Incurable Pain

IP Chapter 54.2

Incurable Pain | Chapter 54.2

After standing still for a long time, the girl withdrew her gaze and walked to the nurse’s station in the emergency department.

Bai Xunyin patiently waited for the nurse to finish her call before gently asking, “Excuse me, could you tell me where Dr. Yu Luoyin’s office is?”

Of course, she could get an answer.

Because in the hospital, a doctor’s office was never a secret.

The cause of this late-night multiple-car collision was a drunk driver swerving on the main road, directly causing three cars to collide, creating chaos and almost carnage at the scene.

Fortunately, there weren’t too many people in the four cars, and everyone was very safety-conscious and wore seat belts, except for two people who suffered serious injuries.

One of them suffered a fractured skull and was assigned to Professor Zeng, Yu Luoyin’s mentor.

He was very tense throughout the procedure and, as the assistant, had been with him the whole time since the surgery ended, which had lasted a full four hours.

Fortunately, the surgery was very successful, so their efforts weren’t in vain.

“Xiao Yu, you did a good job today.”

As the sterilization process ended after the surgery, Professor Zeng smiled and praised Yu Luoyin, “You’ve been in the operating room with me twice this week, right? You’ve become more skilled with each time, showing progress.”

“Teacher, please don’t praise me.”

Yu Luoyin modestly smiled, almost trembling, “If you praise me, I’ll become complacent. It’s better if you scold me more like you did when I first came to the hospital. That way, I can improve…”

Professor Zeng interrupted him with a scolding, “You little rascal!”

Yu Luoyin shrugged indifferently, then took off his surgical gown first and ‘filially’ went to help the professor.

The professor was getting old, and after several hours of high-intensity surgery late at night, he was indeed exhausted.

Seeing his student being so considerate, he couldn’t help but sigh, “Xiao Yu, I don’t know how many students I’ve had, but you’re really one of the most talented among them.”

“See.”

Yu Luoyin couldn’t help but smile, “You’re praising me again.”

“Don’t be silly, I’m being serious.” Professor Zeng became serious and gave him a spiritual baptism before ‘clocking out’ —

“When I talk about talent, I don’t just mean your professional skills as a doctor. It’s also about a sense of responsibility, a spirit of ‘never abandon, never give up’ when facing patients — there’s something I’ve never told you. The reason I took you in as my student is because, when you first came to the hospital, you were still a clueless young man, but I could tell you were a responsible young man. I guess it’s because of your upbringing, serious, strict, and responsible.”

Yu Luoyin couldn’t help but be slightly stunned.

The qualities Professor Zeng mentioned were actually habits he had gradually developed under Gu Yan’s influence during his upbringing.

“But that’s not the most important thing.”

Professor Zeng changed the subject, “The real reason I wanted to take you in was because of that incident with the mental patient later on.”

Once, there was a patient who came to the psychiatric department for treatment, but a few months later, they were diagnosed with mental illness and, just before being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the rooftop.

If a patient dies in the hospital, the hospital will have an unavoidable responsibility. It’s an undeniable medical accident that will inevitably face huge compensation. At that time, the incident caused quite a stir.

Several police cars arrived, along with police officers, doctors… everyone who could went rushing to the rooftop to persuade.

Yu Luoyin’s eyelashes twitched slightly, obviously recalling the incident in the old professor’s narrative.

Because at that time, he happened to be smoking on the rooftop, also becoming one of the ‘parties’ involved.

Yu Luoyin had just entered the hospital at that time, and many people looked down on his experience of repeating a year. He felt quite upset.

For someone who rarely smoked, the chance to ‘relieve’ oneself was rare. As a result, he happened to encounter that mental patient.

At that time, Yu Luoyin didn’t have the consciousness of treating patients like gods. He just watched the neurotic climb onto the rooftop, with a bunch of people comforting her, pleading with her about how bright her future was…

So Yu Luoyin couldn’t help but become a ‘villain’, saying things like, “Do you want to jump down to find relief?”

He glanced down at the rooftop lazily and asked the disheveled mental patient, “The police have already inflated the air cushions down there. If you jump, you won’t die, but you might fracture your bones, get them fixed with steel nails, and suffer unbearable pain.”

The mental patient was stunned by his words.

And the people around, upon hearing what Yu Luoyin said, also strangely fell silent.

At that time, only Yu Luoyin happened to be on the rooftop standing by the side, even the mental patient arrived later. So only he could stand next to her and talk.

Everyone hoped that Yu Luoyin could persuade her properly.

“Do you think life is not good? You feel desperate, young girl, you look about twenty, how much despair can you experience?”

Yu Luoyin lightly laughed, not persuading but instead speaking bluntly.

He wasn’t harsh, nor was he sentimental, just looking at the mental patient with his dark eyes as if seeing another person through her.

“If you hit rock bottom, you’ll bounce back. You want to die now, but could life get any worse? All pains in the world can be smoothed out by a pair of hands, maybe it’s time, maybe it’s a doctor, maybe it’s an accident.”

…

Perhaps it was because of the blunt truth that “life wouldn’t get any worse,” or perhaps because jumping wouldn’t result in death, in the end, the mental patient gave up on jumping off the building, avoiding a potential multi-million-dollar medical malpractice lawsuit for the hospital.

“When I heard what you said back then, I felt you were quite insightful, a talent worth nurturing, so I took you in. Otherwise, why would I accept you when countless people want to be my students every year?”

Professor Zeng concluded with enthusiasm, looking at him expectantly and probing, “Tell the teacher?”

Yu Luoyin remained silent for a moment, then smiled faintly, “Teacher, it’s because of someone I like.”

He had once tried to ‘heal’ someone with his own hands, and since then, he had become infatuated with that feeling.

More than the vast expanse of the starry sky, irresistible.

As Yu Luoyin gently rubbed his sore shoulders and brought Professor Zeng’s coat back to the office, he pushed the door open and was surprised.

Under the quiet night light in the office, a slender figure was leaning on his desk, seemingly softening the usually bleak, antiseptic atmosphere.

Yu Luoyin walked over with light steps and knelt in front of Bai Xunyin’s resting figure, looking at her delicate face.

The young girl was resting on her desk, and the angle was just right.

Appearing suddenly in his office, Bai Xunyin was like a snail spirit, unexpected, but it didn’t prevent him from admiring her without distraction.

As he wondered why she was waiting for him here, Bai Xunyin’s long, butterfly-like eyelashes quivered, and her slowly opening hazel eyes had a thin layer of mist from just waking up.