Chapter 23: CH 24

At the end of the morning’s classes, Jiang Xu, who had a dry mouth, stood in front of the cafeteria of A Medical University for ten minutes and finally chose to go to the pasta window to buy a cake.

After pregnancy, Jiang Xu, who could eat bread for a month straight during the exam period, had inexplicably become a picky eater.

The standard of the canteen at A Medical University was inversely proportional to the quality of teaching, and it had been expensive and unpalatable for decades.

When he finally returned to the hospital, Jiang Xu unceremoniously threw the remaining half of the cake into the trash can.

As soon as he walked into the department, Jiang Xu remembered the note and subconsciously swept a glance at Shen Fangyu’s workstation, but he was not there.

He withdrew his gaze and before he could put down his briefcase, Yu Sang suddenly appeared from nowhere and said to him with a wink, “Brother Jiang, your girlfriend is quite pretty.”

As soon as he opened his mouth, the office, which had been quiet, was instantly filled with gossip, with some people whispering and cheering, “When is Dr Jiang treating us? We’re waiting for the wine!”

Jiang Xu was puzzled, “What girlfriend?”

“Don’t pretend,” Wu Rui smiled broadly just like the person who had come over, “The girl came to you with a love lunch, we said you went to class and asked her to wait for you in the lounge, what’s wrong with you, you didn’t even tell your girlfriend about the class, you almost caused her to make a trip for nothing. “

Jiang Xu walked out of the office and headed for the lounge like the wind, not noticing Shen Fangyu who was carrying a carton of milk from the elevator ten meters away.

When Shen Fangyu reached the office, he bumped into Yu Sang, who was still giggling like a fool, and waved the milk in his hand towards Jiang Xu’s seat, “Where’s your teacher Jiang?”

As Jiang Xu’s favorite student and number one lapdog, Yu Sang was used to dealing with Shen Fangyu, so when Shen Fangyu rashly asked him, he naturally said, “He went to see his girlfriend.”

“Girlfriend?”

Seeing Shen Fangyu’s expression change, Yu Sang’s eyes became even brighter. His five senses couldn’t wait to put on a show, and all thoughts were on avenging their bragging after taking a place at the conference earlier, “Our Dr Jiang’s girlfriend is so pretty, she even made a love lunch and brought it over, unlike some people …… “

Yu Sang swept a glance at the milk in Shen Fangyu’s hand and finished in a leisurely vague manner, “You can only drink milk alone.”

Shen Fangyu: “……”

Seeing Shen Fangyu’s expression getting worse by the second, Yu Sang also knew how far he could go and after getting the upper hand, he retreated leisurely, secretly regretting that Jiang Xu had not been able to see Shen Fangyu’s expression.

Shen Fangyu was silent for a moment, then he slammed the milk onto his table, causing Wu Rui who was next to him to look at him in fright.

He met Wu Rui’s gaze and asked for confirmation, “Brother Wu, is what Yu Sang said true?”

Wu Rui didn’t know whether to nod or shake his head for a moment. He felt that Shen Fangyu’s expression didn’t look too good, but he couldn’t understand why Shen Fangyu was angry.

Even if he and Jiang Xu had been love rivals for a while, it wasn’t like Jiang Xu’s suspected girlfriend was Zhong Lan.

Was he angry that Jiang Xu had found a girlfriend before him?

But Shen Fangyu wasn’t short of people to chase, so he could find someone in a matter of minutes.

The little nurse from the neonatology department next door came over to see him whenever she was free. The girl was pretty and smart but he didn’t look too enthusiastic about her.

Wu Rui, caught between the two, had always wanted them to get along, so he advised them, “Fangyu, don’t be discouraged, brother will ask your sister-in-law to introduce you to someone better.”

“Thank you, senior brother, don’t bother sister-in-law.”

Shen Fangyu opened the milk and smiled at Wu Rui with a straw in his mouth, but it only gave Wu Rui goose bumps.

Jiang Xu had just reached the lounge when he saw a sweetly dressed girl sitting inside through the window glass, he pushed the door open and said with a little hesitation, “Hello.”

The girl seemed familiar with him as once she saw him, she stood up and shook his hand enthusiastically, “Hello, my name is Yu Xin, are you Dr Jiang Xu?”

Jiang Xu politely shook her hand, and when he looked down, he saw that Yu Xin was carrying a four-layer stainless steel thermos box. Seeing his confusion, Yu Xin introduced herself first, “Auntie Jiang asked me to bring this to you.”

“Auntie?”

Jiang Xu’s parents were in B City, and the only relative in A City was his aunt surnamed Jiang.

**It was said earlier that his mother was an only child, but let’s just go with the flow.

“Yes,” Yu Xin quickly answered, “I’m the blind date Auntie arranged for you.”

“……” Jiang Xu froze, he never thought that his own mother wanted him to get married to this extent. He was so far away in A City and his mother’s hand couldn’t reach that far, so he included his aunt in A City to do the job.

He thought it was a joke when his mother said that she was going to ask his aunt to arrange a blind date for him. It was clear that he had underestimated the powerful ability of his mother’s generation in rushing people into marriage.

What was even more breathtaking was that Yu Xin went on to say, “My mother and auntie met at the blind date corner in Xiangzhan Park.”

