Xia Canglan glanced at her father, a little surprised but saying nothing.
“Director, are you mistaken? I’m just a lowly nurse at the hospital. How could I possibly be the ‘miracle doctor’ that even attending physicians dare not treat in your eyes? You’ve got the wrong person.”
The director: “…” Is this joke going to stick?
“Comrade Xia Canglan, you misunderstood me. You just saved our hospital’s reputation and made it famous. I’m so grateful to you.
So, I’ve asked a few old guys to vouch for you and let you become an independent doctor at the hospital. What do you say?”
Xia’s father was the first to disagree. “Director, have you eaten something wrong today? What nonsense are you spouting? How can my daughter become an independent doctor? If something happens, do you expect her, a young girl, to bear the consequences?”
Xia Canglan raised an eyebrow, really wanting to give her father a thumbs up.
She didn’t want to be a doctor. Being a doctor was exhausting, not to mention the constant surgery, 22 out of 24 hours a day. On her way to the operating room, although she possessed healing abilities, she had no intention of using them to great effect. Having enough money was enough; wouldn’t it be better to be a carefree, leisurely person?
Why insist on being a grueling office worker?
The hospital director said, “…Director Xia, isn’t this a good thing for your daughter? As her father, shouldn’t you support her?”
Xia’s father waved his hand. “Director, don’t be silly. She’s just a little girl; she doesn’t have any medical skills. This is just my father nagging her about emergency procedures since she was little.
Otherwise, even professional doctors wouldn’t dare do it. She’s young and fearless; I hope you won’t take offense.”
Xia Canglan’s eyes flickered, and she quickly lowered her head, pretending to be timid, nodding in agreement with her father’s words, showing none of the assertive demeanor she had just displayed when she argued with everyone and the director.
The father and daughter finally emerged from the dean’s office, exchanging glances without speaking. They silently agreed to discuss it at home, and then Mr. Xia returned to his office.
That evening, the whole family gathered.
“This matter is strange,” Mr. Xia said gravely. “That hospital director doesn’t seem like the type to recommend Lanlan for a doctor position.”
Mrs. Xia nodded. “I also think that hospital director… well, how should I put it? Every time I see him, he’s all smiles, but I can sense a coldness in his eyes; it’s a little intimidating.”
Xia Canglan raised an eyebrow. “Mom, you’ve met our hospital director? When was that?”
“Ah, during your sister-in-law’s pregnancy. She kept saying she wasn’t feeling well, right? I went to the hospital with her then, and we happened to run into your director. Oh, right, he seemed to be talking to someone. He was quite startled when he saw me.”
“Mom, did you see who the director was talking to? What did he look like?”
“No, that person was standing around the corner. When I got there, he was gone—what happened? Is there something wrong with that person?”
Xia Canglan narrowed her eyes. “How could that be? I was just asking casually. By the way, Dad, didn’t you have something to tell me today?”
Xia’s father nodded, looking seriously at his daughter who was ‘smiling innocently,’ and tapped her forehead.
“Lanlan, next time you encounter something like this, you can’t be so impulsive. You—you know, hospitals aren’t very stable these days. If you make a mistake, you’ll be caught…”
Moreover, if their family hadn’t retired early, they might have ended up like their old friends, being sent to a farm for re-education.
The Xia family originally came from the field of traditional Chinese medicine. Grandpa Xia was once a highly respected figure in the field. However, this identity is now a death knell, threatening the lives of their entire family at any moment.
“What are you talking about? Lanlan was trying to save someone! Are you going to let her watch that old man—cough cough—anyway, I think Lanlan did the right thing today.”
Xia’s mother was the first to object to Xia’s father, her barrage of criticism forcing him to beg for mercy.
Xia Canglan looked at her parents, who were still so loving after all these years, and was deeply moved.
Resting her chin on her hand, she sighed inwardly. When would she ever meet someone who would treat her well? No, she didn’t need anyone who would treat her well. In all her years in the apocalypse, she had seen too many couples and boyfriends who were only superficially loving but turned around and sold each other out for food.
She didn’t need much; just give her a handsome man with eight-pack abs and a defined lower triangle to satisfy her craving, hehe.
Just as she was about to enter YY (a Chinese online chat platform), Xia’s mother suddenly remembered something.
“Uh, it seems your sister-in-law has been gone for quite a while this time. She usually comes back in two or three days, but now it’s been half a month. What—should we go and pick her up? Isn’t she taking Guai Guai with her?”
Xia Canglan’s sister-in-law is Kong Miaomiao, whom her older brother Xia Cangyun, who was in the army, rescued from drowning in the countryside. The two have been married for seven years and have a daughter, Xia Panbao.
Her older brother was in the army and couldn’t come back every year. Her family felt sorry for her and tried their best to satisfy her unreasonable demands.
Over the years, this fostered the arrogant attitude in Kong Miaomiao, who would take her child back to her parents’ home whenever things didn’t go her way, claiming that her family looked down on her for being from the countryside.
The original owner of this body couldn’t stand her insulting attitude towards her family, and every time the two met, they would either argue or fight. Xia Canglan was always the main reason for her unhappiness.
Thinking back to the original story, everyone in the Xia family was either dead or crippled, but this woman who divorced her older brother early on and took most of his money lived a good life with her daughter.
Less than two days after the divorce, she married an old man from a well-off family and lived a life of luxury ever since.
Xia Canglan’s eyes darkened. She looked up and saw the worried expressions on her family’s faces, then smiled.
“Oh, what are you all worried about? Will she let them starve if she goes back? Mom, don’t forget, the moment she walked in, she was clamoring to be in charge and manage the family’s money!”
“If you didn’t agree, didn’t she almost hang herself? In the end, she still took the retirement money your older brother gave you. Humph, someone like Kong Miaomiao would rather suffer than suffer herself. Don’t worry.”
Xia Canglan couldn’t have imagined that Kong Miaomiao’s return would bring such a huge “surprise” to their family, almost driving them to ruin and destroying her older brother’s future.
The next day, as soon as Xia Canglan arrived at the hospital, she saw Zhou Fumei secretly beckoning to her. She went over.
“Lanlan, you…did you offend the hospital director?” Zhou Fumei
raised an eyebrow. “How could a little nurse like me offend the director? Why would you think that? Did you hear something?”
Zhou Fumei looked around to make sure no one else was nearby, then whispered in Xia Canglan’s ear,
“Lanlan, yesterday I overheard the director talking to a stranger about your family, saying something like…they haven’t found them yet, and we need to act quickly—I didn’t understand, but I didn’t dare listen too much and ran away.”