When I'm on the night shift, all the department heads can't sleep.

Lin Ye opened the notification. After a moment of loading on the hospital's staff platform, a salary information sheet awaiting confirmation popped up.

At the top is his name, and below it are the five elements.

Department: Emergency Medicine

[Position: Resident Physician]

[Issuance start date: This Monday]

[First month's salary: calculated based on actual days worked]

[On-call allowance: calculated based on shift schedule and attendance, and paid in the following month]

The page includes the last few digits of the salary card number and a confirmation section for the applicant.

The "Actual Amount Received This Month" column is still blank, marked "Pending Settlement," but the pre-tax amount of the fixed salary for the position has been clearly listed.

Even without night shift allowance, the salary for a fixed position is much higher than the living allowance during the residency training period.

According to the salary details, the original residency training living allowance was paid up to last Sunday, while the salary for the new position started from this Monday.

After verifying the name, department, and bank card number, Lin Ye pressed "Information confirmed".

The confirmation button then turned gray, and Monday's attendance record changed from "New Employee Pending Synchronization" to "Synchronized". Tuesday morning's attendance record has also been posted.

Ma Hao walked over with a newly issued test report, his gaze lingering on the last column of the page: "Night shifts are included too?"

"It will be paid according to attendance records, next month."

"That's alright." Ma Hao switched the test report to his other hand. "When it's my turn later, remind him too."

"We'll do the nuclear tests together then."

Someone called for the doctor in consultation room number two. Ma Hao raised his voice and replied, "Coming," before quickly walking away with the prescription in hand.

Lin Ye didn't log out of the platform, and casually opened this week's schedule.

Monday and Tuesday are day shifts, Wednesday is a short night shift, and Sunday is a full night shift. I start at 6:30 PM and work until 8:00 AM on Monday.

Lin Ye took a screenshot and sent it to the family's small group chat.

[Mom and Dad, this is the work schedule for this week.]

The mother replied quickly.

[Sunday evening 6:30 PM to Monday morning 8:00 AM? Does it have to go on until the next day?]

[Yes, shift handover on Monday morning.]

[Send a message after get off work, reminding me to take care of my health and get enough sleep.]

【it is good. 】

Lin Ye opened the rental app.

The original search radius was set at three kilometers, and there were quite a few cheap properties, but none of them were convenient to walk back to after get off work at night.

He narrowed the scope to within one kilometer of the hospital and raised the rent cap slightly.

Once the page was refreshed, the number of listings decreased by more than half, leaving only about ten.

Lin Ye checked "renting a one-bedroom apartment", saved the filter, and then clicked on the apartment he had inquired about before.

The green "rentable" marker on the page has turned gray, and the status now shows "rented".

Lin Ye exited the details page and sorted the newly selected sets by walking distance.

The first apartment in line was a one-bedroom unit on the ground floor, a twelve-minute walk from the emergency room staff exit.

The apartment wasn't new; the walls and kitchen had only basic renovations, and the rent was exactly at the maximum limit he had just raised.

The photos don't show the specific situation, and the page only says "Available to view anytime".

Lin Ye added the item to his favorites and then switched to the map to confirm the route.

He realized that he didn't need to walk through unlit alleys at night, so he returned to the list.

There's still a day and a half until Thursday, and I need to go inside the house to see what it's like.

As Jiang Wen walked out of the treatment room, she saw Lin Ye's phone still on the property listing page.

"First floor?"

"Okay, I'll go take a look on Thursday. I need to rent the place as soon as possible."

"You'll have to check carefully then." She put a stack of newly printed wristbands into the drawer. "If it's on the first floor, you'll have to be extra careful, they're prone to getting damp."

"I've got it."

Lin Ye had just turned his phone upside down on the corner of the table when the call number screen lit up again.

Over the next two hours, results notifications popped up one after another in the lower right corner of the workstation. Lin Ye called the patients who needed follow-up examinations back to the clinic according to their bed numbers, and completed their medical records and discharge instructions one by one.

When Zhou Min returned from the red zone, she glanced at the to-do list at the workstation and then opened the two medical records that Lin Ye had just finished.

After reading the second document, she closed the page without going back and turned to attend another consultation.

With more than forty minutes left before the day shift handover, Jiang Wen led a young woman in from the triage desk.

The woman kept her left hand raised in front of her chest, with a wide gold ring on her ring finger.

The ring was near the tip of the finger, and white dental floss was wrapped around the swollen finger several times, making the fingertip darker than the surrounding fingers.

"Doctor, could you please remove this for me?" She walked to the examination bed and hurriedly added, "But could you please not cut the ring? I need it for my engagement the day after tomorrow."

"Put your hand here, don't pull it anymore, and don't turn the ring." Lin Ye pulled the cushion closer, supporting her left wrist and letting her hand rest flat. "When did you put it on?"

"I put them on as soon as I got them at noon. They were a bit tight then, and the salesperson said that applying some soap would help them come off, but I didn't think much of it. After I got back to work, I tried soapy water and hand sanitizer, and my colleagues helped me pull them off a few more times, but they only made them more swollen. So I followed the instructions online to wrap dental floss, and it took almost an hour in total."

Lin Ye looked at Jiang Wen: "Remove the dental floss from the outside first."

Jiang Wen supported her forearm.

The dental floss clung to the swollen skin, circle after circle, with the few lines near the ring already embedded in the skin's texture.

She used tweezers to pry open the outermost layer, making sure she didn't pinch any skin, before inserting small scissors into the gap.

The woman tucked the ring box closer to her chest, her eyes fixed on Jiang Wen's hand, her left hand remaining still.

Jiang Wen cut the first layer of floss: "How long have you had the dental floss wrapped around your teeth?"

"It took about ten minutes. At first, I could still turn it, but it got more and more swollen as it got wrapped around my fingers, and my fingertips started to feel numb, so I didn't dare to pull it anymore."

My phone, which was placed at the opening of my bag, vibrated twice.

The woman glanced at the screen, her right hand unconsciously tightening its grip on the ring box: "My boyfriend doesn't know yet. He just asked me if it fit when I tried it on. Our names are engraved on the inside. The shop said they could repair it if we cut it open, but if we send it back, it won't be ready in time for the day after tomorrow."

The cut dental floss loosened in circles, leaving several deep, whitish marks on my fingertips.

The skin quickly turned red as soon as the ring closest to it was revealed, but the dark color on the fingertips did not fade.

The woman stared at the marks left by the stitches: "The stitches have been removed, why is it still so swollen?"

"It's been tight for over ten minutes, it won't go away immediately." Jiang Wen gathered the cut dental floss into the treatment tray. "Don't touch it yet, let Dr. Lin take a look."

The wide-brimmed ring was still stuck firmly at the base of his finger.

The woman placed the ring box on a corner of the cushion, and then reached out with her right hand to turn the ring, hoping to loosen it a little.

The base of my finger was slightly chafed by the metal edge, and there was some blood on the edge of the ring.

Lin Ye raised his hand to block her outstretched right hand, preventing her from twisting it again.

"Don't turn it yet, look at your fingers." He pressed down on her ring fingernail until the nail bed turned white, then released her. "Relax."

Two seconds later, the nail bed was still whitish.