This doctor is already middle-aged, and he's only just started practicing medicine.

Chapter 104 Some stories belong only to the two little ones (Bonus chapter for 800 first subscriptions)

Lu Cheng suddenly smiled and asked, "If you wanted to go to the State People's Hospital, you should have gone there from the beginning."

Mu Nanshu shook her head: "That's not how it is."

“I thought you were in Seoul, I thought you would wait for me in Seoul, so my first stop after returning was Seoul, and all the resumes I sent out were limited to Seoul.”

"Based on my understanding of you, I assumed you were still at Zhongnan Hospital... but when I got there, I only found a 'doctor' who knew you..."

Mu Nanshu added, "Perhaps I was still too presumptuous."

"I used to think that since I had already asked around for you, everything was settled. With your postgraduate entrance exam score back then, you should have been 100% accepted, right?"

"Why did it turn out like that? They've already told us." Even after so many years, Mu Nanshu's voice was still a little strained. For the first time, she told Lu Cheng what she had done in secret.

Lu Cheng's postgraduate entrance exam score could be checked in advance. Mu Nanshu was in Shanghai; she was an undergraduate student at Fudan University, so she could openly ask him about it with her score.

She also asked about the results, but she didn't tell Lu Cheng the results, because she was afraid that Lu Cheng would think he could pass the re-examination easily and wouldn't take it seriously.

However?
Lu Cheng prepared diligently for the re-examination, but was still rejected.

Lu Cheng remained silent and shook his head: "I don't know either, but so many years have passed, the specific reasons aren't that important anymore."

"Let's just treat it as a learning experience."

"As the ancients said, when Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on someone, it will first..."

The story of Lu Cheng and Mu Nanshu doesn't have many ups and downs, nor is it heart-wrenching; it's filled with delicate, fragmented memories.

A youth without regrets may have very few specific things worth regretting or reminiscing about.

The two of them started studying together in elementary school, and initially they didn't have any 'ulterior motives'!
During their adolescence, both of them had excellent grades and were close friends. The teachers didn't say anything. As long as they were both studying hard and their grades remained stable, and as long as they didn't hold hands in school, even if the homeroom teacher or the political education office saw them, they wouldn't 'say a word of warning'.

In high school, starting from the first year, Lu Cheng and Mu Nanshu were among the "batch" of students who consistently scored above 620.

Longxian is just a small county town, unlike Shashi, where prestigious schools like 985 universities are everywhere. So, in the eyes of many high school teachers, Lu Cheng and Mu Nanshu studying together, having self-study together, and eating together in the cafeteria without any exceptions, were all "very positive" examples of mutual encouragement and learning.

After entering university, Lu Cheng went to Wuhan University, and Mu Nanshu went to Fudan University, which was Lu Cheng's most desired school. No one thought that the two were not on the same level or anything like that...

Mu Nanshu's parents did not tell her to stay away from Lu Cheng. However, Lu Nanjia and Tian Hui would occasionally discuss whether Lu Cheng was trying to climb the social ladder.

Mu Nanshu replied, "What great or small responsibilities have nothing to do with ordinary people like us."

"All that's left is to toughen up their minds."

"Take me for example, I almost died trying to graduate with this PhD. I thought you were doing better than me, and we haven't been in touch for so long, and everyone around me..."

"That's why I didn't dare to bother you before returning to China and without knowing the details," Mu Nanshu said.

"But I can only think about graduating first, after all, my parents' money was earned with hard work and effort, it didn't just fall from the sky."

In Mu Nanshu's opinion, Lu Cheng was more outstanding than her. Lu Cheng had already been "staying in the hospital" for a long time, and might even have gotten married and had children.

Later, Mu Nanshu made some inquiries and learned about Lu Cheng's blind date.

"But you still sent me those things, so you still think I want to make something of myself, don't you?"

"That's your first impression of me, isn't it?" Lu Cheng said with a calm smile.

