Chapter 259: [259] Contrast Chapter 259: [259] Contrast Teacher Tan, whose gaze was cold and lips edged with scorn, actually cracked a slight smile.
Xie Wanying was startled internally, wondering why Teacher Tan’s mood had improved again, then turned and walked out of the office.
After she left, Liu Chengran, pounding his fist into his palm, said, “Fu Xinheng and Cao Yong must have calculated her age in advance. Those two are notoriously cunning, having planned it all out.”
Those two guys have noticed her. Tan Kelin’s eyes narrowed beneath his fringe as he uttered, “Rare indeed, for a female student to catch the attention of our hospital’s two future department heads.”
Sun Yubo swallowed hard, “Is this Xie Wanying student that impressive?”
“Was she assigned to our department for an internship because you heard some news?” Liu Chengran asked.
“No. The Medical Education Department called to ask if I would take her.” Tan Kelin, one hand stuffed in his white coat, weighed the anatomical drawings sketched by Xie Wanying in his other hand the entire time.
The diagram she drew was indeed of significant weight. From his perspective, looking at the clinical students throughout the entire hospital’s surgery departments, not one could produce such beautiful anatomical drawings like hers.
What was frightening was that, he estimated, she must draw very quickly, or else how could she produce drawings overnight? The look in Tan Kelin’s eyes deepened.
“Did the Medical Education Department call specifically to ask you?” Liu Chengran and Sun Yubo were surprised after hearing his description.
Doesn’t that mean that some hospital leader is paying attention to this student? Just don’t know which leader or top medical expert it is.
“How would I know that,” Tan Kelin replied to both of them in his customary aloof tone.
Even if he knew, he wouldn’t say.
The two of them caught his expression and knew his temperament, so they didn’t ask further.
“No matter what, her youth is an advantage,” Sun Yubo summarized.
By contrast, Luo Yanfen, another older female doctoral student rotating through their department, was encountering significant difficulties.
Most medical students, regardless of gender, have mediocre talent, and do not advance quickly in their careers. Female medical students are unfortunate in that key years for taking masters and doctoral exams and job-hunting coincide with prime time for marriage and having children.
Men can marry later if they have a career to back them up. It’s different for girls, who find it much harder to be loved past the age of thirty.
If they face career obstacles, male students have time to regroup, but female students are forced to make choices.
Whether to marry and have children first, or possibly never marry at all. Just this point alone can torment many female medical students, burdened by the lengthy duration of medical education.
Girls are much more willing to wait for boys to marry later after a long relationship, compared to the opposite.
Ask yourself, how many boyfriends are willing to wait until their girlfriends are in their thirties to marry and have children?
“Luo Yanfen has a boyfriend,” Sun Yubo said.
“Surely at 28, she’s got one, ready to get married,” Liu Chengran was not surprised, as most female doctoral students marry at Luo Yanfen’s age.
“She and her boyfriend were university classmates, and her boyfriend works at a second-tier hospital.”
The clinical teachers casually chatted about the students’ personal lives, keeping an eye out to avoid any mishaps with the students, perhaps sensing that another female medical student in their group had been acting off lately, seemingly affected by some personal matter.
“Speaking of which, can Xie Wanying be so beautiful and not have a boyfriend?” Sun Yubo was curious about student Xie Wanying, for it wasn’t just about youth disregarding romance — the issue was that beautiful and accomplished girls usually had many suitors. Very few girls can resist the lure of flowers and chocolates.
“Definitely not,” the four words suddenly spilled from Tan Kelin’s lips.