CH 14

Ye Yisheng listened to whatever Song Anchen said. Song Anchen asked her to stop constantly appearing around him, and she had listened to him. They were both in the same oncology department, and doctors and nurses had to see each other all the time. However, Song Anchen did not see Yisheng at all for over one week of work. He did not know why, but he felt even more empty after he was unable to meet her.

Yisheng was currently chewing on her pen, lowering her head to read the “Medical Manual”. She raised her hand to look at her watch. It was right after lunch, and she felt like it was time for her to find the Head Nurse. To avoid Song Anchen, she found all kinds of reasons to switch shifts with other people. She had switched shifts for a week already, but now, she could not find any other reasons, and could only look for the source, the Head Nurse, and ask her to help her change her shifts.

At any rate, she had agreed with the nurse in the other group, Jian Meimei, to swap her shifts with hers. She walked to the Head Nurse’s office and knocked on the door.

“Enter,” The Head Nurse said from inside her office.

When Yisheng opened the door, she saw that the Head Nurse was chatting with someone else. It seemed to be Luo Luoshi, an attending physician of the oncology section of the department of internal medicine that she had met once before. She was a very beautiful doctor, it is said that she was the disciple of a famous doctor and professor at A Medical University. She also raised her head to glance at Yisheng, there were no emotions in her gaze.

When the Head Nurse saw Yisheng, she asked, “Is something the matter?”

“It’s like this, Head Nurse, I want to swap my shifts with Jian Meimei. My shifts clash with some of my other matters.”

The Head Nurse’s smile froze, “What can be more important than your work? As a nurse, you can’t just do anything you want. You need to follow the Head Nurse’s arrangements, do you understand?”

“But…” She could not find any reason that she could use. She could not tell her that it was because she wanted to avoid Song Anchen. She gritted her teeth, not sure if she should leave the office now.

Luo Luoshi looked at her, seeming to see through her.

“You can leave,” The Head Nurse ordered Yisheng to leave.

Yisheng could not do anything. Her superior did not agree to her request, it would be impossible for her to change her shifts now. She turned and walked out, feeling very unhappy in her heart.

“Head Nurse, I’ll be leaving now too,” Luo Luoshi told the Head Nurse the moment Yisheng turned around.

“Why don’t you sit for a while longer?”

“It’s fine, it’s time for me to go to the clinic,” The voice behind her got clearer and clearer. When she opened the door to leave, Luo Luoshi followed behind her. Yisheng had just taken a few steps when Luo Luoshi called her from behind, “Ye Yisheng?”

Yisheng blinked, feeling that this was quite strange as she turned around. Was she so famous? Even the people in the Department of Internal Medicine knew her?

Luo Luoshi put her hands in the pockets of her white coat and walked towards her, looking at her up and down. After she had confirmed that Yisheng was the correct person, she smiled slightly, “You’re much more womanly than in the photo.”

She was stunned, not understanding what the photo Luo Luoshi was talking about was.

Luo Luoshi whispered in your ear, slightly ridiculing her, “I’ve seen your naked shoulders.”

Yisheng could not help but tremble once. Then, she took a step back, looking at her strangely. However, Luo Luoshi started to laugh and turned around to leave. She left behind a confused Yisheng, her naked shoulders? She was wearing a collared shirt in her file, how could Luo Luoshi have seen Yisheng’s naked shoulders?

“Yisheng!” Jian Meimei’s voice sounded from behind her. She turned around to look, Jian Meimei had already walked over, looking in the direction Luo Luoshi had walked off in, “How did the matter about changing your shift go?”

“I didn’t manage to change it,” Yisheng was a little sad.

“Oh!” Jian Meimei seemed even more disappointed, “I can’t be in the same group as the Cold Prince.”

Yisheng’s mouth twitched, she was not very interested. Suddenly, she recalled Luo Luoshi’s strange words and could not help but try to find out more, “This Luo Luoshi is from A Medical University, right?”

Jian Meimei was also from A Medical University, so she probably knew the answer to this question.

“Isn’t she a little arrogant?” Jian Meimei’s first response was that.

Yisheng smiled in a perfunctory way. She did not feel that Luo Luoshi was arrogant, she simply felt that she was a little weird. Jian Meimei pressed her lips together, saying with disdain, “She’s just a disciple of Professor Hu, what’s there to gloat about. This is a hospital, she’s no longer the only disciple of Professor Hu,” She hummed, extremely gloating, “Our Prince Song is not only the disciple of Professor Hu, but he’s also a talented student who won the comprehensive medical award and the only person who won the praise of Professor Hu.”

When Song Anchen was mentioned, she could no longer stay calm. She awkwardly said, “Since he’s good in everything, he should choose the emergency or general surgery department, right?” The Oncology Surgery Department was not as good as the Oncology Internal Medicine Department. Normally, the surgery department would accept the patients from the internal medicine department for Oncology, it was quite meaningless.

“Ah, who knows why Prince Song made such a foolish decision,” She even sighed, “At that time, when he was choosing his department, Professor Hu was also very puzzled by his decision. It appears that Prince Song had a relative who died after a cancer surgery, which had a great impact on him.”

Song Anchen had a relative who got cancer and died? Yisheng was a little confused, but her mother had died after her surgery for stomach cancer, which also had a great impact on her, and she was very fearful of surgeries after that, it was a fear that could not be explained.

At that moment, Zhao Jixiang, who was passing by, saw Yisheng and Jian Meimei standing together. She could not hold back her smile as she jogged over, patting the two of them on their shoulders, “What are you two doing standing here in a daze? Lunch time is already over.”

“Ah, I’ll go back quickly,” Jian Meimei ran off. Yisheng wanted to follow behind her, but Zhao Jixiang stopped her, bringing her to the corner, asking her mysteriously, “Can you help me ask your childhood friend what skincare product he uses? My gosh, his skin is so tender I feel like it would break if I touch it.”

