Chapter 755: Chapter 504: Success
Huang Suai surveyed Ye Meiru up and down and nodded with a smile, "You look healthy, seems the little one hasn’t been causing much trouble."
"Yeah, I’ve been eating and sleeping well, and I’m no longer nauseous. I feel really good." Ye Meiru said while caressing her belly, "It’s just a shame that his father can’t see him anymore."
The smile on Huang Suai’s face disappeared in an instant, "Ye Meiru, don’t treat me like a fool. I won’t meddle in your feud with Lin Chuxia, but if you dare to use my elder brother again, even my grandfather won’t be able to protect you!"
"Aiai..." Ye Meiru looked at Huang Suai with a pitiful expression, "You’re misunderstanding me. I truly regret it, and I really do feel sorry. In this world, I doubt there will be another man who would treat me the way your elder brother did."
"Hmm." Huang Suai responded indifferently and started walking forward.
"Aiai, where are you going?" Ye Meiru grabbed her, "Are you heading to the operating room?"
Huang Suai frowned at her, "Is it necessary for me to report my actions to you?"
"No, no..." Ye Meiru quickly waved her hand, "I didn’t mean that, I just wanted to see if Lin Chuxia is as talented as the rumors say. If you’re going to the operating room, can you take me with you, please?"
"No!"
"Aiai..."
Huang Suai walked away, ignoring Ye Meiru.
"I can no longer be with him, I’m doing this to help you..."
"Shut your mouth!" Huang Suai paused and looked around, fortunately, although there were people glancing over, they were quite far away, unlikely to hear their conversation, "Ye Meiru, can you stop spouting nonsense and act normally for once?"
"Dare you say you don’t like Zhou Mikang?"
"Of course I dare." Huang Suai returned to her side helplessly, "You’re a pregnant woman, and I can overlook that, but please don’t try to slander me in this manner.
The Huang Family did propose a marriage, but I’ve never been fixated on Zhou Mikang. I had no such intentions originally, and now that he’s married, it’s even less likely.
Your resentment and entanglement with him are your own issues. Don’t try to achieve your goals by throwing dirt on me.
I can get you a job in this hospital, and I can also take it away. If you don’t want to be confined to your home for your pregnancy, just behave properly and be a quiet apprentice!"
"If it’s really as you say, why did you volunteer for the pre-war medical team preparations?"
Huang Suai’s expression hardened, "Where did you hear that news?"
"I just know." Ye Meiru bit her lip, "I wasn’t planning to say it, but you’re deluding yourself, and I can only force you this way."
"You haven’t returned to the Ye Family recently, so you must have heard it from the Huang Family. Did you eavesdrop on grandfather’s phone call, didn’t you?"
Ye Meiru’s eyes flickered, "I’ve been living in the dorm recently, how could I eavesdrop on grandfather’s phone call? Besides, he’s too cautious, how could he let me hear it?"
"You visit the Huang Family once a week, and last time you were there, I was on the phone with grandfather. Dare you say you weren’t eavesdropping?"
"I..." Ye Meiru stiffened her neck, "Yes, I did hear grandfather’s phone call, but it wasn’t deliberate, I heard it by accident... you... let go." She looked in horror at Huang Suai, who was ominously close and grabbing her by the neck, her eyes cold enough to send shivers down her spine. She now truly regretted her earlier rashness. If she had known she would be treated this way, she definitely wouldn’t have admitted to eavesdropping.
Originally, she had thought that when a girl falls for someone, she would do whatever it takes to have him, so she had assumed that she would agree to cooperate with her.
Why is it so different from what she imagined?
"If it weren’t for my brother’s child in your belly, I would truly strangle you. Ye Meiru, while my brother was alive, I turned a blind eye to your manipulations to make him happy.
But because of you, my brother is gone. If you ask me who I hate the most in this world, I can tell you clearly, it’s you, Ye Meiru!
Your duty is to just quietly give birth to that baby in your belly. If you stir up more trouble, don’t blame me for being ruthless.
Don’t think I’m always using this threat to scare you—what kind of person I am, Huang Suai, you can ask around..." she said in a whisper that only they could hear, "Making someone die unnoticed is not difficult for me!"
Long after Huang Suai had left, Ye Meiru still stood there, dazed. She couldn’t understand Huang Suai’s mind. When she was at the Huang Family’s home, Huang Suai had protected her. Why would she say these things now?
...
In the operating room.
Wang Jing was responsible for prepping the skin. Normally, this would be a nurse’s duty if the doctor didn’t bring an apprentice; however, since Elder Yuan brought both Chuxia and Wang Jing for the surgery, there was no need to trouble the nurses.
Doing this kind of work often, Wang Jing had become accustomed to it, but the patients had not. So, when the naked patient was uncovered by Wang Jing, he panicked and jumped out of the hospital bed, only to realize that he was now completely nude, and hurriedly covered his private parts and hid under the bed.
