Translator: Abo Dammen
Editor: Scarlet
Proofreader: Kuro
A week later, Lin Baizhou finally contacted him. As soon as the call was connected, the other party asked bluntly , “How else can you prove it?”
The next day, Jiang Yunshu came to Lin Baizhou’s alma mater, Huachuan University, which, coincidentally, was also the school he wanted to take the exam in.
“You want to take the postgraduate entrance exam here, too?” Lin Baizhou hesitated to speak.
Jiang Yunshu replied coolly, “Mhm.”
After a series of disinfection and other processes, the two pushed open the door of the dissecting room. In an environment with relatively high humidity, a corpse lay quietly on the dissecting table.
However, the medical students do not refer to them as corpses, because in their eyes, these corpses were their silent mentors, commonly known as cadavers.
Majority of the cadavers for dissection in anatomy classes were from donations. Before their death, they came from different places, had different jobs, and had led different lives, but in the end, they all chose such an admirable way of dedicating themselves to science.
“Is this a donor?” Jiang Yunshu asked.
“Yes,” Lin Baizhou answered. “The donor was a nurse when they were still alive.”
Jiang Yunshu nodded, took a few steps back, bowed deeply to the nurse, and then calmly put on his gloves.
Lin Baizhou sported a complicated expression and his fists were clenched subconsciously throughout the entire ordeal. He had been observing how Jiang Yunshu would react; right from the start through his proficiency in disinfecting, to seeing the silent mentor without any fear or fright, but with only solemnity and respect. Finally, when it came to bowing, Lin Baizhou deliberately didn’t say a word or even a reminder just to test Jiang Yunshu.
All medical students have a well-established and cognizant rule—before performing a dissection or an experiment, they must express gratitude to the silent mentors by folding their hands, closing their eyes, and bowing.
Before Lin Baizhou could come back to his senses, he caught a glimpse of the scalpel in Jiang Yunshu’s hand glinting. He immediately said, “This is the students’ silent mentor. We’re only allowed to dissect one organ.”
It was already tacitly agreed on that Jiang Yunshu would be dissecting.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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But he also had someone to do a background check on Jiang Yunsu. This guy had obviously been doing design work before the accident!
Jiang Yunshu observed the lung that had been cut open calmly. He concluded, “There’s a large Class III incision in the lung. Based on ocular inspection, the age of the lung does not match with the age of the patient. The capillaries and bronchioles connected with the pulmonary artery and trachea have not healed completely. I’m guessing that this silent mentor had a lung transplant not too long ago before their death. Later, their lungs developed tissue fibrosis…”
Jiang Yunshu frowned. “But my major isn’t pulmonology, so I don’t dare to jump to conclusions about the cause.”
“…Fuck.” This wasn’t Lin Baizhou’s major either but most of Jiang Yunshu’s descriptions were scarily accurate!
The laboratory became so quiet as if it had been deprived of wind. The dark grey skin of the cadaver quietly hinted its presence. Jiang Yunshu was still holding the scalpel in his hand and stared at the nurse motionlessly.
Faced with his current circumstances, Lin-a staunch materialist-Baizhou, who had never been afraid of ghosts, suddenly felt very strange.
Goosebumps arose on his back, and his expression changed significantly. He quickly stepped back and pointed at Jiang Yunshu. “You, you you, are you a human or a ghost?!”
Jiang Yunshu put down the scalpel and it made a soft clink from the metal collision. He said helplessly, “You’re a doctor, but you’re actually a theist…” Halfway through, he silently closed his mouth. It seemed that with the situation he’s currently in, he was not qualified to roast Lin Baizhou.
Jiang Yunshu changed his words. “I used to be an atheist, too.”
“Fuck.” Lin Baizhou felt a gust of wind behind him. He rubbed his arms. “L-Let’s go out to talk!”
“The mentor still hasn’t—”
Lin Baizhou howled, “A professor will come later! Hurry up!”
“You’re too loud.” Jiang Yunshu quipped, “It’s disturbing the mentor.”
Lin Baizhou breathed a sigh of relief when he came to the hallway filled with students wandering about. He looked at the tall and upright figure on his left several times before he opened his mouth unwillingly and asked in low spirits, “…What’s your major?”
“Surgical oncology,” Jiang Yunshu answered. “If you’re still not convinced, you can find an oncology professor at this school and ask him to quiz me in person.”
In fact, Lin Baizhou already believed it subconsciously, but he couldn’t help but resentfully say, “I don’t know any oncology professors!”
