Yan Feifan sat down next to Yu Suye on the sofa and reached out to pull her into his embrace.

"Was it someone you were very close to?"

Yu Suye rested her head on Yan Feifan’s shoulder and said in a slow voice, "He was a cousin of mine."

"He was a very good person. We studied together in the family school from the time we were little."

"He always looked out for me."

"This morning, he was found to have committed suicide in his office at the hospital."

Hearing this, Yan Feifan was shocked. He couldn’t help but ask, "Just because of that?"

Yu Suye sat up straight, shook her head, and sighed. "It wasn’t just that. But it was the last straw."

"I just found out from an email he sent me that he had depression and was seeing a psychologist."

She couldn’t stop the tears from flowing again.

"He even planned the timing of his suicide carefully."

"He left a note saying he was donating his organs to those in need."

"He even scheduled an email to be sent to me, apologizing to me," she sobbed.

Yan Feifan pulled Yu Suye into his arms again and comforted her, "This isn’t your fault. No one wanted this to happen."

"Su Ye, should I go back to Jingcheng with you?"

Yu Suye shook her head again in his embrace. "Mr. Youhai called me," she said. "He told me not to go back for now."

"He said we should wait until all the parties involved have communicated about this."

Yan Feifan didn’t know what else to say to console her. He just held her tightly, letting her feel his support.

Just after seven-thirty, He Junxing arrived.

However, when he saw Yan Feifan and Yu Suye wrapped in an embrace on the sofa, with Yu Suye still in her pajamas and half-covered by a blanket, he quietly backed out of the room.

Around eight o’clock, Qin Ying arrived.

He Junxing followed behind her, a helpless look on his face.

Seeing Yan Feifan and Yu Suye still holding each other, Qin Ying’s expression darkened.

"Haven’t you had enough cuddling?"

"Should I get you two a room?"

Yan Feifan quickly stood up and explained in a low voice, "Professor, one of Su Ye’s cousins, this morning..."

"He... uh... he had depression and committed suicide."

Qin Ying froze.

She looked at Yu Suye on the sofa, her face stained with tears and etched with grief, and sighed softly. "Try not to dwell on it. My condolences."

"Take the day off today."

Qin Ying started to turn and leave, but then stopped herself mid-turn.

"Su Ye, don’t keep things bottled up inside." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"If you want to cry, just let it all out."

"Or, talk to Feifan or someone else."

Qin Ying then looked at Yan Feifan and instructed him, "Feifan, you’re not to go anywhere today. Just stay with Su Ye, understand?"

Yan Feifan nodded emphatically.

Not long after Qin Ying and He Junxing left, Yan Feifan received a call from Yu Chuanbai.

"Yan Feifan, you know what happened, right? Are you with my sister?"

"Yes, I know. I’m with her," Yan Feifan replied curtly.

"Good, good that you’re with her."

A sound of relief from Yu Chuanbai came through the phone.

"Yan Feifan, I’m on my way to Capital Airport right now. I should get to you around one or two this afternoon."

Yu Chuanbai continued over the phone, "Yesterday afternoon, I mentioned in the family group chat that someone wanted plastic surgery to look like Su Ye."

"The family chat exploded with anger..."

"Sigh..."

Yu Chuanbai sighed heavily. "I never dreamed it would be him, and I certainly never thought he had depression."

"He was a neurologist. He’d been studying under his father at Baining Hospital."

"I heard his father had very high expectations for him and was extremely strict. Whenever he made a mistake, there would be punishment..."

"Thinking about it now, it’s understandable that he became depressed."

After a pause, Yu Chuanbai urged, "Yan Feifan, take good care of my sister. Nothing can happen to her..."

Yan Feifan hung up the phone. Seeing Yu Suye’s numb, wooden expression, he knew she was still in a terrible state.

He thought for a moment, then found Tan Xiao’s number and dialed.

When the call connected, Yan Feifan asked directly, "Dr. Tan, is it possible to schedule an emergency counseling session?"

"For whom? What happened?"

"It’s for Su Ye..."

Yan Feifan quickly and quietly explained what had happened to Yu Suye.

"I’ll be at the hospital in about ten minutes."

"I’ll come find you directly on the second floor of the Emergency Department..."

Around eight-thirty, Tan Xiao hurried to Qin Ying’s medical research office and began the counseling session with Yu Suye.

Meanwhile, Yan Feifan went down to the first-floor emergency lobby to give some absent-minded guidance to Qi Xiuping.

A few of the doctors and nurses in the lobby had been planning to tease Yan Feifan about getting "drunk" off the smell of alcohol the previous night.

However, when they saw that he was in a very bad mood, they just made a couple of light-hearted jokes and returned to their posts.

As for Qi Xiuping, being adept at reading people, he had long since noticed something was off with Yan Feifan and was being extremely careful.

He was terrified that he would get on Yan Feifan’s bad side over some trivial matter and that it would affect his crucial evaluation that evening.

However, Qi Xiuping was clearly overthinking things.

Although Yan Feifan pointed out a few shortcomings in his wound treatment process due to his excessive caution, Yan Feifan’s tone merely became stern; he didn’t take out his anger on him or use it as an opportunity to vent.

At ten past nine, Yan Feifan spotted Tan Xiao by the staircase. He immediately left Qi Xiuping and went to meet her.

"Dr. Tan, how is Su Ye?"

Tan Xiao said softly, "She’s relieved a lot of her stress and pressure. I also put her under light hypnosis."

"She’s sleeping now."

"She should feel much better when she wakes up."

Yan Feifan said quickly, "Dr. Tan, thank you. You’ve worked hard."

Tan Xiao smiled. "It was no trouble. It’s my job."

She continued, "When something like this happens, the most important thing is to have a loved one, family, or friends by your side."

"When she wakes up, if she sees you right there beside her..."

Yan Feifan immediately said, "I’ll stay by Su Ye’s side all day today."

Tan Xiao nodded gently. "With you caring for her like this, I’m sure Su Ye will recover from her grief and self-blame quickly."

Just as Tan Xiao was about to leave, Yan Feifan remembered the facially disfigured, withdrawn man that Xiao Man and Zhu Lin had mentioned, and called out to her.

"Dr. Tan, yesterday a community worker came to me. They wanted me to perform plastic surgery on a withdrawn man with facial disfigurements from a low-income family..."

Yan Feifan briefly explained the man’s situation.

"Dr. Tan, would you be interested in taking on this patient?"

Tan Xiao said slowly, "Back then, the parents of that Youth rejected my suggestion for cosmetic surgery and switched psychologists."

"Afterward, I reflected on it."

"I realized that it wasn’t just the Youth who had psychological problems; his parents had major issues as well."

"This is especially obvious in the low-income family you mentioned. A young man in his twenties is at home mooching off his parents, and they only think about asking society and others for help instead of reflecting on themselves and changing."

Tan Xiao shook her head, then continued, "Mr. Yan, have that community worker contact me."

"I’ll go to the family’s home first to do a field visit and talk with the young man’s parents."

Yan Feifan said happily, "Dr. Tan, thank you..."

After seeing Dr. Tan off, Yan Feifan returned to the research office. He found Yu Suye lying on the sofa, covered with a thin blanket, sleeping soundly.

He set his phone to vibrate, sat down on the adjacent sofa, and quietly watched Yu Suye’s sleeping face...

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