Chapter 480: This Show Can't Go On

"Teacher Li, you are too polite."

"I am not being polite, I am speaking the truth." Li Zhuren shook his head, "Doctor Xiao Ji, how did you manage that final super-selection step?"

After speaking, Li Zhuren leaned his ear in, and the two began to whisper to each other.

The sound of their speaking and communicating was not loud, and it was quite professional. Fan Dao did not pay attention to what they were saying, but instead focused all his attention on observing their expressions.

For a fleeting moment, Fan Dao felt as if Doctor Ji Xiang was the one teaching a student.

The role reversal was very thorough; Li Zhuren, Li Ming, had already clarified this point earlier, so there was no ambiguity.

The more this was the case, the more confused and bewildered Fan Dao became.

In the Review Room.

After a long silence, the Guangtou Zhuchiren finally began to liven up the atmosphere.

"Professor Shen, Mao Mao, why do I feel like this kind of situation is rare?" the Guangtou Zhuchiren said with a chuckle.

"It is indeed rare," Mao Mao said, offering a comment with no real substance.

Professor Shen sighed, "In the last episode, when Li Zhuren brought all the professors from the Interventional Department to see Doctor Ji Xiang, I thought it was an Easter egg left by the production team, and that the production team had deliberately set it up as a gimmick with Li Zhuren."

The Guangtou Zhuchiren was taken aback; he hadn't expected Professor Shen to have thought that at the time.

"Looking at it now, I was wrong," Professor Shen said. "That matter from a few months ago must be true. They say that gold will always shine; a young person like Ji Xiang, who is like a diamond, will shine wherever he is placed."

"No, using a diamond to describe him is inaccurate; Ji Xiang himself is capable of emitting light."

"..."

The Guangtou Zhuchiren and the other guests were stunned. No one expected Professor Shen to give Ji Xiang such a high evaluation, even going so far as to use the description of "being capable of emitting light" on Ji Xiang himself.

"Based on my understanding of this kind of rare surgical procedure, everything Li Zhuren said is correct. Being able to continue with super-selection is of great benefit to the patient. As I just said, why not do it? It's because it can't be done."

"Looking at it now, what Li Zhuren cannot do, Ji Xiang can."

"..."

The seasoned Guangtou Zhuchiren truly did not know how to respond.

He even began to feel dazed, thinking that Professor Shen must have received a large red envelope from the production team, leading him to flatter Ji Xiang so unscrupulously on the show.

But that made no sense, and it wasn't possible.

He was the host; even if the production team had done such a thing privately, they should have tipped him off.

Talent shows are like this; the guests' task is to use words to guide the audience, focusing everyone's attention on the people the production team favors and wants to promote.

If it is a competition, they might even go so far as to fake results or ignore public outcry just to smoothly send someone into the finals.

But no one had tipped him off, yet Li Zhuren on the screen and Professor Shen before him were both, coincidentally, praising Doctor Ji Xiang to a degree that even the Guangtou Zhuchiren felt was slightly awkward.

Was doing this really okay?

The Guangtou Zhuchiren did not understand medicine, but he understood shows.

It was obvious that the current scale was a bit excessive and needed to be pulled back.

The saying "too much is as bad as too little" is a real thing, and it must be heeded. This is a reality show for Interns, not a reality show for the nation's top Surgeons!

The Guangtou Zhuchiren twisted his mouth, his mind racing.

However, he was, after all, a top-tier host in the country, and his clinical adaptability was extremely fast. As his mouth twisted, an idea formed in his heart.

"Teacher Shen, you think highly of Doctor Ji Xiang, and so do we. In the past two episodes, Doctor Ji Xiang's performance has indeed been stunning and breathtaking," the Guangtou Zhuchiren said, using a technique of criticizing before praising, and he smiled. "Moreover, Doctor Ji Xiang is also the nation's top-scoring Practicing Physician."

His tone landed on the words "Practicing Physician." Although slightly inappropriate, it was a subtle reminder to Professor Shen—Ji Xiang's status was still just that of an Intern.

"Full marks, number one in the nation." Professor Shen's emotions fluctuated. He didn't immediately grasp the point the Guangtou Zhuchiren was making and remained immersed in his own feelings. "The Practicing Physician exam has been around for 26 or 27 years. Do you know what a perfect score... never mind a perfect score, do you know how hard it is to get first place?"

The Guangtou Zhuchiren was taken aback.

"Let's put it this way, I happen to know an example." Professor Shen began to gossip, and the atmosphere in the Review Room began to liven up.

"A few years ago, when Zhou Jiaoshou from the Imperial Capital took the exam for his Practicing Certificate, he ranked first in the nation. He was still some distance away from a perfect score, but it was stunning enough. At the time, the big boss of the Urology Department at his hospital forcibly kept him on, even offending several old seniors in the domestic medical field for his sake."

"!!!"

"!!!"

The Guangtou Zhuchiren groaned inwardly: Teacher Shen, I wanted you to bring Ji Xiang down a notch, not to lift him up even higher; otherwise, how are we going to make the next episode?

But Professor Shen did not realize the change in the Guangtou Zhuchiren's expression at all and continued to speak with great interest.

It looks like this segment will definitely have to be cut, the Guangtou Zhuchiren thought helplessly.

"Zhou Jiaoshou is now preparing to apply for the Outstanding Youth and Changqing projects. If things go smoothly, he will have a chance to compete for the title of Academician in a few years."

"And Zhou Jiaoshou was only a national first-place winner; Ji Xiang is a perfect-score first-place winner. Although both are first place, the significance is different."

Professor Shen watched the scene of Li Zhuren and Ji Xiang communicating while sighing with emotion, "Before I came, I didn't realize how incredible a young person who got a perfect score and made history really was, but now I finally know."

"..." The Guangtou Zhuchiren, feeling helpless, twisted his mouth even more, his expression looking extremely strange.

"It is indeed very impressive," Mao Mao interjected. "I took the nursing exam. Those questions, especially the multiple-choice ones—after I left the exam room, I thought I hadn't gotten a single question right."

"Even choosing C for all the multiple-choice questions wouldn't have worked," another guest joked.

"I feel like the teacher who wrote the questions was deliberately trying to make things difficult for us," Mao Mao said with a shy smile; he always had this expression. "So when I heard that a Standardized Training Doctor who got a perfect score and was first in the nation was coming to participate in the show, I was full of anticipation."

"But I didn't expect him to be this strong."

"Teacher Shen, how much longer will the surgery take?" the Guangtou Zhuchiren hurriedly interrupted Mao Mao.

He didn't want to flatter Ji Xiang, but whether it was Professor Shen or Mao Mao, these two professionals ignored his signals and steered the show in another direction.

The Guangtou Zhuchiren knew this segment would inevitably be edited out, but he had to leave some dialogue, or else they would have to do re-recordings.

If they had to re-record, everyone's emotions would be off, and it would seem out of place.

"Actually, the surgery is quite simple: cut the intestinal tract and then anastomose it; there's no difficulty. However, the surgery time will be very long. One must determine if a certain segment of the intestine is ischemic, and as for whether one dares to make that determination, that depends on the surgeon's level."

(End of chapter)