I Am Diagnosed as a Medical Titan

Jiang He nodded. "Please check these out for me. I'm taking all of them."

"Of course, of course! One moment, please!"

Xia Ran worked quickly and efficiently. After getting everything sorted, she said with a warm smile:

"Senior Brother Jiang, it's all entered!"

Jiang He: "Thank you."

With that, he turned and left.

Peng Yu stood to the side, completely dumbfounded.

Once Jiang He was out of earshot, he turned to glare at Xia Ran, his temper flaring. "Junior Sister, didn't you just say the system limit was ten books? Didn't you say you didn't have the authority?! How did he check out over a dozen books at once? What's the deal? Does the school library play favorites now? On what grounds does he get to borrow so many?"

Peng Yu didn't realize that when he said this, the entire area fell silent.

Even the people behind him, who had been in a hurry to get in line, stopped talking.

Xia Ran quickly put a finger to her lips and shushed him. "Senior, are you crazy? Keep your voice down!"

Peng Yu was fuming. "Why should I be quiet? What gives him the right? And he cut in line! Aren't you going to do anything about it?"

Xia Ran grew anxious. "Senior! Oh my god! Are you dense? It's because he's Jiang He!"

"Jiang He? Which Jiang He?"

"Jiang He is Jiang He! Goodness! How could you not know Jiang He? Dr. Jiang He!"

A girl in line behind them couldn't take it anymore and chimed in, "Chief Surgeon Asura? Ever heard of him?"

Another person added, "The competition champion? Does that jog your memory, kid?"

Peng Yu: "?"

It was then that he finally, vaguely, remembered.

His advisor had been rambling on in the lab for days about some prodigy from Southern Medical University, saying that even those in pharmaceutical research like them were basking in his reflected glory.

The name his advisor mentioned seemed to be... the Yangtze River and the Yellow River... uh, Jiang He?

Peng Yu's voice suddenly started to stammer. "He... He's *that* Jiang He?"

Xia Ran said helplessly, "Yes. Senior Brother Jiang has Dean Chen's personal authorization. He can check out any book in the entire library, with no limits on quantity or time. How can you even compare yourself to him? Besides, what's wrong with him cutting in line? Go on, ask everyone here if they wouldn't willingly let Jiang He get in!"

The girls behind them: "Yes, yes, we would... Huh? No, that's not what we mean!"

Peng Yu's anger completely vanished.

'I acted like a complete clown just now.'

Especially...

'Giving Junior Sister Xia Ran a hard time... it had given me a secret thrill. But now there was no thrill at all, only shame...'

"Sorry... I didn't know it was him."

Peng Yu muttered under his breath and obediently picked out five books from his stack to return.

"I'll just borrow these five."

...

Jiang He first went up to the fourth floor.

He picked up a book and became so absorbed in reading it that he found a place to sit down.

A few students were originally sitting around, reading and studying.

One of the girls looked up absentmindedly and happened to see Jiang He.

The girl froze for a second, then her eyes shot wide open. She quickly nudged her bestie, who was busy working on a problem next to her.

"What is it? You made me mess up a step..." her friend complained, annoyed.

"Forget your problem, look who that is!" The girl's voice trembled with excitement.

Her friend followed her gaze, and a second later, the pen in her hand dropped right onto the desk.

"River God? In the flesh?"

"Duh! Quick, take a picture and post it in the group chat!"

The girl was about to pull her phone out of her pocket, but her friend's hand shot out and pressed down on hers.

"Are you crazy? Don't! Haven't you seen the rules on the forum? When the River God is studying, no one is allowed to disturb him, take pictures, or ask for an autograph. If you interrupt his train of thought, can you bear that responsibility?"

The girl: "?"

She didn't even know there was such a rule on the forum.

'Although that sounds a bit exaggerated and cringey...'

But back in '08, people had a genuine, heartfelt reverence for true academic gods.

The girl quickly stuffed her phone back in her pocket, nodding repeatedly. "Right, right, we can't disturb him. We'll just watch from a distance."

Soon,

with Jiang He as the epicenter, the people originally sitting at the two surrounding tables recognized him and began to quietly pack their things and move to seats farther away.

No one dared to sit next to someone who was busy thinking about how to change the world.

They were afraid that the sound of them turning a page would be too loud and disrupt the great master's inspiration.

Jiang He was completely oblivious to the changes around him.

He took a sip of water, then pulled a steamed bun from his pocket.

The image of Wei Dongyi at Peking University, holding a water bottle and a steamed bun, would only become widely known to the public many years later.

But here and now, in the Southern Medical University library, Jiang He's behavior had already become the very personification of genius in the minds of countless students.

Unconcerned with appearances, embodying profound simplicity, and possessing single-minded focus.

Time passed, second by second.

Jiang He read at an incredible speed.

His memories from a past life and his solid foundation of knowledge allowed him to instantly grasp the crucial information in the books.

Just then, an old, white-haired professor walked into the study area.

This was Professor Yu Lei from the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

He had taught at Southern Medical University for decades and was a big name in his field. He had a somewhat eccentric temperament and was extremely strict when it came to academics.

Professor Yu had originally come to the fourth floor to look up some materials. As he passed a corner, he inadvertently glanced over and saw Jiang He.

He stopped in his tracks and moved a little closer.

'Hm?'

'An MPI (Message Passing Interface) cluster scheduling model for protein-protein docking?'

A flash of surprise appeared in Professor Yu's eyes.

This was a foundational architectural concept used to solve the computational bottlenecks in high-throughput drug screening.

This stuff... forget the undergraduates at Southern Medical. Even among the doctoral students in his own department, few could grasp even the basics.

Professor Yu looked up and got a clear view of Jiang He's face.