The Mad Beauty Professor Forced Me to Mark Her - Chapter 16

During autumn and winter, the flu was common. The medical staff all wore blue masks, their hair tied behind their heads, revealing only a pair of eyes that did not like to speak.

These uniformed medical workers went back and forth, calling out a sentence or two toward the crowd at any moment. The people waiting immediately raised their attention to the highest level, afraid their own names would be called. Because if medical staff had to say the same thing twice, their patience would immediately run out, and the next step might be giving someone a cold face.

That was roughly how Qi Si felt. If someone stood in the hall holding documents for a long while and could not call out a name, she had to wonder whether it was hers. It was like this when lining up for the physical exam, like this when waiting to get the report, and like this when having blood drawn.

The doctor drawing blood was very young. She asked Qi Si to take off her jacket and roll her sleeve up as high as possible. With a hint of a smile, she looked for a while before taking out a tourniquet and flicking it. Qi Si did not know whether it was her imagination, but when the doctor tied the tourniquet on her, she seemed to touch Qi Si’s arm for a little too long. She even patted Qi Si’s tense biceps, producing a crisp sound.

“Work out often?” the doctor asked while drawing a full tube of blood, her head lowered.

“No. No time to work out.” Qi Si studied the pair of pale gray eyes above the mask, her thoughts drifting aimlessly: Lin Ye also had such beautiful eyes.

But to be honest, it was rather shameful. Even though she tried hard to recall Lin Ye’s face in her mind, she could not successfully outline her appearance at all.

It was like looking through a layer of frosted glass. No matter what, she could not clearly see the real world.

The doctor let out a soft hum of laughter, neatly put away the sample tube, and gave Qi Si a cotton swab to press down and stop the bleeding.

That laugh was very light. Lin Ye also often laughed coldly like that. Qi Si could not help glancing at the doctor again. Her unreliable intuition whispered in her heart: Could it really be her?

What did Lin Ye’s eyes look like?

The specific features were hard to recall, but based on feeling… they were like a harbor forgotten by the long river of history, with mist lingering over the sea all year round, and a lost ship silently anchored within the fog. Perhaps it really had lost its way, or perhaps no one could control such a colossal thing.

Lin Ye’s eyes were silent, like an indifferent bystander calmly gazing at this noisy human world, full of mockery and disdain.

“What?” The beautiful doctor noticed the young female Alpha secretly looking at her and cheerfully stared back.

Those eyes once again made Qi Si think of Professor Lin.

Qi Si guiltily lowered her eyelids, her lashes trembling slightly as she pretended nothing had happened.

If she had really been kept by Lin Ye, would she need to sell her body for money and come to a hospital to test drugs? Besides, that was Lin Ye—the famous Professor Lin. Being kept by her seemed… not shameful? It might even be something worth bragging about.

A strange feeling stirred in Qi Si’s heart. She realized she had been thinking about Lin Ye a little too often, coveting something that did not belong to her at all.

Speaking of which, she was exactly this kind of brainless person. If someone treated her even a little kindly, gave her a few gifts, and showed a bit of concern, she would be moved beyond measure, thinking that receiving another person’s affection was the most precious thing in the world. Su Moxiao had easily captured her this way before. Now, one drunken joke from Lin Ye had left her dizzy and confused.

Truly fatal.

Her nose felt a little sore, and Qi Si suddenly sneezed.

MII appeared from behind and handed her a pack of tissues printed with a surrogacy advertisement. “The flu’s really bad lately. Be careful. If you get infected, you’ll be screened out.”

Qi Si had smelled the cloyingly sweet vanilla cream scent before even seeing her. Maybe she had sneezed because of MII’s perfume.

“They already drew blood. Even if I get the flu now, it won’t affect the blood test results.” Qi Si saw the toast MII was carrying. “So thoughtful. You even bought me breakfast?”

MII said, “I didn’t buy it for you. If you haven’t eaten, have some first to pad your stomach.”

Qi Si felt that was boring. She shook her head, then suddenly asked, “Sister MII, how old are you?”

This did not sound like a question Qi Si would ask. A clueless university student like her never asked about other people’s privacy or lives, afraid of offending them. As a result, after knowing MII for nearly half a year, Qi Si knew nothing about her.

MII chuckled softly, brushed the curls by her ear, and asked in return, “What do you think?”

People who had spent years mixing in society had different eyes. MII wore different colored contacts every time. When she stared at people, her eyes naturally carried a smile, yet she seemed to want to see straight through them.

