The afternoon sunlight carried a lazy warmth as it streamed through the spotless glass window of the Kangning Community Health Service Center, falling across the black-and-white tiled floor.
The air was filled with the crisp, clean scent unique to disinfectant.
Yun Zhixu sat behind the examination desk, head bowed as she took the blood pressure of Auntie Zhang, an elderly woman with snow-white hair. Her touch was gentle, and there was a strange soothing warmth in her fingertips. Auntie Zhang, who usually grew anxious and short of breath whenever her blood pressure rose, had actually calmed down.
“Doctor Yun, is my blood pressure… high again?” Auntie Zhang asked nervously, worry filling her cloudy eyes.
Yun Zhixu glanced at the reading on the blood pressure monitor and lifted the corners of her mouth ever so slightly. Her smile was so faint it was almost invisible, yet it was like a soft breeze, instantly smoothing the worry lines in the old woman’s heart.
