Dr. Jiang – Free Extra – 5

A Medical University Dining Hall.

“Jiang Xu, I have a question.” Tang Ke glanced at the Shen Fangyu next to him and said to Jiang Xu, “Why is he always with us lately?”

Jiang Xu took a sip of the pork rib soup with only radishes and no ribs, then shook his head indifferently.

Shen Fangyu put the chicken legs from the plate into Jiang Xu’s bowl and said to Tang Ke, “I’m chasing him, can’t you tell?”

Tang Ke’s eyes shook for two seconds, looking at Jiang Xu, “Real or fake?”

Jiang Xu sighed and said, “He insisted that I am his partner ten years in the future.”

“Yes,” Shen Fangyu added, “and Tang Ke, you can still be considered our matchmaker.”

Tang Ke’s chopsticks fell onto the table with a clang, splashing the red-braised dish’s sauce all over.

In addition to Tang Ke, the students of the eight year clinical class also quickly noticed the changes between the two.

The two exam kings who used to have a hard time even talking civilly¹话不投机半句多 means when the people don’t find their views aligned together, half a sentence said between the is already a lot (because it’s a waste of breath)., now go in and out together every day.  Except for going back to their respective dorm to sleep, they are practically one person and couldn’t be separated.

Although most of the time it was Shen Fangyu chasing after Jiang Xu and chattering incessantly on who knows what, occasionally Jiang Xu would answer when he was annoyed by the chatter. The two big men with similar figures walking side by side unexpectedly made a strangely harmonious scene.

Jiang Xu really couldn’t bear such disturbance like this and had rejected him countless times. But Shen Fangyu kept sticking to him as if he couldn’t understand each time. Every day when he opened the dorm door, he saw Shen Fangyu leaning against his door with breakfast in hand, and even took advantage of his carelessness to take his bag, put it on his shoulder and walk him²Shen Fangyu took Jiang Xu’s bag and brought it for him basically, classic move of chinese boys treating their girlfriends.

“I’ll help you carry it. After you finish eating, I’ll give it to you. The book is too heavy, carrying it while eating isn’t good for your health”

Jiang Xu didn’t understand: “Aren’t you tired doing this every day?”

“Not tired,” Shen Fangyu said. “I used to buy you breakfast every day before I crossed over, it’s a habit.”

“You…”

Jiang Xu helplessly took a bite of the Juan Bing³It looks like a burrito. Usually the bread/wrap has an egg or two spread over it, usually it doesn’t contain cheese. But this dish is pretty much anything rolled up like a wrap, the hot steam in the air mixing with the fragrance of food waking his appetite. For some inexplicable reason, the words he wanted to say couldn’t come out, the sentence “when will your brain recover from this illness” was also swallowed down along with the Juan Bing.

In the past, both of them sat far away from each other in the self-study room, afraid of being next to each other. But now Shen Fangyu straightforwardly put his bag and sat with him on the same table, not moving no matter what he said. 

Tang Ke poked his head out from behind and asked Shen Fangyu, “Are you really not here to take a sneak at Jiang Xu’s learning progress?”

Shen Fangyu dug out a stack of materials from his bag and handed them to Jiang Xu, “These are some of the exam questions from the last few exams, I only remembered these. I have already forgotten about the simple ones. Take it and take a look.”

Jiang Xu didn’t believe it at first. But later after finishing several exams, he found that all of Shen Fangyu’s questions had been predicted correctly. His gaze at Shen Fangyu finally became somewhat peculiar.

One day, he suddenly asked Shen Fangyu, “What kind of person is the me ten years from now?”

Shen Fangyu helped him sharpen the red-blue pencils⁴This kind of pencil. The red is usually for marking the errors, the blue for corrections. while saying, “An incredibly excellent doctor with a high level of professional skills. Has been chosen as a deputy chief physician at a young age. You treat patients with great care and the patients all trust you very much. The director appreciates you a lot, and the colleagues in the department also respect you very much.” Shen Fangyu couldn’t help but laugh the more he spoke, “But your students are a bit afraid of you.”

After sharpening the red-blue pencils sharp, he handed it over to Jiang Xu and then continued, “Because you are very strict and a bit fierce with them, but they also like you a lot because you will seriously help them revise their papers and point out the issues, work hard for their graduation and employment, and also teach them what you have learned without reservation.”

“Also,” Shen Fangyu thought for a while, then glanced at the hoodie Jiang Xu was wearing. “Ten years later, you don’t like to wear such clothes anymore. All day you either wear black and white or blue and gray. I have to coax you every day before you’re willing to wear colorful colors. At that time, your character is also more stable than now, but……”

Shen Fangyu deliberately paused for a moment before continuing, “there’s also that you would blow up everytime you run into me.”

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xu’s hand, which was drawing the blood smear⁵It’s basically blood smear sample observed under microscope, they took note of any abnormalities found in the blood such as the size and shape of the blood, or presence of some visible patogens/parasite with red-blue pencil, suddenly paused. After a while, he continued to draw as if nothing happened, accompanied by a comment with a slight rise of tone in the end, “That’s you who’s annoying.”

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From that day on, the two of them had broken the ice, and Shen Fangyu finally forcibly barged between Tang Ke and Jiang Xu with tenacious perseverance and indomitable will, becoming a member of the three person eating group.

