This doctor is already middle-aged, and he's only just started practicing medicine.

Chapter 120 Okay, the classroom exploded!
It was already 5:20 PM, and it would be reasonable for a teacher who doesn't like to extend class time to dismiss students at this time.

Lan Hualuo had already dragged Lu Cheng outside, so no one said much. However, after Lan Hualuo left, he slipped halfway back inside.
"Xiao Xie, could you help tidy up Lu Cheng's control panel?"

Xie Yuan'an's eyelids flickered, but she still smiled without hesitation and obediently replied, "Okay, Professor Lan."

Neither the rising nor setting sun could penetrate the corridor of the functional science laboratory; however, a single incandescent light bulb, barely half a meter wide, illuminated the corridor just as brightly.

Lu Cheng and Lan Hualuo had nowhere to hide. Lan Hualuo stood with her hands on her hips, looking at Lu Cheng with admiration: "Little Lu, it's been a few years."

After Lu Cheng took off his mask, Lan Hualuo recognized him. Mainly because Lu Cheng had a handsome face, he left a deep impression on Lan Hualuo, whose looks were average but better than Liu Huanglong's.

"Professor Lan, it should be about five years." Lu Cheng is thirty years old, having just turned thirty yesterday.

When Lu Cheng finished his residency training, he was not yet twenty-six years old; five years had passed in total.

"Congratulations, Professor Lan! In just six years, you've gone from chief resident to senior professor." Lu Cheng's smile was genuine, and his voice was polite.

Lan Hualuo was a doctoral student in 2015, became the chief resident in 2016, and Lu Cheng completed his residency training and left in June 2017...

Lan Hualuo looks to be nearly forty years old, but he is actually only thirty-five. He graduated with his doctorate a year early.

He just looks more mature.

"Let's not talk about the past anymore. Come on, let's go eat." Lan Hualuo patted Lu Cheng's broad shoulder with his palm and even squeezed his wide deltoid muscles.

Lu Cheng stopped and calmly said, "Teacher Lan, it's like this, I made an appointment with my classmate to have dinner together tonight."

"I didn't have time to explain it to you in detail in the classroom, so I can only thank you for your kindness, Teacher Lan. She and I are old classmates."

Lan Hualuo's expression stiffened slightly after hearing this, and he stared at Lu Cheng for a while: "Little Lu, aren't you a bit unethical? You're going to refuse my invitation?"

"Do you have a problem with me?" Lan Hualuo touched her large earlobe, trying to recall bits and pieces about Lu Cheng, but she couldn't find many memories.

If he remembered correctly, Lu Cheng wasn't particularly outstanding back then.

Lu Cheng gave a forced smile: "Professor Lan, you've misunderstood. It's mainly because I haven't seen this old classmate of mine for many years. She was my classmate from elementary school to high school."

"Childhood sweethearts?" Lan Hualuo's expression was one of surprise.

He didn't dare to find fault with this reason.

Lu Cheng nodded: "They're not the most typical childhood sweethearts, are they?"

Lu Chengcheng brought up this reason, and Lan Hualuo couldn't force him to do anything, but she still said some nice words: "Then let's do it next time. We're all old acquaintances, so there's no need to be so fixated on today or tomorrow. There's plenty of time."

Lan Hualuo didn't rule out anything and continued walking forward.

Lu Cheng and Lan Hualuo entered the elevator lobby together, and Lu Cheng escorted Lan Hualuo all the way to the parking lot on the first floor...

As they exited the parking lot, Lan Hualuo asked, "Xiao Lu, where are you working now?"

Lu Cheng replied, "Professor Lan, Longxian People's Hospital, a very remote small county in northwestern Hunan Province."

“County…County Hospital?” Lan Hualuo’s eyelids slightly parted, his tone sharp.

“Professor Lan, jobs are hard to find these days… I’ll just go for anything that will make a living… It might just be a disgrace to our hospital,” Lu Cheng said.

If you have some connections, you can get a job at a top-tier hospital in a prefecture-level city through the standardized residency training program at Zhongnan Hospital. You might not get into the best hospital in the prefecture-level city, but getting into a second- or third-tier hospital is not difficult.

