March 10th, Wednesday!

Lin Jie opened his eyes and found that the electronic clock showed 6:05!

He didn't get up immediately but closed his eyes to feel his physical condition.

Yesterday's surgery started at 8:30 AM and ended at 10 PM, lasting nearly fourteen hours. Lin Jie removed a total of sixteen pieces of dermis.

He estimated it was enough for the next day's surgery, so he ended the procedure.

By the time Lin Jie got home, took a hot shower, and went to bed, it was already past midnight.

His mental state didn't feel obviously fatigued, CHECK!

Physical state, no significant soreness or pain in muscles, CHECK!

After comprehensively assessing his condition, Lin Jie determined that today's surgery could proceed as usual!

Having made up his mind, Lin Jie immediately got out of bed.

After washing up, Lin Jie did fifteen minutes of aerobics in the living room, then went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

At 6:30, Lin Miao got up and left the room, chasing and playing with Lele in the living room.

At 6:40, Qin Gang arrived.

At 6:50, Lin Jie finished making breakfast!

Lin Miao handed Qin Gang a salted duck egg and asked with a smile, "Brother Qin, you've had meals with Sister Yang and watched movies together. Sister Yang wants me to ask you, do you have any thoughts of continuing the relationship?"

"This, this..."

Qin Gang's face suddenly turned black and red. While stammering, he looked at Lin Jie.

Lin Jie couldn't help but laugh.

He knew about Yang Leyi's interest in Qin Gang and had even given Qin Gang two days off on Sunday and Monday to facilitate their interaction.

At this moment, seeing Qin Gang looking at him, Lin Jie laughed and said, "Why are you looking at me? Do you need my approval for this?"

"If you have feelings for Yang Leyi, just agree to continue. If not, then refuse! Affection is not something that can be forced,"

Qin Gang showed a silly smile and said shyly, "I kind of have a good feeling about her!"

Lin Miao clapped her hands happily and said with a smile, "Sister Yang is very nice and also pretty. Brother Qin, you have to work hard!"

"Brother, I have something else to tell you!"

Lin Miao seemed to have just remembered and said, "Miss Li Hong has a new student who is going to participate in a singing program on Binhai Satellite TV tonight. She invited me to the scene as part of the support group."

"Brother, I want to see how they shoot TV programs!"

Afraid that Lin Jie wouldn't agree, she added, "Sister Yang and Sister Mengjiao will go with me."

With familiar and trustworthy people accompanying her, Lin Jie nodded and said, "Don't come back too late. Well, I will also probably be back late tonight, so you can invite Ling Mengjiao and Yang Leyi to stay with you at home."

At 8:25, Lin Jie arrived at the Donghua Hospital surgery prep room.

He found that Chen Shi, Tao Taqing, Yao Siyuan, Song Licheng, and the specially invited anesthetist Yang Jinglong, along with Zhuang Daya who was acting as the surgical assistant, had all arrived.

Chen Shi asked with a concerned face, "Lin Jie, you finished surgery past ten last night, and today's surgery will take a whole day again. Can your body handle it?"

"During yesterday's surgery, I took a ten-minute break after peeling each piece of skin, so it wasn't too tiring. I can handle today's surgery without any issue,"

Lin Jie explained, then continued, "Everyone is here, so let's start preparing!"

Everyone changed into surgical scrubs and, led by Lin Jie, marched out of the prep room in a grand manner.

He saw Zhuang Shilei lying on the surgical transfer bed in front of the operating room, chatting with her family gathered around the bed.

Yang Jinglong and Zhang Daya stepped forward, ready to push Zhuang Shilei into the operating room, when suddenly a loud shout rang out,

"No surgery!"

This voice was like thunder out of nowhere, immediately drawing everyone's attention.

Lin Jie turned around and saw a middle-aged, thin man with a ponytail and a beard rushing towards them.

Finding him a complete stranger, Lin Jie turned to ask Tao Taqing, "Who is he?"

Tao Taqing, equally puzzled, shook his head and said, "I don't know him either, maybe a relative of the patient!"

Amidst the conversation, the ponytailed man had already run up, grabbed the surgical transfer bed railing, and with labored breathing said, "Shilei, you can't have this surgery, really can't have it!"

"If the surgery succeeds, you'll destroy yourself!"

Hearing this, Lin Jie couldn't help but tug at his earlobe, afraid he might have misheard.

Who the heck is this, could he be a lunatic from somewhere?

Zhuang Shilei's cousin, Zhuang Hongbo, immediately showed anger on his face.

He stretched out his hands, grabbed the ponytailed man's collar, lifted him up, and shouted, "Du Feng, even though you are Shilei's violin teacher, if you say such nonsense again, I'll beat you up."

"Hongbo, put down Teacher Du!"

Once Zhuang Hongbo released Du Feng, Lin Ruoyi said displeased, "Teacher Du, today is the big day for my family Leilei's surgery."

"If you're not here to give blessings, that's fine. But to say 'successful surgery would destroy herself,' what do you mean by that?"

