Chapter 1

Hi guys, I hope that you guys are healthy and safe wherever you are. If you are reading Secretly, Secretly; But Unable to Hide it, you might notice that it’ll end pretty soon. Meanwhile, I’m looking for another book to translate and this book comes to my mind. I would give this a try to translate because when I read this book somehow I was captivated with the plot (so I hope you guys would too). I don’t know whether you guys would like it. So this book would be the replacement of the soon-to-be-finished-translated Secretly, Secretly; But Unable to Hide it. As for The Prestiguous Family, I might continue to translate the second book which tells the story between Song Xian Yu and Ji Lin Yuan. If you guys have any recommendation for novel to translate (in Chinese), please free to tell me through the comment section. I’ll put it in my consideration-list. Btw I prefer modern-time novel (even better if there’s a slight age difference between the FL & ML) without any transmigration or fantasy. Thank you guys for you support. Wish you have wonderful weekend ahead everywhere you are!

Love,

88 Tang

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In the early morning 04:00 a.m., The emergency hall is so peaceful and quiet.

Xu Qin is wearing her doctor’s coat and walks over from the main hall with her hands inside her pocket.

The sanitation worker is holding a mop, she is dipping the mop on the bucket full of disinfectant. Then she wipes the bloodied floor with great energy.

Xu Qin is unfocused, she just regains herself by the time she passes that sanitation worker. The sanitation worker has no time to dodge from her. The mop, which is smeared with blood, covers Xu Qin’s shoes.

The sanitation worker apologizes quickly: “I’m sorry, Xu Yi Sheng (Doctor Xu). I’m sorry.” She says it and immediately takes a rag to wipe it.

Xu Qin is quick, she stops the sanitation worker to kneel down to wipe her shoes. “No need, it’s okay.”

“But……”

Xu Qin cuts her off gently: “It’s my mistake. I make a trouble for you.”

The sanitation worker feels even more abashed when she hears her words. “What are you talking about? If not, let me help you to clean this.”

Xu Qin once again stops her and smiles faintly: “I could do it by myself.”

The sanitation worker feels guilty but thankful: “Xu Yi Sheng, you are a good person.”

Xu Qin continues to walk forward.

The sanitation worker holds the mop tightly and examines the back figure of Xu Qin. Xu Qin is tall and slender, with her doctor’s coat, she looks even more beautiful and elegant. Her hair is tied in a ponytail.

The sanitation worker hesitates for a moment and calls after her: “Xu Yi Sheng!”

Xu Qin stops walking and turns her head: “Em?”

“The patient before, is he okay?” The young sanitation worker says and peeks at the blood on the floor.

This moment the emergency hall is quiet, it’s too peaceful; who knows this place is full of cries and howls before.

Xu Qin says: “He is okay now.”

The sanitation worker smiles brightly: “It’s great. Xu Yi Sheng.” She bows down toward Xu Qin: “You should go through a great trouble to save him.”

Xu Qin nods lightly as her reply toward her, then she turns her body to leave.

At 04:00 a.m., the deepest night.

The light on the hospital corridor is so dim, the air is filled with life and death scent. It is depressing and bitter. It seems impossible to get rid of it.

Xu Qin’s hands are used to be stuffed in her pocket. She passes the desolate corridor and gets into her office room. She looks down at her dirty shoes and shows her disgust to it. She frowns and feels it is so disgusted. The muddy water and that blood feel as if they could penetrate to the inside of her shoes, it even seeps into her instep.

Xu Qin sits down quickly and takes off her shoes. She throws it to the bin. Her socks are still clean, yet she ignores it and takes it off too. She immediately throws it to the rubbish bin. She opens up her drawer and pulls out a wet tissue. She wipes her foot and stops till it turns red.

Xu Qin’s mood just calms down, she tries hard to control her breath. She throws away the tissue and opens up her cupboard. She changes into her spare shoes then goes to the vanity unit. She switches on the tap and uses the soap to wash clean her both hands. She does that for three times.

