Dai Lin was somewhat surprised when he got a call from his cousin, Dai Ming.
Even though they were cousins, after Dai Lin became a surgeon, he hardly saw Dai Ming more than a few times a year.
Dai Lin and Dai Ming were about the same age and, because Dai Lin's uncle (Dai Ming's father) was his father's twin brother, they looked very similar at first glance.
Although Dai Lin's aunt and uncle had always been especially kind to him from an early age, and his uncle provided him with the warmth he could never get from his stern father, making Dai Lin very close to his uncle's family, he had always had a lukewarm relationship with Dai Ming.
If you were to look for a reason, for Dai Ming, Dai Lin had always been the perfect "child from another family." Breezing through school with grade skips and getting into medical college to become a surgeon at a major local 3A hospital, he was the quintessential success story.
