Chapter One: Kissing

  Xiao Han will always remember that night four years ago, a ruthless car accident pushed him and his happy family of three into the abyss.

  At that time, Xiao Han was 18 years old and was about to face the college entrance examination. The whole family was also immersed in the positive atmosphere of welcoming the exam.

  For a family like this, which is even somewhat poor, whether it's Dad, Mom or Xiao Han, they all know what the college entrance exam and getting into a good university means.

  But at this moment, something happened at home.

  That evening, Xiao Han returned home from school, had dinner and studied hard under the lamp as usual. His father, who worked in a factory, however, did not come back until very late. Normally, his father would finish work at six o'clock in the evening, and even if the distance between their home and the factory was quite far, he should have been back by seven o'clock. But it was already half past eight, and Xiao Han still couldn't hear the familiar sound of his father opening the door.

  Mother was also very anxious and worried, at 7:30 she started calling father non-stop, but although the phone was always connected, no one answered.

  At nine o'clock, her mother couldn't stay at home anymore and said to Xiao Han: "No way, I have to go pick up your dad. How come it's so late and he hasn't returned yet? He didn't even call home or answer the phone. This has never happened before."

  Xiao Han said: "Mom, maybe he went out to dinner with his colleagues, don't worry, just wait at home. You go pick him up now, do you know where he is?"

  "My mother said, 'I'll just stand at the front alley entrance and take a look.'"

  Xiao Han knew his mother's feelings at this moment. For those officials or bored people, marriage and family might just be a game, at most a game of interest, but for Father and Mother, the two people worked hard to make a living, relying on each other, only then did they truly feel the importance of each other in their hearts.

  Xiao Han could only say: "Alright then, don't stand for too long or you'll catch a chill."

  "I know." Her mother replied and was about to leave when the phone rang.

  Xiao Han picked up the receiver, and there was a strange voice on the other end: "Is this Xiao Dashan's family? Xiao Dashan has been in a car accident and is currently being treated in the intensive care unit at City Central Hospital. You'd better hurry over!"

  Xiao Han was suddenly stunned...

  Those few days, even that period of time, Xiao Han and his mother didn't know how they managed to get through it.

  Physical and mental exhaustion, coupled with economic pressure, caused both mother and son to quickly become thin as skeletons. Xiao Han's mother, who was only in her forties, seemed to have discovered many white hairs on her head overnight. The father eventually became a vegetable, and the family of the young man who rode the motorcycle and caused trouble finally paid 20,000 yuan for medical expenses.

  Xiao Han's family spent all their savings and borrowed money everywhere.

  Looking at the family that was once poor but still warm and smiling, suddenly became like this; looking at the father who was once strong and could carry two bags of rice back from the supermarket, now lying weakly on the hospital bed, unresponsive, Xiao Han's heart felt like it was being cut by a knife and bleeding.

  The hospital has basically given up on treatment, and staying in the hospital is no longer meaningful. Moreover, they can't afford it economically. Xiao Han and his mother took his father back home, and his mother quit her job at the supermarket to take care of his father at home. The family had no economic source of income and relied solely on a small amount of low-security relief funds provided by the street office every month. At that time, Xiao Han was also prepared to give up the college entrance examination. He wanted to go out and work, otherwise, even if he could get into university, where would the tuition fees come from?

  At this time, the only uncle extended a helping hand. He was also doing some small business, and his family's situation was slightly better than Xiao Han's. However, he encouraged Xiao Han not to give up, saying that only by getting into university, finding a good job, and acquiring knowledge could they thoroughly change their family's fate. As for the tuition fees, he would think of a way. Therefore, Xiao Han felt that he would never be able to repay his uncle's kindness throughout his life. If it weren't for his uncle's encouragement, persistence, and financial support back then, there would never have been Xiao Han's brilliant future life.

  Watching his father being tortured by illness every day, Xiao Han decided to take the medical university exam. Firstly, he had an idea that in the future, he would cure his father with his own hands and let him wake up from pain and sleep; secondly, after graduating and becoming a doctor, his income should be relatively high, which can alleviate the economic pressure on his family.

  Four years of university, others muddle through, talking about love and relationships, but Xiao Han studies hard, working part-time to earn a living and reduce the burden on his uncle, all while studying diligently to gain true knowledge and skills in medicine, so that he can cure his father's illness and become the best doctor.

  Xiao Han, who was poor and hardworking, was lonely in college because of his poverty. He never went out to play with others, so no one wanted to be friends with him. Although he always ranked first in the class every time there were exams, although his name was always on the list of scholarship winners every year, and although he was actually very handsome and dashing, in the vast campus, he was like a lone wanderer, always coming and going alone.

  Xiao Han didn't care about these things, because his time was already insufficient. Twenty-four hours a day, except for eating and sleeping, were filled with intense studying and working. Where would he have the time to bother with others? Others not paying attention to him was just fine, it meant fewer people disturbing him.

