Chapter 98 - 98 – First Lecture

Ren was deep in thought and rather absent minded for most of the student introductions, but he didn't miss anyone's name or details – after all, it was a skill that had made Ren such a famous CEO at such a young age; he may not be good with small talk or social interactions, but there was no one who could beat him when it came to business interactions or networking. Even with only ten percent of his head working, Ren would remember pertinent details about every single person he came across.

Fang, on the other hand, was paying full attention to each and every classmate of theirs. After all, they were all the first batch of the newly established medical school of SIMS that Ren and Fang had lovingly built with their own hands – and Fang genuinely wanted to get to know all of them and become friends with a few them as well, if possible.

And he had also noticed that Ren was looking rather absent minded after Ash's introduction. A pang of irrational jealousy shot through Fang at the thought that Ren was interested in and pondering over someone else – but then he ruthlessly tamped down on the feeling. Fang was determined not to embarrass Ren – he would do everything he could to make himself into the perfect fiancé for the great Chairman Ren so that no one would be able to point their fingers at Ren for choosing the wrong partner, and no one would try to throw themselves (or their children) at Ren and hope to get the attention of the great Chairman Ren by encouraging him to cheat on Fang!

If Ren had known that his thoughts on thalassemia and its cure was causing his darling Fang to overthink things to this extent, he would have been terribly appalled and terribly amused at the same time, and then he would have sat down with Fang and discussed the illness with him in great detail.

Thalassemia had actually been cured in Ren's original world, and he had been trying to recall whatever he could about the research – while it had not been related to his own research, it had, nonetheless, been a stellar medical achievement in his original world, and he had read the research papers and the new cure with great interest. And right now, he was trying to remember everything he could so that he could write it down and then give all his notes to the international experts he had taken so many pains to hire (well, Pax had taken so many pains to hire with Ren mostly looming in the background) – and these experts could then, perhaps, be able to figure out the cure?

The students continued to introduce themselves one by one – and Fang realised that they had actually managed to collect a rather interesting and diverse bunch of students! There were people from all over the world, and there were even a few who left their studies midway in another medical school and shifted here to start again, and there were plenty who were already enrolled with other medical schools, but chose to transfer to SIMS instead. It was quite surprising, actually, at first glance, but then Fang also knew that the faculty and experts they had assembled from all over the world were quite attractive for students who were determined to pursue a particular specialised arena in the medical field.

Ash, for example – even though she said that it was primarily due to the full scholarship and the convenience of being in Cosmopolis that she had chosen to come to SIMS – Fang felt sure that another determining factor for her was that two of the world's best experts on research on Thalassemia were working at SIMS now.

When it was Ren's turn to speak, he stood up and smiled slightly at everyone in the hall.

"Hi, I'm Ren," he said simply. "I've always been interested in medicine, and now I have a chance to study it properly thanks to my fiancé Fang."

There was pin drop silence in the whole lecture hall for a long moment – no one had expected Ren to say something like this. No mention of his achievements, nothing about the controversy that had popped up recently and then the revelation of the fact that he had actually scored of the rare top marks in the entrance exam – and, most importantly, that this entire SIMS was built from scratch by Chairman Ren of Sirocco?!

Even the professor was utterly stunned, not having expected Ren to be so low key at all. His personal assessment of Ren and his good qualities went up by leaps and bounds.

After a long pause and seeing that no one was responding or giving him a cue to speak next, Fang stood up and smiled at everyone, just like Ren.

"Hi, I'm Fang," he said in a clear and friendly voice. "I wanted to study medicine, and thanks to my fiancé Ren and his unflinching support and assistance to help me work towards my dreams, I am able to sit in this class and study with all of you. Looking forward to learning and working with all of you here – Ren and I will be in your care from now on."

Cheers broke out in the lecture hall at Fang's words, and a lot of murmurs of appreciation aimed at both Ren and Fang could be heard by anyone who wanted to listen.

The professor smiled to himself and thought that young Fang was most definitely an excellent seedling, and that Chairman Ren couldn't possibly have asked for a better partner for himself.

There were also a lot of suppressed squeals of delight after Ren and Fang spoke – this couple was so lovey dovey, even in a serious class like this – and even more surprising was the fact that it seemed perfectly natural when Ren and Fang were like this – as if this is how it was supposed to be and that they were perfectly and naturally justified to be like this!

The professor cleared his throat loudly to get the class back on track and other students continued to introduce themselves until the last one was done.

"Very good," the professor said, when everyone was done. "Now we are going to start with some basic discussions on medical ethics and your approach to the field of medicine. I expect the entire class to participate in this discussion, and post-lunch, we will start teaching you actual medical stuff."

A curious student asked immediately, "What will we learn in the second half, professor?"

The professor smirked. "We will start with examining the human skeleton and then I will take to a watch a real autopsy. You guys are quite fortunate – the Cosmopolis Police Department has a few autopsies pending, and we managed to negotiate with them on one of the non-urgent ones and that is what we are going to see today," he declared.

Several students turned a little pale.

"We – we will see a corpse…?" one student asked fearfully.

The professor sighed and shook his head, and the student almost heaved a sigh of relief, but then the professor continued, "You will not see a corpse – or, I should say, that you will not just see a corpse. You will see the corpse being cut up, and you will see how the forensic team works and how to find things on a human body. This will be an excellent start to your anatomy lessons."

The student who had asked the question turned as white as a sheet.

The professor looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "As doctors, you have to understand the human body and its functions better than anyone," he said. "And if the thought of watching a post mortem being performed on a corpse for a police case frightens you, how will you cope with surgeries on live people? Let alone surgery, even if you become a consultant or a general physician – how will you be able to treat your patients if you don't understand the workings of a human body from the inside out? Do you think you can simply learn all this from books and the internet and dummies? Let me tell you right now – you can't. The human body is too intricate, and there is no other way to learn about it except by studying the human body itself. There is no one who knows the human body better than a doctor – and this is why doctors need to have the highest professional ethics of all professions.. Do you know why all of us doctors take the oath of not causing harm before we become eligible to get our degree and our license? Are you aware of the famous saying that there is no criminal more dangerous than a doctor gone wrong? You will hold the lives of your patients in your two hands – and you cannot take it lightly. It is your duty to make sure that you study hard and learn everything that you need to so that you can justify the faith that the patients are putting in your hands!"