Miss Jiang Can't Stand Hardship

[Updated daily at 9 p.m. Anti-piracy lock: 70%. Please add my upcoming novel, I’ll Give You a Handful of Red Beans, to your reading list!] Jiang Sihuai was making a food delivery when she ran into Liang Huaijing downstairs in the hospital’s inpatient building. Years after graduation, Jiang Sihuai had forgotten most of what she’d learned in medical school, but she still remembered Liang Huaijing’s reprimand: “Your clinical reasoning is an absolute mess. What are you doing trying to be a doctor? You might as well go back to farming!” Those words, along with his sharply defined, refined features, became something Jiang Sihuai could never forget. So whenever she slipped a little extra treat into Liang Huaijing’s delivery bag, unlike the freebies she gave other customers, she couldn’t help muttering, “Sure, I’m afraid of hard work, and sure, I have no clinical reasoning skills, but I’m a great junior!” When Liang Huaijing learned that Jiang Sihuai had given up on clinical medicine, he felt uneasy. He thought she’d been so discouraged by him that she’d given up on herself. He wanted to make it up to her by supporting her business, but ended up eating a lot of her snacks for free. Liang Huaijing: “…” He sincerely apologized. “As your supervisor, I should have helped you instead of criticizing you. If it weren’t for my mistake, you’d be an excellent doctor by now.” Jiang Sihuai looked embarrassed. “Actually… I don’t think I can handle the hardships of clinical work…” Liang Huaijing: “? Is working in the food business any easier?” Jiang Sihuai beamed at him. “Look at my sales! I really wasn’t cut out for medicine!” Liang Huaijing: “…It really isn’t because you had other ambitions?” A strict, serious senior brother who holds himself and others to high standards vs. a sunny junior sister who thinks close enough is good enough #Their impressions of each other: loves sweets & can do anything except treat patients# Reader’s notes: 1. This story is entirely fictional. Please don’t compare anything in it to real life. The author has made up plenty of details for the sake of the plot. If it’s not for you, feel free to stop reading. There are countless great stories on Jinjiang, so you’re sure to find one you like! 2. References include Internal Medicine: Endocrinology, Facing Medical Crises, Domoto Bakery, Susumu Koyama’s Dessert Notes, and related websites. Please kindly point out any errors. No need to tell me if you drop the story, and please don’t insult the author or characters @_@ 3. Other completed novels in the same series include Climbing for the Stars, Reaching for the Moon and Tongye Crossing. Check out my author page! 4. This novel will go VIP tomorrow, January 6. Thank you all for your support! Upcoming novel: I’ll Give You a Handful of Red Beans Blurb: Wen Ling and Jiang Huainan had once been more than friends but less than lovers. Everyone thought they would take the next step. After graduating from their five-year program, they went their separate ways. One went to the provincial hospital of traditional Chinese medicine for further training, while the other returned home to inherit the family business selling herbal tea. They ended up in the same city but living separate lives, barely seeing each other. Their relationship dwindled to that of ordinary friends. Everything changed at their undergraduate class’s five-year reunion. After a wild night fueled by alcohol, Jiang Huainan woke up to find Wen Ling sitting on the sofa beside the bed in a bathrobe, watching him. When he noticed the bruises beneath her collar, his nose suddenly started to bleed. Wen Ling calmly asked, “Got a nosebleed? Must be heatiness. Want a cup of cooling tea?” After that, Jiang Huainan felt as if Wen Ling had become a different person. She was no longer the understanding woman he remembered. When he told her he’d been busy with work lately and often felt exhausted, she didn’t comfort him with things like, “You need some time to yourself,” or, “Take a break before starting again.” Instead, she said, “Tired? Got too much dampness in your body? Want a cup of dampness-clearing tea? I’ll give you ten percent off. Small business, thanks for your patronage.” “I no longer want anything from you, so of course I don’t fuss over you or treat you gently anymore.”, Wen Ling “When you dream of someone, go see her when you wake up. Even if all she wants is your money.”, Jiang Huainan Geriatrician x herbal tea shop owner #I thought we were just good friends, but you actually wanted to get with me# #And before I could figure it out, I’d already missed my chance# Note: The last line of the blurb is from the film The Lovers on the Bridge. Theme: Life is full of possibilities, and every road leads to Rome.