Dr. Jiang – Free Extra – 4

An Extra of Shen Fangyu X Jiang Xu (What if line)

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The whispers near the ear were noisy and irritating, waking the annoyed Shen Fangyu from his dreams, subconsciously mumbling, “Jiang Xu…..”

Having heard no response for a long time, he reached out to the side to hug, yet his hands directly hit the wall.

He suddenly opened his eyes, only to find that he didn’t seem to be lying on the big bed at home. The dark gray bed curtain¹Don’t think it’s anything fancy. He is in a dormitory with a room of 4. The bed curtain (床帘) is like this. There are also some with zippers instead of curtains. Just search up 床帘 (chuang lian) to see more blocked the light from the outside. He squinted and pulled open the bed curtain, only to find that he was actually lying on the bed in the university dormitory. When the two who had been whispering in the dormitory saw him, they widened their eyes at the same time.

Huo Chengchun and Li Yalei looked at each other for a while, then asked simultaneously, “Why are you still in bed?”

Shen Fangyu was stunned, “What are you playing? April Fool’s Day prank game?”

He rubbed his drowsy eyes from sleeping and climbed down from the bed, “Where’s Jiang Xu? Have you seen him?”

“There is an exam the day after tomorrow, Jiang Xu must be reviewing in the self-study room right now ah,” Huo Chengchun said. “I thought you went too, but I didn’t expect you to sleep in the dormitory. This…. Are you not going to compete for first place with Jiang Xu?”

“Exam the day after tomorrow?” Shen Fangyu and them looked at each other helplessly, “What exam?”

“[Obstetrics and Gynecology] ah.”

“I have graduated for so many years and have worked as the deputy chief physician in the obstetrics and gynecology department. Now you told me I have yet to take the exam for ‘Obstetrics and Gynecology’?” Shen Fangyu said, “If you want to trick me, do it more realistically, all right?”

Li Yalei touched his forehead and said, “What are you talking about ah? Are you sick…..”

“… Sick to the point of confusion,” Huo Chengchun continued, “No one daydreams nonsense like you do.”

“That’s right, there’s also a deputy chief physician who has graduated for many years,” Li Yalei smiled. “I mean, it couldn’t be that you are staying up late to compete with Jiang Xu so much that you ruin your brain, are you?”²Staying up late in Chinese is 熬夜, which literally translates to being slowly cooked (熬) all night (夜). Here Li Yalei actually said ‘could it be that you have been simmering your brain all night so much that your brain has been cooked into ruin?’

Who knows if it’s because he slept for too long, but Shen Fangyu’s head still hurts a bit. The two of them talked in support of each other’s speech so noisily it made his head buzz. He couldn’t help but interrupt, “Wait, you two.”

Shen Fangyu rubbed his temples, “You tell me where Jiang Xu is first, I will go find him.”

With the directions pointed by the two roommates, he saw Jiang Xu’s figure in a familiar place in the study room.

He didn’t wear a shirt or a windbreaker, only putting on the most common college student’s printed hoodie, the hairstyle was also that of Jiang Xu’s university days.

Shen Fangyu, on one hand, sighed at the real beauty of his beloved, dressing up like this made him exude the pure aura of youthfulness, blending in with the students without any discordance, as if he had really returned to the age of eighteen. On the other hand, he muttered softly, “What an effort, even changing his hairstyle for a prank?”

He halted at the door for a while, then walked over to pat Jiang Xu’s shoulder. The latter was obviously surprised to see him.

To not bother others, Shen Fangyu lowered his voice and whispered, “Come out for a second.”

Normally, Jiang Xu wouldn’t pay attention to him, but today Shen Fangyu didn’t come to the self-study room all day, making Jiang Xu worried that something might have happened to him, so he patiently followed him out.

Then he heard Shen Fangyu say to him, “Stop making trouble, baby.”

Jiang Xu’s whole body got goosebumps, “Who the hell is your baby?”

“Is it not…..” Shen Fangyu said helplessly, “It’s fine for Li Yalei and Huo Chengchun to trick me. How come you still join in the fun? I obviously slept with you last night, but this morning I inexplicably was in A Medical University. You say, did you give me sleeping pills again?”

Jiang Xu was stumped for words for a while, then confusedly said, “Are you crazy? Why would I sleep with you? And… When have I ever given you sleeping pills?”

Shen Fangyu blurted out, “The two of us are married and already have a kid. Why can’t we sleep together?”

“We are married to each other? Even have a kid?”

Jiang Xu’s facial expressions have never been very rich, but at this moment he also couldn’t help but widen his eyes, “Shen Fangyu, I don’t think you took sleeping pills. You must have taken medication for mental illness,” he said

“Don’t scare me, Jiang Xu.”

Shen Fangyu suddenly felt a little flustered. He extended his hand intending to show Jiang Xu their ring, only to find that there was nothing on his ring finger, there was nothing. He went to pull Jiang Xu’s hand again, and after seeing clearly that there was no ring on it, his heart suddenly tightened.

He and Jiang Xu have always treasured this wedding ring. Usually, unless on surgeries, they had never taken off the ring from their fingers. Although it is troublesome to take off and wear it repeatedly, this habit has never changed. It’s their tacit understanding.

It was as if they could feel each other’s presence with the ring tying around them.

So even if Jiang Xu was pranking him, he will definitely not take off the ring.

But now the ring in his hand was missing, and Jiang Xu’s was also missing.

