Chapter 241: Chapter 240: Resigning and Leaving
Around 9 AM, Wang Chuan arrived at the office to find Yan Feifan completely listless, like a wilted vegetable.
"Feifan, what’s wrong with you?" Wang Chuan asked with a look of concern.
Yan Feifan replied wearily, "I was in the trauma department last night for two emergency surgeries. I was busy until almost five in the morning."
After a brief pause, he added, "Director, you should probably change the lock on this office to something more secure."
"Oh?" Wang Chuan said softly, then asked quizzically, "Change the lock? Did you find that someone had broken in?"
Yan Feifan said suggestively, "Your office has likely become someone else’s personal battlefield."
Wang Chuan froze for a second before realization dawned on him. He immediately shot up from his desk chair.
"Those damned bastards. This is too much."
Just as he finished cursing, another thought occurred to Wang Chuan.
He looked at Yan Feifan with a sly grin and asked, "Did you happen to walk in on them when you came back this morning?"
"Or did those two burst in while you were asleep?"
Before Yan Feifan could respond, Wang Chuan couldn’t help but chuckle. "No wonder you’re so drained. You got quite a shock, didn’t you?"
"Has your awareness in ’that’ area finally been awakened?"
"This is a good thing!"
Wang Chuan chuckled. "And it just so happens that Yu Suye is your girlfriend now. You’re not lacking for a partner to practice with."
"Director!" Yan Feifan’s voice was a mixture of embarrassment and annoyance.
Wang Chuan quickly put on a serious expression. "Alright, alright, back to business. Let’s talk work."
"Mr. Gao and the others will be here around ten. What about the cosmetic surgery plans for those three celebrities?"
Yan Feifan nodded. "They’re ready. It all depends on their specific choices and requests now."
"Excellent!" Wang Chuan replied happily.
Just then, there was a knock and someone entered.
It was Tang Zheng.
Yan Feifan came to the plastic surgery center often, but he rarely had the chance to see Tang Zheng.
Even when they did meet, they would only exchange a few lukewarm pleasantries, never interacting on a deeper level.
Yan Feifan and Tang Zheng made eye contact, and they both offered a small smile by way of greeting.
Tang Zheng then turned his gaze to Wang Chuan and said, "Teacher, I have something very important I’d like to discuss with you."
Hearing this, Yan Feifan tactfully stood up from the sofa. "Director, I’m going to go check on the wards."
After Yan Feifan left, Tang Zheng got straight to the point. "Teacher, I’m preparing to resign from the center."
The news genuinely shocked Wang Chuan.
He said, astonished, "Resign? Did another hospital poach you with a high salary?"
Wang Chuan then tried to persuade him in earnest. "Tang Zheng, you should know that if you stay at the center for another two or three years, you have a very high chance of being promoted to Deputy Director."
"Once you’re a Deputy Director, whether you decide to change jobs or go start your own practice, your prospects will be much better than they are with the title of Attending Physician."
Tang Zheng’s expression was conflicted. "Teacher, I know this isn’t the best time for me to leave."
"It’s just..."
After a pause, Tang Zheng said sheepishly, "Teacher, you know I’ve been seeing a girl recently, right?"
Wang Chuan said vaguely, "I know you’ve always had plenty of girls flocking around you."
"So you’ve found ’the one’ and decided to settle down?"
Tang Zheng nodded. "For my sake, she bought the Zhiyin Medical Beauty Hospital."
"Zhiyin was bought by your... girlfriend?" Wang Chuan was floored once again.
Tang Zheng affirmed with a hum. "I just mentioned it to her casually once. I never expected she would actually go and buy it."
"Teacher, under the circumstances, I don’t have any other choice. I have to leave and run Zhiyin."
"Teacher, I hope you’ll understand."
Wang Chuan looked at Tang Zheng and fell silent for a moment before sighing. "That is indeed an offer that’s hard to refuse."
"I can understand why you’d make this choice."
He then asked, "When are you planning to leave?"
Tang Zheng said awkwardly, "Zhiyin can’t stay closed for too long, so I’m hoping to leave as soon as possible."
"Oh," Wang Chuan said softly. "In that case, you can leave once all the patients under your care have been discharged."
"I’ll speak with the hospital’s human resources department."
"Thank you, Teacher!"
Tang Zheng bowed slightly and said, his voice thick with emotion, "Teacher, you’ve invested so much time and effort in me over the past two years."
"Teacher, I’ve failed to live up to your expectations. I’ve disappointed you."
"Teacher, I’m sorry!"
Seeing Tang Zheng still bowed low, Wang Chuan said emotionally, "You did your best. You’re not to blame."
"We all have our limits. I can’t demand that you accomplish something I couldn’t even do myself."
Tang Zheng straightened up, a complicated expression on his face. "I’m very glad that Mr. Yan can accomplish what I could not."
"It allows me to leave this place without feeling too guilty."
At the mention of Yan Feifan, Wang Chuan let out a satisfied, soft laugh. "Feifan is a prodigy. You can’t measure him by normal standards..."
Just as Yan Feifan arrived back at the fifth-floor ward area, he received a call from Yu Suye.
"Mrs. Su’s best friend’s niece is here already? Didn’t we agree to schedule her for this evening?"
Yan Feifan frowned as he listened to Yu Suye explain over the phone. "They came straight to the hospital before calling my mom and me. I was caught completely off guard too."
"Feifan, if you don’t have time right now, I’ll just tell them you’re busy and that they should come back tonight."
Yan Feifan thought for a moment. "It’s fine. Tell them to come over now. I happen to have half an hour free."
About fifteen minutes later, in an examination room on the center’s first floor, he met Yu Suye, her mother, her mother’s good friend from Binhai, Mrs. Zhang, and another mother-daughter pair.
After brief introductions, Mrs. Zhang apologized, explaining that a very important engagement had suddenly come up for the evening. Her niece absolutely couldn’t miss it, so they had no choice but to take the liberty of coming this morning.
Yan Feifan met this explanation with a smile that reached all the way to his dermis.
He then turned to the person seeking the cosmetic surgery consultation.
She was a young woman in her early twenties with long, wavy, grape-purple hair, dressed in revealing and trendy clothes.
The moment he saw her, his brow furrowed.
Yan Feifan was already in low spirits today, and this mother and daughter showing up unannounced had soured his mood even further.
And now, the sight of this woman only annoyed him more.
She was wearing a full face of heavy makeup.
’Perhaps she’s just a novice,’ he thought, ’unaware that you’re supposed to have a completely bare face for a cosmetic surgery consultation.’
Suppressing his annoyance, Yan Feifan instructed, "Tie your hair back. I’ll give you five minutes to take off your makeup."
The young woman whined coquettishly, "Oh, Mr. Yan, I’m so sorry. I’m just so used to putting on makeup before I leave the house, I totally forgot."
"It takes a girl at least half an hour to take off all her makeup, you know."
"Besides, I didn’t even bring my special makeup remover..."
Yan Feifan couldn’t be bothered to waste any more time on them. He cut her off directly. "In that case, let’s reschedule."
"I have half an hour of free time at most this morning."
Without waiting for a response, Yan Feifan strode out of the examination room.
The moment he stepped out of the examination room, Yan Feifan saw Mr. Gao leading the three celebrities—Fang Naiwen, Du Yumei, and Shen Qing—into the lobby.