"Cough, cough..."

Du Feng coughed a few times, caught his breath, and said, "Everyone, everyone, please let me explain. I'm not out of my mind, nor am I talking nonsense!"

He looked at Zhuang Shilei and said, "You are clearly the student with the best musical talent and highest violin performance skill among all my students, yet the ones I send out to competitions are never you."

"Shilei, aren't you very confused and want to know why?"

Zhuang Shilei raised her hand to touch her left cheek and asked, "Isn't it because of my face?"

"No, no! How could it be because of your face? Your face is a blessing from fate!"

Du Feng shouted excitedly, "As an artist, physical defects are not our shortcomings, but rather our advantages and strengths."

"Defects make us spiritually sensitive and delicate, allow us to more deeply experience the joys and sorrows of life than ordinary people, and make us more focused and immersed in our own spiritual world."

"Only we, like this, can play the most amazing music..."

"Can create music that touches the soul..."

"Think of Abing's 'Moon Over a Fountain', think of the master musician Beethoven."

"Edison became a great inventor because he became deaf at fifteen."

"Van Gogh was a typical lunatic, and there were Helen Keller and Stephen Hawking!"

"It is precisely the physical defects or illnesses that make these people's perception of the world unique, make them more focused on more meaningful things, and make them great!"

Du Feng, somewhat fervent, said: "Shilei, your musical talent is the best I have seen in all these years, without exception."

"For years, I haven't let you enter competitions because I've been holding you back!"

"Your performance level can still improve, it hasn't reached perfection yet."

"What I want is for you to astonish all judges as soon as you appear!"

"What I want is for you to be recognized by the world with just one piece..."

He grabbed the guardrail of the hospital bed with such force that veins bulged on his emaciated hand. Regretfully, he said, "Shilei, the surgery you are undergoing today, if your surgery succeeds..."

"At that time..."

"Your heart will become complex, become insensitive, and be less focused on music, music will no longer be your sole emotional outlet."

"At that time, your musical talent will gradually fade, and you will disappear in the crowd!"

Du Feng straightened up, confidently said loudly: "I can guarantee, as long as Shilei maintains the status quo, her violin performance skill will gradually improve!"

"In five years, Shilei will become a well-known violinist in the country!"

"In ten years, Shilei will become an internationally renowned violinist!"

"To become an ordinary person without physical defects and unknown to the world, or to become a world-famous violinist—such a choice, anyone would know what to choose, wouldn't they?"

It must be said, Du Feng's fallacious theory, still sounds quite reasonable.

This also made Lin Jie more convinced of one thing, that anyone involved in the arts with some fame is either insane or neurotic.

At this time, Lin Jie suddenly found that Du Feng was staring at him with bright eyes!

He raised his hand to point at Lin Jie, excitedly shouting: "I know you, Lin Jie, that so-called unparalleled medical talent. You are a living example!"

"Under the influence of heart disease, you live every day as if it could be your last."

"For you, every minute and every second is so precious, so you voraciously absorb medical knowledge, not daring to waste a moment!"

"In such circumstances, your memory becomes astonishing, your learning ability outstanding, allowing your medical knowledge to outclass those university experts and professors."

"Am I right, Lin Jie?"

Confronted with Du Feng's confident reasoning, Lin Jie was momentarily unable to respond.

However, he thought to himself, this is indeed a relatively reasonable explanation for his medical skills.

Just as Lin Jie remained silent, Du Feng again assuredly said, "I dare to guarantee that without the threat and pressure of possibly dying at any moment, your memory and learning abilities will surely decline significantly."

"Perhaps your current memory and learning abilities are no more than an ordinary person's level?"

Lin Jie's eyes lit up, and he was about to admit it on the spot.

However, he suddenly realized that this might mislead Zhuang Shilei's judgment and immediately suppressed the impulse.

He signaled to Chen Shi, calling on the experienced scholar to respond.

Chen Shi was already annoyed, and having someone disrupt his project at such a critical moment was intolerable.

He noticed Lin Jie's look, and immediately spoke up: "Teacher Du Feng, you have clearly mistaken some exceptions for universal rules."

"It cannot be denied that some famous historical figures had physical defects."

"But this does not prove that it was their physical defects that made them famous. We all know that most of the notable figures in history were healthy people!"

Du Feng obviously didn't care about Chen Shi's argument and was too lazy to rebut, looking at Zhuang Shilei, he said: "Shilei, maybe my statements are somewhat extreme, somewhat crazy, but you have had firsthand experience and clearly know that what I say has some truth."

"Shilei, don't go through with the surgery, use your violin to conquer the world!"

Du Feng's words clearly swayed Zhuang Shilei's family, who all turned their gaze to the quietly reflective Zhuang Shilei.

After a moment of silence, a faint smile appeared on the flawless right side of Zhuang Shilei's face as she softly said: "Helen Keller always longed for three days of light!"

"Compared to conquering the world with the violin, I prefer to be an ordinary, homely girl!"

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