Chapter 387: Chapter 386: Petty
On Thursday, from nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, Yan Feifan served as the lead surgeon for an intraspinal tumor resection.
Before this surgery, Yan Feifan also met with a few members of a medical observation team from Su Province and had a brief chat.
He politely declined an invitation from a hospital director to give an academic lecture.
On Thursday evening, from seven to ten o’clock, Yan Feifan assisted Yu Suye in completing the left wrist joint injury repair surgery for that basketball player, under Qin Ying’s supervision.
On Friday, Yan Feifan first performed an intravertebral tumor puncture and injection procedure, then, in the afternoon, he was the lead surgeon for a mandibular reconstruction and oral plastic surgery on a child from an orphanage who was born without a chin.
On Saturday, Yan Feifan primarily studied facial microneural treatment techniques and gluteoplasty with Director Wang Chuan.
On Sunday morning, Yan Feifan, Yan Ziruo, Yu Suye, Song Yi, and Yu Chuanbai flew to Jingcheng together.
Yu Chuanbai was returning to Jingcheng on the same flight, mainly to discuss investment matters with a few elders from his clan.
He would also be seeing his fiancée.
When the group disembarked and reached the arrivals gate, Yan Feifan couldn’t help but frown at the person waiting to pick them up.
"Why is it you again?!"
Lu Yao raised his gauze-wrapped right hand and showed it off. "Yan Feifan, I came all this way to get you while injured, you know."
"Not only are you not going to ask about it, you’re actually annoyed?"
Yan Feifan sharply noticed the guy’s gaze darting toward Yu Suye, who was standing beside him, and let out a cold snort.
"Lu Yao, trying to get noticed like this is useless."
Yan Feifan added a piercing remark, "It’s rude to keep knocking on a door that has no intention of opening for you."
"Besides, it just makes you more disliked."
At these words, the expression on Lu Yao’s face slowly faded.
He turned to face Yu Suye properly and asked, "Is that true?"
Yu Suye answered evasively, "Lu Yao, with your qualifications, I’m sure there will be an excellent girl who will fall for you."
The color visibly drained from Lu Yao’s face.
After a moment of silence, he forced a smile and said, trying to act nonchalant, "I get it."
"From now on, unless it’s absolutely necessary, I won’t appear before you again..."
Just then, two shouts rang out almost simultaneously.
"Mr. Yan..."
"Chuan Bai..."
Following the voices were two exquisitely dressed beautiful women—one with long hair, one with short hair—running over.
Yan Feifan recognized the long-haired one: Zhao Xiaoting.
As for the one with short hair, he knew who she was without an introduction.
Yu Chuanbai had already strode forward to meet her, lifting her into his arms and spinning her around in circles.
"Mr. Yan..."
Zhao Xiaoting, slightly out of breath as she approached, said, "If it’s convenient, let me give you a ride to Baining Hospital."
"I’d like to ask you about a few medical questions on the way."
Following the direction Zhao Xiaoting was pointing, Yan Feifan saw a familiar Mercedes luxury van.
He understood that Zhao Xiaoting was providing cover for Ding Xuan.
’Did something go wrong with her nose’s recovery?’
Worried, Yan Feifan said, "Sis, Su Ye, Song Yi, I’m going to take that car."
"I’ll see you all at Baining Hospital later..."
Yan Feifan boarded the Mercedes luxury van with Zhao Xiaoting and, just as he’d expected, saw Ding Xuan dressed in simple clothes with medical tape on her nose.
He got straight to the point. "Is there a problem?"
Ding Xuan said with a smile, "I haven’t noticed any problems. Although it hasn’t fully recovered yet, every time I change the dressing and look at my nose, I feel really good about it."
She then explained, "I knew you were coming to Jingcheng today, Mr. Yan, so I thought I’d ask you to do a quick check-up."
"If there are no issues, then I won’t have to make a special trip to Binhai."
Ding Xuan added, a bit sheepishly, "Mr. Yan, it’s not very convenient for me to fly looking like this."
"And driving to Binhai is too exhausting."
"Mr. Yan, I hope I’m not holding you up?"
Yan Feifan didn’t say a word, simply reaching out and peeling the medical tape off Ding Xuan’s nose.
