Chapter 664 - 330: Divergent Paths, Irreconcilable Aims?! (2)

Lu Cheng had considered this question: "Teacher Chen, I desperately need to improve, but you, Teacher Chen, have almost reached the peak!!"

Chen Song was already a professor and chief physician, though still a fourth-level professor, getting a higher rank from this position was an immense challenge.

Moreover, this promotion wasn't as substantial as moving from associate professor to full professor.

Unless it was a leap to a second-level professor or first-level chief physician, which was extremely crucial.

"So you're treating me like a treasure to exploit, aren't you?" Chen Song gritted his teeth, seemingly very proud.

"A treasure to exploit" means someone who is not respected, in Sha City dialect.

Lu Cheng replied candidly: "Teacher Chen, you're the only person I trust right now, so I have to be a bit shameless."

"As long as you, Teacher Chen, are willing to help, I'll follow whatever you say."

Chen Song: "You'll follow whatever I say?"

"Then let me tell you, after your project is over, come work at our Xiangya Second Hospital in my group, okay?"

It was like Chen Song had hit Lu Cheng on the head with a stick at that moment.

Lu Cheng hesitated for over ten seconds.

It was still Chen Song who cared about Lu Cheng: "Alright, alright, let's not talk about useless things."

"It's possible! But I have a condition." To his surprise, Lu Cheng gritted his teeth and agreed.

Chen Song never expected his proposal would be accepted by Lu Cheng: "What condition do you have?"

Lu Cheng responded: "Teacher Chen, you must lead a group independently, and no one can interfere with you."

"Heh." Chen Song gritted his teeth.

"You're agreeing so readily, what about your wife?"

"Forget it, Teacher Chen won't make it difficult for you. Your proposal is still unreliable."

"Previously, I had to go to the countryside, so I had to be separated from my family."

"But now, your Teacher Chen can enjoy family life, no need to be always on the move anymore."

Lu Cheng knew that Chen Song meant what he said.

Chen Song was someone who "didn't understand romance," but once in love, he was a romantic.

His relationship with his wife was very good.

Living apart in two different places was indeed a real issue.

Lu Cheng had his legitimate reasons, and so did Chen Song.

However, Lu Cheng still wanted to try: "Teacher Chen, do you truly prefer to enjoy family life?"

"What do you mean?" Chen Song's tone was slightly annoyed.

He believed he'd already said everything necessary and unnecessary.

But why do you, Lu Cheng, continue to pester immaturely?

Your Teacher Chen, how many times can he resist temptation?

"The pursuit of knowledge." Lu Cheng explained plainly.

It was a reason that barely qualified as one.

Everyone has a thirst for knowledge.

Whether it's greed for wealth or self-improvement, it's actually about "seeking knowledge," the most primal and ultimate instinctual desire of humans.

Even seeking self-fulfillment, at the last step, is about "seeking knowledge"!

To live with less ignorance.

"Lu Cheng, are you treating me like a three-year-old child?" Chen Song laughed, a bit mockingly.

"It's the fear of ignorance, the obsession with seeking knowledge!~" Lu Cheng persisted with his view.

Even a three-year-old would find these ideas naive, as they are older than that.

But for Professor Chen Song in his forties, this kind of 'naivety' was just right!

"Why did this patient die, just unlucky?"

"Was it fate?"

"Is it fundamentally due to the limitations of medical technology?"

"Was it coincidence?"

"Was it uncontrollable?" Lu Cheng threw out several questions in a row.

"Stop talking." Chen Song snapped, his tone thunderously furious.

Lu Cheng ignored Chen Song's outrage: "How far can we go?"

"What exactly is medicine?"

"Can these doomed people really be saved?"

"Who ultimately sentenced this patient to death?"

"Is it us? Or geographical factors?"

"Could it be historical factors?"

"Are people of this era's river inevitably doomed to die?"

Chen Song was losing it: "I told you to shut up, didn't I? Are you deaf?"

Lu Cheng retorted: "Teacher Chen, you could choose not to listen, pretend I'm a turtle reciting sutras."

