Chapter 19: With Divine Assistance, Frantic Suturing

Wang Chuan was utterly drained; he returned to his Bedroom, lay down, and activated his Golden Finger interface.

He clicked the dropdown menu for 【Virtual Operation Training】:

【Medication Change Technique】: 【Intermediate Level】

【Incision】: 【Intermediate Level】

【Exposure and Separation】: 【Intermediate Level】

【Suturing】: 【Intermediate Level】

【Hemostasis】: 【Intermediate Level】

【Knot Tying】: 【Intermediate Level】

【Drainage】: 【Beginner Level】

【Puncture】: 【Beginner Level】

Wang Chuan selected 【Suturing】, and a prompt appeared: 【Do you wish to enter the Virtual Space for Suturing training, duration six hours?】

He pressed 【Yes】.

A blinding white light filled his vision; Wang Chuan appeared in the Surgery Room. He looked around, touched the operating table, the shadowless lamp, the instruments—all gave realistic feedback.

A dropdown appeared under 【Suturing】: 【Simple Suture Method】, 【Inversion Suture Method】, 【Eversion Suture Method】.

Wang Chuan clicked 【Simple Suture Method】: 【Upgrade to Advanced, requires 300 virtual training sessions】.

A 3D video tutorial simultaneously popped up, explaining that the Simple Suture Method mainly consists of:

1. Interrupted Suture Method, the most commonly used suture, mostly applied to skin, fascia, and subcutaneous tissue;

2. Continuous Suture Method, suitable for peritoneum and sheath membranes;

3. Figure-Eight Suture, commonly used for tendon sheaths and muscle suturing.

After reading, Wang Chuan clicked 【Start Training】. Ding—a virtual patient appeared on the operating table, along with a skin wound requiring suturing.

Wang Chuan began suturing; after 300 repetitions, he advanced from Intermediate to Advanced level.

Next, Wang Chuan closed 【Simple Suture Method】 and opened 【Inversion Suture Method】: 【Upgrade to Advanced, requires 500 virtual training sessions】.

This method causes the wound edges to invert inward, leaving a smooth outer surface, typically used for gastrointestinal suturing.

Major types include: Vertical Mattress Inversion Suture Method, Halsted suture, Cushing, Conell, Purse-String Inversion Suture Method...

Wang Chuan completed 500 sutures and advanced from Intermediate to Advanced level.

He closed 【Inversion Suture Method】 and opened the third option, 【Eversion Suture Method】: 【Upgrade to Advanced, requires 300 virtual training sessions】.

This method causes the wound edges to evert outward, leaving a smooth inner surface, commonly used for blood vessels, peritoneum, tension-relieving sutures, and loose skin.

Major types include: Interrupted Vertical Mattress Eversion Suture Method, Interrupted Horizontal Mattress Eversion Suture Method, Continuous Eversion Suture...

Wang Chuan completed 300 sutures, returned to the main menu, and saw: 【Suturing】: 【Advanced Level】.

Only minutes remained; Wang Chuan opened 【Drainage】 at 【Beginner Level】 and a dropdown appeared.

【Gauze Drainage Strip】, 【Rubber Drainage Strip】, 【Rubber Drainage Tube】...

A 3D tutorial video popped up: Indications for placing a drain: localized abscess formation...

Selection of drainage materials: consider whether the purpose is therapeutic or prophylactic, long-term or short-term, rapid or slow drainage...

Indications and methods for removing drainage materials...

Wang Chuan had studied this in his past life; he re-memorized the Theoretical Knowledge but did not train—instead, he closed 【Drainage】 and opened 【Puncture】 at 【Beginner Level】.

The dropdown contained fifteen sub-options: Femoral Vein Puncture, Femoral Artery Puncture, Cricothyroid Membrane Puncture, Intracardiac Injection...

He noticed 【Cricothyroid Membrane Puncture】 was already at Intermediate Level; to raise 【Puncture】 as a whole to Intermediate, all fifteen puncture techniques must reach Intermediate.

Ding—the six hours ended. While training in the Virtual Space, Wang Chuan felt no fatigue, but now exhaustion crashed over him like a tidal wave.

When he awoke again, it was six-thirty in the Evening; his stomach growled, sweat coated his forehead—he'd forgotten to turn on the Electric Fan.