Jiang Yunshu also had an ulterior motive when he suggested it. As an adult, he’d long since known the importance of interpersonal relationships. He wanted to take this opportunity to get to know an oncologist from this university which would be helpful for his future studies and job hunting. He continued, “You can contact your professor and ask him to—”
“Shut up!” Lin Baizhou couldn’t bear it any longer. “Who would bother others as casually as you do!”
“It’s not you I’m bothering.” Jiang Yunshu bit back unperturbedly, “Have you forgotten that you were the one who asked me to ‘prove it’. It was your own initiative. I’m just complying with your demands.”
Lin Baizhou took a few deep breaths and walked a few steps faster, fearing that if he didn’t get farther away, he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from beating Jiang Yunshu up again. Thinking of this, he paused and turned back around. “So, when we first met, I didn’t hit the original Jiang Yunsu?”
“Mm.” Jiang Yunshu stood still and stretched out his hand. “Let me introduce myself again, my name is Jiang Yunshu, Shu from scholarly spirit.”
Lin Baizhou had a constipated expression on his face.
Jiang Yunshu’s hand was still hanging in the air but he did not take it back.
When the time passed for so long that even the students passing by stopped to look, Lin Baizhou finally sighed and held his hands up in defeat. “Lin Baizhou. I’m sorry for hitting you last time.”
They walked to the parking lot side by side. Jiang Yunshu opened the car door for Lin Baizhou and asked politely, “I wonder if it’s possible for Dr. Lin to do me a favour. Give me some face and treat me to a meal. I still have something to ask of you.”
“… You should fucking talk normally.” Lin Baizhou shut the co-pilot car door and got in.
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Lin Baizhou’s cheeks were still stuffed with the chicken he hadn’t swallowed yet. After listening to Jiang Yunshu narrating about the two worlds, his expression broke down.
“Swallow your food first.” Jiang Yunshu’s tone was indifferent.
Lin Baizhou heard the disgusted overtone. But at the moment he didn’t have time to think about it. “So the reason why you told me this is because of my face?!”
Jiang Yunshu shook his head. “No, I want to take advantage to ask you… for a favour.”
“Hey,” Lin Baizhou chirped. “I just suddenly remembered that it’s already useless trying to curry favour with me.”
Jiang Yunshu put down his chopsticks, looked at Lin Baizhou and said solemnly, “I want to trouble you to tell my omega that I’ve lost my memories forever.”
“Are you asking me to lie to him?” Hearing this, Lin Bazhou also became serious. “Why not directly tell the truth to your omega instead?”
“I can’t talk to him about it that bluntly,” Jiang Yunshu replied. “He has a really severe PTSD to the original owner and even if I did tell him, he would only think that I was playing a joke to torture him in a different way. Although the current situation looks better than before, I can’t be sure if it could stay that way in the future. I’m afraid that the situation will worsen in just a moment and cause even more pain to him.”
Lin Baizhou pondered about it, then agreed. “That’s reasonable.”
Jiang Yunshu said, “So I will confess to him when he’s in a stable condition.”
“Fuck.” Lin Baizhou fiercely chewed the chicken breast. “When you think about it, you’re pretty unlucky. Poor guy.”
Jiang Yunshu was stunned, then after a moment he shook his head and laughed. “No, on the contrary, I think I’m very lucky.”
“Ah?”
From the side view, Jiang Yunshu’s sharp jawline softened and his eyes curved a little. “In fact, I’m really glad. It’s better that I came here than to be in such a happy environment because I can save Bai Tang. In the same way, if I had two worlds to choose from, wherein the first world I’ll be able to save 10 people, while I can only save 1 person in the second world, even if the conditions and circumstances are ten times harsher, I would choose the former without hesitation as well.”
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If you are interested, you can go to Zhihu and search for “大体老师”. The topic is full of the personal experiences of medical students and stories about the 大体老师. I am awed by it. Being a medical worker is really a great profession.
ps: I wrote all the professional medical knowledge in the article after consulting reference materials. Don’t take it as seriously.
Lin Baizhou: “Only if I can also tell him you’re still a virgin” hehe.
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Wow, so many smart words! Amazing work!
Thank You for the new chapter ( ˘ ³˘)♥
IDK how accurate the medicina stuff is (the author obviously did their research, though, and I thank them for that), but it SOUNDS very accurate and I enjoy reading it a lot. <3 Adds to the worldbuilding and helps me immerse myself in the story! Also, our JY is such a good guy. :’)
Yes! I like to dive into the world they’re in, and providing details like that really helps, whether it applies in our world or not.
Thanks