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"Xiaxia, I heard from Tang Bin that Lu Kai is determined to go back to the county hospital in his hometown. He even said something about not traveling far from one's parents. What about you two? Are you really going to go back to his hometown with him?"
Wang Yue asked Chen Xia, who was squatting on the ground packing her suitcase, with a gossipy look on her face.
Chen Xia closed her fully packed suitcase: "What else can we do? Everyone goes back to their own home and finds their own mother."
The other roommates all turned around in unison: "No way, you two are breaking up too? Really? You two have always had a great relationship, haven't you?"
"Things were fine before, but now that he's graduated, he's determined to go back to his hometown. What can I do?"
Wang Yue hesitated for a moment before offering her advice: "Actually, Lu Kai's home is only about 200 kilometers from the provincial capital. It only takes two or three hours by bus on the highway..."
Chen Xia pushed her suitcase against the wall: "My parents are healthy now, so two or three hours isn't a problem. But what about in the future?"
My parents have worked hard to raise me for over twenty years. Is it appropriate for me to abandon them and marry a man from a county town hundreds of kilometers away for a boyfriend I've been dating for six months?
Lu Kai has an older sister, and everyone knows that parents shouldn't travel far while their parents are alive. How could I, an only daughter, possibly marry someone from afar?
Li Rong rolled over and leaned half her body out from the top bunk: "You and Lu Kai are really breaking up? You two were the golden couple of our class, it's such a pity to break up like this!"
Chen Xia shrugged: "Life is full of disappointments. He wants to go back to his hometown, and I want to stay in the provincial capital. What else can we do but separate?"
Li Rong clicked her tongue: "Really? You're sure you want to break up with him? Then don't blame me for stealing your boyfriend. You know I've always had a crush on Lu Kai. If you give up, I might just go for it?"
"Go ahead, go ahead, it's really impossible between us."
The other girls in the dorm couldn't help but advise Chen Xia to think carefully and not to break up on a whim, lest she regret it later.
"You two have been dating for six months, and you're just going to throw it all away like that?"
Chen Xia continued tidying up her clothes in the closet as if nothing had happened: "You all said it yourself, I've only been dating him for half a year, how much affection could there be?"
Why are you crying and insisting that he's the only one for me? Sorry, he's not that important to me. My parents will always be the most important people in my heart.
As you all know, long-distance relationships rarely end well. Even if there were opportunities for job transfers in the future, he definitely wouldn't want to come to the provincial capital, and I wouldn't want to go to his small hometown.
This is an unsolvable knot. Since it can't be untied, it's better to break up right after graduation—it's more dignified for both of us.
Guo Xiaomei persisted: "Why don't you reconsider? Actually, the conditions in county hospitals aren't bad at all. And the pressure in small cities is less than in the provincial capital. Why don't you reconsider?"
Chen Xia glanced at her: "It's not a matter of how much pressure I'm under. My parents are both in the provincial capital, so of course I have to stay here to work and settle down."
Besides, the pressure in small cities is not small at all. Wages are low and housing prices are high. If you can stay in the provincial capital, why choose a hospital in the county town?
Would you be willing to work at a county hospital? You can see the whole place from one end to the other in a glance; anyone with a college diploma can easily get in. Wouldn't that mean all my five years of undergraduate studies were wasted?
Guo Xiaomei took a bite of her apple: "Didn't Lu Kai say that his uncle is the director of the county health bureau? He'll benefit a lot when he gets promoted and gets a promotion."
Chen Xia changed her clothes: "He's just a cousin, the kind of cousin who isn't really related to anyone else."
After saying that, she picked up the candybar phone on the desk and prepared to call Lu Kai to break up with him.
Just as she picked up her phone, Lu Kai called. Hearing his deliberately lowered voice, Chen Xia rolled her eyes and pressed the answer button: "Hello?"
"Xiaxia, my dad just called and said that our county hospital is only hiring two doctors this year, so we need to settle on a job as soon as possible."
Have you discussed it with your parents? You know that jobs aren't assigned anymore; you have to find them yourself.
In units like county hospitals, the positions are so limited that one person can fill every single one; if you hesitate even slightly, you'll miss the opportunity...
Chen Xia took her phone and went to the balcony: "Since there are so many spots available, I'll pass."
I've been thinking about it these past couple of days. I grew up in the provincial capital, so the provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital is more suitable for me. Therefore, you don't need to trouble your uncle with finding a job."
Lu Kai became anxious upon hearing this: "Xiaxia, didn't we agree before that we would go back to our hometown county hospital to develop our careers? My family has some connections in the county. Everyone says that having someone in high places makes things easier."
We're both college graduates, so our future prospects are limitless. While working at a provincial hospital offers a high starting point, there are countless capable doctors; it would be very difficult for us to rise through the ranks.
My dad pulled a lot of strings to get two spots, and now you're suddenly saying you want to stay in the provincial capital. How am I supposed to explain this to my parents? They're definitely going to be angry.
Chen Xia was almost laughing in anger: "Lu Kai, do you really want me to spell it out? Is it really that hard for undergraduates to get into that Grade II hospital in your county, as you say?"