She wore smoky makeup, had a tattoo on her neck, and had recently gotten a new lip stud. This appearance alone made people respect her by three points.

Qi Si felt she should be older than Lin Ye. Out of politeness, she said tactfully, “Twenty-seven or twenty-eight?”

MII burst out laughing. “Do I look that old?”

Was twenty-seven or twenty-eight very old? Lin Ye was only about that age.

Qi Si looked at her for a while. “Then how old are you?”

MII said, “It’s my zodiac year.”

Qi Si joked, “Oh, thirty-six. Twice my age.”

MII pinched her face. “What bullshit are you talking about? Open your eyes and look clearly. Your sister here is a proper untouched young lady. My age starts with a two. If I had gone to university, I’d be about the same as a little flower who just graduated!”

Qi Si pushed her hand away. “Then you started working pretty early. No wonder you seem so mature and steady, have so many connections, and handle things so reliably.”

MII was praised until she floated. Casually, she said, “I ran to Jinghai to make a living before finishing high school. My luck was very good in the early years, and I made a fortune doing business. If not for supporting my girlfriend, the money I earned would’ve been enough to buy a house in Jinghai.”

Qi Si said enviously, “Then your girlfriend must love you a lot.”

MII said, “Tch. She’s just a scumbag. What love? It’s all for money.”

Qi Si blinked and revealed just the right amount of curiosity. It was not too gossipy, nor did it show judgment or pity.

MII’s desire to confide in her was almost drawn out, but when the words reached her mouth, she swallowed them back. She looked at Qi Si strangely. “What have you experienced during this period?”

Why was the way she spoke and handled things different from before? In just a few words, she had drawn out so much information from her.

Qi Si said, “Recently, I’ve been considering whether to suspend school again.”

“Don’t! That’s University A. Other people fight until their heads break and still can’t get in. Even rich kids can’t buy their way in. Although I didn’t finish high school, I genuinely envy students like you.” MII patted Qi Si’s shoulder. “Don’t be impulsive. Do you like that doctor just now? I saw you staring at her for ages. Want me to ask for her number for you?”

Qi Si choked and wondered how the topic had jumped there. In the blink of an eye, she saw MII get up and go talk to the doctor.

Qi Si: “…”

Thank you, old fox.

“She has a husband, but I still got her number for you. Take it, no need to thank me.” MII stuffed the business card she had gotten from the doctor into Qi Si’s jacket pocket, looking very pleased with herself.

Qi Si’s expression cracked. “Are you sick?”

“You were staring so hard you couldn’t look away. Your little thoughts were almost written on your face. What’s wrong with me getting her card for you? Besides, she really is beautiful. Those eyes are like a fox spirit’s.”

Right, right? Lin Ye’s eyes are even prettier than hers.

MII said, “Anyway, you plan to sell your organs in the future. Why not enjoy yourself properly while you still can? Doctors are great. Doctors have good technique. Young, beautiful doctors like this are rare. Usually, they’re too busy working at the hospital to take care of their families, and even if they occasionally go home, there’s no passion between husband and wife. So they like finding something fresh on the side to adjust their mood and relieve work pressure. Isn’t that nice?”

MII’s words almost persuaded Qi Si.

Then this older sister casually pointed at a bald doctor. “Look at someone like that. He’s already suffered his way up to director or deputy director. Everything at home is just decoration. As long as he has power, whether it’s subordinates, nurses, or students, he’ll mess with anything.”

Qi Si: “…?”

MII smiled cheerfully, not caring how much shock these words brought to Qi Si, who had only just stepped into society. She took out a cigarette and held it between her lips. “You study medicine too, so you should know a lot of shady things. You must’ve seen plenty of these sanctimonious people, right?”

“Not really.” After all, so far, she had only met Lin Ye, and pitifully few times at that.

MII said, “That’s because you don’t know enough. Even if someone is truly rotten, you wouldn’t be able to see it. After all, there are only a few clean people in this hospital.”

She had originally wanted to persuade Qi Si to be more open-minded, but unexpectedly, by accident, she poured a basin of cold water over Qi Si’s loosening thoughts.

Forget it. In any case, Lin Ye was a star in the sky. Qi Si did not even have the right to fantasize about her.

At first, more than a hundred people had been recruited to the hospital for the drug trial. After layers of screening, only twelve qualified test subjects remained in the end: eight men and four women, all young people around twenty years old.

