Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 271 - 271 268 Before the Surgery

Chapter 271: Chapter 268 Before the Surgery Chapter 271: Chapter 268 Before the Surgery Two days had blinked by, and during this period, Yu Feng had made a point to check on Ma Zheng once more in his hospital room. Beside any surgery he oversaw, Yu Feng insisted on personally understanding the patient’s pre-operative condition and details, rather than simply relying on a few sentences from the attending physician.

Ma Zheng found Yu Feng easygoing and humorous, with a charming smile that made him feel far less constrained than with other doctors. After the examination, he boldly asked Yu Feng, “Doctor Yu, are you very familiar with my brother?”

Upon hearing Ma Zheng’s question, both Shu Wan and Ma Jiandong, who had always been curious about how Jiang Yan knew Yu Feng, immediately pricked up their ears, looking over with keen interest.

“Of course, I’m very familiar with him. Just the other day, to curry favor with me, he made a whole table of dishes.”

Ma Zheng asked curiously, “Why did he need to curry favor with you?”

“Because he wanted me to perform surgery on you.”

Ma Zheng exclaimed “Ah,” blinked, and said, “You mean, my surgery was secured with a table of food by my brother?”

Yu Feng couldn’t help but laugh. “I’m just teasing you. The surgery is soon, are you afraid?”

Ma Zheng hesitated for a moment, but ultimately nodded honestly, “A little.”

“There’s no need to be afraid. Doctor Yu performs surgeries very quickly. You’ll be fine after a good sleep.”

After Yu Feng left, Ma Zheng asked Shu Wan, “My brother hasn’t come by these past two days. I have my surgery tonight, will he come?”

Shu Wan paused before replying, “Today is not a weekend, your brother has classes, he doesn’t have the time.” She still didn’t have Jiang Yan’s contact information, was too embarrassed to ask for it, and Jiang Yan wouldn’t take the initiative to give it to her either.

Ma Zheng simply responded “Oh” with a slightly disappointed expression.

Thinking of something, he then asked Shu Wan, “Even though my brother always ignores me, he still cares about me, right? Otherwise, he wouldn’t have found Doctor Yu to perform surgery on me. Before, when you guys tried to find him, you couldn’t.”

The nine-year-old child understood a lot already. He had overheard his parents’ worried expressions as they tried without success to reach Doctor Yu.

Facing his question, Shu Wan first glanced at Ma Jiandong before saying, “He is your brother. Of course, he would be worried when you’re sick. He went through all that trouble to find Doctor Yu for you, which definitely means he cares.”

Upon hearing this, Ma Zheng’s eyes gleamed, “So, my brother should come later, right? He doesn’t have classes tonight.”

Shu Wan suddenly didn’t know what to say. After all, she couldn’t be sure whether Jiang Yan would come. But if she said he wouldn’t, she feared that Ma Zheng would be too disappointed.

Meanwhile, having returned to his office, Yu Feng made a phone call to Jiang Yan—

“Your brother’s surgery is at eight tonight, are you coming?”

Jiang Yan was about to say he wouldn’t go when he heard Yu Feng continue over the phone, “He just asked about you, calling for his ‘brother’ at every turn. But it seems to me that you are quite indifferent towards him. The poor kid is destined to bestow his genuine feelings in vain, eh?”

Jiang Yan’s mouth twitched, “You’ve been abroad so long that you can’t even use Chinese idioms properly, huh?” What a thing to say about genuine feelings bestowed in vain.

“It is only because it’s you that I bother to say a few extra words. Actually, you do value family deeply, perhaps you’ve been hurt before, so you don’t want to harbor any further expectations for familial affection. But Jiang Yan, one should not make sweeping generalizations. The child is pure of heart, holds you in high regard, and is your only brother…”

Yu Feng was cut off mid-sentence by Jiang Yan’s phone dying—the screen went black with a buzz.

On the other end, Yu Feng thought Jiang Yan had hung up because he didn’t like what he was hearing and muttered to himself, “This kid, tough on the outside but soft on the inside.”

He didn’t dwell on it, as he immediately became busy with work after putting down his phone.

At this time, Jiang Yan was having dinner with Mu Jiawen in the cafeteria.

