It's hard to quit, but it's the perfect marriage!

Unlike Zhou Yinghuai's repressed sensuality, Zhu Xi had no time to dwell on the jokes she'd heard so often at the hospital while she was in the outpatient clinic.

Hehe, wipe it a few more times.

Disinfection, skin preparation, enemas, and so on—Zhu Xi had seen these things many times in the hospital.

In Huo Xi's words, when she can see and touch a man but can't use him, she should regret that she should have been the innocent girl in the hospital department, instead of the "little yellow flower" who keeps shouting in the story.

Zhu Xi's comment about being clean was just casual; her desire to sleep with Zhou Yinghuai was also something she said lightly in that moment of tension.

So, after she had spent nearly four hours looking at the X-rays and talking a lot in the outpatient clinic, she had long forgotten about her desire to favor Zhou Yinghuai, which was being stared at by him.

So when she saw the coffee that Zhou Yinghuai had sent over, she simply raised an eyebrow.

Today, the doctor who was with her in the outpatient clinic was an intern who had just arrived this month. Seeing that she still had coffee, she smiled.

"Dr. Zhu, I heard you got married?"

Zhu Xi was washing her hands and gave a soft "hmm".

"You got married at such a young age? Was it a college romance?"

Zhu Xi dried herself off and stretched her sore neck. "No, that's not it."

"So how did you two meet?"

Strawberry latte, with her name on it.

Zhou Yinghuai probably wrote it in the most conspicuous place so that others might take it by mistake.

Zhu Xi picked it up and took a sip. The taste was pure and fragrant with strawberry flavor.

"It's simple. My husband was walking down the street, and I glanced at him and thought, 'Who's this? He's so handsome!'" She said, gesturing with her right hand as if she were performing a stand-up comedy routine. "I sprinted over and slapped him across the face."

The intern licked his lips and asked naively, "And then he tried to blackmail you?"

Zhu Xi raised an eyebrow again and lowered her voice, "While he's seeing stars and is out of his mind, stuff him into a sack and take him to the Civil Affairs Bureau."

Intern: "..."

"Do you love him?"

"Yes, I love him," Zhu Xi answered frankly. "I love him very much!"

She mentioned that Zhou Yinghuai's eyes were full of undisguised smugness, "If I don't love him, why would I waste my sack?"

Intern: "!"

"The horror story is over. Let's call your number. This should be the last one."

Zhu Xi slowly sat down, her palms rubbing her lower back as she saw the patients pouring in through the door.

I moved the coffee that was originally on the left to the windowsill on the right.

Then he raised his hand, "Sit down, are you feeling unwell?"

The patient had gray hair and was followed by seven or eight people.

It's impossible to tell if they are children or other relatives.

The old man looked unwell; he was sitting with his upper body pressed against the lap of a middle-aged woman.

Seeing that no one answered, Zhu Xi paused again, then softened her voice, "Auntie, are you feeling unwell?"

As soon as the words were spoken, the last middle-aged man to enter burst in, accompanied by a deafening cry of "Mom!"

Zhu Xi frowned; her eardrums felt like they were about to shatter from that powerful voice.

"Sir, the hospital..." Before she could finish her warning to keep her voice down, the middle-aged man began questioning her.

It was called an interrogation, but it was actually all questioning.

"I already said I wanted to get Mom an appointment with a specialist, but she's so young, and a female doctor at that. What can she possibly diagnose?"

Zhu Xi: "?"

The middle-aged man continued, "The fortune teller said Mom will live to be over a hundred. Even if it's just a toothache, she'll have to see a specialist!"

Zhu Xi: "!"

She pursed her lips; she had seen plenty of oddballs like this since her internship.

Filial piety is all talk and no action.

When the time actually comes to pay for surgery, the person will have already fled far away and disappeared without a trace.

She wasn't angry and slowly pushed the medical record book over.

"The specialist appointment is the day after tomorrow morning; our director will be seeing patients personally," Zhu Xi said politely. "I am indeed young."

The middle-aged man seemed to have lost face because of her very reasonable words.

