CH 46

Outside the glass window, inside the bright yellow car, the colleague Jiang Xu mentioned had parked his car on the side of the road and was quietly looking at the lively and bustling restaurant. From his perspective, he could only see a bit of Jiang Xu’s side face, but he couldn’t see the person opposite Jiang Xu.

Is Miss Cao beautiful?

‘She should be,’ Shen Fangyu thought, ‘otherwise, why could Jiang Xu smile so brightly at her.’

He had never smiled at him like that.

Shen Fangyu took a deep breath and pressed the center of his eyebrows, feeling that he was really sick because he was jealous. He couldn’t even understand why he came chasing after Jiang Xu’s car and was now watching Jiang Xu in this corner, where a car parks for thirty yuan an hour.

Before coming, he received an email from the editor of the magazine. After changing his unlucky student’s paper beyond recognition, the paper finally passed the preliminary review, and the reviewer also put forward a few small comments for him to revise as soon as possible. So he should be helping the student change the paper at the moment instead of watching Jiang Xu and others eat.

The accelerator was right at Shen Fangyu’s feet, but he couldn’t move a step.

Perhaps it was because the night was darker, and after another tiresome day, the tired brain couldn’t rest, and in retaliation, it spread out countless thoughts that made people feel bad.

Such as…… Shen Fangyu thought that without that child, Jiang Xu could fall in love with Miss Cao, get married, become the president’s noble son-in-law, have a happy family, a sweet love, and then have a prosperous career as well.

With Jiang Xu’s talent, he could probably achieve financial freedom by the age of forty. If he wanted to continue to struggle, he may become the youngest president of Jihua, if he wanted to rest, he may be able to retire early without pressure and enjoy the life that was delayed by studying medicine.

This realization made Shen Fangyu start thinking about the past, about some old things like when they were filling in their university choices after the college entrance examination.

When he got his grades after the college entrance examination, the admissions officers of the top universities came to contact him. In fact, no matter which school it is, admissions officers will fight for the best, highest-quality students, like salesmen working hard in clothing stores.

First, they would praise their schools and the majors they offer, and then tell students how many scholarships they can get as if they were discounts at clothing stores.

There is a common saying in these stores: “This dress is popular at our shop, there’s someone who even bought a set before you came.”

When it comes to the admissions officers, it becomes, “Let me tell you a secret, the other top scholar in City B is also planning to come to our school.” The admissions officer gave Shen Fangyu a silent look, and the implication was nothing more than using Jiang Xu’s choice to influence Shen Fangyu’s choice.

Shen Fangyu, who had been mindlessly listening to the chatter of the admissions officer, suddenly looked over and said, “He applied to your school?”

“Yes,” the admissions officer of A Medical University said proudly, “when it comes to medical majors, which school in the country is comparable to us?”

At that time, a month or two had passed since the time he saw Jiang Xu after the college entrance examination, and Shen Fangyu thought that when the results came out, Jiang Xu, who spoke wildly, would admit defeat to him in despair. Unexpectedly, they tied.

From the resumption of the college entrance examination in City B to the year Shen Fangyu took the college entrance examination, there had not been a single tie for decades, but that year, fate suddenly changed.

When he was eighteen years old, he was young and vigorous, and he acted on impulse. So because of this tie and the irregularity of the admissions officers’ unprecedented disclosure of information, the proud and arrogant Shen Fangyu wrote the eight-year medical program of A Medical University on the day he filled out his choices.

In fact, now that he thinks back, he just wanted to see Jiang Xu and tell him: “It was just an accident that I tied with you in the college entrance examination; I will let you know in the future that between the two of us, there is only one first.”

Unexpectedly, Jiang Xu said this sentence before he could, and he didn’t expect that the boy from the 6th middle school was not as easy to defeat as he thought.

And because of the decision made out of anger, his college life, which should have been easier than high school, went directly to hellish difficulty. Back then, he always subconsciously used Jiang Xu to turn down confessions, and he was a little angry with himself.

He knew that Jiang Xu was also hardworking, but he was a little more helpless than Jiang Xu—he chose to join the same university as Jiang Xu and study the same major.

He really experienced what it meant to shoot yourself in the foot.

When they were choosing departments, Shen Fangyu once again knew Jiang Xu’s choice; the difference was that last time, the admissions officer took the initiative to tell him, but this time he inquired himself.

Fighting with Jiang Xu over the years was too tiring. He wanted to take a break, but he didn’t want to admit defeat in front of Jiang Xu, so he chose a department that Jiang Xu absolutely couldn’t choose and wanted to use this decent way to bid farewell to Jiang Xu.

As a result, he and Jiang Xu collided again.

On the day he was promoted to deputy chief physician at a speed far beyond his peers, Shen Fangyu even had a ridiculous feeling. It felt like from the day he met Jiang Xu at the age of eighteen, the boy wearing the uniform of the 6th middle school had been controlling his life.

And Jiang Xu had already taken half of his life.

That day, when he helped Jiang Xu with the night shift, he thought about the past while Jiang Xu was asleep and asked, “do you regret it”?

But he was not asking Jiang Xu, he was asking himself.

——He did not regret joining the same university as Jiang Xu.

