Staring at those shiny bald heads kneeling before her, Hera turned to Aaron and asked calmly, "What's going on?"
She wondered why they suddenly started addressing her as Mrs. Killian after the surgery.
Aaron hadn't expected the usually serious doctors to turn so sycophantic suddenly. He couldn't help but wonder where those doctors who had doubted Hera had disappeared to.
The doctors lifted their heads and glanced at Aaron, seemingly questioning whether Hera was indeed Mrs. Killian.
Ignoring their curious stares, Aaron reassured himself that Hera would eventually become Mrs. Killian anyway, so he wasn't exactly lying.
"They're simply in awe of your extraordinary medical skills. They wondered if you could cure their balding issues," Aaron replied to Hera's question with a fabricated reason.
The doctors were taken aback by Aaron's statement. While not offensive, it was undeniably humiliating.
After a long night of surgery, Hera's face showed signs of exhaustion as she finally relaxed. Nevertheless, she instructed Johnson to take Bernard to the ward while she fetched her acupuncture kit.
"We certainly can't have doctors roaming around with shiny bald heads. It can be hurtful to the eyes," Hera remarked as she spread her kit on a chair in the hallway.
Aaron was dumbfounded. He didn't expect her actually to know how to cure baldness.
Meanwhile, the doctors were left speechless. They began to debate internally whether they were at fault for neglecting their appearance.
As doctors, they felt that they should prioritize medical studies over their looks. Thus, they figured that they shouldn't be overly concerned about their baldness.
However, if their medical knowledge was sufficient, they might have resolved their baldness issue long ago.
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