After all, this was not an honorable way to earn money. These people kept their distance from one another, and no one took the initiative to speak. They quietly waited as the person in charge repeatedly explained the drug trial procedure.

The trial drugs were a newly developed inducer and suppressant from Lulin Pharmaceuticals. As a supplementary human trial for Phase III clinical testing, they were meant to provide feedback on the new drug’s effects in both inducing and suppressing Alpha glands, as well as clinically observed side effects, for reference before market launch.

The cycle was very short, only three days in total. On the first two days, different doses of the inducer would be injected into the test subjects. On the third day, the suppressant would be injected and its effects observed.

During this period, the test subjects stayed in their own independent hospital rooms. After drug injection, they underwent examinations at intervals, including body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, blood tests, and glandular fluid extraction.

During this time, the subjects could not leave their rooms. Fortunately, they could use electronic devices. After receiving the drug injection, Qi Si opened her computer with a clear conscience, connected to the hospital’s local network, and began surfing.

The hospital’s test results had not yet been printed, but Qi Si had already broken through the firewall, invaded the hospital’s internal system, and seen the results. The doctors in the laboratory department were laughing and chatting in their office, and Qi Si could see their every move through the surveillance backend.

The prank on Li Xu before had only been a small test. Qi Si was now already skilled at using hacking tools based on different operating systems. She could use port scanning and self-developed exploit tools to locate weak points in a network and infiltrate them. Logically, places like schools and hospitals should have multiple firewalls, but because these institutions had long failed to update their outdated equipment, and management did not take it seriously, Qi Si could easily achieve her goal.

She had no special purpose. The three days of hospitalization were simply too boring, and she was curious about what other people’s lives were like.

The doctor from earlier who had given her a business card and somewhat resembled Lin Ye was named Wang Lili, a thirty-two-year-old married Beta. Her husband worked at the same hospital as a Director Qian in cardiology, and he was simultaneously having affairs with two nurses.

One of the nurses, Nana, worked right under Wang Lili’s nose. When she picked up takeout for Dr. Wang at noon, she deliberately spat into the soup. In private, she told colleagues that Dr. Wang was sexually incompetent. During night shifts, she even secretly changed patients’ IV bags to obstruct their treatment. And this Nana also had an official boyfriend who was being made a complete fool.

The other nurse’s surname was Li. She was married with children and was likewise not a good person.

MII was right. The hospital really was messy.

In comparison, Dr. Wang Lili counted as one of the more moral people. She had worked in the profession for five years, her average time off work was after eight at night, and out of three hundred sixty-five days a year, the number of complete rest days she had could be counted on one hand. Although her workload was unbearable and she had the most shifts, her path to promotion was extremely rough. Even now, she was only an ordinary attending physician.

She was indeed interested in Qi Si, but after handing over her business card and receiving no response, she simply gave up. She did not even come to see Qi Si during ward rounds.

Among the twelve drug trial groups, Qi Si’s data was the most special.

The inducer’s effect on Qi Si was not obvious, so the doctors who came to check on her every time were very puzzled. They expected to see the test subject’s Alpha become excited, frenzied, and out of control under the inducer’s effects, like the test subjects in the other wards. But every time they came, they were greatly disappointed.

Although they did not say a word in front of Qi Si, Qi Si had already heard their discussions through the surveillance.

“The drug test results from Ward 207 aren’t ideal. Does this mean this drug’s effect isn’t good? It was developed by Lulin Pharmaceuticals, after all…”

“The previous test subjects weren’t like this, and the other subjects in the same group all showed effects too. This is just an individual case. It can’t be used as reference data, right?”

“Should we delete this set of data? Not include it in the experiment records?”

“But we can’t delete it just because the trial effect wasn’t good, right? How is that different from fabricating experimental data?”

“Contact the company side… see what the people from their R&D department say.”

Qi Si stayed in the hospital for three days with good food and drink, taking advantage of the situation and earning eighteen thousand yuan for free. In the blink of an eye, it was the fourth day, and time to sign the discharge notice. Before being discharged, she planned to make a big move.

Before noon, Qi Si sent a message in Nana’s name to Director Qian: “Dr. Wang said today that she’s going to fire me. She found out I changed a patient’s medication. Hurry and help me! I don’t want to be fired! If she fires me, I’ll tell everyone you cheated!”

At the same time, she contacted Nana’s boyfriend, who worked nearby: “Nana is being harassed by Director Qian. Director Qian said he wants to divorce his wife and elope with Nana! Hurry over!”

