Mrs. Su sighed inwardly.
In the whole Capital City, besides those genius big shots in the Expert Group, who could be stronger than Professor Han?
But the members of the high-level Expert Group in the National Research Institute were all national treasures, busy to the brink of exhaustion every day. How could they possibly have the leisure to mentor students in a public hospital?
The professor who showed interest in Su Niannian was likely just a regular professor in the hospital, arbitrarily selected to complete the task of guiding interns assigned by the hospital.
Yet she couldn’t bear to tell her daughter the truth and shatter her spirits, so she smiled and played along, "You’re right, there must be a better professor who took notice of you..."
Su Niannian clutched her phone tightly, listening to Mrs. Su’s comforting words, and nodded with little hope, "Yep, Mom, your words have always been blessed, I believe you..."
She hadn’t finished speaking when the door to the office was pushed open from outside.
Su Niannian was shocked and was about to say hello when she saw that the person entering was Chi Gui.
She was stunned for a moment, then exclaimed with surprise, "Sister Chi, you’ve come to intern at the hospital too? Which professor are you under? Maybe we can be together..."
Chi Gui gently closed the door first, then turned her head to look at Su Niannian.
... She saw the child’s face wearing an expression that was both sad and happy, with tears glistening in her eyes, quite twisted.
Chi Gui paused, "Is someone bullying you?"
Su Niannian hurriedly shook her head. Seeing Chi Gui seemed to alleviate much of her sadness, "No, no, it’s my own problem. Sister Chi, which professor are you interning with?"
Chi Gui: "I’m not interning."
"Not interning?" Su Niannian was stunned, then became anxious, "Do you have some illness, and you came to see Professor Han for treatment?"
Chi Gui: "...I’m here to supervise your internship. Didn’t Han Qingxuan tell you?"
She felt several huge question marks floating above her head.
This impact was even bigger than before!
"Kyoto City Hospital... allows a student to supervise another student’s internship?" Su Niannian, holding unconditional trust in Chi Gui, asked hesitantly.
"I’m sorry, I thought Han Qingxuan had explained everything to you." Chi Gui opened her bag and pulled out a card holder, flipping through it as she spoke, "My actual profession is a medical professor. I was at Nancheng Medical College to recover from an injury."
With that, she handed a work ID card to Su Niannian.
When Chi Gui casually referred to "Professor Han" as Han Qingxuan, Su Niannian already sensed something was off.
When Chi Gui passed the work ID, she took a look—
The work ID was made of ordinary laminated plastic, containing a blue card with name, position, place of employment, and other information, along with a photo in the top right corner.
Not much different from those work IDs sold on the market.
But, when Su Niannian saw the place of employment listed on that work ID, her eyes widened in a flash! ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel-fire.net
She looked up sharply at Chi Gui, then sharply down again at the place of employment and the photo.
Back and forth over a dozen times, she finally asked with a trembling voice, "Sister Chi... You’re with the high-level Expert Group at the National Research Institute? The same group that even Professor Han Qingxuan only just joined?"
Chi Gui had been patiently waiting for Su Niannian to react, and calmly replied, "No."
It was just a namesake.
Su Niannian breathed a big sigh of relief.
But before she could relax completely, she heard Chi Gui add, "He joined only the lowest group. I’m probably about four groups higher than him."