Xu Qin does all of that in order. Then she picks out her phone out of her pocket. It’s just 04:10 a.m., the sky is still dark outside from what she sees from the office window.

The emergency department is so quiet like tonight would pass so calmly.

She has a missed call and a message, both of them are coming from Meng Yan Chen. “On the weekend come back home.”

Xu Qin could see her tired black eyes on the screen. She has already worked continuously for 22 hours. She feels numb.

She puts the phone back and then her finger knocks lightly on the cigarette box and lighter that she had in her pocket. She glances at the warning sign “Please do not smoke”.

She looks at it fo a while, then she smiles. She stands up and goes to the balcony.

Xu Qin leans on the fence and on the dark night, she lights on one cigarette.

When she just enjoys half of her cigarette, she could hear someone calls after her: “Yi Sheng!”

Xu Qin stands up and throws away her cigarette, she closes the balcony door. Then she goes inside to wash her hands three times again. The time she switches off the tap, a sloppy man with ashy clothes come inside: “Yi Sheng, please help!”

Xu Qin examines her and notices that this man is not injured: “What is your problem?”

That square-faced man is out of breath, he waves his hand: “Not me, my Xiong Di (Friend/ Brother), he—“

The time he is still explaining, around three to four messy-looking men come inside the room. Their body are full of smoke and sweat scent. That group of men are wearing a standardized army green vest and trousers. All of them are tall and muscly. They are covered with ash.

That square-face man tries to control his breath and points at a man behind him; Xu Qin looks over, she couldn’t know for sure which man is he pointing to.

“He, his tooth is aching so badly.”

Xu Qin stops: “Toothache?”

The square-face man is still pointing: “Yi Sheng, come over and take a look at him….”

Xu Qin cuts him off: “In the emergency department, we don’t have department of dentistry, you guys should go to the outpatient clinic to register.”

“But the outpatient clinic is still close at this time.”

Xu Qin: “Then wait till it’s open then you guys could go there.”

Xu Qin goes to her own chair and sits down. She lifts up her head and looks at the group of men, who are still watching her.

At that moment, Xu Qin looks at the ‘sick’ man around the group. He is wearing a surgical mask. His eyebrows are thick. He is also watching her, his gaze is keen and bright.

With just a gaze, Xu Qin could see that he is completely different from those men around him.

Xu Qin looks at him without any fear: “Could you hear me? We don’t have any dentist here, you should go to outpatient clinic.”

He doesn’t say anything;

Anyway that square-face man is so worried that he starts to get temperamental. He says furiously: “Now the outpatient clinic is still close, what should we do?”

Xu Qin: “Bear with it.”

“You!” That square-face man clutches his fist and bites his lips. “Then give him a bit of painkiller.”

Xu Qin leans back on her chair and stuffs her hands inside her pocket. “I couldn’t prescribe it here.”

“Why couldn’t you prescribe it? You are a doctor, you should know it could kill someone when having a toothache?!”

Xu Qin answers calmly: “It wouldn’t kill him.”

That square-face man thinks that she is provoking him, he raises his voice: “What’s up with your attitude?”

Xu Qin looks at him. “I am answering your unreasonable demand patiently.”

That square-face man is so angry: “I think you are….”

One of the older man pulls that man back, he tries to smooth thing over by explaining: “Yi Sheng, there should be misunderstanding. We are not only coming over because of the toothache. It’s not because of the decayed tooth. But during our work, our Xiong Di is hurt. He bumped and hurt his teeth. Could you take a look…..”Then that man wants to take off the ‘sick’ man’s surgical mask.

Xu Qin lowers her head and opens up her own case file. “Don’t take it off. I’m not a dentist. I couldn’t check it.”

“Could you give him a bit of painkiller? To stop the pain.”

Xu Qin closes the file: “I couldn’t. How many times should I tell you about it?”

