The Mad Beauty Professor Forced Me to Mark Her - Chapter 17

Whoever threw the banana was also quite a talent.

Originally, it should have been aimed at Director Qian, who was ten meters away, but perhaps because the person had not eaten enough and their aim had gone off, the rotten banana traced a beautiful parabola through the air and flew straight toward the ward door.

If the people inside had not reacted and dodged, allowing the banana to brush past their shoulders, that hit might not have been light.

And the banana thrown was not the only one. The floor was covered with trampled fruit, all kinds of wilted flowers, and useless gift boxes. After all, if there was one thing a hospital never lacked, it was these things.

No one cared about the victims who had nearly been hit by the banana. The medical staff and inpatients were happily mixed together, enjoying the gossip while not forgetting to take out their phones and snap photos for memory’s sake.

“A director harassing a nurse and getting beaten by the nurse’s boyfriend—this is definitely headline news.”

“The key is he’s been cheating with multiple people. His wife is in this department too!”

“Right, where’s his wife? Where’s Dr. Wang? Why isn’t she here watching the excitement?”

“Who knows? Maybe she’s hiding and doesn’t dare show her face. Her husband is this embarrassing—how would she dare appear?”

“So cowardly. No wonder Nana usually bullies her right under her nose. If she can endure even this, everyone will know from now on that she’s a pushover!”

When Qi Si pulled Professor Lin into her arms, she was practically like a defeated army commander who had finished fighting and decided to die generously for the cause, without even the slightest hesitation about cutting her own throat. Qi Si’s movements were very clean and decisive. Holding the beautiful professor nine years her senior, she did not feel the least bit awkward. She even split off part of her attention to listen to the gossip outside.

Lin Ye noticed this small movement. With part of her body weight leaning against the crook of Qi Si’s arm, she slightly raised her head, tugged at the collar of Qi Si’s hospital gown, and asked, “Where are you looking?”

“You’re too close. I don’t dare look at you.” Qi Si lowered her eyelashes, gave Lin Ye a firm supporting hold, then let go of the hand at the small of her back. Lingering warmth wrapped around her palm. She curled her hand into a fist and put it into her jacket pocket, where there was also the mask Lin Ye had used and that Qi Si had picked out of the trash earlier.

It was very common for students to be afraid of teachers. Lin Ye had long gotten used to other people fearing her. If someone was not afraid, she would instead feel unaccustomed to it.

But the “don’t dare” coming from Qi Si’s mouth seemed a little different.

If she really did not dare, how had she hugged her so tightly just now? And even multitasked by listening to gossip outside?

Heh. Lying little brat.

Lin Ye grabbed her collar and tugged her forward, then pushed her away, as if playing with a toy.

Her collar slid crookedly to one shoulder, almost revealing her collarbone and shoulder. After being pulled and pushed like this, Qi Si had no temper at all. She was soft and pliant like a silicone Barbie doll. Not only that, this life-sized Barbie even knew how to tidy herself up. In the blink of an eye, she had restored her collar to its original state.

Lin Ye looked as though she had seen a ghost, watching this person turn around as if nothing had happened and take clothes out of her schoolbag, clearly intending to change.

With her back to Lin Ye, Qi Si undid the top button of her shirt, tilted her head slightly, and said to her, “Professor Lin, please close the door for me on your way out. Thank you.”

Lin Ye lightly kicked the edge of the door with the tip of her shoe. With a thud, the noise outside was immediately reduced by half.

Qi Si: “?”

No, sister, are medical school professors this free? Don’t you have anything else to do? You even want to watch someone change clothes?

Qi Si’s hand paused on the second button. She could neither continue nor stop, as if waiting for Lin Ye to keep making fun of her.

Qi Si asked, “Don’t you have other things to do?”

“I’m done.” Lin Ye looked at her leisurely. Even her words left Qi Si no room to continue, probably because she was used to playing the role of “conversation ender.”

“Oh. Then your work efficiency is quite high.” Qi Si still had her back to Lin Ye. “So, do you want to watch me change clothes now?”

Lin Ye said, “That’s right.”

Qi Si: What exactly is with that slightly proud tone?

Was Lin Ye sick?

…Fine, then go along with the sickness.

Qi Si felt tired. She took off her top and threw it on the hospital bed, generously showing Lin Ye her back before picking up her tank top and hoodie and putting them on one after another.

A female Alpha’s body underwent a second round of strengthening during differentiation. Bone stretching allowed her height to grow a few more centimeters, while muscle growth made her posture straighter and more powerful. But all of this was still based on a female body. The level of enhancement was between 100 and 125 percent. For some people, it merely improved their aura a little, and on the surface, there was no obvious difference from a Beta.

