Chapter 2283: 2206 Deleting Someone Is Faster Than Speaking

"What are you looking at? Why aren't you speaking?" Su Yun noticed Zhou Litao's expression was odd, so she moved over to take a look.

Zhou Litao tapped the red dot on his contacts, and a friend request appeared before his eyes.

Below the friend request was a line: "You actually dare to delete me?!"

"Wow, so scary, I'm terrified." Su Yun laughed loudly.

"Yun Ge'er, what should we do?" Zhou Litao asked, somewhat troubled.

"What to do, just toss it in a cold salad." Su Yun said disdainfully, then raised her head, looking at Zheng Ren and asked: "Boss, if you encountered this situation, what would you do?"

"What situation?" Zheng Ren asked.

Zhou Litao handed his phone to Zheng Ren.

"You actually dare to delete me?!" Zheng Ren immediately saw the message and note of that friend request.

"Looking like they're coming to demand an explanation, what would you do?" Zheng Ren started passing the buck.

For the Emergency Department's Inpatient Chief, passing the buck and such are essential skills. If you don't master this, you'll run into trouble after a few months.

"I'm asking you, can you be serious?" Su Yun didn't take the bait, and scornfully threw the topic back.

"Me." Zheng Ren took Zhou Litao's phone and directly accepted the friend request.

Zhou Litao stood there stunned; Boss Zheng's move was too fast—he didn't even have time to say no.

What can we do now? They've already become friends.

【Hehe, just delete it.】

After the friend request was accepted, the other side immediately sent a message.

"Here, this is them coming to demand an explanation." Su Yun laughed, "Her..."

Su Yun only said a few words, and Zheng Ren's hand, moving like an afterimage, directly deleted the chat partner marked with "【the other party is typing...】".

"……"

Su Yun, Lin Yuan, and Zhou Litao all stared dumbfounded.

This move is too decisive, too fast!

"Boss, what are you doing?" Su Yun hadn't finished her sentence when she was cut off, feeling especially helpless as she asked.

"Huh? Didn't she say to delete it?" Zheng Ren laughed: "Then just delete it. When you have time, read a book, what's there to chat about? I guess Manager Zhou treats chatting like a trash can, listening to a bunch of negative info—no need for that."

"……"

Zhou Litao had tears streaming down his face.

Although he thought Su Yun was right, he still clung to a sliver of hope. Moreover, adding then deleting—this is an obstacle he can't get past; how will he explain it to his classmates later?

"I guess the other side has gone crazy." Su Yun spread her hands.

"You only said half of what you were going to say—what exactly was it?" Zheng Ren asked.

"Uh... you've already done it, so saying anything is pointless."

"Just say it out; keeping it bottled up is painful."

"I just wanted to say what that girl really meant." Su Yun sighed, "Boss's hand speed is too fast; the speed of deleting a person is comparable to performing surgery—really, you can't stop it even if you tried."

"Hidden meaning?" Lin Yuan asked curiously.

"N+1 backup, you actually dare to delete my friend! Wouldn't it be better to forever be my backup? You actually dare to delete me? You're asking for death! Little master, I basically don't look down on you, okay! I'm furious—you don't even need this kind of backup! But even if you delete a friend, it's me deleting you!"

Zheng Ren chuckled, this kind of complicated, tangled relationship between men and women—he really couldn't understand it.

Delete and delete, yet there's all this inner drama—aren't you tired? And does it really matter who deletes whose friend?

A straight man's mind is just this simple and direct; Zheng Ren truly couldn't grasp the reasoning behind it.

"You're viewing girls too negatively." Lin Yuan said, "It probably isn't that complicated; I guess she just sees Manager Zhou as an older brother."

"Tsk tsk, 'older brother'—what a far-fetched title. Little miss, they met through a matchmaking session with a clear goal, and you're talking about older brothers. Any romance not aimed at marriage is just fooling around." Su Yun's saliva almost sprayed onto Lin Yuan's face.

Zhou Litao had tears streaming down his face, sorrow welling up like a reverse-flowing river. Fooling around—he really wants to fool around, but the girl simply doesn't give him a chance.

"Nowadays, the threshold for being a backup is high." However, Su Yun had no interest in holding onto a small flaw of Lin Yuan's, then she smiled, took the phone and handed it to Zhou Litao, truly afraid Boss would pull another shady move.

"Without a special skill, it's impossible to catch a girl's eye; even Manager Zhou, who has a skill, can at most be a backup with a note."

"Is it really okay for you to be so gloomy?" Zheng Ren asked.

"Tch! You still have the nerve to call me gloomy?" Su Yun retorted, "You added then deleted—Manager Zhou probably finds it hard to explain to his classmates."

Zhou Litao's expression immediately turned a bit bitter.

"It's fine, you're overthinking."

Zheng Ren didn't care; at that moment, someone knocked on the door outside.

"Who is it?" Zhou Litao asked.

"Manager Zhou, a patient says they suspect they ate a necklace; please come take a look." The voice of the Emergency Department surgeon came in.

"Eating a necklace? Is that suicide?" Zheng Ren froze for a moment.

In the past, wealthy families had the saying of swallowing gold to commit suicide, but how heavy can a necklace be—why bother?

The big gold chain worn by the Northern Province's underworld big brother has become a national joke; many memes point to these jokes, like forgetting to take it off while bathing, causing the big gold chain to float up, etc.

Thinking about this kind of thing just feels awkward.

"Wait a moment." Zhou Litao stood up, gave an apologetic smile, "Boss Zheng, Yun Ge'er, I'm going to look at the patient."

"I'll go take a look too." Zheng Ren said.

"What's there to see?"

"Being idle is being idle; if I have nothing to do, I'll just go back to reading." Zheng Ren said.

"Fifth Edition of External Medicine, what's there to see?" Su Yun asked mysteriously, "Boss, I once flipped through that book you read—nothing special. Tell me, what are you looking at?"

"Looking at the patient." Zheng Ren followed Zhou Litao out.

Su Yun shook her head, gave a hehe laugh, and also followed out.

Zhang Mengxue held the peritoneal dialysis order the doctor had written, sitting on the bed in the treatment room with a grim expression.

Her lover stood to the side, comforting Zhang Mengxue.

Zhou Litao walked in and began to ask about the medical history.

The Jizhen Wai Ke doctor had written the order, but when he simply asked about the medical history he sensed something was off, so he had Zhou Litao ask again; he suspected the patient might have a psychiatric disorder or some other problem.

Hearing Zhang Mengxue describe last night's nightmare, and upon waking unable to find the token necklace, Zhou Litao froze for a moment.

Her lover stood to the side, giving a wry smile.

Zheng Ren looked at the System Panel, hesitated a moment, said nothing, and instead examined the patient closely.

He was slightly overweight, looked very anxious—could it be related to not finding the necklace? Peritoneal dialysis: the basic principle is density discrimination; the higher the density, the clearer the view.

Whether or not the necklace was swallowed, a peritoneal dialysis will make it clear.