godfather of surgery

Chapter 1215 No Compromise
"Professor Yang, Zhang Huijie from the oncology department is looking for you." Zhang Lin jogged over and knocked on Yang Ping's office door.

Yang Ping was taken aback: "Looking for me? What do you want?"

The thought of Zhang Huijie gave him goosebumps. What was wrong with this girl? No matter how good Wen Ruzheng was to her or how madly he pursued her before, she would ignore him. But now, she was crying and asking everyone to help persuade Wen Ruzheng.

"They'll probably ask you to be their go-between, to persuade Wen Ruzheng to break up with his current girlfriend and then start dating her," Xiao Wu said mysteriously.

Zhang Lin analyzed, "I guess that's it. I heard that he was kicked out of Dean Xia's office yesterday. Dean Xia definitely refused to help him. Director Zhao is the kind of person who plays it safe and tries to smooth things over. She probably thinks that Wen Ruzheng usually respects you, so she's coming to you to complain now."

Yang Ping's head was about to explode. He had no time to worry about these things, so he immediately said, "Call Tang Shunlai! It's extremely urgent!!!"

“Okay!” Zhang Lin picked up his phone and said, “Xiao Wu, go and keep Zhang Huijie occupied. Don’t let him come to see the professor. The professor doesn’t have time to listen to her complaints or help her deal with those ridiculous things.”

Xiao Wu ran quickly to the doctor's office, where Zhang Huijie was already asking if Professor Yang was in his office, but everyone shook their heads.

"Dr. Lu, have you seen Professor Yang?" Zhang Huijie asked.

"He should have gone to the lab; I haven't seen him either," Xiao Wu said dismissively. "Do you need to see him? Need him for a consultation?"

Zhang Huijie's eyes were red: "Will he go back to his office?"

"I'm not sure, even if I get back, it will be very late." Xiao Wu could only deliberately stall for time.

At this moment, Zhang Lin led Tang Shun in. Zhang Lin had already told Tang Shun in advance that in order not to waste Professor Yang's time, Tang Shun decided to take matters into her own hands.

“Zhang Huijie is waiting for Professor Yang,” Xiao Wu said.

Tang Shun immediately said, "Professor Yang has just returned and is in his office. We also need to see him, so why don't we go together?"

Zhang Huijie immediately stood up and rushed to Yang Ping's office door, knocking on it. Although he knew she would come, Yang Ping was still taken aback. However, seeing Tang Shun beside him, he felt much more at ease.

"Professor Yang, are you available now? I'd like to talk to you." Zhang Huijie was very direct, making no attempt to hide her urgency.

Yang Ping said, "Dr. Zhang, what can I do for you?"

Ignoring the other people around, Zhang Huijie said, "I want to talk to you about Wen Ruzheng and me, is that alright? Could you please help me persuade him?"

As expected, it was this matter. It seems that Zhang Huijie did not consider this a private matter at all. Either she deliberately made a big fuss about it so that everyone in the courtyard would know, or she simply did not have this awareness. In any case, no one can figure out her thoughts.

"Let's talk in the conference room." Yang Ping's office doesn't have cameras, but the conference room does. It's better to be cautious when dealing with this kind of person.

If we ignore her, this matter will affect Wen Ruzheng. As everyone's good friends, we still want to help Wen Ruzheng. The poor young man finally found a girlfriend he loves, and we can't let her ruin things.

Since Zhang Huijie didn't shy away from the topic, Tang Shun, Zhang Lin, and Xiao Wu also sat down next to her, and they began to communicate with Zhang Huijie across the conference table.

"You should know about my relationship with Wen Ruzheng. You must help me, Professor Yang," Zhang Huijie said bluntly.

Yang Ping looked surprised: "What happened? I didn't know? Did he lose the pathology slides of the patient you're in charge of?"

"No, no, you couldn't possibly not know, could you?" Zhang Huijie was quite surprised. The whole hospital knew about it. She questioned Wen Ruzheng, and then went to see Director Zhao and Dean Xia.

"I really don't know. Just tell me what it is and see if I can help. I'm always in the operating room or the lab, completely oblivious to what's going on outside. I don't even know what's happening in our department, let alone in the hospital," Yang Pingfei said earnestly.

Zhang Huijie was getting a little anxious. He didn't even know about this. There was nothing she could do but recount the whole story to him from beginning to end.

Yang Ping pondered for a moment, then looked troubled: "It's not that I don't want to help you, but you've come to the wrong person for this. You should ask Dr. Tang for help. Dr. Tang is the best at persuasion, and he might be able to help you."