Hearing that, the square-face man couldn’t control his feeling any longer. He takes a large stride and points at Xu Qin. “Do you believe that I–“

“Yang Chi!” A cold voice calls after that square-face man. It’s from that ‘sick’ man with a surgical mask.

That voice is low and patient. It sounds different, Xu Qin unconsciously lifts up her head and looks at him.

That eyes are looking at her too.

He stands up: “Sorry to disturb you.”

Xu Qin says nothing.

The ‘sick’ man with a surgical mask comes forward and stops. He asks: “What time is the outpatient clinic open?”

Xu Qin: “08.00 a.m.”

That man: “Thank you.”

Xu Qin: “No need.”

That man stands up and just walks out, Yang Chi is unhappy and follows him out: “Song Dui (Leader Song), this—“

Song Yan has came out.

All of the men are following them to go out, Yang Chi is so furious. He points at Xu Qin and goes out with angry steps.

…..

Yang Chi chases after Song Yan and friends. He is still full of anger: “That Yi Sheng (Doctor) is really disgusting, I really want to sue her. When I just got into the door, I saw there’s a customer’s book on the right side. Jiang Yi, follow me.”

Jiang Yi sighs: “I’m afraid that it’s useless to sue her. This is the third-level military hospital. Without any family background, no one could work here. That woman should be someone with a strong background.

Song Yan goes down the flight of steps and takes off his surgical mask, then he spits out little bloodied saliva to the trash bin.

Jiang Yi: “Song Dui, are you okay? If you couldn’t bear it, should we give a call to the higher commander?”

Song Yan: “It’s okay, let’s go.”

Yang Chi stands on the flight of stairs and doesn’t move. He thinks about it and decides to return: “No, I think I should go and appeal to her again.”

Song Yan calls after him. “Let it be.”

Yang Chi is unwilling to budge: “No, I am so furious to remember that. Whether it is useless or not, I also want to sue her.”

Song Yan speaks up once more: “I tell you to let it be.”

Yang Chi doesn’t listen to him and turns his back to run inside.

Song Yan: “D*mm*t, you want to resist my order?”

Yang Chi stops. His body is leaning forward.

Song Yan: “Stop and stand well! — Stand at attention!”

Yang Chi stands up straight.

Song Yan says: “Let’s go back.”

Yang Chi runs down the stairway.

In the deep night, the road is empty. There’s a fire engine in the opposite of the hospital.

Jiang Yi comes forward and wants to say something

Song Yan frowns and just waves his hand impatiently. Jiang Yi stands straight, gives him a respect. Then he follows Yang Chi.

Song Yan stands there for a while. He uses his surgical mask to wipe his dirty face. He accidentally touches his cheek. He breaths in a breath. He bares the toothache he has. Then he spits out a blood again.

D*mn, this is too painful!

Song Yan looks back at Xu Qin’s office room for a while. Then he looks forward.

Jiang Yi just gets on the car, Yang Chi asks him: “Why do I feel there’s something strange with Song Dui?”

Jiang Yi: “What do you mean?”

Yang Chi: “With his temper, if it’s in the usual situation, he wouldn’t act that way.”

Jiang Yi: “The doctor is a woman.”

Yang Chi objects that kind of reasoning; “Song Dui is frank and dominating. — supposedly he wouldn’t be too polite with a woman too.– supposedly because he sees that woman is beautiful.”

The time they are talking, Song Yan suddenly gets on the car then he just slaps Yang Chi’s head.

Yang Chi immediately hold his head with his hands and begs for mercy: “I’ll shut up!”

Song Yan: “Start driving.”

The red color fire engine starts to move.

The road is clear, the street lamps look splendid.

Song Yan places his hand on the window, between his fingers, he holds the cigarette. He looks back and notices that his Xiong Di Men (Brothers) are still sleeping. He just smokes.

He recalls the moment at the hospital.

He recalls the way she looks. She just looks like what she was that year.

Song Yan never expected that she is back, moreover, she doesn’t recognize him anymore.

He, in a flash it’s already ten years.