"Do you have her picture or maybe something you can use to recognise her?" she asked with a fretful look on her face.

What he just said combined with the flashes and voices...it can only mean one thing

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"No, I told you it it was a long time ago, I was still a teenager then," he watched the disappointed look on her face, he regretted his actions, he should have said that.

"Are you alright?"

"Yes I am fine, I probably need to get some rest as soon as possible," she tried to get a hold of herself then she started digging into the pancakes with a faint smile to pretend she wasn't affected by him.

{Who exactly are you to me, why do I feel worried, comfortable, and confused around you,}

She has never gotten close to someone in just two months but with him, she remembers feeling an affinity that she wanted to deny, she had tolerated him and agreed to treat him in his house when they first met only because he is Jia Yu's cousin but somewhere in her heart...she was concerned.

She decided to find it all out.

"I will drop you at the hospital," he offered

"Huh..no, you don't have to since I have my car with me,". He wanted to see that boyfriend of her's again, to take a good look of what type of person he is and if he is even worth Yu Yan and also because today is the day he has to resume work at the hospital.

"Exactly the reason I would like to go in your car, you must be very tired because of the stress I put you through today so I am offering to drive you to work,"

"I refuse, you don't have any business at the hospital and I am still fully capable of driving myself..even with the stress," she frowned at him with an accusing gaze reminding him he is the cause of the soreness she is feeling in her body.

"I can see you are crossed with me because of this, let me drive you or I will feel really bad for not repaying you, moreover, I do have business at the hospital,"

"What business?"

"You will find out when we get there, by the way, I have been making more research for the total artificial heart surgery you talked about and arranging simulations for you,". Her face turned downcast the moment he mentioned it.

"Actually...the higher-ups decided the case is too complicated for resident surgeons to handle so another skilled specialist surgeon is in charge of the case and the surgery is actually today that is why I have to be at the hospital early to watch the surgery," she explained, her face showed just how much she wanted to be involved but she sighed deeply and smiled again....always pretending like nothing matters.

"Then it seems like my efforts have been wasted,"

"I am sorry, I should have told you about it,"

"If you are truly sorry then let me drive you to work,"

"Huh...Alright," although she doesn't understand how this is supposed to compensate him she still agreed and she also doesn't feel like driving anyways.

After a long drive they finally arrived at the hospital, throughout the drive they both discussed comfortably about their lives for the first time since they met without any boundary, somehow he felt Yu Yan was only trying to find out the things she wants to know from him but surprisingly she also told him things about herself.

"Do you want to go in first?" he asked knowing she might not want them to get associated together, she was quite surprised that he asked the question and it made her view him in another light again.

"Yes..." she came out of the car then she smiled and nodded at him before walking away from the parking lot but after she walked afar, she came running towards the car, he was confused seeing her run back.

"What is..."

"I think we should go in together...I mean, you re Jia Yu's brother so it doesn't make sense that I am making you do things you don't want to do," she wanted to sound as polite as possible, he smiled at her with a light chuckle...it seemed to him at that moment that she really wanted to get closer to him.

"If you say so," He got out of the car and walked by her side while they continued smiling at each other while discussing on their way into the building.

After they left the parking lot, a young man in a blue blazer and white top with a round glasses came down from a black car with a frown on his face. He had been calling her since the morning but she didn't pick up so he decided he was going to go to the hospital on his own and he was even worried about her but she is here with this man he doesn't recognise.

"Is he perhaps Han Chen?" he pondered aloud, he nodded at the driver who had driven him to the hospital then he left the parking lot.

After they entered the building, they went their separate ways, Yu Yan and the other surgeons who didn't have a schedule that morning quickly put on their white coat and proceeded to the operation theatre where they all took their seat to watch the surgery from the observation seat above the operation room.

Yu Yan greeted her friends, she sat beside them at the back seats where most of the resident surgeons were seated, they watched as the patient was wheeled into the operating room and the surgical crew entered the operating room.

Just as everyone was set and ready for the operation, the patient's wife and children arrived at the observation room even though they are not supposed to be there, an exception was made because of therestatus, they were given VIP seats at the front of the observation room, everyone was concerned and nervous since the operation means a lot to the hospital.

"We will now commence the surgery, this surgery is the total heart replacement of the patient with a total artificial heart, agreed?" Surgeon Lian Wei questioned with his hands in the air.

"Agreed!" they chorused.

"Patient has been anaesthetized," the anesthesiologist announced

"The patient's heart has been stopped and is now on cardiopulmonary bypass," the team leader of the cardiologist department reported, surgeon Lian Wei nodded at her.

"Then the operation will commence, this is ten'o clock in the morning," he moved closer to the patient then he took in a deep breath and glanced at his hands, he really hopes they won't fail him at least for today.

"Scalpel,". The surgical technician handed the scalpel to him then he made two small incisions in the left upper abdomen and he created intramuscular tunnels through the left rectus muscle for the total artificial heart drivelines, he stopped halfway then he glanced at his hands..they were shaky, he quickly tightened them and continued making the incision.

"Electrocautery," he requested as he handed the scalpel to the surgical technician who handed the instrument to him.

He dissected the layers of tissue to the chest bone, then he handed the instrument to the surgical technician and requested for a bone saw, he sawed the chest bone while Mrs Lucy the first assisting surgeon cauterized the bleeding blood vessels, then Yue Ling who is the second assisting surgeon picked the retractor and retracted the sawed chest bone, then Surgeon Lucy cauterized the blood underneath the chest wall.

He was about to dissect the heart when Surgeon Lucy stopped him with an alarmed look on her face.

"There is an intense inflammatory thickening of the pericardium, we might not be able to go on with mediastinal dissection," she quickly informed, Surgeon Lian Wei inclined his head forward to take a good look at the pericardium, he sighed.

"We have to reconstruct the pericardium," he informed then he turned to the surgical technicians to provide the needed specimens and instrument.

"Wait...what is he talking about?" the patient's wife asked seeing that the surgery stopped all of a sudden with an alarmed tone in her voice, some of the surgeons reacted in the same way.

"Ah..it is nothing serious, the membrane covering his heart has been inflamed so they have to reconstruct it to carry on with the dissection, as I said beforehand, Surgeon Lian Wei is a skilled surgeon and I am sure you have heard of him before so you have nothing to worry about," the chief surgeon answered reassuringly, he couldn't afford to have her agitated.

The woman placed her hand on her chest in relief while her children took in deep relief, some of the surgeons who didn't understand the situation were also relieved while some took note of what he said...like Yu Yan but she isn't aware of the two pairs of eyes watching her.

After reconstructing the pericardium, surgeon Lian Wei took in a deep breath and proceeded to cannulate the superior and inferior vena cava through the right atrium but his hands shook again at that moment, Yue Ling who had noticed his hands shake before was alarmed, she looked up at him.

"Are you alright, sir," she asked to confirm he is alright to carry on wit the surgery.

"Huh..."

"I noticed your hands a..."

"It's nothing, I am alright," he quickly defended before she could complete her statement.