Zhang Huijie turned to look at Tang Shun, who immediately replied, "This matter concerns your lifelong happiness. I need to clarify some details so that I can address the issue effectively and grasp the key to solving it. Otherwise, it will be useless for me to go to him. You are a PhD, so let's use a PhD's method to solve the problem. First, collect data, then analyze the data, and finally solve the problem, okay?" Tang Shun said unhurriedly.

"Don't worry, if he can't help you, then probably no one else can," Yang Ping encouraged Zhang Huijie to communicate with Tang Shun.

Yang Ping passed the ball to Tang Shun and sat down to rest, listening to their conversation.

Professor Yang is the best. Zhang Huijie nodded, "You're right, thank you, Professor Yang."

"I want to ask, exactly how many years, months, and days has he been pursuing you? It would be best to be accurate to the day, but if that's not possible, at least be accurate to the month?" Tang Shun asked.

“Five years…five years and one month.” Zhang Huijie calculated. “Days? Let me count until the day I found out I was looking for a girlfriend.”

Zhang Huijie took out her phone, opened the calendar, and carefully counted the days: "Five years, one month, and 21 days."

"Okay, write it down!" Tang Shun instructed Zhang Lin and Xiao Wu beside him, but the two boys had already taken out their notebooks to make notes.

"Tell me the truth about how he treated you while he was pursuing you." This was Tang Shun's second question.

Zhang Huijie blushed slightly: "Very well, but I ignored him."

“I’ll answer whatever I ask you. The third question is, did you accept his advances or explicitly reject him? If you rejected him, how many times did you reject him? If you don’t have an exact number, you can give an approximate number, such as several times, dozens of times, a hundred times, or two hundred times.”

“I explicitly rejected him at the time, probably more than twenty times.”

"Were you vague or ambiguous at the time?"

“I made myself very clear, there was no ambiguity.” “Record it!” Tang Shun continued.

"Did you simply refuse, or did you give him a sufficient reason?"

“I gave him my reasons, told him my ideal boyfriend standards, and then made it clear that he only barely met the requirements in terms of education, and did not meet any of the other conditions.”

“You are good in this respect. You are clear and specific, and you know what you want. You did make it very clear at the time. I was worried that you didn’t make it clear enough. Now there is not enough data, so I can’t help you solve the problem.”

"Yes, I have kept all my WeChat chat history with him over the years. Even when I change phones, I always migrate it to the new phone, and I also have backups."

"That would be best. Can you send us the WeChat screenshots? Of course, we won't send the private parts. I want you to reject his WeChat chat history, especially the WeChat history where you clearly stated your requirements for a boyfriend. This Wen Ruzheng is really disappointing. Dr. Zhang, you have such high requirements. Now we are reluctantly lowering our requirements to give him a chance, and you still don't cherish it."

"That's right. I already said I'd lower the requirements and give him a chance. What more do you want from me? Let me see. I'll send you a screenshot."

"It would be better if you sent it to Dr. Lu. I'm forgetful and easily forget your WeChat messages."

“I’m sending you all the chat logs of the more than twenty times I rejected him. Look at them. He used to pursue me even like that, but now when I give him a chance, he doesn’t cherish it at all.”

Yang Ping sat next to him, wondering what Tang Shun meant by rambling on and on. Was he just bored and had nothing better to do?

"We'll continue collecting data," Tang Shun said calmly.

"Based on the data above, he falls far short of your requirements, so it's perfectly reasonable for you to reject him so clearly—the gap is just too big. Now, I want to ask, you've rejected him more than twenty times, your rejections are very clear and unambiguous. Wen Ru is pursuing you so persistently, so I want to ask, before you established a romantic relationship, did you have any intimate interactions, such as holding hands while shopping, spontaneously kissing, or any further substantial and in-depth communication? We're both doctors, don't misunderstand, I just want to thoroughly understand some key data between you from a scientific perspective so I can develop a plan."

“This…” Zhang Huijie blushed again, “I didn’t agree to be his girlfriend, so how could we have done that? We didn’t hold hands, hug, kiss, or anything more.”

"Are you sure, not even once?"

"No, really no, I didn't even agree to be his girlfriend."

"The data has now been clarified. You were right to reject him back then. Wen Ruzheng is indeed far from your requirements. Look, he's seven centimeters shorter, which is 3.78%, a significant difference. The only thing he meets is his education, which is only barely acceptable. As for his financial situation, he still rides a small electric scooter to work and rents a house. Without a house or a car, how can he find a girlfriend? Does he even think about getting married? He's not qualified."

“I shouldn’t have gone to Director Zhao and Dean Xia; I should have come to you first.” Zhang Huijie suddenly felt that someone finally understood her.