Jiang Xu knew about that dating corner …… Eighty percent of the marriage-pushing parents in A City gathered at Xiangzhan Park all year round, selling their sons and daughters like they were buying and selling melons and peanuts.

When Jiang Xu thought that his picture might be placed there, perhaps even accompanied by his aunt’s brainwashing shouts, he felt a myocardial infarction and his vision almost went black.

Yu Xin was a straightforward and bright girl, probably seeing Jiang Xu’s head full of black lines, she laughed, “At first, I didn’t believe that my mother could get any quality men at the dating corner in Xiangzang Park either, and when she showed me your photo, I thought it was a photoshop scam.”

She shot two glances at Jiang Xu, “I didn’t expect you to be even more handsome in person than in your photos.”

Jiang Xu struggled to recover his sanity from the cancer of embarrassment and pulled out an unnatural smile, “Thanks, you’re beautiful as well.”

Yu Xin sat down lavishly and took out the lunch boxes from the thermos, then asked Jiang Xu: “Would you like to eat together?”

His aunt’s cooking was excellent, and Jiang Xu hadn’t eaten home-cooked food for some time, so he had a bit of an appetite when he saw the brightly colored lunch boxes.

He sat down with her, and the two of them held a lunchbox and ate quietly. After a while, Yu Xin suddenly bit into her chopsticks and asked, “Have you ever had a girlfriend?”

Jiang Xu shook his head and took a sip of the milky fish soup.

“I heard from auntie that …… you were courting a female doctor in your department before?” Yu Xin asked.

Previously, when his mother was pushing hard for marriage, Jiang Xu had stonewalled her by pursuing Zhong Lan, but he didn’t expect even his aunt to know about it.

He didn’t have Shen Fangyu’s ability to talk to people and he wasn’t very good at communicating with people he didn’t know well unless it was about medical matters, so he gave a helpless “mmm” to Yu Xin and said nothing more.

“So, what do you think of me?” Yu Xin knew that female doctors had become a thing of the past as soon as she heard his answer. She was a straightforward woman, so she said bluntly, “I’m a painter, but I’ve always wanted to find a doctor as a boyfriend. Because the professional circle is rather tight, my mother went to the dating corner.”

The implication was that she was more than satisfied with Jiang Xu.

Jiang Xu smiled and his hands paused, he put down his chopsticks and said carefully, “I’m sorry Miss Yu, you’re very good, but I don’t have plans to start a relationship for the time being due to some rather personal and special reasons, my mother doesn’t know about them yet, so I’m really very sorry for making you make a trip for nothing.”

Not to mention that he still had the psychological shadow of having slept with Shen Fangyu and was not in a position to start a relationship for a while, not to mention that he was carrying a child in his stomach, what was the difference between a blind date and a fraudulent marriage now?

Jiang Xu couldn’t do this.

Yu Xin’s expression became a little subtle once she heard this, “It’s okay,” she said, “We just met anyway.”

“I’ll tell you what, Miss Yu.” Jiang Xu took out his wallet and handed Yu Xin a parking card, “I don’t know how to compensate you for making this trip and delaying you, this is our hospital parking card, it’s a new one and you can park for two hundred hours.”

Jiang Xu was a pragmatist and didn’t see anything wrong with giving a hospital parking card to a girl he was meeting for the first time.

However, it was Yu Xin’s first time seeing a parking card given to a blind date and she was stunned, waving her hand and refusing, “That’s …… not necessary.”

Jiang Xu swept a glance out the window and whispered, “Parking fees at Jihua are very expensive, so you should take it.”

The parking fee at Jihua Hospital was indeed expensive and without an internal card, it’s thirty an hour. Moreover, there are scarce parking spaces.

Yu Xin glanced at Jiang Xu.

The man’s lips were thin, his face has not had much of an expression since he entered the lounge and although he was so good-looking, perhaps because of the glasses, or the influence of the temperament, he gave her a sense that he was difficult to approach.

This made Yu Xin think that Jiang Xu was a flower high on the mountain peak, and she didn’t expect him to be so down to earth and would even complain about the parking fees of his hospital behind their back.

So she accepted the parking card graciously and smiled at Jiang Xu, “Then as a return gift, I’ll go back and paint you a picture.”

She opened her Weibo interface and handed it to Jiang Xu, “Follow me.”

Jiang Xu was silent for a brief moment, “What app is this?”

Yu Xin was stunned for a moment, then she silently put away her phone. She suddenly felt like the young Jiang Xu and her grandfather with the old type of phone had instantly merged into one, and the slight displeasure of being rejected even faded.

She pursed her lips and said tentatively, “Then, how about I print it out and send it to you then?”

“Don’t trouble yourself.” Jiang Xu, who usually took very few photos, didn’t really care. He saw that both of them had finished eating, and asked as he stood up, “Are you done? I’ll pack up the lunchboxes.”

“I’ll help.” Yu Xin followed and stood up. She was about to lend a hand when an unexpected guest suddenly pushed his way in and spoke with a smirk, “I heard your girlfriend is here, I’ve come to get a good look.”

The milk carton traced a parabolic line in the air and landed in the bin. The smiling man was wearing a light coffee-colored shirt with a black high collar, his figure was tall and straight as jade.

“Jiang Xu, aren’t you going to introduce me?”