After changing her top, Qi Si saw from the reflective pillar beside the hospital bed that Lin Ye was still staring at her.

What kind of hobby is this?

Changing pants was not too bad. There was still black underwear underneath, and with her back turned, she was not afraid of being seen.

Although Professor Lin was an Omega, as long as she was not in heat, this bit of contact should not matter, right? The two female Alphas in Qi Si’s dorm also often jumped around in just their underwear.

In theory, that was true. But today, Qi Si underperformed a little while taking off her pants. When she pulled them down, she almost stepped on the pant leg. Luckily, she steadied herself. She bent down to arrange them and hurriedly glanced toward the door.

Lin Ye was no longer where she had been standing. At some point, she had moved to Qi Si’s side and was now admiring her slightly bent backside with great interest. Without any sense of boundaries, she reached out and slapped Qi Si’s butt.

Qi Si: “…”

Is this polite?

Is this normal? What kind of place is a hospital? Am I her toy?

“Very springy.” Lin Ye was in a good mood. Rarely, she smiled until the corners of her eyes curved, her arms relaxed and crossed.

Qi Si gave her a strange look but said nothing. She did not dare say anything. She picked up her jeans and quickly changed into them, packed her computer, shouldered her bag, and did not dare linger in that room for even a step longer.

The farce outside had quieted down somewhat. Director Qian, under the protection of security, had hidden in the basement. The people watching were very unwilling to let things end and still wanted to keep stirring the fire. At this moment, Director Hu from the Pheromone Department came over, cursing and urging the medical staff to return to their posts.

“But isn’t this the lunch break?” one patient spoke up on behalf of the doctors.

“Does lunch break mean no one needs to be on duty? No one needs to make rounds? What if something happens to a patient? If this were the emergency department, would you dare be this idle?”

After scolding them, Director Hu said, “Who took photos just now? Delete the photos and hand over your phones!”

The lower-level medical staff dared to be angry but not speak. As Director Hu checked phones, he asked, “Where is Wang Lili?”

A nurse said, “Director, after Dr. Wang finished outpatient consultations this morning, no one has seen her.”

Director Hu said, “Go call her over!”

The nurse said, “Director, her phone can’t be reached.”

Hu said, “If you can’t get through, keep calling!”

With a stern face, he threw his weight around in front of the lower-level medical staff. But when he turned around and noticed Professor Lin Ye standing nearby, Director Hu’s face changed in a second, and he greeted her with a grin. “Professor Lin, how is it? What exactly is the situation with the test subject over there?”

Lin Ye said, “I can read the data myself. I don’t need to discuss it with you, do I?”

Director Hu laughed. “Of course, of course. We’re mainly responsible for collecting clinical trial data. As for whether the specific results are good or bad, we can’t interfere. Experiments are like that. Sometimes things go wrong, and no one can predict it. By the way, have you eaten?”

Lin Ye said coldly, “Who was responsible for recruiting the test subjects?”

Director Hu froze for a moment and said, “Do you have questions about the screening criteria for the test subjects?”

Lin Ye’s gaze cut toward him like a knife. Director Hu said, “The person in charge of this part is one of our attending physicians, Dr. Wang Lili. She’ll be here soon. Please wait a moment. Why don’t you sit in my office first?”

The hospital was chaotic and messy. Lin Ye did not want to stay for even one more minute, much less endure the stink inside someone else’s office.

Seeing Lin Ye’s disgust, Director Hu smiled ingratiatingly. “I’m truly sorry, Professor Lin. There was a little accident today. Doctor-patient disputes, you understand. Please be understanding.”

Lin Ye turned her head and saw Qi Si calmly sitting on a metal chair, head lowered as she held her computer and worked on something.

What could she possibly be busy with? Hiding that far away—was she afraid I’d eat her?

“Doctor-patient dispute?” Lin Ye said carelessly. “What I heard was something else.”

Director Hu curled his lip and smiled. “It’s all about the same. Hospitals, you know, are always full of farces.”

As he spoke, Director Hu used his eyes to urge his subordinates to hurry and find Wang Lili. A young nurse muttered, “Her phone won’t connect. Where am I supposed to find Dr. Wang? Even if she went to eat, she should be back by now, right? Does she not know her husband got beaten? She should be able to see it in the group chat, right? There are still patients waiting for her to sign discharge papers this afternoon.”

“…She wouldn’t be thinking of doing something drastic, would she?”

