After settling Meng Shiqing down, Su Yu returned to the restaurant and found that Qi Nian hadn't left yet. He had an apron tied around his waist and was helping her clean up the mess on the dining table.
"Doctor Qi, let me do it."
Su Yu hurriedly walked over and was about to snatch the plate from his hand. Qi Nian's body moved slightly to the side, cleverly dodging it.
"It's okay, you've been tired all day too. Let me help you."
Seeing that Qi Nian insisted, Su Yu couldn't say anything more, so she had to roll up her sleeves and clean up with Qi Nian.
He turned his head and looked at Su Yu's profile in a daze.
The bridge of her nose was high, her eyelashes were long and curled, and below that was a cherry-red cherry mouth. Perhaps in order to work neatly, her hair was tied into a low bun.
He vaguely remembered that when he was in university, Su Yu's white shirt and low bun had deeply attracted him.
He inexplicably felt a sense of intimacy with Su Yu.
That day, Su Yu sat in the library with her head down, looking at the reference materials. The warm sunlight shone over, as if it had coated her surroundings with a layer of brilliance.
Su Yu had a withdrawn personality and didn't have many friends around her.
Therefore, he didn't dare to approach her rashly. He could only try to get closer to her in his own way.
From then on, going to the library became an essential part of his daily routine.
After a long time, he discovered that during her free time, Su Yu would almost always stay in the library reading books. She was a very serious girl.
To the extent that for so many years, he had never dared to take that step, for fear that they wouldn't even be able to be friends.
But it was precisely because of his repeated cowardice that he was powerless when Su Yu married someone else.
If he had been braver in college and taken that step bravely, the one lying in the room now might have been his and Su Yu's daughter, not Xie Huaijing's.
After tidying up, it was already past twelve o'clock. He raised his hand to look at his watch. "It's getting late. I should go."
"You've worked hard today."
Su Yu's lively eyes looked at Qi Nian, smiling and revealing her white teeth, her voice soft, "I'll see you off."
Qi Nian nodded, his eyebrows gentle: "Okay."
When he reached the door, Qi Nian paused.
After struggling inwardly, he mustered up the courage to look at Su Yu, his dark eyes deep, his voice low.
"Su Yu, have you ever thought about finding someone to rely on?"
If so, you might as well consider me.
Su Yu shook her head with a smile without thinking, "It's fine like this now, I still have A Qing and Xiao Nian by my side, and life is very comfortable, so I don't think about it for the time being."
Afterwards, Su Yu said with self-deprecation: "Like me, who has been divorced and has a 5-year-old daughter, who would be blind to like me."
"No, Su Yu, you are really good, it's not your fault for having a child."
Qi Nian said hurriedly, his eyes full of anxiety.
"If someone is willing to accept you and your child and spend the rest of their life with you, would you accept that person?"
Su Yu was stunned for a moment, and Xie Huaijing's unforgettable face suddenly appeared in her mind, then immediately disappeared.
Su Yu smiled, "I won't harm others."
Qi Nian closed his eyes upon hearing this, suppressing the sour feeling, and after responding, he walked forward alone, his thin back disappearing into the night.
The next day.
Yun Cheng Hospital.
This morning, Su Yu had performed two major surgeries in a row, standing the whole time, which made her a little overwhelmed.
Su Yu took off her sterile cap and threw it into the medical waste bin, took off her surgical gown, and put on her white coat.
Just as Su Yu was tidying up her hair in front of the mirror, she took the opportunity to look at the time on her phone. It was already past one o'clock in the afternoon.
After returning to the office, Su Yu sent a message to Meng Shiqing.
"I just got off work after two surgeries today, so I won't be home to cook lunch. Order takeout for yourself."
Su Xiaonian was already in kindergarten. She usually ate lunch and dinner there before going home, so Su Yu didn't have to worry about her meals.
Su Yu had just sat down at her desk and was about to order takeout for herself when she noticed a takeout box on her desk.
She opened the bag and found that it was her favorite braised beef rice. There was also a note attached to it.
"Dr. Su, you've been busy all morning. You must be tired after so many surgeries. I apologize for ordering you a meal without asking, but please eat it."
She didn't need to think to know who it was from.
Su Yu couldn't help but smile. She then sent a message to Qi Nian to thank him.
After a full meal, Su Yu saw that she had less than an hour before work, so she lay down on her desk to take a nap.
After the lunch break, Su Yu received a message from the dean telling her to go to the office.
When she arrived at the door of the office, she knocked politely three times before entering.
The dean smiled kindly and asked Su Yu to sit down, and also kindly made tea for her.
"You're here, Xiao Su."
Su Yu nodded and sat down in front of the dean.
The dean took a sip of tea and said without any nonsense.
"It's like this, Xiao Su, the Beijing Hospital has taken over a patient with stomach cancer, and we immediately thought of you as an expert in this field."
"Although you are only twenty-eight or nine years old, most of the stomach cancer patients you have treated in the past few years have been cured. Although the remaining patients with advanced and terminal cancer cannot be cured, you have also relieved their symptoms and prolonged their lives."
"The Beijing Hospital's technology in this area of stomach cancer is not yet so sophisticated, and coupled with the special condition of the patient this time, if something goes wrong, the hospital may suffer."
"Therefore, the Beijing Hospital would like to invite you to go over and discuss the surgical plan with them, and it is best if you can perform the surgery."
As soon as Su Yu heard the word "disaster", she felt that the situation was definitely not as simple as she thought, so she agreed without thinking.
She was willing to give it a try, to accept the challenge!
She has been working hard to study gastric cancer.
It used to be for her mother, but now that her mother is gone, she wants to do her part to help patients and families with gastric cancer and try to cure them.
...
"Are you being transferred to the Beijing hospital?"
Hearing the news, Meng Shiqing put down the keyboard in his hand, sat down beside Su Yu, and asked Su Yu with his cheek in his hand, "Did you agree?"
Su Yu shook his head, "I'm not being transferred to the Beijing hospital. They invited me to participate in the gastric cancer surgery and discuss the surgical plan by the way."
"How many days will you be gone?" As he spoke, Meng Shiqing looked at Su Yu with tears in his eyes, expressing his reluctance.
"I'm not sure yet. It could be as short as a week or as long as a month."
"So long!" Meng Shiqing protested. "I'll pass out from eating takeout every day while you're gone."
Su Yu smiled, "Don't worry, I'll hire a nanny to take care of the two of you. Your main task is to pick up and drop Niannian off at school every day."
"No way!"