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The corridor was filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant.

Ye Zhen had just finished a complex cardiac angiography procedure and walked out of the catheterization lab through the heavy lead door.

Li Hong quickly went to meet her and deftly helped her untie the 30-pound radiation-proof lead apron from behind.

The heavy lead apron hit the ground with a dull thud.

Ye Zhen's white shirt was completely soaked with sweat and clung tightly to her back.

She walked to the pool at the end of the corridor and turned on the tap.

The cool water washed over my aching fingers.

Lin Weiguo suddenly stood up on the bench.

He was wearing an old, faded Zhongshan suit, the cuffs frayed and worn.

He was clutching a bright red invitation card tightly in his hand.

Lin Weiguo walked over quickly.

"Zhenzhen".

Ye Zhen turned off the tap and casually flicked the water droplets from her fingertips.

Li Hong handed over a dry white towel.

Ye Zhen took the towel and wiped her hands without even lifting her eyelids.

"Is there something you need, Vice Dean Lin?"

Lin Weiguo rubbed his hands nervously and handed over the invitation card, which was slightly wrinkled from being gripped by sweaty hands.

"Wan'er is getting married and having a banquet the day after tomorrow. I was wondering if you could spare some time to come and visit?"

Ye Zhen dried her hands and threw the towel into the recycling bin.

She didn't accept the invitation.

"The interventional radiology department is full, I don't have time."

Lin Weiguo's facial muscles twitched, and he lowered his posture even further.

"Zhenzhen, I'm begging you."

His voice carried a hint of pleading.

"Wan'er is already two months pregnant. That old lady from the Zhao family is simply too much. Seeing that Wan'er's belly is big, she concluded that our Lin family wouldn't dare to break off the engagement. She managed to cut the bride price from eight hundred yuan to two hundred. She's even only willing to hold five tables at the Red Star Hotel for the wedding banquet."

Lin Weiguo's eyes reddened, and he began to appeal to family ties.

"Our Lin family's reputation has been utterly ruined. You're a celebrity now, who doesn't know you? If you were willing to show your face, the Zhao family would never dare to humiliate Wan'er like this again."

Ye Zhen found it utterly ridiculous.

"Vice Dean Lin."

Ye Zhen turned around and looked directly into his eyes.

"When Lin Wan went to great lengths to get involved with Zhao Tiancheng, she didn't look down on the Zhao family's bad family traditions."

Lin Weiguo was so choked up that his face turned red, and he couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.

He could only hold the invitation tightly, as if he wouldn't leave until Ye Zhen accepted it.

Ye Zhen looked up at the clock on the wall.

She didn't want to waste even a minute of her rest time on this person.

She held up two fingers, pinched the invitation, and casually stuffed it into the pocket of her white coat.

"Okay, I'll be there on time."

Lin Weiguo was overjoyed and nodded his thanks repeatedly before turning around and quickly leaving the corridor.

Li Hong rolled her eyes.

"Teacher Ye, are you really going?"

Ye Zhen straightened her collar.

"It's just watching a monkey show."

It was exactly 12 noon.

The second canteen of the main hospital was bustling with noise.

Lin Weiguo, carrying an aluminum lunchbox, deliberately squeezed into the table where several senior directors of the cardiac surgery department were sitting.

He had barely sat down when he started raising his voice.

"Although the marriage is over, the affection remains. Wan'er is holding a banquet the day after tomorrow, and Zhenzhen immediately agreed to sit at the head table."

The doctors around exchanged glances.

Everyone knows that Ye Zhen is now a national treasure in the hospital, and even Dean Zhou Hai has to treat her with great respect.

Anyone with eyes could see what Lin Weiguo was thinking.

Gu Zheng strode into the cafeteria carrying a three-layer insulated container.

His crisp military uniform, coupled with the murderous aura he exuded from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, instantly lowered the surrounding temperature.

Lin Weiguo was talking enthusiastically and didn't notice that someone was standing behind him.

Gu Zheng placed the thermos steadily on the table next to him.

He pulled out a chair and sat down with a flourish.

He tapped his fingers lightly on the table twice.

The noise in the cafeteria instantly fell silent.

Lin Weiguo turned his head and met Gu Zheng's cold, sharp eyes. He was so startled that his wrist trembled, and the chopsticks fell to the ground.

"Vice Dean Lin."

Gu Zheng's voice wasn't loud, but it was extremely penetrating.

"You can eat whatever you want, but you'd better not say whatever you want. My wife is just having a meal at your place, don't try to make yourself look good."

Lin Weiguo stammered, his mouth agape, unable to utter a single word.

Gu Zheng stood up, picked up the thermos again, and turned to walk towards the doctors' office building.

Inside the office of the head of the interventional department.

Ye Zhen was sitting at her desk, looking through the surgical records that Gao Yuan had just submitted.

Gu Zheng pushed open the door and walked in.

The thermos was placed heavily on the table with a dull thud.

Ye Zhen didn't even look up.

"Who upset you? Why are you so angry?"

Gu Zheng unscrewed the lid of the insulated container.

The top layer is freshly made pork rib and winter melon soup, the middle layer is braised ribbonfish, and the bottom layer is white rice.

He handed him the chopsticks.

"You agreed to attend Zhao Tiancheng's wedding?"

Ye Zhen took the chopsticks, picked up a piece of ribbonfish, and put it in her mouth.

"Well, Lin Weiguo is so persistent, there's nothing I can do."

Gu Zheng pulled up a chair and sat down opposite her.

"If you really want to go, I'll drive you there the day after tomorrow. But let's make it clear, we'll leave right after we eat, not a second longer."

Ye Zhen spat the fishbone onto a tissue and nodded.

At 2 p.m., Ye Zhen appeared in the ward on time.

Li Hong and Lin Yi followed behind, pushing the treatment cart.

I walked up to bed 3, to the bedside of the two-and-a-half-year-old child with ventricular septal defect.

Ye Zhen carefully examined the markings inside the catheter bag and then glanced at the blood pressure record on the bedside card.

"Lin Yi, the child's urine output is low this morning, and his heart rate is also fast. What do you suspect might be the cause?"

Lin Yi immediately stood up straight and answered fluently.

"This is likely the right ventricle adapting to the new pressure. I have already administered a small dose of diuretic as you instructed, and the urine output has caught up."

Ye Zhen nodded in satisfaction.

"Well handled. Continue to monitor closely, especially changes in blood oxygen levels at night."

After finishing my rounds and returning to my office, Dean Zhou Hai just happened to walk in.

Zhou Hai held a notification document from the dean's office and threw it directly on the table.

"Ye Zhen, Lin Weiguo is bragging everywhere about you going to attend Lin Wan's wedding."

Ye Zhen poured a glass of warm water and handed it over.

"Don't worry, Dean, I know what I'm doing."

Zhou Hai took a sip of water and pointed to the documents on the table.

"Zhao Tiancheng is completely ruined. Because of what happened before, and his lack of technical skills, I demoted him to the logistics department to manage the warehouse. This morning, when he was taking inventory of consumables, he wrote down a box of expensive imported saline solution as glucose. He was publicly berated by the head of the logistics department and even received a hospital-wide reprimand."

Ye Zhen glanced at the document, her face expressionless.

"He has only himself to blame."

Zhou Hai sighed.

"Lin Weiguo wants to use your reputation to his advantage at the wedding banquet the day after tomorrow. Be careful not to be taken advantage of by them."

Ye Zhen tidied up the medical record folder on the table and put it in the drawer.

"I just eat, I don't say anything."