Chapter 77: with translation of chapter title

After leaving the operating table, Zheng Ren wrote consultations and surgical records, then habitually made rounds.

Chang Yue still chatted with patients' families in the ward, and Zheng Ren did not think she was neglecting her duties; on the contrary, he felt this was what a doctor should do.

Perhaps if he and Chang Yue became one, that would be the perfect doctor?

"Er, that thought was a bit lewd," Zheng Ren quickly shook his head, turning the idea of becoming one into fragments that vanished into the void.

The patients in the ward were all stable, some already about to be discharged.

Because they were all locals, patients who could move insisted on going home; after all, even a private room in the hospital is not as comfortable as home.

If it were changed to three patients per room with three to six caregivers, the air quality would be so bad it makes one's hair stand on end, and patients would be even less willing to stay in the hospital.

Hai Cheng is not a big city like Di Du or Modu, so there are not many out‑of‑town patients. Therefore, no matter how the medical insurance demands that patients not leave the hospital, clinically it remains the same.

Upon reaching the last ward, the patient inside was Cen Meng's uncle-in-law.

Entering the ward, Cen Meng was reading by the bed while his uncle-in-law rested with eyes closed.

Because it was an open surgery, the patient's recovery was much slower than that of laparoscopic surgery.

If it were laparoscopic surgery, some patients would sneak home on the first postoperative day.

Zheng Ren also heard of cases where patients secretly went home after surgery, binged on food, and then triggered pancreatitis.

Entering the ward, Zheng Ren looked at Cen Meng and smiled; there was nothing much to talk about between them now—just the ordinary patient‑family‑doctor relationship.

Zheng Ren did not want to harm anyone, but he was not magnanimous enough to expect forgiveness from those who had wronged him; although Cen Meng had sincerely submitted and knelt, it still was not enough.

The awkwardness between them could be felt by Chang Yue.

She directly ignored the relationship between the two inpatient chiefs, went to the patient's bedside, and habitually started chatting.

The more Zheng Ren listened, the more interesting it seemed; it turned out that Cen Meng's uncle-in-law especially liked Japanese cuisine, which is known to be based mainly on sea fish and relatively low in parasites.

Some domestic unscrupulous merchants pass off freshwater fish as sea fish; freshwater fish carry parasites, so if one is unlucky, cases like Cen Meng's uncle-in-law can appear.

Of course, only bad luck and large consumption lead to that.

Zheng Ren had also encountered a man in his seventies who especially liked essential‑oil back massages; he needed it twice a day, and the skin absorbed too much of an unknown substance in the oil, leading to acute kidney failure three months later.

After rounds, Zheng Ren's admiration for Chang Yue grew.

This girl may be cold‑faced toward him, but toward patients she truly treats them like family; she even knows Cen Meng's uncle-in-law's fondness for raw seafood inside out and has proposed a rehabilitation plan—such an inpatient doctor is indeed a treasure.

Given Chang Yue's attitude toward him, Zheng Ren felt she would never treat him as she did patients, so he returned to the office and focused on reading, with little further interaction with Chang Yue.

Being a single dog, there are reasons for that.

Zheng Ren should be a tech‑oriented homebody, holing up in the office and operating room.

Day by day passed, the weather gradually grew cold, yet the emergency ward became increasingly busy.

In two days, Zheng Ren performed surgery on the eight acute appendicitis patients and four acute cholecystitis patients admitted to the emergency department.

The long‑term main quest—Best Surgeon—had originally accumulated 6 completion points. Among the eight appendectomies, two were perforated appendixes and one was gangrenous. Such difficulty classifies the appendectomy as a level‑2 surgery, so the eight cases gave Zheng Ren 11 completion points.

The four cholecystectomies were all laparoscopic, classified as level‑3, granting Zheng Ren 16 completion points.

In total that was 27 points; adding the 6 points left from before, Zheng Ren completed three cycles of the main quest again, leaving 3 points.

After gaining 30 skill points and 3000 experience points, Zheng Ren's stored experience reached 1549 points, and after these surgeries his General Surgery skill tree also reached 2065 points.

Seeing the master rank draw nearer, Zheng Ren also felt happy.

As long as he focused on surgery, such days were something Zheng Ren had never dared imagine before; back in General Surgery One, surgeries were all done by the inpatient chief.

This is called "feeding surgery"; in the elders' words, even if you're dull, after doing a hundred appendectomies you'll manage.

Practice makes perfect—basically that's the principle.

Anyway, he didn't need to go home, so Zheng Ren simply took a day off, went home, and moved his simple belongings to the hospital.

He ran into Xiao Zhao and exchanged a few words.

The video initially went viral, but soon someone reported it for allegedly leaking privacy.

Xiao Zhao's livestream account has already been banned.

But he was not discouraged; instead he felt it was an untapped gold mine. Recently he has been setting up a public account, planning to put the hospital‑recorded videos after post‑processing onto it.

Seeing Xiao Zhao's enthusiasm, Zheng Ren just smiled.

He lacked business sense and didn't understand how to run Weibo or a public account, so he simply didn't think about it, leaving Xiao Zhao to tinker on his own; as long as he repeatedly warned Xiao Zhao not to cause trouble, that was enough.

Zheng Ren picked up a rolling suitcase, packed it with change‑of‑clothes, and returned to the emergency ward.

Just as he entered the corridor, Zheng Ren saw… an annoying figure.

Su Yun's recognizability is very high; even for Zheng Ren, who is in the late stage of face‑blindness, already morbid and systemic, he cannot fail to remember him.

In the corridor only a back view was visible, yet Zheng Ren recognized Su Yun at a glance.

"Chief Zheng, I'm here to report." Su Yun saw Zheng Ren returning with his rolling suitcase, had no intention of helping, leaned against the wall, and struck a very chuunibyou pose.

In an instant, Zheng Ren felt that Chu Yan zhi, who used to shout before anesthesia "Burn my calories!", and Su Yun were a perfect match—both so chuunibyou.

Only Chu Yan zhi could tolerate it, after all she is a vibrant young girl.

Su Yun this guy is utterly intolerable—what a soul‑less idiot!

After composing himself and swallowing the words "soul‑less", Zheng Ren forced a faint smile and asked, "How did you come here?"

"Everyone said I came to report; didn't you hear? Does interventional surgery damage the auditory nerve? Or is it nephrotoxic, causing hearing loss? Just one case and this side‑effect is too exaggerated," Su Yun said.

Those words… hearing them made one want to hit him.

Zheng Ren endured and endured, cursing "soul‑less" in his heart. His looks weren't high, his tongue wasn't sharp, so he simply pretended not to see him, clutching his rolling suitcase as he entered the duty room.

"What? Not welcome?" Su Yun followed Zheng Ren like a ghost into the duty room, leaning bonelessly against the door with a vague smile.

"All right," Zheng Ren said. "You should report to Director Pan; I guess he won't like your type."

"He's already agreed." Su Yun gave a ghostly smile.

"Oh? How did you convince Director Pan? Is the emergency department short‑staffed?" Zheng Ren said while tidying up, not daring to look at Su Yun. Just one or two glances at this guy made Zheng Ren want to kick him twice.

"I'm here; someone can give you a slot. That's one thing, of course not the main reason—without me you could still do surgery." Su Yun said: "Most importantly, I'm here, and I can solve the nursing‑staff shortage in the emergency ward."

You? A nurse? In short supply?

Zheng Ren immediately noticed the three key words Su Yun had mentioned.