Attached was an intimate photo of the two taken from surveillance.

To Director Qian’s other lover, Nurse Li, she sent: “Nana reported that you seduced Dr. Wang’s husband. She plans to get herself out of it and make you take the blame!”

Attached was a photo of Nana and Wang Lili talking privately, making it look as though the two were conspiring to expose Director Qian and Nurse Li.

Under Qi Si’s planning and guidance, the department where Dr. Wang Lili worked soon descended into chaos.

Director Qian rushed to the department in a panic and happened to run into the angry nurse’s official boyfriend. The young man hated this director who seduced people left and right. He charged forward and chased Director Qian, beating him. Very quickly, the official boyfriend knocked the director to the ground.

The crowd of onlookers blocked them from the side. Director Qian fled in a sorry state, not even having put on his shoes properly. The official boyfriend chased him and shouted, “You had the guts to seduce my girlfriend, but you don’t have the guts to come out and face people?!”

In the chaos, Nurse Li rushed over and was knocked down by Nana. When love rivals met, their eyes turned especially red. Without explanation, Nurse Li grabbed Nana’s hair, and Nana also used all her strength to fight back. These four people chased each other from the hall to the corridor, causing a huge uproar. Onlookers filmed short videos and broadcast them all over the internet.

In this chaotic web of relationships, Wang Lili was at the center of the storm, yet she was the most innocent one. Qi Si was afraid she would be implicated, so during the discharge examination, she clung to her and refused to let her leave.

After lying on the bed and finishing the various data checks, Qi Si grabbed the doctor’s hand and said, “Doctor, I feel like my heartbeat isn’t normal. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow. It’s twitching, and it feels awful.”

That “doctor” froze in place and tried to pull her hand back. Somehow, she failed. A pair of cold, clear eyes stared strangely at Qi Si.

“My heart hurts.” Qi Si shook her hand. “Why don’t you examine me again? I feel like I’m going to die from the pain.”

This sudden acting spoiled came out of nowhere, as if Qi Si’s brain had broken.

The doctor looked at her expressionlessly and did not move, as though appreciating some circus performance.

Outside the ward, everything had fallen into chaos. Director Qian was beaten until he fled in panic, and his figure flashed past the doorway, drawing the doctor’s sideways glance.

She absolutely could not let her go join in on that mess!

Bracing herself, Qi Si held the doctor’s hand with one hand and clutched her chest with the other, pretending to be in pain. She rolled left and right on the bed, breathing hard, trembling all over. She raised her head and looked tearfully at the doctor, saying weakly, “Doctor, I need a more comprehensive examination.”

“All right.”

The doctor’s ambiguous answer made Qi Si freeze for a moment. In the next second, she saw the angel in white sit down by her bed and reach out to touch her body.

Qi Si: “?”

“Where does it hurt? Here? Or here?”

Through the hospital gown, the doctor’s pale, jade-like hands pressed here and there against Qi Si’s chest. Those grayish-green eyes lifted slightly and suddenly met Qi Si’s gaze. Qi Si nearly forgot to breathe.

MII was right. Those eyes really were like a fox spirit’s. The outer corners lifted slightly, a faint layer of pale green shadow resting on the thin eyelids. The lashes were distinct, thick, and curled, making those eyes look even clearer and brighter.

Qi Si was at least a medical student. Although she skipped class every day, she still knew where the heart was.

Normally, checking the heartbeat meant the upper-left chest area. But this doctor sister, where exactly were you touching?

How did that movement look like an examination? It was more like measuring her size!

This scene was truly absurd. Qi Si could not quite tell who was taking advantage of whom. Should she call the police? Call the police to arrest herself for seducing a proper doctor?

She had thought Dr. Wang Lili was a breath the police to arrest herself for seducing a proper doctor?

She had thought Dr. Wang Lili was a breath of fresh air. How was she like this too? Maybe you should go outside and watch your husband fight with his mistresses instead?

“It doesn’t hurt anymore.” Qi Si lowered her head and stared at those delicate hands, thinking that someone in her thirties could actually maintain herself this well. They looked good, yes, but no matter what, this action was not proper. After thinking it over, she reminded her, “Also, Doctor, you’re touching the wrong place.”

With the mask blocking her face, Qi Si could not see the doctor’s expression. She only felt that she seemed to be smiling.

“My heartbeat is much better now, but my head is very dizzy. Why don’t you take my blood pressure?” Qi Si turned her face away, not daring to meet her eyes.

