Did That Doctor Successfully Remarry Today?
Chapter 107 - 106 Dr. Gao is a Great Straight Man

Chapter 107: Chapter 106 Dr. Gao is a Great Straight Man

Chapter 106 Dr. Gao is a Straightforward Man

The night shift ended, and Jiang An took a cab home alone.

After a heavy snowfall last night, Jing City was submerged in a sea of white. The winter sun shone golden, and as Jiang An stepped outside, she was greeted by strands of sunlight, yet the temperature didn’t seem to rise; the girl sniffled and wrapped her scarf tighter around her neck.

The winter in Jing City seemed especially cold this year, and there was also much more snow than in previous years.

Jiang An bought a pancake at a stall by the hospital entrance to fill her stomach and by the time she got home, she collapsed onto the bed and closed her eyes. Perhaps due to overexertion the night before, she quickly fell into a deep sleep.

She slept until the evening, and when Jiang An got up from bed, the weather outside was gloomy again.

She walked to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror, her face still faintly showing traces of last night’s tears, her hair messy, and her complexion pale as if she were a severely ill patient.

Everything that happened last night seemed like a horrifying nightmare; the more she forced herself not to think about it, the more it preoccupied her mind.

She glanced at the time displayed on her phone, wondering whether to make dinner, when her phone suddenly vibrated twice.

Jiang An turned on the phone screen and saw a message from Gao Chuan saying that he wanted to take her out to a movie and would pick her up at her house soon.

She read the two messages on her phone again and again. Her melancholic mood finally shifted a bit, she would never have thought that Dr. Gao would take the initiative to ask her out to a movie.

While she was still doubting herself, Dr. Gao sent another message saying he was already on his way home and would arrive soon; Jiang An then hurriedly washed her face and got ready. By the time she had changed her clothes in the bedroom, Gao Chuan had just arrived downstairs.

Jiang An ran downstairs and, seeing Gao Chuan’s car parked at the roadside, she thought he had been waiting for a long time and hurriedly sped up her pace.

"Dr. Gao," Jiang An approached and knocked on the car window.

Gao Chuan, who had been lost in thought in the driver’s seat, was interrupted, and he reached out to open the car door for Jiang An.

Once Jiang An buckled up, Gao Chuan pressed the gas pedal and gently started the car, catching a glimpse of Jiang An’s still somewhat reddened eyes in his peripheral vision, guessing that the girl must have cried again after returning home.

"Why suddenly think of watching a movie?" Gao Chuan heard Jiang An ask next to him.

The man turned the steering wheel, exposing the silvery-gray watch on his wrist, his eyes and eyebrows slightly moving as he cleared his throat and explained, "A favorite movie of mine was recently released."

Looking at the man’s somewhat evasive gaze, Jiang An’s face finally broke into a smile, she hadn’t expected Dr. Gao to feel shy too.

In the end, Jiang An also didn’t expect that the movie Dr. Gao said he liked was a youth romance film, full of clichéd plots and cringe-worthy scenes, something she hadn’t seen since graduating from high school.

The two bought Coke and popcorn and entered the theater, which was mostly filled with couples. Midway through the movie, Jiang An saw a couple sitting diagonally in front of her kissing, she quickly averted her gaze and her cheeks flushed. The screen just happened to show the male and female protagonists confessing their love for each other, and just as she was imagining doing something with Dr. Gao in the dark cinema, she embarrassedly turned her head to look at Gao Chuan sitting silently beside her.

The man was leaning back in his seat, his head slightly tilted back, evidently asleep.

At this time, the film had played less than half, Jiang An helplessly turned her gaze back to the movie screen.

Dr. Gao is a typical straightforward man, she almost forgot about that.

In the end, Dr. Gao unsurprisingly slept throughout the movie, even snoring for a while, and only woke up when Jiang An shook him after the movie ended.

The man opened his eyes and realized that people were already leaving the scene one after another, understanding that he had been sleeping the whole time. Thinking about how he had insisted it was his favorite movie, his ears quickly turned red in embarrassment.

After all, for someone who never watches romantic films, he could not have imagined somebody could make a movie so boring...

When they left the cinema, it was already completely dark outside, both of them found a restaurant to eat and after the meal, Gao Chuan took Jiang An for a walk in the nearby square.

Although Jiang An didn’t show any signs of unhappiness throughout, her frequency of speaking was noticeably less, and she also ate very little during the meal.

As the two of them walked hand in hand, Gao Chuan gently massaged the girl’s fingers, speaking up, "Many years ago, just after I graduated from university, I was doing my internship at a hospital much like you, and Dean Meng was my mentor. My first patient was a forty-year-old middle-aged woman suffering from severe uterine tumors. It was very serious when she came to get treatment, and that was the first time I performed surgery by myself, and it was successful."

Hearing Gao Chuan suddenly share this with her, Jiang An vaguely understood the purpose of his words and listened intently to his narration.

"The surgery was somewhat difficult, and I was very happy at the time; my seniors in the department were all praising me, and a few days after the surgery, the patient also recovered very well." Gao Chuan continued to reminisce about his experiences, the scenes of the surgery replaying in his mind as if watching a movie.

Back then, he was still incredibly green and focused solely on curing patients, treating each one carefully without any negligence.

"That’s very good." Jiang An, listening to his words, also smiled.

Gao Chuan turned to look at the girl, pausing for a few seconds before continuing, "But just a few days later, when I was still feeling proud of myself, the patient’s condition suddenly worsened, a severe postoperative reaction, and she eventually died due to circulatory system failure,"

"I remember, before we even got her to the emergency room she had already passed away, and everyone was shocked..." Gao Chuan’s voice choked up as he recalled the details vividly in his mind.

He had thought that some memories would fade if he tried to consciously forget them, but even after many years, this incident never passed, and it had always been a hurdle in his heart.

Although many seniors in the hospital comforted him later, saying that the patient’s condition was inherently unstable and such incidents are common in oncology, telling him not to take it to heart, for him, who was ambitious at the time, the patient’s unexpected death made him doubt his professional knowledge.

He even thought about whether he would ever perform surgeries again.

As the man reflected on the past, lost in thought, he suddenly felt Jiang An’s hand soothing his hand, the warm temperature transferring silently. He slightly lifted his head to hear the girl sincerely say, "Dr. Gao, let the past go..."

"You are the best doctor I’ve ever seen."

Hearing the words that fell on his ears, he looked at the girl comforting him.

At that moment, he almost lost himself in a trance, as if he had suddenly returned to the time seven years ago.

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