Vireo had woken up. His brain disease had been successfully cured. It seemed like he had an extremely long dream with many people in it. From his childhood to adulthood, from the county to his college days, from his college back to the county, and then from the county to the provincial capital. From his adoptive parents to his sisters and his wife. Also, those voices that seemed far at one moment but near i n the next. Were they a hallucination? Was it a dream? It should have been a dream. It was a kind of dreamland that he had when he was on the verge of death.
He woke up and that dreamland got further and further away from him. Everything that he saw when h e opened his eyes was real. The room was tidy and bright, and the nurse was smiling. He also saw his mentor who had a kind expression.
"Vireo, I have contacted a rehabilitation center abroad. Go there for rehabilitation for a year and in the meantime, gain and share academic knowledge there as well. When you come back, settle down in South City." The mentor's aged voice had a kind of unconcealable excitement.
Vireo was so touched that tears instantly welled up in his eyes.
"My...my actions at that time were excessively aggressive. I didn't cause any actual harm, but I will still be held liable." Vireo had always been a man who would take responsibility for his actions. 1
"It's in the past now. It's all in the past now, Vireo." The mentor's gaze was extremely gentle. "You have to believe in yourself. You are a person who treats and saves lives. If you were to spend the prime of your life i n prison, how many people would have lost their lives because they could not be saved? Your mission is to treat and save lives. You have not done any harm to others. It was them! They were the ones who had harmed you!"
The mentor was simply biased towards his student. H e was simply biased. So, what about it? He would risk his life to keep Vireo safe!
Vireo was a very sensible and perceptive person. He instantly understood what his mentor meant, so he immediately said, "Thank you, sir. After I've recovered in the future, if I can still hold a scalpel, I certainly will treat and cure many people."
The mentor nodded. "Promise me to bid farewell to the past! Be separated from it forever! Erase those things from your mind!"
"Mm-hmm! Bid farewell to the past!"
"I, Vireo Payne, will never ever think about those things anymore! I will never think about them anymore!" said Vireo with a smile on his pale face. Just as he said that, he vaguely heard a voice coming from afar. 'Congratulations, Vireo. You certainly will set the world on fire. Live your life well for yourself and also for me.' 1
Vireo was suddenly stunned. That voice. That was the voice. He listened carefully again, but that voice was gone. He could not even be sure if that voice was real o r was that a hallucination that was created by him encouraging himself. Vireo had no idea. However, he was even more confident.
Through the arrangement by his mentor, Viero went t o recuperate at the best rehabilitation center abroad. During that period, he was not idle as well and had been participating in academic discussions. He had thoroughly bid farewell to the past. He changed his phone, deleted all of the previous messages, and spent three years abroad. In those three years, he had been wholeheartedly studying issues in the field of medicine.
After spending three years abroad, he became more and more skilled as a doctor. The hospital abroad very much wanted to keep him there, but Vireo did not intend to stay. He wanted to return to South City. It was his mentor who had given him a chance for a new life. He could not let his mentor down.
Three years later, Vireo, who had already been in a very good state, returned to South City and directly took a job at the South City Hospital. When he entered South City, he felt as if he had returned to his hometown and his mother's embrace. Mother? Did he have a mother? Putting aside his adoptive parents, Vireo still had no idea who his real parents were. He did not want to know either. However, he had no idea where this feeling of his mother's embrace came from. Perhaps it was the care that his mentor had for him. 1
The operation that day was the first operation that Vireo was performing after he had started working and after he had taken over from his mentor. It was also his first operation at the South City Hospital as well. Before he entered the operating room, Vireo heard a voice. "Uncle."
Uncle? Was that voice calling for him?
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