It's also better than the county hospital in terms of platform and starting point, but Lu Cheng doesn't have that kind of foundation.

Lan Hualuo sighed softly and spoke frankly: "It seems that you really intend to follow Professor Zhong, Xiao Lu. It's also... Professor Zhong's kindness is something that is usually hard to refuse."

"However, there's one thing: the requirements for work at Zhongnan Hospital aren't that high, you know?" Lan Hualuo still wanted to try and persuade him. She didn't know how so many people in the department had been so blind back then, letting Lu Cheng wander around for years without recognizing his talent.

Lu Cheng is now considered truly 'outstanding' among his peers; his only shortcoming is his low level of education.

But in teaching hospitals, it's easy to get a higher degree.

"Professor Lan, I haven't thought that far ahead yet. I'm just thinking about learning more technology."

"Be a good doctor honestly, just as my teachers taught me: when you advance, you must fight for the lives of incurable patients; when you retreat, you must protect the health of the people in your area." Lu Cheng replied formally, quoting the words of Professor Chu, a trauma surgeon who was still alive at the time.

"Then we can still have a drink together next time we have the chance." Lan Hualuo opened the car door and leaned in.

Lu Cheng waved his hand in acknowledgment, his expression very natural, and his smile exceptionally sincere.

He had no complaints about Zhongnan Hospital or Lan Hualuo, and he didn't hold any grudges against them.

Lu Cheng didn't blame himself for not being appreciated by Lan Hualuo back then. The essence of the adult world is admiring strength, and no one will pay attention to insignificant 'roles'.

This is the general situation, the situation at Zhongnan Hospital, Huashan Hospital, and Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Since everyone is in this situation!

So, choosing whoever to be a teacher is still a matter of choice. Professor Zhong is also very capable. If we're going to follow the principle of first come, first served, then Lu Cheng can't be a traitor to three masters.

Moreover, Lu Cheng actually felt that he was quite opportunistic. Just because Professor Zhong Junyun offered more, he "directly submitted," while he kept "politely declining" the offers from Professors Tong Yuan'an and Chen Song.

I'm just a real, 'realistic' jerk, and to be so pretentious is to be truly shameless.

Looking at Lu Cheng in the rearview mirror, Lan Hualuo saw his calm expression and that he stood still and watched her go, as if he were seeing off the Lu Cheng of yesteryear.

"Sigh!" Lan Hualuo let out a long sigh.

He also knew that the connection between Zhongnan Hospital and Lu Cheng had come to an end.

There are many talented people in the world, and it is absolutely impossible for them all to be concentrated in one place.

After Lan Hualuo's car was completely out of sight, Lu Cheng sent a message to Mu Nanshu, asking if she could leave work on time today.

Mu Nanshu agreed, so Lu Cheng went upstairs first, as he still needed to tidy up his own workbench.

……

In the skills testing lab, Dong Qiaoshan and the others had just finished tidying up their workbenches when Dong Qiaoshan looked around at everyone and sighed, "As the saying goes, comparison is the thief of joy. What are we going to do now?"

"Xiao Lu is just too strong!" Dong Qiaoshan asked with a smile, seeking everyone's opinion.

While Dong Qiaoshan didn't blame Lu Cheng for being too outstanding, once the class started, everyone's attention was focused on Lu Cheng, which was relatively unfair to the others.

Xie Yuan'an's phone vibrated at that moment, and she said, "I have good news for everyone, Lu Cheng won't be coming to class tomorrow!"

Dong Qiaoshan's expression immediately tightened: "Huh? Why? Did you take leave?"

Xie Yuanan explained, "No... Professor Zhong wanted to take him to the stage alone."

"Lu Cheng and Professor Lan went out to dinner together just now, and our department's PhD students took a picture of them."

Dong Qiaoshan's face twitched as if he had Parkinson's disease.

Lu Cheng is gone, but the classroom is still there. The teacher can't be biased anymore. It's just that Lu Cheng blew up the classroom because he lured away the most influential teacher...

(End of this chapter)