Claire grabbed a small stool and sat down, helping Silas prep the medicinal herbs.
She took the opportunity to explain exactly why Lawler had invited her over.
She also mentioned that she and Lawler were currently working in the same laboratory on a joint project.
Lawler's prejudice against traditional medicine was gone, but he simply didn't know how to communicate with his father, let alone how to pull him out of the lingering shadow of his mother's death.
Silas hadn't expected this at all, and he certainly hadn't expected such a young girl to have such incredible accomplishments in traditional medicine.
"Are you saying I wasn't wrong back then? That traditional medicine really could have cured my wife's illness?"
His wife had been tormented by illness every single day, and Silas had watched it happen, his heart aching with every passing moment.
"In theory, it was absolutely viable, but for the practical reality, I need to understand your late wife's exact condition first."
Silas's eyes lit up. "That's easy. I was so focused on curing her back then that I recorded every single change in her condition and every medication I used."
He immediately went into the house, rummaging through his cabinets until he found his old medical journals.
Claire flipped through the pages one by one, writing down her own prescriptions right below his medication logs.
Her prescriptions weren't drastically different from Silas's, but her approach was distinctly bolder and far more effective.
In medicine, the margin between a cure and a catastrophe is razor-thin.
It wasn't that his methods were wrong; his medical skills simply fell a bit short compared to the young woman sitting before him.
"Silas, don't be too hard on yourself."
Claire gently comforted him. "You were her husband. You saw firsthand how much pain she was in after getting sick."
"You couldn't bear to use aggressive treatments because you didn't want her to suffer any more than she already was."
"Besides, when treating your own wife, it's inevitable to second-guess yourself, which led to a more conservative approach with the medication."
"None of this is your fault."
Claire's reassuring words worked wonders.
She spoke with Silas alone for a long time, right up until Lawler came out to call them for lunch.
Lawler immediately noticed that his father's demeanor was significantly better than before.
The man who had looked like he
was just waiting to die suddenly seemed to have come back to life, and the gaze he directed at Claire was filled with profound gratitude.
Claire gave him a knowing look, and Lawler quickly went to help his father up.
By this point, Silas had completely accepted the fact that Claire was not his son's girlfriend.
"Eat whatever you like, and please make yourself at home."
"If you're free after lunch, have Lawler show you around. The scenery in our little town is quite nice."
While Lawler at least understood
why histher was suddenly treating
Claire so exceptionally well, Simon was completely lost.
What on earth had happened to make him so talkative today.
He shot Silas a questioning look, silently asking what he was doing.
Silas finally explained that Simon had misunderstood the situation this girl was actually an incredibly skilled traditional doctor and the student of Hale.
As it happened, Silas had met Hale with his own father in the past. Knowing that Claire was Hale's final student made him feel even closer to her. Simon was equally shocked to learn of Claire's lineage.
"Everyone knows Hale's medical skills are absolutely top-tier." Simon gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up.
"We never had the privilege of meeting him, but I never expected his student to be just as impressive."