The Young Urban Doctor

As he lay on the bed, he took out his phone to check if anyone had left him a message.

He didn’t see any messages from Yang Qingyin and he didn’t dare to text her first, for fear that she might be busy.

He saw several messages from Ouyang Huihui.

“Luo Ziling, you jerk, you treat me and then totally ignore me? I’m so mad!”

“Is there such an irresponsible doctor like you?”

“What if my condition worsens and I end up dying, can you take responsibility?”

Upon seeing these messages, Luo Ziling couldn’t help but feel a headache coming on.

He had been busy and hadn’t paid attention to Ouyang Huihui’s illness. After Ouyang Feifei didn’t call him to treat Ouyang Huihui’s illness again, he thought Ouyang Huihui was no longer in trouble.

Of course, with his confidence in his own medical skills, Ouyang Huihui’s little ailments should have been cured with the treatment.

After some thought, Luo Ziling returned a call to Ouyang Huihui.

After the phone rang a few times, it was picked up.

Following a “Hello,” Ouyang Huihui’s unfriendly voice came through, “Luo Ziling, are you treating me as a lab rat?”

“No?” Luo Ziling was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Ouyang Huihui meant.

“I get sick, you randomly treat me and then just leave me be, as if I’m just a lab rat?” Ouyang Huihui got even angrier, raising her voice again.

“Uh, how could that be?” Luo Ziling hurriedly explained, “I thought you were already better since your sister didn’t call me again. Also, your illness wasn’t that serious, mainly menstrual pain and a mild pancreatitis due to overeating. After I treated you and you took medicine, you should have been mostly fine.”

“But yours truly is still feeling unwell,” Ouyang Huihui, seeing Luo Ziling’s nonchalant attitude, became even more annoyed, “you have to come and treat me again.”

“What symptoms are you still having?” When Luo Ziling heard that Ouyang Huihui was still feeling unwell, he quickly asked, “Is it pain or discomfort? Which part?”

Ouyang Huihui couldn’t specify exactly where the discomfort was, “Just feeling unwell in general.”

“Alright, it’s probably still due to menstrual cramps. Wait until you have a boyfriend, it will definitely relieve the symptoms completely, but it surely doesn’t hurt as much as before now, right?” Luo Ziling couldn’t help but laugh as he said this.

“What do you mean?”

“The hormones have balanced out, so the symptoms of menstrual cramps should be lessened.” Luo Ziling didn’t know how to explain to Ouyang Huihui, who was clueless about medicine, and said in a different tone, “Anyway, married women rarely suffer from menstrual cramps. Women with boyfriends, with husbands, seldom have these symptoms, understand?”

On the other end of the phone, Ouyang Huihui paused, probably grasping his meaning, and couldn’t help feeling both embarrassed and annoyed, “Are you saying that before I get married, I will still frequently suffer from this?”

“Not necessarily,” Luo Ziling shook his head, “Women are bound to have symptoms before their period, like breast tenderness, and a heavy feeling below, which are all normal. If it’s too painful, just a little treatment is enough. Didn’t you feel much better after I treated you with acupuncture? How about this, when I have time, I’ll teach you a few acupressure techniques for the spots, and you can press them yourself whenever you’re uncomfortable, it’s quite effective.”

“Then why don’t you continue the treatment for me, do the pressing?” Her voice lowered a bit when Ouyang Huihui said this, not as hurried as before.

“It’s not very convenient,” Luo Ziling said truthfully.

Ouyang Huihui on the phone end hesitated, at a loss for words.

She had all the symptoms of swelling and pain that Luo Ziling just mentioned, painful both above and below, and she felt much better after Luo Ziling’s acupuncture treatment that day, but since Luo Ziling said it wasn’t convenient to press, it was indeed the case.

As Ouyang Huihui was hesitating, Luo Ziling added, “I promised your sister that I would visit your grandfather today, why don’t you come too, and I can take a look at your condition then?”

Ouyang Huihui on the other end of the phone thought for a moment, and finally agreed, “Alright, then I’ll go to Grandpa’s place, but you must give me a checkup and treatment, otherwise, I won’t let you off the hook.”

After hanging up the phone, Luo Ziling finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He tossed his phone aside and continued to sleep.

He fell asleep quickly, but not long after, he was woken up again by the ringing of his phone.

Seeing that it was from Ouyang Feifei, he hesitated for a few seconds, but still answered the call.

“What time will you pick me up?” Ouyang Feifei’s voice was as cold as ever.

“Whenever you’re convenient,” Luo Ziling answered honestly, “I’m free this afternoon and was sleeping.”

After thinking it over, Ouyang Feifei said again, “Then in one hour, I’ll wait for you at the school gate.”

“Okay,” Luo Ziling agreed immediately.

After hanging up the phone, he saw that there was a message from Yang Qingyin.

The message from Yang Qingyin had come in ten minutes ago, and Luo Ziling, who was asleep, hadn’t heard it.

“Junior, I guess you were sleeping, right?”

That was the only message.

Seeing the several playful emojis that followed Yang Qingyin’s message, Luo Ziling instantly felt overjoyed and immediately replied, “Senior, are you a reincarnated fortuneteller, being able to predict and calculate so well that you knew I was sleeping? Come clean, did you sneak into our dorm just now to secretly watch me sleep?”

Yang Qingyin replied quickly, “Who would sneak a peek at you sleeping?” followed by several emojis of knocking on the head.

Then another message followed right away, “Actually, I have some good news to tell you.”

“What good news?” Luo Ziling deleted the several characters he had just typed and typed a new message.

But before Yang Qingyin’s information arrived, her call came through.

“Junior, the bodyguards my dad arranged have all been withdrawn, and according to Xiaoli, the others who were monitoring my whereabouts have also been withdrawn. The situation around me has returned to how it was before,” Yang Qingyin spoke with unmistakable joy and relief.

“Really? Your dad had a change of heart?” Luo Ziling was quite surprised.

“I don’t know why it’s like this.”

“Could there still be someone secretly monitoring you?” Luo Ziling said doubtfully.

“I don’t know yet, I think there probably is, but Xiaoli doesn’t know,” Yang Qingyin sounded a bit gloomy, “But not having other people following me around, it feels a lot more refreshing.”

“Looks like we don’t have to meet in secret like we did yesterday.”

“Actually, meeting like that yesterday was pretty nice.”

“Alright then, let’s have a few more of those kinds of dates in the future.”

“Who’s having a date with you?” Yang Qingyin couldn’t help but pout, and before Luo Ziling could reply, she exclaimed, “My mom is calling me to go home for dinner, there’s something to discuss.”

“So what will you do?”

“I’ll go back first, wait for my call or message.”

“Alright!”