Accidentally Marked My Ex’s Crush, the Ice-Cold Goddess O - Chapter 36: Qi Yusi

Chapter 36: Qi Yusi

According to the schedule, Gu Feiran had to work the night shift tonight.

At 8:30, after handling the handover with the department doctors, she returned to the office to start writing medical records. Recently, several patients with liver diseases had been admitted to the ward.

They were all caused by excessive smoking and drinking.

One of them had severe liver cirrhosis and needed a transplant surgery, but the patient’s family was unwilling to match for the transplant.

They were still waiting for a liver source.

Everyone knew that smoking and drinking harmed health, but they couldn’t stop themselves from doing it.

Wearing gold-rimmed half-frame glasses, Gu Feiran finished writing a few important medical records at the office desk, then stood up, put on a mask, and went to check on patients. After more than an hour of rounds, she returned, locked the door, and took out Jiang Ci’s gland examination report from the drawer.

Inside the bag, there was not only the report but also a CT scan.

Gu Feiran looked at the report first.

The examination report showed that the gland was overall normal.

But the pheromone concentration was zero, the pheromone scent was absent, the gland could not be marked, and it could not mark others.

It belonged to a patient with abnormal pheromones.

No pheromone scent…

If her pheromones couldn’t be used, why could she inject pheromones into her own gland and temporarily mark herself?

The hospital’s gland testing equipment was quite advanced in the country, costing tens of millions, so the results should not have major errors. Perhaps she was just too special.

Gu Feiran looked for a while, put down the report, and searched online for similar cases.

After a few minutes of searching, there was one similar case, but it wasn’t a medical record; it was a crime news story.

More than twenty years ago, an alpha had forcibly marked multiple omegas. The police immediately took the marked omegas to the hospital for pheromone gland tests, but the results showed something surprising.

Aside from the omegas’ own pheromones, no suspect’s pheromones were found in the victims’ glands.

When this result came out, both the police and the hospital thought it was impossible, so they ran pheromone tests at three other hospitals.

The results still showed no other pheromones in the omegas’ glands.

In medicine, whether an alpha or an omega was marked, the other party’s pheromones would remain in the gland.

Even with a temporary mark, it could be detected for a certain period.

In this news story, the reason the hospital didn’t detect the suspect’s pheromones in the victims’ glands was because the suspect’s pheromones were very special—air.

Twenty years ago, gland testing equipment was still outdated, and most machines could only detect common pheromones.

Special pheromones like air or pheromones were completely undetectable by the machines.

Now, the technology existed, but Jiang Ci’s pheromone test results showed it wasn’t even air—it was simply absent.

Gu Feiran sighed lightly, propped her arm on the desk, held her forehead with her palm, and looked worried.

If the gland mutation didn’t harm her body, it would be fine, but the key was that there was clear harm now. They had to find a way to solve it, or they would really have to watch her life come to an end.

Knock, knock, knock.

The office door was urgently knocked on.

Gu Feiran put the report and scans back in the drawer, grabbed the key, put on her mask, and quickly went out.

As soon as the office door opened, before the nurse even saw her, she said, “Dr. Gu, a patient was stabbed three times in the abdomen, injuring the liver, with bleeding in the bile duct. They’ve been sent to the operating room, and Dr. Li is there.”

Gu Feiran locked the door and hurried over, “Okay.”

Wearing a mask and a sterile cap, Gu Feiran washed and disinfected her hands in the scrub area, dried them, and with the nurse’s help, put on a sterile surgical gown and gloves, then walked to the position opposite Dr. Li.

“How is it?” Gu Feiran asked.

Dr. Li said, “The liver is ruptured, severely damaged, with heavy bleeding from the wound’s bl00d vessels. We need to perform a partial liver resection.”

Gu Feiran calmly said, “Okay.”

Partial liver resection surgery was common in the General Surgery Department, but this patient involved bile duct and vascular reconstruction. The two worked together, and the surgery took over five hours to complete. When the final stitch was sewn and the suture was cut, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The surgery ended successfully. Gu Feiran, exhausted, took off her surgical gown, threw her cap and mask into the trash bin.

Walking out of the operating room to the corridor, the sky outside was already breaking dawn, very beautiful.

This kind of scenery could only be seen during night shifts.

After dawn, the patient’s family arrived at the hospital, completed the admission procedures, and stood outside the ICU, crying their eyes out. At the same time, there were a few police officers.

The patient was twenty-three years old, male.

Last night, late at night, he got into a fight with his boyfriend over a small matter, and the other accidentally stabbed him in the abdomen with a fruit knife.

After Gu Feiran finished writing the report and was about to eat, the nurse knocked on the door again and said, “Dr. Gu, a patient with a perforated stomach from drinking, showing symptoms of peritonitis. Dr. Jiang is still on her way.”

“Okay,” Gu Feiran went back to the operating room.

Stomach perforation surgery was much easier than liver surgery, and in less than two hours, Gu Feiran came out of the operating room.

The first thing she did was eat breakfast.

Originally, she could have handed over and rested in the morning, but because of the two emergency surgeries, Gu Feiran was busy until past 4 p.m. before leaving the hospital and seeing the sky outside.

