Chapter 1432: 1431

Everyone’s eyes fell on Li ZhengKai, tinged with a hint of surprise. In fact, only a few department directors in the hospital knew about the relationship between Li ZhengKai and Lu Yinxing; everyone else had no idea.

And just now, with what he said, it was obvious that Li ZhengKai was speaking up for Lu Yinxing—anyone with eyes could see that.

Even Director Zhang stood up and said, "If you want to protect her, this isn’t the way to do it. You haven’t even officially taken the post yet, how much does this have to do with you?"

Li ZhengKai said, "I was the one who recommended my junior here in the first place. She made a mistake, of course I bear some responsibility."

Later on, Lu Yinxing finally learned that the reason she’d been able to smoothly get into this top-ranked tertiary general hospital was actually because her senior had recommended her.

She had always thought it was just because she’d been lucky enough.

In the end, the hospital did discipline Lu Yinxing, but it wasn’t very serious.

Plus, the patient’s family came to plead on her behalf, so they decided to handle it leniently.

They didn’t fire her from the hospital outright, which was already a very good outcome.

Because of this, though, Lu Yinxing was deeply grateful to Li ZhengKai.

If he hadn’t done his utmost to defend her back then, the result probably wouldn’t have been this good.

But there was something about this whole thing that gave Lu Yinxing a big headache.

Somehow the story got out.

Now the whole hospital was buzzing about it.

At first, it was still okay.

No one knew exactly when it started, but bit by bit, the story morphed into some tale about Li ZhengKai domineeringly protecting her.

People kept embellishing it, and now everyone in the hospital "knew" that the two of them were dating.

Lu Yinxing tried to explain several times, but basically no one believed her.

Everyone had already taken it as fact.

The hospital’s heavily recruited overseas-returned cardiac surgeon had been here for less than half a month and had actually been "snatched up" by an intern.

The looks those little nurses gave Lu Yinxing were full of admiration.

Some even came over specifically to ask her for tips.

Lu Yinxing was completely at a loss for words.

Honestly, Lu Yinxing herself didn’t really care; she’d long since become immune to scandals anyway, and she didn’t pay much attention to what other people thought now.

But she was more concerned about how things were on Li ZhengKai’s side—whether he’d be troubled by these rumors.

Especially since her senior wasn’t that young anymore.

Once when they were eating together, he’d casually mentioned that he wanted to develop his career long-term back in China.

He’d even bought back his old family house in Saith, and would very likely settle down in China in the future.

He was also thinking about finding a local girl to marry and have children with.

If that was the case, wasn’t she completely blocking her senior’s love life?

When he had first come back, all the nurses in the hospital held great expectations for him.

Now, they were all consciously keeping their distance, because they "knew" that Doctor Li was already taken.

This misunderstanding left Lu Yinxing feeling very guilty.

But Li ZhengKai himself acted very easygoing about it.

Whenever he had time, he would openly ask Lu Yinxing to go to the cafeteria to eat with him.

Lu Yinxing was currently interning under him anyway, so most of the time their schedules matched.

So in other people’s eyes, the two of them really did look like they were always together, like a couple.

Lu Yinxing had tentatively brought it up a few times, but Li ZhengKai just smiled and said, "Wherever there are people, there’s gossip. Just ignore it."

Her senior’s mentality was actually pretty good.

Since that was the case, Lu Yinxing didn’t dwell on it anymore.

That night, Lu Yinxing was on the night shift.

She suddenly received a call.

The caller ID turned out to be Momo.