Su Xiaonuan hurried to apply her makeup.

While waiting for the traffic light, Shen Qiang took a quick look at the public statement in the newspaper, where Professor Li Hongyu cleverly issued a public apology.

The content was basically him expressing regret about his previous statements and stressing that it was all a misunderstanding.

Shen Qiang, tossing the newspaper aside, felt that Li Hongyu wasn't very sincere.

But all these were just superficial matters.

Now that Li Hongyu had backed down, he didn't dare face Shen Qiang's anger.

So he chose to apologize.

With that, the matter should come to an end.

To persist further would make Shen Qiang seem rather petty.

Aside from that, the traffic in Provincial City really frustrated Shen Qiang.

Fifteen minutes.

Four traffic lights had passed, but the car hadn't moved even a kilometer.

With her makeup simply finished, Su Xiaonuan put on her black-framed glasses, stuffed the makeup bag into the glove compartment, and then sat comfortably in the car, fiddling with her phone, and said,

"Shen Qiang, personally, I think the contract Bikang is offering you is unparalleled anywhere else; one shouldn't be too greedy. You've only considered your own benefits. Think about it from another angle, Bikang is offering you such attractive terms just to keep you a bit longer. Is that too much to ask?"

Shen Qiang smiled, "Life is indeed precious, love is even more so, but if it's for freedom, both can be forsaken; so stop discussing this with me. If you keep bringing up the contract incessantly, I'd rather walk to work."

Su Xiaonuan, feeling helpless, said, "Alright, you say not to bring it up, then I won't. But I'm really curious, Shen Qiang, on what basis do you believe that leaving Bikang would lead to better opportunities?"

Shen Qiang laughed, "It's not clear yet, but I do know one thing—often, ability can't be recognized at a glance, but a degree can."

"So I might consider further studies to have better prospects in the future."

"Are you planning to apply for graduate studies?" Su Xiaonuan asked with surprise.

Shen Qiang replied, "It's not certain yet, but being mocked for one's educational background is really distasteful. Remember Li Hongyu? How he bulged his eyes and quizzed me about my education and degrees in the meeting room? I don't want to be ridiculed like that ever again."

Su Xiaonuan's eyes brightened, "Then why don't you pursue a part-time postgraduate degree? Our institute will support you."

Shen Qiang laughed, "We'll see."

Seeing that Shen Qiang wouldn't budge,

Su Xiaonuan could only fiddle helplessly with her phone.

But as she watched, her expression suddenly turned serious.

Then, while waiting for the traffic light, she showed a video to Shen Qiang.

Shen Qiang glanced at it; it was that female reporter from yesterday's Provincial City station.

The content of the video

was about yesterday's surgery at Bikang.

However, the part about Shen Qiang and Professor Li's confrontation was omitted, and moreover, the details about the surgery were scarcely reported. It simply highlighted how the Duodenum Resection Surgery was completed in just three minutes and fifty seconds.

Then, the entire segment showed Dean Su's grinning face, stretched ear to ear, along with his story of how he ambitiously turned Bikang from a mere factory hospital into a second-rate hospital.

"Shen Qiang, sorry about that," Su Xiaonuan said somewhat awkwardly after watching the video. "Dean Su loves being in the spotlight; don't take it to heart."

Shen Qiang laughed, "It's okay. Whether he loves being in the spotlight or not, it doesn't matter to me; with my surgical skills, fame is only a matter of time."

Looking at Shen Qiang's indifferent expression, Su Xiaonuan said helplessly, "It's not a matter of sooner or later, you're already famous."

Looking at Shen Qiang, who seemed somewhat surprised, Su Xiaonuan clicked on the video's barrage of comments.

The messages that had been blocked instantly erupted like a tide.

"Three minutes and fifty seconds? Cheers for the reporter's ignorance!"

"Who performed the surgery? It's impossible to finish it in three minutes and fifty seconds. If it was an hour and thirty-five minutes, then it would already be enough to prove that the doctor who performed the surgery is absolutely one of the top in the country."

"Holy shit, I'm scared to piss, we just did a duodenum resection surgery yesterday, it took two hours and forty minutes, our department head was so thrilled, boasting about our first-rate department abilities, and now this three minutes and fifty seconds... is there any way to live after this?"

Watching the barrage of comments flash by, Shen Qiang laughed, "These messages, they have nothing to do with me."

Su Xiaonuan gave a helpless, bitter smile and casually minimized the video.

A comment that had already received over six thousand likes immediately appeared in Shen Qiang's view.

"The truly amazing one is this doctor named Shen Qiang, everyone support me, let's feed the reporters and the big-face dean some shit."

Shen Qiang laughed.

The second one.

"Forty-some minutes to complete a triple-incision esophageal cancer radical surgery plus cervical esophagocolic anastomosis, plus lung adhesions, plus a duodenum resection. Our department head says, if this is true, this doctor is already a peak expert in surgery."

The third one.

"Today, the professor said, Shen Qiang used to be quite silly, knowing nothing but attending class and playing online games, but under his guidance, he still became one of the top surgical experts. I don't believe it, if everyone likes up to one hundred, I'll go to the classroom and kick his ass ..."

Shen Qiang's eyes crinkled with laughter.

Meanwhile, almost at the same time.

Three thousand kilometers away in a joint-venture hospital. A young doctor walked out of the operating room, and with a slight wave of his hand, the surgical knife and those instruments immediately neatly returned to their place.

"What's the time?" the young doctor asked with a frown.

A red-haired woman in a white coat leaning at the door looked at her watch and said, "Thirty-seven minutes, fifty-eight seconds, your best record yet for duodenum surgery."

"But that guy did it in just three minutes and fifty seconds, obviously, he's ten times faster than you."

The young doctor frowned and said, "I've already reached the Nascent Soul Stage. Even if he's also a cultivator, how could he possibly be so much faster?"

Two thousand three hundred kilometers away.

In the operating room, an old man with white hair and beard's eyes turned frosty.

The scissors coiling around him silently returned to the instrument tray.

"Congratulations, Master, on your refined medical skill. This time, your duodenum resection surgery only took thirty-six minutes and ten seconds."

Hearing this, the old man frowned and said in a deep voice, "That reporter must have made a mistake with the time. It's impossible to complete the surgery in three minutes and fifty seconds. If it's thirty-six minutes and ten seconds, this young person's strength might just surpass mine."

The young man beside him was startled and hurriedly said, "Master, do you mean to say that his cultivation has reached the Yang God Realm?"

The old man nodded.

One thousand eight hundred kilometers away.

In the operating room, a big-eyed, pretty young girl playfully smiled and said, "Mom, praise me. I finished the duodenum resection in just twenty-seven minutes and thirty-two seconds. There's no way anyone in this world could be faster than me."

The middle-aged woman beside her frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, "That guy did it in just three minutes and fifty seconds, what do you have to be happy about?"

"Three minutes and fifty seconds, no one can do that." The big-eyed pretty girl pouted.

The middle-aged woman's brow furrowed deeper, and after a long silence, she said solemnly, "Perhaps, the reporter really got the time wrong. Otherwise, to complete the duodenum surgery in three minutes and fifty seconds, unless, he has already cultivated to immortality!"

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