Medical school graduates are highly sought after, so why do I have to pull a lot of strings to get you? You don't need to explain, I don't want to hear it. I'm officially informing you now that we're breaking up.
You can pull strings for whoever you want. I'm not crazy. Why would I leave a top-tier hospital in the provincial capital and travel hundreds of miles to a second-tier hospital in a county town?
Worried about how to explain this to your parents? Let me give you a suggestion. You have a childhood sweetheart, Zhang Xiaoya, right? Your two families are neighbors. You also said that your parents like her and treat her like their own daughter.
Zhang Xiaoya is gentle and considerate; she'll definitely be a virtuous wife in the future. You two won't have to worry about mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflicts or family disputes when you're together.
I wish you both a long and happy marriage in advance!
Zhang Kai never expected that one phone call would lead to him being dumped.
His father had been a primary school teacher for so many years and had some connections in the county town; otherwise, he wouldn't have sent him back to the local hospital.
It's important to know that although both are traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, the level of a provincial traditional Chinese medicine hospital and a county traditional Chinese medicine hospital is vastly different.
The former is a top-five tertiary-level hospital in the province, while the latter is only a secondary-level hospital. In terms of salary, benefits, and career prospects, the former is completely incomparable.
In her previous life, the original owner gave up a high-paying job and great benefits in the provincial capital for the sake of so-called "love" and followed Lu Kai to work at the county hospital in his hometown.
She married far away for love, gave up one opportunity for advancement after another to support his career, and bore children, only to be met with endless grievances in return.
In the first few years after their marriage, Lu Kai listened to his parents in everything. His parents favored sons over daughters because the original owner had given birth to a daughter as her first child, and they did all sorts of disgusting and unreasonable things.
The old couple only calmed down after the original owner gave birth to her second son. They did settle down, but then Lu Kai started causing trouble again.
By chance, Lu Kai obtained a future intelligence system. With this system, he became a nouveau riche with a net worth of tens of millions through stock speculation, football lottery purchases, jade gambling, and other operations.
The saying "money corrupts men" is truly exemplified in his case. Lu Kai frequented various glamorous and decadent places, and his indiscriminate pursuit of women led him to not only keep mistresses but also have affairs with several nurses at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
The original owner angrily filed for divorce, but got into a car accident on her way back to the provincial capital.
After the original owner died, her parents couldn't bear the blow of losing their child, and soon after, they both passed away from illness.
The two children she had given everything for quickly forgot about their biological mother under the "tutelage" of their grandparents, and became as close as mother and son or mother and daughter to Zhang Xiaoya, the childhood sweetheart whom Lu Kai had officially recognized as his wife.
Not only that, in order to please Zhang Xiaoya, their stepmother, they often said bad things about the original owner's deceased biological mother.
The original owner was heartbroken by the scumbag and her two children. She didn't have many wishes: to break up with the scumbag Lu Kai, not to do the foolish thing of marrying far away for love, and to stay in the provincial capital to take good care of her parents.
After receiving the original owner's memories, Chen Xia discovered that the cheat system Lu Kai received in his previous life should have originally belonged to the original owner.
She had worn a jade pendant passed down in her family since childhood. In her previous life, after she gave birth, she put the pendant away. Later, Lu Kai found it and, by chance, it became her owner.
Now that it's Chen Xia's turn, that future intelligence system will naturally not be given to that scumbag Lu Kai.
Without the original owner's selfless dedication and paving the way for him, he could never have made a name for himself at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. He'd be dreaming.
The original owner's parents both worked at the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her father, Chen Jiang, was a retired military officer and the deputy head of the security department. Her mother, Xia Shuyun, was the chief physician of the orthopedics department.
Lu Kai's parents are both primary school teachers, and they have relatives who are leaders in the health bureau. But getting things done by asking people for favors always costs money.
When the original owner and Lu Kai got married, the wedding house was bought by their parents, with the original owner's parents paying the majority of the cost and also covering the renovation expenses.
After she gave birth to her daughter, her parents bought her a car before Lu Kai activated his cheat ability. The reason they lived such a comfortable life was entirely due to the help of Mr. and Mrs. Chen.
Mr. and Mrs. Chen had bought a house for the original owner in the provincial capital long ago. However, the original owner, blinded by love, was coaxed by Lu Kai and sold that premarital property.
The reason Lu Kai persevered in winning over the original owner of the body was that he knew she was an only child whose parents had high salaries and had bought her a house early on.
Before calling Chen Xia, Lu Kai was talking to his roommates in Versailles: "Hey, women are such a hassle. You have to coax them every day. If you call them too few times, they'll complain that you don't value them."
If I hit her too much, she'll complain that I'm nagging. Sigh, if I'd known dating would be this tiring, I should have thought it through more carefully in the first place.
The single guys in the dorm were furious when they heard what he said. They didn't even know who it was that had been so persistent in pursuing them, and now he was spouting such nonsense—it was infuriating!
Fu Peng, who had always been at odds with Lu Kai, couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Please, please, I'd trade five years of my roommate's good fortune for Lu Kai to be dumped by Chen Xia."
