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JUST HOW FAST THE NIGHT CHANGES

Xiao Zhan P.O.V

Mom always said seeing is believing but hoping causes despair. Now at the moment being a neurosurgeon I think it couldn't be more right. In these three and a half years I've been working in my dad's hospital, half a year of internship included I've seen a lot of things to prove that point. Being a doctor my first ever despair I faced was when I hoped we could save A-Fei. I was brokenhearted, rushed into a hook-up right after, and got myself in trouble.

But now; a whole lot of cases, half a year of assistantship, two and a half years of permanent service and five more dead patient later I realized what exactly I was lacking. Practicality! I mean I'm a doctor. I help patients. These patients are here to get help. Some might achieve it and some might not. That should not affect me as much. But it still does. I might grow to learn to conceal it well, but I still feel like shit after I fail to help a patient go back home after healing completely.

Right now I'm sitting inside my own cabin looking at the cactus, prickly, A-Fei gave me, like I always do after a failed case. I don't like this feeling at all. My new patient is a patient of brain cancer final stage. Left with only a few months to live. This man is probably my dad's age. But a few months later he'll be gone. Which made me realize life isn't certain at all. Suddenly it all felt so frivolous to hold on to the grudges. I felt all I did in the fifteen years holding on the hate for my dad was for nothing.

Maybe he was repenting.

What happened to mom and dad was their choice. Dad still treats me as his son. He still takes care of me. My hate for him just made me blind to all that he did. It made me blind to his existence.

But now I feel like talking things out and clear things up. I remembered how A-Chang told me I never let dad be a father to me. And that somehow struck me still. I don't wanna lose the time I have with him because of the time we left behind.

I needed him.

I decided to talk to him tonight. I'll talk to him after I get back home. I checked the time at the table clock and it shows 9:40 pm. I'll be off after five minutes and dad will be off at around 10:30 pm. I'll just have to wait for him at home a little. And then it'll all be cleared up. I'll at least try to be a better son for him.

I was just going to get into the car when I got a call from Yu Bin ge informing me about an emergency surgery. And therefore, hustling again.

The patient is a ten years old boy. He was in a car with his Dad and faced a severe accident on the way back home. The boy had a dangerous internal hemorrhage and he was constantly losing a lot of blood. After entering the operation room I found it to be in a chaos. Everyone is trying their best to keep that little boy alive.

"Dr. Xiao, his heart rate is dropping."

"Dr. Yu, here's the vitals."

I felt the panic in everyone's eyes.

"Dr. Yu, we need to stop the bleeding first." I got into action instantly. "Scalpel."

"Bovie."

The hands of everyone in that room moved in sync thereafter. Handing each other instruments and cotton. Slowly but surely I knew I was going to save the little boy.

"Dr. Xiao. Dr. Yu. We're losing him." Came a panicked voice and that is when everything got blurry. A mess of voices came from everywhere. My hands started working on its own to give compressions to revive him.

Everything went on in a daze. The operation ended at around 1 am at night. Finally being able to save him we breathed a sigh of relief. After transferring the patient to intensive care unit wiring him to IV and heart monitors I retired to the changing room.

At this time of the night naturally there's nobody in here. I stood there facing my locker with my forehead touching it and eyes closed. Thoughts running wild in my head. I knew I would have to stay here in the hospital until the patient regains consciousness and that won't be a short time.

I was hoping to clear things out with my dad today and look what happened!

A pair of smooth and soft lips touched the back of my neck softly, warm soothing breath giving tingling sensation where it touches. In any other circumstances I would have flipped. But I knew who it was and I knew this person was just as exhausted and devastated as I was.

"Let me?"

"Mn." A small nod is what it took for him to get bold and his hands go slithering into dangerous territory. It's probably the fourth time we're doing this in the hospital, the two of us.

"Can I be on top tonight?" His right hand  reached to one of the nubs on my chest and gave it a sensual pinch over the medical shrub I was wearing.

"Ngh! Yu Bin ge!" My voice was barely a whisper and sounded pretty sensual even to my own ears.

Looks like it was consent enough and Yu Bin ge moved us to the bed on the side of the room. We fell on the bed still tangled together lips finding each other. My throat gave out a squeaky sound when my clothes all disappeared in a swift movement of Yu Bin ge's hand. The moaning mess we made in the changing room faded slowing in the backdrop until he injected his love juice inside me and I lost it all over my and Yu Bin ge's stomach.

After done with reliving stress Yu Bin ge changed his clothes and left to attend the patient leaving me alone with my thoughts. In the last few years I've changed a lot. The person I was before never liked hook-ups. But now I can even earn myself the title of a playboy. I did it with Yu Bin ge a bunch of times. I've even done it with another junior doctor in the hospital. Though that person is from a different team. Never mind the random hook-ups I pick up in the bars.

I gave out a sigh. I should probably stop doing it.

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