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Chapter 350: Grapefruit

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Dad.”

Wang Wenkang walked at full speed and was the first person to dash into the room. The cadres and doctors who were accompanying him did not dare overtake him, anyway.

Chief Wang, who was performing the exercise of raising his straightened leg, furrowed his eyebrows. He criticized his son out of habit as he carried out his rehabilitation exercises. “Why are you in such a hurry?”

There was ample sunlight in the room, and the floor was clean and shiny. The money plant’s leaves were neat. The spider plant’s leaves were also orderly.

The physiotherapist’s large white coat was ironed to perfection. And beside him, Ling Ran was as dashing as the stars. He looked gentle and noble, just like a gentleman.

Wang Wenkang’s precious daughter, Wang Hui, who had never worked a day in her life, peeled a grapefruit with difficulty.

And his stern father… looked and sounded as stern as ever.

Wang Wenkang’s expression on his square face suddenly froze. The scene in front of his eyes differed too much from what he had imagined.

“Dad, I was just worried about you.” Wang Wenkang composed himself and flashed a smile.

“There’s nothing to be worried about. The surgery’s over anyway. What’s the point of worrying?” Even though Chief Wang sounded grumpy, his face still brightened up a little. His body swayed a little, and he let out a soft snort.

“Let me do it.” Wang Wenkang immediately went forward. He bypassed the physiotherapist and supported his father.

Feeling a little troubled, the physiotherapist stood aside. He did not dare to stay too far from Chief Wang, though.

Chief Wang nodded slightly and allowed his son to support him. He exhaled loudly and asked, “How is your work going?”

“Pretty well. We’re negotiating with a few local companies.” Wang Wenkang gently massaged his father’s thigh.

“Hmm… During a negotiation, aside from thinking about profit, you must also be polite and act with integrity.”

“I know…” Wang Wenkang smiled and said, “The world is no longer as harsh as it was in the past. Don’t worry, I won’t cause you any embarrassment.”

“That’s not the point…” The moment Chief Wang raised his voice, he yelped in pain.

Wang Wenkang quickly shouted, “Doctor, doctor!”

“Don’t worry about it,” Ling Ran said with certainty beside him.

Even though Ling Ran could no longer carry out surgeries because there were no more hospital beds, he did not like to spend his time in the ward. But since Huo Congjun asked him to do so, he might as well listen to him. Things in the world would not go one’s way most of the time, and Ling Ran accepted this fact easily.

Wang Wenkang furrowed his eyebrows. He glanced at Ling Ran, cleared his throat, and said, “Excuse me, doctor, if the patient is currently in this condition…”

“Dad!” Wang Hui yelled and held up a slice of grapefruit in front of Wang Wenkang. She then said, “Grandpa, why don’t you have some grapefruit too?”

“Hmm, Yuan Yuan, you’re such a good girl.” Chief Wang nodded happily. This was the first time he saw his granddaughter peel any fruit.

Wang Wenkang’s attention was also diverted in an instant, and he no longer found it appropriate to utter whatever he wanted to say to Ling Ran just now.

He had not seen his daughter for quite some time as well. Wang Wenkang gently took the slice of grapefruit and placed it inside his mouth. Even though the grapefruit tasted sour, there was sweetness in his heart.

Wang Wengkang forced himself to swallow the grapefruit and flashed his daughter a smile. He then turned toward Ling Ran and asked in a gentler tone, “Doctor, how was my father’s surgery?”

“It went very smoothly,” Ling Ran answered.

“Could you tell me the specifics?” Wang Wenkang inquired.

“Under the precondition of retaining his meniscus, I repaired it. The anterior horn, posterior horn, and the shape of the body of the meniscus are in good shape now, and I also restored the meniscus to its original thickness. The edges are also very stable.” This time, Ling Ran’s answer was very specific.

Wang Wenkang was stunned for a moment, but he still did not understand what Ling Ran said. He could not help but said in a sterner tone, which was the tone he used as a supervisor, “Could you slow down…”

“Dad…” Wang Hui quickly passed her father another slice of grapefruit.

When Wang Wenkang saw the slice of grapefruit, he started salivating excessively, not because he craved it, but because it was really sour.

“I…” Wang Wenkang could not bear to say that he did not want to eat it. He stared at his seventeen-year-old daughter. This was the first time she peeled grapefruit, and there was no way Wang Wenkang, who usually traveled around for work, would be able to say that the grapefruit was sour.