Anyway, once she was discharged, she would run away. Whether it was embarrassing or not did not matter. She would never have to see Dr. Wang again!

It grew livelier and livelier outside, but the doctor did not seem to care. Her hand followed Qi Si’s collarbone and jawline upward, her palm pressing against Qi Si’s cheek, her fingertips gently rubbing her temple. “Is this better?”

Qi Si: “…” Is she the one who’s sick, or am I the one who’s sick?

Could it be that I really have some charm I don’t know about, making doctors fall head over heels for me one by one?

Qi Si nervously sat up from the hospital bed and looked at the person in front of her. “Your husband is being chased and beaten outside. Why don’t you go out and have a look?”

The other person’s expression changed slightly. A trace of confusion flashed in her eyes, and she looked at Qi Si in disbelief.

At that moment, time seemed to stop. Qi Si kept feeling that her reaction was not quite right.

Under normal circumstances, shouldn’t she go watch the commotion outside? Why is she looking at me, this monkey?

Qi Si did not dare breathe. She watched as the doctor lightly tugged at her mask and removed the strap from one ear.

She lowered her head. The mask hung from one side of her ear, and along with it fell a few disobedient strands of hair, lazily curling there. She did not even bother lifting her eyelids. She laughed softly, a dangerous light flashing in her eyes, as if in the next second she would seize Qi Si by the neck and take her life.

A thought flashed through Qi Si’s mind. Before it could fully take shape, it had already shattered Qi Si herself on the spot.

“My husband? Who is that?” The woman looked at her sideways, her smiling-not-smiling eyes almost slicing Qi Si into ash.

…Lin Ye?

Professor Lin herself?

Qi Si did not dare make a sound. Her eyes widened slightly, and her first reaction was to look at the laptop beside the hospital bed, ready at any moment to hold her head and scurry away like a rat.

“Speak.” Lin Ye pinched Qi Si’s chin with three fingers. “Who did you mistake me for?”

Qi Si guiltily averted her eyes. Mistaking her for someone else was one thing. She could still find a way to patch that up. Right now, she could only hope Lin Ye had already forgotten that drunken joke.

But things went against her wishes. Lin Ye’s next sentence was: “Little brat, you’ve got guts. You’d rather run to this trash hospital and be a lab rat than be kept by me?”

At that moment, Qi Si felt the sky collapse.

Lin Ye asked, “How much are they paying you for three days?”

With Lin Ye pinching her face, Qi Si could not avoid her gaze. Her eyes landed on the gray sweater at the neckline of Lin Ye’s white coat.

Heavens, it really was her? Why was she here?

“How. Much. Money?” Lin Ye enunciated each word in a low voice, her patience about to run out.

“Eighteen thousand.” Qi Si lowered her eyelids and, without waiting for Lin Ye to criticize her, took the initiative to reflect on herself in her heart.

Lin Ye said, “The compensation I gave the hospital was fifty thousand per subject. Those bastards actually took such a huge cut?”

Qi Si’s mouth opened slightly.

Damn, damn, damn, damn! Middlemen made this much money?! No wonder MII said the money she earned was enough to buy a house in Jinghai!

Lin Ye was clearly angry. She pulled off her mask and threw it into the trash can, stood up, and went to the side to check Qi Si’s various data again.

It was one thing for her not to be sensitive to my pheromones, but she’s also unaffected by the inducer I developed?

Is this Alpha specifically here to oppose me?

The more Lin Ye thought about it, the angrier she became, and for some reason, she glanced at Qi Si again.

The girl obediently stood behind Lin Ye, not daring to breathe too loudly, her head lowered and her spirits down as though she was waiting to be scolded at any moment.

After recognizing Lin Ye herself, how would she dare lie in bed with a clear conscience?

Why bother lowering herself to argue with someone like this? An ungrateful thing like her—sooner or later, Lin Ye would dig out her gland and hold it in her hands to play with.

Lin Ye threw down the pile of useless papers and turned to leave. At this moment, the mixed battle outside the door was becoming more and more intense. A banana flew toward the direction Lin Ye had just walked out.

“Careful!”

Before the words even landed, Qi Si had already rushed over first, pulling Lin Ye into the crook of her arm.

Putting everything else aside, if this banana really hit Lin Ye, Qi Si had reason to believe everyone here would suffer!

Professor Lin’s anger—she should be the one to take it. At least her skin was thick, and she would not be scolded into tears…

Wait!