Chapter 2281 - 2241: Lin Xiang Returns to China

Ye Qiu walked to the girls’ dormitory where Wen Xin lived, and when he knocked on the door, Wen Xin knew it was Ye Qiu.

When she opened the door and saw Ye Qiu come in, she hugged him.

"Did you just come from seeing a patient?"

"An elderly person had acute heart failure, almost didn’t make it."

Pulling Ye Qiu to sit down beside her, Ye Qiu could still see that she was very tired.

"Were you just getting off work this morning?"

Head nurses usually don’t work night shifts; those are left to the intern nurses and some of the regular nurses.

"Shift change at six-thirty."

Wen Xin still felt very tired; it was only a bit past eight now.

"Then you should sleep first."

"What about you?"

"I originally wanted to see you and then head back, but I’ll stay now."

Now that Ye Qiu had finished his exams, he didn’t have much else to do for the time being.

Wen Xin pulled Ye Qiu up to the bed after taking off his clothes.

When they both woke up again, it was already afternoon.

Normally, an average person needs eight hours of sleep, and the quality of daytime sleep is worse than nighttime sleep. That is to say, a whole day of sleep during the day might not even match a few hours at night. Luckily, the dormitories here at the hospital are quite quiet, without the noise from street traffic outside.

"You’re not going back again this year?"

Doctors and nurses generally don’t have annual leave, and any days off are taken after the New Year because hospitals have to operate as usual during the holiday season.

Last year, Wen Xin stayed at the hospital and didn’t get any time off; even though she got compensatory days after the New Year, she didn’t feel like going back.

Moreover, Wen Xin didn’t want to return to her hometown because her parents were trying to set her up with someone, suggesting a local doctor job that could have her work back home.

Now, there’s no way Wen Xin would go back. She thought staying here was quite good.

One reason is she got used to the city life; another reason is because of Ye Qiu.

"I don’t want to go back for the New Year, my parents are trying to set me up with someone again."

Just thinking about those things made Wen Xin feel uncomfortable.

Previously, when she had bad breath, her family didn’t introduce her to anyone, but once her bad breath got cured, they started talking about it.

Ye Qiu didn’t expect that Wen Xin would encounter the same kind of situation that Xiao Mei had.

But in the countryside, it’s the same; once you reach a certain age, family and relatives seem particularly concerned about these matters.

"Then just stay here."

How could his woman go on a blind date?

Now Wen Xin had already had enough sleep.

Tonight, she would be on the night shift again.

This night shift is rotated weekly; actually, she doesn’t have to do it, but she doesn’t want to seek special treatment. If it weren’t for Ye Qiu, she knew she would still be an ordinary nurse.

When Wen Xin got up, Ye Qiu took her to a nearby restaurant for lunch, then dropped her off at the Affiliated Hospital before driving back to the Peach Blossom Source Villa Community.

Now, Liu Lingxiu and Lin Xiang would finish their exams by the end of the week.

But Ye Qiu had already finished his exams, so he didn’t need to go back to Jin University. After Liu Lingxiu finished her exams, he would help her move her things back.

Xiaomai was at home alone, feeling bored, and as soon as she saw him come back, she eagerly offered to give him a massage.

It wasn’t until after six in the evening that Lin Xiang returned.

She had only two more exams tomorrow before she finished.

Actually, she found that exams here were different from those in Malaysia; here it was mostly theory-based, reliant on memory.

As long as you were familiar with the material, the results shouldn’t be too bad.

Now, her parents back in Malaysia wanted her to return to Kuala Lumpur after her exams.

Chinese New Year is also celebrated in Malaysia, but mainly by the Chinese community there. However, Lin Xiang planned to stay here this year.

She wanted to experience the New Year here.

So, she planned to return to Kuala Lumpur for a few days, then fly back to Jinling.

"Ye Qiu, I’m planning to fly back to Kuala Lumpur after my exams tomorrow."

"I can’t stop you, can I?"

"I’ll be back once again."

"Why fly back and forth?"

"Of course, to spend the New Year here." Lin Xiang rolled her eyes at Ye Qiu. She was already completely accustomed to living here and felt a bit out of place going back to Kuala Lumpur.

Of course, there’s no shortage for the Lin Family, controlling such a large portion of the rubber market.

And her eldest brother had been buying rubber plantations in Hainan and Yunnan all this year, meaning the Lin Family’s share of the global rubber market could increase even further.

Besides, the Lin Family might be purchasing in Brazil as well.

Now, many overseas Chinese are spreading out and immigrating worldwide; in Brazil, the land is undoubtedly cheaper.

Ye Qiu was unaware of all this.

With Lin Xiang planning to spend the New Year here, Ye Qiu naturally didn’t care.

Early the next morning, Ye Qiu spent the night cultivating. With the heavy snow stopping, the moonlight and sunlight were visible, and by eight in the morning, Ye Qiu felt energized all over from his cultivation.

He had breakfast before driving to the laboratory.

The laboratory had already started researching the first project, drugs for hepatitis B virus.

These drugs were available abroad and domestically but with differing effectiveness and prices, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

And with so many patients domestically, imagine how large the market for this class of antiviral drugs could be.

Even making a hundred from each patient would be substantial.

Of course, Ye Qiu noticed that domestic drugs were inadequate and couldn’t be copied from abroad, so high-priced patent rights for imported drugs had to be purchased.

Most of the money was actually spent on those patent rights, leading to naturally higher drug prices.

Now, Ye Qiu wanted to use the domestic and international antiviral drug research laboratories to develop drugs in large quantities, thus reducing the drug market prices domestically and internationally.

Ultimately, it would be the patients who benefited.

When Ye Qiu arrived at the Antiviral Drug Laboratory, the researchers were hard at work.

However, the environment here was very pleasant, not as oppressive as other labs, primarily because their salaries were high and they owned a share of the drug patents, meaning they could earn more from the drug proceeds.

Under such circumstances, there was no need to manage the researchers closely; they were motivated to do their work.

It could be said that the operations here followed the work system of foreign drug laboratories completely.

There was no required eight-hour workday or mandatory overtime.

As long as the tasks were completed on time, it was fine.

Ye Qiu came over and once again released hepatitis B virus onto the culture dishes, though no one knew how he did it.

When Ye Qiu returned to the Peach Blossom Source Villa, Lin Xiang had already finished her exams and come back. She packed her things and was ready to have Ye Qiu take her to the airport.

As for the plane tickets, she had booked them online and just needed to pick them up at the airport.

"Aren’t you going to have lunch before we head over?" Ye Qiu asked.