Chapter 688: Chapter 687: Expectation

From Wednesday morning to Friday evening, Yan Feifan’s days were a ceaseless blur of activity.

At eleven o’clock on Wednesday morning, after completing two puncture and injection procedures for intraspinal tumors, Yan Feifan hurried back to his office in the Little Red House.

He met with the girl Zeng Ni had recommended—one with a severe underbite—and her family to discuss a plan for full-face reconstructive surgery and to perform a facial examination.

Afterward, Yan Feifan drew up a list of required tests and had Xv Shuang take the girl to the cosmetic surgery center for a comprehensive physical and facial evaluation.

At one in the afternoon, the surgery to resect an intraspinal tumor began, with Yan Feifan serving as the lead surgeon for the entire procedure. It concluded successfully around seven in the evening.

To avoid unnecessary complications, the patient for this intraspinal tumor surgery was taken from the neurosurgery department’s waiting list.

Yan Feifan took the patient at the top of the list.

The surgical fees for the patient remained largely unchanged, but official responsibility for his case was transferred from the Neurosurgery Department to the research lab.

After that surgery and a short break, Yan Feifan dashed over to the neurosurgery department, where he and Dr. Qiu Ge performed brainstem puncture and resonance stimulation experiments on six rhesus monkeys.

Yan Feifan was just as busy on Thursday.

In a procedure that took over two hours in the morning, he performed a puncture and injection surgery on a patient with a cranial tumor who had been transferred from the PLA General Hospital.

Afterward, Yan Feifan reviewed and analyzed the test results for the girl with the underbite, using the data to further refine the surgical plan.

From one-thirty in the afternoon until six in the evening, Yan Feifan spent a total of four and a half hours completing the full-face reconstructive surgery for the girl with the underbite.

Immediately afterward, he rushed to the Trauma Surgery Department to finalize the surgical plan for the American female-to-male patient with Chen Yu, Qin Ying, Yu Suye, and the others.

The discussion over the surgical plan didn’t conclude until ten o’clock that night.

By Friday, the only task Yan Feifan needed to complete was a single phalloplasty procedure.

However, that single surgery lasted nearly eleven hours, starting at eight-thirty in the morning and not finishing until after seven in the evening.

To focus on Yu Suye’s training, both Yan Feifan and Chen Yu deliberately slowed their pace during the portions of the surgery they were leading, providing running commentary to help her learn and master the techniques.

In truth, Yu Suye’s medical knowledge and surgical skills were considered top-tier, placing her among the most outstanding young doctors in the entire country.

She was, after all, hailed as the most talented youth to come out of the Yu Family in the past decade.

Qin Ying also noted that after nearly six months of study—benefiting from Yan Feifan’s private tutelage and hands-on practice during charitable surgeries—Yu Suye had already mastered the essence of Qin Ying’s own specialties: severed limb replantation and recovery from sports-related joint injuries.

Her learning speed was astounding.

Alas, she had to contend with Yan Feifan, who was practically a bug in the system.

Even though Yu Suye was like the bright moon among the stars when compared to other young doctors, beside the dazzling, sun-like radiance of Yan Feifan, she couldn’t help but seem unremarkable.

Nevertheless, Yu Suye’s raw skill was still formidable.

After all, she had the dedicated mentorship of three top-tier teachers—Qin Ying, Chen Yu, and Yan Feifan—was able to focus solely on the field of trauma surgery, and had abundant opportunities for hands-on practice.

In Qin Ying and Chen Yu’s estimation, the level of skill Yu Suye demonstrated in her specialized surgeries was already on par with that of a chief physician.

All she lacked was time to mature and accumulate more experience...

Around nine o’clock on Friday night, Yan Feifan and Yu Suye returned to their home at Zuimo Court. As if on cue, they both collapsed onto the living room sofa, too exhausted to even speak.

Yan Ziruo and Duan Yu exchanged a glance, and then each began giving one of the exhausted surgeons a full-body massage...

