[771] Just happened to bump into my senior fellow apprentice.

"I'm going to the ninth floor to see a patient. The department called me and said it was a minor issue, so they asked me to swing by and take a look," Xie Wanying answered.

"Bed 32, let's go." Doctor Zhuang led them down the hallway to the patient's room.

*

She was headed to the second floor. Head down, Xie Wanying walked out of the Hepatobiliary Surgery department ready to head to Cardiology.

Halfway there, she felt someone's eyes on her. Looking up, she saw Senior Cao emerge from Neurosurgery with eyes that seemed curious about her preoccupied appearance.

"Senior Cao," Xie Wanying stopped in her tracks. It was quite the coincidence to run into him; their departments were directly across from each other.

Carrying his briefcase and ready to leave for the day, Cao Yong joined her, asking with concern, "Haven't you finished work yet?"