Chapter 176: 【176】Turns out it’s a small world for enemies, classmates
“After getting the medication for the junior sister, Huang Zhilei sent down his medical order, “Go back and rest, and you’re not allowed to come back to work at the hospital without my permission.”
As Xie Wanying took the medicine, she thought to herself that if she could save a person, being sent back to rest was worth it.
Fearing she might get a fever at night, the eldest sister, Lau Jingyun, didn’t dare let her go back to the dormitory to sleep and took her to sleep in the on-call room of the anesthesiology department.
The anesthesiology department’s female doctors’ resting room was basically empty.
After taking the medication, Xie Wanying had a chat with her eldest sister.
Lau Jingyun knew what she wanted to ask and told her, “Zhou Junpeng and Senior Brother Huang are from the same hometown. They have a pretty good relationship.”
Pretty good? Weren’t they about to fight each other?
“That’s what the teachers from my alma mater told me.”
Xie Wanying’s eyes formed a question mark: Could it be that the eldest sister was…?
Lau Jingyun admitted, “I share the same hometown with Senior Brother Huang and Zhou Junpeng. The high school Senior Brother Huang attended is also my alma mater.”
No wonder the eldest sister knew exactly what was going on with those two. Lau Jingyun continued her story, “According to the teachers from my high school, they were in the same class and would often alternate being the top student. They originally planned to apply to the same university, but Zhou Junpeng was accepted into Beidu, while our Senior Brother Huang was accepted into Guoxie. Actually, their grades were quite similar. It’s unclear what happened. In the end, no one knows how, but they both wound up working in the surgery department at Guoxie after graduation.”
After hearing all this, Xie Wanying blinked: Is this what they call fate between two guys?
“It’s more like adversaries on a narrow path,” Lau Jingyun thought the same and couldn’t help but laugh.
“Are there many people from Beidu Medical College at our hospital?” Xie Wanying asked.
“Quite a few, especially in surgery,” Lau Jingyun nodded.
Surgery, unlike internal medicine, demands high practical skills; leading surgeons talk of innate talent, which can’t be learned through study alone. It’s not that Guoxie doesn’t have enough surgeons trained in-house, but to find the exceptional ones, they have to recruit from other medical colleges. This is called attracting talent without sticking to conventional patterns.
Before sleeping, Lau Jingyun checked her junior sister’s temperature and, seeing no fever, covered her with a blanket once more.
Xie Wanying felt that, after her rebirth, the luckiest thing was being able to come to Guoxie, which felt like a big family where the seniors were all exceptionally kind.
The next morning, Lau Jingyun accompanied her to breakfast before letting her return to school and went to report her condition from last night to Huang Zhilei.
On her way back to the dormitory, Xie Wanying brought breakfast for her childhood friend, fearing she wouldn’t know where to buy it.
Wu Lixuan had no idea what had happened the night before and had slept in. Hearing her come in, she got out of bed, rubbing her eyes and said, “It’s so cold up north, and so very sleep-inducing. Did all three of you really not come back to sleep last night? Being a doctor is hard.”
“No, we slept in the on-call room last night,” Xie Wanying said.
Wu Lixuan hopped out of bed, brushed her teeth, washed her face, smelled the disinfectant on her, and asked, “What happened?”
“Just scraped my hand a bit.”
“Are you okay?” Wu Lixuan sized her up, extremely worried.
“I’m fine, I’m fine. It’s just that for the next few days, I might be free to keep you company.”
Hearing this, Wu Lixuan was delighted, “Is this what they call a blessing in disguise because of you?”
With the cold and freezing weather outside, it wasn’t great to go out and play. The two of them nestled in the dormitory, watching the snowflakes carried by the fierce wind fluttering outside the window. The scenery was just as beautiful.
“I had never seen snow before, and now I have,” Wu Lixuan said, rubbing her palms together. “But it really is cold in the north. Yingying, will you be able to handle staying here for the winter in the future?”