The Meal Money Eighteen Years Ago, the Appointment Letter Eighteen Years Later

The middle-aged attending doctor is burdened with the financial burden of a seriously ill father and a second child on the way, and he faces fierce competition for the evaluation of associate senior professional titles. The review supervisors are high school classmates who have been separated for 18 years. When his classmate was from a poor family, he helped him silently and secretly, preserving his self-esteem, and the two broke off after graduation. Now that the other party is in an important position, his wife persuades him to have a relationship, but he is unwilling to take advantage of his youthful kindness and deliberately hides the friendship. When the judges met again, he did not rely on favors, but was successfully judged with his solid medical skills and professional ethics, shattering the rumors. The two of them each stick to the bottom line, one acts impartially, and the other sticks to his true heart. Over the past eighteen years, he has remained sincere and grateful.