  But four years later, the cruel reality of the world almost shattered Xiao Han's dreams.

  After graduating from university, many of the men and women who were used to having fun and playing around during their school days, thanks to their family connections, had already secured a spot in a hospital before graduation and became resident doctors. Xiao Han, despite his excellent grades, was not wanted by any hospital. There were also quite a few classmates from ordinary families who went to those messy private hospitals or community clinics below them, but Xiao Han felt that those places not only had no prospects, but also would make him lazy and decadent if he stayed there for too long. Right across the street from their house was a small community clinic, where the doctors basically spent every day drinking tea, smoking, chatting, and playing cards.

  At this point in his life, Xiao Han felt like he had hit a snag.

  He didn't know how he was going to get over this hurdle, and Xiao Han's heart was indeed uncertain.

  In the city's several major hospitals, Xiao Han himself had gone to run around and had also submitted his resume to each hospital's personnel department. However, they said that for now, they didn't need any new graduates. But was this really true? Several of Xiao Han's classmates from the same school were assigned to work at the city's First People's Hospital through connections. Xiao Han finally realized that in this society, no matter how well you did professionally, it wasn't as good as having connections. No wonder people said that a person's success came 30% from their profession and 70% from their relationships. But where were his own relationships? Xiao Han was at a loss.

  This afternoon, Xiao Han was politely rejected by another hospital and walked out of the hospital with his head down at around 3 pm.

  Xiao Han stood at the hospital entrance, raised his head and looked up at the sun in the sky. The sunlight was shining brightly, illuminating everything, but it couldn't shine into Xiao Han's heart.

  His heart felt cool and uncomfortable. He walked aimlessly along the street, wandering forward. During this time, in order to find a job, he had to walk tens of stations every day in the city, just to save a few coins for taking the bus.

  The sunlight in the afternoon of autumn is very good, and there are many people strolling on the street.

  Xiao Han didn't have the heart to go window shopping. As he walked among the crowd, he felt as if he and these people were living in two different worlds.

  He had walked for about a station when he suddenly saw a large crowd of people gathered by the side of the road ahead. His heart skipped a beat: what, another car accident?

  Ever since his father's car accident, Xiao Han seemed to have become extremely sensitive to car accidents. He really didn't want to see anyone else get hurt or lose their life in a car accident, because the deep pain of that was too clear and too sharp in his heart. But in this not-so-big city, according to media reports, there were dozens of car accidents every month, and car accidents were more ferocious than tigers.

  Xiao Han's footsteps quickened unconsciously, and when he walked into the crowd of onlookers, he found that it was not a car accident, but a young girl who had fainted.

  That girl was very beautiful, with skin as white as jade, a slender figure, and a delicate face. However, at this moment, she lay quietly on the ground, her eyes tightly closed, her complexion pale, and even her thin lips had lost their color.

  Xiao Han asked people around: "Excuse me, does anyone know how she fainted?"

  Four years of medical school had already given him a basic instinct for healing and saving lives.

  When he asked, some people shook their heads and said that the girl was walking alone here, and as she walked, her face suddenly turned white, and she leaned against the railing beside her and fell to the ground unconscious.

  Xiao Han was making a professional judgment in his heart, and there were only a few possibilities for acute syncope: epilepsy, anemia, heart disease, high blood pressure, sudden pain in some part of the body...

  Xiao Han quickly placed two fingers on the girl's pale wrist, and he immediately felt it. The girl's heartbeat was extremely weak and very slow, estimated to be around 41-42 times per minute. Xiao Han made a preliminary diagnosis that it was either coronary heart disease or sick sinus syndrome causing bradycardia. If they were in a hospital, Xiao Han would have had a way to revive the girl immediately, but on this street, without equipment or medication, Xiao Han couldn't worry about so much and could only use his own unique treatment method.

  He only saw him, first hitting and rubbing several acupuncture points on the girl's body, then pressing her full chest with both hands for a while, and finally even doing mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration with the girl's cherry lips.

  "Some onlookers couldn't help but speak up: 'Hey kid, do you know first aid or are you just taking advantage of this girl?'"

  Xiao Han angrily said: "Whatever you say, it's really hard to be a good person these days. This girl's heartbeat is extremely slow now, if we don't give her emergency treatment immediately, she'll be in danger of losing her life." After saying that, he lowered his head again and started giving the girl mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

  At this time, the girl under Xiao Han's rescue let out a moan and finally woke up. She saw a strange man lying on top of her kissing her, with a crowd of people watching from the side. The girl let out a scream and started punching Xiao Han in the face with her small fists... (The Official Beauty, if the official scene lacked beauty, it would just be a bare struggle between men, would that be interesting? Of course not! "The Official Beauty" brings you an unconventional official scene, an unconventional life of officials, more exciting, and more flavorful. That's what we're looking for!)