“Socially withdrawn because of low self-esteem about his appearance?”

Yan Feifan asked with some confusion, “Dr. Tan, are you thinking of using physical plastic surgery to treat the youth’s psychological problems?”

Tan Xiao smiled and said, “Is there anything wrong with that?”

“If I directly solve the root cause of his social withdrawal, wouldn’t the problem be easily resolved?”

Tan Xiao explained further, “Of course, I could also use psychological counseling to get him to face his perceived flaws, but that would take a long time, and the results could easily relapse.”

“Going back and forth like that a few times would waste his precious, vibrant teenage years.”

“It’s better to be simple and direct, and solve the problem once and for all.”

Yan Feifan found himself quite in agreement with Dr. Tan’s approach to solving the problem.

He then reminded her, “Dr. Tan, in that case, the ones you’ll need to persuade are the youth’s parents and elders.”

“Parents in our country aren’t like those abroad. Generally speaking, they’re more conservative and are always resistant to the idea of their children getting plastic surgery…”

Tan Xiao nodded. “I’m aware of that. I’ll have a proper discussion with the youth’s parents.”

She smiled charmingly. “Mr. Yan, your superb plastic surgery skills are my greatest source of confidence in communicating with them.”

“Mr. Wang said that you have already surpassed your master.”

“That’s just Mr. Wang being complimentary. It shouldn’t be taken seriously.”

Yan Feifan offered a humble reply and agreed to Dr. Tan’s request to perform the plastic surgery for the youth.

The precondition, of course, was obtaining the consent of the youth and his parents.

Yan Feifan spent the next two days in a flurry of activity.

On Tuesday night, with Dr. Ge Xianghui’s assistance, he was the lead surgeon for a cleft lip repair surgery in the oral surgery operating room.

On Wednesday night, he served as a surgical assistant, helping Yu Suye complete the reconstructive surgery on the right-hand deformity of a child from the welfare home.

On both afternoons, Yan Feifan stayed in the neurosurgery lab, observing and analyzing the changes in a spinal canal after an ethanol injection to verify and optimize the simulation model in his mind.

「In the blink of an eye, it was Thursday, the start of the May Day holiday.」

Early in the morning, Yan Feifan, who was in his bedroom simulating an ethanol injection for a spinal canal tumor, was interrupted by a cheerful Tian Yu bursting in.

“Mr. Yan, what a shame! You can’t come with us on the yacht trip on the Yangtze River.”

“Don’t you be sad now, okay? I’ll bring you back some tasty treats.”

Seeing Tian Yu’s smug and showy expression, topped with a head of messy hair, Yan Feifan’s obsessive-compulsive tendencies took over. Forgetting to retort, he reached out and began to tidy her hair for her.

As he straightened it out, he forgot about Tian Yu’s earlier smugness and simply reminded her, “Be safe while you’re out having fun. I remember you can’t swim.”

Tian Yu also started fixing her own hair.

With practiced ease, she quickly used the hair tie on her wrist to pull her hair into a high ponytail.

Tian Yu swung her ponytail and said with a playful laugh, “Don’t worry, Mr. Yan. Not knowing how to swim is the safest way to be.”

“The ones who drown are always the ones who can swim.”

Yan Feifan flicked her on the forehead and chided, “Stop being cheeky. You have to be careful.”

Tian Yu immediately stood at attention, gave a mock military salute, and shouted, “Mr. Yan, yes, sir!”

Before Yan Feifan’s Finger Snap Divine Skill could strike again, Tian Yu dodged away and ran out, giggling…

After breakfast, Yan Feifan, his sister, and Xiaoyu left the house together.

Once out of the residential complex, they went their separate ways.

Yan Ziruo and Tian Yu took a taxi to the Dongjiang Yacht Pier to meet up with Yanyan and Mrs. Hua.

Yan Feifan, on the other hand, rode a shared bike to the Affiliated Hospital…

Although today was the first day of the May Day holiday, for a hospital that never rests, it was as busy as ever.

The plastic surgery center, in particular, was fully booked with surgeries for the next few days.

In the director’s office, Yan Feifan was checking the recovery of Mr. Wang’s left calf.

He pressed and kneaded it firmly a few times and asked, “No pain at all?”

Wang Chuan shook his head.

“Any numbness?”

Wang Chuan shook his head again. “Two days ago, there was still a dull ache, and sometimes a sudden, sharp pain like a needle prick.”

“But from last night until now, all the symptoms seem to have just vanished. I don’t feel any discomfort at all.”

Yan Feifan pressed it a few more times and said, “Mr. Wang, I can’t determine the real situation either.”

“Logically, after half a month of recovery, plus regular injections of nerve growth factor to nourish it, it’s normal for the pain to disappear.”

“Mr. Wang, once we get through the holiday rush, I’ll make an incision to perform another check.”

“Alright!”

Wang Chuan agreed, taking his left leg off the coffee table and pulling down his pant leg. He said worriedly, “I hope this past half-month of suffering wasn’t for nothing.”

“It will be effective!”

Yan Feifan’s light-hearted reassurance didn’t have much of an effect.

However, after so many years, Wang Chuan’s mental fortitude was already well-honed.

He quickly adjusted and said with a soft laugh, “Do your best and let nature take its course.”

“Hey, Feifan, what about your experiments in neurosurgery over the past two days?”

Yan Feifan replied frankly, “Too many variables, too few samples. The gap between the results and my calculated projections fluctuates, sometimes large, sometimes small.”

“The discrepancy is hovering right at the edge of the acceptable limit.”

Yan Feifan said with a helpless expression, “I’ve modified my simulation and analysis model many times, but the results are still not ideal.”

Wang Chuan reached out and patted Yan Feifan’s shoulder. “This is your first attempt, and on such a complex procedure. It’s completely normal for the results to be less than satisfactory.”

“Feifan, as a pioneer and innovator, sometimes you have to be bold enough to experiment, even if the price is the patient’s life.”

“It’s cruel, but it’s something that has to be done.”

Wang Chuan continued to console him, “Take vaccine development, for example. Before a vaccine can be successfully brought to market, it has to undergo large-scale vaccination trials.”

“During that period, it’s possible for recipients to have adverse reactions, or even die.”

Yan Feifan grunted in acknowledgment. “Mr. Wang, I know all that.”

“Sacrifice is sometimes unavoidable.”

“What I’m doing now is trying to reduce the possibility of that sacrifice to its absolute minimum.”

Wang Chuan patted Yan Feifan’s shoulder again. “As a doctor, you have to be a little ruthless.”

He stood up and said, “Feifan, I won’t teach you anything new this morning.”

Wang Chuan then said mysteriously, “You’re going to assist me in a surgery. Just think of it as a way to relax.”

“Let me tell you, the patient is an A-list celebrity.”

“You’ll get to use a scalpel on her face. Won’t that be satisfying?”

Yan Feifan couldn’t help but laugh. “Mr. Wang, I’m not that kind of person with such low-brow tastes.”

“Hey, Mr. Wang, just how big of a star is she?”

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