Chapter 206

The news from the academic conference spread like wildfire.

When it comes to the spread of all sorts of scandalous gossip, the R0 value is over 30; the person-to-person transmission speed is extremely fast, and it can even spread via wireless signals, faster than human cognition can grasp.

After so many years, everyone has long been used to it.

Besides, nobody wanted to suppress this matter anyway; it had nothing to do with the Second Affiliated Hospital.

The next day, Tang Yan also learned about this—the little Standardized Training Student from the Urology Department had actually given up a "bright future"!

However, this was a good thing for Tang Yan.

After hesitating for a long time, Tang Yan sent a WeChat message to Feng Yuqing to ask if she should continue to scout for news about Ji Xiang.

Tang Yan had reported very little news over the past two weeks, and she felt guilty about taking that money.

Although she figured Feng Yuqing wouldn't care about such "small change," Tang Yan felt the money was burning a hole in her pocket.

Having agreed on a place with Feng Yuqing, Tang Yan went to the appointment.

Along the way, Tang Yan carefully pondered the information she had obtained, separating the wheat from the chaff. She would share some dubious rumors with colleagues, but everyone took them as a joke, just for fun.

But Tang Yan knew she absolutely could not say these things to Feng Yuqing.

One must have a serious attitude toward one's own benefactor; it wasn't about respecting Feng Yuqing, but about respecting every single bank transfer.

Arriving at the coffee shop, Tang Yan saw that Feng Yuqing had already arrived, but the Liu Jie who was always by Feng Yuqing's side was not there.

"Sister Yuqing, morning!" Tang Yan greeted her first.

Seeing that Feng Yuqing looked a bit lacking in Spirit, she sat down calmly.

"Sit," Feng Yuqing said. "How is it being spread at your Second Affiliated Hospital?"

"About Ji Xiang?"

"Mm."

"They say Ji Xiang rejected an offer from a big shot in Shanghai, and it seems he did something else too. Sister Yuqing, I don't really believe this," Tang Yan said cautiously. "It's more likely he just failed the assessment; that's the high-probability scenario."

"Heh." Feng Yuqing sneered and shook her head.

"Is there more?"

"Of course." Feng Yuqing briefly recounted what happened yesterday. Tang Yan never expected that the rumors were all true, and that they had actually been toned down.

The people spreading the gossip also felt the news they got was too "fake," so they had embellished it.

But all the "embellishments" had weakened Ji Xiang's "recklessness" to varying degrees.

The real Ji Xiang was even more badass than the irresponsible rumors suggested.

"Ji Xiang is too intense; what will happen in the future?"

"What future?"

"If that big shot from Shanghai..."

"Pfft, he's just an ordinary Doctor, what's the big deal? It's just that Ji Xiang has a bit of a bad temper; who would have thought he'd be like this." Feng Yuqing yawned.

An ordinary Doctor... Feng Yuqing's words were unacceptable to Tang Yan.

"Right, I thought of something on my way back." Feng Yuqing suddenly regained her Spirit. "It wasn't me who thought of it, actually; a salesperson at the company mentioned it inadvertently."

"Oh? What is it?" Tang Yan pricked up her ears.

She could already smell the scent of gossip.

"Silicone dolls—don't let the word 'doll' fool you, they're quite heavy," Feng Yuqing said with a smile. "The company salesperson said that generally, no one can handle such a heavy thing."

"They say the ones you can play with to your heart's content all have eight-pack abs and are covered in muscle. But people like that don't lack girlfriends at all."

Tang Yan felt she was still too naive and too pure; she didn't understand a thing about what Feng Yuqing was saying.

"You said Ji Xiang looks quite thin, so how does he have so much strength?"

"Thin?"

Tang Yan immediately began to recall what Ji Xiang looked like wearing Lead Clothing.

"They say the silicone doll is especially heavy. Someone hugged the doll for a night, and their arm became ischemic from the pressure, almost becoming necrotic. The Anatomical Teacher given to Ji Xiang broke the very next day, and at that time..."

Feng Yuqing chuckled as she spoke.

The imagery suddenly surfaced, and Tang Yan's expression became somewhat uncomfortable.

"Little Ji Yisheng looks quite sturdy and is in good health. A few days ago, he went into surgery wearing Lead Clothing, and the Interventional Department had to change two shifts of Doctors just to keep up with him," Tang Yan said. "Sister Yuqing, a set of Lead Clothing weighs several dozen jin; it shouldn't be any lighter than a doll."

"Carrying it into surgery? Damn, why does it suddenly sound like it's haunted?"

Feng Yuqing's train of thought was peculiar. Tang Yan suddenly imagined a female ghost squatting on Ji Xiang's shoulder and shuddered.

"Yan'er, Ji Xiang is going back to do surgery tomorrow; you must seize the time to tell me if there's any news."

"He's still coming back? A good horse doesn't eat the grass it has turned back to..."

"Why wouldn't it eat it? Because there's poop behind it?" Feng Yuqing asked.

"..."

"The father and son of the Ji family are both strange. Look at Ji Shu; he's just holed up in the Provincial Hospital. I went to his house, and there wasn't even a nanny; Ji Shu was working in the garden himself. This is a lifestyle choice; there must be something I don't understand."

Tang Yan didn't understand a word of what Feng Yuqing said. What was wrong with doing one's own work?

Whose family doesn't do work?

"Sister Yuqing, I've been pondering this for the past few days," Tang Yan said. "Little Ji Yisheng is indeed very capable, and he doesn't seem to have much interest in the Anatomical Teacher either."

"Oh? What are you trying to say?"

"I put myself in his shoes and thought about what I wanted when I was young." Tang Yan frowned slightly, her long eyelashes seemingly deep in thought. "Young people, of course, want to be stars! To be in the limelight! Yes, the limelight!!"

Feng Yuqing's eyes suddenly lit up.

"But it's hard to show off in the medical circle; basically, no one understands what you're doing," Tang Yan said distressfully. "It's not that he couldn't go sing, dance, or play basketball, but I suspect Little Ji Yisheng wouldn't agree to it."

"Damn!" Feng Yuqing sat up straight, her eyes flashing with seven-colored light. "I get it now!"

"..." Tang Yan was stunned. "Sister Yuqing, what do you get?"

"Playing basketball definitely won't work. How old is Ji Xiang anyway? Even if we brought in an NBA team for a friendly match, if the loss looks too ugly, it would be better not to do it at all."

Tang Yan was speechless; Feng Yuqing spoke about bringing in an NBA basketball team as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"A sneaker brand under my family's company hired an NBA star as an endorser," Feng Yuqing explained simply, then returned to the main topic. "Singing and dancing won't work either; you need at least some foundation. If we let Ji Xiang figure those out, I doubt he'd be willing to do it."

"Then..."

"Let me think. Doctor—that seems to have some potential," Feng Yuqing said. "Right, you reminded me. We'll use that profession and turn it into a variety show. Young people, who doesn't want to become an overnight success?"

"Heh, 'overnight success'..." Tang Yan laughed. "In our line of work, we call that a corpus luteum rupture, and that can be truly fatal."

"..."

This remark was so abrupt that it took Feng Yuqing a long time to understand what Tang Yan was talking about.

She burst into laughter, feeling extremely satisfied with Tang Yan.

Being able to find some amusement anytime, anywhere—this was much more interesting than talking to Liu Hui.

(End of chapter)