I Am Diagnosed as a Medical Titan

Yi Xiangwan struck a Lelouch-like pose:

"I must immediately announce to the world that from now on, I have connections at Affiliated Hospital No. 1!"

Gu Yizhou immediately shot back, "Don't you go around dropping the boss's name in the future, got it?"

"Senior has been so mean to me lately."

"You deserve it."

"My bad..."

Tang Pei and Lu Xiaolin glanced at each other, blinked, and then suddenly both smiled.

They both knew why the other had suddenly looked at them.

One was a fifth-year, the other a graduate student, and both were interning at Affiliated Hospital No. 1.

'From now on at the hospital, our junior will really be our superior...'

Although they didn't resent it, the feeling was still a bit strange.

Tang Pei pushed up her glasses and said, "Boss, if you have the chance in the future, please consider taking me under your wing. I want to learn more from you."

"No problem," Jiang He replied.

In his previous life, he and Tang Pei had been partners, so he knew her well.

Although she lacked a bit of inspiration, she was meticulous in her work and had a high level of professional skill. He would feel completely at ease calling her up as an assistant for surgery in the future.

Cheng Xiyao asked, "So, will you be at the hospital often from now on, Boss?"

"I'll be splitting my time between the hospital and the lab," Jiang He said.

Beside him, Chen Hao suddenly remarked with a sigh, "Old Jiang... does this mean you've graduated..."

Jiang He nodded. "The procedures are all done. All that's left is to wait for the certificate to be issued."

"In the future... you won't be coming back for classes, will you?"

"Probably not much."

"I see..."

Chen Hao sighed.

"I always used to think that graduating in our fifth year was ages away, that we'd be playing games in our dorm for a long time to come. But look at you—the third year has barely started and you just took off, leaving all of us in the dust. How should I put it... it's a little hard to get used to."

He looked up at the sky and added, "Old Jiang, we haven't even taken a graduation photo together yet."

Jiang He clapped him on the shoulder. "When the Class of '06 clinical medicine students graduate, I'll come back and join in. Youth has no price, just a hard-seat ticket straight to Lhasa."

"Huh? Old Jiang, that's a pretty poetic plan you've got there. You better stick to it!"

Chen Hao's mood shifted as quickly as it came. He threw an arm around Jiang He's neck. "Come on, it's time to share some of that knowledge with me. I want to graduate early too."

"Get lost." Jiang He laughed and gave him a light kick.

Yi Xiangwan suddenly said, "Oh, right, today is a double celebration! Shouldn't the celebratory feast be a bit grander?"

Chen Hao agreed. "Why don't we just invite our whole class?"

"Yeah, we could do that!"

Seeing everyone was so enthusiastic, Jiang He agreed. "Alright, you guys pick the place. It's on me."

"You got it! I'll call the class president right now and arrange it!"

The group set a time and place for the meal, then went their separate ways at the school gate.

Chen Hao asked, "Old Jiang, want to have a few drinks tonight?"

Jiang He thought for a moment. "Sure, just a few."

Chen Hao leaned in a little closer, and the topic suddenly shifted. "Hey, have you been watching the stock market lately?"

"Haven't been following it. Why?"

"It's going up! Just in the last two days, the government announced a plan to bail out the market. Old Jiang, didn't you tell me to tell my dad not to panic no matter how much the market fell and to wait a while longer? I passed it on, and he was skeptical at first, but he actually listened to you. In that time, the few stocks he's holding have recovered a lot of their value. My dad just asked me if he should sell now."

"No rush. It takes time for bailout policies to be implemented, and it's a process for market confidence to recover. Tell your dad to wait a bit longer, at least until the first half of next year. Of course, if he needs the money urgently, it's fine to pull out a portion now that he's broken even."

"Okay, I'll tell him exactly what you said."

As the two were talking, Cheng Xiyao, who had deliberately stayed a step behind, called out, "Boss."

Jiang He turned his head. "Hm?"

"There's something I want to talk to you about."

"Oh."

Although Chen Hao was usually carefree, he was extremely sharp in these matters.

He glanced at Cheng Xiyao's hesitant expression and tactfully let go of Jiang He.

"I'll go back and grab those two lugs, Wang Bo and Zijian. Old Jiang, you two take your time. See you later!"

With that, Chen Hao ran off.

Jiang He and Cheng Xiyao were left standing quietly in place.

"Boss."

"Hm?"

"Thank you." Cheng Xiyao's face broke into a smile.

Jiang He sounded a bit helpless. "What for? There's nothing to thank me for."

"Thank you for pulling me into the group, thank you for being willing to believe in me, and thank you... for giving me a chance to prove myself."

Cheng Xiyao said, "To be honest, before I joined your project team, I always had really low self-esteem."

"Low self-esteem about what?"

"In most people's eyes, Cheng Xiyao is just a 'vase' who's decent-looking and comes from a well-off family. My roommates even say behind my back that I only get good grades because I flirt with the teachers... The thing I've wanted to do most in my life is prove to everyone that I'm not just a vase, but no one ever gave me the chance. Until I met you."

Jiang He listened in silence, his thoughts drifting to the Xiaocheng from his previous life.

'She was just the same back then. I'd heard she never dated. Even when she was in the emergency department, getting cursed out by patients' families who looked at her with prejudice, she still chose the path of scientific research in the end. Quite amazing.'

"Actually, I've still been a little anxious this whole time, terrified that I'd hold you back... Thankfully, for this SAP project, even though I felt like I only did support work, I think I did a good job. For the first time, I feel like I'm also a member of this world-changing team. Boss, this feeling... it's really nice."

Jiang He said, "You were always outstanding. For the project to succeed, every single person was indispensable."

Cheng Xiyao nodded, then added, "But, watching you climb higher and higher, seeing you get your practitioner's license as just a third-year, besides admiration, I also feel... a sense of urgency."