Tang Ke was originally very dissatisfied with this, but unfortunately the small cake Shen Fangyu gave him was even more delicious than what Li Yalei and Huo Chengchun had given him. Gradually, he also accepted Shen Fangyu’s existence.

On the other hand, Shen Fangyu’s two roommates angrily blocked him on the way back, “Aren’t you and Jiang Xu nemesis? Why did we hear that you’re chasing him?”

Shen Fangyu who was eating popcorn said, “You are allowed to like him, but I’m not allowed to like?”

Li Yalei’s expression stiffened for a second, saying with a little guilty conscience, “When did you know? That day… did you hear it?”

Shen Fangyu threw some popcorn into his mouth, responding, “You will find out in ten years, do you believe me?”

Huo Chengchun rolled his eyes and said, “I believe you’re a ghost.”

Shen Fangyu smiled and handed the popcorn over, “Want some? I went to watch a movie with Jiang Xu today, he bought me these.”

Seeing the two roommates gradually clenching their fists, Shen Fangyu, knowing when to quit, packed up and walked away, then turned to the next dorm to visit Jiang Xu.

Of course, the movie was not watched only by just him and Jiang Xu….. There was also a Tang Ke.

But he wouldn’t say that to those two roommates.

Now Jiang Xu was neither hot or cold⁶As in not so enthusiastic, but not so indifferent. Like an acquaintance. towards him, with a little curiosity and interest. His hostility was not as strong, but his love still had to accumulate from scratch.

The breaking point happened on Jiang Xu’s birthday.

That day, A City had become colder and was raining. The sky was wholly foggy. In addition, there would be a small text the next day, Jiang Xu was actually in no mood for his birthday.

He bought a cake and shared it with his classmates and also stopped to invite his dorm mates for a meal, delaying his time for reviewing a lot. Therefore, he stayed up really late at night to continue reading books.

On that day, as usual, he and Shen Fangyu stayed up the latest before leaving. Shen Fangyu helped him carry the big and small packages of gifts back to the dormitory, then called him out. He took out a cute pink rabbit from his bag and stuffed it into his arms, “Happy birthday, Rong Rong.”

Jiang Xu blanked out for a moment, then heard Shen Fangyu say, “In ten years, you told me about those things about your stuffed rabbit being cut down with scissors into ruins when you were a child, making you always have nightmares. It wasn’t until you went to college and bought yourself a new pink rabbit that you slowly improved. Although I don’t know what would happen if the timeline is changed, or whether what I gave you is still useful, I still want to give it a try. Being able to let you experience a night without nightmares a day earlier is also good.”

The plushy in his arms was soft and warm, and the dim yellow light in the hallway cast a deep shadow on the boy’s focused and sincere face.

Jiang Xu was in a daze for a while, before quietly saying “thank you” in a complicated mood.

That night, Jiang Xu slept with that pink rabbit in his arms.

A few days later, when Jiang Xu was feeding stray cats downstairs the dormitory, Shen Fangyu came over and handed him a small box of cat food. Jiang Xu suddenly turned his head and asked him, “Are you really… from ten years in the future?”

This is the first time Jiang Xu has asked him this question after so long.

“Really.”

Shen Fangyu crouched next to him, “But I’ve gotten over it recently. It’s fine if you don’t believe me. I’ll just chase you once again. Although I don’t know why God wants to joke with me like this, but…. Being able to accompany you through the student days again, I am really happy.”

He smiled and looked at his beloved who appears to be a student, “Back then, I was completely into the spirit of competition that I didn’t take a good look at you. It’s probably because of this that God let me go back.”

The moon light was captured in his eyes, glittering with deep affections.

It seems like he had returned to that night, he held a pink rabbit in his arms, standing in the quiet corridor, gently calling his nickname.

Jiang Xu and he gazed at each other for a while, heartbeat inexplicably accelerating.

The little cat in front of them waited for a long time yet still didn’t get to eat anything, let out a dissatisfied meow.

Jiang Xu’s eyes shook, hastily went back to before and opened the prepared canned cat food.

“Don’t talk nonsense,” he said.

“All my talk is all nonsense,” Shen Fangyu glanced at the little kitten who was eating so fragrantly, and then looked at Jiang Xu who refused to look or face him, smilingly said, “Dr. Jiang has the handsomeness of Dr. Jiang, Classmate Jiang also has classmate Jiang’s cuteness. I like all of him.”

As his words fell, Jiang Xu suddenly stood up. Before Shen Fangyu could react, he desperately took his bag off Shen Fangyu’s shoulder in lightning speed with a slight shove, and without looking back, he ran up and into the dormitory building.

The warmth of the boy’s fingertips still lingered on his shoulders, but there was no trace of his figure in his eyes. Shen Fangyu looked over in surprise and laughability, only to see the boy who had just disappeared from his side pushing the window of the second floor open, cup his hands around his mouth, and shout to him, “Good night!”

The dim light of the night masks the gate to the dormitory building, the students who love sports are skipping rope, groups of three or four girls are chatting idly, some cheers could occasionally be heard from the badminton court, sticky couples continue to kiss, reluctant to part.

No one paid attention to the fleeting and frightened-to-be-caught-by-the-crowd “good night” sound, as well as the figure flashing past the window.

That was a moment exclusive solely to Shen Fangyu.

He rubbed his burning hot face, picked up the small can the kitten had finished eating, and threw it into the trash can. The curl on his mouth not going down even after a long time trying to suppress it.

He runs so fast, indeed a little rabbit.

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