The shape of the nose had been restored. The tip was small, the wings were rounded, and the bridge was no longer the single, steep ridge it once was.
However, there was still some redness and swelling, traces of incision marks from the sutures, and some dark bruising visible through the skin.
Overall, Ding Xuan’s nose was recovering quite well. Yan Feifan had performed another very successful surgery.
After observing for a moment, Yan Feifan gently pinched her nose and the surrounding area, then reapplied the medical tape.
"Ms. Ding, I previously instructed you to come for a follow-up in a week. Besides checking on your recovery, the other reason was to perform a few minor adjustment procedures based on how your nose was healing."
Ding Xuan let out a soft "ah" and couldn’t help but ask, "So, you’re saying I have to make a trip to Binhai for the adjustment procedures?"
Yan Feifan thought for a moment and said, "How about this: when we get to Baining Hospital, I’ll borrow their plastic surgery equipment and do the minor rhinoplasty for you there."
"Mr. Yan, thank you so, so much."
Ding Xuan’s face was filled with uncontrollable joy, and she couldn’t help but pour out her feelings, "Mr. Yan, to be honest with you..."
"After the repeated failures of my nose reconstruction, I acted strong on the outside, but it was just a front. Inside, I was falling apart. I’d even thought about dying."
"After the surgery that day, when I woke up and saw my nose for the first time... even though it was horrifyingly ugly then..."
"I knew that I had come back to life."
"These past few days, my nose and the area around it have been very painful and uncomfortable, but I’ve had the most peaceful nights of sleep in a long time."
"Mr. Yan, thank you, thank you, I truly mean it..."
Yan Feifan noticed that the rims of Ding Xuan’s eyes had turned a little red. He couldn’t tell if it was a genuine display of emotion or if she was just being melodramatic.
"Miss Ding, this is my profession. Doing a good job is what’s expected."
Yan Feifan offered a polite reply, then added casually, "If you’re satisfied with my work, and if it’s convenient, you could promote us within your circle."
Ding Xuan took the tissue Zhao Xiaoting handed her, dabbed the corner of her eye, and smiled. "Of course. I should do that."
"Mr. Yan, as it happens, I have a good friend in the entertainment industry who also wants to get her nose done..."
At that moment, the Cadillac commercial vehicle carrying Yan Ziruo, Yu Suye, Song Yi, and Lu Yao was following right behind the Mercedes luxury van.
As for Yu Chuanbai, he had driven off in his fiancée’s car and was nowhere to be seen.
It was quiet inside the Cadillac until Lu Yao, sitting in the front passenger seat, was the first to speak.
"Su Ye, I hear the medical technology company you invested in and established is looking for funding everywhere?"
Yu Suye had just murmured in agreement when Song Yi cut in bluntly, "We’re not just looking for funding everywhere. We’re looking for like-minded partners."
"You didn’t catch Feifan’s eye, so don’t even think about investing."
Lu Yao shot Song Yi a hostile look. "You’d turn down money? Do you have any idea how much capital I can mobilize?"
"Do you have a billion?" Song Yi retorted.
Lu Yao said, somewhat awkwardly, "Of course not that much, but investing ten or twenty million is no problem at all."
"Let’s just say you can rustle up ten or twenty million..."
Song Yi said proudly, "Feifan doesn’t even need a project proposal. He just has to say the company needs funds to grow, and someone will send over hundreds of millions."
"You should just keep your ten or twenty million."
Lu Yao scoffed, his voice laced with sarcasm, "Yeah, keep bragging. The richer people are, the less likely they are to be fools."
"I’d like to see just how much funding you can actually raise."
He turned and sat back properly in the passenger seat.
But it wasn’t long before Lu Yao leaned over again.
He said, a little embarrassed, "Su Ye, um... my family has a rather important business partner overseas."
"He’s had some bad luck and developed a brain tumor..."
Yu Suye understood what Lu Yao was getting at and cut him off. "For something like that, you’d be better off speaking directly to Feifan."
"If I speak on your behalf, it might have the opposite effect."
She then added languidly, "You probably don’t know this, but my Feifan can be quite petty at times. Isn’t that right, Sis?"
Yan Ziruo agreed emphatically. "Oh, Feifan has an excellent memory. He’s not just petty, he holds grudges..."