He held Jiang Xu’s hand, his face stiffened, like the kind where someone transmigrated into novels and TV shows, finally asking that one rotten classic line: “What year is it now?”

After obtaining the answer that could make people collapse, Shen Fangyu was stunned.

He seems to…..have returned to his and Jiang Xu’s college years, and it was still the few years when they had just gotten into college.

Fuck.

Shen Fangyu rubbed his temples.

Doesn’t this mean…..the yesterday’s beloved person of his who had lied down beside him and loving each other immensely³The word here is 你侬我侬, honestly I can’t even translate it literally because 侬 is actually a pronoun from a dialect that can refer to me/you/others. But this basically means ‘you and I’s matters’ as in together always, usually used to refer to two people who love each other so much. It’s from a poem called “我侬词’”, has now fucking became his nemesis.

Shen Fangyu finally understood what it meant to return to the time before liberation⁴This indeed refers to the word liberation. It means losing your treasures in a blink of eye. It came from the reference of Communist party’s (the now people’s republic of china) victory over the Nationalist party (led by Sun Yat Sen, these people fled to Taiwan and basically claim ‘republic of china’) in 1949, the Chinese Civil War. Anyway just so you know that the Chinese people are mostly very satisfied with their government and CPC, who had pulled China from poverty back then, basically what most Chinese think is that China will not be where it is now if the nationalists (KMT) had won (Most okay, the debate of this topic is pretty hot, there are also some chinese who thought otherwise, you can search it up on chinese social media, the debate is alive and well). Anyway if you want to look further into it, try to search for more sources and not just the english ones, those are heavily spiced with Anti-China propaganda due to the U.S vs China economic war. overnight.

“Fuck, what are you doing, Shen Fangyu?” Tang Ke’s voice suddenly came from the hallway, interrupting their conversation.

Jiang Xu suddenly withdrew his hand that was held in Shen Fangyu’s palm, pointed expressionlessly at Shen Fangyu, and said to Tang Ke, “He seems to have a problem with his brain.”

“So having a problem in the brain and now playing tugs here?”

Tang Ke pulled Jiang Xu aside and pointed at Shen Fangyu’s nose, saying, “I tell you, Don’t think of some crooked ways just because you can’t pass Jiang Xu on the exam. There are too many people chasing after our Jiang Xu, there’s no need for him to put you in his eyes.”

Shen Fangyu keenly caught some key words from Tang Ke’s speech, recalling what had happened in the past. He immediately remembered the two people Li and Huo who had just whispered some secret plan in the dormitory.

At this time node in the timeline…… it seems like they were probably about to pursue Jiang Xu.

Combined with the flustered look in their eyes when they saw him in the dormitory just now…… They couldn’t be just discussing about confessing to Jiang Xu, could they?

No way.

Shen Fangyu thought, although previously Jiang Xu had not accepted these two, but now no matter what was said he really couldn’t say anything is good. He was transmigrated back to the time ten years ago, who knows if something might change.

He pushed Tang Ke aside to make way, saying to Jiang Xu, “I have something to tell you, an extremely important kind of talk.”

Tang Ke, “You——”

Jiang Xu looked at his earnest expression and pulled Tang Ke, saying to Shen Fangyu, “Speak up.”

“It’s a bit long,” Shen Fangyu pursed his lips. “I’ll treat you to a drink.”

In the beverage bar, Jiang Xu, who was still thinking of reviewing, looked at his watch and urged, “You speak quickly.”

“Okay……” Shen Fangyu sat across from Jiang Xu, clutching on ice smoothie⁵冰沙 is a kind of dessert. It’s usually made of shaved ice with flavorings and toppings, or blended ice and fruits in a blender. Nowadays the younger generation usually do it by blending frozen-solid fruits and adding toppings. The closest I could find to it is slush or smoothies, though they are usually eaten with spoon, rarely drunk with straw  and cutting straight to the point, saying, “Jiang Xu, I like you.”

Before he could swallow a mouthful of drink, Jiang Xu was choked and coughed.

Shen Fangyu patted his back for a while. Jiang Xu then waved his hand, looking at him as if seeing a ghost, not saying a word for a while.

“You hear me out,” Shen Fangyu said, “I don’t know why I transmigrated from the future ten years after this, but I can tell you that in ten years, both of us will become doctors in the obstetrics and gynecology department of Jihua Hospital. Due to an accident, we had a child, then we slowly fell in love. Then I proposed to you, and you also proposed to me. Our daughter is called Xiao Xiao, she is two years old this year——”

“Wait a moment.” Jiang Xu coughed twice again, “…..Who gave birth to the child?”

Shen Fangyu paused for a moment and said, “You.”

“Thank you for the drink, I’m leaving.”

Jiang Xu stood up without looking back and walked away. Shen Fangyu chased after him to explain, but was directly blocked by Jiang Xu, “If you keep talking, I really can’t help but punch you.”

“I really didn’t lie to you…”

“Stop,” Jiang Xu pointed at his foot and said, “Don’t move.” 

Shen Fangyu subconsciously halted his steps, not expecting Jiang Xu to turn his head and sped up his pace, as if he would be entangled with a lunatic if he slowed down.

The young beloved person’s appearance was green and immature, his pair of long legs running pleasing to the eyes. His words were firm and unhesitating, carrying a hint of unshackled aura unique to that of young students, youthful and unrestrained.

Shen Fangyu, who was left in place, looked at the running figure and couldn’t help but pinch his brow and let out a long sigh.

The view of the person’s back is still so good-looking.

It’s just that it makes people worry a bit.

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