Mu Nanshu nodded: "Mm."

For a long time afterward, the two of them didn't say anything more, they just ate and looked around, ate and looked around...

The word "emotion" is never about ups and downs.

Some past events that others might not consider stories at all are the unique memories of youth known only to the two of them. Mu Nanshu did not avoid Lu Cheng's gaze, so Lu Cheng could see her eyes and pupils very clearly.

Her eyes were long and narrow, like peach petals, with slightly upturned corners, a reddish tinge around them, and watery pupils.

To be fair, peach blossom eyes naturally possess a charming quality, especially when smiling, they appear as lively as crescent moons.

However, Mu Nanshu seemed unable to completely control those eyes. At this moment, besides being clear, they carried a smile, but also contained a hint of grievance.

Essentially, the suggestion that Lu Cheng choose Huashan Hospital for graduate studies was made by Mu Nanshu...

Lu Cheng thought for a moment before smiling and saying, "Peking Union Medical College Hospital is quite good. Although the competition is fierce, at least it's fair."

"If you go to work in a prefecture-level city hospital now, you will encounter many obstacles that you cannot imagine."

"City-level hospitals don't value publications or research, so they're not a good place for you."

"Now that your job is settled, let's make it an An family home for now. As for the others, I..."

Lu Cheng originally wanted to simply say, "I'll make the arrangements," but he instinctively hesitated for a moment. After carefully reviewing his own screen, Lu Cheng added earnestly:
"I'll think of a way!"

Two months ago, Lu Cheng didn't dare say such things to Mu Nanshu because at that time Lu Cheng's foundation was too weak, and he couldn't possibly foresee what the documents Mu Nanshu sent him meant.

Therefore, Lu Cheng dared not say anything, but now, Lu Cheng did not think that those things were unattainable, or at least not something that could be mastered in the last five or eight years.

Even eight years later, Lu Cheng would only be thirty-eight years old, not considered old. Professor Chen Song and his colleagues were around the same age; in the medical field, they were all considered young…

Mu Nanshu scooped up the seaweed seedlings and put them in a communal bowl to cool temporarily. After lowering his head slightly, he looked up again and said, "If it's not easy to get by in a prefecture-level city hospital, can you take me with you?"

Mu Nanshu spoke seriously, and the small light brown mole at the corner of her right eye was barely visible, hidden by her squinted eyelids.

Raven-feather-like eyelashes cast butterfly-wing-shaped shadows on the lower eyelids under the incandescent light.

Mu Nanshu meant that it wouldn't be easy for a research-oriented person like her to get by in a prefecture-level city hospital, so she asked Lu Cheng to help her get by.

Distance is a very real problem, something both of them have felt deeply about for a long time.

From Seoul to Shanghai, if the train is on time, the shortest journey takes 8 hours and 52 minutes, and the longest takes 14 hours and 57 minutes.

Delayed times will be charged separately.

Otherwise, Mu Nanshu and Lu Cheng wouldn't have planned to settle down in Shanghai and continue living their separate lives.

Lu Cheng said frankly, "No, no, Mu Nanshu, you should know me. I don't mind being a kept man."

"If you can carry me into the sky, I definitely won't let go!!"

Mu Nanshu looked at Lu Cheng and said in a low voice, "Lu Cheng, you've changed."

"You wouldn't have said that before."

There is a certain gap in family background between Lu Cheng and Mu Nanshu. Although Lu Cheng didn't say it explicitly before, he actually cared about this.

"Haha... People definitely change."

"When I was young, I was arrogant and proud, and my ambitions were higher than the sky."

"After entering society, I will also understand a principle, which is that rich women are hungry and want a hug!" Lu Cheng made a gesture to reach out to Mu Nanshu.

Mu Nanshu turned away abruptly, wrinkling her nose in disdain.

Lu Cheng then stopped what he was doing: "Actually, you've changed a lot too. Everyone is growing."

(End of this chapter)