The volunteer slip is still with her, but the dream has become increasingly distant from her. Now, all that is left is the muddy reality.
During that darkest time, her mother finally couldn't stand the pressure and remarried, abandoning her and her father. She was responsible for taking care of her father who was paralyzed after a stroke, and shouldering the high medical expenses and living expenses for both of them. Without any education, she had already reached a dead end in a strange country.
If Xiang Muyang hadn't appeared... my father would probably be nothing but a pile of bones now.
And she is still struggling stubbornly in this reality, trying to get closer to her dream. No matter how dirty or tiring the nursing job is, at least it is still in the hospital.
Shu Nian tidied up the ward 2304 and changed the patient into a new hospital gown. Even though she did the same job every day, she still did it very carefully. After she had taken care of everything and opened the window to get some fresh air, the family members came over. They were grateful to see her.
"Thank you, Nurse Shu."
Her family members had already recognized her.
Shu Nian had already told the family members not to call her "nurse", but it didn't seem to work. Shu Nian didn't mention it again, just shook his head, "It's okay. The patient is in a special situation now, it's better to have family members by his side at all times."
"I just want to get some fresh air. It's so boring staying in this hospital all day." The family member complained, but then looked at her gratefully. "There are fewer and fewer nurses like you who are so careful and don't complain."
"She's not a nurse." Before Shu Nian could reply, a nurse pushed the door open and said, "She's just a nurse outsourced by our hospital. Nurses need academic qualifications, not everyone can be one."
A trace of embarrassment flashed across the family member's face. As if she was afraid that Shu Nian would mind, she looked at her worriedly. Shu Nian just pursed his lips, and there was no emotion on his calm face. "I'll go out first. The patient in the next ward is still waiting for me."
"Okay, then go ahead, I won't keep you any longer."
Shu Nian nodded slightly as a greeting, then opened the door and went out.
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the other side.
Ye Yan hurried into Tang Jifeng's office. Tang Jifeng had already turned on his computer and was waiting for him. He turned the computer around and pushed it in front of Ye Yan, "Is this the girl?"
Ye Yan didn't respond. His eyes fell on the computer, and he saw the simple photo in the upper right corner. Her little face was not made up, and her hair was tied up behind her head, very clean.
"She is not a formal employee of our hospital yet. She is outsourced and even more temporary than a temporary worker. Therefore, there is no information about her in the system. I called someone to get her resume from the Human Resources Department."
"What is the concept of outsourcing?" Ye Yan asked.
"They specialize in rough and heavy labor. In short, they are the cheapest laborers."
Ye Yan felt a pang of pain in his heart.
She had always been at the top of the class in school, and the school had high hopes for her. If it hadn't been for what happened that year... Now, at least she would have a bright future.
His eyes fell on her resume. As expected, the education level was filled in as high school dropout.
He breathed slightly heavier, his fingers pressed on the table tense.
Tang Jifeng nudged him with his elbow, "You're still staring at her academic qualifications! See this? Here, here!"
He tapped his fingers on the computer screen. There was the marital status section on the resume page.
"kao!"
Ye Yan roared, almost staring through the screen. He turned his head and looked at Tang Jifeng again, "Did you make a mistake? She is only 23 years old, how could she be married?!"
"You'll have to ask her. But doesn't it clearly say 'married' on her resume?"
Ye Yan's face looked extremely ugly. He stared at the screen fiercely, with a dark tide surging in his eyes.
When Tang Jifeng saw Young Master Ye was about to act arrogantly, he quickly picked up his computer and held it in his arms, "Don't take your anger out on my computer, there's a lot of information in it."
Ye Yan cursed inwardly.
How desperate is this damn woman to get married?! She is only 23 years old and she is already getting married! And...
"Help me check! See what kind of bastard man she married!" He actually let her do such heavy work, is he still a man? How could her vision be so bad! No, not just bad, she is blind!
"We can't find this out in our hospital records." Tang Jifeng said, "If you really want to check, you have to find a private detective. But I advise you not to check."
Ye Yan stared at him like a furious lion, "Why don't you check? I want to see what she likes!"
Tang Jifeng closed the computer, stood up, and patted his shoulder soothingly, "Young man, calm down."
"Get out!" Ye Yan shook off his hand irritably.
"No matter how much you investigate, she's already married. What can you do? Oh, could it be that you broke up her marriage just because you fell in love with her at first sight?"
"Love at first sight!" Ye Yan was annoyed.
"If it's not love at first sight, then what is it? Is there any story that I don't know?" Tang Jifeng blinked his charming peach blossom eyes curiously.
Ye Yan pushed him away irritably.
Tang Jifeng leaned back and lazily sat on the sofa, straightening his face, "Ye Yan, I'm seriously advising you. If she wasn't married and you were just thinking about it for fun, I wouldn't bother to advise you. But she's married now, you'd better not mess around. If your dad knew that you were having an affair with a married woman, he would shoot you. Besides, being a mistress and ruining a marriage is not a good thing. You can be a jerk at ordinary times, but you still have to have a bottom line."
Ye Yan stood there without saying a word, and Tang Jifeng didn't know whether he had taken his words to heart.
After a while, Ye Yan frantically grabbed the cigarette on the desk, lit it and took two puffs. He learned to drink, but not to smoke, so he choked several times and extinguished it in annoyance.
He threw the cigarette butt heavily into the trash can, turned around and walked away with a cold face.
"Hey! Didn't you talk about exchange? Where are your resources?" Tang Jifeng just remembered this.
Ye Yan crumpled the note into a ball and threw it at him.
Tang Jifeng asked again: "Are you going to investigate further?"
"What the hell!" Ye Yan was annoyed, "She got married without even saying hello, I don't even care about her!"
It seems that at least he took my words to heart. Tang Jifeng raised his eyebrows, took the number in his hand, looked at it for a while, and threw it on the coffee table.
After such a long time, he no longer had the interest he had before. He was always like this, always only having a few minutes of enthusiasm for women.
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As soon as Ye Yan returned, he locked himself in the room. Everyone noticed that something was wrong with him.