Chapter 60: A Young Hussy (1/2)

Only later did Cheng Xi hear about what sort of problem Su Feng was dealing with.

It was Saturday, and Cheng Xi, as planned, had met up with the head nurse and some of her colleagues to all go over to her mother’s house together. Because her parent’s house was in the country, the head nurse and Cheng Xi’s other coworkers had searched around beforehand and found that there was a reservoir nearby. Thus, they had animatedly decided to go fishing and brought their gear with them.

The weather that day wasn’t bad; after a long streak of cold days, they had been rewarded with a rare, sunny one. As her other colleagues went to climb the small hill by the reservoir, the head nurse walked up to Cheng Xi and began to gossip. “Dr. Su got a divorce.”

“Hmm?” Cheng Xi didn’t react in time.

“Dr. Su from the gynecology department. You haven’t forgotten her, have you?”

“Oh, I remember.” As Cheng Xi said this, she assembled her fishing rod and then asked, “What happened to her?”

“She got divorced,” the head nurse repeated with a bemoaning tone as she looked at the lure in the water with her hands in her pockets. “Apparently, she found out that her husband was having an affair. Originally, she wanted to forgive him, and the man was also willing to work on their relationship again. However, two months after that, Dr. Su ultimately decided to get a divorce.”

Cheng Xi didn’t know what to say, so she nodded and merely said, “I understand.”

The head nurse was very dissatisfied with her reaction. “That’s it?”

“Yes. What else can I say?”

“You’re really boring.” The head nurse pouted.

Wary of spoiling the trip, Cheng Xi followed along with the head nurse’s wishes and asked, “Is she alright?”

“Perhaps. It’s just that she’s gotten really thin. I’m telling you. When you saw her that day, that’s not at all what she used to look like. I started working at the hospital at around the same time that she did, and she used to be so pretty: tall and well developed. However, the present her is, gosh, barely recognizable. Apparently, her husband started his affair because she was too busy at work, and became entangled with a young girl from his office… Aish!” After the head nurse finished summarizing the gossip, she let out a loud sigh. “That’s why, nowadays, even being a doctor is a high-risk profession as you have to worry about both your patients and their family prodding you whenever they think that you’re not doing a good job, and also about what’s going on with your own family.”

Cheng Xi smiled. When the head nurse noticed this, she glanced at her. “You should pay more attention! I’m telling you, the three major problems of modern doctors are dying, getting injured, and having an unfaithful partner! While you’re young, you have to learn to train your man to be faithful. Don’t think that he’s treating you well just because he brings you a healthy lunch every day. While your emotions are strong, he’ll be willing to submit to you at every turn, but you have to keep in mind what might happen later! Aren’t you a psychiatrist? You have to keep him continually entranced. He needs to believe that he won’t be able to live if he leaves you, that you’re the only fairy in this world, and that everyone else is a worthless hussy.”

Cheng Xi couldn’t help laughing loudly at the head nurse’s last remark.

But the head nurse was still talking. “Don’t laugh. I’m really being serious here. You don’t know how devious those little hussies are—many doctors at our hospital are actually suffering from this.”

At this time, a young, warm, and male voice spoke up from beside them. “Um, this miss? Actually, even if Cheng Xi doesn’t hypnotize me, I would still think that she’s the only fairy in this desolate world.”

Upon hearing this, the head nurse’s expression looked as though she had swallowed a whole duck’s egg. It was only quite a while later that she recovered and started laughing dryly.

Clearly, the man who had recently been bringing Cheng Xi lunches was standing right behind them. She secretly pinched Cheng Xi and greeted him. “Hello, it’s nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you too.” Lin Fan was also a bit embarrassed, as he wasn’t here alone. Standing beside him was one of the ‘young hussies’ the head nurse had mentioned.

Cheng Xi felt the urge to laugh well up within herself again. Instead of giving in, she stood up and nodded politely to the girl. “Hello.”

Meng Qingyang was expressionless.

After everyone had greeted each other, the head nurse snuck off to find her colleagues, extremely embarrassed. Lin Fan went to get something from the car, and Cheng Xi took out a fishpole to teach Meng Qingyang how to fish.

She was actually the one who invited Meng Qingyang. Just a day ago, Cheng Xi had suddenly received a message from Meng Qingyang on WeChat. “Are you going somewhere this weekend?”

Although Cheng Xi was surprised, she still answered, replying back, “Yes.”