Green Branch

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Chen Jiashu had suffered from insomnia for a long time. A colleague in the sleep clinic suggested listening to some soothing music to help him sleep. One late night, he happened upon a video.

It featured barking dogs and chirping birds, a stream flowing by, and the occasional clear, lilting female voice. For the first time in a long while, he slept through the night without dreaming.

After that, he couldn't fall asleep without her voice. He needed it every single day.

Then one day, that voice crossed the internet and made its way through the crowds in the gastroenterology clinic, appearing right beside him in person:

"Doctor, my stomach hurts. Could you prescribe me a few painkillers?"

Later, he handed his phone to Song Qingzhi, quite pleased with himself. "Record a wake-up alarm and ringtone for me."

Song Qingzhi: "..." I thought I was your girlfriend, but you think I'm a voice-over robot???

A tender young branch is the most beautiful, vibrant one on a flourishing tree.

Song Qingzhi is Chen Jiashu's most important, most tender rib.

Animal keeper and private-kitchen owner × beautiful hands, crafty, gastroenterologist

Reader's Guide:

1. The medical cases draw on books such as 111 Analyses of Difficult Gastrointestinal Diseases, Song Yan, and Eight Discourses on Nurturing Life, as well as various academic websites. Since the field advances over time, some information may not have been updated promptly. If you spot errors or anything that conflicts with current clinical guidelines, please point them out kindly. No personal attacks, please. =_=

2. This story is fictional, with no real-life models, and is not a documentary. Please don't try to identify real-life models. Some details are invented, and the departments in the story may differ from those at real institutions. Thank you for understanding.

3. Place names in the story are made up for the plot. Please don't associate them with real places.

4. Readers who love historical research should proceed with caution! Research-minded readers, beware! Research-minded readers, beware! Thanks for your understanding!

5. This novel will be serialized tomorrow, May 9. Thank you all for your support!

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The author has completed novels including It Must Be Dark Fragrance in My Sleeves, Meals at Dr. Li's, and Talk Romance After Drinking. Visit the author's profile to read them. Kisses!

Please add upcoming novels I'll Collect Rent to Support You and Ji Shi and the Stars to your reading list!

Upcoming Novels

1. Ji Shi and the Stars

After resigning due to a work injury, Wei Fanxing returned home. In just one week, she went from being her mother's darling to someone her mother couldn't stand, so she quickly packed up and ran off to work as a doctor at Huichuntang.

To her surprise, it was a new workplace but her old colleagues.

Their interactions went like this:

Ji Shi: "Why is your hand shaking so much? A lingering effect of a brain hemorrhage?"

Wei Fanxing clenched her fists. "What lingering effect? You're the one making me this angry!"

Whenever people tried to set Ji Shi up on a blind date, he always brushed them off with the same old excuse: "Rabbits don't eat the grass by their burrow."

Finally, one day, Ji Shi, the pride and joy of the provincial Chinese medicine hospital, resigned and went home to inherit the family business!

All the single young women who had their eye on him spread the news, thinking they were no longer just grass by his burrow and getting ready to make their move.

Then he changed his tune. "If it's good grass, I don't mind if it grows right by my burrow."

That grass had a name: Wei Fanxing.

2. I'll Collect Rent to Support You

Mo Tingyun inherited eight luxury properties in major cities simply by being born into the right family, plus an entire street in an urban village. Her dream was to spend her life as a junior resident, enjoying an easy life with someone to look after her.

She never imagined that one day her dream would be shattered when she was reassigned.

The department head: "Xiao Mo, from now on, you'll have to take charge on your own."

Mo Tingyun: "..." Is it really this hard to get social insurance these days?

Life is hard, and Xiao Mo sighed.

She needed something to relieve the stress, so she set her sights on Song Tang, who had suddenly disappeared years ago, then suddenly reappeared, unable to scrape together enough money even for outpatient surgery.

Song Tang fled back to the city from an archaeological base in the northwest, covered in dust, and opened a Four Treasures of the Study shop. There, he was reunited with Mo Tingyun.

The childhood friend who used to bring him candy had become a rich young woman, and every few days she tried to give him money.

Mo Tingyun sobbed, "This is my only way to relieve stress. Please let me do it!"

Song Tang: "..." People usually spend money in games to raise virtual boyfriends. You're the first person I've met who does it in real life. :)

#One became rich through demolition compensation, dreamed of coasting through life, but was forced to work hard and improve herself: a young obstetrician and gynecologist#

#One hoped to escape his family's inherited destiny, yet ended up following a path different from his father's: a young painter#

Theme: Be with the person you love, support each other in becoming better, and build a beautiful life together.