Zhou Qichen met Yu Xiaoyuan at the end of his first year stationed in Shenzhen with HNA after he was demobilized.
The process of their acquaintance was quite legendary. Whenever he talked about it afterwards, his friends would say it was like a TV drama plot. It was his first time to fly an A320, from Shenzhen Bao'an to Shanghai Hongqiao. Halfway through the flight, there was a commotion in the cabin. A passenger had a heart attack on his way back from the bathroom, fell to the ground, his face turned pale, and his mouth was tightly shut, which scared all the passengers on the plane. Zhou Qichen used the captain's broadcast to ask if there was a doctor - that flight was a mid-week flight, and only half of the people on the plane were elderly people who didn't have to work. He didn't have much hope. But at that time, Yu Xiaoyuan was flying mid-week for a seminar in Shanghai, and he happened to be on the flight at that time. He was a cardiothoracic surgeon, and he was good enough to deal with this situation. He immediately stood up and went to the aisle to start CPR.
After the flight attendant calmed the passenger, she went to the cockpit and told Zhou Qichen, "The situation is temporarily stable. The doctor is not sitting in the seat, so he can't fasten his seat belt."
Zhou Qichen didn't look at him, but looked ahead at the instrument - he had already applied for an alternate landing in Fuzhou, PAN-PAN was called, and now the green light was cleared. "There is no weather and no turbulence ahead, you ask him to do his best to save people. Don't worry, I won't let him fall."
Finally, he made an emergency landing in Fuzhou. An ambulance was waiting on the tarmac. He rushed the patient to the hospital without wasting a second. He performed textbook CPR, breaking three of the patient's bones and saving his life. The patient still had vital signs when he was sent to the ambulance. Zhou Qichen then took off again from Fuzhou and flew to the original destination, Hongqiao Airport.
After landing at the destination, Zhou Qichen stopped Yu Xiaoyuan who was about to get off the plane and said to him: The Hongqiao Tower told me that the patient has been sent to the hospital and is fine.
Only then did Yu Xiaoyuan relax and nodded at him.
Zhou Qichen winked at him and said, "Please leave your contact information. Your family will have the chance to thank you."
Yu Xiaoyuan didn't say much. He lowered his head and rummaged through his bag, found a medical record book, tore off a page from it, wrote his number on it, and stuffed it into Zhou Qichen's hand.
"No need to give it to them. Give it to you," he said.
That's how they got to know each other.
After they met, he found that leaving him his number was probably the most proactive thing Yu Xiaoyuan had ever done in his life. He was a very calm and cold person, and he had many barriers of his own, so at first they were just friends with benefits. Later, they realized that they liked each other a little, so they tried to talk about it. Maybe he was too excited, he thought Yu Xiaoyuan was good at all - he asked Zhou Qichen to go to his hospital every month to take X-rays to take pictures of the positions of several steel plates in his body. He thought that whether he was a doctor outside or a lover at home, he was very good.
But during this conversation, Zhou Qichen realized that he might have made a wrong move. Yu Xiaoyuan is a very smart person, and he is usually independent at work. Zhou Qichen also appreciates his excellence and calmness, but he is also a little dissatisfied with his elite indifference. Yu Xiaoyuan is not keen on dating, does not care about the sense of ceremony, and is not very romantic. Even when he went to Yu Xiaoyuan's house to watch a movie before, Yu Xiaoyuan would fall asleep halfway because he was too tired. He knew that he was in surgery during the day, and he didn't pursue it at the time. But in order to stay with him for one more night, he could change shifts, work consecutive shifts, stay up all night, fly the night shift and come to see him. And the most gentle thing Yu Xiaoyuan did for him was to cover him with a quilt when he fell asleep. Once when they were quarreling, Yu Xiaoyuan said something that made him very disappointed—he said that at work, he had to deal with patients and their families to make them all satisfied, and when he returned home, he had to satisfy you. He realized that he liked Yu Xiaoyuan more than the other party liked him.