Half-asleep, he heard cooking sounds from the Kitchen. He got up and saw Li Wei sitting in the Living Room watching TV—who was in the Kitchen?

"Chuanzi, what's wrong with you? Sleeping like a pig," Li Wei tossed a pillow at Wang Chuan.

Wang Chuan caught the pillow with his right hand and walked into the Kitchen.

As the young woman stirred, her chest curves rose and fell with the spatula; her damp floral dress clung tightly to her waist and hips.

Wang Chuan dug out an apron from a corner and tied it around her from behind.

A faint black mole sat on her nose—visible only up close.

Wang Chuan whispered beside her ear: "Jiang Jinrou, are you crazy? Why are you cooking in my house?"

She'd said at noon she was going to sleep; Wang Chuan assumed he'd gotten rid of her—but she was still here.

Jiang Jinrou placed the stir-fried beef in a dish, shot Wang Chuan a look, and said: "Don't misunderstand—I just got off work, passed by the market, passed by your place, got suddenly hungry, so I came in to cook."

Soon after, the Living Room table held three dishes and one soup: stir-fried beef, tomato scrambled eggs, green pepper with pork slices, and loofah egg soup.

Wang Chuan and Li Wei pounced like hungry tigers, devouring three bowls of rice each.

"Li Wei, are you hungrier than me? You're even stealing my food!" Wang Chuan was starving from six hours of virtual surgical training.

Li Wei laughed, never pausing his chopsticks, grabbing another piece of beef: "A beautiful girl's cooking? Even if I burst, it's worth it."

"Jiang Jinrou, my classmate Li Wei isn't bad-looking, his family runs a Construction Material Business, he's a Second Generation—consider him."

Wang Chuan picked up a piece of tomato and placed it on Jiang Jinrou's plate.

"Wang Chuan, you told that little girl at noon that I'm your girlfriend. Now you're denying it?"

Li Wei perked up: "Miss Jiang, you don't know—this girl's name is Xiao Yuchu, a ninth-grader. There's a weird thing: we met her yesterday afternoon at five on a Long-distance Bus."

"Guess what? Yesterday at noon, while Wang Chuan was napping, he called out this girl's name—Xiao Yuchu—in his dream."

Jiang Jinrou put down her chopsticks and stared at Wang Chuan.

"Jiang Jinrou, graduation isn't until the end of June—how are you already working?" Wang Chuan, unsure how to answer, deliberately changed the subject.

He couldn't say: Xiao Yuchu will be my wife in ten years—or that she was my wife in my past life—or that I've been reborn and met my fourteen-year-old wife from my past life.

"Stop eating!" Jiang Jinrou took Wang Chuan's rice bowl and snatched the chopsticks away.

"I originally planned to write my newspaper internship's first article about you, this brave young boy. Now you're starting to lure minors?"

Li Wei added with a wrinkled nose: "I warned him—not to break the law. If you really like her, wait until Xiao Yuchu is eighteen."

Jiang Jinrou glared at him: "Shut up. Don't say 'Xiao Yuchu'—just call her 'that girl.'"

"Little Chuan Chuan, hurry up and confess. If you don't, I'll tell my dad, and the Police Officers will come for you."

Li Wei asked curiously: "Jiang beauty, who's your dad? So powerful that Police Officers listen to him?"

"Jiang Jinrou's father is Deputy Director of the Xinzhou City Public Security Bureau, in charge of criminal investigations."

After hearing this, Li Wei lightly tapped the table toward Wang Chuan: "No way—you know the Bureau Chief? Last night when we got arrested, why didn't you tell Officer Li at Sanjialing Police Station?"

"Made me get interrogated by Police Officers—I nearly pissed my pants from fear."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Chuan and Jiang Jinrou both laughed.

"Laugh your ass off—spit it out now."

"Won't talk, huh? Then I'm leaving." Jiang Jinrou stood up and walked toward the door.

Wang Chuan also got up and said to Li Wei: "Keep eating!"

He rushed ahead and opened the door: "Empress Jiang departs for the palace!"

Jiang Jinrou grabbed Wang Chuan by the arm and pulled him out the door, lifting her beautiful eyes to whisper: "Come with me downstairs—let's go see the Moon."

Wang Chuan understood: Jiang Jinrou's tactic—when hard pressure fails, switch to softness.

He teased: "At the Empress Jiang's command—after you!"