Today, Jiang Ci didn’t come to pick her up; the driver drove over.

When she got home, Gu Feiran changed clothes in the bedroom, washed up briefly, and went to sleep.

At around 8 p.m., the noisy alarm rang. Gu Feiran got up, threw off the blanket, got out of bed, and went to the bathroom to shower.

Then she changed into casual clothes and went to the restaurant for a meeting.

The person sitting across from her looked at Gu Feiran’s outfit, sizing her up and down, and said unhappily, “You don’t even put on makeup when you see me now? And you’re dressed so casually.”

An ordinary black fitted short-sleeve shirt, black loose pants, and a black hair tie on her left wrist.

And… that was it.

Although she was undeniably refined and good-looking, making the clothes not seem so ordinary, it didn’t look like a date at all—more like she came to mooch a meal.

Gu Feiran said, “Didn’t I tell you on WeChat that I have something to ask you about? I’m here to talk business, so of course, I’m casual.”

Qi Yusi tilted her head, resting her cheek on her hand, and complained, “I came with the mindset of a date. Usually, no matter how I ask you out, you don’t come. Now that you’ve taken the initiative to meet me once, I really cherish it.”

Gu Feiran asked her, “Hungry?”

Qi Yusi smiled and nodded, “Hungry. To wait for this meal with you, I haven’t eaten anything since this morning.”

Gu Feiran called the waiter and started ordering.

Most of the dishes she ordered were ones Qi Yusi liked.

As she listed the dish names to the waiter, Qi Yusi listened, satisfied but also dissatisfied, “You rarely contact me, and you order all the dishes I like. I don’t know what Dr. Gu wants to talk about today, but I’m all ears.”

Gu Feiran crossed her legs, looked at her, and said, “I want to ask you some professional knowledge about glands.”

“Glands?”

Qi Yusi pretended to be disappointed, “I thought you asked me out to talk about love, but it’s about work. Dr. Gu, you’re off duty now, so don’t be so dedicated.”

Gu Feiran said, “Your family makes inhibitor patches and inhibitors, and you’ve done a lot of research on glands, even winning a biotech award. So, I want to ask you, if an alpha marks an omega without pheromones, why is that?”

Qi Yusi didn’t know why she would ask such a question but still answered, “First, if an alpha can mark an omega, it means they must have pheromones. There are many medical cases about abnormal alphas and omegas, but none prove that an alpha or omega has no pheromones.”

Gu Feiran listened carefully, “What do you mean?”

Qi Yusi said, “More than twenty years ago, there was a news story you might have seen. An alpha forcibly marked several omegas. To catch the culprit, the police took the omegas for pheromone extraction, but the test results showed only the omegas’ pheromones in their glands, not the alpha’s. Do you know why?”

Gu Feiran looked puzzled, “Why?”

She acted like she didn’t know.

Qi Yusi said, “Because that alpha’s pheromones were air. With the technology back then, even if they tested the alpha’s pheromones, the result would only show no pheromones.”

Gu Feiran thought for a moment and asked, “Air counts as a type of pheromone. If, with our current medical technology, we still can’t detect an alpha’s pheromones, why is that?”

Qi Yusi answered directly, “She might be recessive.”

Recessive?

Gu Feiran lowered her eyes, her hand resting on her leg, slowly tightening.

She had never thought of that.

Jiang Ci differentiated at eighteen, with no pheromones or gland function, until she marked herself, causing a gland mutation, starting heat cycles and gaining marking ability. Did this prove she wasn’t pheromone-deficient, just recessive, and marking herself turned her recessive pheromones dominant?

“Hey, hey,” Qi Yusi called from across the table.

Gu Feiran snapped back, looked up, and said, “Sorry.”

Qi Yusi asked, “You’re in General Surgery. Why are you suddenly asking about glands? Are you planning to switch specialties?”

Gu Feiran smiled lightly, “I’m thinking about it a bit.”

Qi Yusi didn’t believe this explanation, but she let her say what she wanted.

After all, it was rare for her to take the initiative to meet.

The waiter started serving the food, and the two ate while chatting.

Qi Yusi said, “Have you heard? In July, the laws for alphas and omegas are changing big time. Alphas and omegas who don’t marry by twenty-five won’t be thrown in jail anymore. They’re starting to promote equality between alphas and omegas, and free love.”

Gu Feiran said, “I’ve heard a bit.”

Alphas and omegas were superior to betas in physical fitness, intelligence, and other aspects, but their numbers were far fewer than betas. For a long time, there was a rule that alphas and omegas who didn’t marry by twenty-five would be jailed for three months and fined.

Sister, Little Aunt, and Dr. Jiang had all spent three months in jail years ago, and after getting out, they were forcibly matched with suitable alphas and omegas.

But their ranks were too high, and finding a compatible pheromone match wasn’t something that could be done quickly.

Qi Yusi said, “Luckily, we’re in good times. As long as you pay a high fine, you don’t have to go in. Otherwise, at twenty-five, we’d have to eat prison food for a few days.”

Gu Feiran nodded, “True.”

Twenty-five…

That person hasn’t turned twenty-five yet, right?