If even a nurse could think of this, Qi Si had already thought of it earlier. Tracing the surveillance footage, she discovered that when the farce first began, Wang Lili had stood at the entrance of the outpatient room and watched for a while, then silently walked toward the fire stairs.

Judging from the stairwell surveillance, the direction Wang Lili went was—

The rooftop?!

This was bad!

Qi Si hurriedly closed her computer. She had no time to put it into her bag, so she held it and rushed toward the corridor.

Her reaction was too swift. The rubber soles of her shoes rubbed against the floor with an ear-piercing sound, startling the people nearby and also drawing Lin Ye’s attention.

That urgent? Where is she rushing off to?

Lin Ye asked Director Hu, “Where is Dr. Wang’s consultation room?”

Lower-level doctors had limited resources, so consultation rooms were basically shared. Another doctor who worked with Wang Lili had already begun seeing patients. The patient was an Omega with a disordered heat cycle and was anxiously describing her symptoms.

Wang Lili’s workstation was in the back row. Lin Ye bypassed the doctor and patient and came to Wang Lili’s desk. On the desktop was a thick stack of registration slips, all patients she had seen that morning—at least a hundred or so.

“You can wait here if you like,” Director Hu said with a smile. “Please sit first. I’ll go handle something else. If you need anything, just call me.”

His fawning attitude made the doctor seeing patients glance over.

Lin Ye sat down at Wang Lili’s workstation and found a business card beneath her keyboard.

Zhang Andong, gold-medal lawyer at Jinghai Zeru Law Firm.

The business card had been touched many times, its surface creased with lines. On the back was Zhang Andong’s personal introduction, with the key phrase: “100% win rate in divorce litigation representation.”

Lin Ye tapped the keyboard, lighting up Wang Lili’s computer screen. From the search bar, she saw the latest search history:

“Which department should medical corruption be reported to?”

“If my husband commits crimes, will it affect future children after divorce?”

“Can someone be fired from the hospital for serious misconduct?”

“How can I get promoted to associate senior title?”

Lin Ye: “…” Impressive.

On the rooftop, Wang Lili had smoked half a pack of cigarettes and finally heard a rush of footsteps. She drew in a deep breath and threw the cigarette butt down from the rooftop. The wind on the top floor instantly scattered the smell of smoke.

The door was slammed open. Qi Si rushed up with her bag on her back. Seeing the scene before her, Qi Si felt all the blood in her body flow backward, and her whole person seemed frozen in place.

“Dr. Wang…” Qi Si did not dare speak too loudly, afraid of startling Wang Lili, who was on the verge of collapse. “You… calm down. Don’t be impulsive.”

Wang Lili turned back to look at Qi Si. She had never expected that the person chasing up here would be her. After freezing for a moment, an unreadable smile appeared at the corner of her lips. Then she turned back and continued looking at the scenery below the rooftop.

Qi Si was at a loss. When she thought of how she had stirred up today’s incident and caused Dr. Wang Lili to suffer an emotional breakdown and seek death, she wished she could slap herself several times.

An attending physician who worked diligently and tirelessly in her department, doing the heaviest work every day, taking the most shifts. During last month’s National Day holiday, she had spent all seven days in a row in the on-call room, busy to the point that she had no private life at all, while also having to endure an ugly, foul-tempered leader.

That damned leader only smiled at her every year during title evaluations and said, “Your husband is already a director. Why don’t you wait two more years? Next year’s evaluation quota will definitely be yours.”

“Just wait a little longer. You’re still young anyway. You’re not short on time.”

“Aiya, young people should contribute more. Titles and ranks are all empty things. As a person, you have to keep your feet on the ground.”

If professional title rankings were empty things, why establish such a system? Why did everyone in the hospital flatter one another and try so hard to climb upward?

She was thirty-two now. Her hair fell out in handfuls every day. She suffered from severe lack of sleep, and in the past few months, she had even shown signs of menopause. Other women her age were already mothers of several children, but what about her? Her husband messed around with nurses in her own department. Girls in their early twenties were nearly stepping on her face. She had lost her youth, her career was a complete mess, and she still had to endure other people’s gossip.

Qi Si had never experienced such a scene and did not know how to comfort an adult who had fallen apart. The wind on the rooftop was too strong, blowing into Qi Si’s eyes. The young person stood at a loss for a long while before pleading, “Dr. Wang, you absolutely must not be impulsive. If you jump from here, I’ll jump with you.”

