Surgery Godfather

Chapter 271: Chapter 0255: Xiao Yao

After ordering, everyone sat waiting to the soothing and relaxing jazz music.

The outside seemed busier than inside, but it was equally relaxed. Perhaps that’s why the bar is a successful business. It offers urban dwellers a reprieve for their souls.

The pressures of life are everywhere. There has to be a place to let off steam. At this moment, all the patrons in the bar seemed to have forgotten their daily hassles and worries. It looked like the guy at the next table had lost his job, and his colleague was treating him to dinner. Under this ambiance, he had let go of his burdens and was engrossed in a conversation with his colleague.

The bartenders were ceaselessly occupied at the back. They mixed different drinks, giving them a new life, instantly creating unique cocktails. The color, aroma, and taste were stimulating the guests’ senses of sight, smell, and taste.@@novelbin@@

“Do you remember the first time we met? You mistook me for an intern. It made me so mad.” Xiao Su whispered in Yang Ping’s ear.

Indeed, their first meeting was at a bar by the riverside – Moon Playing. Little did they know that their chance meeting would start a whole new chapter in life.

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“You look like a fresh graduate, isn’t that your fault!” Yang Ping joked as he poured lemon water for Xiao Su.

As he poured for the others, Zhang Lin promptly took over the job.

“Zhang Lin, where’s your wife? Why didn’t you invite her?” Fatty asked.

As Zhang Lin was pouring lemon water for everyone, he retorted, “You are trying to ruin the mood, aren’t you? If she’s here, would I still be able to drink with you?”

“Where’s Xiao Qing?” Fatty asked Little Five.

Little Five said: “Since she found out she’s pregnant, let alone going out at night, even what to eat for three meals a day is strictly supervised by her mother. Her phone usage is limited to reduce radiation exposure and she has even started wearing radiation-proof maternity clothes now.”

After a round of lemon water, the waiter came over and respectfully said, “Ladies and gentlemen, our boss invites you to the terrace on the third floor.”

Yang Ping looked up. The three-story old mansion had an outside wall made of red bricks. Half of the third floor was an open terrace. That’s not for just anyone to go up, right?

“Our boss says that you are her esteemed friends. She’s preparing the drinks. Tonight, all of your drinks and juices are personally prepared by her,” the waiter said with a smile, then led the way.

Who’s friend?

Somebody must have a lot of face. The owner of a top 50 bar in Asia was personally preparing drinks. Everyone exchanged bewildered looks, shaking their heads. She wasn’t any of their friends.

Finding a familiar face in a hospital is understandable, but a bar owner, no one knew her.

“Fatty, someone from your college food association? Gave up medicine and opened a bar?” Zhang Lin questioned Fatty.

Fatty shook his head: “I don’t know. Yeah, there is a buddy who quit being a doctor. But he opened a restaurant, no one mentioned a bar. Who cares, let’s go upstairs. If it’s a mistake, we’ll find out.”

“Young Master Song, Sister Fei?” Zhang Lin was very keen on getting to the bottom of this.

“This is our first time here too, we don’t know the owner,” Song Zimo denied.

All eyes shifted to Yang Ping and Su Yixuan. Yang Ping shrugged, “I don’t have that many friends, let alone ones who own a bar.”

“You talk too much, let’s go upstairs!” Little Five was annoyed by Zhang Lin’s incessant questioning.

The waiter might have been waiting for a while. Seeing that no one was following him, he came back down: “Ladies and gentlemen, shall we go upstairs, please?”

Everyone followed the waiter upstairs. On the third floor terrace, it was quite spacious. There was only a large table and separate sound system. It was evidently an exclusive area.

“This is where our boss entertains her friends!” the waiter explained. It’s not open to the public normally.

“This is ‘Love of the Peak,’ four glasses. Our boss personally prepared it, please wait. She’s preparing your juice,” another waiter stated as he brought the drinks.

Soon after, the juice was served one by one. All kinds of snacks were also served, which were more plentiful than other bars, including chicken wings, sausages, steaks, you name it.

As a food connoisseur, visibly impressed, Fatty picked up a glass of the drink, took a small sip, and squinted his eyes in bliss.

“What’s it like?” Zhang Lin asked eagerly.

“It tastes like being in love!”

“You don’t even have a girlfriend, and you’re telling me it tastes like love?” Little Five was skeptical of this expert.

At this moment, a trendy young woman, led by the waiter, walked over. She gave a slight bow: “Hello everyone, hello Doctor Yang. Welcome to Nianfeng Bar.”

She looked quite familiar, Zhang Lin wanted to say something but he couldn’t place her. Who was this woman?

Yang Ping had a good memory: “Xiao Yao!”