Yisheng was stunned. Her explanation about the misunderstanding during the blind date was like this: Song Anchen is her childhood friend, they simply had a good relationship, it was just that simple. Of course, in Zhao Jixiang’s eyes, their relationship was not simple at all. A childhood friend who was so outstanding, how could they not have gotten together? Yisheng explained, her childhood friend was too outstanding, and she was not good enough for him. That horrible Zhao Jixiang nodded in agreement, feeling like that was very true.

These few days, to avoid Song Anchen, Yisheng would often not eat in the canteen and just randomly eat some snacks. Zhao Jixiang, who had been left alone could only eat with Xiao Zhuozi and his friends everyday. Everytime Zhao Jixiang returned, she would find something good about Song Anchen, either saying that his fingers are slender, his facial features are so beautiful, or his eyelashes were very long and curly, today, she said that his skin was good…

Yisheng rolled her eyes at him, “Did you go to eat or peep at him? Isn’t your Xiao Zhuozi jealous?”

“Him? What can he say? He cannot be compared to Song Anchen at all. The prince is the prince, no matter how you look at him, he’s very good. Eh, Yisheng, I’m so envious of you, you have such a good prince as a childhood friend.”

She faked a smile.

“But why haven’t you gone to eat recently?”

“I have no appetite.”

“Are the dishes not to your taste?”

“Mm, perhaps,” Yisheng just randomly answered. Zhao Jixiang realized the problem and said, “How about this, let’s go and eat hotpot?”

“What about your Xiao Zhuozi?”

“We can go together.”

Yisheng smiled coldly, “I won’t go and be a third wheel.”

“You won’t be a third wheel. I’ll ask Xiao Zhuozi to bring Song Anchen along, we can go on a double date?” Zhao Jixiang suddenly gave a sly smile. When Yisheng saw that, she suddenly broke out in cold sweat, waving her hands as she turned around to go to the duty room, “I can’t be bothered with you.”

“Hey, I’m creating an opportunity for you,” Zhao Yisheng mumbled from behind her and hurried to catch up to Yisheng.

She has not needed opportunities for a long time.

***

In the afternoon, when they were about to end their shift, a nurse hurriedly rushed in and panted, “Ah, breaking news, breaking news.”

The few nurses in the duty room looked at each other, what was the breaking news?

“Doctor Yan’s younger brother is staying in our hospital,” Yisheng saw that nurse’s eyes shine. The other nurses rushed over, “Which ward?”

“He’s staying in the G31 high-class ward. If it wasn’t for his younger brother escaping the hospital, we wouldn’t have known that he’s the younger brother of Doctor Yan.”

Yisheng was stunned, G31? She remembered that there was a mischievous boy who had randomly pressed on the bell when she was on night shift once, and she had pinched him. She blinked, that mischievous brat was her senior’s younger brother? Their personalities were too different! His brother seemed to have leukemia. He had just finished his bone marrow transplant surgery not too long ago, but had escaped? Yisheng hurriedly called her senior, the phone rang for a very long time before someone picked it up. Yan Heng’s tired voice could be heard, “Hello?”

“Senior, have you found your little brother?”

Yang Heng did not say anything for a long time. He had not expected that Yisheng would know about this matter and that she would be concerned about him. He smiled bitterly, “That brat has always been wild. B City is so big, and it’s tough to find him.”

Yisheng looked at her watch. It was almost time for her to get off work, she hurriedly asked, “Senior, where are you? I’ll go find you.”

“I thought that your shift hasn’t ended?” Yan Heng was a little shocked.

“There’s only half an hour left, I don’t care anymore,” Yisheng said.

Yan Heng paused for a long while, unable to say anything for a long time. Yisheng did not know what he was thinking. Perhaps he had been conflicted or had been moved by Yisheng’s ‘I don’t care anymore’. In the end, he said, “I’m at… The fountain at People’s Square.”

“Okay, I’ll be right there,” She put down the things in her hand and told Zhao Jixiang, who was being gossipy, “I’ll end work early, uh… if the Head Nurse comes to check on us, help me cover-up.”

After Yisheng said that, she ran to change her clothes, not giving Zhao Jixiang time to ask any questions. It happened that Song Anchen was doing his last ward checks before he ended work. When he saw Yisheng, who ran off like the wind, he was stunned.

After that, he heard the nurses speaking.

“I told you, Ye Yisheng and Doctor Yan have something going on. Look, as soon as she heard that something happened to Doctor Yan, she ran off so quickly. Look at how worried she is.”

“I think so too. She’s just an intern, but she dares to skip work, if she gets caught, she’ll be in trouble.”

“What’s there for her to be scared of? She has Doctor Yan as her backing. To get a rich husband, she naturally must put in more effort,” One of the nurses was especially salty.

Zhao Jixiang yelled, “If you can’t stand it when people manage to get a rich husband, you can get one yourself! Why are you talking behind people’s backs? Why are all of you so jealous?”

“Aren’t you exactly the same? You run to Doctor Song’s table to eat everyday, it’s obvious that you have wicked intentions.”

“You few…” Zhao Jixiang was angry and went crazy. He could hear the ruckus in the duty room, but Song Anchen just turned around and left quietly. He was grasping so tightly onto the case files in his hands that the papers were getting crumpled.

He had asked her to date someone, and she was so obedient. Song Anchen could not help but laugh bitterly, a sour feeling in his heart. He was the one who had said those words, but he felt so horrible when he heard such news. He blamed her, he blamed her for not taking him seriously. He blamed her, for not having him in her heart at all.

But he could not do it. Even if her heart did not have him, he still cared so much.