Chapter 100 - A Moment Where Strangers Turn to Friends (2/2)

“What do you want to eat?” Xie Yiren asked him.

“You guys go ahead, and no need to get takeaway for me. The roads are slippery, so be careful. I’ll just grab a bite at the cafeteria,” Zheng Ren said.

“Oh, come on! We need to bring Miss Yun back here anyways. It won’t be any trouble, any trouble at all,” Xie Yiren insisted as she deemed good food to be the best thing in the world. She was not about to let Zheng Ren pa.s.s up this opportunity.

How troublesome. Zheng Ren had few opinions on food. He could go without eating were it not for his own hunger and need for sustenance.

In the end, the women ignored Zheng Ren and carried on their conversation in the elevator. Zheng Ren got off on the second floor while they went down to the bas.e.m.e.nt parking lot.

As the elevator door closed, Zheng Ren put an arm to stop it. “Whose car are you guys taking? Does it have snow tires on?”

“We’re taking mine,” Xie Yiren piped up. “Volvos are the safest car out there and I never took off my snow tires.”

Zheng Ren went silent and allowed the elevator door to close.

He was not dumb enough to ask Xie Yiren if snow tires in summer would use up more gas. The woman owned a few properties in the central business district, so gas money was the least of her concerns.

Zheng Ren walked back to the emergency department alone.

The wind howled as snowfall continued. The lonely sound of his footsteps echoed in the hospital corridor.

If his life was a horror movie, this would be the part where something jumped out.

His path back to the emergency department was quiet, unlike the earlier journey to the ICU.

The chattering women and Su Yun were out for dinner along with Miss Yun, who worried Zheng Ren.

He hoped Chang Yue’s words were enough and that the woman was in a stable mental state.

Back in the emergency department, Zheng Ren made his routine rounds to check on patients.

The patient with gangrenous appendicitis was already awake and was taking small sips of his porridge.

Based on the severity of his appendicitis, it was not recommended to start eating too early. However, relying on glucose infusions alone would lead to slower recovery. Hence, Zheng Ren had decided that as long as the patient had pa.s.sed gas, he was allowed to eat actual food.

He spoke with the man and found out the porridge was from this afternoon. Before Chang Yue left for dinner, she had heated it up for the patient. Zheng Ren was pleased with her quality of her care.

It was just a bowl of porridge, after all.

‘Chang Yue… is really a good person,” Zheng Ren thought.

He returned to the office. The room was silent as he entered. The on-call nurses were not familiar with Zheng Ren, so they minded their own business.

Zheng Ren was not Su Yun, so he garnered little interest from them.

He was fine with that. Picking up the Sciences of Hepatopancreatobiliary book, he started reading.

Zheng Ren once believed in the saying, “hard work pays off”.

Now, with the System, Zheng Ren had no right to say it. To the real world, his skills would seem like magic.

Despite that, reading was a habit of his for many years, so Zheng Ren still kept to it.

The emergency department was uncharacteristically silent. The strong winds likely deterred people from leaving their homes.

The peaceful night was a welcome one after a busy day.

At 9:00 pm, Su Yun came in with a box of food. A night s.h.i.+ft nurse followed him.

The nurses had no interest in Zheng Ren, but Su Yun was another case altogether.

As the night grew, Zheng Ren became the third wheel.

He could feel the pointed glare from the young nurse and shook his head at this superficial world. How was an average-looking man to survive?

Zheng Ren ate his dinner with Su Yun’s voice regaling the story of Miss Yun as accompaniment.

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