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

Chapter 108 Impossible! ~ (Bonus chapter for 1200 first subscriptions)

"I never thought I'd take the postgraduate entrance exam again. My pride got the better of me, and I just did it recklessly," Lu Cheng replied frankly.

Xie Yuan'an looked at Lu Cheng in surprise, her delicate face pouting, looking anything but ladylike: "So you really are being pretentious..."

"A mere undergraduate student dares to dream of taking down a PhD student at Huashan Hospital without any guidance from a teacher? Who gave you the courage?"

"Fish Leong?"

"It's a good thing that Xiaomu still believed you were at Zhongnan Hospital. If I hadn't done my investigation after returning to China, she would have ended up at Zhongnan Hospital because of you."

Lu Cheng disliked Xie Yuan'an's tone, and replied formally, "Professor Xie, although Zhongnan Hospital's platform is not as good as Union Hospital's, it is still my alma mater, the place where I did my internship and residency training."

“It won’t harm Mu Nanshu by having her work here.”

Xie Yuan'an waved her hand in apology: "Okay, okay, I misspoke. What I meant was, if Xiao Mumu insists on going there but doesn't find you, then all her efforts will have been in vain."

“She suffered a lot while reading this book.”

"Our domestic education system is different from that abroad, and it is even more difficult to catch up with the requirements of American medical schools."

"You've gotten yourself into this state, what are you two going to do in the future?" Xie Yuan'an asked from an objective standpoint.

Lu Cheng didn't reply, but sat down with Xie Yuan'an. However, Lu Cheng didn't really like Xie Yuan'an's scrutinizing gaze.

But her gaze was full of scrutiny and concern, not ridicule, which made Lu Cheng feel that Mu Nanshu had really met a good friend.

"I'm looking for a way too," Lu Cheng replied.

Xie Yuan'an suggested, "I've heard Xiao Mumu say that you are very outstanding, much more outstanding than her. If that's true, you can take the postgraduate entrance exam and pursue a doctorate at your age. It won't be difficult for you to stay in a hospital in Wuhan."

"Even though you're older and the platform you're on isn't that great, it doesn't have to be a long-distance relationship. Have you thought about that?"

"Anyway, Xiaomumu has made such a plan. She even asked me to inquire about the recruitment standards of our Huazhong Union Hospital. According to your age, you are outdated."

"Of course, she also asked me, with a bit of overconfidence, about our orthopedics department's 'ladder to the top' and such, and I told her about it..."

Xie Yuan'an truly didn't treat herself as an outsider; or rather, she was a typical best friend.

Upon seeing Lu Cheng, they immediately began to "examine" him!
Lu Cheng interrupted Xie Yuan'an's scrutiny, saying, "I've thought about that too."

Mu Nanshu's parents had never looked at him like that, and Lu Cheng didn't like others looking at his relationship with Mu Nanshu with 'special' eyes either.

"Ahem..." Xie Yuan'an, as the host, was turning on the coffee machine when she heard Lu Cheng's words and coughed twice.

Turning back, his voice suddenly became hearty and amusing: "Brother, what are you talking about?"

Lu Cheng laughed and said, "Can't I be a little bolder in my dreams? Who says so?"

Xie Yuan'an nodded: "That's true. You're very honest and have an indomitable spirit. It's no surprise that you can make our little Mu Mu so infatuated."

"I agree to your marriage!"

Glug glug glug! ~
Xie Yuan'an filled two disposable paper cups with coffee and pushed one to Lu Cheng: "I don't like iced coffee, so I didn't prepare any ice. Dr. Lu, please make do with this."

"Thank you. Thank you, Teacher Xie," Lu Cheng said.

Xie Yuan'an said, "You can call me Teacher Xie during class, and you can call me Sister An or Sister Xie after class. That's what Xiao Mumu calls me too."

After Xie Yuan'an sat down with his legs together, he said, "Although Xiao Mumu is a bit naive, she has a high standard. She said that you have good talent and aptitude, so you must be quite good."

"This nerve suturing training course has high entry requirements; most participants are associate chief physicians from prefecture-level city hospitals." "Aren't you afraid of wasting your tuition by signing up?"

"Or is this a publicly funded date? If it's the latter, I can arrange to issue you your graduation certificate ahead of schedule."

"Anyway, if you can get your hospital to participate in the training course, I won't care too much."

"After all, our little Mumu will be very happy this way."

Lu Cheng said seriously, "Teacher Xie, Mu Nanshu is Mu Nanshu, and studying is studying."

“I can come to see her alone, but I won’t do it under the guise of studying. These are two different things.”

"Tuition fees shouldn't be wasted like this."

Xie Yuan'an replied noncommittally, "You've got quite the nerve. Do you even know what kind of foundation you need to formally join our training program?"

Lu Cheng shook his head and said, "The recruitment notice says 'attending physician'."

“That’s a senior attending physician from one of the three hospitals. Our Union Hospital’s nerve suturing has always been a top-notch specialty in Wuhan.”

"This time there are six trainees, four of whom are from municipal hospitals, you are from a county hospital, and the other is an associate professor of hand surgery from the Provincial People's Hospital."

Xie Yuan'an said, "Yes, really, if..."

Lu Cheng sighed and said, "Teacher Xie, although you and Nan Shu have a good relationship, you don't have to look down on people like that. Now that I'm here, I certainly won't waste my tuition."

Upon hearing this, Xie Yuan'an counted Lu Cheng's age on her fingers, her expression changing drastically as she muttered to herself, "Impossible, right?"

"You're only thirty years old, don't tell me you can perform delicate blood vessel suturing..."

After Xie Yuan'an finished speaking, she stared intently at Lu Cheng.

Since Xie Yuan'an is also a professional hand surgeon, Lu Cheng said, "Professor Xie, actually I don't have much experience in hand surgery. During my residency, I mostly rotated in trauma surgery."

"However, I later met a hand surgery professor. Under his guidance, we can currently only perform ornamental sutures of two or three segments of the 'naked mouse tail artery,' and we haven't yet found a suitable way to apply it clinically. That professor said..."

"Impossible!" Xie Yuan'an's expression changed drastically, and his Adam's apple almost appeared out of nowhere, bobbing up and down.

"You were lying just now! Tell me, be honest, you only said that on purpose to refute me!"

Lu Cheng said calmly, "I'm not a hand surgeon either. Why would I make this up? I don't even know how to use these suture techniques."

"I learned all this so I could participate in competitions and earn money," Lu Cheng said with a slightly joking tone.

Xie Yuan'an's tied-up ponytail really did swing back and forth like a horse's tail as she moved from side to side, and her voice finally became completely distorted: "You learned stitching techniques to become a professional gamer and compete?"

"No? Who gave you this instruction?"

Xie Yuan'an completely broke down: "You honed your suturing skills to this extent just for the competition? What makes you think you can do that?"

"No, I don't believe it, you couldn't possibly be!"

“Come with me… I absolutely don’t believe you. Unless you prove it to me.”

Xie Yuan'an's change in expression made Lu Cheng even more certain that Tong Yuan'an's autism was not something he was born with.

Perhaps, the fact that my suturing skills have reached such a high level at my age is truly 'special'!
After all, the difficulty of suturing the tail artery in nude mice is many times greater than the average level of a 'specialist doctor' in tendon suturing...

(End of this chapter)