, heading back to the Binhai City District.
At 2:20 PM, Yan Feifan and Yu Suye finally arrived back at the Affiliated Hospital.