Chapter 72: Introducing a Job
Chenyang grew excited at her words.
’Is Liu Yun getting ready to have me help her with the final step?’ he wondered.
"Sister Liu, you..."
"Xiaochen, let me think about it some more."
Liu Yun desperately wanted Chenyang’s help.
It wasn’t just about curing her illness; she longed to once again lose herself in a passionate encounter and savor the exquisite pleasures of being a woman.
But in the end, her last shred of reason defeated this desire.
She just felt that doing so would be utterly absurd.
Her sense of shame made it impossible for her to cross that final line.
Chenyang could see her hesitation and didn’t press the matter. He nodded and replied, "I respect your choice. Just let me know when you’ve decided. If you choose me, I will do everything in my power to help you. If you choose someone else, I will still explain the methods to you."
"Thank you, Xiaochen."
As she spoke, Liu Yun sat up, pulling the bathrobe around herself.
The loose bathrobe could hardly conceal her voluptuous figure.
The full breasts on either side of that deep valley rose and fell with her breathing. This tantalizing state of being half-hidden and half-revealed was even more seductive than complete nudity.
She crossed her long, beautiful legs, revealing the rounded curve of her buttocks, pressed and slightly misshapen against the wooden bed.
That most yearned-for secret place was once again veiled in mystery.
She looked up slightly, changing the subject. "Back at Feifei’s, I heard you were looking for a job?"
"Yes."
"Your medical skills are so good. Any hospital would be eager to hire you with a high salary, right? Why does it sound like you’re having trouble finding a job? Are your standards too high?"
Chenyang gave a bitter smile. "I don’t have any high standards. I just want to be a doctor, to treat patients and save lives. That’s it. The reason I haven’t found a job is that I don’t have a diploma or a medical license."
"No diploma? What school did you attend?"
"Yangcheng Medical University."
"That can’t be right. In all these years, only a handful of students from the Medical University have failed to graduate. And of those few, they either got into serious trouble while at school or their grades were too poor to qualify for an internship based on their overall evaluation.
Your medical skills are excellent, and you’re an upright, kind person. You don’t seem like someone who would get into trouble, and it’s even less likely you’d be failed for your grades."
"It’s... a long story. My internship spot was stolen. I lost my temper and hit the person who took it. They came from a powerful family and used their connections to have me expelled from the Medical University."
"Hm?" At his words, Liu Yun first made a questioning sound, then a peculiar expression crossed her pretty face.
Every year, many students from the Medical University came to her hospital for internships.
In recent years, not only had she personally supervised several groups of interns, but she had also been hired by the Medical University as a guest professor.
So, she was very familiar with the goings-on at the Medical University and the status of each graduating class.
She recalled that two years ago, a student widely recognized as a prodigy had been expelled just before graduation.
She’d heard from colleagues that this prodigy had offended a major figure in the medical world.
However, Liu Yun didn’t know the student’s name, nor who exactly they had offended.
Connecting the two events now, she couldn’t help but frown and ask, "You couldn’t possibly be that prodigy who was expelled from the Medical University two years ago, could you?"
Chenyang shrugged. "If the Medical University only expelled one student two years ago, then that was me."
"Tsk, that incident caused quite a stir in the medical community back then. A lot of people thought it was a terrible shame. Thinking about it now, I feel it’s a pity, too.
Talent in the field of Chinese medicine is already rare. For a young genius with your exquisite skills to be barred from entering the medical field... it’s simply the greatest loss for Yang City’s medical community."
"You flatter me, Sister Liu. My skills aren’t as incredible as you think."
"Even so, they still far surpass those of your peers." Liu Yun paused, then asked, "I’m very curious. Which major figure in the medical world did you offend to bring such a disaster upon yourself?"
The corner of Chenyang’s mouth twitched.
He didn’t dare answer that question directly.
Qin Fei’Er and Liu Yun were very close.
Even though Liu Yun was an upright person and wouldn’t play favorites, there was no telling if she might choose to remain neutral. If that happened, Chenyang could lose his chance to work at the City Hospital.
Besides, what if Liu Yun told Qin Fei’Er after finding out?
Qin Fei’Er would probably kick Chenyang out of the house in no time.
Losing his lodging wasn’t the end of the world, but he was staying at Li Qiang’s house for a reason, and he still had things left to do there.
After a moment’s thought, he answered evasively, "It’s all in the past. Let’s not talk about it."
Liu Yun was very curious.
But she also knew that for Chenyang, this was still an open wound.
Since it was all in the past and couldn’t be changed, there was no need to press him further.
"Trying to get a hospital job through the normal channels is indeed difficult without a diploma, but it’s not impossible to work around. As for the medical license, if you can pass an internal assessment, the hospital can help you get that sorted out."
As she spoke, she looked up. "Are you interested in working at my hospital?"
"I can?" Chenyang asked, his voice full of hope.
"As long as you’re willing, I can be your reference. It shouldn’t be too much of a problem. However, since you don’t have a diploma, you’ll have to start as an intern. And until you’ve obtained your medical license, I’m afraid the salary won’t be very high."