Flaws
[Dear Mr. Ji Jue:
We are pleased to inform you that you have been approved to participate in our hospital's standardized training and advanced study program. Enclosed is a list of the required books and equipment.
The program is scheduled to begin on November 1. We await your reply by October 31.
Yan Xueqian Director of Medical Affairs, Hope Hospital; Chief Physician, Infectious Disease Department]
In the workshop's living room, Ji Jue stared blankly at the letter in his hand. Flipping to the second page, his eyes hurriedly skimmed over miscellaneous items such as three plain work robes (white).
He read it over and over three times.
By the time he came back to himself, he was drenched in cold sweat.
Especially when Professor Ye, seated across from him on the sofa, slowly lifted her teacup for a sip and cast him a deeply meaningful look...
Ji Jue truly had not expected that after only two days of vacation—after being tormented half to death in the Time Ruins, going through round after round of medical examinations at the Security Bureau, and finally taking the kids to the beach—he would return to the workshop and find this goddamn deadly thing waiting for him.
"I really didn't expect that after only a few days off, you'd already come up with another new trick."
Professor Ye sighed. "To have Hope Hospital trying to poach an Ember... if word gets out, I, as your teacher, will have gained some prestige too."
"Teacher, this is a setup! This is a setup!"
Ji Jue crumpled the damn invitation letter into a ball and shouted, "I'm utterly devoted to Tide Sound Workshop, Teacher! You are the only sun in my heart!"
As he spoke, he shot Ye Chun a look, calling for reinforcements. "Right?"
"Oh, that