Wang Lili froze. She heard the girl behind her say:

“My dad got into a car accident this year. He’s paralyzed and lying in bed. I also have two younger sisters at home, and even their schooling is a problem now. My stepmother is an Omega with no work experience. Every day, she picks up cardboard boxes in the apartment building corridors to sell for money and takes care of the three of them—their three meals a day, eating, drinking, and going to the bathroom.”

“I was supposed to be the pillar of the family. I should study hard and get scholarships, work while going to school. But one anatomy class scared me half to death. I can’t face those animal corpses. I skip class all day, and I haven’t handed in assignments. Because of some campus bullying, I don’t even want to leave my dorm room. Even now, I don’t dare face my grades. My family hopes I’ll study well, but I can’t do anything right. I can’t take care of them, and I can’t support myself at all. Anyway, today’s incident was my fault. If you jump, I’ll go with you.”

As she spoke, Qi Si grew emotional. Tears poured out, and for a moment, she could not control herself, nor could she continue speaking.

She had wanted to confess the reason behind today’s farce. She felt sorry for hurting an innocent person. She had only just started speaking, but Wang Lili was already dumbfounded.

A young person’s feelings were too fervent and sincere. Even from far away, they could scald the doctor’s cold, numb heart.

If they were really comparing misery, this young Alpha’s experience was far more miserable than hers. Even she was still working hard to live, so why was Wang Lili seeking death?

But the doctor’s plan had not been like this.

…It had been completely disrupted by the girl. What should she do?

Fortunately, at that moment, a second person walked out of the stairwell.

No one knew when Lin Ye had arrived. She stood in the backlit stairwell, silently listening to everything Qi Si had just said. Then she walked over and held the crying Alpha in her arms, letting Qi Si’s face rest on her shoulder.

Qi Si smelled a very fragrant scent. Caught off guard, she was embraced. Those hands were thin and soft, winding and wrapping around her like vines, as if they were the most solid and powerful thing she could rely on in this life. That slender shoulder was not broader than hers, but resting on it felt especially soft, with a layer of soft and fluffy sweater fabric pressed against her. Qi Si held her breath.

Lin Ye had one hand around her waist, the other palm against the top of her head. Like coaxing a child, she blew a breath and laughed in a voice only Qi Si could hear. “Good girl. Dr. Wang doesn’t really want to die. Go downstairs and call people up. Call the police. Call the hospital director. The bigger this gets, the better.”

Qi Si’s pupils shrank slightly. She lifted her face from Lin Ye’s shoulder. They were so close that for a moment, her breathing grew hurried.

Their eyes met. The tears on Qi Si’s face had not dried, and Lin Ye gently wiped them away with the pad of her finger.

Lin Ye’s lips parted, and she said softly, “Trust me. I’ll watch her here.”

Qi Si nodded, looked back at Wang Lili, then quickly ran down the stairs. Her heart was nearly leaping out of her throat.

Damn, damn, damn, damn! Lin Ye heard everything just now! So embarrassing!

Her footsteps grew faster and faster. Qi Si rushed to the nearest department and shouted toward the crowd, “Help! Someone is on the rooftop about to jump!”

“Someone come quickly! Someone on the roof is going to kill herself!”

Her voice was clear and bright, instantly blasting out a crowd of people. They had not had enough gossip earlier, and now here came an even bigger piece of gossip!

Director Hu was still in a meeting with the hospital leadership, discussing how to handle the public relations for what had happened at noon. The incident had already been posted online and sparked heated discussion, greatly affecting the hospital’s reputation.

The clever Director Hu proposed: Have Director Qian’s wife, Dr. Wang Lili, appear in front of the camera and say a few clarifying words, stating that the entire matter was completely a misunderstanding, guiding public opinion to believe that this was purely a doctor-patient conflict, thereby eliminating public doubts about the hospital.

As soon as he said this, someone immediately asked, “Will Dr. Wang agree?”

“For the hospital’s reputation, what is there not to agree to?” Director Hu was practically pleased with his own cleverness. He touched his face and said, “Dr. Wang is a member of the hospital in the first place. Everyone actually knows the situation between her and Director Qian as husband and wife. She works under me, and this incident was caused by a nurse under her as well. She should be the one to smooth things over. At worst, I’ll properly comfort her and give her fewer shifts this month. She’ll definitely agree.”

The others expressed no opinion. After all, there was no more suitable method.

At that moment, the hospital director’s phone rang. He picked it up.

Halfway through listening with the phone pressed to his ear, the hospital director’s face turned livid. He glared fiercely at Director Hu.

“Wang Lili is going to jump off the building. Reporters are already gathered downstairs.”