"Feifan, a car is coming to pick us up at seven tomorrow morning. We don’t need to drive to Qiandao Lake ourselves."

Yan Feifan grumbled, "Sis, do I have to go? All I want to do right now is lie here without moving and sleep for two days."

"Absolutely not!"

Yan Ziruo gave her brother’s shoulders a firm squeeze. "You’re the core of our group. You’re indispensable."

"Besides, sleeping isn’t the only way to relax."

"Gazing at the beautiful, refreshing lake scenery, eating delicious and easily digestible fresh-from-the-lake delicacies, and immersing yourself in the peace and quiet of nature will give you both physical and spiritual rest."

Yan Feifan grumbled, "Sis, with a spiel like that, you could be a tourism ambassador."

"Oh, is Xiaoyu not here?"

"She’s not."

Yan Ziruo replied curtly before explaining, "It’s her first time living in a dorm, after all. She’s homesick."

"The second the weekend hits, she can’t wait to go home."

"She said she really wanted to come out with us, but Mr. and Mrs. Tian keep calling. They miss her terribly."

Yan Feifan couldn’t help but chuckle. He then heard his sister add, "Xiaoyu also said that she was made the Youth League secretary for her class."

Just then, Yan Feifan’s phone rang.

It was a call from Liang Zhao Kui, the Director of Cardiac Surgery...

"Feifan, when are you coming over to Cardiac Surgery? I need to make some arrangements on my end and adjust the schedule."

Hearing the director’s friendly tone, Yan Feifan pushed himself into a sitting position on the sofa.

"Mr. Liang, it should be next Monday, if nothing unexpected comes up. You don’t need to make any special arrangements. Just treat me like any other young doctor coming for training."

"I can’t do that."

Liang Zhao Kui said cheerfully over the phone, "Feifan, you have no idea. The two deputy directors and two senior chief physicians in my department have been hovering around me constantly these past two days."

"They’ve been dropping hints left and right, telling me not to hog the opportunity of having you learn from us."

"Mr. Liang, am I really that popular?" Yan Feifan asked with a hint of smugness.

Liang Zhao Kui let out a laugh before continuing, "That bigmouth, Dr. Peng from Oral Surgery, has already spread the word about you."

"He’s been going on about how teaching you was a learning experience for him, too. He said that while he was teaching you, he was so inspired by you that he made a genuine breakthrough in designing surgical plans."

"With him setting a precedent like that, we’re all hoping to gain something as well. After all, we’ve been stagnating in many areas for years."

Yan Feifan quickly clarified, "Mr. Liang, you can’t have expectations like that. You are all renowned experts in the field of cardiac surgery. I’m just coming to learn in earnest. How could I possibly have the ability to inspire any of you?"

"As for Dr. Peng’s breakthrough, that was just a case of his own accumulated experience finally paying off, combined with a bit of good timing."

Liang Zhao Kui chuckled lightly. "Feifan, you don’t need to be so nervous."

"I know a thing or two about that Dr. Peng fellow. His skills are decent, sure, but that’s the extent of it. It’s perfectly normal for him to improve after being spurred on by you."

"But the Cardiac Surgery Department..."

Liang Zhao Kui trailed off. To say more would sound like he was belittling other departments while elevating his own.

"Still, Feifan, we do have our expectations."

"You’re no ordinary person. You’re a genius doctor, a miracle worker. I also know you’re coming to Cardiac Surgery to save that young man, Chu Xiaolong—a patient we’re powerless to help."

"You’re destined to create a miracle, so how could we not be expectant?"

Yan Feifan chuckled wryly. "Mr. Liang, when you put it like that, you’re putting a lot of pressure on me."

"Haha! Feifan, you, afraid of pressure?"

Liang Zhao Kui said with a hearty laugh, "From the day you dared to volunteer right in front of me and successfully completed that patient’s off-pump bypass surgery, I knew..."

"...that you’re the type of kid who fears nothing. That fearlessness, combined with your medical talent and diligent hard work, means you’re destined to become one of the most prominent master physicians in the world."

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