This was the first time Wang Jing had encountered such a situation, and she looked at Elder Yuan anxiously, not knowing what to do.
"Ah!" Elder Yuan sighed helplessly and called out to the patient under the bed, "Come out, doctors don’t see gender, hurry up and come out for the surgery."
"Elder Yuan, I... I don’t want a female nurse," the man stayed under the bed and wouldn’t come out.
"Okay, I’ll prepare the skin for you, then you come out."
"Let... let the female doctor and nurses turn away first."
With an expressionless face, Chuxia pulled Wang Jing to turn around. Having been in the operating room several times with Song Xiaoyu, she was no longer shocked by nudity. Since she planned to be a doctor, she couldn’t be squeamish at such times. Of course, when a patient felt embarrassed, she could only do her best to make them feel comfortable.
The man hesitantly climbed onto the surgical bed, and the anesthesiologist could barely contain his laughter. After so many years, this was the first time he had seen such a timid man.
Others at most were embarrassed and covered their faces, unable to look at people, but this man had instead rolled under the bed—a truly unique case.
True to his word, Elder Yuan finished prepping the man and looked at him sternly, "You had already agreed to have Doctor Xiao Lin perform your surgery, and now you’re asking the female nurses and doctor to not face you, what’s this all about?"
"I... I thought I could handle it, but..." the man was visibly blushing, "but I... I’m embarrassed, Elder Yuan, can you perform the surgery instead?"
"No, you have already signed the consent form for surgery, the chief surgeon is Lin Chuxia, not me."
Just then, the OR doors pushed open, and wearing sterilized attire, Huang Suai and Director Xu came in. The man hurriedly covered his lower area, "How... how can there be so many female doctors, I... I won’t do it, won’t do it."
"What’s more important, life or embarrassment?" Chuxia turned around and glared at him, "I’m not embarrassed, what are you embarrassed about? Lie down properly and get ready for the surgery!"
Huang Suai raised her eyebrows and studied Chuxia thoughtfully. She had to admit, Lin Chuxia’s appearance was truly pleasing. Normally when female doctors dressed this way, they didn’t look attractive, but when Chuxia wore a surgical cap, her bright forehead made her delicate features even more apparent.
No wonder Zhou Mikang took such an interest in her.
And no wonder Ye Meiru couldn’t compete with her.
However, Chuxia’s attitude toward the patient was something Huang Suai very much appreciated; a woman, once she becomes a doctor, should not be squeamish.
Taking advantage of the patient’s distraction, the anesthesiologist quickly administered the local anesthesia.
"Think of me as a man, and you’ll feel more comfortable," Chuxia softly counseled the man as the anesthesia hadn’t fully taken effect yet.
"But you are a woman."
"I am a man right now!"
"..." He clearly knew she was a woman...
Elder Yuan’s mouth twitched, he patted the somewhat hurt man, "Come on, summon up the courage you had when you agreed to let Doctor Xiao Lin operate. Trust me, Doctor Xiao Lin will definitely not let you down."
Chuxia chuckled, "I promise to use a very beautiful stitching method, so you won’t even see a scar once you’re healed."
"I’m not a woman, it doesn’t matter whether there are scars or not," the man muttered quietly. At that moment, he felt numb from the waist down and couldn’t help pinching his thigh. Then, looking somewhat worriedly at Elder Yuan, he asked, "After I’m healed, there won’t be any issues walking, right?"
"No problem."
While Elder Yuan was answering, Chuxia had already cut through the skin and subcutaneous fat, her fingers skillfully picking up two superficial abdominal wall arteries, ligating and cutting them, then continuing to cut along the direction of the incision through the superficial fascia to the deeper layers.
Using gauze-wrapped fingers, she bluntly separated the connective tissue under the deep layer of the superficial fascia, exposing the external oblique aponeurosis. She made a small incision in the external oblique aponeurosis, first separating underneath it with scissors, then lifting the fascia and cutting upward and downward along the fiber direction...
The patient’s hernia sac was not prominent enough, and Chuxia, with a gentle gaze, instructed softly, "Cough forcefully."
"Cough! Cough!..."
As the hernia sac protruded outward in a flash, Chuxia swiftly proceeded with the incision...
The entire surgical process was a delight to the eye, her fingers agile and graceful. To assistant Wang Jing, it didn’t seem at all like Chuxia’s first time at the operating table. In the past, when she assisted older doctors, that’s all it was.
All along, Chuxia felt the process was a delight too. Before stepping up to the surgical table, her calves were tremendously nervous.
Even when the patient asked her to turn away, her expressionless face was just masking her nerves. However, as soon as she picked up the scalpel and made the cut, her mind cleared of any other thoughts. All she focused on was doing this task well, to the best of her ability...(To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian () to recommend and vote. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at .)