Chen Song shouted: "Lu Cheng, I'm just Chen Song, just an emergency department doctor, why morally bind me?"

"If I can perform a type of surgery that others can't, I'm worthy of the white coat I wear, the money I earn with my hands."

"I'm true to my profession, I bring healing to patients, I do better than others!"

"Why morally bind me?"

"There are countless doctors with more superficial skills and understanding than me!!!!"

"The money I earn isn't dirty at all!" Chen Song was becoming somewhat hysterical.

His hysteria even affected his family.

"Who is it?" It was Chen Song's wife.

Chen Song: "An idiot, doing sales."

Chen Song changed his tune: "No, he's doing pyramid schemes."

Lu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "Teacher Chen, I'm sorry..."

"I was just obsessed earlier."

"Won't disturb you any further."

With that, Chen Song hung up the phone.

Lu Cheng's right hand once again spun his phone, sliding it between his fingers and fingertips.

The sun was blazing.

But it wasn't prickly at all.

In May, the sun might already be unbearably hot in other places, but here in Ji City, surrounded by high mountains and distant waters,

it's just the right season for sunbathing!

Lu Cheng didn't choose to call anyone else.

After all, he needed to carefully ponder over the words of Professor Chen Song.

Sentiment is nonsense.

Not many can live carefree solely on sentiment.

Nor can many disregard age when talking about sentiment.

Lu Cheng can, because he's still young.

Mu Nanshu can too, because she's still young...

That's why adolescent love is the most intense, because being young means no burdens, carefree, no need to hold back, so they plunge ahead.

And love with all their heart.

Talking about sentiment without considering age is actually "immature" and inconsiderate.

Perhaps he's considered everything too simply.

Lu Cheng just sat on the balcony, not going to the lab or hospital.

But he did take some calls.

Consultation inquiry calls from the department, all of which Lu Cheng declined.

Human energy is limited, and Lu Cheng didn't make it hard on himself to complete every possible surgery.

To conquer a disease type, it must be a mature team, not just a Lu Cheng!

In the afternoon, Lu Cheng and Mu Nanshu went out together to find food.

In the afternoon, Lu Cheng sat again on the balcony, lazily taking a nap in the sun.

In the afternoon, Dai Linfang called, saying he'd found two like-minded friends, both young and promising.

They were willing to give up their current lives to come to Ji City to team up with everyone.

Lu Cheng inquired, learning one was a master's graduate, currently an attending physician, feeling unaccomplished.

The other was a yet-to-be settled-in doctor,

originally planning to work at a private hospital on the coast but heard Dai Linfang had opportunities to learn, so he planned to come first...

Lu Cheng first said good.

In the afternoon, Lu Cheng also heard some good news.

Zhang Xibei contacted a long-lost friend during the holidays, who said he'd studied damage animal models.

Currently working in a team in Han City, repeatedly making standard damage models daily, feeling a bit tired.

Upon hearing about new animal models from Zhang Xibei, he wanted to come over to learn and take a break...

Animal model creation is learned, too.

Lu Cheng also said good.

As the sun set, the sky filled with red clouds!

The mountain shadows became hazy, the view flickering in and out.

The time between breakfast and lunch was too short, so Mu Nanshu decided to eat spicy hotpot later.

She could leave some room to eat more.

Lu Cheng had no objections.

Finally, as the dusk was about to fade away completely, Lu Cheng received a message from Professor Chen Song.

"Lu Cheng, I really want to curse your mother!"

"For my sake, she has backed down once more."

"She is my lover after all..."

"Can a man truly ignore everything for the sake of his career, for his ideals?"

"Why don't you do the same?" Chen Song's message was text, but Lu Cheng seemed to see Chen Song in front of him, angrily berating him.

Lu Cheng's Teacher Chen had a good teacher's wife.

Chen Song was also lucky to have his own Mu Nanshu.

Lu Cheng turned his head and looked at Mu Nanshu, still working diligently in the study, his very own Mu Nanshu.

He couldn't answer Chen Song's question.

In this relationship, Mu Nanshu had given far more than Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng was only responsible for loving.

Mu, the runner, had to love while running...