After being separated from my family, I became a darling of the military region thanks to my medical

Lin Wan sat on the sofa in the vice dean's office, patiently waiting for her father to bring back good news. She had already mentally rehearsed what kind of look she should give when those two wild girls packed their things and left.

The door lock clicked. Lin Weiguo pushed the door open and walked in.

"Dad, how is it? Did Dean Zhou approve the dismissal immediately?" Lin Wan stood up from the sofa and went to greet him.

She didn't receive a reassuring smile from her father. Lin Weiguo locked the door behind him, turned around, and slammed his hand heavily on the coffee table next to him, making the glass ashtray on it jump.

"Leave? I think you're the one who should leave!" Lin Weiguo roared, his voice low, a finger almost poking Lin Wan's forehead. "Do you even know who those two are? One's Political Commissar Zhao's daughter, and the other's Commander Gu's daughter! You're asking for trouble!"

Lin Wan's smile froze instantly. She took a step back, her calf hitting the edge of the sofa, and she slumped down. Her mind was buzzing as she processed these two explosive identities.

Those two plainly dressed peasants who ate dry rations on the table every day were actually the daughters of the military region commander.

"I don't believe it..." Lin Wan muttered to herself, "This is impossible. They don't look like the daughters of a high-ranking official at all. It must be Ye Zhen! Ye Zhen deliberately brought these two people here to set a trap to humiliate me!"

Seeing his daughter's stubbornness, Lin Weiguo sighed in disappointment. "You go back to your office right now, clean up the mess you made today, and then stay there quietly. Don't cause any more trouble, do you hear me!"

After saying that, Lin Weiguo picked up his briefcase and went straight out the door. He felt a headache just looking at his good-for-nothing daughter.

Lin Wan didn't go to work at all in the afternoon.

She locked herself in her room, her mind racing with one question—why did Ye Zhen agree to let her into the office?

Logically speaking, given the old grudge of being kicked out of the Lin family's home, Ye Zhen could have easily refused outright. When Zhao Shuya shamelessly came to beg for help, Ye Zhen didn't even accept the bag of eggs.

But she nodded and agreed anyway.

He agreed, and then threw her into an office filled with letters in incomprehensible dialects, endless calls for help, and next to the office of the daughter of a high-ranking military commander!

The more Lin Wan thought about it, the more she felt a burning anger rising in her chest, making it hard to breathe.

It was intentional. Ye Zhen definitely dug a pit for her to fall into!

After dinner, Lin Wan changed into a clean polyester shirt, washed her face, gritted her teeth, and left home.

She found out that Ye Zhen was giving a class to visiting doctors from all over the country in a large, insulated tent in the backyard of the main hospital at 8 p.m.

The early spring evening breeze was still chilly. Outside the tent, medical experts who had arrived early to reserve seats had already gathered, chatting animatedly in small groups. Lin Wan avoided the main entrance and entered through a side alley lined with old wooden planks. She lifted the heavy windproof canvas and slipped directly into the area temporarily partitioned off by canvas at the back of the tent.

The cubicle was dimly lit. Ye Zhen sat at a worn-out military-style folding table, a dusty 15-watt incandescent bulb hanging overhead. She wore a clean white lab coat, several pages of handwritten lesson plans spread out beside her, her pen rapidly annotating a set of extracorporeal circulation data. The lively discussions of the experts outside drifted in through the heavy canvas, creating a world apart from this small space.

Hearing footsteps behind her, Ye Zhen didn't even look up.

Lin Wan walked behind her and looked at Ye Zhen's calm and indifferent appearance. The evil fire in her heart suddenly burned through her reason.

"You're probably feeling pretty smug right now, aren't you?" Lin Wan's voice sounded particularly sharp in the cramped cubicle.

Ye Zhen paused, turned around in her folding chair, and looked at Lin Wan with a cold gaze.

"You knew perfectly well who those two people were, but you deliberately kept it from me, just waiting to see me make a fool of myself in front of them!" Lin Wan took a step closer, her eyes filled with intense jealousy and hatred. "What, now that you've made something of yourself at the hospital, you're starting to make fun of me?"

Ye Zhen snapped the pen cap back on with a "snap," the sound soft but carrying a chilling force. She completely ignored Lin Wan's unreasonable accusations, her gaze sweeping indifferently over Lin Wan's neatly pressed shirt and her ink-free fingers.

"You can't even answer a phone properly in the office, and you make a mess of filing mail," Ye Zhen said calmly. "Did someone else do all this?"

Lin Wan's face flushed crimson after being exposed like that, her voice shrill and cracking: "Don't try to disgust me with this! You're just seeking revenge! You hate that our Lin family kicked you out like a dog, you hate that I stole the affection that should have been yours! You even hold a grudge because Zhao Tiancheng chose me instead of you! You ruined him completely, and now you want to crush me!"

Upon hearing the name "Zhao Tiancheng," Ye Zhen frowned slightly, taking a couple of seconds to recall who he was. He was the quack doctor who had once looked down on the original owner's background, only to be thoroughly humiliated by her genuine talent and skill.

Ye Zhen stood up from the folding chair. She was slender, but half a head taller than Lin Wan. The powerful aura she exuded from above made Lin Wan involuntarily shrink back and take a half step back.

"Zhao Tiancheng is a useless piece of trash who can't even hold a syringe properly. You think he's a treasure? You're blind. Don't get involved with him." Ye Zhen's eyes were like those of someone looking at a useless, lifeless object, devoid of even the slightest emotional ripple. "As for you, Lin Wan, in my eyes, you're not even a stumbling block. You're utterly worthless except for being disgusting."

Ye Zhen ignored her and picked up the lesson plans from the table, rolling them up in her hand.

"The office of Huaxia Heart is not the living room of your Lin family compound. It deals with lives and deaths. If you can't handle this job, you should pack your bags and leave as soon as possible. Don't bring your childish and disgusting tricks to my territory."

Just then, Vice Dean Gao Haiping's voice came from the front of the tent, announcing the official start of the lecture. Immediately afterwards, thunderous applause pierced through the thick canvas like a tidal wave.

Ye Zhen didn't bother to give Lin Wan another glance, turned around, and strode towards the podium.

"You'll regret this! Ye Zhen! Just you wait!" Lin Wan shouted hysterically at her retreating figure, jumping up and down.

Ye Zhen didn't stop. The canvas curtain was lifted a crack, and the bright, glaring beam of the vapor lamp shone directly on Ye Zhen's straight back. She strode confidently from the dim corner to the blackboard that everyone was watching, and a wave of applause and enthusiastic gazes surrounded her.

Lin Wan could only stand frozen in the back cubicle, like a clown jumping around, watching helplessly as the fake heiress she had once trampled underfoot stood on a cloud that she could never reach even on tiptoe.