Chapter Twenty-One: Don’t Even Know This Basic Medical Knowledge?

She pressed her lips together and called out, "Walk faster."

Hearing the voice, Luo Yixia looked up and realized Song Chengyi was speaking to her. "Oh," she replied.

Luo Yixia answered and hurried to catch up.

Song Chengyi could clearly sense that Luo Yixia's spirits were low. Was she upset because he had suggested a walk?

After a moment's thought, he decided to explain, "Eating too much at dinner isn't good for your stomach. Over time, it can lead to gastritis, and you'll feel uncomfortable when you sleep. Overeating at dinner often means you take in too much cholesterol. The liver will convert the excess energy into cholesterol, raising the cholesterol level in your blood, which leads to arteriosclerosis and eventually develops into coronary heart disease. It can also cause poor sleep quality, acute pancreatitis, diabetes, obesity, chronic enteritis, and even colon cancer." He spoke at length, then added, "So I wanted you to move around a bit to help with digestion."

Luo Yixia blinked at him, slightly taken aback by his long lecture. Was studying medicine really so intimidating? She had momentarily forgotten she was a medical student herself.

Seeing her puzzled expression, Song Chengyi raised an eyebrow. "Aren't you studying clinical medicine too? After a year, you should be familiar with these things—these are common knowledge."

Luo Yixia felt a pang of guilt. She remembered how the past year had been spent napping in class, playing games, or binge-watching dramas...

"Uh... I know," she quickly nodded, unwilling to let him look down on her.

Back then, Song Chengyi had achieved top marks in the sciences. He was expected to attend Tsinghua or perhaps study abroad. But for reasons no one understood, he was set on attending A University, claiming that its medical program was renowned nationwide. Yet, compared to Tsinghua or Peking University, it seemed an odd choice. Even Luo Yixia had assumed Song Chengyi would become a scientist or a business leader. No one expected him to develop an interest in medicine, wanting to save lives.

Watching Song Chengyi secure a place at A University, Luo Yixia could no longer sit still. Seeing her own consistently poor grades, she fought desperately for two years. Her weak foundation made studying an uphill battle. Perhaps no one knew how many days and nights she spent working through problems, breaking down in tears again and again. No one understood how much effort she put in to be admitted to C University.

Luo Yixia was not as intelligent as Song Chengyi and had never worked hard before. This one attempt at diligence had nearly cost her half her life.

When the college entrance exam results came out and her scores were much higher than before, her mother thought she must have been incredibly lucky or that the papers had been graded incorrectly. She even dragged Luo Yixia to school to verify the results, checking them again and again before finally believing it. That was her mother for you; that was her place in her mother's heart.

Still, Luo Yixia breathed a sigh of relief. She had just reached C University's admission threshold and, without hesitation, filled in clinical medicine as her major, thinking she would work at the same hospital as Song Chengyi. But she never expected that clinical medicine would not suit her at all. Although the first year was all theoretical, Luo Yixia was already at her limit, unable to understand anything.

Every day, seeing the diagrams of the human body in the textbooks made her inexplicably nauseated.

Perhaps she truly wasn't suited for medicine.

Yet whenever she thought of Song Chengyi, she mustered her courage to press on.