Chapter 626: Doctor Gao

Shen Ci remembered that woman.

"Didn't she even hand-make a cheongsam to give to you?"

Shen Jingjing nodded with a smile: "That's right, she's a fashion designer."

As she spoke, she had already stood up: "I thought you and Ali wouldn't get up so early, so I only cooked this one bowl. Mom will go cook another bowl for you."

"I'll do it myself, you keep reading the paper." Shen Ci pressed her mother back down and went straight to the kitchen.

After breakfast, Shen Ci took little Yoda for a walk, then washed up and put on makeup. Looking at the time, it was already ten o'clock in the morning.

A text notification showed that in these short three hours, 72 calls had been automatically blocked. Adding in the ones that weren't blocked and that she had hung up on herself, it was nearly a hundred.

This was the power of money. What she held in her hands now were things others wouldn't have even glanced at in previous years, but now they had become hot commodities, and everyone was rushing forward one after another.

Li Group.

Chairman's office.

Li Wanchang flipped through the documents in his hand, and finally looked up: "Just these?"

Wang Jingli nodded: "Yes, Chairman, a total of twelve locations. This is already quite a lot. Although the Yangming District is large, our information wasn't the earliest. You also know that by the time we made our move, many of the good locations had already been bought."

Li Wanchang's face was cold. He was naturally dissatisfied with this result, but what pained him most was the "Yuanjing Industrial Park" that had slipped through his fingers.

"Go fish for more. See if you can acquire some more. Although the price is much higher now than before, there's still profit to be made if we sell later."

"Alright, I will definitely do my best." Wang Jingli carefully put away the data and only exited the office after seeing the Chairman stop speaking.

Li Wanchang sat in his boss chair, tapping his fingers rhythmically on the desk, seemingly lost in thought, when a video ringtone suddenly blared, causing him to frown in displeasure.

He answered the video call. The dim environment on the other end, with only a bedside lamp on, formed a sharp contrast with Li Wanchang's bright and transparent office; clearly, they were in two places with a time difference.

"Husband, I want to go back to the country!"

Mrs. Li looked aggrieved, her tone coquettish.

"You missed your son, so I let you go abroad to accompany him and take care of him. Why are you clamoring to come back? Aren't you just idling away your days shopping and getting beauty treatments at home?" Li Wanchang walked to the floor-to-ceiling window with his phone and stood still. Thinking of the absurd things his wife had done, he didn't feel a shred of softness.

"I can't get used to the food and I can't sleep well. I don't know English either, and my son doesn't come back often. I'm going to be stifled into illness," Mrs. Li said in an irritable tone: "How is this any different from exiling me?"

Li Wanchang said impatiently: "I have a lot on my plate recently. A major event happened in Longcheng yesterday. Don't come back and cause me trouble. Just stay and accompany our son honestly. There are two months left until the New Year; you can come back together then."

Without waiting for Mrs. Li to speak again, Li Wanchang hung up the video call directly.

Juner Academy.

Shen Ci sat outside the nurses' station of the obstetrics inpatient department, waiting for Gao Zhan to finish his morning work so they could have lunch together.

The two young nurses at the service desk of the nurses' station peeked at her secretly, unable to stop whispering.

"Is that her?"

"Yes, that's her. Doctor Gao's screensaver is a photo of him kissing her."

"Tsk tsk tsk, with Doctor Gao's cold and aloof persona, who would have thought that one day we'd see a photo of him kissing a girl on his phone screensaver?"

"Being beautiful really has its advantages. The sister-in-law is giving birth in our hospital, and the guy just casually snags the hospital's heartthrob."

"What are you muttering about?"

At this moment, the head nurse walked up, looking at the two young nurses with a cold expression: "Have some professional demeanor while on duty. It's the end of the month; have you finished organizing this month's charts?"

The two shook their heads in unison, their little mouths shut tight.

The head nurse put down the things in her hand and turned to walk toward Shen Ci. Shen Ci felt someone coming and subconsciously looked up.

"Beautiful, you must be Doctor Gao's girlfriend, right?"

The head nurse was wearing a nurse's uniform. Shen Ci stood up politely and nodded with a smile: "Yes."

"Doctor Sun didn't come today, so Doctor Gao has had more rounds to do this morning. You might have to wait a while. I'll take you to his office to wait," the head nurse said in a gentle tone.

Shen Ci looked left and right, asking uncertainly: "Uh, is that convenient?"

She was afraid of violating discipline regulations and causing trouble for Gao Zhan.

"It's fine, come with me."

Shen Ci hurriedly said thank you and followed along, carrying her bag.

This wasn't her first time in Gao Zhan's office, but it was the first time she had been here alone. After the head nurse left, she curiously looked around and observed, but didn't mess with anything in the room.

His desk was very tidy, with no cluttered documents piled up. On the entire desk, besides the computer, there was only a pen holder, a phone, a box of wet wipes and tissues, and a photo frame.

Inside the frame was the photo of Gao Zhan and her taken when they were watching the maple leaves at Yanxia Mountain. He had just placed it openly on his workstation like that.

Shen Ci smiled knowingly, pulled out a tissue to wipe the glass of the photo frame, and straightened its position slightly.

She sat in his chair. Whether it was psychological or not, she could faintly feel the scent of pine resin on Gao Zhan. Or perhaps it was because her sleep had been disturbed by the harassment calls in the morning, but as she leaned back, Shen Ci actually fell asleep.

She didn't know how long she had napped, but it wasn't until a soft kiss landed on her forehead that Shen Ci slowly opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was Gao Zhan's handsome face.

His eyes were gentle and filled with a smile. Seeing her open her eyes, he lightly planted another kiss on Shen Ci's lips: "Tired from waiting?"

"No, I was woken up by noise this morning," Shen Ci sat up straight and rubbed her face lightly: "What time is it?"

"Almost twelve o'clock. Let's go, I'll take you to eat."

The two walked out of the office hand in hand. They ran into several doctors and nurses from the obstetrics department head-on. Everyone's eyes subconsciously fell on their ten fingers intertwined, and they all greeted Gao Zhan with smiles on their faces.

The older ones even asked, "Girlfriend?"

Gao Zhan nodded and acknowledged it openly.

"Doctor Gao! Doctor Gao!"

And just as the two had gone downstairs and were about to leave, a young nurse came running out in a hurry, shouting.

"What's wrong?" Gao Zhan stopped his steps and asked.

The young nurse was panting, her face anxious: "The pregnant woman in Bed 9 is suddenly going into labor!"

Gao Zhan was very familiar with the conditions of the pregnant women he was responsible for. Although he was a bit surprised, his expression was very calm: "Isn't the due date for Bed 9 next week?"

As he spoke, he had already looked at Shen Ci: "Aci..."

"Go quickly," Shen Ci revealed a smile that put Gao Zhan at ease, and said softly: "I'm not hungry yet, I'll wait for you for a while."

Gao Zhan nodded, didn't say anything else, and only said: "I'll go check the situation. If I really can't get away, don't wait for me and go back first." ===== CHAPTER 627 =====