Wang Wenkang recalled the first time he went to the United States. The purpose of that trip was to invite a billionaire to work with him. He waited outside the billionaire’s office all day because the other party changed the time of their meeting at the last minute, and he was unwilling to fork out extra traveling expenses. He also skipped lunch and dinner just to save money. He just endured his hunger, and when it was time for him to meet the billionaire, he was also salivating excessively like he was right now.

Did he not endure all this just so that he could eat the sour grapefruit peeled by his daughter today?

Wang Wenkang took the slice of grapefruit with one hand and ruffled the top of his daughter’s head with his other hand.

“Dad… you are messing up my hair.” Wang Hui panicked a little. She had spent three hours setting her hair the day before.

“This grapefruit is delicious.” Wang Wenkang wolfed down the grapefruit.

Chief Wang could tell what his son felt just by seeing the expression on his son’s face. He did not even need to use his head to think, he could even tell with what remained of his meniscus.

Without hesitation, Chief Wang passed the slice of grapefruit he could not bring himself to eat to Wang Wenkang and said, “Since you like it, you can have more.”

Wang Wenkang immediately panicked as both his father and his daughter gazed at him. He no longer had the energy to care about anything else.

…..

The following day, Ling Ran bought his laptop to Chief Wang’s ward.

Department Director Huo and the leaders of the hospital strongly demanded that he stayed in Chief Wang’s room to supervise his recovery.

“You don’t need to care about anything else.” This was a direct quote from Department Director Huo, Department Director Lei, Associate Hospital Director Zhou and the other hospital leaders.

Ling Ran decided to obey these powerful people’s order, because they maintained the operation of the hospital, the operating theaters, and the number of hospital beds.

Aside from this, lately, the Emergency Department had reduced the number of hospital beds again because they were wary that people of power would pay them a visit. Hence, Ling Ran did not have any surgeries to perform. He decided to sit in Chief Wang’s ward with his laptop and guided Chief Wang as the latter carried out rehabilitation exercises while he wrote a research paper.

The moment Chief Wang woke up in the morning, the physiotherapist made him do knee flexion exercise.

Ling Ran went to the study room in the hospital room and turned on his laptop. He chose to first quietly read other people’s research paper.

Ling Ran actually had a lot of advantages when it came to writing clinical research papers.

The core of clinical research papers was to analyze and study clinical cases before coming to a valuable conclusion.

For most doctors, it was a great headache to collect enough cases and produce a desired conclusion. For those who did not want to falsify anything, if they failed in a few cases, the data of the entire research would go haywire, and they would not be able to produce a research paper.

Compared to them, things were a lot easier for Ling Ran.

First of all, since Ling Ran was from Yun Hua Hospital, he had access to a lot of cases. This in itself allowed him to win against most of the doctors in the country. Next, Ling Ran was a skilled surgeon who produced consistent results, which allowed him to win against the 99% doctors who had not been defeated.

Ling Ran was previously more interested in carrying out surgeries. But now that he consistently faced the problem of the lack of hospital beds, he had no choice but to do something else.

Wang Hui gently opened the door and could not help but flash a smile when she saw Ling Ran sitting in front of the table. She tiptoed toward Ling Ran and stood behind him. She then saw that Ling Ran had typed a row of words in a large font.

[The Surgical Instruments Used in Knee Arthroscopic Meniscoplasty.]

Wang Hui had to read the title of the research paper twice to get an idea of what Ling Ran wanted to write about. She could not help but feel even more admiration for Ling Ran. She thought as she gazed at him. ‘Doctor Ling is knowledgeable and handsome. He also has a nice body, and from the back, even his shoulder looks good. He’s really amazing…’

“Ugh…” Chief Wang was drenched in sweat as he carried out his knee flexion exercise. When he raised his head and saw his granddaughter, he could not help but feel his spirits lift. Even so, he deliberately put on a stern face. “Yuan Yuan, shouldn’t you be in class? Why are you here again? I only got a minor injury because I’m old. There’s no need for you to come and see this old man every day.”

“I just feel like coming over.” Wang Hui put down the grapefruit she held and said with a smile, “I can’t just let you stay in the ward alone, right? That’s so anxiety-provoking.”

Chief Wang’s heart was filled with warmth. Just in time, he finished a set of knee flexion exercise, so he sat up and said with a smile, “Since you’re here, why don’t you eat with your grandpa? Sit and wait for me for a while.”

“Okay.” Wang Hui nodded. She went to the corner of the ward with the grapefruit in her arms and started peeling it in silence as she gazed at Doctor Ling.

After a while, when Wang Wenkang arrived, Wang Hui was done peeling the grapefruit.