Xiao Yao, he remembered now. It was that girl who single handedly paralyzed ten people, who all ended up in the emergency room, including herself, who also knew how to draw comics under the pen name Street Corner and real name Wang Feng. This was his girlfriend Xiao Yao.

Nianfeng Bar, I see, the longing is for Wang Feng!

When Wang Feng was hospitalized with injuries, Xiao Yao took great care of him. Once his condition stabilized, Wang Feng left without saying goodbye.

That day, Xiao Yao cried in the hospital room for a long time, holding a piece of paper in her hand, a comic drawn by Wang Feng. He signed it with a quote from Alexandre Dumas—perhaps, the best place for me to live is in your heart.

“You remember me, don’t you? When I first came back, I walked past your table and recognized you at a glance,” Xiao Yao said with a smile. Her beautiful face was tinged with a touch of sorrow.

It turns out that not only does every person have a story, but this bar, too, has its own.

“You remember, hasn’t he come back yet?” Yang Ping pitied their love story.

Wang Feng had no choice but to leave her for the sake of Xiao Yao’s future.

“Thank you for saving his life. Since he left, he has not come back, but I will wait for him here for the rest of my life,” Xiao Yao said stubbornly.

The Love of the Peak, the most famous cocktail in this bar, handmade by the owner himself, also has its own story. What a beautiful story it is!

Taking pictures, checking in, sharing on social moments seemed to have become a ritual of life. Then everyone began to eat heartily. This meal put everyone in a good mood, venting all the hardships and frustrations from the previous days.

Being on duty every day, doing rounds, performing surgeries, it was non-stop. As one set of patients left, another arrived. People’s nerves were constantly stretched tight, without any chance to relax.

Now, everyone completely relaxed and drank happily while chatting away merrily.

One standardized training student even started crying, completely drained by having to work every single day of the year, relentlessly circling the wards, always jolting with a start at the sound of his phone ringing.

“No matter what you do, it’s not easy. If you truly devote yourself to any job, it will always be demanding. No task is light-duty,” Yang Ping told him, encouraging him.

Those successful business tycoons worth billions, do you know the struggles they have been through, their near-deaths, their many failures? Is it easy?

They turn white-haired overnight worrying about paying salaries, clutching their chests in pain. Yet, you don’t see that; when they consider jumping from the rooftop, you don’t see that; when they endure abandonment and betrayal, you don’t see that.

Is it easy?

Nothing in the world comes cheap. If you want something, you must pay for it.

If there’s no longer a need for you to pay your dues, that’s because someone else has paid them for you—like your parents.

It wasn’t until midnight that they started to wind down. Looking at the mess of dishes and drinks, everyone felt incredibly relaxed.

Zhang Lin, Fatty, and Little Five, all three stuck it out without bowing out. Zhang Lin could barely go on, but he kept struggling; Little Five remained unflappable; As for Fatty, his size spoke for itself.

“Drink it down!”

“What’s not to drink down?”

Zhang always liked to be a bit lyrical at times like these, “Life is nothing but a series of experiences. We live for a hundred years, a hundred years of experiences. Have you seen ‘The Matrix’? Perhaps we’re just like those characters.”

“Why make it so complex? I’ll tell you guys, the highest ideal in life is just one word!” Fatty cut Zhang’s speech short.

“What word?” Everyone was eager to hear his profound thoughts.

“To enjoy!” Fatty blurted out.

Damn, such a philistine! Zhang cursed, why couldn’t he have said the pursuit of happiness?

As they were leaving, Yang Ping looked up at the bar. Would the man this woman was waiting for ever return?

Maybe he would return tomorrow, or perhaps never.

“Tomorrow at nine, at the entrance of Sanbo Hospital!”

Cheng Liquan was thrilled. This time there were eighteen patients, including two from Southeast Asia. His dream was to establish a high-end sports medicine hospital. He had yet to break into the market, but now, with the arrival of the medical tourism group, he realized this rare opportunity had knocked on his door.

Cheng’s keen business sense told him his judgment was correct. The high-end health care market was void at present. Some hospitals boasted luxurious decor and advanced equipment, but lacked real technical strength and a trustworthy brand. Even if they did invite famous professors for surgeries, it was just temporary and not sustainable.

Li Quan Hospital was the same, it couldn’t escape this curse. However, now, it seemed the curse was being lifted, all thanks to Yang Ping.

If they could establish a long-term cooperative relationship with Yang Ping, Li Quan Hospital would pioneer a completely new frontier.

Charging five thousand for each surgery was not bad, but it was hard to form a reliable long-term relationship just with money.

Boss Cheng had already planned it. He would personally pick up Yang Ping the next morning, in his Mercedes-Benz S-Class no less.