Healing Doctor

Chapter 647 Top Leader

As soon as Ji Xiang opened the gate and stepped into the courtyard, he saw a dark figure rushing towards him.

If you don't own a dog, you'll never experience the joy of a dog running towards you.

only……

Although the roe deer wasn't stupid, its size was comparable to that of a small wolf, weighing 80 kilograms, and it almost knocked Ji Xiang off balance.

Faced with the enthusiastic roe deer and the "big insole" that was drooling and wanted to lick him, Ji Xiang was quite helpless and could only rely on his high agility to keep dodging.

What exactly did my old man do to that silly roe deer while I was away?!

Ji Xiang thought to himself.

"You're back." Ji Yongchang walked out with a calm expression, holding a small purple clay teapot in his hand.

"Dad, I'm back." Ji Xiang hugged the silly roe deer, dodging its tongue.

They're so enthusiastic, I can't stand it.

"You're finally back. Take the silly roe deer out for a run first thing tomorrow morning."

Yoshiaki Yoshiaki said, clearly displeased.

Ji Xiang rarely saw his father show such genuine emotion. He was taken aback for a moment, but then he understood what had happened.

After the silly roe deer came to my home, I would take it for a half marathon every morning. The round trip would exhaust it, and then it would rest quietly when we got home.

But when I'm not home, the DNA in that silly roe deer's body is unsealed, and I wonder what kind of mess it's made of the old man these days.

If he doesn't curse, it's already a sign that his father is well-mannered and has enough self-control.

"Hey, Dad, you're not nice to me at all. I'm still your son, after all. I was on TV and made a name for myself. You should be asking me about it when I get back," Ji Xiang said with a grin.

"What's so great about being on TV and showing off?" Yoshiaki said dismissively. "I wanted to stop the show halfway through, but your mother wouldn't allow it. You really did inherit your mother's genes in this respect—forever young, forever a troublemaker."

Ji Yongchang shook his head slightly as he spoke.

Ji Xiang took out his phone. "Dad, say it again, that line you just said, 'Forever young, forever what was it again?'"

Ji Yongchang raised his hand and slapped Ji Xiang on the head.

"Dad, look at you, so old-fashioned." Ji Xiang put away his phone; he certainly wouldn't actually do that. "Just pretend I went out to have some fun."

"That doctor named Lin Jiuze from the later episodes of the TV show was quite interesting," Yoshiaki said, making a seemingly random remark.

But Ji Xiang was not surprised at all.

He highlighted some minor incidents that happened during the filming of the program for the old man, focusing more on Lin Jiuze.

Two hours later, Ji Xiang went back to his room to rest.

Director Bai's expression and his subsequent words were completely inconsistent, but Ji Xiang guessed that Director Bai was probably good at interpersonal relationships and did not expose him to his face.

Upon entering the operating room, Ji Xiang first bowed respectfully.

"Teacher, I'm here."

"Why did you come and leave so quickly?" the system NPC asked.

Ji Xiang recounted the matter concerning Director Bai.

"We still need to be careful," the system NPC said. "But there's no major problem, don't worry."

With the system NPC's stamp of approval, Ji Xiang felt relieved.

Whether Director Bai knows or not, he has no evidence. How could he possibly drag him to get a biopsy?

Not many people can do that.

"Teacher, what's this about the long-term main quest?" Ji Xiang asked.

"Becoming an academician will allow you to mobilize more resources, which will benefit you and your future scientific research," the system NPC said. "However, this contradicts the establishment of the system's operating room and data collection."

Ji Xiang listened intently without speaking.

The establishment of the system operating room has its own purpose, and as I walk on the road to becoming an academician, I will gradually move further and further away from the system operating room.

If it weren't for the system NPC's statement, Ji Xiang wouldn't agree. In Ji Xiang's view, there seemed to be no conflict between the two.

The system NPC didn't say much, just chatted briefly, and then talked to Ji Xiang about filming the show, especially about Neymar's injury and surgery. The system NPC talked a lot about it.

Ji Xiang never expected that the system NPC was actually a football fan.

No wonder they have a deeper understanding, knowledge, and breakthroughs in sports medicine.

Regarding the main quest, the system NPC didn't say much. Perhaps in his opinion, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars was "extremely easy" and not worth mentioning.

That task was a beginner-level task, and he found it to be no challenge at all.

There was no surgical training today, so Ji Xiang chatted with the system NPC for a while before leaving the system operating room.

He thought about what the system NPC said several times and engraved it deeply in his mind.

The next day, when they arrived at the hospital, Director Bai did not appear, nor did he take any further action.

Ji Xiang wasn't in a hurry and continued doing what he was supposed to do in Deng Chaohong's medical team.

Taking things slowly and steadily, moving with the flow, is the philosophy of life that Ji Yongchang instilled in Ji Xiang from a young age.

Ji Xiang did it meticulously and to a very high standard.

This time when he returned, Deng Chaohong didn't use Ji Xiang as much as before, but instead let him devote more of his energy to the Provincial Natural Resources Department. It's likely that Director Bai had given him advance notice.

After get off work, Ji Xiang wanted to go to the emergency room to see Meng Qingfei, after all, he was the man she had been thinking about since she woke up from general anesthesia.

However, Zhao Zhe seemed to have something on his mind today, and he left after changing his clothes furtively.

"Brother Zhao!" Ji Xiang called out to Zhao Zhe.

"Xiao Ji, what's wrong?" Zhao Zhe's eyes flickered, and he stopped talking so much, it was clear that something was wrong.

"Is there something you need?" Ji Xiang asked directly, without trying to get any information out of him.

Zhao Zhe thought for a moment, then said somewhat embarrassedly, "Today a streamer I've been following said they're giving away freebies, I want to go back and check it out."

"Chase? You're the top spender on the leaderboard?"

"How could that be? I'm the kind of person everyone talks about, a pervert who only licks screens but doesn't spend money." Zhao Zhe was particularly embarrassed.

But he didn't hide it; instead, he chose to tell the truth.

"Can I take a look?" Ji Xiang asked.

"You haven't seen it?" Zhao Zhe asked in surprise, but then laughed and said, "Just don't laugh at me, Xiao Ji."

"How could that be?"

Ji Xiang wasn't interested in Zhao Zhe's private life. He remembered Zhao Zhe mentioning that a livestreamer from Hecheng had gotten into trouble, and with all the perks, Ji Xiang wanted to take a look.

"Xiao Ji, you're so outstanding, why don't you have a girlfriend? Zhao Mengmeng was always flirting with you during the show, I saw it all, but you didn't even look at her."

"It's not appropriate," Ji Xiang said. "Which is more interesting, a girlfriend or surgery?"

"Your idea sounds like that of a forty-something doctor who's already got erectile dysfunction," Zhao Zhe muttered to himself.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Zhe realized he had said the wrong thing and could only hope that Ji Xiang didn't care.

"Haha, no, I haven't had a 'post-coital' moment yet. But I was scammed by my dad during my first online romance, and it left a shadow on my heart." Ji Xiang laughed. "The shadow is long gone now, but I genuinely think having surgery is more interesting than having a girlfriend."

(End of this chapter)