There were no regrets.

Without Jiang Xu’s encouragement, Shen Fangyu was confident that he could succeed and become an excellent doctor or a top talent in other fields.

But because they met each other, they became legends of Jihua Hospital, standing side by side.

Shen Fangyu once thought that Jiang Xu would keep such a pace and continue to compete with him, so he finally accepted this fact. But one day, Jiang Xu suddenly slowed down a little and began to chase Zhong Lan.

He didn’t know what he was thinking, but he once again competed with Jiang Xu.

Zhong Lan was the first person he pursued. In fact, now that he thinks about it, what he did during the time he was chasing Zhong Lan, was actually not so much like chasing but more like competing with Jiang Xu.

Including the time after being rejected that day. He asked Jiang Xu to drink, not because he was in a bad mood because of love, but because he just wanted to use the cover of alcohol to ask Jiang Xu: “Why do you want to get married? Why do you want to start a family? Are you going to…… stop competing with me? ”

But in the end, he was overcome by fake wine and didn’t get to ask anything.

Shen Fangyu felt that he was really difficult to serve, when Jiang Xu competed with him, he was tired of it, but when he started slowing down, he felt empty.

Shen Fangyu realized that he actually cared about Jiang Xu.

He used to take it for granted that this kind of concern was hostility, but now he feels that maybe this kind of care is more than hostility, but what else is there? He couldn’t think clearly and couldn’t see through anything.

The reason why neuroscience is still considered the most promising field of research is that it is so complex and has too many difficult, unexplained answers.

Even the doctors themselves will have a situation where the brain’s thoughts are constantly cut and messed up.

Shen Fangyu didn’t know which neurotransmitter was now occupying his neuronal synapses, but he hoped it would stop secreting.

This neurotransmitter made him a little sad, but he couldn’t even find out why.

———-

When Jiang Xu opened the door, the room was dark, so he turned on the light. Only to find Shen Fangyu sitting on the sofa.

“What are you doing?” He asked, “Why don’t you turn on the lights?”

They were still in a cold war, so Jiang Xu didn’t want to talk to Shen Fangyu so quickly, but he wanted to tell Shen Fangyu about Yang Rui, so he simply ended his side of the war.

“Hmm… I got sleepy,” Shen Fangyu pressed his eyebrows, and his voice was a little hoarse: “then I slept off.”

“I’m going to sleep in the bedroom.” Jiang Xu put down his briefcase and walked over. He suddenly smelled a burst of wine, only to find that there was a goblet and a bottle of red wine on the coffee table. He didn’t have wine at home, so Shen Fangyu probably bought it.

He frowned slightly, washed the wine glass, and put it in the cupboard with the wine.

“I have something to tell you.” He sat back on the sofa and was just about to speak when the phone suddenly rang. Shen Fangyu nodded his chin, signaling him to answer the phone first. Jiang Xu glanced at the phone, the caller was Tang Ke.

It can’t be that there was something wrong with the prenatal checkup.

He picked up the phone a little uneasily, but heard Tang Ke say: “Good news, good news!”

His voice sounded particularly excited: “Dr. Kenn’s article has been published!” Tang Ke spoke very quickly: “The video of the surgery has been posted on the website of the magazine, as well as various prenatal examination data indicators and records. Quickly discuss with Shen Fangyu when to operate; I will help you arrange the operating room here!”

The article was delayed in publication, so Tang Ke had already told Jiang Xu to plan for the worst. Unexpectedly, things turned around, and it was undoubtedly a huge surprise to see the publication make such a big advance. It meant that Jiang Xu still had time to do the abortion operation, and he didn’t have to give birth to this child.

Tang Ke was obviously very happy, so his voice was exceptionally loud. Jiang Xu didn’t have time to turn down the volume, and the words leaked out of the microphone.

He didn’t know if Shen Fangyu could also hear it, but for some reason, he suddenly felt a little afraid to look at Shen Fangyu.

Tang Ke continued: “Go online and take a look, there must be many of our colleagues discussing this matter now! It’s not too late to have an abortion. But you have been delayed for too long, so quickly tell Shen Fangyu, you have to prepare quickly! ”

His voice became more and more high-pitched, and Jiang Xu could imagine how he was dancing on the other end of the phone. Tang Ke was thinking of him, and Jiang Xu should have been infected by his warm emotions, but he couldn’t tell why he felt that Tang Ke was a little noisy.

“I see, I’ll watch right away.” Jiang Xu hung up the phone and went to check the news on his mobile phone. Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned on the mobile phone, he received a message from the embassy—his visa was approved!

After being rejected for the third time, Jiang Xu made a written application according to Tang Ke’s suggestion, attached all the inspection reports, and applied for review. But there was no news for a long time, so he had given up. To his surprise, he actually received the news that the review had been passed.

This meant that he did not have Shen Fangyu as his only option. As long as he prepared enough money, he could even go to Country M to find Dr. Kenn for the surgery.

“What’s wrong?” Shen Fangyu asked him.

Jiang Xu squeezed the mobile phone and was silent for a brief moment, then he twisted his neck stiffly and looked at Shen Fangyu.

“Dr Kenn’s article was published,” he said, “and my visa… was approved.”