"Stop!" Yuan Heng lowered his head and raised one hand. "This suggestion is inappropriate, and I firmly reject it."
Ning Lang shrugged. "Putting everything else aside, Dean Shan's looks alone are enough to make countless men flock to her, not to mention she's young, promising, and incredibly capable. How could a woman like that not have suitors!"
Dean Shan is a rare, stunningly beautiful woman. Even she, as a woman herself, finds her extremely beautiful, let alone men.
“No, there really wasn’t before!” Yuan Heng exclaimed excitedly, explaining, “Back then, even the toads in the medical school couldn’t compare to her in terms of grades and paper quality; none of them dared to pursue her. Later, when she started her hospital, none of her subordinates dared to pursue her either.”
“Not daring to pursue her doesn’t mean they don’t want to,” Ning Lang retorted. “Once someone appears who is as capable and looks as her, she might consider dating him.”
"Impossible!" Yuan Hengjun's face flushed slightly as he lowered his voice. "I checked with the florist. She accepted the violets that Ming sent her a few times. But she returned all the roses he sent later."
Ning Lang let out a long "Oh," with a half-smile: "Very good, very good!"
Yuan Heng felt slightly embarrassed and lowered his head.
Ning Lang closed the ledger, rubbed his lower back, and slowly stood up.
"I've never understood why you had the courage to have a crush on someone for so many years, but you still didn't have enough courage to confess? If you don't confess, how will you know if she has feelings for you?"
Yuan Heng covered his eyes and whispered, "I...I'm afraid she doesn't like me."
"An excuse!" Ning Lang said in a deep voice, "You're such a confident person, so why do you chicken out every time you meet Dean Shan? This is so unlike you!"
Yuan Heng pursed his lips, looking very annoyed and helpless.
Ning Lang patted his shoulder and said, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, for they will soon be gone and you will have nothing left to pluck. You want to pluck this cold and beautiful snow lotus more than anyone else, and you even came all the way to Rongcheng to do business. You've been waiting and watching for so many years, are you planning to end up with nothing but empty branches?"
Yuan Heng immediately shook his head vigorously.
"Then you should hurry up and go after her!" Ning Lang said gently. "If she can send flowers, you can too. Based on my feeling and intuition, Dean Shan treats you differently."
"Really?" Yuan Heng asked in surprise and doubt, "What's different?"
Ning Lang smiled slightly and said in a low voice, "Some things can only be understood through experience, not explained in words. You really have to feel them for yourself."
Yuan Heng lowered his head and, after a long while, finally explained the reason.
"Back in school, everyone liked to confess their feelings on Christmas Eve or Valentine's Day. I...I...secretly gave her a gift."
Ning Lang raised an eyebrow and asked curiously, "And then?"
Yuan Heng smiled wryly: "And then there was nothing more!"
Ning Lang frowned and thought for a moment, then asked, "What gift did you give her? Did she accept it? Was there any message of confession inside?"
“Yes.” Yuan Heng lowered his voice and gestured with his hands. “I bought a little dinosaur doll. Isn’t she born in the Year of the Dragon? I specifically chose a Tyrannosaurus Rex because she has a nickname in medical school: ‘Cold Tyrannosaurus Rex’.”
Ning Lang: "..."
Confessing your feelings to a girl by buying her an ugly Tyrannosaurus Rex toy? Okay, she has to admit, her best friend is someone who has absolutely no sense of romance.
Yuan Heng explained mysteriously, "If you pull the Tyrannosaurus Rex's tail, you can record a ten-second audio message. Then, if you pull the tail again, the Tyrannosaurus Rex will repeat what I recorded."
"So what exactly did you record?" Ning Lang asked, seizing the key point.
Yuan Heng said shyly in a low voice, "Senior, there's a dinosaur exhibition next month. Let's go see the Tyrannosaurus Rex together!"
Ning Lang: "..."
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