Chapter 757: Chapter 756: A Wait in Return

On Saturday morning around nine, Yan Feifan, having completed his pre-operative preparations, walked into Operating Room 2 of the plastic surgery center. He found that in addition to his own surgical team, Wang Chuan was also there with five of his students.

Meeting Yan Feifan’s questioning gaze, Wang Chuan replied, "First, I brought my students here to observe and learn. Second, your sister asked me to keep an eye on you."

"After all, you’ve only been recovering for a couple of days, and this is another surgery that will last over seven hours."

"If I see you struggling to hold on during the procedure, I can take over for you."

Yan Feifan questioned him bluntly, "Are you sure you can take over my surgery?"

"..."

Wang Chuan was momentarily speechless.

For complex plastic surgeries, every surgeon’s plan is slightly different due to their individual understanding of aesthetics and variations in personal technique.

Therefore, unlike general surgery, it’s not so easy to swap out the lead surgeon mid-procedure.

But Wang Chuan considered himself experienced and highly skilled; he was confident he could step in to salvage another plastic surgeon’s operation if needed.

However, if that person was Yan Feifan, Wang Chuan, as arrogant as he was, had to admit...

...that him taking over would be a shoddy follow-up to a masterpiece.

Besides, this was a directional cosmetic surgery. All the information about the celebrity, Ah Yimu, was stored in Yan Feifan’s head.

On such short notice, Wang Chuan didn’t have the ability to perform a directional cosmetic surgery just by looking at a high-definition photo of Ah Yimu.

With everyone watching, Wang Chuan couldn’t just ignore the skill gap and make empty boasts, which left him somewhat annoyed.

"I can at least stop the surgery and clean up for you, can’t I?"

"It’s not a life-or-death operation anyway. We can let the patient go with an unfinished face and operate again the next day."

Wang Chuan glared and said, "Yan Feifan, you seem to have a lot of energy. Enough to stand here and banter with me?"

"Shouldn’t you get started on the surgery?"

Yan Feifan pursed his lips under his surgical mask.

’I only said one thing, and Wang Chuan’s the one who’s been babbling on, yet he’s accusing me of chitchat?’

Yan Feifan couldn’t be bothered to deal with Wang Chuan and went straight to the lead surgeon’s position at the operating table.

He first looked at Tang Qing on the operating table. She was in a coma from the intravenous anesthesia, with only her face exposed. Then he checked her vitals on the monitor and made eye contact with the anesthesiologist for this procedure.

After getting the go-ahead from the anesthesiologist, Yan Feifan held out his hand. The scrub nurse, Meng Yao, who was already prepared, perfectly placed a large, round, short-handled scalpel into his grip...

In the first surgery, Yan Feifan had already corrected Tang Qing’s facial skeleton and some of her muscles, essentially laying the foundation for this operation.

In this surgery, Yan Feifan’s main task was to correct Tang Qing’s five facial features.

Given that Ah Yimu is a Uighur celebrity, she has very distinct features like deep-set eyes and a prominent nose.

Therefore, the eyes and nose were the focus of Yan Feifan’s work, but not the most difficult part.

The more prominent the features, the easier they are to imitate.

What’s more, Ah Yimu’s current nose was one Yan Feifan himself had operated on.

Reconstructing her nose and eyes to be identical to Ah Yimu’s was not a major challenge for Yan Feifan.

But to make Tang Qing a convincing double, and to give her every frown and smile the same spirit as Ah Yimu’s, required Yan Feifan to achieve a spiritual likeness in every fine detail of the surgery.

Thus, the key to this surgery’s success lay in handling the subtle facial characteristics that are easily overlooked.

Fortunately, Yan Feifan had been lucky.

When he had previously performed rhinoplasty on Ah Yimu, he’d taken the opportunity to gain a sufficiently detailed understanding of her facial details and subcutaneous muscle texture...

As Yan Feifan became engrossed in the surgery, two ambulances carrying patients Number Two and Number Five from the infrasound awakening study, along with one immediate family member for each, left the Affiliated Hospital, heading for Baining Hospital in Jingcheng.

Accompanying them were Yu Beihua and a student of Dr. Qiu Ge.

The two of them would be responsible for taking care of the patients during the long journey, which would last over fourteen hours...

Yan Ziruo, who was working a makeup day for the upcoming National Day holiday, saw her uncle, Shu Lei, in the hallway outside her office.

"Uncle, what happened? You said you couldn’t tell me over the phone and had to see me in person!"

Seeing her uncle’s serious expression, Yan Ziruo asked worriedly, "Uncle, don’t tell me you’ve been... again..."

"It’s not what you think. It’s something else."

Shu Lei took Yan Ziruo’s arm and said as they walked, "Come on, let’s find a place where we won’t be overheard."

Yan Ziruo followed her uncle out of the small building that housed the hospital’s research administration department and to a secluded spot by the side of the road.

"Ruoruo, whatever I’m about to say, try not to get upset..."

Yan Ziruo chuckled. "As long as it’s not you getting into gambling again, Uncle, I won’t get upset about anything..."

Then she said, startled, "Uncle, don’t tell me some woman showed up at your door with your kid?"

"You were a sailor, and you definitely got around..."

Shu Lei’s face fell. He said anxiously, "Yan Ziruo, stop with the wild guesses. It’s my sister—your mother. She contacted me."

Yan Ziruo froze, and her expression instantly darkened.

"She contacted you?"

"After all these years with no word, we thought she’d died in Canada."

"Why would she suddenly contact you now?"

Shu Lei sighed softly. "Ruoruo, don’t say that. After all, she’s your and Feifan’s biological mother."

Yan Ziruo scoffed. "Feifan and I don’t have a mother like her."

"I remember it perfectly. The last time she suddenly got in touch, she didn’t ask about me, she didn’t ask about Feifan, and she didn’t ask about the parents who raised her. She just immediately demanded the demolition compensation money."

Yan Ziruo said with a look of utter contempt, "She’s suddenly contacting you again—did she find out Feifan has money now? Is she here for another handout?"

Shu Lei sighed again. "This time, she’s not asking for money. She’s seeking Feifan’s help."

"Does she have a tumor?" Yan Ziruo blurted out.

Shu Lei shot her a look and said slowly, "She said on the phone that she’s actually been following you and Feifan all this time."

"She said that because she was so far away overseas and couldn’t take care of you two, she decided to just play the part of a cruel mother, so that you two, fueled by the power of anger..."

"Uncle, stop, stop!"

Yan Ziruo said with a disgusted expression, "I don’t believe a word of her crap. If she had even a shred of motherly feeling, she would have come to see Feifan when he was in a coma."

"Uncle, just tell me straight. What does she want this time?"

Shu Lei met Yan Ziruo’s gaze and said, "The son of a Chinese friend of hers was severely burned on his face in a fire. He’s had several plastic surgeries, but the results haven’t been very good."

"So she was hoping Feifan could..."

Yan Ziruo cut him off again. "A friend’s son, not her own son?"

"She said he isn’t!" Shu Lei said, shaking his head.

Yan Ziruo let out a dry laugh. "She’s this concerned about a friend’s son? So concerned that she’s contacting us for the first time in forever!"

After a pause, Yan Ziruo said sharply, "Uncle, you tell her directly: this is not up for discussion."

"She ignored us when we needed her most, so she should be prepared for the fact that we’ll do the same to her now that she needs us."

Yan Ziruo’s gaze suddenly turned severe.

"Uncle, don’t tell Feifan about this. I don’t want that woman interfering in his life."

"Uncle, you need to stand firm and think about who your real family is..."

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