Mr. Bigshot Is Obsessed with His Hidden-Marriage Wife
Chapter 60: Don’t Want to Show Weakness

Chapter 60: Chapter 60: Don’t Want to Show Weakness

Lin Yihang finished his meal and left, saying that the witness he was going to visit had arrived at home. On his way out, he asked Ye Yan for an umbrella.

After Lin Yihang left, Ye Yan tidied up the kitchen and then sat down at the computer to look up information and organize data until eleven o’clock. She had finished all the spreadsheets, one version in Chinese and one in English, and sent them to Director Bi’s email.

Fearing that Director Bi might have already gone to sleep, she refrained from sending a message to avoid disturbing him.

Just as she was about to turn off her phone, her gaze suddenly fell upon a certain profile picture. Almost as if possessed, she composed a two-word message: "Good night."

Thinking it over, she deemed it too stiff and searched for a GIF of a teddy bear turning off the light. After triple-checking to ensure there was nothing inappropriate, she finally sent it.

After waiting for a while without a response from Fu Xingzhou, Ye Yan didn’t think too much of it. She plugged in her phone to charge, turned off the lights, and went to sleep.

The next morning, the first message on her phone was from Fu Xingzhou, sent at 3:40 a.m., with a simple "Good night."

He hadn’t slept by 3:40 a.m.?

He was usually the playboy type who would read messages without responding, but this time he surprisingly replied to her rather trivial message.

Ye Yan stared at those two words for a while. They didn’t seem special, but they had a kind of unique charm to them. It was almost as if she could glimpse his casual demeanor when he sent the message through these words.

At 3:40 a.m., was he drinking, playing cards? Or was he discussing the planning of some land, the investment of a project, the recent trends of a certain stock...

Suddenly, Ye Yan felt that Fu Xingzhou seemed both close and far away. His world was high above the clouds, and she was just a clueless intruder, an outsider who knew nothing.

Upon arriving at the hospital, Xiao Xiao sneaked into Ye Yan’s office.

"Dr. Ye, let’s go to the general ward this afternoon."

The VIP ward had a dedicated seven-story white building, separate from the general patient sections.

"Go to the general ward?" Ye Yan was puzzled. "Do you have something there?"

Xiao Xiao pulled up a chair and sat down: "Doctor Bai has been lingering around the general ward all morning, and I heard she even treated the doctors and nurses from the hospitalization department and the general surgery to milk tea."

Ye Yan typed on her keyboard and responded with a word: "Hmm."

"Dr. Ye, how can you be so calm?" Xiao Xiao beat his chest in frustration. "The vote is tomorrow, and Doctor Bai is racing against time to drum up votes."

Yesterday, Chairman Li’s wife made a scene, and it wasn’t true that it had no effect on Bai Chutong.

But she was good at playing the victim, and today she managed to pull a few nails out of a situation that seemed to be hammered shut.

In the end, it didn’t matter what kind of person Bai Chutong was to others. Gossip is gossip, and personal feelings are personal feelings.

"I can’t control whether others canvas for votes or not." Ye Yan stopped typing. "If the award for excellent staff can be secured with just a few cups of milk tea, then the hospital’s evaluation is meaningless."

"That’s the logic, indeed..."

"We should do things according to that logic." As for the rest, Ye Yan didn’t wish to ponder too much.

Xiao Xiao sighed helplessly.

Ye Yan never kowtowed to the wealthy, so asking her to canvass for votes in the general ward was absolutely impossible.

Dr. Ye could be softer than water when gentle, but when she was proud, her head was always held high.

"Doctor Bai really has thick skin. If it were me, I wouldn’t have the face to see anyone."

Being confronted by the legal wife in the office and having her scandal discussed right up to the board of directors, if it weren’t for someone above covering for her, she’d have been struck from the list by now.

"Doctor Zheng is also canvassing for votes everywhere." Xiao Xiao had heard another piece of gossip. "Doctor Bai and Doctor Zheng both went to the general surgery to distribute milk tea, and they ran into each other. Doctor Zheng said Doctor Bai was stingy because all the milk tea she bought was medium-sized, while Doctor Bai retorted that the milk tea shop Doctor Zheng chose had recently been on the food hygiene bulletin for using milk tea powder and artificial flavors."

Ye Yan laughed, "Is that really the case?"

Zheng Shuangshuang and Bai Chutong usually appeared to be on good terms, even banding together at the dinner to spread rumors about her. She hadn’t expected that when it came to their own interests, they would immediately sever ties on the spot.

"It almost broke into a fight in the general surgery department," Xiao Xiao shrugged. "Lots of patients were there to watch the excitement."

Ye Yan chuckled and changed the subject, "A senior of mine has a birthday coming up. What would be a good gift?"

"Is there a price range?"

Ye Yan shook her head.

Granny Fu, of course, was not lacking in gold, silver, or jade. Her greatest hobby was painting, but the pieces in her collection were all extremely valuable.

The expensive ones she couldn’t afford; the cheap ones were not worth giving.

"Old people generally feel quite lonely. It would be best to give them something to relieve their boredom and cheer them up."

Ye Yan couldn’t immediately think of anything appropriate, so she silently took Xiao Xiao’s words to heart, planning to go treasure hunting on the streets over the weekend.

In the blink of an eye, the day of the hospital’s referendum had arrived.

The referendum was conducted by secret ballot. Each person had one vote and could choose to abstain.

The voting team hustled all day, both on the general floors and the VIP floors, and finally collected the ballots from all departments. Next up was the tense stage of counting the votes.

When Bai Chutong found Ye Yan, she was speaking with a patient’s family in a ward.

After finishing the conversation, Ye Yan came out.

"Does Doctor Bai need something?" Her demeanour indifferent, as always.

Bai Chutong curled her lips, "Doctor Ye seems not at all nervous about today’s voting results. It seems you are quite confident in your own abilities."

"Confidence? No, just equanimity."

"Doctor Ye," Bai Chutong lowered her voice, "those photos were given to Chairman Li’s wife by you, weren’t they?"

"Doctor Bai should rather ask Mrs. Li herself who actually gave her those photos. I think her answer would be more credible than mine," Ye Yan replied, her expression unchanged.

"Whether or not it was you, Doctor Ye, I think your efforts will be in vain as those five votes are bound to be mine," Bai Chutong said with full confidence. "It seems someone has wasted their efforts."

Mr. Li had assured her that the award for the outstanding employee would definitely go to her, without any surprises.

"Then I’ll wish Doctor Bai all the best in advance." Ye Yan tucked her hands into the pockets of her white coat, "I must be going now."

Bai Chutong watched Ye Yan’s retreating figure, a cold smile playing on her lips.

Doctor Ye, who always had to be one step ahead, was finally going to hit a wall. It was about time she realized that in this hospital, she was not the sole star around which everyone else orbited.

What did it matter if she had superior medical skills, higher education, or was respected and sought after?

None of these mattered compared to the truly rich and powerful people who could simply lift a finger or move their lips.

In their eyes, what mattered was not so-called capability, but whether one was obedient and easy to manipulate.

"Doctor Ye, are you really not worried at all?" Xiao Xiao had seen her standing with Bai Chutong from afar, and he guessed it wasn’t a pleasant encounter.

"Worried," Ye Yan sighed. "The ballots are inanimate, but people are not. Anything could happen."

She was not confident enough to be certain that she would win the award.

She just didn’t want to show weakness in front of Bai Chutong, that’s all.

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