With a gloomy expression, he reached for his phone to call a friend to deal with her.

Zhu Xi's knuckles turned white as she gripped the pen, and her eyes, visible through her mask, remained smiling faintly.

Based on the principle that I was just criticized by the old man, I should treat patients like family members and make them and their families feel like they are bathed in a spring breeze.

She was about to say a few more words when, unexpectedly, someone cut her off.

"Exactly, such a young doctor, yet he charges 14.5 yuan for registration. Isn't that just a bait-and-switch? There are so many patients waiting for us at the door, are they all shills?"

This time, Zhu Xi could no longer tolerate it.

Her youth can be questioned, but her profession—the one she loves and is willing to dedicate herself to—cannot be insulted.

With a loud clang.

She threw the keyboard.

With one hand in his pocket, he glanced at the coffee on the window and said, "I..."

"Zhu Xi is not someone who can be questioned or manipulated. She had excellent grades during her university years and has always been the top student in her cohort since she started her internship at this hospital."

Lezhi suddenly appeared out of nowhere, pushing through the crowd, displaying a chivalrous spirit as he split the mountain and snatched the blade from Zhu Xi.

"You're the ones who are blind and ignorant," Le Zhishi said, blocking Zhu Xi's way. "Why don't you go find your eyes?"

The uncle and aunt who had spoken first immediately blushed, but before they could even open their mouths, Lezhishi grabbed their waists and shut them down.

Zhu Xi stood behind her and gave the intern a look.

That large group of people all went out.

The outpatient clinic returned to normal.

Zhu Xi crossed her arms, looking quite composed. "Miss Le, you are truly valiant!"

Lezhi rolled her eyes, glanced at the coffee behind her, and muttered, "If I'd known you had something to drink, I wouldn't have wasted my Red Bull!"

It turns out it was to replenish Zhu Xi's energy.

Zhu Xi glanced at the water droplets on the bottle and for some reason thought of Zhou Yinghuai again. "Take the Red Bull with you, don't let it interfere with my work."

She was mean; she deliberately spoke through her teeth, "Sister-in-law."

This sound made Yue Zhishi blush.

She suppressed a laugh, but the upturned corners of her lips made her stomp her feet and say, "Don't yell like that."

Zhu Xi scoffed, seeing her pathetic state, "You get out too!"

"Damn it!" After being scolded, Lezhi finally remembered the important matter.

"Leave after get off work, I'll cover your shift tonight!"

Zhu Xi: "Why?"

"Never mind that."

-

Zhu Xi suddenly found herself with some free time.

I was still a little dazed as I walked on the sidewalk in front of the hospital.

The sudden lack of anything to do made her feel uneasy.

She called Huo Xi, but upon hearing a sickly voice on the other end of the line, she hung up immediately.

Zhu Xi wanted to call Zhou Yinghuai, and in fact, she did make the call.

She hung up after just one beep.

She was afraid of affecting Zhou Yinghuai's work, and even more afraid that her clinginess would become a burden to Zhou Yinghuai.

She shrugged, tied her hair up high, and hailed a car.

"Let's go to the source of the Qinhuai River!"

Night fell in an instant.

Zhou Yinghuai saw her missed call an hour later.

This is a quirk of the port city's partners.

Over the years, Zhou Yinghuai has not understood, but he respects.

So when he saw it, he replied immediately.

Unfortunately, the phone was switched off.

Zhou Yinghuai stood before the floor-to-ceiling window that seemed to float in the clouds, his brows furrowed and his lips pressed together.

Chen Nan soon received news of Zhu Xi.

"Brother, sister-in-law is home."

Zhou Yinghuai visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Nan swallowed hard. "Too high."

Zhou Yinghuai: "?"

Chen Nan showed him the tablet, saying, "I got drunk at Qinhuaiyuan."

Zhou Yinghuai stared at the tablet for a long time.

After a while, Chen Nan's back became stiff and his scalp tingled.

Just as his palms, which were holding the tablet, were about to cramp, he heard a voice say, "Back to Libei."

"I'll go back myself."