Having heard the information I wanted, I naturally didn’t delay any further and entered the office.
"Morning!" I greeted.
The colleagues who had arrived early also responded:
"Good morning, Doctor Lu."
I had just put down my bag and pulled out a chair to sit when Dr. Yu quietly approached me:
"Doctor Lu, did you know that our department is getting a new colleague?"
"Yeah, I just heard about it outside."
Dr. Yu lowered his voice even further:
"Doctor Lu, I heard that our new colleague is also just back from abroad, with an impressive resume!"
Brother Kuang’s credentials were not something just anyone could match.
Lu Jing already considered himself quite exceptional, but compared to Brother Kuang, he felt instantly like nothing more than debris!
Suddenly, two coughs sounded at the office door, and everyone looked that way to see the director standing there with a smile.
"Comrades, come, come, don’t be busy for a moment, let me introduce you.
This is Kuang Yu, the help I’ve just sought from abroad—starting today, he’s one of us."
Everyone in the office was still a bit dazed, but Lu Jing was smiling happily and nodded at Kuang Yu.
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They shook hands at the same time.
The others also came up, one after another, to greet him.
In the end, only Lu Jing was left.
Once again, it was the director who spoke:
"You two don’t need to introduce yourselves, do you? Have you known each other since you were young?"
At that, the eyes of the other doctors in the room nearly popped out.
So Doctor Lu and he were already acquainted?
Well, that made sense; both had returned from M country.
Lu Jing, of course, still called out:
Kuang Yu started to laugh:
"It’s very comforting to hear that from my junior sister!"
Kuang Yu hadn’t mentioned anything about starting at Nanxi University during yesterday’s meal.
Obviously, he wanted to surprise everyone!
"Here, Brother Kuang, sit over here; there’s an empty seat next to Dr. Yu."
Kuang Yu didn’t even look; he just nodded:
In the office, a very few observant individuals seemed to catch on to something.
But of course, they wouldn’t actually say it out loud.
Even if they were to discuss it, it would be in private.
However, throughout the morning, the occasional subtle glance was shot their way.
Lu Jing was no blockhead; how could he not feel it?
Was he looking suspiciously, with a smudge on his face? Or did he have bird droppings in his hair?
He stealthily took out his phone, opened the selfie camera, and inspected himself in a full three hundred and sixty degrees, but he found nothing amiss.
This confusion persisted until lunchtime at the cafeteria, where it finally seemed to clear up.
Several colleagues from the same department sat down at a table to eat, and after the two male doctors had finished and left, a female doctor whispered:
"That... Doctor Kuang, are you two particularly close?"
Lu Jing felt that it wasn’t all that close really; in the previous years abroad, they weren’t the sort to see each other that often.
At most, they’d greet each other or discuss things when they came across each other on a project, and it wasn’t just the two of them; there were others as well.
"Well, it’s alright, I guess."
After all, it wasn’t appropriate to say they weren’t close, was it?
But the female doctor frowned:
"Alright? It doesn’t look like it!" she muttered to herself.