After her dramatic cousin stopped acting up, the aloof doctor got anxious.

Every time, they would get stuck at the last line of defense. They would kiss and touch each other, but every time it came to the crucial moment, Qi Wenshen would stop.

It's like a webpage that just won't load, the progress bar is stuck at 99%, it just seems to be a little bit off.

failure.

That was a complete failure.

Shen Ruo mentally graded her performance today. Out of 100, she gave herself 60, which was passing, but far from excellent.

Zhou Lan caught up from behind and took her arm. "Shen Ruo, you'd better make lots of money. When your godson and godson are born, you'll have to give them a big red envelope!"

Shen Ruo glanced at her. "How old?"

"It should start at least at one million."

Zhou Lan blinked.

"roll."

I'm crazy about money.

She has a million dollars but won't spend it herself.

Zhou Lan sat down and opened her phone to browse her WeChat Moments.

I saw one of them.

She glanced at the WeChat profile picture, then held the phone up to Shen Ruo's face. "Shen Ruo, what's this? Which poop has managed to keep this beautiful flower like you confined?"

Shen Ruo pushed her phone away, frowned, and said, "Can you stop being so disgusting? What's with all this 'poop' stuff?"

Zhou Lan took her phone back, crossed her arms, and said, "You owe me an explanation. Are we still friends? I tell you everything, and you, on the other hand, are holding hands with someone else, and I don't even know who that person is."

"Can't you tell whose hand that is?"

Shen Ruo asked.

Zhou Lan looked down at it carefully, then looked up, her expression as serious as if she were doing a reading comprehension exercise. "I can tell."

Shen Ruo's heart tightened.

How could you recognize that?

Qi Wenshen's hands aren't that much different from ordinary people's hands, are they?

Just as she was about to confess, Zhou Lan continued, "The smaller one is definitely yours, and the larger one is definitely a man's hand."

Shen Ru rolled her eyes, speechless. "Isn't that obvious?"

Zhou Lan shrugged. "That settles it then? You didn't tell me which man it was, how am I supposed to know who it is?"

Shen Ruo was so confused by her words that she didn't even have time to speak before Zhou Lan suddenly reached out and pulled down her mask.

Shen Ruo's slightly swollen lips were exposed to her like this.

A knowing look appeared on Zhou Lan's face, and the corners of her mouth slowly curled up.

She stood with her hands on her hips, chin lowered, her gaze piercing. "Tell me, that hand belongs to your cousin, doesn't it?"

Shen Ruo's face stiffened.

Zhou Lan understood, and angrily raised her voice, "Shen Ruo, have you two been having an affair all along? No wonder Qi Wenshen doesn't even give me a second glance, and I stupidly went to fawn over him, and you even encouraged me to pursue him? What do you mean? Are you playing me?"

Shen Ruo panicked and quickly grabbed Zhou Lan's hand, hurriedly explaining, "No, no, listen to me, we only started after you decided not to pursue him, really."

"You didn't lie?"

Zhou Lan squinted.

"I'm not lying, I swear."

Shen Ruo nodded vigorously.

"I didn't mean to hide it from you, I just felt... the timing wasn't right, and besides, you liked him so much before, I was afraid it would upset you..."

"So, am I supposed to be unhappy now?"

Zhou Lan's voice sounded unpredictable.

Shen Ruo shrank her neck weakly. "I'm so sorry, I should have told you sooner, I..."

"Hahaha…"

Zhou Lan suddenly burst into laughter, "I was just teasing you, look how anxious you are, your face has turned white."

Shen Ruo stood there stunned, her brain freezing for two seconds before she came to her senses.

"You...you're playing me?"

"Why did you keep this from me for so long?"

Zhou Lan couldn't hide her excitement. "But seriously, I really didn't expect that you would win over the aloof orthopedic surgeon like this? Tsk tsk tsk, once you two make it official, how many girls will be heartbroken? I need to prepare tissues in advance so I can comfort them one by one."

Shen Ruo breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest.

She was genuinely afraid of losing Zhou Lan as a friend. After being in the book for so long, Zhou Lan was the first and only person she could truly confide in.

If this causes a major falling out, she will be unhappy for a long time.

Zhou Lan moved closer, her smile becoming less serious. "Let's have a heart-to-heart talk, you two sisters. You live in the same room every day, how far have things progressed? Tell me, don't hide it from me."

Shen Ruo's face flushed instantly. She rolled her eyes at her, put her mask back on, and said, "Anyway, I'm not as fast as you."

"Besides kissing, was there any deeper interaction?"

Zhou Lan smiled meaningfully, crossing her two index fingers.

"no."

After Shen Ruo finished speaking, she pretended to organize the medical records, but her bright red ear tips betrayed her.

Zhou Lan wisely refrained from pressing the matter further. She picked up her phone and looked at the post on WeChat Moments again, clicking her tongue twice before shaking her head.

Shen Ruo then remembered to check her phone.

Open WeChat, and the red dots in Moments have increased to 99+.

On the female colleague's side.

【Ahhh... Shen Ruo, you have a boyfriend? Who is it? Who is it?】

[Please provide a front-facing photo, not just one showing the hands.]

[They've kept it well hidden; there's never been a whisper of them.]

[These hands are so white, could they be from someone I have a crush on? I'm so sad.]

[The person upstairs is dreaming; she's clearly the one I have a crush on.]

Stop guessing, it's me.

The comments from male colleagues were quite different.

Whose hand is this? It's not from our department, is it? I've asked around, and nobody belongs to it.

Who exactly is it? Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely.

It wasn't me.

It wasn't me either.

Could she have found someone from outside? I haven't heard of anyone in our hospital getting close to her.

Shen Ruo looked at these comments, liked them one by one, and then replied to them all.

Colleagues, congratulations on finding a boyfriend! It's someone from our hospital, guess who!

It was followed by a mischievous grin emoji.

The comments section was as lively as a vegetable market.

The single male colleagues started asking each other questions.

"Is it Dr. Li?"

"No, I asked."

"Dr. Wang? Doesn't seem like it, his hands aren't that big."

"Dr. Zhang is married, so we can rule that out."

"Dr. Chen? No, no, Dr. Chen's fingers aren't that long."

I asked around, but none of them matched.

Some people even started compiling a list of all the unmarried male doctors in the hospital, scrolling down one by one, and finally finding that there were a few who were particularly eligible, but after asking around, none of them were eligible.

I racked my brains but still couldn't figure out who it was.

The female colleagues were also itching to try it out.

Shen Ruo said that it was from our hospital.

Those who had a crush on someone took out their phones and zoomed in on the photo, comparing it to the palm lines, finger length, and knuckle shape of the person they had a crush on.

Every pair of eyes scanned that photo repeatedly, wishing they could rip that hand out of the screen, turn it over, and see whose name was written on the palm print.

Zhou Lan scrolled through the comments, "Shen Ruo, you're really good at this. Next time, Wei Jing and I will post one too."

Shen Ruo picked up the phone, glanced at it, smiled, and then turned it face down on the table.

"You're not going to reply to them?"

Zhou Lan asked.

Let them guess.

Zhou Lan watched her retreating figure and muttered under her breath, "You two are really something."