The saying "extreme joy begets sorrow" perfectly describes Lu Kai. He was overjoyed, like he'd just eaten honey, when he heard Chen Xia say on the phone that they were breaking up and would never see each other again. He was so anxious that he jumped up and down, not caring about being overheard by his roommates or anything embarrassing. Making his girlfriend happy was the most important thing.
"Xiaxia, have you been listening to someone's gossip? If I did something wrong, tell me and I'll definitely change. Let's not break up, okay? My dad has already asked my uncle to arrange jobs for both of us..."
Chen Xia said calmly, "No need, I've already decided to stay in the provincial capital. You used to say that one shouldn't travel far while one's parents are alive."
"You're an only child, so it's only natural that you go back to your parents' side. I'm an only child, so naturally I should stay with my parents and fulfill my filial duties."
Lu Kai panicked immediately: "Didn't you say you were willing to come back to my hometown county to work hard together? Didn't we agree that your parents could move to the county and live with us in the future?"
"When that time comes, our whole family will be happy and harmonious, and we'll live a good life. That's better than anything else."
Chen Xia rolled her eyes: "They say people strive for higher positions and water flows downhill. My parents have worked in the provincial capital for half their lives. How can they possibly adapt to moving to an unfamiliar place when they are old?"
I've already spoken to my parents, and they don't agree to me marrying someone from far away. As a dutiful daughter, of course I have to agree to their request.
I think you can understand me on this point, after all, you are a filial son yourself, aren't you?
If you can listen to your parents and go back to the county town to develop your career, why can't I listen to my parents and stay in the provincial capital hospital...?
Chen Xia hung up the phone after speaking, even though jobs had stopped being assigned after 1998.
But these graduates from the provincial university of traditional Chinese medicine have no worries about employment right now. With a bit of connections, undergraduates can easily get into top-tier hospitals. The best part is that they don't need standardized residency training and have legitimate government-affiliated positions.
Being a traditional Chinese medicine doctor is great. Compared to Western medicine, there aren't as many patients in traditional Chinese medicine departments. The original owner studied traditional Chinese medicine rehabilitation, which is a piece of cake for Chen Xia.
If she doesn't want to work in the hospital anymore, she can open a clinic. Her mother is an expert in treating bone injuries, and she knows acupuncture. The mother and daughter are a perfect match.
Lu Kai didn't believe Chen Xia could be so heartless as to break up with him so easily. He wanted to go to her dorm to ask her for clarification, but then he remembered what his parents had said to him on the phone earlier that day.
He hesitated again. Her father, speaking from experience, told him that girlfriends shouldn't be spoiled.
Some things can be compromised, but some things absolutely cannot be listened to her on, such as their job prospects after graduation.
In fact, if it weren't for his parents' insistence, Lu Kai would definitely have had a better future at the provincial capital's TCM hospital than at the county's TCM hospital.
But there's some truth to what my parents said. They could pull some strings at the county hospital, and it would be easier for them to get promoted or become a department head than at a provincial hospital.
His parents were planning for their future; he had considered everything except for the unexpected problems that occurred on the city side.
Lu Kai decided to listen to his parents and let Chen Xia cool off for a while, letting her know his determination to return to his hometown to develop his career. He would talk to her again in a few days.
Little did he know that Chen Xia would pack her things and go home the very next day. She had already secured a job at the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Chen Xia returned home by taxi, carrying large and small bags. As soon as she opened the door, her father, Chen Jiang, ran out of the kitchen with a spatula in his hand: "Xia Xia is back!"
"You brought all this stuff back, it must have been so heavy! Why didn't you call Dad and ask him to pick you up?"
Chen Xia waved her hand: "It's okay, I took a taxi back. It's only a few steps, and I took the elevator upstairs, it won't tire me out. Dad, is the food in your pot burnt?"
Chen Jiang quickly ran back to the kitchen, cooked the vegetables in no time, and after turning off the heat, pulled out a bunch of snacks from the living room cabinet.
“You called yesterday saying you were coming back today, so your mom and I went to the supermarket and bought all your favorite foods.”
After you enter the hospital, start by learning from your Uncle Liu. He has many unique skills, so learn them well. In the past, these skills were passed down only to men, but now no one in his family is willing to learn them. Your Uncle Liu is willing to teach you because he's afraid the art of acupuncture will be lost with him.”
Chen Xia nodded at him: "Dad, don't worry, I will definitely learn from Uncle Liu and master all his skills."
Chen Jiang breathed a sigh of relief; it was wonderful that his daughter was willing to go to the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
The couple had been extremely worried lately. It wasn't so bad that their daughter had a boyfriend at school; what was terrible was that she had been tricked by that bastard named Lu Kai and was now insisting on marrying him and going back to his hometown county.
This was practically a death sentence for the couple. It wasn't that they looked down on county hospitals, but those hospitals simply couldn't compare to the provincial TCM hospital.
If a woman marries into a small county town hundreds of kilometers away from her home, and suffers any mistreatment after marriage, her husband and wife can only worry helplessly.
Fortunately, his daughter listened to his advice, and Chen Jiang was finally relieved. The father and daughter brought the food to the table just in time for Xia Shuyun to get off work, and the three of them sat down to eat happily together.
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