"Where did we collect the data? Well, based on the data we just collected, we can draw a very clear conclusion: there was actually no romantic contact between you, either spiritually or physically. Using the word 'physical' is inappropriate, but don't mind it. I just wanted to analyze and solve the problem from a scientific perspective."

"We are now moving on to the third part: data collection, and your requests."

"Actually, my request is very simple. I'm lowering my standards to give him a chance. Can you help me talk to him and get him to break up with his current girlfriend and pursue me again? I will definitely agree this time. I've already lowered my standards so much, what more does he want? Is he deliberately trying to annoy me?"

"Your request is indeed simple, Dr. Zhang. How can you lower your standards so easily? Who is Wen Ruzheng? How could he be worthy of you? He is only worthy of his current girlfriend. Although his current girlfriend is also a PhD and she is very tall, these are all appearances. In terms of inner qualities, she is definitely not as good as you. I suggest you let him pursue this relationship. Without comparison, there is no difference. When we conduct experiments, we often use various statistical tools to compare the experimental group with the control group to see if there is a statistical difference."

"So, I think you can do this now: let him date his current girlfriend. Don't interfere with him. It's like an experiment; you can't interfere with the process, or it will pollute the data. After he's dated for a while, he'll naturally compare you to her. At that point, the statistical differences will become apparent—you're better, she's worse. The greater the difference, the more selective Wen Ruzheng will be. Won't he obediently come back to you then? What do you think?"

Zhang Huijie felt that everything seemed fine and very meticulous: "What if, what if they really get together, what will I do?" As she spoke, she started to cry.

Tang Shun calmly said, "You should have enough confidence."

"Yes," Zhang Huijie nodded.

"Moreover, I think Wen Ruzheng is not good enough for you. You don't need to lower your standards to cater to him. During this period, you still have the opportunity to meet a boyfriend who is 1.85 meters tall, a postdoctoral fellow, a graduate of a top medical university, lives in a villa and drives a Bentley, which meets your requirements. If you lower your standards to cater to him now, won't you lose this opportunity? The opportunity cost is too high. This is just my suggestion. You should think about it yourself."

"You're absolutely right." Zhang Huijie smiled through her tears.

"You're arguing with Wen Ruzheng, who's so far from your ideal boyfriend. Think about what your future 1.85-meter-tall boyfriend would think if he heard about what happened today. Have you considered how your ideal boyfriend would feel?"

Yes, how could she not have thought of that? Wasn't she just courting death?
"But I really like Wen Ruzheng now. She went to find her girlfriend without even saying hello, which means she doesn't care about me at all."

"Oh dear, don't blame him. He's already realized that the gap between himself and your requirements is so huge that it can't be bridged by effort, so he can only give up pursuing you and go after someone else."

"As for your liking him, you need to calm down. He's so different from your ideal boyfriend, how can you like him? You're just lowering your own standards."

Tang Shun said with great emotion, then handed Zhang Huijie a tissue.

Zhang Huijie took the tissue and wiped away her tears. Her heart felt as if the clouds had parted and the sun was shining, and everything felt so smooth.

Yes, why should I lower myself? Why should I get entangled with Wen Ruzheng? He's a suitor I already dislike. Why should I make a scene with him? What will my future boyfriend think if he finds out about this?

"What should I do? I've already made a scene and the whole hospital knows about it." Zhang Huijie felt a little scared when she thought about her future boyfriend, who was 1.85 meters tall and drove a Bentley.

"It's good that you didn't cause any other trouble. If people misunderstand and think that you and Wen Ru are actually having an affair, that would be a real problem. It's fine if your hospital colleagues think that way, let them be. But if your future ideal boyfriend starts thinking that way, that would be a very, very troublesome thing. You need to know that people's prejudices are like a mountain!"

"What should we do then?" Zhang Huijie became increasingly nervous.

Tang Shun thought for a moment and said, "Show your intelligence and grace. For the sake of your future ideal boyfriend, you should go and apologize to Wen Ruzheng now, and then let this matter cool down naturally. After a while, who will remember what happened today, right?"

“But…” Zhang Huijie wanted to say something.

Tang Shun interrupted her: "Wen Ruzheng has a new girlfriend, which is good for you. If he were still chasing you like before, think about it, what if you meet your ideal boyfriend? Would he become an obstacle for you, like you are today? He's making a scene. Can your boyfriend handle it? You should be celebrating now, finally getting rid of this burden. If his conditions weren't too different from yours, it would be fine, you could make do. But after hearing what you just said, he's a far cry from you. You can't even make do. How can you compromise on your lifelong happiness?"

Yes, Zhang Huijie suddenly realized that she couldn't compromise on her life's happiness. She seemed to see a Bentley parked at the hospital entrance, and her handsome boyfriend, who was 1.85 meters tall, walking out with flowers.