They were sitting face to face. Mu Jiawen had also caught some of their conversation, but she didn’t ask anything. After finishing her meal and dabbing her mouth, she stood up saying, “Let’s go.”

Jiang Yan assumed they were heading to the library, which was a plan already made earlier, and because their classmate Shen Mengfei and a few others wanted to review the solution steps to problems distributed by their professor that morning. Rumor had it that this time the problems were particularly challenging, and so far, she was the only one in their class who had managed to solve them.

However, once they left the cafeteria, Mu Jiawen took his arm and started walking toward the campus entrance instead.

Jiang Yan turned his head to look at her.

Mu Jiawen said, “The doctor has already arranged everything. How could you not go see him before the surgery? Let that man know that he owes you a big favor this time.”

In this world, any debt can be repaid, except that of a favor.

Mu Jiawen didn’t say that just to give Jiang Yan an excuse to go to the hospital; she really meant it.

Before, that person made Jiang Yan so upset, and even wanted his wife to sever ties with Jiang Yan. Now that Jiang Yan had saved his son’s life, it was no different from a slap in the face.

Of course, compared to his son’s life, he probably didn’t care about being slapped in the face.

Jiang Yan wanted to say he really didn’t care about Ma Jiandong at all, but Mu Jiawen continued, “I also want that kid to remember me. Without his sister-in-law, who knows when his surgery would have been done. If he kept waiting, he might have ended up stupid.”

Hearing her refer to herself as “sister-in-law,” Jiang Yan snickered. He reached out and pinched her face, “I really want to marry you right now.”

“Then you’d be gaining. My value is pretty high right now.”

“Perfect, I want to live off a rich wife.”

…

The two hailed a cab at the school gates and arrived at Furen Hospital half an hour later.

Meanwhile, Shen Mengfei and the others, who had saved seats in the library and were waiting for Mu Jiawen, were once again stood up.

At 7 p.m., Dr. Lan and several nurses were explaining the post-operative care that Shu Wan and Ma Jiandong needed to pay attention to for Ma Zheng. They also took the opportunity to check Ma Zheng’s indicators again.

The ward was crowded with people and the noise of conversations was incessant, making it quite noisy. Even so, when Jiang Yan and Mu Jiawen walked in, Ma Zheng was the first to spot them through the crowd gathered around the bed.

“Big Brother!”

He shouted excitedly. Dr. Lan, who was speaking, paused as everyone turned their heads to look over.

Jiang Yan had been there once, so Dr. Lan and one of the nurses recognized him, but it was the first time they had seen Mu Jiawen.

Yu Feng happened to come for his final checkup before surgery. He entered the door right behind the two. When he saw them, he ruffled Mu Jiawen’s head as he walked past her, “How come you’re here too?”

People looked from him to Mu Jiawen and quickly understood.

The head nurse asked, “Dr. Yu, is this your sister?”

“Yes, our family’s youngest,” Yu Feng replied.

After checking Ma Zheng’s records, Yu Feng quickly turned to leave; he needed to prepare for the upcoming surgery.

The nurse helped Ma Zheng into his surgical gown and reminded them to wait in the ward, someone would come to take him to the operating room.

Once everyone had left, only Ma Zheng’s family of three and Jiang Yan and Mu Jiawen remained in the ward.

The silence was somewhat awkward.

“Xiaoyan, is this your… classmate?”

Shu Wan remembered Mu Jiawen, but not from Jianglin Village. She had indeed followed Jiang Fengwei there once for the New Year shortly after they got married, but she was so scared off by a big basin of dishes that needed washing at the Jiang Family’s house that she never dared to go back again.

According to the old lady of the Jiangs, a new daughter-in-law should cook and do housework right after entering the door. During the New Year, who would do it if you don’t?

Shu Wan was also spoiled by her parents growing up; she had never done these chores. Since then, she had been unwilling to return.

So, she had never seen the young Mu Jiawen.

But last year in Yunzhou, she had seen her at least twice, each time with Jiang Yan. After all, Mu Jiawen’s face was quite recognizable; once seen, it was hard to forget.

Now Shu Wan and Ma Jiandong pretty much understood Jiang Yan’s relationship with Yu Feng. It was because of this female classmate that he got to know Dr. Yu.

Only…

Is she a female classmate or a girlfriend?