I Am Diagnosed as a Medical Titan

After breakfast, Jiang He slept through the afternoon.

When he woke up, he was greeted by the gentle smile of a young nurse:

"Dr. Jiang, you're awake? Director Wang said that if you woke up, you could go to his office to see him."

"I'll pass. Please thank Director Wang for me, but I have some things to take care of at the university, so I need to head back."

The nurse nodded gently, her eyes filled with sincere admiration.

Jiang He found Su Zhi.

She, however, looked refreshed and energetic, not at all like someone who had pulled an all-nighter.

Su Zhi said, "Mr. Jiang, did you rest well?"

"Fine. Let's go, time to head back to the university."

"Alright."

The two got into the car and drove in silence.

While waiting at a red light, Su Zhi couldn't help but glance at Jiang He in the rearview mirror.

His head was turned as he looked out the window.

His gaze was serene, as if he were pondering some complex academic problem...

"The light's green," Jiang He said suddenly.

Su Zhi snapped out of her daze and said softly, "Sorry."

"Don't worry about it. It was a long night for you, too. Go home and catch up on your sleep."

Sometime later, the car stopped outside the gates of Southern Medical University.

Jiang He opened the door, got out, and shut it behind him. "See you."

"See you, Mr. Jiang."

After he left, Su Zhi couldn't help but watch him walk away for a moment longer.

...

Meanwhile, in one of the men's dormitories.

Zheng Qinhong, a sophomore in the clinical medicine department, suddenly exclaimed, "Holy shit, guys, come look at this! Is this post for real?"

His roommate replied, "What's up? Is it about your dream girl, Senior Xiyao, again?"

"No, it's not about the department belle! Quick, look at this pinned post!"

The roommate leaned over and was instantly captivated.

Title: "Congratulations to Our University's 21-Year-Old PhD Student, Jiang He, for Leading His Team to a Breakthrough in Ultra-Early miRNA Screening for Pancreatic Cancer! International Patent Filed!"

The thread already had over a thousand replies, all frantically bumping the post.

[1st Floor]: First! I knew it, River God is awesome! Where are all those haters who doubted River God before? Come on out and show your face! Nothing wrong with you, right? So come on out!

[12th Floor]: For those who don't know, early screening for pancreatic cancer is extremely difficult. The fact that an international patent has been filed means our university has produced a true master who can change the global landscape of medicine.

[45th Floor]: Holy crap, he's twenty-one! When I was twenty-one, I was praying just to pass anatomy, and this guy is already taking on the king of cancers?

[130th Floor]: Inside scoop: Senior Brother Jiang is already the head of an independent medical team in the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery at Affiliated Hospital No. 1. He's got the pay grade of an associate chief, and even the department directors have to be respectful when they see him.

[270th Floor]: Don't call him Senior Brother, call him River God! I heard River God is about to represent China and go to Baltimore in the United States to shake things up!

The roommate gasped. "Jiang He? I think I've seen him before... I think I might have played ball with him during my freshman year?"

Zheng Qinhong said, "Whoa, seriously? Do you have his contact info?"

The roommate shook his head. "Nah, I don't. Too bad. If I'd known back then, I would've let him score a couple of baskets on me to become friends."

Similar conversations were playing out in every corner of Southern Medical University at that moment.

Jiang He was already quite famous on campus before this.

But with this latest news, he had basically become a living legend of Night City (the students' nickname for Southern Medical University).

The legends about him grew more and more fantastical as they spread by word of mouth.

Some said he didn't need to sleep, spending every night in the lab running experiments until dawn.

Some said he could recite an entire Oxford English Dictionary backward.

Some said he could tell how many days a patient had left to live just by glancing at their medical scans.

Some said he was like the protagonist of a web novel.

Some girls in the dorms even swore up and down that Jiang He had actually confessed his feelings to them before.

Jiang He was oblivious to these rumors, and even if he did know, he couldn't be bothered to care.

His mind was currently occupied with his own affairs: going to Ruijin, getting the supercomputer project going, and figuring out how to more efficiently perform the molecular docking for the KRAS-targeted drug...

...

「That evening, at the Southern Medical University library.」

In the first-floor checkout area, a few students were lined up to borrow books.

At the front of the line was a young man with thick glasses named Peng Yu, a second-year master's student at the School of Pharmacy.

Peng Yu was speaking in a hushed voice:

"Come on, please bend the rules for me a little. I desperately need to reference the data in these books for my paper. I just need to borrow three extra books. I swear I'll have them back by next Monday."

The library assistant was a cute third-year undergraduate named Xia Ran.

She was a work-study student with a gentle personality, and she was now shaking her head helplessly. "Senior, I really can't. The system limit for graduate students is ten books. You already have five checked out, which means you can only borrow five more. I really can't scan this eighth book for you; the system will just lock me out."

"The system is rigid, but people are flexible! Please, think of something. This is the only set of these original foreign-language editions in the entire library. If someone else checks them out, my paper is ruined."

"I don't have that kind of authorization, not unless you have a special permission slip from a department head..." Xia Ran said, her voice trailing off, sounding aggrieved.

The people waiting in line behind them began to whisper.

"Hurry up. Are you going to check them out or not?"

"Exactly. Rules are rules. Why give the girl such a hard time?"

Peng Yu was still trying. "What if I leave my student ID here with you? I really just need them for a couple of—"

Just then, footsteps approached from the side.

Peng Yu turned his head and saw Jiang He quietly approaching.

He was carrying a stack of at least a dozen books.

Principles and Practices of High-Throughput Drug Screening

Applications of X-ray Crystallography in Protein Structure Determination...

'What the hell is all this stuff?'

Before Peng Yu could even react, Jiang He had already placed the entire stack of books on the counter.

Xia Ran's eyes instantly lit up. She sat up straighter, her posture suddenly perfect, and said:

"S-Senior Brother!"