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"I heard you."
"You know what my job is now, right!"
"Yes, forensic doctor!"
"And you still want to chat and have dinner with me?"
"Of course, I do!"
Feng Qinglang's face lit up with excitement, "Being a forensic doctor is just so cool! The fact that you can do this job is simply too cool and interesting, I like it!"
Mai Xiaomai broke into a sweat.
This was the first time she heard someone say being a forensic doctor was cool and handsome!
"What I'm curious about is, for a girl like you, when facing those hideous corpses, are you really not afraid?"
Feng Qinglang stared into her eyes and asked.
"You get used to it, and now, they seem no different to me than these tables and chairs."
Any person, no matter how much of a materialist, feels at least a little uncomfortable when first confronted with a body.
In their second year of university, when their mentor first took the whole class to dissect and explain a body that had died in a fire, they watched as the charred remains were sliced open with the mentor's scalpel, the blood and flesh blurred, and the internal organs removed one by one...
The stomachs of the entire class were seriously upset, and some even started vomiting on the spot.
Before entering the dissection room, their class leader, who had boasted about being fearless, was the only one who did not run out to vomit. As it turned out, he had been so frightened that he wet himself, unable to move with his legs shaking.
Mai Xiaomai also experienced strong nausea until she had vomited out all the bitter fluid in her stomach and could stop.
For the following two months, whenever she saw meat in her meals, she would be reminded of the dissected body and feel the urge to vomit, unable to eat a bite, and the other students felt the same.
Their mentor told them that this was a normal psychological and physiological reaction, but to become an outstanding forensic doctor, one must overcome these psychological barriers.
To overcome these psychological barriers, the mentor spoke to them of the noble responsibilities of a forensic doctor.
Dissecting bodies that had died unnaturally was not a sign of disrespect for the deceased, but a duty to confer justice upon them, to clear the wrongs they suffered—it was a highly noble and beautiful act.
Mai Xiaomai, in order to overcome her psychological barriers, began to follow her mentor actively, bravely accompanying him to murder scenes, to the morgue...
After multiple episodes of fear and vomiting, after overcoming again and again, after repeated self-suggestion, she gradually overcame these obstacles. No matter how gruesome the corpses were, she stayed calm, like looking at tables and chairs, only eager to uncover the truth of their deaths and bring them justice.
Her mentor appreciated her a great deal, and passed on all his knowledge to her, often letting her personally perform the dissections.
As a result, she was the top forensic medicine graduate of her year, the only student the mentor had ever given a full score.
The students from other classes, not knowing the effort she had put in, talked among themselves when the mentor gave her a full score, insinuating that she must have used her looks and been favored by the mentor inappropriately to receive such a grade.
Mai Xiaomai heard these rumors, both openly and in secret.
The complexity and darkness of human hearts made her even more reluctant to interact with the living, preferring to deal with corpse after corpse instead.
"Look at you, spending all day in the morgue, interacting with those dead bodies, what's the point? If you keep this up, you're almost going to turn into a corpse yourself. Before we went to high school, you were so lively and cheerful, crazier and more eccentric than even me, but ever since you studied forensic science, you've become colder and more reclusive!"
You Bei often said this to her, trying to get her to be around more lively people, thus she would deliberately invite her out to play and be with a big crowd.
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