Chapter 227: Cool and aloof teacher Chapter 227: Cool and aloof teacher Dr. Tan, who walked into the changing room, began speaking from inside, addressing Dr. Xiao Sun who stood outside: “Doctor Sun, who’s standing beside you?”
Teacher Tan’s eyesight is really good, and she didn’t seem willing to show that she knew it. Xie Wanying thought.
When the senior doctor asked, Doctor Sun immediately answered, “She said she was looking for you, Teacher Tan. She claims to be an intern who arrived today, but I haven’t heard you mention her.”
Teacher Tan’s voice was low and carried a hint of lethargy, sparing with words, and he spoke quickly, giving the impression that he liked to get things done quickly. Xie Wanying continued to analyze her new teacher’s personality internally.
“What’s your name?” Teacher Sun turned to ask her.
“She says her name is Xie Wanying. Do you know her, Teacher?”
“Ask her where she’s from?”
Teacher Tan didn’t answer the question but just stated his own, exuding absolute authority. Xie Wanying added another stroke to her impression of her new teacher.
Sun Yubo turned back to her again and explained, “Teacher Tan has to oversee many interns and trainees every day, so it’s hard to remember.”
It must be the teacher in charge of the whole department’s mentorship. Xie Wanying reported her class: “96 Class, eighth year.”
“96 Class, eighth year?” Sun Yubo counted the years, and it didn’t seem right, “Aren’t you a trainee? Why are you an intern?”
“I came for an early internship.”
The sounds of dressing in the changing room slowed down, and after a while, a man’s pondering voice came from inside: “Understood.”
Three words, ‘understood,’ the tone was heavy, but it was puzzling—what exactly did Teacher Tan mean by that?
“Teacher Tan, who should she follow? With Teacher Gao?” Sun Yubo asked his superior.
“Oh, is Dr. Gao your senior fellow?” The nurse, hearing this, interjected to ask Xie Wanying, “Dr. Gao was just in the office, didn’t you greet him?”
Last night, her older female colleague had criticized and educated her. Xie Wanying didn’t dare to get too familiar with her senior fellow and said, “I haven’t met my senior fellow. I came for an internship, not to look for him.”
No sooner had she finished speaking than, coincidentally or not, the changing room door suddenly opened. Tan Kelin came out, dressed in a white coat neatly fastened with buttons down the front, the image of solemn professionalism. His tall and lean silhouette, now clad in white, inspired a sense of icy elegance.
As expected, Dr. Tan Kelin would not have any superfluous words as he walked straight into the doctor’s office.
Seeing this, Sun Yubo hurriedly followed him in.
Xie Wanying silently followed, waiting to be assigned.
In the office, the students and junior doctors all made way as Tan Kelin pulled a chair over to sit near the door, took the medical chart that Sun Yubo handed to him, and asked, “Have you checked on the patients scheduled for surgery this morning?”
“I have. It’s confirmed they can proceed with the surgery. I asked the nurse to take patient number six to the operating room first,” Sun Yubo answered.
This was to prevent some patients from eating secretly because of hunger, which could make them ineligible for surgery. Surgeons would personally verify the patient’s state in the morning before taking them to the operating room to avoid unnecessary back-and-forth.
Bowing his head, Tan Kelin’s hands flipped to the back of the medical chart.
The fingers of the tall and lean Teacher Tan, of course, were long and slender.
Sun Yubo quietly inquired again to his superior: “This Xie Wanying, who should she go to?”
“She’s in our group,” Tan Kelin said, without raising his head, his long brows faint like misty rain, his single-lidded eyes giving only a fleeting glimpse as his fingertips tapped on the examination report of this morning’s patient.
“Ah?” Sun Yubo was quite surprised.