My Ex-Boyfriend Became My Attending Physician

Zhihu Q&A: What's the most mortifying way you've ever run into an ex?

One highly upvoted answer: I got sick and ended up in the hospital. He was a doctor, I was a patient. The worst part? He worked in nephrology and became my attending physician.

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1. After working overtime while sick, Jiang He ended up in the hospital.

The ridiculous part was that she'd been admitted to nephrology. Her attending physician hadn't arrived yet, so she lay in bed praying her kidneys were fine.

Then things got even more ridiculous: her attending physician was her ex-boyfriend, Jiang He.

Back in medical school, he'd been the aloof campus heartthrob, cool and distant. Girls had pursued him one after another, but no one had ever seen him come down from his pedestal for anyone.

At the hospital, Jiang He was just as cold and distant as before, with not a shred of humanity.

But Jiang He with the lights off? Jiang He knew how sexy he was, how firm his muscles were.

Now, though, she only wanted to keep things professional and pretend they were strangers.

2. But he just wouldn't let things go her way.

Jiang He went to the cafeteria alone and ran into him.

He sat across from her and patiently picked every last bit of scallion out of her food.

Jiang He politely told him she could do it herself, but he said, "Who was it who said if I didn't pick them all out, she'd eat garlic next time?"

Jiang He: "..."

Jiang He remembered saying that about kissing.

She secretly ordered iced milk tea in the middle of the night. Before the delivery guy could call, Jiang He walked into her hospital room carrying the drink. When Jiang He took it, she realized it had been heated up.

Jiang He warned her, "Drink anything cold again, and just you wait..."

Jiang He remembered how she'd secretly eaten ice cream one night while she had a cold. He'd said that if she did it again, she'd be in for a spanking that night.

3. After she was discharged, the two of them went back to being strangers who kept out of each other's lives.

But before long, she heard Jiang He had a fever and was home alone. Wanting to help, she tracked down his address.

She found Jiang He sitting alone at the dining table, picking scallions out of his beef noodles. A little while later, an ice cream delivery arrived.

Jiang He held the ice cream up to him. "Are you crazy?"

Jiang He looked up at her, his face pale. "I wanted to try the things you like."

* A gorgeous, carefree woman x a sharp-tongued, stubborn, secretly flirtatious surgeon

* Live in the moment x hopeless romantic

* At its heart, this is a rekindled romance. They reunite at the beginning, with flashbacks to their college days. A short, sweet romance.

* This premise was conceived on 2023/04/07, with a dated document as proof

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